Traditional Craft and Construction

Images depict local artisans working in tanneries and stone wall reconstruction, alongside traditional adobe brick-making in earthy settings.

South America, Argentina, Province Jujuy, Tilcara. Traditional adobe making (brick making out of soil) for house construction in the North of Argentina
South America, Argentina, Province Jujuy, Tilcara. Traditional adobe making (brick making out of soil) for house construction in the North of Argentina

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Local men working in a tannery, Marrakesh, Morocco
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Workmen rebuild stone walls at the abandoned Berber mountain village at Chenini.
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South America, Argentina, Province Salta, Iruya. Traditional adobe making (brick making out of soil) for house construction in the North of Argentina
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South America, Argentina, Province Jujuy, Tilcara. Traditional adobe making (brick making out of soil) for house construction in the North of Argentina
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concrete slabs as a road base during the construction junctions in the Moscow. concrete slabs as a road base during the construction of road junctions in the Moscow area. Copyright: xZoonar.com/OvchinnikovaxOlgax 9398938
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Worker preparing bricks in factory , Morocco
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sand quarry mounds of varied construction sands color
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Marble quarry, Cave di Fantiscritti near Carrara, Province of Massa-Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, Europe
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Maras salt ponds located at the Urubamba, Peru
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construction site preparation for the house foundation
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Excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Kings, excavation site, excavation work, Egypt, Africa
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Bulldozer In Dunes, Angola, Luanda Bay.
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South America - Peru. Salt ponds near Maras where the salt water evaporates and salt is extracted for sale at markets.
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salinas de Añana, patrimonio agrícola mundial ,comarca de Cuadrilla de Añana , Alava, País Vasco, Spain.
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Aerial view of a landscape scarred with earthy tones, where pools of orange water contrast with piles of construction materials, Haddington, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Tanneries, Fes, Morocco
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Indio weaving, Isla Taquile, Peru
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Stone quarry on the Lessini Mountains, Veneto, Italy.
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Peru, The ancient saltpans of Salinas near Maras have been an important source of salt since pre-Inca times.
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Men walking past clean faces for block extraction in granite quarry, Budduro, Sardinia, Italy, Europe
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Man working in tannery; Fez, Morocco
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South America - Peru. Salt ponds near Maras where the salt water evaporates and salt is extracted for sale at markets.
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In the highlands of Abyssinia, workers building a road, Ethiopia, Africa
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Young students of occupational education learning to build traditional stone walls without mortar, Can Marroig, La Savina, Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain.
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A790781 U12G NUTCRACKER J BOYES(Project Engineer) OCT 25 79EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 10/25/1979  BOYES, JOHN; G-TUNNEL; GROUND BREAKING CEREM. (SNL); GROUNDBREAKING; HARD HATS; HOLES (IN THE GROUND); MALE; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUTCRACKER; SHADOWS; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; TUNNELS BY USAGE; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WELDING; WIRE & CABLES  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Obernkirchener Stenchen Obernkirchen quarry
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Artisan gold mining, Mongolia
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Brick manufacturing adobe
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Morocco, Fes. Tanneries of Fes, Morocco.
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010416-N-3207B-003. Subject Operation/Series: NEW HORIZONS 2001 Base: Saint Vincent Country: Saint Vincent & Grenadines (VCT)
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Salt Pans at Qbaijar near Marsalforn on the island of Gozo, Malta. Sea water evaporates to leave deposits of salt crystals which are harvested by local people.
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SALINAS - RECOGIDA DE SAL EN TERRAZAS. Location: Salinas. Añana. ALAVA. SPAIN.
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Fundament a fundament at a building site Copyright: xZoonar.com/rgbx 850614
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roof construction in building site. roof construction in a building site area
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Project Muletrain
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A841187 SAFEGUARD BAKER SITE CONSTRUCTION JEFF EVERETT (Project Engineer) OCT 18 84 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 10/18/1984  AREA 27 SAFEGUARD; BAKER; BAKER SITE; BAKER SITE CONSTRUCTION; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES (SNL); EQUIPMENT (SNL); FACILITIES (SNL); FENCES; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; SAFEGUARDS; SANDIA FACILITIES; SECURITY; SECURITY MEASURES; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; SAFEGUARD-BAKER SITE  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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High angle view of a tannery, Fez, Morocco
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Geneval´s Tower, Christchurch Place, Dublin, Excavation of site in Dublin
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Algeria, Sahara, Gourara, Timimoun, foggara (water management system)
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Boy working at Biogas generator with dung fuel, Pakistan.
