Historical Workers and Laborers

Black and white images of laborers from various industries, including mining, shipbuilding, and lumber, showcasing resilience and historical work settings.

Zinc smelter worker. Picher, Oklahoma May 1936

Zinc smelter worker. Picher, Oklahoma May 1936

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.

Anefo photo collection. Recovery: Wieringermeer. Droogging of the Wieringermeerpolder. Miller. 1945. Noord-Holland, Wieringermeer

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. A supervisor at the Lago oil refinery in San Nicolas on Aruba. 1947. Aruba, San Nicolas

Anefo photo collection. Finland. Lumberjack to lunch. July 5, 1967. Finland

Anefo photo collection. Alderman Schaefer beats first pile for North South Hollands Koffiehuis; Alderman Schaefer on a crane (close by). February 4, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Opening of a rubber factory in Getash. Factory hall with machines. Workers at work. Soldiers look. December 4, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Man in the workshop.

General Motors Plant - Petone gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives

Lubricator with lubrication.

Modern Equipment Helps Increase France's Steel Output - USINOR. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Attendant at Truck Service Station pumping Gas, U.S. 1, Washington, D.C., USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, June 1940

Anefo photo collection. Assignments Schippersblad Rotterdam. November 25, 1960. Rotterdam, South Holland

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 6x9 Office support concrete construction. undated

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Donzere-Mondragon Project - under Rigaud Irrigation Project. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Vintage Photograph. Older working man holding wrench up to overhead pipe

Sixten Johansson, Mechanical Workshop. Sixten Johansson, mekaniska verkstaden.

Poll photo collection. Report Amsterdam. Construction workers with roof tiles. 1933

War Industry in Britain 1939-1945 Shipbuilding: A shipyard worker guiding a piece of metal into position.

The final touches to a new shoe is done by Albert under the supervision of Mr. Roach. Blacksmithing is one of the trades in which there is a serious shortage of apprentices. November 02, 1950.

Vintage Photograph. Getting a tractor ready in springtime. Frame 2.

Anefo photo collection. State Secretary Schaefer strikes in Govert Flinckstraat first pole for 20 focal homes, Schaefer in a crane. September 17, 1973. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. Man looks ahead as he steers dragline machine to destination.

Vintage Photograph. Man looks down at the pedals as he operates dragline machine.

Anefo photo collection. Carillon of mint tower is removed. September 6, 1958

Vintage Photograph. Man cooking on vintage wood stove in rustic setting.

Joe Carstairs on the rigging of her yacht Sonia 2 in 1944. Marion Barbara 'Joe' Carstairs was openly lesbian, wore men's clothes, tattooed her arms, and raced boats. - (BSLOC_2014_17_188)

Cumberland - Struck Mine In 1917 Was Later Ran Ashore At Gabo - Merchant Shipping. January 01, 1952.

Image of two engineers of the N.S. While installing a distribution pot for electric cables in Maastricht.

Vintage Photograph. Older working man tightening overhead pipe with wrench l

Old Lobsterman Holding Lobster

Project (Man at Workbench). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Ship fumigation using hydrogen cyanide: an operator wearing protective oxygen breathing apparatus. Photograph by P. G. Stock, 1900/1920.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Woodworking, workers, tools. undated

With a siege and temporary occupation of the Hoesch AG headquarters on 11.9.1969, spontaneous striking steelworkers opened a series of strikes in the coalfield, Germany, Europe

Workshop workers in the lubrication pit.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Slaughterhouse. Butcher at work. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Carpenter at work on the first laborer's shelter at the Berwyn project near the lake site, Greenbelt, Maryland.. Photographs. 1936-02. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Iron industry.

Construction worker, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. 1940 - 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

Man driving tractor

Mule skinner who drives the twenty-mule team used to pull wheat combine. Walla Walla, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Walla Walla, Washington (State) , Walla Walla County

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY (EV001506_H)

Yx production. Smith with ax.

Vintage Photograph. Man looks ahead of himself using levers to operate dragline machine.

Railway staff at yard.

Kentucky coal miner, Jenkins, Kentucky. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

The gravity of soap oil is determined. Soap oil is obtained by extraction with a solvent from the cake which remains after the first 2 pressings. 1/3 of our total consumption of fats/ oils is for non-food. 18%%%%%%%% of this non-food uses of oil is for soap 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Strathmore, California , Tulare County

In farm machinery repair shop. Colfax, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Colfax, Washington (State) , Whitman County

Steelworker in Pittsburgh steel mill, Pennsylvania 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Housing for migrant fruit workers in a tourist and trailer camp near Belle Glade, Florida 19370101

Farm owner near Memphis, Texas. He says, "I'd rather have renters than tractors on my place. I oppose the tractors. It puts too many off the land. I went to my limit, more than most, and kept my renters until this year. But I got seven hundred behind on my taxes, so I need all I can get.". 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Memphis, Texas , Hall County, Farms

SAAR Story - Studies of Types - Miners, etc.. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Worker. Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

Smith Johan Augist Hübinette at Leufsta Mill, 1930.

