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View of miners digging iron ore from a hillside at Elizabeth Furnace in Virginia, 1872.
Source: Library of Congress.
View of Native Americans digging an irrigation canal on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona Territory, 1886.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration.
View of workers posing with the HMS Urgent while being rebuilt on the HM Floating Dock Bermuda in Bermuda, 1877.
Source: Sotheby’s.
Stereoview of workers loading barrels onto a train probably somewhere in France, c. 1855-1860.
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Portrait of an unidentified prominent man being carried in a sedan chair by three bearers and accompanied by an assistant somewhere in China, 1869. By John Thomson.
Portrait of a group of workers posing with tombstones they carved at a marble shop in Claremont, New Hampshire, c. 1875.
Daguerreotype portrait of a group of unidentified workers somewhere in the United States, August 4, 1854. By D. W. Weston.
Daguerreotype of peasants posing with an ox-drawn wagon in Switzerland, c. 1847. By Jean-Gabriel Eynard.
Two employees at work in the pharmacy of the Imperial Asylum at Bois de Vincennes, France, c. 1858. By Charles Nègre.
Daguerreotype of a group of men posing on a steam locomotive owned by the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad named Thomas James probably in Ohio, c. 1850.
Daguerreotype of workers cleaning up rubble amidst the ruins of the Lindell Hotel after its destruction in a fire, St. Louis, March 30, 1867.
Workers assembling German Pickelhaube helmets taking a break to pose for a photograph, c. 1914.
