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

Hoeing rice, South Carolina, USA, circa 1904

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

Ogawa, Kazumasa, Carpenters at work, Japanese carpenters at work, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, 46, height 180 mm, width 228 mm, Japanese, 1860-09-29 - 1929-09-06, photographer, 1890 - 1895, paper, collotype, clichémaker

Ruth series Threshing floor, winnowing, 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Driving plant in Indonesia, Onnes Kurkdjian (attributed to), 1890 - 1903 photograph Indonesia paper albumen print sawahs, rice paddies. sowing Indonesia

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front. Work of the Waac Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France - Cooks Tending The Fat Boilers in An Infantry Camp. {1914-1918}. France

Drying manure for fuel 1900, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Construction of gas tubes in Paramaribo, c. 1903 - c. 1940 photograph Excavation work for the construction of a gas pipeline in Paramaribo. Workers dug a long slit in a street. Paramaribo photographic support digging (industrial process) Paramaribo

Colombia - Picking and transporting bananas, en route for export to Europe. Date: circa 1910s

Railway pelacement at sugar factory Meritjan in Kediri on Java; SF. Meritjan Emplacement. Part of photo album with recordings of four sugar factories on Java.

Pangkalpinang. My 3b. A series of coolies engaged in transporting soil. The quarry of an open tin mine of the banka tin recovery in Pangkalpinang with Chinese miners draining soil with tinerts in carrying baskets. Part of the photo album about the banka tin recovery, ca. 1907-1919.

Page 38 of photo album of the General Association of Rubber Plants in East Coast of Sumatra (A.R.O.S.). Book page with a photo of the mining soil recovery (Lalang is a grass species) using a tractor in Gooeng Monaco. Part of photo album of the general union of rubber planters on the east coast of Sumatra (A.R.O.S.).

The staff of the Boekit-Asam coal mines. January 8, 1922, 1922 photograph Group photo of the staff of the Boekit-Asam coal mines, sitting and standing in front of a building taken on January 8, 1922. Part of the loose-leaf photo album offered by the staff of the Boekit-Asam coal mines on Sumatra on the separate engineer H. Tromp on January 7, 1922. Boekit-asam photographic support gelatin silver print Sumatra. Boekit-Asam

Blacksmiths. Willoughby Wallace Hooper (English, 1837 - 1912)

Maryland - Hooper Island. Hooper Island Light Station, Maryland.

Pirgos: Station under construction. .

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Enarotali, administrative post exchange lakes. foreground Church American Mission, church construction. November 1954. Enarotali, Guinea, exchange lakes

Sudan - Khartoum - The Grain Market Date: circa 1904

30 cm spotlight in position. .

Threshing machine with autototor operation Padwa. .

Turpentine worker's home. Georgia. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia, Turpentine industry workers, Laborers

Farmers sow rice in the Sawah's in Japan.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. agriculture department provides cocoa plants population. Mindiptanah's Papuans ensure "new" plant. November 1955. Mindiptarah, Guinea

Olive crushing and pressing. Method of weighting the press. Great pressure realised by means of leverage. 1920, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Haystack on farm in the cut-over areas near Northome, Minnesota. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota , Northome, Minnesota , Koochiching County

Workers in a tea factory in Fuzhou, possibly Hendrik Dunlop, c. 1890 - c. 1895.

The Chinese Substitute for Horse Power - Manipulating a Huge Stone Roller on the Streets of Nanking, China, 1906

One of a series of eight 'work-in-progress' photos of the construction of 4 timber framed, thatched houses and a workshop for the Native Industrial Training Depot at which Charles Bungey was Chief Technical Instructor. This photo shows one completed house, one part thatched, and one building with just the roof joists up. Original manuscript caption: Pupils Quarters N. I. T.D. Kabete. 1924.

Washing in Greece , Laundry. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

'Pfalz - Gathering grapes near Weisenheim', 1931. Artist: Kurt Hielscher.

Men at a waterwork at the Ngandjoek sugar factory on Java, c. 1925 - c. 1930 photograph Part of photo album with recordings of four sugar factories on Java. Nganjuk cardboard. paper. photographic support gelatin silver print sugar. small canal, ditch. plants and herbs: sugarcane. plantation. sluice, weir Dutch East Indies, The. Nganjuk

Rice workers on a communist collective farm in North Korea, 1961.

Description: The shaping and planing of the timbers; note the use of the adze. Location: Solomon Islands australasia, oceania, solomonislands, australasiathroughalens

Image of road workers of the N.S. During maintenance work on the track in Amersfoort.

First attempt to build a canal in Panama by a French company. 1881. Works for the construction of the Panama Canal. Main street of the Gorgona workers' station, between Name and Matachin. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espan~ola y Americana, 1881.

