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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Male and female workers weighing bundles of twine on a scale, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill in Chicago. |
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| Description: | A view of two Seminole Native American women grinding corn for "Sofka," a meat stew thickened with vegetables and meal. A man and dog are on the left. Capt... |
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| Description: | A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Construction crew and observers standing on a scaffold. Trees, a wooden tripod with a block and tackle and the roof of a house are visible in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | People EW working with floats for a Thanksgiving Day Parade, either Macy's Parade in Manhattan, New York, or Gimbels' Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Large group of people posed in, on and around the frame of a barn at a barn raising. A smaller building is in the background on the left. Cultivated fields... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with people walking on a dirt road, and others working at the site. Location identified as the reconstruction following t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman squat on a mat on the floor, whipping wool to prepare it for use. They wear white scarves on their heads. The bottom right of the image c... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down aisle of two rows of women workers using looms in a textile factory. A few men stand in the aisle. In her journal from China, Carrie describes th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman and a man using spinning wheels in a textile factory. In her journal Carrie describes the conditions of these factories in China as crowded and wit... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | People working in a field. Beside them is a basket full of a type of food. |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A page from the book "What Hampton Graduates Are Doing" which includes two photographs. At the top center is an oval-framed portrait of Richard T. Coles. T... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | With shovels in hand, a man, woman, and boy are digging a hole in the ground for a flag pole. One young man is holding the pole in place with two hands. A... |
| Date: | 02 1928 |
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| Description: | One page of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder (1839-... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A roomful of workers are cleaning seeds using "The Clipper Cleaners" manufactured by A.T. Ferrell & Co., Saginaw, Michigan. The machines are arranged in fo... |
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