Mar 6, 2010

The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations



(NPR) As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs. Continued

Image: A "Reader" in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers at top of his voice all day long. 1909, Lewis Hine/Library of Congress via Firecured.

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