Occupations Gallery

Cylinder printing press, 1800s

Hoe printing press, showing type locked on the bed and overlays fixed on the cylinder; ink rollers on far right, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Blowing glass in a British factory, 1800s

Workers in a crown-glass factory, Great Britain, early 1800s.
Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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Miners digging and loading coal into an underground mule-drawn cart in Pennsylvania, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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