Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine
1853 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Call Number: DAG no. 1204, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ds-04496 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-3598 (color film copy transparency post-1992) LC-USZ6-2058 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992) LC-USZ62-106400 (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)
LL/60780
1 of 75
Occupational portrait of a woman, possibly a seamstress
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Private collection of Susan Higginbotham
LL/99836 [Further details available]
2 of 75
[Women Grinding Paint, Calcutta]
1845 (ca)
Daguerreotype
9.4 x 14.4 cm (3 11/16 x 5 11/16 ins)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.69
LL/40536
3 of 75
Two women knitting
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Private collection of Jeanne Kohl
LL/60767
4 of 75
Maria Boyd holding a weaving shuttle, half-length portrait, facing front
1840-1860
Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-13975 (color film copy transparency), Call Number: DAG no. 1425 [P&P]
LL/59862 [Further details available]
5 of 75
Sisters Lucretia Electa and Louisa Ellen Crossett in identical skirts, blouses, and jewelry with weaving shuttles
1859, 26 September
Ambrotype, 1/6 plate
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-36964 (digital file from original, tonality adjusted) LC-DIG-ppmsca-26964 (digital file from original item), Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2112 [P&P]
LL/77645
6 of 75
A young woman standing behind a power loom
1848-1852 (ca)
Ambrotype
American Textile History Museum - Osborne Library
Inventory: 0000.1406.
LL/60787
7 of 75
Milliner and her daughter
1854 (ca)
Ambrotype
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-6024 (color film copy transparency), Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 1341 [P&P]
LL/60788
8 of 75
n.d.
Ambrotype, relievo
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: Feb 21, 2008, 51, part 1 / lot 56)
LL/27072 [Further details available]
9 of 75
1860 (ca)
Ambrotype
6.9 x 5.6 cm; 1/6 plate
George Eastman Museum
Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Mr. Donald Weber (95:2687:0001)
LL/6936
10 of 75
A photographer's assistant holding a plate holder
n.d.
Tintype
Private collection of Robin Kelsey and Michael Lehr
LL/61200 [Further details available]
11 of 75
Coloured woman with two white children
n.d.
Tintype
Private collection of Robin Kelsey and Michael Lehr
LL/61198
12 of 75
n.d.
Ambrotype, 1/2 plate
6 x 4.25 in (image) 10 x 11.5 in (frame)
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 25)
LL/11243
13 of 75
[Nun and Man Holding Cross]
1848-1855
Daguerreotype
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
Museum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment, Object number: 2019.43
LL/102374
14 of 75
A French hawker
n.d.
Carte de visite
Private collection of Laure Deratte
LL/99861
15 of 75
Two sisters holding shuttles, QC
1890 (ca)
Tintype
McCord Stewart Museum
LL/99862
16 of 75
A nun
n.d.
Cabinet card, hand-coloured
Internet - Original source ill-defined
LL/66707
17 of 75
Occupational portrait of a young woman with a broom
n.d.
Ambrotype, 1/6 plate
Private collection of Sean Nolan
LL/65393
18 of 75
Newhaven fishwives
1847
Salted paper print
14.6 x 19.6 cm
Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services
Library Item, 3576
LL/41005 [Further details available]
19 of 75
[En gruppe fiskerjenter i trappen ned til stranden. Whitby. England.]
n.d.
Kulltrykk
24.2 x 29.1 cm
Preus Museum
NMFF.002756
LL/42607
20 of 75
Juice seller, Mexico
1870 (ca)
Carte de visite
Private collection of Graham Pilecki
LL/61219
21 of 75
Welsh Costume
n.d.
Carte de visite, hand-painted
Private collection of Doug York
LL/99813
22 of 75
Fishwives from Musselburgh, Scotland
1895 (ca)
Carte de visite
Private collection of John Quin
LL/99822
23 of 75
Occupational portrait of women with shuttles
n.d.
Carte de visite
Private collection of Erin Waters
LL/102678
24 of 75
Ida Lewis, In Costume as in the Rescue of March 29th, 1869
1869
Carte de visite
Private collection of Ross Hulvey III
LL/100918
25 of 75
A Venetian Girl
n.d.
Carte de visite
Private collection of Laure Deratte
LL/100302
26 of 75
A Frenchwoman carrying water
n.d.
Carte de visite, hand-painted
Private collection of Laure Deratte
LL/100304
27 of 75
Portrait of a servant at an inn
n.d.
Carte de visite
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
LL/106426
28 of 75
Dishwasher
n.d.
Carte de visite
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
LL/106453
29 of 75
Portrait of a herring seller
n.d.
Carte de visite
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
LL/106431
30 of 75
Herring seller
n.d.
Carte de visite
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
LL/106460
31 of 75
Marie-Antoinette Lix, "lieutenant des francs-tieurs de Lamarche"
1870 (ca)
Carte de visite
Private collection of Laure Deratte
LL/103369 [Further details available]
32 of 75
Marie-Antoinette Lix, "lieutenant des francs-tieurs de Lamarche"
n.d.
Carte de visite
Musée de l'Armée
LL/103370
33 of 75
Two maids
n.d.
Carte de visite
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Facebook, Artemisios Phaedrus
LL/99828
34 of 75
Two Maids at a Well
1863 (ca)
Albumen print
15 x 11.5 cm
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas
Id number: 1972.0426
LL/58028
35 of 75
Covent Garden Flower Women
[Street Life in London]
1877 (published)
Woodburytype
London School of Economics - Digital Library
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
LL/49966 [Further details available]
36 of 75
The "Crawlers"
[Street Life in London]
1877 (published)
Woodburytype
London School of Economics - Digital Library
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
LL/49993 [Further details available]
37 of 75
A woman with her hand on a telegraph machine
n.d.
