I'd been wondering if the relative youth of the crew told us much, but the tooling dating to a minimum of ten years after the war suggests a lost generation has little to do with the makeup of the group pictured.

It is a little outside of the norm in such photos, for no one to be holding a framing square - denoting themselves as Master Carpenter and Crew Boss.

Or did he in this case choose his prized possession? Is that a strait edge or a story pole, what is that thing?