Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers 1900-1980

These photos take me back to when I first visited Pittsburgh in 1978 driving in from the East you could see all the steel mills and by the mid - 80s they were all gone. In West Virginia, I used to work the state, the same thing there were large companies then the dwindled to nothing. I can remember seeing whole blocks in Charleston, WV, and every house on the block had a for sale sign in there front yard in 1986-1987. In addition, I remember on my first trip to Boston in 1984 they were converting all the shoe factories into condos.

Fabulous collection spanning a great deal of time, thanks for sharing!
Shoe factories, leather, textile, all kinds of manufacturing/human labor around here has gone this way.
I really like the opening image with the ice, thats just fabulous. Intersting seeing many of them though.

Great pics :-)