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A demonstration of the Plinth theme for Omeka S: the museum and its collection are fictional, and the images were made with AI. About this site
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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. View larger
Shift Change, Harlow Mill

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Title
Shift Change, Harlow Mill
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 on Main Street, 1955. A black and white photograph from the 1950s of a woman in her thirties with short wavy hair and a wool coat, holding a twin-lens reflex camera at waist height on the sidewalk of a small-town main street, looking down into the camera's viewfinder.Ruth Calder
Date
1952
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Extent
27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
Provenance
Gift of the Calder estate, 2015
Identifier
2015.4.2
Subject
Mills
Work
Harlow
Rights
Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka S demo. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

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Ruth Calder. “Shift Change, Harlow Mill.” 1952. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://demo.refbytes.com/s/wrenfield/item/960 (accessed October 16, 2026).

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