Iron worker welding (EV006456_H)

One Of The Oldest Of Farming Arts -- Mr. Hancock and his 150-years-old flail.58-year-old Mr. Tom Allen Hancock, a small holder at Brook, Kent, is one of the few remaining exponents of the thousands of years old art of flail-threshing.The fail he uses was used by his father and his grandfather before him and is nearly 150 years old.It consists of a club swinging by a leather thong from the end of a 5ft pole.The pole is held in both hands and the club swung to beat the sheaves of corn laid out on the barn floor. September 14, 1949. (Photo by Fox).

Steelworker in Pittsburgh steel mill, Pennsylvania 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Railway Worker

Spanish-American farmer repairing his wife's shoes. Chamisal, New Mexico - intermediary roll film | Library of Congress

Anefo photo collection. Construction of draining tubes Oosterpolder at Kampen. March 19, 1957. Kampen, Oostpolder

The spontaneous strike, here on 10.9.1969 by the miners of the Minister Stein colliery, was one of the starting points of the strike movement of what later became known as the September strikes in the coalfield, Germany, Europe

The rope ware track (pictured name).The rope warehouse (depicted name)

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Construction of a new kibbuts. From origin South African member of the Bouwploog of Mother Cavebuts Yavne assembles barracks from prefabricated parts. January 1, 1948. Israel, Yavne

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Construction of a new kibbuts. Member of the Bouwploog of Mother Cavebuts Yavne (originally bank officer in Europe), saws wood when mounting barracks from prefabricated parts. January 1, 1948. Israel, Yavne

Modern Equipment Helps Increase France's Steel Output - USINOR. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

1930s 1940s CONSTRUCTION WORKERS DISCUSSING PROJECT ON STEAM SHOVEL

Miner Phillip Naismith, 62, he has spent about 40 years as a miner. He works at the Gibson & Cripps Mine Gibsonvale. January 22, 1942.

Two Electric Welders Helping to Build Liberty Ship Frederick Douglass, Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Roger Smith, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1943

Straw boss of pea packers in the field near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Calipatria, California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.

Two female welders, Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Arthur S. Siegel, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1943

Vintage Photograph. Man on lift truck waving.

Man of the Mine- Life at the Coal Face, Britain, 1942 A striking head and shoulders portrait of coal miner Fred Woolhouse. In the background can be seen the pit head machinery, towering above him.

Two miners ready to leave entrance of coal mine near Scranton, PA.

Anefo photo collection. Mayor Samkalden stores first pile fire station Amsterdam, Samkalden in machine. October 21, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Factory worker carrying rubber hose, Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Arthur S. Siegel, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1943

Sgt. Carl Erland, From Route #2, Canby, Oregon, Operating A Bulldozer On Kadena Airfield, Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto. 1901St Aviation Engineers. 16 May 1945.

Sawmill operator. Irwinville Farms, Ga. 1935 1935. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Anefo photo collection. Recovery: Wieringermeer. Droogging of the Wieringermeerpolder. Man with crowbar and shelf wood. 1945. Noord-Holland, Wieringermeer

DEU, Germany, Dortmund: Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71, Iserlohn. Kettenthiele company ca. 1965. Workers' revolt against the boss. Story with Guenter Wallraff, Europe

Modern Equipment Helps Increase France's Steel Output - USINOR. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Gold digger (EV007763_H)

Gustaf Pettersson, blacksmith. Gustaf Pettersson, smed.

1920S Boy Cap Overalls Using Hammer Chisel Working With Wood Carpenter Carpenters Tools Repair Repairing Build

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.

1930s SENIOR MAN PUBLIC UTILITIES SUPERVISOR ELECTRONICALLY MONITORING SERVICES IN MANHOLE IN RURAL ROAD PENNSYLVANIA USA

Vintage Photograph. Man rides on bulldozer while operating the gear shifter he looks at what he is doing.

Donzere Mondragon - Flax Shipment. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Workers. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Welder, Proviso Yards, Chicago and North Western Railroad, Melrose Park, Illinois, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, December 1942

Lessing's Pictures on Coal - Surface. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Steelworkers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

The area of "Wolf's Shape", the head of Adolf Hitler's headquarters - a worker working at one of the buildings; from a series of photographs to the article by Miroszek Azembski "in the field of" Mierci Field of harvest "," Wiatr "1953, No. 49, p. 20; Pra 1953 (1953-00-00-1953-00-00);

Glasgow Shipyard- Shipbuilding in Wartime, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, 1944 Two young boys working in the shipyard.

Women's War Work- Life in a Shell Factory, England, UK, 1942 Mrs C Gunnee of 3 Victoria Terrace, Broomhill, Sheffield drives a Douglas forklift truck at a shell factory somewhere in Yorkshire. She has two children and her husband is also a munitions worker.

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