Historic Labor and Industry

Vintage photographs showcase workers in traditional industries, featuring occupations like quarrying, shipbuilding, and dairy processing from the 1940s.

1930s WORKMAN OPERATING PNEUMATIC HAMMER RIVET GUN ERECTING STEEL I-BEAM BUILDING STRUCTURE

1940S Rail Engineer Lineman Turning Long Key Gear Box Railroad Car Lock Unlock Work Working Train Man Men Occupation

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.

Vintage Photograph. An older granite quarry worker.

Tanners at work on unknown tannery.

Worker running milk cans through sterilizing machine, Farmington, Minnesota, USA, Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1939

1920S Old Wrinkled Face Man Standing In Front Of Clapboard Building Holding A Plane And Hammer

1930s WORKMAN OPERATING PNEUMATIC HAMMER RIVET GUN ERECTING STEEL I-BEAM BUILDING STRUCTURE

Events and milieu in the Ruhr area in the years 1965 to 1971. Dortmund. Hoesch AG steelworkers, Germany, Europe

Charging of Bulleting Band, 1938 Charging Kuljutband, 1938. Man in work at vise. Belonging to the F2 collection with numbers F2-38-107.

Anefo photo collection. Striking the first pile for an elderly center, J. Jongkindstraat in Amsterdam. Alderman of the Eyden stores the first pile, helped by the driver of the heath count. December 10, 1973. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Poll photo collection. Reporting EPPO Doeve. Eppo Doeve is in his studio and mixes paint for the decors of the play of Leocardia. 1951. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Buildings, barns, workers, tools. undated

Vintage Photograph. A village blacksmith working on horseshoes.

State Railways, SJ Gas Administration

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

People in the factory. >>

Anefo photo collection. Dutch fisherman Britain. engaged sweeping mines fishing. 1940-1945}

Foreman Torsten Karlsson at AB Iron Processing.

Marseille Docker - nicholas Derybolsky (Magazine Unit Negs). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

1920S Older Man In Overalls Standing At Workbench Holding Hand Drill

Clydeside Family -- Sam, eighteen, is William Salisbury's second son. He is new half way through his apprenticeship at Alex Stephens & Sons. Here he is seen marking off a ship's top mast for lift plates. This mast is for the City of Singapore. November 1, 1950. (Photo by Central Office Of Information Photograph).

1930S Composite Of Worker In Front Of Factory

Navarre Paper Factory. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Detective F. J. Douglas, of the Gold Stealing Detection Staff, examining $6000 worth of illicit gold found in a house at Kalgoorlie during the week. The gold, comprising 19 bars and buttons, weigh more than 600oz., and would be worth $18,000 on the black market in Singapore. December 7, 1947.

spazzacamino, 1959

Anefo photo collection. Pressure post under Rembrandthuis applied against subsidence. October 16, 1974

Gustavsberg's porcelain factory. The goods are worn in one of the old ovens on special caps.

DEU, Germany, Dortmund: Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71. Mining. Underground. Miners ca. 1965, Europe

Miner loads the acetylene lamp, Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy 1970

Carpenter Drilling Hole at Tennessee Valley Authority's new Douglas Dam, French Broad River, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA, Alfred T. Palmer for Office of War Information, June 1942

Anefo photo collection. Manufacture of canopdlers. March 19, 1947

Englebert Tire Plant. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Kitchen Waste Into Cattle Feed- Salvage on the British Home Front, 1942 A salvage worker empties a metal tin of household waste into his rubbish trolley on a residential street somewhere in Britain. The housewife who put out this tin of scraps for salvage watches from behind her garden gate. Note the typical 1930s 'sunburst' design of the gates.

Poll photo collection. Report Noord-Holland. Farmer on a tractor in the Anna Paulownapolder. January 1, 1930. Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland

Poll photo collection. Moselle: viticulture. Carrier with harvesting tub at the vineyard. 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany

Construction worker on cigarette break (OV2019_72)

Le Havre Harbor Restored (Magazine Unit, Part of Story on French Defense). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Pershayttan. Interior from partially reconstructed mining cabin.

