Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…BODY ERECTOR:

"a carpenter who fits together wooden parts of aeroplane body, or fuselage, and secures them by glueing and riveting, or with screws; also fits wires and stays."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Female carpentry unit making fuselage components, c.1915-20 c/o Library of Congress

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…COALHEUCHAR:

Scots term for a man who worked at a coal-heuch or coal-pit, extracting coal from a bank or coal-face.

📷 Coal miners underground, 19thC c/o Wellcome Collection #history

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…UNIVERSITY CONSTABLE:

"patrols streets in neighbourhood of university; arrests students for specified misdemeanours; works under direction of Proctor, to whom all evidence is submitted."

Dict of Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 'The Brawling Student' (1725) c/o Wikimedia Commons #history

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…MEWS MANAGER:

"in charge of livery stables, is responsible to cab proprietor/livery stable keeper for control of staff, safe custody of horses & safe storage of fodder & litter used in stables; supervises grooms & ensures that horses are regularly fed and exercised...examines sick horses, either gives medicine himself or calls in vet..."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Livery stables c/o Wikimedia Commons #history

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…MESS-ROOM MAID:

"lays table, serves food, clears away; scrubs floor of staff messroom, cleans brasses and paint; cleans cutlery and sometimes washes dishes."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 'The Gourmand' by Rowlandson, c/o Wikimedia Commons #history

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…COIL WINDER or ARMATURE BANDER:

"secures [electronic] coils in position by binding with tape or string, and binds structure of finished armature with wire, or otherwise, to give mechanical strength; also secures band thus produced by soldering."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Wire-soldering worker (1942), c/o Library of Congress #history

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...BLOCKING DRESSER or QUARRY MASON:

"with hammer and chisels prepares stone to leave quarry, except such kinds as require dressing; works chiefly on beams or girder blocks, coping, quoins, and other kinds of stone used in engineering constructional work."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Die Steineklopfer (1849) by Gustave Courbet, c/o Wikimedia Commons #history

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…OIL REFINERY FLOOR MAN:

"sweeps up and keeps clean floors of oil refinery."

Dict of Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Oil refinery (1939) c/o NYPL #history

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…GARMENT INSPECTOR:

"examines and supervises work during process and on completion; returns defective work for correction; often books out work to operatives and does other clerical work, e.g. control of wages sheets; in some trades, may also finish garments"

Dict of Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Garment factory, c.1935-1942 c/o NYPL #history

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…BARNMAN:

An agricultural worker who threshed the crop; alternative name for a "thresher".

Dict. Scots Lang. (2005)
📷 Barnmen or threshers, Indiana (1936) c/o NYPL #history