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Background imageManual Collection: Holding hands

Holding hands
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Mans hand holding childs hand. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageManual Collection: Magician pulling rabbit out of hat

Magician pulling rabbit out of hat
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Hands of magician performing magic trick, pulling rabbit out of top hat. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageManual Collection: Footprints in sand

Footprints in sand
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Footprints across rippled sand. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageManual Collection: Milliners Working in Silk Hat Factory

Milliners Working in Silk Hat Factory
(Original Caption) Factory for silk hats. All work done manually by women. France ca. 1900. BPA2# 2795

Background imageManual Collection: Close Up Fire Alarm Box

Close Up Fire Alarm Box
(Original Caption) Close-up photograph of a fire alarm box with instructions reading: "Break glass, strike with hand." Undated photograph.

Background imageManual Collection: An Account of California and the Wonderful Gold Regions Title Page

An Account of California and the Wonderful Gold Regions Title Page
The title page to An Account of California and the Wonderful Gold Regions, published by J.B. Hall in 1849.

Background imageManual Collection: Drawing of a Manually Driven Flying Machine by Leonardo da Vinci

Drawing of a Manually Driven Flying Machine by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci sketch for a helicopter. Man in center powers rotating wings. BPA#2 2846

Background imageManual Collection: Manual Control for Pacemaker

Manual Control for Pacemaker
An external, manually operated control for General Electric's Cardiac Pacemaker is displayed here.

Background imageManual Collection: Western Union's Automated Electronic Telegraph

Western Union's Automated Electronic Telegraph
(Original Caption) Electronic Telegraphic "Brain"...This electronic "brain" in a Western Union high-speed message center performs the work formerly done manually by operators

Background imageManual Collection: Chinese Construction Workers Building Airfield Using Picks

Chinese Construction Workers Building Airfield Using Picks
(Original Caption) 3/31/1944-China: Lack of modern equipment and machinery isn't stopping the resourseful Chinese from building modern airfields in China

Background imageManual Collection: Sewing the Thumb on a Glove

Sewing the Thumb on a Glove
(Original Caption) Glovers of Gloversville (10) of 14. The thumb of the glove is stitched up on a glove sewing machine. All machines are hand operated, most of them by women

Background imageManual Collection: Women Races in Action

Women Races in Action
(Original Caption) Fanny-Blankers Koen of Holland, (692), won the first heat of the Women's Olympic 88 meters Hurdles at Wembley Stadium here

Background imageManual Collection: Garment Industry;Manual Labor; Military

Garment Industry;Manual Labor; Military
(Original Caption) Garment Industry: View of work-room with hand work dominating. Military goods are being assembled here during World War II. Photgraph

Background imageManual Collection: Wernher Von Braun, Seated W/Manual

Wernher Von Braun, Seated W/Manual
(Original Caption) Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977), German-born American Engineer and pioneer experimenter with rockets. Shown in a U.S. mission control room. Undated photograph

Background imageManual Collection: John Stone Changing Scoreboard at Fenway Park

John Stone Changing Scoreboard at Fenway Park
(Original Caption) 10/22/1986-Boston, MA- Sticking with tradition, the scoreboard at Fenway Park is still operated manually

Background imageManual Collection: Sanitation Workers Cleaning Street Manually

Sanitation Workers Cleaning Street Manually
(Original Caption) Phoenix, Arizona: "Cleanest City" Cleans Up. Determined to hold on to the title of "the cleanest city in the U.S." as John Gunther described Phoenix, Arizona, in his book

Background imageManual Collection: Girl Demonstrating Rotary Toothbrush

Girl Demonstrating Rotary Toothbrush
(Original Caption) Revolution in Toothbrushes. Frankfurt, Germany...Comes to the revolution in dental care. A Frankfurt hairdresser dreamed up this toothbrush that does its stuff by rotary action

Background imageManual Collection: Young Woman Sitting on Table Beside Cigarette Machine

Young Woman Sitting on Table Beside Cigarette Machine
(Original Caption) At the vending machine exhibit held in Chicago, Cecelia Adams decorates a "Smoketeria, " the first and original cigarette machine built in 1925 and operated in Detroit until 1930

Background imageManual Collection: Specialty Suit Protecting from Chemicals

Specialty Suit Protecting from Chemicals
(Original Caption) This is no interior view of a space ship. The manually operated machine is designed to remove poison gas and radioactive dust from air raid shelters

Background imageManual Collection: Soldier Operating a Generator

Soldier Operating a Generator
(Original Caption) A Costa Rican loyalist soldier works on a hand operated generator to supply power for radio communications with troops in the Santa Rosa-Liberia battle area

Background imageManual Collection: Astronaut Practices Manual Control

Astronaut Practices Manual Control
(Original Caption) 5/5/62-Carpenter practices manual control of a spacecraft in the Alfa Trainer atNASA's manned spacecraft center at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia

Background imageManual Collection: Dr. Robert S. Ledley Examining Computer Output

Dr. Robert S. Ledley Examining Computer Output
(Original Caption) July 13, 1968 - Dr. Robert S. Ledley, President of the National Biomedical Research Foundation, right, and Louis S

Background imageManual Collection: Cotton farmer

Cotton farmer
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: African-American farmer standing in cart filled with cotton drawn by mules, Louisiana. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageManual Collection: Industrial Worker

Industrial Worker
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Background imageManual Collection: Hands chained together

Hands chained together
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Businessmans hands chained together. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageManual Collection: Mannequin hands and arms

Mannequin hands and arms
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1970s: Mannequin hands and arms in pile of artificial limbs. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageManual Collection: Wall calendar

Wall calendar
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Mans hand tearing January 1 page off of daily wall calendar. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageManual Collection: Brace-and-bit, front view

Brace-and-bit, front view

Background imageManual Collection: Hand drill, front view

Hand drill, front view

Background imageManual Collection: Metal clamp or vice

Metal clamp or vice

Background imageManual Collection: Manual worker holding pay envelope, (B&W), portrait

Manual worker holding pay envelope, (B&W), portrait

Background imageManual Collection: Still Life Composition Of A Ruller Textbook Number

Still Life Composition Of A Ruller Textbook Number
UNITED STATES - Circa 1940s: Still Life Composition Of A Ruller Textbook Number 2 Pencil And A Apple On A Table With Dramatic Lighting And Shadows. (Photo by H)

Background imageManual Collection: Young Brunette Woman

Young Brunette Woman
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Portrait Of Young Brunette Woman, Looking At Camera With Chin Tilted Up And Resting On Hand. She Is Wearing A White Ruffled Collar, And A Thoughtful, Smug, Defiant

Background imageManual Collection: Gun poking out from behind curtain

Gun poking out from behind curtain
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1940s: Mans hand holding pistol, pointing out from behind curtain. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageManual Collection: Outstretched arms

Outstretched arms
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Montage of outstretched arms. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageManual Collection: Banana Laden Beast

Banana Laden Beast
Two workers load a donkey or mule with bananas during the harvest on a banana plantation in Costa Rica, early 1900s. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


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