Worker with Hands Raised [1900s - 1930s] - N, HO, S and O Scales

Add a tense and flexible storytelling figure to your early 20th-century scene with this highly detailed worker with hands raised. Dressed in period work clothes with overalls, long-sleeve shirt, work shoes, and a flat cap, the figure is posed with both hands raised in a clear position of compliance. The pose works naturally as a worker being frisked by police, detained during an investigation, or held at gunpoint during a robbery or confrontation, giving modelers several ways to use the same figure. He is ideal for factory yards, warehouses, railroad facilities, loading areas, industrial districts, street scenes, construction sites, and other working-class environments common during the early 1900s.

History

Workwear such as denim overalls, sturdy shirts, work boots, and flat caps became strongly associated with laborers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly among railroad employees, factory workers, mechanics, miners, and tradesmen. A hands-raised posture could occur in several very different situations - from complying with a police search or arrest to surrendering during a robbery or other armed confrontation. Because both law enforcement activity and industrial crime were realities of rapidly growing towns and cities, this figure can represent a wide range of believable scenes from the early 1900s through the 1930s and beyond.