The Oxygen steelworks Phoenix of Hoesch AG on 25. 7. 1973 produced steel. Today, the former steelworks is an amusement park on the Phoenixsee lake in Dortmund-Hoerde, Germany, Europe

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Airport. Airplane engineer working on an airplane. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Cumberland - Struck Mine In 1917 Was Later Ran Ashore At Gabo - Merchant Shipping. January 1, 1952.

Agriculture - Inefficient Farming. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Hopes To Net Deep Sea Animals -- Ready for Two-Year Trip to Antarctic -- R.C. Hunter, Chief Petty Officer of the Research Ship "Discovery II", is ready for the ship's voyage to the Antarctic. The vessel, now at West India Dock, London, will leave on Monday April 17., and will first cruise off the south of Ireland to test her gear here Chief Petty Officer Hunter is seen with a net which will catch sea animals 1,500 metres beneath the surface. It has a special closing apparatus which will help the experts to tell at what depth the animals were caught. April 14, 1950. (Photo by Paul Popper Ltd.).

Portrait of male welder laughing

Dr Wahner-Albert in his workshop

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

La Chapelle Paper Plant. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Hole in Wormer. October 14, 1959. Noord-Holland, Wormer, Zaanstad

Anefo photo collection. Limburg coal mines. Limburg coal mines. November 21, 1945. Limburg

Poll photo collection. KLM staff house style and Schiphol. Portrait of a welder in the KLM service. August 1951. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Examination WU-Type Mijnenvegers Wildervank and Dokkum classes, 1953-1957. The Indulge The MDAP agreement between the Netherlands and the USA appointed American Shipbuilding Liaisonofficer, Capt. Russell Hitchcock, USN, visits the yard J & K Smit in Kinderdijk, where the Dokkum classmasser Ommen to be built for American account is under construction.

Man standing in front of machinery., 1920s to 1930s, by Roland Searle.

An unidentified lineman, stop deep snow which brings telephone lines within reach, makes a test call from portable equipment while checking lines near Ashby. The snow piled up during a three-day blizzard last week. February 3, 1949. (Photo by AP Photo).

***** his familiar working clothes, before a recently-completed painting showing the ***** between sharp peaks and rolling countryside. He works long hours at the easel. March 28, 1951. ;***** his familiar working clothes, before a recently-completed painting showing the ***** between sharp peaks and rolling countryside. He works long hours at the easel.

Salt Produced By Boiling Sea Water - Some Nations Get Salt From Mines, Others Take It From The Ocean. The Latter Is The Case With Okinawans. The Native On The Right Is Boiling A Vat Of Salt Water Recently Taken From The Pacific Ocean. After The Water B

Gold digger

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Wood storage places, workers, equipment, sitting. undated

"The Sleepless Port" - (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 5x5 protective clothing, glove southwester. undated

Poll photo collection. Israel - Peki'in. The village of Peki'in in Upper Galilee. Interior of a bakery where the baker is busy baking pitta bread. January 1, 1963. Israel, Peki'in

Poll photo collection. Product photos; Plant greenhouse. Grower with begonia in the plant greenhouse of the fa. D. Baardse in Aalsmeer. 1935. Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland

Image of measuring the bridge parts of the Moerdijk Bridge.

State Railways, Sj Cement foundry

Vintage Photograph. Man sits while using levers to operate dragline machine.

Vintage Photograph. Older man tightening overhead pipe with wrench

Tadeusz Maciejewski, tractor driver, workshop manager at the State Fire Service in Karsk Pyrzycki; from a series of photographs to the article by Helena Adamczewska "Start Cie Gnik No. 00001" about the first "Ursus" tractor produced after the war, "Wiatr" 1954, No. 18, pp. 8-9; Pra 1954 (1954-00-00-1954-00-00);

Doherty in Shot Tower. March 01, 1954.

