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25 Vintage Photos Of Workers And Employees In The Past

Two images from the 1900s.

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Published May 26, 2025

Published May 26, 2025

There are some jobs these days that didn't exist in the past, and vice versa. Of course, all of the technology-related jobs, and jobs involving coding, computers, etcetera, did not exist in the 1900s. There are some careers, though, that were available in those years, and are no longer needed. People have been working different jobs for thousands of years now, but how working looks has changed a lot. It's interesting to see some of the more vintage jobs.

Back then, everything was as far from paperless as it could get. Everything had to be handwritten, hand drawn, and calculated on paper. There were people needed to do jobs like lighting lampposts and resetting bowling pins. These days those things are done by machines, they are jobs someone wouldn't even think of now.

Here we have collected 25 images of what it looked like to be an employee or a worker back in the day. Enjoy looking back at how people got by and how society functioned just a few decades ago.

Job hunting in the 1930s

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An interview in 1940

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Working at Dunkin' Donuts in 1979

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Men waiting in line for a job, 1930s

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Jobs, jobs, jobs, 1960s

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The 'Time Lady', 1930s, her job was to give the correct time all day long

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Factory workers, 1929

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A job seeker, 1938

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Secretaries, 1956

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An analyst in a lab, 1950s

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Kids working as pinsetters, 1909

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A woman at her job, 1952

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A woman whose job it was to wake up workers, 1900s

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Working at Esso, 1953

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Grape stomping for wine, 1957

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A Greyhound driver, mid-1900s

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Ice cutters, so people could use the ice in their cellars and fridges

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Before radar, troops used acoustic mirrors and listening devices to detect approaching aircrafts

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Rat catchers

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Lamp lighters

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Painting the Golden Gate Bridge, 1956

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Librarians delivering books on horseback, 1930s

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Piggly Wiggly supermarket, 1950s

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A woman at a bakery, 1957

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1950s makeup counter clerks

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