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Sec'y. W.J. Bryan, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Sec'y. W.J. Bryan, 1913. Shows William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State in President Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, from 1913 to 1915.

Sec'y. A.S. Burleson, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Sec'y. A.S. Burleson, 1913. Shows Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General in President Woodrow Wilson's cabinet from 1913 to 1921.

Sec'y. McAdoo at desk, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Sec'y. McAdoo at desk, 1913. Shows William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941), Secretary of the Treasury in President Woodrow Wilson's cabinet from 1913 to 1918.

Girl Sewing, 1720. Creator: Antonio Amarosi
Girl Sewing, 1720.

Adam and Eve at work. From: The story of Adam and Eve, 1540. Creator: Heinrich Aldegrever
Adam and Eve at work. From: The story of Adam and Eve, 1540. Based on Genesis 3:17-19, it depicts a scene after the expulsion from Paradise

The cobbler, 1671. Creator: Adriaen van Ostade
The cobbler, 1671. A peasant smoking a pipe as he talks in relaxed fashion with a cobbler who is at work, while the latter's dog is curled up on the roof of his hut

West Indian woman, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
West Indian woman, between c1910 and c1915.

Preparing for Circus Week - Madison Sq. Garden, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Preparing for Circus Week - Madison Sq. Garden, 1913.

Harbour with a large tower, c.1641. Creator: Claude Lorrain
Harbour with a large tower, c.1641.

Farm hands, 1922. Creator: Edmund Blampied
Farm hands, 1922. There is an element of drudgery in the expressions and absolute profiles of the farm hands of the title, who are tipping vegetables into a barrel

Flailing Turnip-Heads, East Bergholt, c1812-15. Creator: John Constable
Flailing Turnip-Heads, East Bergholt, c1812-15. Constable often painted farm laborers working in the countryside. Here, his father's tenants are shown beating turnip heads to collect their

The Wheat Field, 1816. Creator: John Constable
The Wheat Field, 1816.

Women enlisting - England, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Women enlisting - England, between c1910 and c1915.

Porto [Puerto] Rico -- Raising tobacco under Cheese Cloth, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Porto [Puerto] Rico -- Raising tobacco under Cheese Cloth, between c1915 and c1920.

Syrian shoemaker, 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Syrian shoemaker, 1916.

Working on the "Florida", 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Working on the "Florida", 1911.

Anatomy class, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Anatomy class, between c1915 and 1918. Shows the Metropolitan Hospital Training School for Nurses on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), New York City.

Rounding rings, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Rounding rings, between c1915 and c1920.

London canteen, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
London canteen, between c1915 and c1920. Shows soldiers at a Red Cross canteen in London, England during World War I.

John D. Moore, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
John D. Moore, between c1915 and c1920. Possibly shows John N. Boyle.

Nurses on American liner the St. Louis, 4/17/15, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Nurses on American liner the St. Louis, 4/17/15, 1915. Shows nurses aboard the American liner the St. Louis. Nurses were accompanying a US Army field hospital being shipped to Europe for operation by

Press room on press car, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Press room on press car, 1913. Shows a press room of the press car on the Great Northern Railway.

Farmerettes, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Farmerettes, between c1915 and 1918. Probably shows "farmerette" members of the Woman's Land Army of America (later Women's Land Army)

Theater, Times Sq. being painted, 20 Aug 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Theater, Times Sq. being painted, 20 Aug 1918. Women of the Woman's Reserve Camouflage Corps of the National League for Woman's Service painting the Times Square War Savings Stamp theater.

L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. The Long Island Railroad "Victory Special" demonstration car, organized by the women of the Long Island Food Reserve Battalion during World War I.

Enlisting "Marinettes", between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Enlisting "Marinettes", between c1915 and c1920. Women called the "Marinettes" who performed clerical work usually done by male Marines starting in 1918 during World War I.

Mrs. Mary P. Gardner, Anna A. Ryan, 14 Oct 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Mary P. Gardner, Anna A. Ryan, 14 Oct 1918. Mrs. Mary Palmer Gardner and Anna A. Ryan working at the Souilly hospital canteen, Souilly, France, Oct. 14, 1918 during World War I.

[Red Cross] (Dining), between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
[Red Cross] (Dining), between c1915 and c1920. Lafayette House, a convalescent home for veteran soldiers and sailors at 112 West 59th Street (Central Park South), New York City

War Correspondents, Langewaede, 22 Sept 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
War Correspondents, Langewaede, 22 Sept 1918 (date created or published later). War reporters in Langewaede, Belgium during World War I.

Grace George sells bonds, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Grace George sells bonds, between c1915 and 1918. Alice Fischer and Grace George selling bonds in the Liberty Theatre at the New York Public Library during World War I.

"Grape Gathering near Naples", by A. De Curzon, in the Exhibition of Fine Arts at Paris, 1864. Engraving of a painting

"Christmas Time", by Miss E. Osborne, in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1865. Creator: W Thomas
"Christmas Time", by Miss E. Osborne, in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1865. Engraving of a painting '...which in technical qualities

An old Dutch house at Cape Town, South Africa, 1864. Creator: G. F. A
An old Dutch house at Cape Town, South Africa, 1864. 'The Dutch, who first colonised the "Land of the Hottentot" at the Cape of Good Hope

Abstract Above the mountain
Lucrecia Caporale

Irregular Pattern
Lucrecia Caporale

Dancing Lines
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Interlacing
Lucrecia Caporale

Abstract From the road
Lucrecia Caporale

Abstract Irregular Lines
Lucrecia Caporale

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Ali Can

Fishing (thai binh vietnam)
Sarawut Intarob

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Asako Naruto

Rickshaw puller with two clients in the streets of Bangladesh
Joxe Inazio Kuesta Garmendia

Hard Winter
Grigore Roibu

Quote Work
Orara Studio

The mechanical of Teheran
Marco Tagliarino

Together
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Vietnamese monk picking tea leaves
Sarawut Intarob

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