Lamp Lighter

Again, this seems so basic that it’s hard to believe it actually existed, but before street lamps were electric, people had to go around lighting and extinguishing them whenever it got dark/light.

Milkman

This job kind of still exists, but it’s more out of convenience rather than out of necessity.

Log driver

Before you could transport logs via a truck, men would guide them down the river like so. Seems so retarded to do it like this, but I guess back then there wasn’t any other option.

Switchboard operator

It’s hard to believe that this was actually a job and was once probably the most important job within a company.

Resurrectionist

These guys were essentially body snatchers. They would dig up graves and then sell the bodies to universities who wanted them for research purposes. Creepy.

Factory Worker Lector

These guys would read to factory workers all day in an effort to provide some form of entertainment – not sure why they needed to be entertained when they were supposed to be working in the factory, but hey.