Cabinet card
Private collection of Jerilyn Marshall
LL/99832
38 of 75
A woman retouching or painting a photograph
n.d.
Tintype
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Further details and current location requested.
LL/111479 [Further details available]
39 of 75
Portrait of a woman telegrapher
1870 (ca)
Tintype
Private collection of Jules Martino
LL/60791
40 of 75
Women Washing and drying dishes
n.d.
Tintype, 1/4 plate (oversized)
Private collection of Jules Martino
LL/61177
41 of 75
Two sweepers
n.d.
Tintype
Richard T. Rosenthal
LL/100034
42 of 75
A couple with a black maid/child carer holding the baby
n.d.
Tintype
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/99825
43 of 75
A woman seated at a piano
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/99826 [Further details available]
44 of 75
Cornish Fishwives with their fish baskets on their backs, Penzance, Cornwall
1902
Photograph
Private collection of John Quin
LL/99830
45 of 75
Posing on Fuse Carts, British Munitions Co Ltd, Verdun, Quebec, Canada
1914-1918 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of John Quin
LL/99829
46 of 75
Tapping a Rubber Tree
1900 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of John Quin
LL/101880 [Further details available]
47 of 75
Carrying Women
1872 (ca)
Albumen print
21.5 x 27.1 cm (8 7/16 x 10 11/16 ins)
Harvard Art Museum / Fogg Museum
Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Item Identifier :P1982.336
LL/41606
48 of 75
Nautch girls and street musicians
1880s
Albumen print, hand-coloured
21 x 27,5 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
1 June 2016, Photographs, Lot 4110
LL/67225
49 of 75
Culling Tea
1869 (ca)
Albumen silver print, from glass negative
6 15/16 × 9 3/8 ins (17.6 × 23.8 cm) (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.494.38
LL/78003
50 of 75
Woman telegraphist
n.d.
Cabinet card
Private collection of Jerilyn Marshall
LL/67145
51 of 75
A Fishwife
n.d.
Cabinet card
Private collection of John Mathew Smith
LL/99927
52 of 75
Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora
n.d.
Cabinet card
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 65)
LL/11271
53 of 75
Mrs. MacReady as Shylock
1860s (ca)
Albumen print
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
LL/98108
54 of 75
Two working ladies - possibly maids or waitresses
n.d.
Cabinet card
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/61218
55 of 75
Studio portrait of a maid with a feather duster
1910-1920 (ca)
Photograph
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
LL/106386
56 of 75
Dressmaking
n.d.
Cabinet card, detail
Private collection of Jeanne Kohl
LL/60769
57 of 75
Three domestic servants
1905 (ca)
Cabinet card
Private collection of Ann Vibeke Knudsen
LL/61386
58 of 75
1890s (early)
Cabinet card
Paul Frecker
LL/14142
59 of 75
Mrs Muglotts Algebra Class March 14, 1890.
1890, 14 March
Cabinet card
Private collection of Robert E. Jackson
LL/85076
60 of 75
Flora Curtright at the Republican Printing Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1893?
Photograph
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
LL/98109 [Further details available]
61 of 75
Women typesetting on linotype machines
1900s?
Photograph
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
LL/98110
62 of 75
Woman ironing starched collars, M. T. S., QC,
1901 (ca)
Silver salts on glass - Gelatin dry plate process
16 x 21 cm
McCord Stewart Museum
Gift of an anonymous donor, MP-1985.31.180
LL/105287
63 of 75
Charleston, South Carolina
1955-1956
Gelatin silver print
32.10 x 47.80 cm (12 5/8 x 18 13/16 ins) (image) 40.40 x 50.80 cm (15 7/8 x 20 ins) (paper)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Anonymous Gift, 1984.210
LL/70383
64 of 75
[Untitled, portrait of a woman spinning wool]
1920s-1930s
Gelatin silver print
Lempertz - Cologne
Auction 1098, Photography, 01.12.201, Lot: 17
LL/95588
65 of 75
[Untitled, portrait of four woman doing domestic crafts]
1920s-1930s
Gelatin silver print
Lempertz - Cologne
Auction 1098, Photography, 01.12.201, Lot: 17
LL/95589
66 of 75
An engineer wiring an early IBM computer
1958
Black and white photograph
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Source requested.
LL/122415
67 of 75
[British women miners with hard hats]
1860s (ca)
Stereoview
Private collection of Paula Fleming
LL/99806 [Further details available]
68 of 75
The Chambermaid
1800s (mid-late)
Stereocard
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Id Number: 2012.3033.0941, Nonaccession Number: 2012.3033, Catalog Number: 2012.3033.0941
LL/107396
69 of 75
[Women working on mining lamps]
n.d.
Stereoview, glass
Private collection of Paul Burford
LL/99807
70 of 75
Drilling Holes in Watch Plates, Elgin National Watch Co., Elgin, Ill.
n.d.
Stereoview
Private collection of Nathan Moore
LL/99808
71 of 75
Pentagraph Room. American Print Works.
n.d.
Stereoview
Private collection of Lee Eltzroth (Georgia Photographers Documentation Project)
LL/99821
72 of 75
Portrait of Nancy Luce, island eccentric, and her bantie hens.
n.d.
Stereoview
NYPL - New York Public Library
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, Shelf locator: MFY Dennis Coll 90-F258, RLIN/OCLC: NYPG90-F258, NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11707528
LL/99820
73 of 75
[Women working in a woodwork shop, Russia]
1930 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
LL/104713
74 of 75
[Young women working in a woodwork shop, Russia]
1930 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
LL/104714
75 of 75
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