Historical Labor and Production

Black and white images depicting historical laborers engaged in various agricultural and industrial tasks, with an emphasis on grain and coal processing.

Gibsonvale, 1941 -- Sluicing: Alluvial Tin is washed from the Debris. Unless fortunately situated conservation of water is first consideration on Alluvial tin fields. January 22, 1942.

Anefo photo collection. Coal provision in Amsterdam. 1945

Gibsonvale, 1941 -- Sluicing: Alluvial Tin is washed from the Debris. Unless fortunately situated conservation of water is first consideration on Alluvial tin fields. January 22, 1942.

Anefo photo collection. Potato flour factory Wildervank. January 2, 1946. Groningen, Wildervank

Anefo photo collection. Cooling cells to the trade trap. December 12, 1945

British Goods in US Marshalling Yards- Anglo-american Co-operation in Wartime Britain, 1943 Two men at work in the sunshine on top of a large stack of stoves at an American marshalling yard, somewhere in Britain. These stoves have been made by a Scottish firm and are used for boiling water and warming mess halls. According to the original caption, the stoves are 'designed to burn both wood and coal, are easily transportable, and...are especially handy for troops who have to move about quickly and take their equipment with them'.

Wool Industry - Roubaix Wool Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Cucumbers Grown In The Hydroponics Beds At Ascension Island.

Workers at a British hat factory prepare rabbit fur ready for its transformation into felt, 1940.

Cooperative Laitiere Centrale de Paris. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Gets Weaving -20th Century Style -- Ancient craft is practised in a 20th century setting by Mr. A. Hembrow, who weaves his varied baskets alongside the steady stream of traffic on the main Wells-Glastonbury road in Somerset.Hembrow's family has followed the craft for many generations. June 13, 1952. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Construction of the Haifa harbour. Haifa harbour. Pouring great concrete blocks. 1920, Israel, Haifa

Vintage photograph. Inside of tobacco growers cooperative stripping plant. Preparing tobacco for bailing.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Story for grumpy stomachs (Surabaya). Distribution of food. June 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

Store for barbed wire in Rudnia Volhynia, East Galicia; photographer: Sladek.

Hopping in Kent- Hop-picking in Yalding, Kent, England, UK, 1944 Two men work to compress dried hops on the press in the oast house on a hop farm in Yalding, Kent. The original caption explains the process: 'sometimes coal heated furnaces are used, the hot air from the being conveyed to the top storey of the oast house by suction fans, to blow on the hops laid out in horse hair cloths'. The hops are then compressed into sacks or 'pockets', which contain 140-150 bushels and weigh 1 and a half cwts. The pockets are then sent off to the brewer.

Peanut Shipments - Peanuts Shipped to France Under Marshall Plan. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Poll photo collection. Reportation Olmenhorst. Packing pears at De Olmenhorst nursery in Abbenes. October 3, 1946. Abbenes

Vintage photograph. Selecting dyed wools for further blending at the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company

12/31/1972. Alienated Women in front of a large Pile of Onions in the town of Almussafes (Valencia).

Industry during the First World War A female worker pushes a trolley of asbestos mattresses in a Lancashire factory during the First World War.

Italy. Tuscany. Castellina Marittima. alabaster warehouse. 1920

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. In the gioud mine in the young South the gouderts enter the washmill. 1947. De Jong Zuid, Suriname

Wool Industry - Roubaix Wool Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Bins of ripe olives to be turned into oil. Lindsay, California 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Lindsay, California , Tulare County

Anefo photo collection. Wolimport from South and North America. 1945

Anefo photo collection. Gifing ship betting in Mercuriushaven Amsterdam, barrels with poison in betting. October 16, 1972

Women at work during the First World War Women workers stacking oil cakes at a Lancashire Oil and Cake Factory, September, 1918,

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

Vintage photograph. Canvas tent-makers for Circus

Interior of a closed goods wagon, loaded with bags of sugar.

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

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Pardes. Sorting and packing of oranges in crates with the inscription King Sol on a citrus plantation at pardes. January 1, 1948. Israel, pardes

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

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Sugar factory KedaWoeng in Pasoeroean. PASOROEAN: The KedaWoeng sugar factory started with the campaign. Since the police action has been processed for the first time, own planted cane. The very modern fitted factory was fully intact at the time, so that it is possible that the factory can handle the entire plant, large twelve hundred ha., Can process itself. The reed stalks are transported to the presses per conveyor. April 27, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Pasaruan

Anefo photo collection. Leather and textile manufacturer. 1945

Boots, Boots, To Go Up and Down in Africa- the Salvage and Repair of Army Boots, Somerset, England, 1943 In a large shoe factory in Somerset, Corporal Salvi, (originally from Framingham, Massachusetts), stands on top of a pile of worn army boots and passes a selection down to his colleague, a local man, for repair.

Anefo photo collection. Building center Rotterdam Masonry competition Gezellen. July 19, 1955. Rotterdam, South Holland

Corn Shipment - Corn Feed Imported Under the Marshall Plan. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

African Americans group including men, women, children and elders, hand cleaning or sorting cotton at the Atlantic Cotton Compress Company in Pensacola, Florida. Ca. 1905.

Vintage Photograph. Net repair on the Gulf Coast near Tarpon Springs Florida.

Vintage Photograph. Oyster shells piled at Oyster Bay Long Island New York.

Cement companion workplace. Load samples of cement bags on a joint between telephone cable blocks, 500 SEK. 1890.

