Occupations Collection (page 6)

Control Board
circa 1930: A control board where a land circuit and the circuit from the radio transmitter join in ship-to-shore phone links. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Chorus Girls
circa 1930: A line of chorus girls in the cabaret at the Piccadilly Hotel, London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Easter Lilies
circa 1930: Peddlers on Union Square, New York selling easter lilies from Bermuda for the Easter festival. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

High Above New York - Don t Look Down
circa 1930: Two men working on top of a skyscraper high above New York streets. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Over And Out
circa 1930: A member of the New York Metropolitan police using a radio-telephone link for communicating with the citys police radio cars. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Animal Dentist
circa 1930: Sally the chimp pays a visit to the dentist for a check up. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Liquid Soap
1929: A vat of liquid being stirred at the Lever Brothers soap factory, Port Sunlight, Cheshire. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Cabaret Ensemble
circa 1930: Cabaret dancers rehearse in full costume. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Basket Place
circa 1930: An Egyptian basket seller displays his wares. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Shoemaker
circa 1930: An Egyptian shoe maker plies his trade in the marketplace. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Donkey Check Up
circa 1910: A vet listens to a donkeys breathing with a stethoscope. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Basket-Making
circa 1930: A blind peasant making baskets in Syria. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Egg Packing
circa 1930: A farm worker packs eggs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Bus Conductor
circa 1926: A bus conductor standing on the step of a London bus. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Music Makers
circa 1926: Pupils from the Great Northern Polytechnic learn to construct musical instruments. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Violin Makers
circa 1926: A pupil at the Great Northern Polytechnic fine tunes the violin he is making, as one of the teachers watches over him. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Under The Bonnet
circa 1926: A woman police officer being taught the basics of motor mechanics. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Coal Miners
circa 1930: A group of coal miners emerge from the pit shaft into daylight. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Making Up Client
circa 1930: A beautician applying make-up to a clients face in accordance with the Andree Method. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Applying Make-Up
circa 1928: A make-up artiste applying make-up to a film actress face. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Inflatable Dinghy
circa 1928: A hunter in an inflatable dinghy takes aim with a shotgun. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Police Training
circa 1930: German policemen practising their ju-jitsu training. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Wing Structure
circa 1930: Students at an Airplane Design course initiated by New York University studying the section of a wing. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Engine Room
circa 1930: Members of the crew in the engine room of a British submarine. In the foreground the stoker is examining the inside of one of the crank pits with a torch

Sound Operator
circa 1930: A technician at work on the new recording equipment at Twickenham Studios, London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

German Airforce
circa 1915: A German Airman demonstrates the greater range of fire achieved by mounting his gun on a swivel upon a rotating ring. On the right, German hangars damaged after a British raid

Russian Pilots
circa 1930: Pilots and personnel of the Russian airforce. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Parachute Packing
circa 1930: Airforce cadets are taught the vital skill of correctly folding and packing their parachutes, as part of their groundwork syllabus at the RAF College at Cranwell

Ostrich Pull
circa 1930: A driver in a racing sulky pulled by an ostrich getting a ticket from a traffic cop for driving faster than 50mph down a Los Angeles boulevard

Oil For Sale
circa 1930: Oil seller on a street in Tripoli. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Hatry In The News
1930: Outside Charing Cross station an Evening News newspaper vendor carries a poster saying A Talk With Hatry, referring to financier Clarence Charles Hatry

Wordsmiths
circa 1930: Caption writers at the General Photographic Agency busy at their desks, supported by reference books and a pack of cigarettes. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Big Cat Show
circa 1930: Three big cats pose for their trainer in a Munich zoo. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Doll Factory
1928: A woman sewing dolls heads on to cloth bodies. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Chemistry Lab
circa 1930: Researchers working in a chemistry laboratory. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Manpower
circa 1930: A group of men hauling a girder up into a skyscraper they are building high above New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Rather You Than Me
circa 1930: A construction worker crouches over the end of a girder high above the streets of New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Grape Picking
circa 1927: A young Swiss girl picking grapes in a vineyard in Locarno, in southern Switzerland. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Packing Soap
1929: Packing bars of soap at Lever Brothers Port Sunlight factory, Cheshire. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Making Soap
1929: A soap shredding machine at Lever Brothers Port Sunlight factory, Cheshire. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Maid At Work
1927: Luise Horner, an Austrian working as a maid in England, prepares afternoon tea. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Giddy Music
circa 1930: Harmonica playing steel workers perched on a girder on the 22nd storey of the Murray Hill building, New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Office Of The Future
circa 1930: The office of the future complete with flying chairs, at the Berlin Office Equipment Show. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Blum Blum Bros
circa 1930: Acrobats the Blum Blum Brothers juggling in the street, one balanced on the others head. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Cadets And Gun
circa 1930: West Point cadets operating a twelve-inch gun at Fort Wright, Fishers Island, Connecticut. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Contortionist
circa 1927: A female contortionist ties herself in knots. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Bulletproof Vest
circa 1930: A policeman models a new bulletproof waistcoat made of linked metal plates. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Making Up Actress
circa 1928: A make-up artiste applying make-up to a film actress face. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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