Traditional Craft and Labor

Vintage photographs of traditional labor practices, including hemp processing, cloth bleaching, and construction work in early 20th century settings.

Brickmaking. Norfolk; Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936); London, England; 1888; Photogravure; 17.6 x 19.4 cm (6 15,16 x 7 5,8 in.)
Brickmaking. Norfolk; Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936); London, England; 1888; Photogravure; 17.6 x 19.4 cm (6 15,16 x 7 5,8 in.)
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Farrier in fogging the horses, in front of his forge, 1899, historical illustration, England
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Photograph of workers in the Gold fields in Lena. The gold fields in Lena were among the richest in the world at the time. Dated 1909
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The Tea Horse Road (Cha Ma Dao) was a network of mule caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet in Southwest China. It is also sometimes referred to as the Southern Silk Road and Ancient Tea and Horse Road. From around a thousand years ago, the Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions, to India via Burma, to Tibet, and to central China via Sichuan Province. In addition to tea, the mule caravans carried salt. It is believed that it was through this trading network that tea (typically tea bricks) first spread across China and Asia from its presumed origins in Pu'er county, near Simao Prefecture in Yunnan.
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Skioptic image with motifs from the professional inspection in various workplaces. Agricultural work in unknown locality.
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Digging in the Wilderness. .
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Sifting wheat 1900 Middle East
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Piling work for the affected population of the Volga. City of Kneja, 1922.
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Fleak deposit A.d.ison'sScontront.14.17. .
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Deadline of infrastructure facilities, companies and factories on the Russian war showplatz.
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The Tea Horse Road (Cha Ma Dao) was a network of mule caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet in Southwest China. It is also sometimes referred to as the Southern Silk Road and Ancient Tea and Horse Road. From around a thousand years ago, the Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions, to India via Burma, to Tibet, and to central China via Sichuan Province. In addition to tea, the mule caravans carried salt. It is believed that it was through this trading network that tea (typically tea bricks) first spread across China and Asia from its presumed origins in Pu'er county, near Simao Prefecture in Yunnan.
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Chile men working in the mines (miners) ca. between 1908 and 1919.
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January 1930. The slaughter of the pig. After a very meticulous washing, the sausages are made.
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Humorous card depicting the 'Largest ear of corn' grown in Canada !! 1910
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Uncle at the pump and 'father' inspects the dairy , 28 February 1921, North Island, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.
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Sorting and weighing tea leaves at the Great Western Tea Factory - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1920s
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. New Guinea Construction motorway Teminaboean-Ajamaroe. meetings Basic Waigo bivouac. November 1958. Guinea
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Harald Eriksson and Lars Andersson River crankworks in Storå 1961.
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Description: Winnowing in a threshing floor Location: Cyprus Date: 1950-1959 mediterranean, mediterraneanthroughalens
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Feed supplies at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona , Casa Grande, Arizona , Pinal County
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Vaires, France , 1930 - Ile -de -France - Stéphane Passet - (September -October) (French - Vaires , France). Horse, real animal, agriculture , breeding, work scene, hay, rural life, harvest, peasant, man, Animal, economic activity, daily life, human beings, Seine et Marne, vaires, peasants piling up the fodder
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Gloucester, marine , Ship equipment & rigging. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection
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Elsevier photo collection. This is a primitive team, which is still used in pontikates in Northern Greece. C.a.r.e. is now working to send agricultural equipment to these regions so that the population can provide for its own necessity. 1946. Greece
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Highway City, California, near Fresno. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress Administration (WPA) from which they may be cut off at the opening of the 19390101 harvest. Their house represents one of many similar structures, which they are attempting to construct by their own efforts on poor land, for which they are paying a few dollars a month out of the WPA budget. Their light bill is two dollars a month. Water bill one do
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Archduke Leopold Salvator at the plant Corno.
