{"id":460,"date":"2012-04-24T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=460"},"modified":"2012-04-28T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T23:51:01","slug":"grandmother-was-a-taper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2012\/04\/24\/grandmother-was-a-taper\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandmother was a Taper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-466\" style=\"width: 79px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-466 \" title=\"Ida (Pohl) Stewart\" src=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/000902-03.jpg\" alt=\"Ida (Pohl) Stewart\" width=\"79\" height=\"123\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ida (Pohl) Stewart, about 1909<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 1910 Federal Census lists the occupation of my grandmother Adelheid T. (Pohl) Stewart as a <em>Taper<\/em> at the Electric Works.\u00a0 She was 19 then, just prior to her marriage with John Galbreath Stewart later that year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been curious for some time.\u00a0 What was a Taper?\u00a0 No doubt the &#8220;Electric Works&#8221; was Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 It was a short distance from Turtle Creek, where my grandmother lived.<\/p>\n<p>Through the wonders of the Internet I happened upon a short video clip produced in 1904 that explains a lot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The clip was posted on YouTube by the Library of Congress.\u00a0 It shows young women winding what appears to be insulating tape around electrical coils.\u00a0 I can assume this video shows something very similar to Ida as a young woman and her daily surroundings on the job.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DPjOxySZW6U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tapers at work. Mystery solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1910 Federal Census lists the occupation of my grandmother Adelheid T. (Pohl) Stewart as a Taper at the Electric Works.\u00a0 She was 19 then, just prior to her marriage with John Galbreath Stewart later that year. I&#8217;ve been curious for some time.\u00a0 What was a Taper?\u00a0 No doubt the &#8220;Electric Works&#8221; was Westinghouse Electric &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2012\/04\/24\/grandmother-was-a-taper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grandmother was a Taper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,54,50,9],"tags":[31,75,74],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times","category-maternal-ancestors","category-pennsylvania","category-surname-pohl","tag-census","tag-occupations","tag-westinghouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}