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.

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

One-Bladed Patterns are Often used to make the mould. September 07, 1955.

Women Working At The Bricks Factory. Catanzaro Marina. Calabria. Italy. 1952

Grocery transport, animal bodies.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Women workers loading sacks of Bicarbonate of Soda crystals in the Chemical Works of Messrs. Brunner Mond & Co. Ltd., Northwich, Manchester, September 1918.

High angle view of a boy drying shark fins, China

Rubber Salvage on the British Home Front, 1942 Workers sort through piles of rubber salvaged from a bombed out factory, at a salvage depot, somewhere in Britain.

Poll photo collection. Report Amsterdam. Nuts coal with a riek. 1932. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Helmets on Waterlooplein for sale for 25 cents. July 13, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Gorges sawn discs. undated

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 5x5 dust mask. undated

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

Farmers. 1920-1930.

Vintage Photograph. Lobster fisherman at Frenchboro Long Island Maine.

Loading of a truck with sacks of peanuts.

Elsevier photo collection. Travel Suriname Netherlands Antilles. washing, bauxite terts lined gutter ovens. 1947. Suriname

Forest Hill Cemetery employees. Charles H. Fox, Daniel Campagna, with cap, and straw hat , Greenhouses, Plants, Office workers, Forest Hills Cemetery Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Vintage photograph. Belts carrying pineapples to the cannery while also being washed in high pressure water spray.

Anefo photo collection. Preparation of the flower parade in the bulb region. April 20, 1961

Boom Defence of Scapa Flow. 3 To 7 May 1943, Scapa Flow, Some of the Secrets of Scapa Flow's Boom Defence System Against Enemy Under-water Attack. Ratings repairing a damaged net.

Anefo photo collection. Supply of string beans for the West Netherlands. World War II, food facilities. 1945

Ceylons Food Problem: Wheat from Australia being stored in the Government trances at Colombo from which it will be sent by rail to 125 Government supply stations throughout the Island of Ceylon. Wheat is now being eaten by the Ceylonese in Substitute for rice. September 04, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. Tomatoes and cucumbers are turned on in Westland; Large hopping fruit on garbage dump, deposit. August 8, 1977

Vintage photograph. Coal car filled with coal waiting to be unloaded.

Maceration of tomatoes, calabria, italy

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

Vintage Photograph. Men hanging tobacco in shed.

Cattle in Pens at Union Stockyards before Auction Sale, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, September 1941

Vintage Photograph. Unloading sugar at Long Island City

Farming (Cattle). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

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

Anefo photo collection. Throtted cucumbers and tomatoes at landfill of auction Bleiswijk. July 11, 1984. Bleiswijk

Mountain Of Sugar Beet Outside Brigg Sugar Factory -- Great hills of sugar beet like this have beeb forming outside Lincolnshire sugar factories in the past few days - a result of the above average crop. Deliveries to factories are now to be regulated by a coupon system to prevent over-stocking. October 3, 1949. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Anefo photo collection. Preparations for the flower parade in the Bollenstreek the rigging of the floats. April 24, 1959

Poultry farm, Ansel Adams

Merchants are selling more wood as the coal shortage becomes more acute, and stocks of wood like this are being depleted almost as quickly as they are built up. April 8, 1940. (Photo by Donaldson).

11/30/1938. Pile of Empty Containers.

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Workers at work in Bonaire salt pans. 1947. Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

Barrows & Barrowmen - Trades & Tradesmen. November 06, 1952.

The harvesting in a cave used to artificially cultivate mushrooms 1963. Gravre. Italy

French Baker. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Moroccan Sardine Fishing Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Fishermen, orbetello 1920-30.

Poll photo collection. Cork industry in Llagostera (Catalonia region). Dried cork bark in bales, in the court of the factory. undated. Llagostera, Spain

Moroccan Farming. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Farm. 1940.

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949. Trucks with citrus fruit on the site of the Citrussapfabriek Assis on the road from Tel Aviv to Haifa. January 1, 1948. Haifa, Israel, Tel Aviv

Anefo photo collection. Flower parade, flower parade. April 16, 1948

A.b. Swedish metalworks in Västerås. Warehouse tanks for the brewery industry.

Sale Of Overshoes At The Novosibirsk Market. 1920-30

Vintage Photograph. Beekeeper outside with bee boxes, Hokkaido, Japan

Cotton Queen - Cotton is the principal crop of the Mound Bayou community and the cotton gin is the Town's biggest business. That makes Mrs. Annice R. Christmas, shown atop a Cotton Bale, a big wig in local industry. She owns 50 per cent of a cotton gin, manages it, too. August 27, 1938. (Photo by Acme Photo).

Pottery in the Making- the work of J and G Meakin Pottery, Hanley, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire, England, 1942 This photograph shows a selection of moulds from which several cup handles can be produced simultaneously. Once inlaid in the mould, the clay forms an attractive snowflake pattern.

Vintage Photograph. Fertilizing early vegetable crops under hot caps.

Anefo photo collection. Preparations for the Flower Corso car "Together has drawn a horse". September 4, 1959

Mexican Migrants & Immigration

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Women workers in the clinker house in a Cement Works in Scotland, 1918.

A Help Round The Home -- Constable Keith Ellis, of East Malvern, who was challenged to cut five tone of wood in eight hours. He chopped up seven tons in the allotted time. Constable Ellis says woodchopping is just the way to keep fit while off duty. August 20, 1946.

Sorting wool after cleaning and washing, Lawrence, Mass. , Textile industry, Textile mill workers

Grocery transport, animal bodies.

Poll photo collection. Moselle: viticulture. Ernst and Erica Small view the harvest. 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany

Middle east, israel, ashdod, citrus processing plant, 1963.

Munitions Production in Britain, 1940 Rows of heavy bombs are checked for numbers at an Arms Factory, somewhere in Britain, 1940. The male munitions worker is sitting on top of the bombs to make his notes.

Farmers tending to dairy cows at milking time in a traditional barn setting

Petersburg, Alaska. Native Alaskan boy picking shrimp in fish house. ARLIS. Subjects: Children; Work of the Service; Commercial fishing; Fishing. Location: Alaska.

Anefo photo collection. Preparations for the flower parade car "the Chinese country house". September 4, 1959

1930S 1940S 1950S Three Men Hand Milking Three Milk Cows In Dairy Barn Farming

Woman while washing the asparagus rods

Anefo photo collection. Suriname, market life. April 1, 1975

Milk is loaded on to military vehicles during the The UK General Strike lasted nine days (May 3 to 12, 1926). The strike resulted in defeat for the unions. A long confrontation in the coal industry, with strikes and lockouts, had made no progress. To support the 800,000 striking miners the unions called out 1,750,000 workers. The government was well prepared and used middle class volunteers to provide basic services.

Spöland 1924.

Anefo photo collection. Last preparation Return residents Oostzaan. January 28, 1960. Oostzaan

Sugar beet harvesting at Selby in Yorkshire. March 14, 1949. (Photo by Fox Photos)

Poll photo collection. Beekeeping. Beekeepers at work with hives. January 1, 1964. Israel

Anefo photo collection. Building flower paragraph in auction building of Lisse. 11 May 1962. Lisse

Cache County, Utah. A farmer and his son cleaning eggs in Cooling House. 1941.

Delivery of baskets with freshly engraved asparagus in the canning factory

Anefo photo collection. Ex-oyster breeders in Yerseke get the first mushrooms in, Marinus de Munck cuts the roots from the first mushrooms. February 19, 1964. Yerseke, Zeeland

Workers shovel pebbles into a wagon, road construction around 1950, Freiburg, Germany, Europe

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