“Today, what industry is doing is news. Take the public visually into your plant and show them the basis upon which the modern industry is built.” Aikins self promotion.

See also his book "Partners All a Pictorial Narrative of an Industrial Democracy" New York: Huntington Corporation, 1938

I can find little of substance in research sources about this immensely successful industrial photographer who was also active in advertising photography. His work for FORTUNE from the early thirties defined the Industrial Heroic for that magazine yet as you will see in the menu, he was commissioned for several projects about Urban living and entertainment.

See also his single contribution to Fenno Jacobs feature on New York Pushcarts,a terrific image, looking down on the street market, perhaps providing an establishing shot the younger photographer had forgotten to take.

18,500,000 GALLONS OF PAINT 1935

CLUETT PEABODY 1938

MADISON SQUARE GARDENS

THE RITZ 1934

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX 1935

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