- Museum
- Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
- Date
- 1910
- Object Number
- A5569
- Title
Mary McMahon at Carfin Brickworks
- Object Category
- Archives
- Object Name
- Photograph, black and white
- Description
Female brick worker, Mary McMahon at Carfin Brickworks. Whole families worked in the brickworks, including women who were employed to run pallets of bricks into the kiln for firing and to lift finished bricks off the machines. In later years they also made ‘specials’ which were handmade bricks.
- Method
- Gift
- Location
- Reproduction on display at Summerlee Museum