Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY vintage cardboard glasses and this is the most

and this is the most loved lot of them I believe I've ever seen

with light wear and one small tear to the board along the left edge

16 1/4" long x 10 3/4" tall x 1 3/4" deep

the other is blonde on a green horse

Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY vintage cardboard glasses and this is the mostIn considering how to explain why this c. 1960s 70s photo badge struck me, it occurred to me that driver's licenses and employee badges are a bit like modern portrait miniatures, and perhaps the most enduring portraits of ourselves most of us have. And, in thinking about the history and future of factory labor in this country, the employee badge of young male worker at the Allegheny Steel Company c. late 1960s early 70s feels pretty poignant. (He