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albañiles trabajando en la construccion de una casa, Sinchaj, San Bartolomé Jocotenango, municipio del departamento de Quiché, Guatemala, America Central.
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Tranquilized elephants (Loxodonta africana) loaded into crate. Zimbabwe
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Israel, Jerusalem. Man Working On The Archeological Dig Of Kathisma Church (5Th-6Th Centuries)
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CZECH REPUBLIC PRAGUE.
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People manufacturing bricks, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar
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rescue dogs
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archeological excavations
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Pottery kiln in the city of Tamegroute, Draa River valley, Province of Zagora, Region Draa-Tafilalet, Morocco, North West Africa
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Students at a dig site in Unicorn Cave in Germany; Germany
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Men at work in coral quarry. Rodrigues Island
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Ferdinandplatz
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Drying manure for fuel In the remote village of Gulyuzu, by Cildir Golu Lake, far eastern Turkey
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Bricks, construction site of an irrigation canal, Basti Lehar Walla village, Punjab, Pakistan, Asia
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Maras Salt Mines, Peru Maras, Peru - October 11, 2015: Man walking in between salt evaporation ponds at the Maras salt mines Copyright: xZoonar.com/OliverxFoerstnerx 18222102
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Keraniganj, Bangladesh - 07 February 2020: Aerial view of people working in a brick factory, piling red bricks in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Ship Building at Mandvi, Kutch, Gujarat, India Copyright: xDxShah/DinodiaxPhotox
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Big yellow Mack dump truck construction earth mover on location on a contruction site
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Egypt, Tomb Chamber of the Mother of Governor Djed Khonsu, 26th Dyanasty, Dr. Zahi Hawass
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Peat moss is being cut and used for heating near Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.
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Soldiers with the Army Reserves 372nd Engineer Company move earth May 16, 2022 as part of an ongoing troop construction project just outside the cantonment area fence at Fort McCoy, Wis. The project work is located in an area of land near the old Gate 20 and Improved Tactical Training Base Liberty and the cantonment area fence, said Larry Morrow, troops projects coordinator with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works (DPW). The site plan is to make it into a base operations support site for installation service con-tractors, such as facility maintenance, roads and grounds, solid waste, custodial, pest management, and more. DPW Operations and Maintenance Division Chief Nate Sobojinski said DPW is combining all of its service contractors in one location near commercial gate access to keep suppliers from having to drive around post bringing supplies to various locations. Work will continue to be ongoing in the entire area, officials said.
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Ferdinandplatz
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050715-A-6108G-204. Base: Shiele State: Dahuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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Asia - Burma - Keng Tung - Burma, Shan state - Brick Factory manual. Before they are dried in the sun and then cooked with the pyramids. In the factory we live families with their children.
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Silos ibéricos, excavaciones en Montjuïc, Barcelona, año 1988.
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Peru, Cusco, Salineras, People Working On The Salt Mines Dating Back To Inca Times. Near Urubamba.
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Wood structures and fishing equipment along the Mekong River on Don Khon, Laos; Don Khon, Champasak Province, Laos
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A man making bricks from local clay. After drying the bricks in the sun, they will be carefully stacked for firing with wood, Divulapitiya, Sri Lanka
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ROAD BUILDING, TANZANIA. .
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The deep wells at Ilaut are an important watering place for Samburu and Rendille livestock alike.  The wells are dug out afresh each year and worked by the warriors who sing as they pass the water containers up the line of men. The depth of a Waterhole is based on the number of men required to work it. Here we have a 4-man well.
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Coffins in burial cave
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Old piles excavated during reconstruction of Amursky Boulevard i Old piles excavated during the reconstruction of Amursky Boulevard in Khabarovsk. Copyright: xZoonar.com/DmitryixBogdanovx 13695076
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Tyre tracks of a tractor in loamy soil, Berlin, Germany, Europe
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Bill Murphy stone quarry, Ireland , Quarrying. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Young man in a local construction company mixing cement to produce parts for latrines, rear, Tropeng Village, Bathi District, Takeo Province, Cambodia, Asia
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Aerial view of workers crafting bricks in a brickyard, the scene filled with earthy tones contrasting against the blue tarps, Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh.
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Morocco, Fez tannery. Hides of goats, sheep, cows, and camel are processed. Dye ingredients of this odorous process include pigeon excrement, cow urine, oils, chromium salts, and sulfuric acids. (Editorial Use Only)
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Adobe Bricks
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Road workers laying cobblestones, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe
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A man is working in the saline pools at a salt mining operation in Zapotitlan de las Salinas, in the state of Puebla, Mexico.
