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The Ironworker's Noontime (Thomas Anshutz, 1880)

For fifteen years now, I've worked in construction. Well, not construction exactly since I myself don't construct anything. But ever since I was young I thought construction workers were like miniature gods because they build the world: the long highways cars crawl across and fancy condos with sad gyms and…

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