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Tin Men, Metalwork, occupational tradition, 2007
Sheet Metal Workers International Assn.
Boston, Massachusetts
Copper, galvanized iron, stainless steel
63 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 17 in. each
Courtesy of Sheet Metal Workers Local 17
Photography by Jason Dowdle
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Sheet Metal Workers International Association
Boston, MA
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Metal workers originally made tin men to advertise their trade and wares, later using them as teaching tools for apprentices, since the skills needed to make a tin man are those a journeyman must master: layout, scribing, cutting, folding, rolling, bending, riveting, soldering, and filing. Today, much of a sheet-metal worker's labor consists of heating and ventilation ducts so constructing tin men gives traditionally trained workers the opportunity to make their formidable skills visible. Four retired sheet-metal workers spent more than fifty hours each fabricating these tin men: Richard Clarke, Daniel Hardy, Glenn Walker, and William Walsh.
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