19th Century Labor Activities

Historical illustrations of various labor activities, showcasing workers in blacksmith shops, weaving, and dyeing processes in a gritty, monochrome style.

Cabinet makers at work in a workshop, using various tools. One is making a table, another assembles pieces of a cupboard. Date: 18th century
Cabinet makers at work in a workshop, using various tools. One is making a table, another assembles pieces of a cupboard. Date: 18th century
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Illustration depicting a scene within the C.T. Brock & Co's firework factory. The men are wearing nail-less safety boots which could cause no sparks, and the clothes they wear have no pockets so that no matches or anything else that might cause an explosion could be taken into the shed. Dated 19th century
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Building workers busy with heath work; Two dyke workers. Two workers put together a pole in the ground. They both wear a hat. Right rear them a machine and another worker.
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Worker in metal industry, Pieter de Josselin de Jong, 1871 - 1906 drawing paper. chalk iron and steel industry (+ men (labourers))
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Pork packing in Cincinnati - the Killing process. From a print showing four scenes in a packing house: Killing, Cutting, Rendering, and Salting.
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Workers in a workshop making cork stoppers, France, illustration by Henri Valentin from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 651, Volume XXVI, August 18, 1855.
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Saddler's workshop. From Diderot 'Encyclopedie' c1751.
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Potato harvesters on land, Leo Gestel, 1925 - 1927 drawing Potato harvesters working on the land, in the foreground on the left a standing farmer with cap and scythe, on the right a farmer seen on the back with tools in hand, in the background farmers who are harvesting potatoes on their knees with a basket next to them on the ground. Flanders paper. chalk reaping, picking, mowing ~ harvest. potatoes
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Cutting the fretwork for a piano. Broadwood's factory, Horseferry Road, Westminster. From The Penny Magazine, London, 1842.
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Illustration of a sailmaker seen repairing a sail for a sailboat. Dated 19th Century
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Rock Drillers Harry Gottlieb American Published by WPA 1939 Wage workers were commonly depicted by politically inclined artists who sought to express solidarity with their struggle, but over time, interest in the subject spread to artists who did not possess strong political ties. Labor scenes became ubiquitous in prints of the thirties, especially among those working at Federal Art Project printshops. Using new, experimental techniques for color lithography and screenprinting, printmakers created images of workers wielding drills, torches, and other tools central to urban construction and repair. View more. Rock Drillers. Harry Gottlieb (American, Bucharest, Rumania 1895-1993 New York). 1939. Screenprint. Published by WPA. Prints
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Chinese potter firing a porcelain plate in a furnace to fix the glaze on it. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828.
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New Year's wish from book dealer Charles Bosse for the year 1911. View of the Rue La Fayette where work takes place. In the foreground a hole in the ground with two workmen, a woman looks from behind a fence. Further down the street two horses for a cart with a crane in the background. Left a man goes over a temporary walkway to Charles Bosse's bookstore.
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Manufacturing Cantal cheese - kneading the curds Date: 1897
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The Blacksmith Jefferson David Chalfant (1856-1931 American) David David Gallery, Philadelphia
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A Weaver's workshop. Weverswerkplaats. Interior of a weaving mill, left three men with a fireplace, right at the window is a loom, a spinning wheel and other tools. In the foreground a dog sleeps, a woman opens a wall cupboard at the rear wall.
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Machado's cigar factory, Jamaica: Rolling the cigars. Engraving from ''The Graphic'', London, 1889.
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Worker in steel mill, draughtsman: Pieter de Josselin de Jong, 1871 - 1906, paper, h 480 mm × w 317 mm
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Interior of an Iron Foundry, by Pieter de Josselin de Jong, 1880-1900, Dutch watercolor painting. Five workers carry a crucible of glowing molten metal. (BSLOC_2016_1_70)
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Worker in a brick factory. .
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Baroque art. ROMBOUTS, Gillis Salomonsz (Haarlem, 1631-1672). Dutchman painter. The workshop of a weaver (1656). Oil. Frans Hals Museum. Haarlem. Holland.
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Japanese shoemaker at work, 1890, Japan, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.
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Potato harvesters at work on land; Without title. Boxing and standing men and women on the country, mid above horses for a cart.
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Cooking rice. Shinichi Suzuki (Japanese, 1835 - 1919)
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A man is sharpening blades and scissors on a grinding wheel. Woodcut.
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Tapping Induction Furnace c. 1938 Edmund M. Ashe (20th C./American) Oil on Masonite Steidle Collection, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
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Four years in the fight. The women of France, we owe them houses of cheer. United War Work Campaign. Y.W.C.A. Artist Jonas, Lucien, 1880-1947, Published 1918. Summary: Women working in a factory.
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Interior of an iron foundry. Draughtsman: Pieter de Josselin de Jong (mentioned on object). Dating: 1880 - 1906. Measurements: h 75 cm × w 112 cm; d 7 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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A Cotton Clearer in China, circa 1800
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Women making pneumatic tyres for bicycles. From Le Journal de la Jeunesse, Paris, 1896.
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Beating the Rice. Shinichi Suzuki (Japanese, 1835 - 1919)
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Beverly Chichester, Man Pumping Water, c 1937 Man Pumping Water
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Corn cutter with hat, seen from behind. .
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Preparing the Warp for Weaving. Shinichi Suzuki (Japanese, 1835 - 1919)
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De Glasfabriek in Leerdam: The Machinial Press van Glas, Herman Heijenbrock, c. 1871 - c. 1948 drawing Carrier: Paper. List: Wood (plant material). List: Glass Leerdam
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In the Shoemaker's Workshop by Jakowl Stepanowitsch Baschiloff, 1871, 1839-1896, Russia, Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery
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Relief performed by the workers at the workshops is set up in the dining room in Fjällbo, east of Sävenäs Rangerbangård.
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Workers to the Factories', 1920.
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Rice farming, threshing, winnowing and sorting, attributed to Cheng Chi, Yuan Dynasty, 13th - 14th century AD, China
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The electrical factory "Svetlana" in Leningrad, Sittaro, Alexei Gumbertovich (1906-1942)
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Geiser, Farm Machinery
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Relief with profession locksmith and blacksmith with figures, two, anvil, work, worker, sitting, beam scale, hammer, hammering, craft, craftsman, manufacture, historics, historical, wood carving, mechanic, metal worker, metal worker, metal production, metal processing, emboss, embossing, locksmith, blacksmith, forge, forging, industry, district savings bank, savings bank, old town, Schwaebisch Hall, Franconia, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
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Deering, 1942, Farm Machinery
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This color print by Gustav Ankarcrona, created in 1901, depicts the industrial and craft exhibition in Gefle, showing exhibition halls, machinery, crafts, and visitors in detailed composition.