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Tin mining, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Egypt, Luxor, West Bank, Valley of the Kings. Active archaeological dig site, archeologist working on putting together ancient tomb pottery shards.
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050308-A-6854T-061. Base: Macaracas Country: Panama (PAN)
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Navajo workers preserving ruins at Chetro Ketl in Chaco Culture National Historical Park; New Mexico, United States of America
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Gemstone mine, moonstone, Naula, Sri Lanka, Asia
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A view of a portion of the base's Centennial Estates housing project under construction. Base: Ellsworth Air Force Base State: South Dakota (SD) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Aerial view of stacks of timber logs neatly arranged on the brown soil, creating a textured landscape with a truck moving, White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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Workers, tanners and dyers in the Chouwara quarter Fez El Bali or Medina, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Fez, Morocco, Africa
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Peru, Cusco, Salineras, People Working On The Salt Mines Dating Back To Inca Times. Near Urubamba.
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India, Rajastan, Jaipur, manual road working tools at work site
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Men In A Gristmill Near Zarkharid, Vardak Province, Afghanistan
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Miners carrying baskets full of Sulfur rocks to top of crater of Kawah Ijen volcano, East Java, Indonesia
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Masonry stone wall construction with mortar and brick hammer trowel tools DIY
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Austria, Innsbruck. Grassmayer Bell Foundry.
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Maras Salt Mines in Salinas near Tarabamba in Peru
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Oven to making bricks in southern India
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Uganda, Mukono District. Handmade bricks that will be used to make a new school.
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Front of excavator
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Photos for Suple Viajer, from Various Things in Burgos. Ricardo Ordóñez 06/14/2013Archdc.
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Floating Logs Down a River
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Turkey, Troy, New Excavations, Troy Viii And Ix
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India, Gujarat, Veraval, Shipbuilding.  Men Work On Interior Of Boat.
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Salinas de Anana
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Famous tannery in the medina of Fes, where leather is being processed for generations, Morocco, Africa
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Young child working the cattle on a grinder.
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EGYPT, CAIRO, GIZA, SPHINX AREA, STONEMASON AT RESTORATION WORK
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Archaeologists at work Chichen Itza, Mayan ruins, Yucatan, Mexico, Central America
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Driebes (Guadalajara), 08/20/2019. Excavation of the aqueduct of the Roman city of Carca. Photo: Matías Nieto ARCHDC.
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Aerial view of trucks scattered across a construction site, amidst the stark contrast of dark earth and vibrant green vegetation, Klaten Regency, Central Java, Indonesia.
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Drystone wall under construction, men using Cotswold stone, Gloucestershire, England
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Construction Site
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Iran,   , Yazd, Construction Worker On Site Spade In Hand
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USA, Arizona, Scottsdale. View into interior of Cosanti foundry.
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Aerial view of workers around traditional stoves creating a textured landscape of industry and daily life, Aminbazar, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh.
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Egypt, Luxor, West Bank, Valley of the Kings. Active archaeological dig site, archeologist working.
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Workers at the Karnak Temple Complex, a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings, Luxor, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Archaeological excavations, Ramesseum, mortuary temple of Ramses II Luxor, Thebes West, Egypt, Luxor, Thebes, West, Egypt, Africa
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Men building wall, Albuquerque , Bricklayers, Walls. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Maras salt mines in Salinas near Tarabamba in Peru
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Building construction Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox
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man at work in the Chouwara Leather Tannery of Fez, Morocco
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Shaping by hands on a potter's wheel.
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Members of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team backfill a previously excavated unitduring a DPAA recovery mission in Kamp-Bornhofen, Germany, Aug. 5, 2022. During the backfill, members of the recovery team wore high-visibility safety vests in order to make it easier for the excavator operator to see them. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.
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England,Lincolnshire,Grimbsy,National Fishing Heritage Centre Museum,Exhibit of Cod Catch
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Pipeline for hydroelectric power plant
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Peat cutting, peat sods stacked to dry, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe
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Self-sufficient community in Central Brittany. Plelauff, July 2020.Communaute autosuffisante en Centre Bretagne. Plelauff, Juillet 2020.
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Manufacturing brick suburban Antananarivo Madagascar
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South America, Argentina, Province Jujuy, Tilcara. Traditional adobe making (brick making out of soil) for house construction in the North of Argentina
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Aerial view of a dusty quarry where workers and a truck stand amid piles of rocks and earth, Woro River, Klaten Regency, Central Java, Indonesia.
