History of Work Information System

[msmcknittington]

I stumbled across this website while looking for pictures of 16th-century milkmaids. It's an encyclopedia of the history of work, and seems to be exclusively European. I haven't run into anything that isn't from Western Europe, yet -- that is, nothing from Russia or Eastern Europe.

There are engravings from the 16th and 17th centuries there, of various professions. For example, this plate by Jost Amman of a cook at work (16th century Germany). I will note that the cook is really, ridiculously burly. Look at his left arm. What the hell, Herr Amman?

Comments

[jayjaybear.livejournal.com]

o/` He's Popeye the Cooking-Man.
He's Popeye the Cooking-Man.
He's strong to the finich,
cause he boils the spinach.
He's Popeye the Cooking-Man... o/`

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

Okay, that plate has the same problem I noticed on several of the Tailor entries-- the description doesn't match the image. Very odd.

But I am bookmarking that site anyway. Tremendously useful.

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Appears to be from Leuven U, which I believe is in the Netherlands. They have a pretty good econ department. This is the list of countries and languages they've coded into the database:

Countries

Belgium
Canada (Quebec)
Denmark
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden

Languages

Catalan
Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Norwegian
Portugese
Spanish
Swedish

So mostly W Europe

[tedeisenstein.livejournal.com]

Huh. That seems to be the same Jost Amman who did the woodcuts for Cleri totius Romanae ecclesiae subjecti, a collection of the garb of 103 religious orders, in 1585, a book I've come across more than once.