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Tse Ten Tashi's daughter, sikkim

Daughter of Sikkim photographer,  Tse Ten Tashi, January 1969.

Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Record for this photo: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011646512/

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Utes--Chief Sevara [i.e.Severo] and family

  • Title: Utes–Chief Sevara [i.e. Severo] and family
  • Date Created/Published: c1899.
  • Medium: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
  • Copyright 1899 by the Detroit Photographic Co.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.; record page for this image.

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Group of Jewish children with a teacher. Samarkand

Title: Gruppa evreĭskikh malʹchikov s uchitelem. Samarkand
Title Translation: Group of Jewish children with a teacher. Samarkand; Photographer: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire

  • Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004.
  • Digital color rendering, with hand editing, made by WalterStudio, 2000-2001.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.; record page for this image.

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Group of children. [Russian Empire]

Title:imagePhotographer: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Title Translation: Group of children. [Russian Empire]

Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).

Library of Congress record page for this image.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

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Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio

Caption with color slide: “Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio.” Photograph by John Vachon, 1942 or 1943.

Library of Congress record page for this image.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

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Friday Faire–Working.

April 27, 2012

All of these images of working were semi-randomly selected from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog using a search on the word “working.”

(Click on any of the images to view a larger version.)

Some of the shrimp-pickers working at the Biloxi Canning Co.
Some of the shrimp-pickers working at the Biloxi Canning Co.

National Child Labor Committee Collection

More info on this image here.

Bureau of Standards speeds up photomicrography with new apparatus.
Bureau of Standards speeds up photomicrography with new apparatus.

Harris & Ewing Collection

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Tenement homework; a girl of 13 working at embroidery in a far corner of a dimly lighted room.
Tenement homework; a girl of 13 working at embroidery in a far corner of a dimly lighted room.

National Child Labor Committee Collection

More info on this image here.

13-year-old boy, Edgar Kitchen, working for Bingham Bros. Dairy. He gets $3 a week; is not working for his own parents.
13-year-old boy, Edgar Kitchen, working for Bingham Bros. Dairy. He gets $3 a week; is not working for his own parents.

National Child Labor Committee Collection

More info on this image here.

Man working - Icelandic women working (1862).
Man working – Icelandic women working (1862).

Drawings (Documentary)

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Charles Schulz, half-length portrait, facing front, seated at drawing table with drawing of Charlie Brown (1956).
Charles Schulz, half-length portrait, facing front, seated at drawing table with drawing of Charlie Brown (1956).

Miscellaneous Items in High Demand

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Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.
Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.

Posters: World War I Posters

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Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine [ca. 1853.]

Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine [ca. 1853.]

Daguerreotypes

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Amish working the field in Pennsylvania, late 20th century

Amish working the field in Pennsylvania, late 20th century

Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive

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Occupational portrait of a blacksmith, three-quarter length, working on a horseshoe at an anvil, other tools to his side [between 1840 and 1860].
Occupational portrait of a blacksmith, three-quarter length, working on a horseshoe at an anvil, other tools to his side [between 1840 and 1860].

Daguerreotypes

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Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: African American laborers working on rail [ca. 1862 or 1863].
Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: African American laborers working on rail [ca. 1862 or 1863].

Civil War

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Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.

Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.

Posters: World War I Posters

More info on this image here.

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