Agricultural Laborers in History

Vintage photographs depicting historical agricultural practices and laborers in various settings, capturing the essence of farming life from the early 20th century.

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Rocky Ford vicinity, Colorado. - color digital file from b&w original print | Library of Congress

Farming (Branding). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Harvesting. Jewish colony. Photograph possibly shows Mikveh (Mikve) Israel Agricultural School. 1898, Israel

Other Project. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Field construction in Veneto. Work in the Kukuruzfeld 21.5.18. Partly these are recordings that can not be assigned directly to the IsonzoFront, but for admission from the conquered Venetian areas

Farming. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Description: Beau Bassin Prison. Concrete block-making industry. View of stone-crusher side. Location: Beau Bassin, Mauritius Date: 1950-1959

Workers shake rice for own consumption on plantation Accaribo in Suriname. Workers shaking rice for own consumption on Plantage Accaribo in Suriname.

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Rocky Ford vicinity, Colorado. - color digital file from b&w original print | Library of Congress

Sawmill Interiors - Edgers. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Gathering Material For Use in Building Jetties. 1926 - 1956. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre Agency. 1954-1972. Decimal Correspondence

Project (Red Water Dam Trash Rack). 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

Photo collection Deli Society. A tobacco company in Deli Sumatra. Part of a tobacco plantation with industries in the background. In the foreground Young tobacco plants and shielded seedlings. 1867. Deli, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Dipping sheep black-and-white prints

Cuba, December 1896. Cuban War. Work on the Júcaro to Morón trail. Cuban workers in repair work on the railway line.

See-Saw and Shelter. Original caption: Miscellaneous (See-Saw and Shelter).. 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

House Construction. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping, Delta County, Colorado. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado , Delta County

Photo collection Deli Society. A tobacco company in Deli Sumatra. Homes of the supervisor and Chinese workers with tobacco plants in the foreground. At the houses indigenous residents. 1867. Deli, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Farming (Harvesting School Potatoes). 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

Farming (Cattle). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Water battery on James River, Va. near Dutch Gap Canal | Library of Congress

Elsevier photo collection. Series "The industrial recovery Bandoeng". Photo 3 Structure Indonesian textile factory (Annex lemonade factory rice pellar) "PERBOE", destroyed Indonesian extremists. 1946. Bandung, Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Pulping coffee in the old way, Jamaica. The 'Perfec-Stereograph', 7688.. Photographs. 1904. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Jamaica, Horses, Coffee plantation workers, Coffee industry

Elsevier photo collection. Harvest. Charge hay. July 1938

Well-developed artillery scaffolding, equipped with skoned faces.

Potato harvesters. Kern County, California. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Kern County, Migrant agricultural laborers

Baghdad, Iraq: c. 1900 Workmen building an Arabic round boat known as a kufa on the Tigris River at Baghdad.

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. In early 1958, a mission internegation was established in Ransiki that aims to train evangelists. In addition to the theoretical lessons, self-efficacy, such as agriculture, etc.. Practical work. The construction of the boarding school was also taken by the students. Here you can see the boys busy with the construction of the kitchen led by the leader of the boarding school DS. E. Gesbers. May 1958. New Guinea

Primitive native life of India - Hindu women grinding grain , Domestic life, Grains, Grinding wheels

Elsevier photo collection. Carbuilding action brushing fields pranger regulations. Photo Lembangweg (Bandoeng). 1928. Bandung, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Two railroad construction workers hammer track as third construction worker watches. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation.

Elsevier photo collection. Fish pond fish farm Penten Malang (Java). July 1928. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Two rafts shot (push / streact) that raft from the shore into the flow of the Elbe

On the straw stack, old fashioned stacker, Illinois , Threshing, Agricultural equipment, Wheat

An albumin photograph by Franz Duschek showing men processing animals in front of a slaughterhouse in Romania, focusing on labor, tools, and building structure.

Elsevier photo collection. Harvesting grapes greenhouse Westland. October 1919. Westland, South Holland

01/01/1935. New Madrid racecourse. One of the Brigades working on the farm.

The timber industry: jacking the rimu logs on to the waggon for transportation to the sawmill, New Zealand, by Leslie Adkin.

Jaffa. Packing & exporting oranges. 1898, Israel, Tel Aviv

Plantations in Kenya Colony. Cutting sisal. 1936, Kenya

Jewish colonies and settlements Commencing a Jewish settlement a camp Cultivating the ground. 1920, Middle East

Brickmaking. Norfolk.. Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936)

Oil press. 1934, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. South Carolina , Hartsville, South Carolina , Darlington County, Tobacco farms, Sharecroppers

Cutting wheat with reaper and binder, Pennsylvania , Wheat, Harvesting, Harvesting machinery, Farmers

Tamping Dirt Around Phone Pole. 1931 - 1945. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Also the R.K. Mission has now chosen the Baliem as a labor field. The first post is at Wamena, where Father A. Blokdijk is building a storage space. September 1958. New Guinea

Agriculture, Drawing water by camel and cow power. Yoke of cattle raising water from deep well. 1920, Middle East

Sugar cane mill powered by an OS, 1891 - 1912 photograph A sugar cane mill in the open air driven by an ox. Next to the OS is a man who encourages the OS. West Sumatra (Province) paper ox. plants and herbs: sugarcane. grinding, milling (industrial processes) West Sumatra (Province)

Ancient mode of threshing in Mexico, Pyramid of Sun, San Juan Teotihuacan , Threshing, Grains, Agricultural laborers, Ox teams, Pyramids

Farming (Branding). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

The mountain dollar. Manschaftsunterkünfte. .

