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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...PYROTECHNIST:

"general term for persons engaged in making fireworks, mixing compositions for explosive or coloured effects, assembling, wrapping, attaching instructions."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Rocket manufacture by hand, c/o @WikiCommons@twitter.com

oday's #OccupationOfTheDay is...PYROTECHNIST:

"general term for persons engaged in making fireworks, mixing compositions for explosive or coloured effects, assembling, wrapping, attaching instructions."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
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📷 Rocket manufacture by hand, c/o Wikimedia Commons

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...HOOKING BOY or PULLING-UP BOY:

A wireworks labourer who "arranges loops of wire on rolling mill floor to keep them from spreading about after rolling process."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Reeling wire in a wireworks, 1939, c/o @librarycongress@twitter.com

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Have you ever realized how badly you needed something only after you discovered it for the first time? That's the way I feel about these #OccupationOfTheDay posts. I love them!!

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...CREELER (textiles):

"places bobbins full of yarn, or of rovings, on creel of spinning, winding, warping, or other machine or of loom; often also removes empty bobbins"

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Creeler, 1937 c/o @WikiCommons@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...FAIR STITCHER:

"a sewer who specialises in 'fair stitching,' on a sewing machine, a row of stitches round welt of Blake-sewn boot or shoe, giving appearance of welt-sewn work."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Shoe factory,1916, c/o @librarycongress@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...CAGE PRESSMAN:

"a seed crushing pressman who operates cage presses in which he crushes seeds to extract oil in cold-drawn process."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Pressman operating a cotton seed press, Texas, 1939 c/o @librarycongress@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...BABIES' ATTENDANT:

"washes & dresses babies and young children in poor law institution; serves food, feeds by hand or bottle if necessary; reports ailments to Matron..."

Dict Occp'l Terms (1927)
📷 Boys, Crumpsall workhouse, c.1895, @WikiCommons@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...ARTESIAN BORER or WELL DRILLER:

"drills holes for artesian wells with special machine drill; erects [machinery] where drilling will take place..."

Dict Occp'l Terms (1927)
📷 Artesian well drilling, Utah, 1909 c/o @librarycongress@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...SAWYER's RUBBING BED HAND:

"a mason's labourer who rubs surface of sawn stone with a piece of harder stone, sand, and water to give it a smooth surface."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 19thC stonemasons c/o @librarycongress@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...SAWYER's RUBBING BED HAND:

"a mason's labourer who rubs surface of sawn stone with a piece of harder stone, sand, and water to give it a smooth surface."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 19thC stonemasons c/o @librarycongress@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...TAPSTER:

A term dating back to medieval times, for a person who served ale in an inn, tavern, or taphouse.

📷 Tapster pouring ale for visitors to a taphouse, c/o @ExploreWellcome@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...FUSTER:

A medieval term for a craft worker in wood, who made wooden frames for saddle-horns.

📷 Stock saddle with saddlehorn, c/o @librarycongress@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...CHAUCER:

"Made coverings for legs (hose) and feet (footwear) of leather or cloth."

Medieval Londoners Occ'l List
📷 "Costume of the 13th Century" c/o @WikiCommons@twitter.com

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...SHANKER or PRAWN FISHERMAN:

"gets prawns with hand net among rocks at low water, or with prawn nets or trawl nets from boats."

Dict of Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 "The Prawn Fishers" c/o @ExploreWellcome@twitter.com

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Sophie's #OccupationOfTheDay. Riveting as always.

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...RIVETING MACHINIST or MACHINE RIVETER:

"a riveter who controls head of riveting machine; holds hammer against rivet end and applies power to hammer by pressing trigger lever."

Dict of Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Machine riveter, 1942

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...MESS CATERER or MESS CONTRACTOR:

"undertakes to supply provisions or meals on a large scale at a fixed price, for messes of various kinds."

Dict of Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Cotton mill canteen, 1945 c/o Ministry of Information

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...BRAZIER:

"joins together parts of [metal] articles by brazing or hard soldering; cleans surfaces to be joined: heats parts with gas flame and blow pipe, applies flux... smooths joint with file or on emery wheel"

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)

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Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...MILKER:

"milks cows, carries milk to dairy, cools it and packs it in cans."

Dict of Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Member of the Women's Land Army carries out milking, WW1 c/o Imperial War Museum

@ScientistSoph I have been religiously sharing your #OccupationOfTheDay posts from the #Birdsite everyday at https://www.ancestorian.com/ where they are also appreciated but, as I am trying to move away from there, it is good to see them here too.