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A look ahead; - but not so very far ahead, either! / Ehrhart.

Print shows an Irish American woman labeled "Walking Delegate" displaying the "By-Laws of the Help Lady's Union" during a dinner party hosted by an elderly woman sitting at a table with her guests. Women domest... More

Three workmen. Photo by Frances B. Johnston.

Photograph showing three African American laborers at work.

[The Georgia Negro] Occupations. - Exposition Universelle Internationa...

Chart shows pay and hours worked per day for various occupations. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at the Paris Expositi... More

Gathering sisal, Nassau, Bahama Islds.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[The Georgia Negro] Family budgets. - Exposition Universelle Internati...

Chart shows income and expenses for African Americans working eight different occupations. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Sect... More

Bells for sale Clothing market. - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photographs show (top) display area for large bells hanging from cross members at outdoor market; (bottom) several men, some carrying pants, and a boy carrying products for the market. Forms part of: Frank and... More

Filipino police, once insurgents, now faithful servants of Uncle Sam, ...

Stereograph showing Filipino police officers standing in front of buildings in Manila, Philippines. H12122 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3523. Copyright, 1901, by H.C. White Co.

"Put me off at Buffalo!" / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows passengers, in a railroad sleeping car, telling the porter to make sure to put them "off at Buffalo" so they can visit the Pan-American Exposition. Illus. in: Puck, v. 49, no. 1262 (1901 May... More

Binding department, National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

"WHJ 1287" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042931. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Puerto Rican laundry - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Southern fish vendor - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jamaican women selling their meagre produce of vegetables in the Mande...

No. (89) 7669. Copyright by H.C. White Co. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Song of the tongs / Gallaway. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of ...

Words of song, illustrated with African-American man using tongs to harvest oysters. Illus. in: Puck, 1905 Oct. 11, back page.

"Shucking" oysters, oyster house, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.

Stereograph showing women shucking oysters. H68650 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 6881. Copyrighted and published by Keystone View Company.

[Young woman typing] - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Picking seed in a great onion field, (E.) at Quedlinburg, Germany

Women picking seed. U-111941 U.S. Copyright Office. No. (32)-10429.

[Sacaton Indian Reservation. Indian plowing his land. Salt River Pro...

National Photo Company Collection. No. 2674. Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Women eating in a lounge at the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C....

National Photo Company Collection. No. 833. Public domain photograph of restaurant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American men paving road, Washington, D.C.(?)]

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of a truck, military vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Cover of The Masses magazine with illustration of a farmer] / Drawn f...

Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

2nd Annual Outing, Herz' Employees, Panoramic Photograph

J170988 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; G. D. Noyes; June 29, 1912. Copyright claimant's address: Terre Haute, Ind. , where word annual appears as 'anual.'

[Women operating drill presses for reaming out holes in hand grenade b...

U.S. Army. Signal Corps photo. Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Women grinding barrels of automatic 45s, in Colt's Paten Fire Arms Pl...

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. No. 9081. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Market woman selling produce, Moscow, Russia

Public domain photograph related to Russia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Women making Browning machine guns - general view of polishing shop, ...

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Packing peanut butter - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Photograph of a heavily retouched photographic print. Probably related to D420-2718 and D420-2782 to D420-2790. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2718. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Hands wanted for national service. If you cannot fight for your countr...

Poster showing small image of hands at top, and emblem of National Service Industrial Army, 1917 below. Series. Rep. B.3. 200.M.

Motor Transport Corps training school Earn while you learn / / Sgt. E....

U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps recruiting poster showing two men working in an auto repair shop, also shows truck from the Army Motor Transport Corps. Poster caption continues: Become an expert mechanic ; Lear... More

Which? Soldier or mechanic--Enlist in the Engineers and be both For in...

Poster showing a man in overalls at work, and a soldier. Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army, Washington Barracks, D.C.

[Paris, France, ca. 1920] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photo shows an elderly man pulling and a young man pushing a large two-wheel cart loaded with rags on a cobblestone street in Paris, France. Title from caption card and item. No. 123. Forms part of: Frank and F... More

[African Americans around small building and wagons loaded with cotton...

