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"Rat Catcher" (January 18, 2026)

V0020299 A rat-catcher (accompanied by two dogs) carrying a cage of l Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A rat-catcher (accompanied by two dogs) carrying a cage of live rats in his right hand and a sharpened wooden stick with dead rats dangling from it in his left. Stipple engraving by J. Baldrey, 1789, after H.W. Bunbury. 1789 By: Henry William Bunburyafter: John Kirby BaldreyPublished: 26 January 1789 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Wellcome Library, London
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V0020299 A rat-catcher (accompanied by two dogs) carrying a cage of l Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A rat-catcher (accompanied by two dogs) carrying a cage of live rats in his right hand and a sharpened wooden stick with dead rats dangling from it in his left. Stipple engraving by J. Baldrey, 1789, after H.W. Bunbury. 1789 By: Henry William Bunburyafter: John Kirby BaldreyPublished: 26 January 1789 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Shep has big shoes to fill in a new job.

When Shep tells people he once worked at Inland Steel, they often assume he worked in the plant itself. But there are hundreds of other positions at the mill, and some are less glamorous than others. In this program from January 18, 1973, he recalls one of his dirty, yet important, jobs at the mill.

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