Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY vintage cardboard glasses 16 1/4" long x 10

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

and perfect for hanging from one little nail on the wall

) Really a pretty one

otherwise good condition with some light smudges and stains here and there

Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY vintage cardboard glasses 16 1/4" long x 10In 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