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Background imageWorker Collection: 19th Century Cotton Picking

19th Century Cotton Picking
African-American men, women and children pick cotton in in a cotton field, Savannah, Georgia, circa 1890. Three of the woman have baskets full of cotton balanced ont their heads. Photograph by O

Background imageWorker Collection: 19th Century Cotton Picking

19th Century Cotton Picking
African American cotton field workers picking cotton, late 19th Century. A sheet of picked cotton is in the foreground. (Photo by Lightfoot/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Cotton Picking

Cotton Picking
African American men, women and children pick cotton in a cotton field and place it in straw bushel baskets, circa 1890. (Photo by Lightfoot/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Busy Covent Market, London

Busy Covent Market, London
Every morning deliverymen, stockboys, and other workers unload delivery trucks and carts and load the stores of Covent Garden Market with crates and bushels of consumer goods, 1920s

Background imageWorker Collection: 19th Century Brewery

19th Century Brewery
A group of men mill about on the corner by a row of beer barrells outside of Robert Smiths Brewery, Philadelphia, 19th Century. Smith s, founded in 1772, was bought by C

Background imageWorker Collection: Bavarian Harvest

Bavarian Harvest
Two farm workers give thanks for a fruitful harvest in Bavaria, circa 1930. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Farm Worker

Farm Worker
A mature farm worker posing on a fence next to a haystack, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Flemish Weavers

Flemish Weavers
Flemish weavers working in a shop in Manchester where they have settled, 1363. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Weaving Pair

Weaving Pair
Two fifteenth century textile weavers working on a loom, there is a large spider in a web above them, circa 1450. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Loom Weaving

Loom Weaving
A woman at work on a large loom, late sixteenth century. She is holding the shuttle in her hand and operating the loom with foot pedals. Original artist Crispin de Passe

Background imageWorker Collection: Loom Worker

Loom Worker
A man smoking a pipe while at work on a large loom during the eighteenth century. He is holding the shuttle in his hand and operating the machine with foot pedals

Background imageWorker Collection: August Harvest

August Harvest
Harvesters in August, with a verse from Thomsons Autumn, circa 1880. An engraving by F Bartolozzi after a painting by William Hamilton. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Bleacher At Work

Bleacher At Work
A bleacher at work outside a textile factory, circa 1825. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Bleaching Grounds

Bleaching Grounds
Textile workers laying out strips of cloth on the bleaching grounds of Monteiths dye works, Glasgow, 1844. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Cocoa Harvest

Cocoa Harvest
Workers harvesting cooca at a plantation on the island of Grenada, 1855. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Hard At Work

Hard At Work
A black woman and three men work hard in the woods, stripping bark for trees, filling barrels and loading them onto a cart, somewhere in the American South, late 1860s

Background imageWorker Collection: Linen Spinners

Linen Spinners
A group of women using spinning-wheels to spin linen yarn, 1783. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Profile of Jane Addams

Profile of Jane Addams
Portrait of American social worker Jane Addams (1860 - 1935), early 1900s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Irrigation Methods

Irrigation Methods
A frieze depicting Egyptians using the water from the Nile for irrigation, circa 2000 BC. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Construction Workers

Construction Workers
Two construction workers reinforce the metal girders of a high rise building under construction, circa 1925. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Flemish Weaving Family

Flemish Weaving Family
A Flemish couple working on a loom while their child turns the wheel, 14th century. From the Book of Trades, Ypres. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Dutch Loom Workers

Dutch Loom Workers
A group of Dutch women at work on a large loom, circa 1695. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Prospectus Cantabrigiae

Prospectus Cantabrigiae
A view of Cambridge from the west, with labourers bringing in the harvest in the foreground, circa 1700. By Johannes Kip. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Dancing On Cocoa

Dancing On Cocoa
Workers separating the pulp from the bean during the cocoa production process in Trinidad, 1894. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Coffee Growing

Coffee Growing
A series of illustrations depicting the process for growing and making coffee, from plantation to cup, late 19th century. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Cane Holeing

Cane Holeing
Native workers cane hoeling on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, 1849, their progress is watched by a white supervisor with a whip

Background imageWorker Collection: Cane Cutters

Cane Cutters
Migrant workers cutting sugar cane on a plantation in Trinidad, circa 1897. After the emancipation of slaves in British colonies, large numbers of workers were imported, especially from Asia

Background imageWorker Collection: Jamaican Cane Cutters

Jamaican Cane Cutters
Workers cutting sugar cane on a plantation in Jamaica, 1897. Illustration by J. Finnemore (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Cocoa Mill

Cocoa Mill
A cocoa mill in Grenada, 1855. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Planting Sugar Cane in Georgia

Planting Sugar Cane in Georgia
Workers using horse-driven plows plant rows of sugar cane on a plantation, Georgia, late 1860s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Vaccinating Sheep

Vaccinating Sheep
Farm workers hold sheep steady on a treste table as a vet injects the animals with a vaccine, France, circa 1880. Engraving by A. Lancon (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Sugar Mills

Sugar Mills
Sugar mills on a sugar cane plantation at St Thomas, Jamaica, 1884. Original publication: The Graphic - pub 22nd November 1884. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Wheelwrights

Wheelwrights at work, making wheels for a cart (above) and a mill (below), 1823. Engraving published by R. Ackermann, London, 1823. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Brazilian Sugar Mill

Brazilian Sugar Mill
Plantation workers carry sugar cane into a mill for processing, Brazil, 1845. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWorker Collection: Sugar Mills

Sugar Mills
Two types of sugar mill in cross-section, showing the machinery used to extract the juice from sugar cane by crushing, circa 1765. One mill is horse-powered (top), while the other uses a water-wheel

Background imageWorker Collection: Cotton Factory

Cotton Factory
Textile workers in a British cotton factory, where processes include carding, drawing and roving. Engraving by J Cart after an original work by T Allom, circa 1840



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