Historic Labor and Construction Scenes

Depictions of laborers engaged in various construction tasks, from woodwork to trench digging, showcasing a gritty, industrious atmosphere in historical settings.

Piling of reinforcing iron.

Peas are dumped from hampers to crates for transportation to the packing and grading sheds. Imperial County, California 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County

Original caption: "Construction of Stone Building". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Transplanting Beds. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

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

Alarik Larsson's shaft in 1922. From the left engineer Bradén at Alley's Peteuter, Engineer Forsell at IndustrialYan and Builder Spjuth, Riddarjyttan.

Line Changes Being Made in the Installation of the Dial System. Enrollees Working Under Supervision of Telephone Linemen from Billings District Office.. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Miraflores, the Panama Canal Zone: a West Indian man sprays larvicide into a ditch as part of a mosquito control programme implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.

Construction of Nisutlin Bay Bridge. Original caption: Moving Jack Stringers into position on the Nisutlin Bay Bridge. Photo by Pinkstaff, 3/27/43. State: Alaska.

Logs for Rebuilding Old Historic Structure. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Hemlock seedlings, planted spring 1938, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., June 16, 1939 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Men Working. 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

Original caption: "PWA. 4/23/34. Precasting roof slabs for culverts.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Riprapping Project #122-182. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Panning gold in a shovel at Pioneer Mine - Frank G. Carpenter in center, J. Lindeberg at right. Frank and Frances Carpenter collection , Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951, Gold mining,Alaska,Nome,1890-1920, Carpenter, Frank G,(Frank George),,1855-1924, United States,Alaska,Nome

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Home building Hollandia. Attracted wages, result enormous labor shortage - Indian Dutch people workers house construction roads. 20 homes set Z.G. Polymac-Hill. October 1953. Hollandia, Guinea

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

Oglala Dam (Top View). 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

Description: Civil Engineering, permanent way. Location: East Africa africa

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Papua migrants Indonesia. April 1960. Kofiau, Guinea

Original caption: "La Jolla Truck Trail". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Reservoirs. 1939-01-01T00:00:00.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Fool Bear Creek Bridge Construction Project 181-9 from Salvaged Material. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Smelting on the River Blythe. Suffolk; Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936); London, England; 1888; Photogravure; 20 x 28.6 cm (7 7,8 x 11 1,4 in.)

Cutting ice on the Ottaquetchee Ottauquechee River, Coos County, New Hampshire 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Sveagry. Transport of building materials in 1917.

Original caption: "Los Conejos - Truck Trail". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Rock oyster digging, Newport, Oregon - digital file from original | Library of Congress

Rock quarry used in construction of Cumberland Homesteads. Crossville, Tennessee 1935. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Transplanting red pine, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., May 16, 1938 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture, people agents

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Taking barbecue off the fire, Labor Day, Ridgeway, Colorado. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado , Ridgeway, Colorado , Ouray County

Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble. California. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Migrant agricultural laborers

Winsor Dam Outlet Works, view showing log which was caught in 36' pipe between 24' line and west 36' gate valve, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., Sep. 25, 1944 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, pipes conduits, log wood

Elsevier photo collection. Walcheren. estimated Walcherse land 10 kilometers roads completely slammed, partially destroyed. reconstruction initiated recovery roads. road Veere restored. February 28, 1946. Veere, Walcheren, Zeeland

Transplanting Beds. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Tipos.

CONSTRUCTION OF A CHINESE AIRFIELD: The substition for cement is scooped into wooden buckets which are carried to the area where rocks have been laid.

Men in work.Finnvikskabeln. Tar of the cable. From the album, the cable work helmet (Helmet) - Norrtälje - Finnviken performed during the summer of 1928.

Three Span Approach. 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

Men Working On Pipeline In Foggia, Italy.