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"Desert Gold".Seven-eights of the world's supply of Gum Arabic - used as the adhesive on postage stamps, envelopes, lables etc., as well as for medicinal purposes and certain types of confectionary - is produced in the Sudan where for- 200 years it has been the most important export. Only in the last 20 years has it boon topped by cotton as to Sudan's most valuable product. These pictures show various stages in the production of Gum Arabic called "Desert Gold" - for, from the making of incisions in the bark of the acacia tree to its marketing locally ready for transport -and shipment to various parts of the world, to the extent of 15-20 thousand tons annually, it is valued at nearly one million pounds sterling. September 01, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Palmyra. Workmen moving massive capital. 1920, Syria, Tadmur
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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Women carpenters working at the Tarrant Hut Workshops, 3 miles from Calais, 26 June, 1918.
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Asphalt Coated Spillway Culverts. 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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Deadline of infrastructure facilities, companies and factories on the Russian war showplatz.
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American stone boring machine Lany.
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08/31/1936. The Great Piles of Harvests Gathered by Field Workers.
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Nailing boxes by hand, Rehovath. 1934, Israel, Reḥovot
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Rural Tibetans often collect yak dung on a daily basis from the trails to dry out and use as fuel for fires. The Sherpa people rely on small iron stoves to heat their homes and for cooking in their kitchens. Above a certain elevation there just is no wood to be found, and the Chinese government has placed tight restrictions on logging in the protected Himalayan forests.
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Description: Sowing rice in a padi field. The Malays live mostly in the rural areas as farmers and fishermen, form 38 per cent of the population of Malaya. Location: Malaya, Borneo malaysia, asiathroughalens, asia
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Deadline of infrastructure facilities, companies and factories on the Russian war showplatz.
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How stone-age tools were made: a modern recontruction of prehistoric skill. Coutier seen striking light blows along the roughed-out edge with a boxwood hammer. Coutier studied the Paleolithic forms for years and succeeded in producing objects indistinguisable from the tools of man in different stages of Stone-Age culture. Date: 1947
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Mattress Making (Measuring). 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
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Building a Zulu Homestead - Building a Zulu hut - South Africa, circa 1895
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Reclames, washed Velde, threshing. undated
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Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Ramath-Hasjawim (Ramot Hashavim). Poultry farm. January 1, 1948. Israel, Ramath-Hasjawim
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Tinsmiths in a tinsmith's shop, India, 1922.Artist: R Gorbold
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Filipino rope factory, hackling the fiber , Rope industry, Factories, Manila hemp, Laborers
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Sowing Wheat Seed. Shinichi Suzuki (Japanese, 1835 - 1919)
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Elsevier photo collection. Cutting explaining pajo koemboeh tobacco. Sumatra. 1928. Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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Bouffémont, France , 1930 - Ile -de -France - Stéphane Passet - (September -October) (French - Bouffémont , France). Animal transport, agriculture , breeding, hay, cart, Transport, economic activity, Ile de France, Bouffémont, wheat grinders near the village
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Harvesting Grain in Soviet Buryat-Mongolia (Eastern Siberia).Collective farmers of Buryat-Mongolia operate a sheaf-binder in the harvest field.The Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is located to the West of Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia of the Soviet Union. Its vast territory reaches over 400,000 sq.km. Before the Great Proletarian Revolution it was a Tsarist colony, land of convict labor and exile. The oppressed people of Buryat-Mongolia did not even have their own schools. Now the country is developing its cultural and economic life. January 1, 1937. (Photo by Zelma).
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At work in the school's brick-yard. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Photographs. 1904. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Biography, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Walls, Brickworks
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Coal Merchant, showing a classic example of a leather back support, which enabled such potentially heavy and awkward loads to be transported. circa 1907
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Kolmila i Fryksdalen.
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Fosnd-Narrn "at the Häßler cutting mill
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Taken from dockside, this image shows cranes unloading heavy cargo from a passenger liner. There are sandbags and dock labourers in the foreground. Original manuscript caption: S.S "Manela" discharging cargo at Port Sudan.
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Kent hop pickers "tallying off". Date: early 20th century
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Firoz Khan, Indes an oil factory: the press , 1913-1914 - India, Pakistan - Stéphane Passet - (December 16 -January 29) (French - Firoz Khan , Indes Une fabrique d' huile : le pressoir). Real animal, agriculture , breeding, food, exists in high definition, rural life, agricultural equipment, men, Animal, economic activity, daily life, HD, human beings, Indies, Gopalpoura, oil factory