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Maras Salt Mines, Salinas Near Tarabamba In Peru
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Ireland, County Mayo, Agriculture, Peat Cutter At Work
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A male archeologist works with fine tools on the delicate task of restoring and resurecting the ruins at Ephesus; Ephesus, Turkey
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Drawing water from deep well, by cattle. 1950, Middle East
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Africa, Senegal, Dakar. Fulani village, semi-nomadic tribe located along the shores of the Pink Lake of Retba, about 40 miles from Dakar. Mud bricks drying in sun.
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Peat-cutting, Koenigsdorfer Moor, Koenigsdorf, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
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Maras Salt Mines, Salinas Near Tarabamba In Peru
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Clay bricks drying Peru
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Surveyor at work, Temple of Panels, Templo de los Tableros Esculpidos, Chichen Itza, Mayan ruins, Yucatan, Mexico, Central America
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VERMONT MARBLE QUARRY
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Workers at the Karnak Temple Complex, a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings, Luxor, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Marcellus Shale natural gas bearing rock gas extracted using controversial fracking or hydraulic fracturing New York, USA     Date:
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Village of Yên-Thai, surrounded by Hà-Nôi, Tonkin, Indochine A paper oven seen from bias , Léon Busy in Indochina (French - Village de Yên-thai , environs de Hà-nôi , Tonkin , Indochine Un four à papier vu de biais). Rural life, body of water, crafts, oven, Daily life, economic activity, Indochina, Tonkin, Hanoi sending, local industry, paper, paper oven, the same, seen from the other side
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Rhettara canals with well shafts, Morocco, Africa
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India, Ladakh, Thikse , 'Mud Brick Manufacture, Mud Bricks Are The Traditional Material Used For Building In Ladakh. When Regional Government Switched To Concerete For A Time There Was A Backlash From Environmentalists, Resulting In The Reinstatement Of The Mud Brick. '
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Worker carving a statue from a big rock, Marble Mountain, Danang, Vietnam
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Asia, Oman, Dhow under construction at the boat building yard in Sur.
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Road construction at Karakorum Highway by Chinese labourers, working under rough conditions, Gilgit, North West Frontier, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Worker with traditional Litham turban, mining of lead sulphide, border area between Morocco and Algeria, Africa
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Serre di Rapolano, Siena province, Tuscany. Industry of Travertino marble
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Greenland. Denmark
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Open Cast gravel-pumping tin mine Malaya, Malaysia, south east Asia 1964 - Ore separation in the Palong where heavier tin ore accumulates.
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Peat cutting, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe
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old classic salt mining near the sea
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Anonymous / "Salting factory", Centuries I-II.
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Workers at the construction site of the Chua Bai Dinh pagoda, one of the largest pagodas in Southeast Asia, near Ninh Binh, Vietnam, Southeast Asia
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Aerial view of Kohinoor mills demolished for redevelopment at Dadar near Sena Bhavan in Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox
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Sri Lankan laborers build a dhow, the primary boat used by fishermen and merchants in the Persian Gulf area. Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)
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Serre di Rapolano, Siena province, Tuscany. Industry of Travertino marble
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Infographic on coal mines which, during the Industrial Revolution, had to increase production in order to meet demand, which increasingly grew. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians work on the buildup of a movable launch platform for the Project Morpheus lander at the Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF.Testing of the prototype lander has been ongoing at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston in preparation for free flight. The SLF will provide the lander with the kind of field necessary for realistic testing, complete with rocks, craters and hazards to avoid. Morpheus utilizes an autonomous landing and hazard avoidance technology, or ALHAT, payload that will allow it to navigate to clear landing sites amidst rocks, craters and other hazards during its descent. Project Morpheus is one of 20 small projects comprising the Advanced Exploration Systems, or AES, program in NASAs Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. AES projects pioneer new approaches for rapidly developing prototype systems, demonstrating key capabilities and validating operational concepts for future human
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A740782 U12G HYDRA FRAC BILL VOLLENDORF (Project Engineer) SEP 19 74EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 9/19/1974  BOULDERS; CABLES (NON ELECTRIC COMPANY); EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; HYDRA FRAC; HYDRA FRAC TEST; MEASURED; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT & RELATIONSHIP; MEASURING EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; ROCK FORMATIONS; ROCK STRUCTURES; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); RULERS (EXC DRAWING INSTRUMENT; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VOLLENDORF, BILL  historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Replica of a Roman oil mill, at an archaeological site with the remains of an ancient oil mill from the 1st century, where the famous Liburnian olive oil was produced, in the village of Muline, island of Ugljan, Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe