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Black and white images from mid-20th century factories showing assembly lines for car engines and machinery being assembled.

USA - 1926 - A large crane is used to remove part of a ship from a scrapped hull to a Ford manufacturing plant, where men are on a tour.
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A textile mill. Some of the small boys working in the Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H, photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, May 25, 1909
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Engineer Rythag.
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Work environment in steam locomotive
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Grinding Valves of a Truck Motor. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Prohibition agents stand with a still and mason jars used to distill hard liquor in Wash. D.C. area. Nov. 11, 1922 (BSLOC_2016_8_70)
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Women War Workers in Britain, 1944 Mrs Mears making closure rings for drum containers. The drums were used to store the products of a chemical factory run by the Ministry of Supply.
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Finland History - Employees of Keitele Cooperative Store loading sugar loaves on to a lorry. ca. 1930s or 1940s Keitele, Pohjois-Savo, Finland.
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A worker with a safety mask on his face welds, intently.
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Puerto Rico. Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1941.
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Elsevier photo collection. Brienenoordbrug Rotterdam, visited Leuvenhaven station metro construction. addition ir. G.Plantinga, Chef tunnel construction department. February 1, 1965. Rotterdam, South Holland
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Tidewater, Virginia: November 9, 1925 A solitary spectator watches as thirty one wooden vessels, built by the U.S. Shipping Board during WWI, are burned by a salvage company for their scrap metal.
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Spain, Majorca, Algaida. Glass blowers
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Oil refinery effects in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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1950S Group Of 4 Men Of Various Technical Professions
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Hybrid Corn - Experimental Farm at Asile St-Leon. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Hybrid Corn - Experimental Farm at Asile St-Leon. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Description: Boat Building Bahama Style Location: Exuma Island, Bahamas Date: 1958 caribbean, bahamas, caribbeanthroughalens
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Cattlemen. Imperial County, California. This county is the center of beef feeding operations. Steer manure is an important by-product 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County
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Miners leave a shaft cage, Herman Heijenbrock, 1900 - 1948 drawing Seven miners in a shaft cage with miners lamps around their necks. In the foreground tools. Netherlands Carrier: Paper. List: Wood (plant material). List: Glass Maastricht
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Anefo photo collection. Alderman Van Duijn stores the first pile for expansion Crematorium Westgaarde in Amsterdam; Roel van Duijn in the crane. 12 February 1975. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Bronze Statue of Construction Workers: Celebrating Engineering and Architecture in Urban Landscapes