Labour Collection (page 3)

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Picking cotton on a plantation in the Deep South, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American slave with bag of picked cotton, US South, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American field-hands picking cotton, late 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Hebrew captives carrying bricks in ancient Egypt
Slaves carrying bricks for buildings in ancient Egypt. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Slaves milling grain in ancient Pompeii
Slaves grinding grain in a bakery in ancient Pompeii. Hand-colored woodcut of a 9th-century illustration

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Prospectors working the diamond diggings near Colesberg, South Africa, 1872. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Native workers descending into a diamond mine near Johannesburg, South Africa, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Railroad tunnel under construction
Portal of a railroad tunnel under construction, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Digging a railroad tunnel
Workers building a railroad tunnel, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Danger ahead for a steam locomotive
Flagger warning a railroad crew to brake for danger ahead on the tracks. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Boott Cotton Mills on the Merrimac River in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Nevada silver miners changing the shift, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Steel industry workers at the coke furnaces of Pennsylvania, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Loading lumber onto ships in Puget Sound, Washington State, 1880s. Hand-colored lithograph of a 19th-century illustration

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Fishermen in a dory on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Bessemer steel converter in a Pittsburgh steel mill, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Street-sweepers answering a roll-call, New York City, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Wagons distributing newspapers to newsboys at Union Square, New York City, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

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Coal miners tamping an explosive charge in a tunnel, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Pat Lyon, blacksmith, at the forge. Hand-colored woodcut

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Woodworker showing young boy his tools and techniques. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Coal miners emerging from the shaft after their nine hours of toil are ended, early 1900s. Hand-colored halftone of a photograph

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Typesetters and printers at work in a print shop, 1800s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration by A. B. Frost

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Stephen Dayes press, the first printing press in America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1640. Hand-colored woodcut

Printed color lithograph
Florists delivery boy on a bicycle, Harpers Weekly cover for March 11, 1911. Printed color halftone illustrated cover

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Jamaican women carrying bananas to a seaport, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Native people on their way to market in Kingston, Jamaica, circa 1890. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Native women carrying coal onto a steamship at Kingston, Jamaica, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Chinese printers inking blocks to reprint Chinese classics - paper is rubbed on top of the inked block. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Sacks of coffee carried into a warehouse in Brazil, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Women loading oranges on a ship at San Antonio, Paraguay, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Coffee berries spread in the plantation yard to ferment and dry, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Engravers preparing books in China
Printers engraving the Chinese classics, China, 1800s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Indians tapping the caoutchouc, or India-rubber tree Hand-colored woodcut

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Cranberry bog pickers at work on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

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Spring farmers work to clear away stones with an ox team. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Clearing farmland in spring for planting, using ox and horse teams to plow and pull stumps. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American stevedores loading cotton on a ship in Charlestown, South Carolina, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Factory workers making rifle cartridges, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pittsburgh coke ovens, 1880s
Steel workers at the Pittsburgh coke ovens, showing their dwellings on the hilltop, 1880. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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MIll worker tending mule-spinners, an industrial textile machine, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Women garment workers in the dressmaking department of a factory, about 1890. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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Women screening coal coming out of a mine in England, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Whimsey engine drawing coal in the Staffordshire mines, England, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Coal mine disaster in England, 1860s
Volunteers lowered into a coal mine to attempt rescue of trapped miners in England, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Unloading tea-ships in the British East India Companys docks, London, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Weaving at Spitalfields, England, 1700s. Hand-colored engraving from a Hogarth illustration

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Slaves bringing in loads of cotton after a days picking, early 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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