akg2-T12-E1-1985-9

Finished cardan-shafts in a rolling mill in Dresden, in a photo taken before 1989.

Photo: akg-images / Werner Unfug

akg2-G110-K1-1908-8

A young girl working in a weaving mill in South Carolina, December 1908.

Photo: akg-images (Lewis W. Hine)

akg2-G76-H1-25-6

A relief from the tomb chapel of the High Priest Petosiris in the necropolis of Hermopolis, Egypt, showing goldsmiths at work.

Photo: akg-images / François Guenet

akg2-T10-K2-1925

Quality control on briquettes of coal, circa 1925.

Photo: akg-images

akg5US-N1-L5-1930-2

Workmen building the Empire State Building in New York, 1930.

Photo: akg-images (Lewis W. Hine)