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Waiter serving five women seated at a dining room table, ca. 1892

A waiter serves a bowl of fruit to a group of five women seated at a dining room table, possibly that of a restaurant.

Boss of the fish house

A man wearing a cap, sweater and jacket leans on a ramp of a fish house. There is various fishing equipment on the ground and surrounding the man including ...

Picking cranberries, Cape Cod cranberry industry, Cape Cod, Mass.

A group of women and children pick cranberries with tools in the Cape Cod cranberry bog. There is a storage building on a rise in the background with several ...

Daniel Moulton, Agamenticus, Maine, 1892

A man named Daniel Moulton stands by two yoked oxen pulling lumber on Agamenticus Mountain, York, Maine.

Home under construction, Shrewsbury, Mass., undated

This is a house under construction with four men and a girl standing around the construction site. Three of the men are standing on scaffolding with tools in ...

Men and horses working at logging camp, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

At a logging camp in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, several men are creating planks from trees. There are two horse teams with wagons ready to pull the wooden ...

Cape Cod cranberry industry, loading the wagon with cranberries at the bog

Groups of people picking cranberries in the cranberry bog in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There are men and women going out into the field to pick cranberries and ...

Men standing next to horses in front of a lumber mill, location unknown, undated

There are men standing near teams of horses in front of temporary houses at a logging camp.

Woman at a machine, location unknown, 1938

A woman sits at a machine putting rows of paper into a feeder in an unknown location. She is sitting in an office chair and there is a large machine in front ...

Lasting machine shaping shoes in a Massachusetts shoe factory

"This is a shoemaker creating shoes on a lasting machine in a shoe factory in Lynn, Massachusetts. The "upper" of the shoe is placed over the wooden last. The ...

George H. Donnell, York, Maine, early 1880s

George H. Donnell was a "shore" fisherman and lobsterman, in York River, Maine. He wears stiff cowhide boots, which were standard for rural workingmen. He ...

Fishermen and boats surrounding three small whale corpses at the shoreline, location unknown, undated

Image of whalers pulling in a haul of three small whales. The photograph features two small boats with harpoons across the bows. Four of the whalers wear ...

Cobbler, Isle Au Haut, Eastern Penobscot Bay, Maine, ca. 1896

This lantern slide features a cobbler and his shop, a small sailboat bedecked with signs and advertisements. The cobbler sits toward the bow with a shoe in his ...

Launching a "Six Master," Bath, Me.

This full color postcard illustrates the launching of a six masted ship. In the harbor a tug boat assists the launch. Each mast is topped with a flag, and the ...

Stereograph of a domestic picking up a silver tray from a side table with tea service, Pittsfield, Mass., ca. 1875

A domestic picks up a silver tray from a side table with a tea service in the dining room of a house in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Dining hall and waiters, Glen House, N.H.

Waiters wearing aprons stand next to the tables in the dining hall of the Glen House hotel in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Transit workers digging in front of a building, Lindall Place Boston, Mass., Nov. 11, 1911

This photograph shows the progress made by transit workers digging in front of a Lindall Place building as part of the construction of the Beacon Hill Tunnel ...

Boston and Albany Railroad workers on Richardson Street, Newton, Mass., ca. 1904

A crew of Boston and Albany Railroad employees work on Richardson Street in Newton, Massachusetts.

Group portrait of a family and two women domestics in front of a dwelling, Chocorua, N.H., 1890

A family and two women domestics pose for a portrait in front of a dwelling in Chocorua, New Hampshire.

Stereograph of agricultural workers standing in a field, Winchendon, Mass., ca. 1877

Agricultural workers stand in a field, including one man in a hay-filled cart driven by oxen, in Winchendon, Massachusetts.

D.R.T. Section 3, pipe trench at Waldeck St. and Park St.

A group of workers dig a trench for pipes at the intersection of Waldeck Street and Park Street in a residential area of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts in ...

View of Chelsea Bridge looking south

Repairs are made to the Chelsea Street Bridge that connects East Boston with Chelsea, Massachusetts over the Chelsea Creek. Workers build scaffolding to work ...

Civil defense

This image shows the loading of Civil Defense boxes of emergency hospital supplies. The label of the box on the man's shoulder indicates that it contains ...

The New Circuit, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the construction of Circuit Drive in Franklin Park in Boston. Workers build the roadway using horse-drawn carts. A man wearing a bowler hat and ...

Franklin Park from west end of overlook looking north, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the construction of the Overlook, a building that combined a scenic viewing platform and changing facilities for people using the fields in the ...

Noon, Waltham Watch Factory, Waltham, Mass., undated

Workers on their lunch hour at the Waltham Watch Factory in Waltham, Massachusetts. Several trolley cars can be seen in the distance.

Construction on Charles Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Construction workers and pedestrians can be seen along Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Ice cutting, Essex County, Mass., undated

Three men cut ice using a device harnessed to two horses.

Bridget and Lizzie Taylor, flashlight, Seekonk

A staged photograph of Bridget and Lizzie Taylor working at a cooking range.

Work on Sec. 10 Haymarket Square looking northerly, Boston, Mass., March 11, 1897

Construction work in Haymarket Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Workers and trucks fill the scene.