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Excellent documentary.

All that talk of hot lead made me wonder how many workers in there suffered some form of lead poisoning:

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=4426

The machines also had asbestos in them, which was pretty bad.

The olden days were dirty! Never mind that cars were burning leaded gas too. I wonder if the print shop air was actually cleaner than the air in Manhattan back then?

And paint had lead, too.

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