Historical Labor in Industry

Depictions of early labor activities including gold mining and lumber work. Features black and white historical photographs capturing rugged environments and workers.

A shaduf or shadoof being used to raise water, Egypt, late 1880s. The shaduf has been used for irrigation for at least as early as 1500 BC. Photograph. Water supply. Agriculture.

Whaling in the Ross Sea Nitrate negatives, black-and-white negatives

A Mountain of nuts at Gambia is part of a £25,000,000 British crop scheme which it is proposed to extend to Australia.Investigating officers of the British Food Corporation are inspecting ***** in Queensland, Northern Territory and New Guinea for suitable sites to establish production of ground nuts (monkey nuts) and peanuts, on a tremendous scale.As soon as suitable areas are found, it is proposed to import large ***** of farm machinery and an extra rural labor force to establish the industry.Preliminary aerial surreys have already mapped out 50,000 acres at Dalby and near Townsville. February 15, 1948.

The Quest of Gold - (below) and, a Sydney opal buyer, the Gregory Sherman, pricing rough opal in his dug-out office at Coober Pedy. April 4, 1938.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Kamp Doeri on the Tangerangse road. Local workers in progress a sewer or drainage channel. November 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Bridge construction for the double track over the channel between Rönninge - stream.

Tsarist Empire: Carpet traders in Astrakhan in southern European Russia

Photograph of a shallow stone quarry with hundreds of workers using hand labour to break the stone and porters carrying away the best on their heads. In the foreground are mainly Sikh men cutting the blocks, and African men behind are working as labourers. A European man in the centre of the image is acting as overseer. Original manuscript caption: Stone Quarry nr Pangani Village Nairobi 1913.

03/31/1936. Livestock Market during the first day of the Fair.

Construction Company at work. .

Gutting of Cod by N. Helgesen

North Africa Pix - Arram Well-Drilling. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Roadworks and land measurement. Roadworks, with posing Dutch people, soldiers and workers with instruments for land measurements. Stacked photo in an album with 107 photos about the construction of the Gajoegweg on North Sumatra between Bireuen and Takenuen between 1903-1914.

Poll photo collection. Schiphol. Construction work Schiphol. July 1945. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Mine launcher course.22 cm powder miner.

Chuck Wagon, getting dinner - a chuck wagon at a camp and a cook getting dinner underway, circa 1908

Bleaching the cloth they have woven , Fountains, Textile industry. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Japanese workers gather rice in a paddy Field; Japan 1880

North Africa Pix - Port of Tunis, Unloading Grain. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Sami and workers in front of the storage building at Rensjön. Construction engineer Höijer seems to lean against Björken and Dr. Skanthe stands 2 men to the right of him. Björn who has passed the railway bank is shot them.

Poll photo collection. Middle East 1950-1955: Lebanon. Touwslager at work in Ras El-Ain. 1950. Baalbek, Lebanon, Ras El Ain

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

Construction of a access road to the cable car, recording of the frank sheath.

Excavations at Tell el-Nasbeh, 'Mizpah' Sifting potsherds out of the debris. 1926, West Bank, Tall al-Nasbeh

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. construction and improvement of roads, dikes and savings basins, stabilization, cement packaging, Rijksweg 4a. July 1957

Photos from the facility of a telegraflinje in Russia in 1900.

Jaffa. Packing & exporting oranges. 1898, Israel, Tel Aviv

Aswan (Egypt), May 1966. Several Egyptian "fellahs" contemplate in the Aadd-al-Aall area the current state of the works on the Aswan Dam, in which, as is known, hundreds of workers from of all country.

Chinese Laborers At Work During Construction Of A Boeing B-29 Base In China.

Bleaching the cloth they have woven , Fountains, Textile industry. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Drawing water by camel and cow power. Large goatskin bucket drawn up full showing mouth of well and worn roller or pulley. 1920, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

The Construction of Magnitogorsk by Alpert, Max Vladimirovich (1899-1980)/Moscow Photo Museum (House of Photography)/1929/Photograph/Russia/Genre,History

Agriculture, Piles of millet seed on threshing floors of Kakoun on the Plain of Sharon. 1920, Israel

Repairs on Lydda-Jerusalem railroad, Sept. 5, 1938, Israel, Lod

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Transport ball structured factory / /. undated

Work on quarrying.

Agadez market-Sale of salt slabs from Bilma, extracted from the mines of the T©n©r©.

Production of cheese, libya 1920-30.

The River Mekong is the world's 12th-longest river. From its Himalayan source on the Tibetan plateau, it flows some 4,350 km (2,703 miles) through China's Yunnan province, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, finally draining in the South China Sea. The recent construction of hydroelectric dams on the river and its tributaries has reduced the water flow dramatically during the dry season in Southeast Asia.