Maffliers , France , 1930 - Ile -de -France - Stéphane Passet - (September -October) (French - Maffliers , France). Agriculture , Breeding, Hay, Field, Economic activity, Ile de France, mafliers, group of wheat grinding

Excavations. Ain Shems (Beth Shemesh) on the Sharon Plain. Bringing in the 'shuk'f.' Pottery fragments to be scrubbed & classified. 1920, Israel, Bet-Shemesh (Extinct city)

Hemp cultivation 1930

'Hop Picking in Tasmania', 1901. Hops in Australia are picked annually in February and March. From "Federated Australia". The Werner Company, London, 1901

Description: Boring for Coal near Darling Range. Location: Western Australia, Australia australia, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens

Plantation scene, showing a tobacco field, San Luis, Cuba , Tobacco plantations, Agricultural laborers

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Prefabricated homes set Koerik European workers KOEMBE rice project. 29 Europeans, including farmers, local workers engineers. April 1956. Kurik, Guinea

Working elephants in timber yards, Yangon, Myanmar, c. 1870 - c. 1900 photograph Three working elephants in a carpentry workshop, Rangoon, Union of Myanmar (formerly Burma). Yangon paper. cardboard albumen print Yangon

Shearing Sheep with Power Driven Shears, Kirkland, Ill.. Keystone View Co. (American, founded 1892, dissolved 1963)

Indian manure collectors and dryers. The manure was collected off the streets, worked into brickettes, dried in the sun and then sold for fuel in place of wood and coal to the local populace. No raw materials required to be purchased! Date: circa 1909

Ruth series Threshing floor, winnowing, 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Tonkin, Indochina of children using a machine on foot, a lifting system of water for rice irrigation , Léon Busy in Indochina (French - Tonkin , Indochine Des enfants utilisant une machine à pied , système élévatoire d' eau pour l' irrigation du riz). Rice field, costume, agriculture , breeding, work scene, irrigation, child, rural life, body of water, children's work, Clothing, economic activity, daily life, human beings, society, Indochina, Tonkin, Water elevator - The use of a machine on foot

We have it rich.' Washing and panning gold, Rockerville, Dak. Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon at work.

The construction of the Great Fergana Canal, Alpert, Max Vladimirovich (1899-1980)

Description: Erection of "Lahad Datu Radio'. "VSR"". ""Opening Day."" Location: Lahad Datu, Borneo asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens

Collotype - Harvest at the orphanage, Huberdeau, QC, about 1910

Group of men and women posing at a factory complex for oil extraction in Pangkalan-Brandan at 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.

Construction of a Telegraaflijn in Nha-Nam, Frans-Indochina, 1902 photograph This photo is part of an album. Vietnam cardboard. baryta paper gelatin silver print telegraph pole, telephone pole. road, path Vietnam

Cider Press - Normandy. Two different varieties of press at work - a screw press and a cranked masher. Date: circa 1910s

Distributing Surplus Commodities, St. Johns, Arizona, USA, Russell Lee, U.S. Farm Security Administration, October 1940

Italy. Population in street construction in Veneto 1.8.18. .

Elsevier photo collection. Abattoir Rotterdam. April 1933. Rotterdam, South Holland

Japanese farmers at work at a treadmill, Anonymous, 1890 - 1894 photograph Part of album with 69 photos of a trip through Japan. Japan cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print farmers. treadmill. draining ~ cultivation Japan

Le Blûtage. Frédéric Boissonnas (Swiss, 1858 - 1946)

Road repair in Yucatan, Augustus and Alice Dixon Le Plongeon papers, 1763-1937, bulk 1860-1910, Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908, Collodion, 187-, Le Plongeon--stamp on mount. Yucatan - Jixkokob - types. Indians drilling rocks, preparatory to blasting - in order to level the road, written on verso in hand of Augustus Le Plongeon. Cabinet-sized stereograph.

A wool-dyeing factory for the carpet trade at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. The company boss is pictures with a couple of his foreign clients. A donkey is shown covered in wool whilst samples hang over the balustrade of the bridge. Date: circa 1906

The Construction of Magnitogorsk, Alpert, Max Vladimirovich (1899-1980)

Drying grapes to make raisins for export at Izmir (Smyrna) Date: circa 1907

Quarry workers mining one of the many seams of good quality Copper Ore to be found in the area around Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum), a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 12 miles from the border with Turkey. Batumi is the last stop of the Transcaucasian Railway and the Baku oil pipeline. circa 1908

Taken from on board ship, this image shows a crane unloading part of a railway engine from a passenger liner. There are European and African workers overseeing the work. Original manuscript caption: Discharging 90 ton Railway Engine for Sudan Govt: Railways. Port Sudan July 1926.

Description: Ore of Awton Location: Awton africa

Drying coffee beans in the sun - Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

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