Occupations Collection (page 3)

Combine Harvesting
circa 1945: A combine harvester at work on a farm in Australia. (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sacred Scrolls
A Samaritan High Priest, at Shechem, displaying the sacred Pentateuch Scroll, said to have been written by Eleazar, son of Aaron. (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sugar Crushing
circa 1895: Juice is running from the rollers as sugar cane is crushed at a factory in Cuba. (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Escort Officer
circa 1900: One of the Tycoons body guard, selected for their courage and reliability as an escort for foreigners. (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Kitchen Maids
circa 1890: Maids at work in a large kitchen. (Photo by W. & D. Downey/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Beach Gent
circa 1930: A solitary gentleman holding a camera occupies an isolated spot of the beach. He wears a trilby, plus-fours and a rain coat. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Street Library
circa 1930: People read at a street library in Hong Kong, where for a very small payment books are available for reading on the spot. To the left, hats are blocked. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Daddys Home
March 1928: Soldiers of the Coldstream Guards being accompanied by their smiling families as they arrive at Brentwood from Shanghai. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Smile
circa 1912: A seaside photographer taking a photograph of a crowd of mob-hatted bathing belles. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Haifa Beach
10th October 1936: A mother takes her small child by the hand into the surf on Haifa beach, Palestine. Even in October the Mediterranean sea is perfect for swimming

Scrubbing Trials
18th June 1946: A sailor with his trousers rolled up and his feet bare uses an electric scrubbing machine on the deck of HMS Theseus

Hat Trimming
17th March 1926: Due to women bobbing and shingling their hair, hats are being trimmed to keep up with fashion demands. (Photo by G. Adams/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hair Styles
1926: Two women demonstrating hairstyles on mannequin heads at the Drapery and Textile Exhibition at the Royal Agriculture Hall, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Farrier At Work
1926: Blacksmiths at work at their smithy, which also has a petrol pump, at Wood Green. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Silver Workers
December 1929: Two men using hammers and anvils to hand shape the silver at the workshop of Messrs Higgins Francis of Newman street. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Blacksmith At Anvil
Annie Clubb, the only woman working as a blacksmith in London, and possibly the only in England, at work at her anvil. Specialising in iron balconies, window frames and decorative ironwork

Railroad Repairs
9th April 1931: London and North-Eastern Railway workers repair the tunnel and lines at Kings Cross Railway Station in London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Winter Postmen
February 1962: Postmen walking through the snow in London. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Convoys Meet
30th November 1939: A sailor signals a merchant ship as it slowly passes the Naval Control Base in the Thames Estuary. Inward bound convoys halt to take aboard pilots to steer them through

Ian Fleming
24th March 1958: English novelist Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964), best known for his character James Bond. (Photo by M. McKeown/Express/Getty Images)

For Better Or Worse
9th November 1956: The bride and groom set off on their honeymoon after holding their wedding reception at the Vrai Arbre, an inn romantically situated on the hilltop village of Robinson, near Paris

Viniculture
circa 1950: A farm worker uses a horse drawn plough in a vineyard in Italy. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Off Duty Geisha
circa 1900: Japanese geisha girl without the traditional make-up. Photographer unknown. (Photo by Felice A Beato/Getty Images)

Japanese Clerk
circa 1880: A Japanese clerk wearing traditional clothes and holding his abacus. (Photo by Felice Beato/Spencer Arnold/Getty Images)

Churchillian Steps
8th October 1967: Conservative candidate, grandson and namesake of Britains most famous leader Winston Churchill takes the unlikely step of veering to the left

Clinic
circa 1930: Mothers in Paraguay wait with their children for a free consultation with the government doctors. (Photo by Kurt Severin/Samuel Bourne/Getty Images)

Secretary sitting at desk behind typewriter, on phone taking message
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Secretary sitting at desk behind typewriter, on phone taking message

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)

Intrepid
December 1926: Woman explorer Mrs Glover in her working gear and well armed. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

In-Flight
A flight attendant serves drinks to passengers on a French Airliner of the Paris to London service. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Berlin Unrest
circa 1929: A police cycle patrol guarding one of Berlins barricaded streets. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Safety First
A London policeman escorts a group of children across a road at Chelsea. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Lonely Copper
August 1929: A London policeman finds himself without any traffic to direct on a rainy night on the River Thames Embankment between Chelsea and Westminster. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Lesson On Radio
circa 1929: A lesson by radio at the Acland Central School, north London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Drug Smuggler
A Chinese seaman being arrested at the port of New York for the attempted smuggling of opium. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Milk Bottling Plant
July 1929: A woman holding one of the new cardboard milk cartons as a continuous line of them pass by on a conveyor belt at a milk bottling plant. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Bank interior
3rd October 1925: Rows of clerks at work making manual entries to the ledgers in the interior of a bank, while a doorman stands by the door. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airline Steward
6th April 1929: A cabin steward serves drinks to the passengers on an early French airliner providing a service to and from Le Bourget. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Lunch On Site Above London
A group of construction workers sitting on the framework of the building they are working on during their lunch break, high above a London street. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Baby Sisters
April 1929: Triplets at Leytonstone, London. (Photo by Smith/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Finishing The Job
October 1927: High up above Londons traffic two men are working on the demolition of the Cornhill building after its partial collapse. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Dinner In Harlem
A waitress serves two ladies at a lunch room in Harlem, New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Shareholders
31st October 1929: In a London club run by St Phalle Ltd, members watch fluctuations in the New York stock market during the Wall Street crash as changes are chalked up by telephone operators in

Milk Lecture
9th July 1925: Students at the St Ignatius Catholic School are given a lecture on nutrition during a National Milk Publicity Campaign week. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Behind the Scenes
circa 1928: A dressing room full of chorus girls between scenes during the filming of Broadway. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Shoeshine Machine
23rd September 1928: An automated bootblack machine, in use on the streets of Berlin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Shoe-Black
circa 1900: A shoe-black at work in Denmark. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Shoeshine Customers
circa 1930: Henry Sandoni and his dog being groomed by bootblacks in a street. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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