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Studio Portrait Young Man 1910

1910
Studio Portrait Young Man 1910

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“My father John Maley.. ..in Canada worked as a lumberjack, before moving to Detroit in America to work on the Ford assembly lines where he put the running boards on the cars. Wages – thirty shillings a day. Wages in the UK – thirty shillings a week.” – John Maley

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