1980s safety-album page

Description

Page of a 1980s Angang safety-work photo album, each photograph mounted with a typed caption strip; from a private family collection. This page: a worker in yellow stands on a red-and-white striped cross-bay transfer cart in a machine hall; the caption reads 为防止触电事故，将380伏过跨小车改为36伏 ('to prevent electrocution accidents, the 380-volt cross-bay cart was converted to 36 volts') — shop-floor engineering in the service of safety.

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).