Is this a real photograph from contemporary manufacturer's advertising?
Or is it a very clever spoof? It even shows retouching typical of such photographs from that era right up to perhaps the 1960s.
I think the spoof...... :-)
It is not really credible as a machine - and fitted sheets in the 1890s?
Actually it does remind me of a scene from a Charlie Chaplin film (I think - and I forget the title), created as a bleak futurist satire. That shows a building formed of a vast stack of open-fronted cells, each occupied by one man, all of them operating identical controls, over and over again, all perfectly together. I wish I could recall the film's title.
The modern Health & Safety Manager might have a thing or two to say about this contraption...