Vintage Photograph. Man looks out while he is operating dragline machine.

Butcher shop, (J.S. Yonai), Ansel Adams

Track workers.

Vintage Photograph. Older man tightening overhead pipe with wrench looking at camera

In a British Shipyard- Everyday Life in the Shipbuilding Industry, UK, 1943.

Transport of liquid iron

Freight Terminal. Örebro

1930s SMILING SKILLED INDUSTRIAL WORKER MACHINIST SMOKING A PIPE WEARING DIRTY OILY CLOTHES AND HANDS PORTRAIT LOOKING AT CAMERA

Female mechanic changing flat tire (OV2019_343)

Factory worker reading newspaper while on break, Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Arthur S. Siegel, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1943

Poll photo collection. Clog industry in Best. Clog maker at Klompenmakerij Gebr. Van der Velde in Best (Noord-Brabant). January 1, 1932. Best, Noord-Brabant

Anefo photo collection. Poles and Spadendag where various high-quality skiing piles for large-scale housing project of 10,000 homes. November 13, 1980. Purmerend

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. extraction, tillage, leveling, farming, farmers. 1968. Beesd

Poll photo collection. Product photos; Plant greenhouse. Grower with begonia in the plant greenhouse of the fa. D. Baardse in Aalsmeer. 1935. Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland

At every stage of processing a rigid check is made to ensure that high quality is maintained. Here is Pat Kean making a final check of detachable handles before set of triangular saucepans are packed for distribution. February 23, 1950.

1930s MAN A BUCKER-UPPER IRONWORKER CATCHING RED HOT RIVET IN TIN SCOOP WITH WAITING TONGS TO PLACE INTO THE HOLE FOR A RIVETER

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Standardization of streams, graves and demapen of sloten, lay sewage, divers, concrete, sewer tubes, workers. August 1951. Berghem

Setting up a shot on a rope ladder

Under The Lease-Lend, 25% of America's pig production and 50% of their Lard production will come to England.Representatives of the Surplus Marketing Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, check 2,500,000 pounds of Hams and Bacon in Chicago storage plant, where the temperature is degrees below zero. September 07, 1942. (Photo by Sports & General Press Agency Limited).

Anefo photo collection. Modinette A. G. WALS Heit Paal 163 for a classic factory. March 1, 1962

Tadeusz Maciejewski, tractor driver, workshop manager at the State Fire Service in Karsk Pyrzycki; from a series of photographs to the article of Helena Adamczewska "Start of tractor No. 00001" about the first "Ursus" tractor produced after the war, "Świat" 1954, No. 18, pp. 8-9; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1954 (1954-00-00-1954-00-00);

Miss Vera Coleman, machine operator & sorting finished brushes at a Surry Hills brush factory. November 27, 1944.

The work of the steelworkers, like here on 31 August 1971 at the Mannesmann-Huettenwerke in Duisburg, is a hard job, Germany, Europe

But low temperatures and loneliness don't worry him - he likes it down there. This will be his second trip to Macquarie Island.Enjoyed It - He was cook for nine months with the party there in 1953, and he enjoyed it so much that he joyed it so much that he volunteered for another tour of duty.He'll be cooking for 14 men on a four-oven coke burner.And cooking isn't easy with the temperature down to 20 degrees in winter, often he has to thaw the food out before it can be used. January 12, 1955.

Harry F. Byrd at his apple canning factory in Berryville, Virginia, 1950

coal miner

Anefo photo collection. Chief Police P. A. Jong Saves First Pile for Combination Building Police, Fire Department and GGD in Amsterdam Buitenveldert. October 21, 1974. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Hybrid Corn - Experimental Farm at Asile St-Leon. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Pas photo Central warehouse. 18 February 1954

Coal Minder. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Rörstrand's porcelain factory, Lidköping. Filling glazed flint porcelain plates in capsule for glaze burning in the new factory.

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