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Iron Chink: Sometimes a single artifact opens a window to a whole world. This 1908 machine in the Seattle Museum of History and Industry carried the name of "Iron Chink" because it was meant to replace skilled Chinese butchers in the salmon canneries. The "Salmon Stakes" exhibit at MOHI interpreted the interplay of technology, capital investment, immigrant labor, ecological despoliation, and racial prejudice in the Pacific Northwest.
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