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What a remarkable candid photo of a “soap fat man” in Prospect Park says about Brooklyn in 1878

His name is lost to history, his face is obscured by his raised arm, and the unpleasant work he did has long been made obsolete by modern technology.

But this candid image of an aproned man carrying a bucket of soap fat on his back tells us something about Brooklyn industry. And it also speaks to the talents of the the inventive photographer who captured this image and thousands of others of B

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