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Historical Craftsmanship in Production

Images depict traditional craftsmanship in various industries, including boot making and saddle repair, showcasing tools, materials, and workspaces from the 1930s.

Sewing bag of rice brand after being weighed in rice packaging process, Crowley, Louisiana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Crowley, Louisiana , Acadia Parish
Sewing bag of rice brand after being weighed in rice packaging process, Crowley, Louisiana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Crowley, Louisiana , Acadia Parish
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Description: The Governor (second from left) watches fourth-year boys operating lathes at the Trade Training Centre in Tamale, Northern territories. This Centre provides four-year courses for boys leaving middle schools, and evening classes for those who go from the middle schools, and evening classes for those who go from the middle schools into industry. Location: Gold Coast, Tamale, Takoradi, Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana, United Kingdom Date: January 1957 africa
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Putting rice in cellophane packages. Abbeville, Louisana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Abbeville, Louisiana , Vermilion Parish
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The nurse does her laundry at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Wilder, Idaho , Canyon County
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Conveyor of cotton at compress, Houston, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Houston, Texas , Harris County
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Klamath Basin potato farmer. He remembers when the first carload of potatoes left this valley in 1910. In 1934 he lost thirty-five hundred dollars on forty-eight acres of potatoes. His present acreage is eleven acres in potatoes, the rest in hay and soil-building crops. Has eleven milking cows. "I'm gonna eat.". 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Putting inert gas into cans of dehydrated cabbage which will be hermetically sealed. 1942. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Turlock, California , Stanislaus County
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Farmer steaming his milk cans before taking them home. Creamery, San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County
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Domino players. Seminole oil field, Oklahoma 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Seminole, Oklahoma , Seminole County
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Adjusting Wheel Bearings. 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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Trampus. "Propaganda photography: apprentice polishing the side of the sole of a shoe, a roding roddes' school". A job for our children. / The Cordonration School of Romans. / Work to the machine to "Frey the smooth" polishing of the coast of the sole v.88.387. Gelatino-silver-bromide draw. Dactylographed legend in black ink. in 1943-11-29-1943-11-29. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 144784-19
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Elsevier photo collection. Touwslagerij. Rope shop. {1940-1945}
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Field beets which will be used for cattle feed by dairy farmer. Tillamook County, Oregon 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Tillamook County
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Sonoma County, California. Taking a hen out of a trap-nest on a chicken ranch. Hens can get into these trap-nests but can't get out, enabling the rancher to check on the number and weight of eggs of each hen. 1942. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Sonoma County
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Releaser room. Combine milker to fill cans before separating and bottling. Prince Georges County, Beltsville, Maryland.. Photographs. 1935-11. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Feed store. Brownwood, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Brownwood, Texas , Brown County
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Grading and packing lettuce for shipment. Canyon County, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Canyon County
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Skidding crate of cabbages in warehouse. Alamo, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Alamo, Texas , Hidalgo County
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Installation of slow chopper , Armories, Ordnance industry, Nuclear reactors, Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center U.S.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Step in cheese making. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Tillamook, Oregon , Tillamook County
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Moving vegetables into wholesale house market. San Antonio, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Antonio, Texas , Bexar County
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Worker winding cotton thread onto large spools. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Laurel
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Girl tending spools of cotton in winding process. Laurel mills, Laurel, Mississippi. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Laurel, Mississippi , Jones County
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Tufting innerspring. Mattress factory, San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County
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Interior of one of the two houseboats for railway staff in Roermond: Keuken, with one of the Koks.n.b. It concerns the houseboats "Ora et Labora" and "Jorke Ding" who both served as a residential ship for staff involved in the electrification of the Eindhoven-Maastricht track trade.
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Cutting through the curd which has cheddared, and thus releasing the whey. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Tillamook, Oregon , Tillamook County
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In the sewing class which is a WPA (Work Projects Administration) project at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. The women are shown how to make overgarments 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Caldwell, Idaho , Canyon County
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In the shoe repair shop. San Augustine, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Augustine, Texas , San Augustine County
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Cage for transporting birds at the freight department in Eskilstuna.
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Serving Lathe, Building 131, Worming. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.
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Description: Keeping the Accounts, Little Makin Co-operative Society Ltd. Location: Kiribati
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House cleaning, farmhouse. Yakima County, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Yakima County
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12/31/1957. The Solana. 1950s. The typical and famous industry of mowing sickles. In La Solana at that time, around 50,000 dozen were manufactured annually. In the image we can see the manufacturing process almost finished, the sickles are hanging without putting the wooden handles on them.
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Description: Sisal growing in Kenya. G.215/17. Placing the brushed fibre in the baling boxes. Location: Kenya kenya, sisal, africa
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Photo collection Government information service. Plastic milk crates in a milk factory in Rotterdam. August 11, 1964. Rotterdam
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Tulare County, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) Mineral King Farm Cooperative Association. The dairy employs three of the farmers who belong to the association full time. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tulare County, Dairying, Cooperative, Dairy farming
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Husqvarna Weapon Factory Chronology.ur Carl Sahlin Mountain History Collection.
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Partially completed fire truck, Quabbin Administration Building, Belchertown, Mass., June 9, 1939 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, fire engines
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12/31/1968. Worker manufacturing a shotgun in one of the Eibar Factories.
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Inspection of Dangerous Cargo Storage on Waterfront. This image depicts a Coast Guardsman inspecting the storage of dangerous cargo at the Port of Philadelphia.
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Canning corn in community kitchen. Dyess Colony, Mississippi County, Arkansas. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Lindsay, California. The pressure of the olive press must be carefully watched, for different degrees of pressure are prescribed for the two pressings. The first yields the virgin oil, about twenty-five percent of the total oil content of the olives; 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Lindsay, California , Tulare County
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Repro magazine.Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Forest Hills Cemetery. Office helps , Greenhouses, Plants, Office workers, Forest Hills Cemetery Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection
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Picking turkeys at cooperative poultry house. Brownwood, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Brownwood, Texas , Brown County
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Gullaskrufs glassworks, Småland. Window glass blowing in connection with filming on June 12, 1941. The roller is evaporated.
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Maintenance and Paint Shop. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Flandreau School and Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Bordle life. In the engine room of the "Monte Rosa
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Smoothing the car body with a plane before applying paint and polish - Manufacturing an automobile, 1914
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Tufting a mattress. Mattress factory, San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County
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Gold mining industry. Ore processing. Operators at the control weighing of some gold ingots.
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Modern seamanship - a new version of old salts spinning yarns , Military personnel, Military life, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Elsevier photo collection. Series: distilleries Lucas Bols. master burner determines alcohol content mout wine. 1940. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Attaching base plate to mold , Ordnance industry, Armories, Molds Shaping tools, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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12/31/1968. Fish market in Motril.
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Elsevier photo collection. Delft drinking water sieved, looking worms the water pipe damaged excavation drinking water supplied tanker. 29, 1964. Delft, South Holland
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Elsevier photo collection. Sunday morning chalice giant hose leaf open. situation Sunday afternoon. February 19, 1956. Leiden, South Holland