North Africa Pix - Port of Tunis, Unloading Grain. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Almendralejo, 4/1/1950.-In the photo, the transfer of the olives to Los Molinos, in an Extremadura oil mill.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. forestry, forest fire, extinguish, branches. undated

Travel photos Egypt. Dock workers while loading cotton bales. Maybe in the harbor of Alexandria

Concentration camp slave labor, c. 1944

Anefo photo collection. First pile by minister in 't Veld in Slotermeer. December 1, 1951. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Slotermeer

Deadline of infrastructure facilities, companies and factories on the Russian war showplatz.

Norway. Group picture with tourists of Hapag and seed family in their warehouse at a river at Tromsø

The construction of the Great Fergana Canal by Alpert, Max Vladimirovich (1899-1980)/Moscow Photo Museum (House of Photography)/1939/Photograph/Russia/Genre,History

Cotton bales awaiting shipment on the banks of the Mississippi.. Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. Photographs, Illustrations. 1910. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Cotton, Shipping, Mississippi, African American men

At Gadschinsky in Busovna. Northern Apscheron.Filden is included in two large photo albums by Director Karl Wilhelm Hagelin who worked for a long time at Nobel's oil facilities in Baku.

Engineers unload equipment at Columbus, New Mexico

A spockman and his two sheepdogs survey the bodies of 800 sheep burnt alive by bushfires in the birdwood district. The bodies of the sheep were piled 3 deep. This scene was only one of many in the country districts where fires killed thousands of livestock.What one careless match can do. In one day at Coleraine, Victoria, 60,000 sheep, 2,000 catttle, 200,000 acres of pasture, miles of fenees and vast quantities of stores and farm machinery were destroyed. Cost to the community: £2000,000. February 12, 1955. (Photo by "The News" and "The Mail")

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Wood storage locations. undated

Cleans are trapped for milking.

The 1924 caption reads: Milking the Maguey plant for preparation of pulquethe Mexican national beverage. The maguey, or agave plant, is a species of prickly cactus with fleshy stems and a generous supply of milky juice, which, when fermented is called pulque.

Poll photo collection. Israel: Bersjeba. Market with many stalls and an electricity machine from a bird's air perspective. undated. Bersjeba, Israel

Photos from the facility of a telegraflinje in Russia in 1900.

Sorting a dust heap at a County Council Depot, London, c1850 (1903). Artist: Unknown.

DEU, Germany: The historical slides from the times 80-90s, Cuba 77 Harvesters working with sugar cane

Exporting Wheat at Odessa on the Black Sea, the Ukraine, Single Image of Stereo Card, Keystone View Company, early 1900's

Britain's First Underwater Telephone Link With America.Oban in Scotland where the transatlantic cable is seen being hauled ashore to forge the first underwater link between Britain and America. December 1, 1955. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Anefo photo collection. De Schelphoek on Schouwen. Drying down zinc repairs. July 9, 1953. Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland

Zarzalejo (Community of Madrid), March 1919. In the Zarzalejo quarries. Property of "Construcciones y pavimentos, SA". Visit of the professors and students of the School of Civil Engineering to the quarries where the paving stones for Madrid's paving are made. 1. Mr. Miro and Trepat (x) explaining how to drill a hole. 2. The engineers in the finished material warehouse. 3. Workers' housing. 4. Watching a stone being crushed.

Norway. Group picture with tourists of Hapag and seed family in their warehouse at a river at Tromsø

Poll photo collection. Israel - Ramat Goan. Ramat Goan. Housing. Wagons drawn by horses and mules for transporting building materials are waiting at a fence around a construction site. January 1, 1963. Israel, Ramat Gan

Transparency - Bee farming, MB, about 1910

Propaganda photograph showing soviet construction workers during the first five-year plan. The entire Soviet country turned into a huge construction project. Soviet people with unprecedented upsurge created a powerful socialist industry and mechanized agriculture.

Poll photo collection. Israel 1964-1965. Ein Hod. Ein Hod. Open, stone grinding company with pointed arches with a huge millstone with accessories. 1 January 1964. Ein Hod, Israel

Anefo photo collection. Sand construction competition Zandvoort,. August 10, 1955. Noord-Holland, Zandvoort

Halibut ready for shipment - 65,000 pounds. Frank and Frances Carpenter collection , Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951, Halibut,Alaska,1890-1940, Fishing industry,Alaska,1890-1940, United States

Image from the construction of Höganäs - Mölle Railway

Bags of Rice ready for Market, South still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

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