Historical Workers and Laborers

Black and white images of laborers from various industries, including mining, shipbuilding, and lumber, showcasing resilience and historical work settings.

Zinc smelter worker. Picher, Oklahoma May 1936
Zinc smelter worker. Picher, Oklahoma May 1936
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In a British Shipyard- Everyday Life in the Shipbuilding Industry, UK, 1943.
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Harbor workers.
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Donzere Mondragon - Flax Shipment. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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The Hasper Huette (Hasp hut) shaped life in the Ruhr district of Haspe in Hagen, as seen here on 09. 08. 1972, Germany, Europe
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Miner, who also runs a Farm, at end of workday, Dougherty's Mine, near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, August 1940
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Portrait of man stoking boiler in train
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Shipbuilding during the First World War Female workers heat rivets in a portable furnace at the Harland and Wolff shipbuilding yard at Govan along the River Clyde in Scotland during the First World War.
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Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Larch and Douglas, cones, workers, the Hoge Veluwe. September 1956
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Nobody envies the boiler cleaner in summer. In humid weather this week in Sydney men like Les Walkerden, of Melbourne, shown, here cleaning boilers at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Melbourne, sweated on the same job. Boiler cleaners have to rest after 30 minutes. February 09, 1947.
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The spontaneous strike, here on 10.9.1969 by the miners of the Minister Stein colliery, was one of the starting points of the strike movement of what later became known as the September strikes in the coalfield, Germany, Europe
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Description: Macmillan Goes Down Gold mine. Location: Western Johannesburg, Pretoria Date: February 1960 haroldmacmillan, africa
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Signalling to a crane man on the job at Eveleigh workshops, Mick's unconscious pose is, perhaps, symbolic of the shape of things to come. Will the next 50 years take us onwards and upwards October 25, 1950.;Signalling to a crane man on the job at Eveleigh workshops, Mick's unconscious pose is, perhaps, symbolic of the shape of things to come. Will the next 50 years take us onwards and upwards
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Munkfors use in Värmland. Refusions in the cold rolling mill.
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Private Lawanna Simpson, auto mechanic, 724th Maintenance Battalion, working on U.S. Army 5-ton truck engine, Fort Stewart, Georgia, USA, U.S. Army Signal Corps, April 18, 1980
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Vintage Photograph. Man checks fluid dipstick of tractor.
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Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.
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Harry Fain, coal loader. Inland Steel Company, Wheelwright #1 & 2 Mines, Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky, 1946
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The spontaneous strike, here on 10.9.1969 by the miners of the Minister Stein colliery, was one of the starting points of the strike movement of what later became known as the September strikes in the coalfield, Germany, Europe
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Workshop work.
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Technical Assistance - Dunkirk Shipyard. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Vintage Photograph. Man operates the levers of bulldozer he sits on the machine.
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Vintage Photograph. Boy working on airplane propeller operated by battery.
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North Africa Pix - Well-Drilling at Arram, Tunisia. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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The photo taken during the work on Inlandsbana's construction.
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Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA) - June 1942.
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Scrapping site in the area around the peat powder factory in Vislanda
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September 23, 1946. Floyd County, Kentucky. Harry Fain, coal loader. Inland Steel Company, Wheelwright #1 & 2 Mines, Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky.
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Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.
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The spontaneous strike, here on 10.9.1969 by the miners of the Minister Stein colliery, was one of the starting points of the strike movement of what later became known as the September strikes in the coalfield, Germany, Europe
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Oil in the Gabon, Africa. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Photography from "An account of manufacturing at the State Railway's prosthetic workshop in Nässjö", 1932. Visces the arm prosthesis's ability to move and usability.
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Workers in the Philips light bulb factories, glassblower at work. Netherlands, ca. 1910
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Pioneer settler in Ein Hashofet (Spring of the Judge, a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Menashe Heights region around 30 km from the city of Haifa. Ein HaShofet was established by two groups of Hashomer Hatzair graduates from Poland and Highland Mills, New York. They first settled the hill of Jo'ara in 1937 and later settled in the kibbutz' current location in 1938.
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Yard Clerk making Notes at Clyde Yard of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Cicero, Illinois, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, May 1943
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Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Mr Abraham van Woerkom in the Lago oil refinery in San Nicolas on Aruba. 1947. Aruba, San Nicolas
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Elsevier photo collection. Rescue 3 miner Willem Sophiamijn Spekholzerheide. beards black miners clothes immediately upstairs left right. H. Bertram, P. Schoorman M. Bertram. August 22, 1955. Kerkrade, Limburg, Spekholzerheide
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Welder at Repair Shop, Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, December 1942
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1960s SMILING MAN CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT OPERATOR LOOKING AT CAMERA SITTING ON DRIVING CATERPILLAR EARTH MOVING BULDOZER
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Untitled (Thread Worker) Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874-1940). , 1936-1937. Gelatin silver photograph, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (18.4 x 12.1 cm). Photography 1936-1937
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Equipment. 1930 - 1949. 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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J. Svensson, Kalmar Central, at a warehouse building.
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Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943.
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Scrapping site in the area around the peat powder factory in Vislanda
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Stevedore with Giant Claw
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LPG farmer in a pig facility, East Germany, Europe, circa 1982
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Hans Eriksson adjusts the contact distance at a benchmark under the audit of Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg Oxelösund's railways, TGOJ MA 407.
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Modern Equipment Helps Increase France's Steel Output - USINOR. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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The crisis in VW production, here in Wolfsburg on 8. 12. 1971, brought production at the Wolfsburg plant to a standstill. VW workers, Germany, Europe
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Stonemasonry workshop, 1961, Leipzig, Saxony, GDR, Germany, Europe
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Elsevier photo collection. Ir A.J. Ter Linden, main engineer municipal electricity companies Amsterdam, appointed regular professor Mechanical Engineering Delft University Technology. 1927