Hop picker and basket. 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

Vintage Photograph. Men seen loading truck full of oranges.

Links With A 'Queen's' Safety -- Every link must be perfect in the massive cables that anchor the 83,600 tons of the Cunarcler 'Queen Elizabeth' and these men have the muscle-straining task of straightening them for inspection in the King George V drydock at Southampton.Each mighty link in more than 900 feet of anchor cable is tested thoroughly while the liner is in drydock for her winter overhaul. January 19, 1950. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Companies, turf, work, Heidemij-Barenbrug, the Rips. October 13, 1972. De Rips, Noord-Brabant

Drying, processing and packaging tea at Malaysia's Blue Valley Tea Estates in the Cameron Highlands.

Effects of Earthquakes. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Vintage Photograph. Bringing in the grapes at a winery at Lagoa (The Southern end of Portugal) The Algarva.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Telegraaf: Old paper trader Wessels. Piled old paper. November 12, 1961

Gustavsberg's porcelain factory. Flint is poured into the mixing machine.

Anefo photo collection. Work on IJ tunnel. January 29, 1962. Amsterdam

Man sitting on a dock with lobster traps around him, McKinley, Maine, USA

Hop picker and basket. 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

Citizens' Committee of Warsaw. Auxiliary magazine, ul. Jasna 19; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Main nature transport lines, material storage, between flares, Groningen. August 1967. Balkbrug, Groningen, Between

Anefo photo collection. Christmas promotion 'Aktieggroep awake animal'. Manure calves in a stable (Eerbeek). December 20, 1979. Eerbeek

Assembly line. electric components. 1963.

SAAR Story - Iron & Steel Industry Reaches Postwar High. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Stack of wood. 1956.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. extraction, sowing and harvesting crops, cabbage, workers, grebpolder. November 1957. Grebpolder

Gerberai

Kitchen Waste Into Cattle Feed- Salvage on the British Home Front, 1942 Workers empty cattle feed cake from the bins in which they have been moulded into sacks at a depot, somewhere in Britain.

Anefo photo collection. The Westland. Cultivation of lit lettuce. The lettuce was sown in a box in the greenhouse. Let me last and then exhausted under flat glass. If the SLA half was fully grown, the windows were taken and used for a different purpose. May 27, 1946. Westland, South Holland

Vintage photograph. Coal Cars full of coal awaiting shipment

1930S Bags Industry Pallets Burlap

Drying, processing and packaging tea at Malaysia's Blue Valley Tea Estates in the Cameron Highlands.

Vintage photograph. Farmers harvesting corn, Lower Waterford, Vermont. New England

Anefo photo collection. Preparations for the bulb corso in the Bollenstreek, rigging of different floats. May 9, 1958

Spanish freight car with orange load

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Companies, turf, work, Heidemij-Barenbrug, the Rips. October 13, 1972. De Rips, Noord-Brabant

Interior of wool warehouse , Warehouses, Wool industry, Wool, Boston Wharf Company Collection

With amazing rapidity skinners "peel" rabbits after heads and legs are removed. Trimmers clean up carcases as they pass on moving belt. September 27, 1947.

A Modern Bakery- the work of Wonder Bakery, Wood Green, London, England, UK, 1944 At the Wonder Bakery in Wood Green, London, a worker loads bread from the conveyor belt directly into the back of a delivery van. Another worker can be seen inside the van, kneeling on a board resting on top of stacked loaves in order to stow the rest of the bread safely in the vehicle for transit.

Driving sheep into pen at railroad stockyards. Denver, Colorado 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Breeding check. undated

Shipments - ECA Financed Linseed Meal Stored in Dunkirk Warehouse. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Roubaix Wool and Housing - Marshall Plan Revives Roubaix, the Capital of the French Wool Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Poll photo collection. Report Noord-Holland. The cheese market in Alkmaar - man puts cheeses in a gutter that leads to a ship. January 1, 1932. Alkmaar, Noord-Holland

Sacks of wheat provided by the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) being transferred into silos, April 17, 1946, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Goodngel warehouse of the quarter-cured general in the downstairs of Batavia. Trenching of bags. 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Old Rags Into New Cloth- Salvage in Britain, April 1942.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. agricultural machinery, tools, workers, tree trunks, tractors. undated

Poll photo collection. Report Paris. Milk factory: Man moves the milk buses. 1950. France, Paris

Loading in the worth the port

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949. Unloading a truck with citrus fruit at the Citrussapfabriek Assis on the road from Tel Aviv to Haifa. January 1, 1948. Haifa, Israel, Tel Aviv

Poll photo collection. HERO PERL production. Storage area with bottles for hero perl, an apple limonade. 1933

Woman while washing the asparagus rods

Unloading of coal at the port, republic of djibouti, africa 1920 1930.

Konservasfabrik Gifhorn, bags with freshly harvested pea pods are unloaded by a truck

Vintage Photograph. Watering plants in a cold frame.

Anefo photo collection. Leather and textile manufacturer. 1945

Cotton Shipments - Arrival of Cotton Shipments in Le Havre. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Fragments from the walls of Babylon being washed. A scientific bathroom where antiquities were first cleaned of corroding salts. They were then transferred to the bakery for specialist drying. Date: 10th Nov 1928

Vintage photograph. Birch logs at a Small Mill, West Arlington, Vermont

The Cameroon (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Hybrid Corn - Visit to the Madeleine Farm Near Pau. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

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