Vintage Agricultural Labor

Historical photos of farmers and laborers working in agriculture, showcasing cotton harvesting, slurry mixing, and farm animal care.

Major Project. 1939-01-01T00:00:00.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

undefined. 1913 - 1921. NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle, WA). Negative. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Fisheries. Division of Alaska Fisheries. 1913-7/1/1939. Pribilof Islands Glass Plate Negatives

Equipment. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

African American convicts working with shovels, possibly the singers of 'Rock Island Line' at Cummins State Farm, Gould, Arkansas, 1934.

Sea cable. The plain. Warehouses with hand brakes, drawing 491100 Voro newly designed and used for the first time at this exposition. 1949.

Compressed air container exposition

Vintage Photograph. Welder wearing mask melting rod to connect two pieces of large steel

Photographs Related to the Hanford Engineering Works.

Water sluicing for gold Edie Creek. December 02, 1930.

Freight handling Kiruna C.

Elsevier photo collection. Hendrikje trousers cutter. Making men's costume woman Urker traditional costume original caption: "Hendrikje trousersknipster" .. 1940. Flevoland, Urk

Road Construction. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Freight handling Kiruna C.

Man Spiking Logs to go up Ramp to Sawmill, Erwin, West Virginia, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, September 1938

Men Building Foundation of Root Cellar. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Vintage photograph. Fisherman icing shrimp in the hold of the boat

Vintage Photograph. Log Scaler grades and measures logs.

Elsevier photo collection. Car scrap yard. Caption "Sometimes lamps spend amount paid entire car." 1936

With modern compressed air machines, the marble blocks are chosen out of the deposits GOpptorps Marble AB.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Forestry, sand-dusting, forestry, tillage. undated

Fotocollectie Elsevier. Bijscribe "Fire protection Atlantic. pipes, water concentrated fire". Duitse Brandweer Organization Todt. Augustus 1941

Elsevier photo collection. Limburg coal mines. Hack dust mask leather seat busy hand pillar. compressed air (finishing) hammer. pressure compressed air 6 atmosphere. wooden support called Meesbouw .. November 21, 1945. Limburg

Misc Trade - Blacksmith. February 03, 1950.

Man Working on Equipment. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Anefo photo collection. Fire at Verolmes Scheepswerf in Alblasserdam Fireman points out the place of the safe. March 20, 1959. Alblasserdam

Soaked clay drying in vat. 1934, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Workmen put crushed olives into heavy bags which will be put under hydraulic pressure to extract the oil. It takes an average of fifty-six pounds of olives to make a gallon of oil. Lindsay, California 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Lindsay, California , Tulare County

Phillip Councilor L.B. 282. 1900 - 1954. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Crow Creek Agency. 1949-1954. Photographs

Praying miner. Erzbergbau, Freiberg

Equipment. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Vintage photograph. Man shown hydraulic mining at Kitchner mines.

Migratory Worker Loading Sacks of Potatoes into Freight Car, Belcross, North Carolina, Jack Delano for U.S. Farm Security Administration, July 1940

Light image regarding the manufacture of aluminum and light metal at the end of the 1920s.Man in workshop.

Man Foraging for Food at City Dump, Dubuque, Iowa, USA, John Vachon for Farm Security Administration, April 1940

Dexter, Alaska: June 20, 1902. A gold miner panning for gold in Alaska.

Ammunition is unloaded from a railcar by a forklift during Lifeline operations conducted by the 155th, 567th and 870th Transportation Companies. Subject Operation/Series: LIFELINE Base: Southport State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Farming (Branding). Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Sable harvest, stinging a pole

The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC), reflected in planning decisions from 1958 to 1961, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of rapid industrialization, and collectivization. Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages. Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization, which was introduced incrementally. Private farming was prohibited, and those engaged in it were labeled as counter revolutionaries and persecuted. Restrictions on rural people were enforced through public struggle sessions, and social pressure. The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of excess

Road workers, circa 1928, Invercargill, by Arnold Morell Macdonald.

Man Climbing Utility Pole. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Vintage Photograph. Painter painting a steel girder.

1920s 1930s TWO RAILROAD WORKERS HOLDING LANTERNS & FLAGS A FLAGMAN CONDUCTOR AND A BRAKEMAN MEETING AND TALKING

Making Forms for Walls. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Worker unloading Tobacco in Warehouse before Auction Sale, Durham, North Carolina, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, November 1939

1930S Cowboy Shoeing A Horse

This harvester worker gets 15/- a week and full keep, free tobacco and transport - a total cost to his plantation employer of about £2 a week. June 1, 1955.

Prisoners-of-War (N.S.W.) - Skilled Italian prisoner-of-war tradesmen build a new poultry run mainly from timber cut and transported by prisoner-of-war labour from the bush. November 10, 1942.

Nett River Dam. 1908 - 1919. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Nett Lake Agency. 1908-1919. Photographs

Workers at Greyhound bus station loading luggage circa 1937.

North Korean steel workers at a furnace, 1961.

Coal Miner Waiting for Ride Home after Work, Capels, West Virginia, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, September 1938

An unemployed man living in a shack constructed from packing cases and pieces of wood in New York City, off Broadway on West Houston Street. February 8, 1933.

Young blacksmith at work in the city of Prague

Production of the Molotov cocktails in Moscow, Anonymous

Longshoremen on Lunch Break, Waterfront, San Francisco, California, USA, Dorothea Lange, U.S. Office of War Information/U.S. Farm Security Administration, February 1937

Los Angeles, California: c. January, 1938 Los Angeles Snow Sports Carnival Queen Frances Gilmore is crowned in Lafayette Park with the aid of a studio snow making machine.

The expansion of the spontaneous strikes in September 1969 extended to the Ruhr area. The photo shows the strike action in the Ruhr area, Germany, Europe

Klint, Bernardt & Co Color and Fernisskabrik.rivning of tube colors according to 1890s methods. Demolition with runners of granite.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Stables and sanding, Loungers, Becker, Derschlag. January 1956. Derschlag

Three Men Cleaning the Water Tank. Original caption: Miscellaneous (three men cleaning the water tank).. 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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