Pierre Jamet :: Sieste
des dockers / Dockers’ nap, Barcelona, 1935 / source: l’oeil
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A well to irrigate the fields taking advantage of the system of the seesaw, India, ca. 1960 (Three Lions / Getty Images) / source: ilpost.it
Electric elevator desks in Prague, 1937
/ unknown photographer
Though it looks like something out of Brazil (the movie directed by Terry Gilliam, 1985), these desks were real. The Central Social Institution in Prague was home to the world’s largest vertical file cabinet, with over 3,000 drawers. The desks could move up, down, left, and right at the push of a button. (src: KevlarYarmulke on Reddit)
Ian Berry :: The English, a top-hatted man passes a workman pushing a crate of beer, highlighting Britain’s social contrasts, Ascot, England, 1975
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