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

[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.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

There are a few others where the text doesn't seem to match up with the image either, but the source is cited if you look at the extended version. This one appears to be a book about Bramer's drawings, who is a completely different artist working in an entirely different century, in a different country. Very strange.

I wish they had an image search, but of course they don't.

ETA: They do, sort of. Uh, go me!