Historical Workforce Portraits

Black and white portraits of diverse groups of workers from various industries, capturing the historical workforce in different settings.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Buildings, barns, workers, tools. undated
Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Buildings, barns, workers, tools. undated
162 assets in this story
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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Airplane mechanics and their dog pose outside the United States Post Office Department's aerial mail facility, Omaha, NE, 1924. (Photo by Dewell Photo Company/US Post Office Department/GG Vintage Images/UIG)
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Alien Subway workers with shovels dressed in their street clothing, as they begin work constructing the New York City Subway. Ca. 1910.
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transport transportation railway railway construction workers of the Union Pacific Railroad USA 1875,
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Group of Young Spinners and Doffers at Cotton Mill, Lancaster, South Carolina, USA, circa 1908
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Woodworking, workers, buildings, sanding. undated
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12/07/1931. A group of Workers in the Fallen Arms strike in the Cheese factory, in protest of the closure of the Gijón town house by the Governor.
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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Madrid. 05/21/1912. The inventor Guillermo Marconi visiting the ABC workshops.
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, forest processing, tools, buildings. undated
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Marianna Mine Disaster, the dead Marianna, PA.
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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Electric AB Magnet, Ludvika. Group picture.
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Image of placing the "first stone" and a copper tube with a certificate and a few mungle pieces for the first Jaarbeursgebouw (Vredenburg) in Utrecht by Princess Juliana, assisted by mr. A. van Doorninck (center, with bare head, chairman of The Board of Directors of the Jaarbeurs) and ir. J de Bie Leuveling Tjeenk (architect).
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Two miners leaving entrance of coal mine near Scranton, Pennsylvania April 1912.
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In the Southern Urals. The best team of smelters at the Southern Urals Nickel Works in Orsk. Thanks to the selfless work of the personnel, this enterprise has considerably boosted output of metal. The works has been awarded the Red Banner of the Ministry of the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry and the All-Union Central Council of the Trade Unions for its high results in production during the recent war. May 05, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press)
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Benito Mussolini visiting the Milanese steel foundry, Milan, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIX, No 51, December 17, 1922.
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Monthly Progress Photo, Pier C Column Storage Yard Near Dry Dock 3, Looking North, Snare and Triest Company, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.
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Brass band, White Oak Cotton Mills. Greensboro, N. C. White Oak Cotton Mill band. Greensboro, N. C. 1909. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. North Carolina, Greensboro (N.C.), White Oak Cotton Mills, Cotton industry , North Carolina , Greensboro
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Saw-mill men of Tuskegee Industrial Institute. Photographs, Illustrations. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , History, African American men, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Buildings, workers, tools, photos. undated
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Inauguration of the municipal gas works Simmering on October , Verlag or k, University bookstore R, Lechner Wilh, Müller, photographer, publisher
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Shift change of the miners of the coal mine Minister Stein on 31.05.1979 in Dortmund, Germany, Europe
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French miners at Montceau-les- Mines, central France
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A.b. Swedish iron beds factory (Jernsängsfabriken) J.L. Sebenius on L: A Badstugatan, about 1900. In the middle operator Carl A. Lindqvist.
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Coaling station in Nagasaki, Japan. Young men and women on barges and scaffolding form a bucket brigade, passing coal up the side of the mail ship during refueling. Naval and merchant fleets were dependent on such strategic facilities. May 1904.
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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Husky Americans are the guardians of American oil interests in Roumania. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item, No. 1216, Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection , Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind. Oils; For. Rel. U.S. Roum.
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Björkhult impregnation array. The work team at the impregnation institution with the Lineförman K. Johansson in uniform.
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Buildings, workers, tools, photos. undated
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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The Netherlands - Enschede - Textile Factory and workers Date: circa 1910s
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Forest processing, workers, buildings, photos. undated
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Group picture, sawmill workers. Gruppbild, sågverksarbetare.
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Crew of a Ship. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.
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Coal mining, Anthracite Region, Pennsylvania. A group of miners and laborers , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Forestry, workers, buildings, tools, wildlings, grindstones, saw. undated
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Cable laying, 1960s, exact location unknown, Germany, Europe
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Three coal miners of the Lorain Coal & Dock Company, Lorado, West Virginia, 1918.
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Coal mining, Anthracite Region, Pennsylvania. A group of miners and laborers , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports
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Levering engineering at Munktell's mechanical workshop, 1890.
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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Demonstration of Engineering Equipment (Water), New York , Civil defense, Pipes Conduits. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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The construction of Dodinå Masugn in Kaluga, Russia. Local farmers who under the landowner Boulgakow had to make the day's work during the building. These also delivered the ore.
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Soviet Russian factory workers. 1965.
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, tools, buildings, photos. undated
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Workers from Frövifors paper mill. Ur: "Sons work", 1906.
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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W.L. Douglas Shoe Co. , Factories, Shoe industry, Employees, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection
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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Group of women workers employed in a Terra Cotta Works, Leicestershire, September, 1918.
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. forest processing, workers, breaks, tables, benches, food. undated
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The power plant area Strömsbruks-trakten
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Industrial and agricultural exhibition in Karlstad 1903. The exhibition is opened by the Crown Prince, Gustaf VI Adolf. Picture from the magazine home's image material.
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Personnel at Ulunda limestone quarry.
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Workers of the Grid Factory
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Workforce of the shoe factory Stadler in the yard
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Personnel at Ulunda limestone quarry.
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Maintenance Shop. 1936 - 1954. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Flandreau School and Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Elsevier photo collection. P. van Tiel, master engineer mining. 1920