Old color photo of seven people in hard hats during a safety inspection…

Description

Old color photograph, June 1990: seven people in hard hats — one with a notebook, several wearing red inspection ribbons — posed inside a dim workshop before large equipment stenciled '214'. Kept with a typed caption sheet reading '1990 June Safety Inspection.'

Significance to the comparison

Everyday material evidence of working life at Angang (Anshan Iron & Steel), contributed from a family collection. Objects like this are the physical trace of the danwei world the oral histories describe.

Provenance

Field collection

Photographed in Anshan, July 2026; contributed by a participating family. Original held by the family.

Evidence media

• Photograph of the object (web copy shown; original held privately).

Sources single-source record — corroborating source pending

1. Anshan field collection, July 2026 (photograph; original held by the contributing family).