Folder print. Chimney making by bricklayers. Taken outdoors.
Toronto. The photograph at left was faded and damaged, but I still bought it (cheap) at the Thornhill, Ontario Antique place the end of July, 1976 because it was unusual.
Firstly, it was taken out doors and secondly it showed workmen and a work environment. The location and photographer have been lost over time. It looks like a chimney was being built for a ‘summer’ kitchen at the back of the house, perhaps replacing the stove pipe jutting out of a window.
The clothing suggests early 1900s for the date.
Note that the post title is a riff on a line from an old vaudeville routine made most popular by the Three Stooges in 1944.
