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  Stereoview Scraping Hair from Hides Tanning Mill, Montreal Canada no.272 Keystone View Company Real Photo
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Make/Author/Artist: Keystone View Company
Details: Real Photo

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Product Code: ST272K

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Company name : Keystone View Company

Title : Scraping Hair from Hides Tanning Mill, Montreal Canada  no. 272

From back of card : ...Salted hides are shipped from the slaughterhouses to tanning mills to be made into leather. When they reach the mill they are first soaked in vats of water. After they are dried they are put into a large drum, the inside of which contains many pins. As the drum revolves, the hides are softened so that they can be readily worked. You see in the extreme background a portion of one of these drums.

From the drum, the hides are taken to vaults where they decay in a cold sweat for a couple weeks. Then they are taken to the unhairing machine. It is this machine that you see in the foreground ...

Size: Standard        Real Photo card? (Y/N)  - Yes

Special notes on condition: as shown, Mild horizontal curve/bowing

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