Shift Change, Harlow Mill

A 1950s black and white documentary photograph of mill workers in work clothes and caps walking out through a factory gate at the end of a shift, overcast light, candid, film grain. — Shift Change, Harlow Mill

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Title: Shift Change, Harlow Mill
Subject: Mills; Work; Harlow
Description: Calder stood at the mill gate with her camera at waist height so the men would not notice it. Most of them look past her, toward home.
Creator: Ruth Calder
Date: 1952
Rights: Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).
Type: Photograph
Identifier: 2015.4.2
Extent: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
Provenance: Gift of the Calder estate, 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print

Ruth Calder 1925–2011

Shift Change, Harlow Mill, 1952

Medium: Gelatin silver print

Extent: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Provenance: Gift of the Calder estate, 2015

Identifier: 2015.4.2

Calder stood at the mill gate with her camera at waist height so the men would not notice it. Most of them look past her, toward home.

Rights & reuse

Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

Cite this

Ruth Calder. “Shift Change, Harlow Mill.” 1952. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://01hy7jb6pdd1k4jjjn56z4587d.app-platform-1.refbytes.com/items/show/234 (accessed October 27, 2026).

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