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Occupational Disease Collection

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Oklahoma migrant, Texas. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Making beaver hats, 1841

Making beaver hats, 1841. Although called beaver hats, a certain amount beaver fur was only used in the most expensive examples. In most others, rabbit fur was used

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Making beaver hats, 1835

Making beaver hats, 1835. Although called beaver hats, a certain amount of beaver fur was only used in the most expensive examples. In most others, rabbit fur was used

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Making beaver hats, 1750

Making beaver hats, 1750. Although called beaver, little or no beaver fur was used. According to quality, nap on felt fabric was made of mixtures of beaver, musquash or rabbit fur, and cotton wool

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Needle-making equipment, 1819

Needle-making equipment, 1819. The large machine at bottom right is George Priors dry grinder with a box partly enclosing the grindstone to minimise dust (1813)

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Hat Maker

Hat Maker. Manufacture of beaver hats by felting material in a kettle (background) and blocking (shaping) the hat and brushing the pile. Although called beaver, little or no beaver fur was used

Background imageOccupational Disease Collection: Grinding needle points, Redditch, England, c1830

Grinding needle points, Redditch, England, c1830. A grindstone driven by water or steam. Needle grinding was well-paid work but the lives of grinders were short owing to the inhalation of dust


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