Description: Survey party at work along line ugandarailway, africa

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. waalstone factory. Summary Waalsteenfabriek. undated. Netherlands, Waal

Split Boulder at Milford Quarry , Granite quarrying, Building materials, Boulders

Leveling the land for irrigation on the Bosque Farms project. The tract of two thousand four hundred acres to be cultivated under irrigation. New Mexico. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Bosque Farms, New Mexico , Valencia County, Farming

Men Working in Unidentified Wooded Area. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

A Ruined Water-Mill. Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936)

Farm Products - Alabama. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Elsevier photo collection. Harvest time. Cart span draft horses timbed hay. August 1933

Cotton pickers at end of day's work, Pulaski County, Arkansas. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Cotton pickers. Kaufman County, Texas 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

View of a tingroeve in Koba with cable transport, anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of photo album about the Tinwinning on Bangka. Koba photographic support gelatin silver print minerals and metals: tin. mining. funicular railway. working class, labourers Koba

Agricultores en Cervera, Lleida, 1947. Museu Català de les Arts i Tradicions Populars.

Description: Trinidad and Tobago. 'Rice being threshed by hand during harvesting near St. Augustine village'. Photograph No.: D 79145. Official Trinidad and Tobago photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Publicity statement on reverse. Location: Trinidad and Tobago Date: 1955 Mar caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Horses and cars (presumably) on the factory site of Distillerderij Delizy & Doistau in Pantin, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of a family, Distillery Delizy & Doistau Fils, the army and sights in France. France paper. photographic support albumen print bottling of wine. alcoholic drinks. factory-building. smoke-stack. gate, entrance. wholesale house France

Workers on a field, Anonymous, 1868 - 1890 stereograph United States of America cardboard. paper albumen print weeding

Split Boulder at Milford Quarry , Granite quarrying, Building materials, Boulders

Brick yard, San Salvador ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Construction of the rail bridge over de Iskisi. Vintage image of the 1900s construction of the colonial "État indépendant du Congo", now DRC territory, railway lines

Fox of Iowa: Worsted Work.

Logging: Transportation: Log Drive - Michigan. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Archduke Leopold Salvator at the Dossacio plant.

'We'se done all dis's morning',' -Picking cotton on a Mississippi plantation. , Cotton pickers, Cotton plantations, Cotton industry, Cotton

Caesarea (Kaisarieh) Baking. 1938, Israel, Caesarea

Apprentice masons laying last courses of bricks in the side wall of a new house, with corrugated iron roof already in place. Original page caption: Cement, Brick Making and Building. Waa, nr Mombasa 1925.

Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, California. They are paid senty-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Kern County, Migrant agricultural laborers, Cotton pickers, Farms

Gruvaber, probably at Turagua mines, Firmeza, Cuba (Cuba) 1909-1911.

Seravalle, mobile car repair center 122.

Economic operations in the occupied Venetian area, Drusch.

Making a hole for garbage, 1918-1920.

Australia - Victoria - Bush Blacksmith (Gippsland Region) Date: circa 1905

Description: Pemba clove drying of friends' Industrial Mission. africa

A group of around ten African apprentices of the Nairobi Public Works Department are working on carpentry projects in their outdoor workshops. Charles Bungey, their instructor, is just visible at the right of the image. Original manuscript caption: Native carpenters P.W.D. Nairobi B.E.A. Later manuscript caption: Charles Bungey's boys.

Photos from the facility of a telegraflinje in Russia in 1900.

Elsevier photo collection. Laundry Batavia. 1926. Batavia, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Treading out the grain, threshing as in olden days, Greece , Threshing, Farmers. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Albumin paper photograph by Josef Carl Steuer from 1866 depicting agricultural tools and a bacher, showing implements, display arrangement, and exhibition context.

Two people make rice bales, Japan, T. Enami, 1900 - 1907 stereograph JapanPublisher: yokohama cardboard. baryta paper cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet) Japan

This Is the Mechanical Age Yet You Couldn't Tell It From This Photograph. In the unmolested areas of northern France, where for some reason or other, machinery has not yet been harnessed to the wheels of industry such quaint sights, as it pictured above, are still in evidence. The dog treadmeal is not at all uncommon. The dog in running turns the huge wheel which is belted to a pump which in turn draws water into a market gardener's tank for irrigation purposes. This is a scene at Orleans.

Fox of Iowa, Worsted Work , Indians of North America, Fox Indians, Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition 1898 : Omaha, Neb.. Photographs of the American West

Mending our ways'. Male and female indentured labourers work on the construction of a new road. Several of the men use pickaxes to extract earth, whilst a row of women sit in the verge, using hammers to break up rocks for road surfacing. Jamaica, circa 1891. Jamaica, Caribbean, North America .

Workers at work at seed beds among mosquito nets on Sumatra. Part of travel album with photographs of activity and sights on Sumatra and Java and from the trip to and from the Dutch East Indies.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Soldering Merauke. 1950. Merauke, Guinea

I-ESCLAVOS NEGROS TRABAJANDO LA COSECHA DE AZUCAR. Location: NATIONAL LIBRARY. RIO DE JANEIRO. BRASILIEN.

Louis Dewitt. 1900 - 1954. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Crow Creek Agency. 1949-1954. Photographs

Brickmaking (Norfolk) Made 1883-1887 England. Photogravure, pl. XXII from the album Pictures of East Anglian Life (1888) . Peter Henry Emerson

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