J258745 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yes we have flowers for sale. Dusky gypsy girls make it easier to buy ...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: a Romani woman selling flowers in the street, in Bucharest and Romani men and women digging. Written on page: "Roumania". Negative series code stamped on page: LC... More

Packing the small sized currency at the Bureau of Engraving and Printi...

In album: Washington, D.C., 1 June 1929 to 27 Sept. 1929, v. 3, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company, p. 8, no. 42982. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

One of the men from Nicholson Hollow who has found employment at the n...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Twenty-two million workers concerned as Green listens. A.C. Wharton, p...

A black and white photo of two men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Employment increased by 7,000,000, Washington, D.C. Oct. 3. John W. O'...

Two men sitting at a table with papers. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Girls - are you interested in a job? Find out what an occupation has t...

Poster for Illinois branch of the National Youth Administration promoting educational opportunities for young women seeking training for employment. Illinois National Youth Administration - Wm. J. Campbell, sta... More

Occupations related to mathematics

Poster promoting occupations that require a background in mathematics, such as mathematics teacher, actuary statistician, mechanical engineer, accountant, auditor, bookkeeper, and calculating machine operator. ... More

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental pho...

Public domain photograph of manufacturing, industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. A seasonal office is maintai...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Bea...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made a...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, worki...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eight related persons just arriving in this roadster from Texas. In se...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly a...

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Bowen and Olsen, a riveter and her supervisor, in the Assembly and Rep...

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Ir...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. David Gurly Tull, her son, and husband came from Arkansas looking...

Public domain photograph of Alabama in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Checker at dimension lumber mill. This mill affords employment to a gr...

Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a bench. Office of War...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production ...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Best Coat and Apron Mfg. Company : Sewing and turning cuff on trouser ...

Photograph shows employee of Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company working with a sewing machine to produce trousers for a uniform. No. D10782. Corresponding negative: LC-USE6-D-010782. Forms part of the F... More

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. : Stitching sleeve and body of jacket ...

Photograph shows employee of Aero Leather Coat Company of Beacon, New York, working with sewing machine to produce a leather garment for the U.S. Army. No. D10662. Corresponding negative: LC-USE6-D-010662. For... More

Buffalo, New York. Advertisement of the United States Employment Servi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Finis les mauvais jours! Papa gagne de l'argent en Allemagne.

Political poster shows smiling mother and daughter in occupied France as father works in a factory in Germany.

Oswego, New York. Children, recruited for farm work, waiting outside t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shakeup at Pier 92, N.Y.C., North River and 52nd St. / World-Telegram ...

NYWT&S staff photograph by Al Ravenna. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man standing in front of a "Trade" board on which he rec...

Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Strike! While the iron is hot! Wages for housework.

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

He's home : with maturity, ambition, skills

Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New country - A black and white photo of a store window

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hire him. He's got great legs - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Reverend Jessee [i.e., Jesse] Jackson's march for jobs -- around the W...

Photograph shows Jesse Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magaz... More

Rice culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia / Sketched by A.R...

Main illustration shows African Americans working in a rice field being supervised by a white man; vignettes surrounding the main illustration show a threshing mill, flood gates, a flooded rice field, African A... More

For every fighter a woman worker Y.W.C.A. : Back our second line of de...

Poster showing a parade of women workers wearing uniforms appropriate for specific jobs. Promotional goal: U.S. G2.J7. 1918. Promotional goal: U.S. F35. 1918. Exhibited: "World War I and American Art" at the P... More

In the domain of King Cotton, near Dallas, Texas

African Americans at work in cotton field, overseer on horseback in background. H80451 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8398. Copyright by E.W. Kelley.

Poling the marsh hay - Public domain book illustration

Man and woman in foreground, carrying marsh hay on poles, Norfolk Broads, England. Illus. in: Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads ... / by P.H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.) and T.F. Goodall. London : Samp... More

[African American men posed at entrance to building, some with derbys ...

In album: Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 343. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading... More

St. Anthony's Orphanage, Chapel, 1500 Indian School Road Northwest, Al...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.

President and Mrs. Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition

Photograph shows President and Mrs. Roosevelt in coach being driven by African American man. H97926 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Keystone View Co. No. 14164.

