Early work posters & prints

Early 19th century coal miner working a narrow seam, c1868. Anonymous

Early Christian community of women working in their monastery and St. Paul the Hermit Jacobus van Hardenberg

Workers at an Early British Factory of India Anonymous

Two Carpenters at Work. Benares, India, early 19th century Unknown

Workers unloading coal from a barge, early twentieth century French School

Pavel Shukovsky, Russian artist, at work, early 20th century Unknown

On Early Shift Railroad Advertisement Poster Terence Tenison Cuneo

Early morning at the workshop Anonymous

Tending the Lobster Traps, Early Morning George Wesley Bellows

Illustration of Early Workers at West Indies Sugar Mill Anonymous

Switchboard operators at work Anonymous

Rosie, aged 7, illiterate, working for a second year as an oyster shucker at Varn & Platt Canning Company, Bluffton,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Edith 5 and Hughie 6 pick cotton all day, Alton 7 picks 50 pounds and Ruth 9 picks 75, at... Lewis Wickes Hine

A Workers Head, 19th or early 20th century Constantin Emile Meunier

Elsie and Sadie working at Yazoo City Yarn Mills, Mississippi said they were 13 years old, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

Working on the Metro under the Place de l'Etoile, 1899 Gaston Brun

Dawn labour, 1900 Jules Breton

Rosy aged 8 works a 14 hour day as an oyster shucker at Dunbar Cannery, Louisiana, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

A craftswoman at work ET Holding

John Dempsey, 11 or 12 years old, Saturday worker in the mule-spinning room at Jackson Mill, Fiskeville, Rhode Island, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

Illustration Of Steel Works Process Anonymous

Illustration of Early Movie Set in Hollywood C.H. DeWitt

Joe Mello, aged 8 or 9 works as a mill sweeper in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1911. Lewis Wickes Hine

Cotton manufacturing in early 19th century Anonymous

5 year old migrant shrimp-picker Manuel in front of a pile of oyster shells Lewis Wickes Hine

Digging a Cutting on the Great Western Railway, 1841 George Childs

Women working in a typing pool Anonymous

Baltimore, Maryland, July 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

A woman work team on the Darjeeling highway, India Underwood & Underwood

A Man Working in a Field, Zodiacal Sign of Aries Workshop of Willem Vrelant

Construction work on the Trans-Siberian Railway, USSR, 1929 Anonymous

Female Workers at Schenectady Motor Works Anonymous

Jo Arnao 3, picking cranberries with his brother 6 and sister 9 at Whites Bog, Browns Mills, New Jersey, 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

Boys making cigars at Englehardt & Co, Tampa, Florida, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

A family at work, Catamarca, Argentina Anonymous

Sons of J.H. Burch aged 12, 14 & 17 stripping tobacco during school hours at Warren County, Rockfield, Kentucky, 1916 Lewis Wickes Hine