Instrumentation: Climatic - Louisiana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Range Improvement - Seeding - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Thurston Nursery, European larch seedlings, seed planted May 22, 1936, Enfield, Mass., Sep. 25, 1936 : Parcel no. 289-25 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Major Project. Original caption: Miscellaneous. 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

Stocking the twenty-five acre lake with fish. Greenbelt, Maryland 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Log driver , Logs, Lumber industry, Bodies of water. Frank W. Benson (1862-1951). Prints and Drawings

Farm boy taking ladder to tree which he will prune. Placer County, California 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Placer County

Japanese on fruit farm, California

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World in California before the war. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Napa Valley, Migrant laborers, Depressions

Oglala Dam Project (Concrete Work). 1939-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Thurston Nursery, European larch seedlings, seed planted May 22, 1936, Enfield, Mass., Sep. 25, 1936 : Parcel no. 289-25 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

White pine seedlings, planted fall 1938, Randall Field, corner of Blue Meadow Road, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., July 13, 1939 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Men at a Project Site. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Winsor Dam Outlet Works, view showing log which was caught in 36' pipe between 24' line and west 36' gate valve, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., Sep. 25, 1944 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, pipes conduits, log wood

Photo collection Government information service. Disabled people in the labor process. Gardeners. 1962

Demonstration of Engineering Equipment (Water), New York , Civil defense, Pipes Conduits. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Moisture test for soil, Dept. of Agriculture Experimental Farm. Prince Georges County, Beltsville, Maryland.. Photographs. 1935-08. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Bosque Farms project. Making adobe brick for school and permanent houses. 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

Red pine seedlings, planted spring 1939, Randall Field, corner of Blue Meadow Road, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., July 13, 1939 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

All concrete pipes on the piles are heated and bent for optimal adaptation.

Contract No. 39, Trunk Line Sewer, Rutland, Holden, sheeting hammer at Sta. 474+75, Rutland-Holden Sewer Line, Rutland, Mass., Sep. 6, 1934

Original caption: "PWA. 4/23/34. Manzanita. Laying broken rock and concrete floor of stone culvert.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Oscar Gaither, tenant farmer near McLeansboro, Illinois, feeding his pigs. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois , McLeansboro, Illinois , Hamilton County

Original caption: "ECW - Morongo - Crew on stream bank protection. ". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Preparing red pine for transplanting, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., May 16, 1938 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture, people agents

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Agricultural trial station ManoK. Stone grinding purifying earth. November 1961. Manok, Guinea, Sentani

Completed Platform. 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

Emergency Mass Feeding, Fort Dix, New Jersey 1954 , Civil defense, Digging. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Father and son building home on wheels. Yuba Co. Calif. 1936. Photographs. 1936. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Yuba County, Migrant laborers, Internal migrants

Group of coal miners, Williamson, West Virginia. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

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Baling Hay

Overtore in Moengo.

Original caption: "Misc. Farming". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Forest Fire Equipment: Water Equipment - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Community Housing Project Construction. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Day Woman Dam: Front View of Concrete Inlet Box. 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

Smith, Harold G. , Rakes Agricultural equipment, Boys

Weighing in cotton, Pulaski County, Arkansas. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Oglala Dam Project (Steel Work). 1939-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

New Councilor Dam: Outlet Well Anchored. 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

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Forest Management Research - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Original caption: "Misc. Farming". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Farming (Branding). 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

Original caption: "Misc. Farming". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Department of Agriculture experts test power of gas to keep weeds out of golf greens circa 1938.

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi. 1937 - 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Clarksdale, Plantations, Agricultural laborers, Cotton

Contract No. 99, Enlargement of Fells High Level Distribution Reservoir, Stoneham, Malden, Melrose, looking north by southeast corner of gatehouse showing cracks in core wall, enlargement of Fells Reservoir, Stoneham, Mass., Jun. 27, 1940

11/30/1959. Harvesting olives in a field in Jaén.

The State Railway Grinding Factory, Piteå.isbreaking work at the pool.

Valencia, May 1937. The first shovelful of dirt in the work on a road of great importance for Levante. Photo: Vidal Corella.

Project (Barn Construction). 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

Original caption: "Misc. Farming". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Farming (Branding). 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

Transparency - Bee farm, SK, about 1920

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

Breaking ground for the Westborough District Court , Ground breaking ceremonies. Westborough

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