Labor Gallery

Bakers at their trade in the late Middle Ages

Bakers of York, showing their guild ordinances, England, 1590s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

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Building the railroad to Bismarck, North Dakota, 1870s

Laying railroad track in winter across the Missouri River at Bismarck, North Dakota, 1879.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Transcontinental railroad workers attacked by Native Americans

Cheyenne Indians attacking workers building the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1867.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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