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Cool photo.  Hi-quality, a real glimpse of life at the
turn of the century.  Many of those pictured probably
fought in WW1.

Bret...as to the 'neckties' danger, you are sooooo right.
It wasn't a necktie but my long hippie hair that got caught
in a drill press.  Thankfully, the switch was right there
and there was no damage - just a valuable lesson learned.

Also, that photo makes me think of the furniture maker Otto Berg
who lived a few doors from me in Hyde Park.  His shop in the
1960's looked like something from a history book.  All the
machines were run from a huge electric motor powering belts over
ceiling axles.  He was old old when I met him but he still worked,
specializing in reproductions whose measurements he took, generally,
from museum pieces.  He was a true master and a real Hyde Parker. 
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt sponsored woodworking classes he gave during
the depression. His true mastery, as I was told by others, was in
they way he did the finishes.  Beautiful works-of-art forever.

Wayne