Historical Labor and Agriculture

A collection depicting laborers and farming techniques from the 1900s to 1960s, showcasing construction, agriculture, and rural lifestyles in various regions.

Man trying to build house frame

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Extension plans, sand, tubes, staff. 1967

Farmer working in Field, Submarginal Area of Rumsey Hill, near Erin, New York, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1940

Camera Work: The Asphalt Paver; New York, 1892. Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946). Photogravure;

Men repairing railroad track

Forestry worker wearing safety gear cutting down mature pine trees with chainsaw

Worker with Cables and Engine, Gas Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA, circa 1910

Huge oil gusher fire billows a monstrous column of roaring flame and smoke, August 1913. It started on Aug. 7, at the Star Oil Co. Loucke no. 3, in Mooringsport, Louisiana, and burned through 20,000 barrels per day (BSLOC_2018_2_87)

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas by John Vachon, 1914-1975,

Clover Farmer on Seed Threshing Machine, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, USA, Carl Mydans for U.S. Resettlement Administration, June 1936

When the whistle blows. Closing hour at Danville Cigarette Factory, Danville, Virginia, photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, June, 1911

Photomechanical print of black workers picking cotton pickers. Dated 1915

Making charcoal at Jack Daniel's , Jack Daniel Distillery, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Limestone Quarry. Nr. Buxton Derbyshire, UK.

Image of some road workers of the N.S. With vibrating positions during maintenance work on the railway line near Driebergen-Zeist, with a safety man on the left.

Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico December 1941.

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