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [.....

Woman working in an airplane factory. Based on a photograph by Alfred T. Palmer. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1943. OWI Poster No. 52. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study... More

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [.....

Land of cotton / E. W. Day, Charlotte N.C. Photos.

Photographic print showing a group of African American men, women, and children standing in a cotton field, some holding baskets containing cotton.

El purgatório artístico, en el que yacen las calaveras de los artistas...

Broadside shows the second level of hell, in which the calaveras of artists and artisans hold objects relating to their profession, including musical instruments, a palette, and paper. Below the main image, the... More

Col. Roosevelt & bull elephant shot at Meru

Photograph shows Theodore Roosevelt and others including African men with a dead elephant at Meru, Kenya. J234334 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Brochure from the School of Handicrafts and Dressmaking, American Colo...

The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian utopian community that was established in Jerusalem in the late 19th century. The community was founded by a group of American and Swedish Christian fundamentali... More

Women sorting large piles of silk cocoons, Antioch, Syria [i.e., Turke...

Stereograph showing seated women working on silk cocoons as men stand behind them. J179868 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11129.

Sunny South, Landscape view print

African Americans picking cotton, riverboats on river, plantation house in distance. 6057(?) U.S. Copyright office. Below image: "View on the lower Mississippi."

Jobs for girls & women If you want a good job in household employment ...

Poster for Illinois State Employment Service promoting jobs for women as domestics offering "good pay, good meals, good surroundings, [and] good working conditions," showing a woman washing dishes. Work Project... More

Stri︠e︡lochnik bashkir - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a person walking down a road. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers enormous shows combined

Women circus performers and clowns with woman ringleader wearing tuxedo and top hat. Caption continues: Leap year ladies of laughter "Variable as the shade by the light quivering aspen made." Caption continues:... More

The lion queen - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print showing a woman lion-tamer in a cage with several lions and tigers.

Charles Batties. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph shows an African American man, Charles Batties(?), full-length portrait standing, facing front, wearing sailor uniform. Title from inscription below photograph. Gladstone's inventory number: CDV115. ... More

Unloading a banana steamer, Mobile, Ala.

Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Government clerks Have received appointment as clerks in Civil Service...

Portraits of 15 unidentified African American men who work for the U.S. Government. The Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, also known as the Paris World Fair of 1900, was a world's fair that was he... More

Government clerks Have received appointment as clerks in Civil Service...

Yoshiko Joan Mori, stenographer in Education Office, Manzanar Relocati...

Yoshiko Joan Mori, half-length portrait, seated at a desk in an office, facing slightly right, holding a pen in her right hand over a steno pad. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Or... More

[Occupational portrait of two African American chimney sweeps]

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV76; Chimney sweeps. Faint, illegible ink inscription below photo. "WEE384" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.66)

[Men working the floor at the Chicago Board of Trade]

The porters who detect instantly the presence of sweet coin but have n...

Title on shelflist card: Competition for a tip. (DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Gates of the City" by Jesse Lynch Williams, Century,... More

Yushima shōkintei, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows women serving tea to men in a tearoom, drinking tea, reading, and writing; view of Edo through opening in rear. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print sp... More

Seife, Kerzen, Lichte. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows four men working in a shop making soap and candles. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona....

Print shows workmen resting in the shade of a tree, one man is sharpening a tool, an African American man reclining on a stack of hay, a young boy is leaning over the stack, tickling the man's ear with a piece ... More

Shibakari - Public domain scan / drawing - Ukiyo e print

Print shows several men carrying bundles of wood. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: full Obosho Nishikie Surimono, folded. Att... More

[Physician and educator Mary Putnam Jacobi as a young woman]

Photograph showing Mary Putnam Jacobi in a full-length studio portrait, facing slightly left, hand resting on chair. Forms part of: Portraits of Herbert Putnam's family ... from the Herbert Putnam Papers.

Union and liberty! And union and slavery!

An anti-McClellan broadside, contrasting Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln's advocacy of equality and free labor in the North to Democratic opponent McClellan's alleged support of the Southern slave system. ... More

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