Conditions Collection (page 5)

BOYS TAUGHT TRADES
Two boys in a workshop at the London School for Mental Defectives: the children are taught trades such as upholstery, carpentry and boot making Date: 1931

TOILERS OF THE SEA / 1873
Fishing boats in a storm Date: 1873

NEWGATE PRISON / COURTYARD
Originally the principal west gate of London, Newgate was the target of Elizabeth Frys efforts to improve prison conditions. The central courtyard & Mrs Frys Gate. Date: 1900

SLEDGE FIRE ENGINE
In places where it is impossible to use a motor fire engine, fire fighting equipment is mounted on sledges. Date: circa 1900

WORKMEN WAITING FOR JOBS
Workmen waiting to be engaged in the place of the Hotel de Ville, Paris. Date: 1869

Milliners at Work
Milliners Date: 19th century

TRADERS AT BILLINSGATE
Traders at Billingsgate fish market auctioning the latest catch. Date: 1870

Culture for working classes
A philanthropic employer who paid his workforces expenses to an art exhibition hears how they visited the tea-gardens instead. Date: 19th century

Butchers Boy
A butchers boy making a delivery. Date: circa 1870

Matchmakers Demo - 1871
THE MATCHMAKERS PROCESSION This demonstration in London against working conditions led to reforms, but also to charges of police brutality Date: May 1871

WOMEN IN FACTORY / 1917
A Frenchwoman working in a factory during World War One. Date: 1917

PREGNANT WORKER / 1907
A pregnant worker is told not to come to work the next day. Date: 1907

Occupation - Costermonger
London characters: costermonger Date: circa 1870

FRENCH MINERS STRIKE
Striking French miners process through the Pas de Calais. Date: 1906

Northern Strike 1846
Strikers in Liverpool in a picket line to prevent strike- breakers. Date: 1846

DELIVERY BOY C 1910
An errand boy in a snowball ambush. Date: circa 1910

Shoeblacks - 1883
Shoeblacks Date: 1883

Mill Girls Lectured
Dr Baker talks to a group of Yorkshire factory girls, exhorting them to save money for marriage Date: 1856

Errand Girl - circa 1905
An errand girl Date: circa 1905

DEAN MILLS / LANCASHIRE
The doubling room at Dean Mills, Lancashire, a cotton mill. Date: 1851

GIRL SEWS / NEW YORK / 1872
A girl sews by candlelight in her apartment while a man drinks at the table and another person lies (ill?) in bed in the same room. Date: 1872

Cartoon, dressmaker at work
Cartoon, a dressmaker works by lamplight at a table. Her work hangs around her as she sews in poor light. Date: 1870

Matchbox making, London 1890
A woman making matchboxes at a table in her home. Date: 1890

Matchbox maker in London
A good days work A London matchbox maker surveys the pile of matchboxes she has just made. Date: 1890

MATCHBOX MAKING / EAST END
Two children watch their mother making matchboxes at the table at home in the east end of London. Date: 1896

FAMILY WORKS AT HOME
Diligence - all the family at work; spinning and drawing

PLUCKING RABBIT FUR 1895
Women working at home pulling fur from rabbit skins to stuff beds. Date: 1895

Chimneysweeps - 1804
Chimneysweeps for hire! Date: 1804

BOY CROP-MINDER
This boy is supposed to keep animals away from the crops by blowing his horn, but alas, he has allowed the cow to go into the meadow and the sheep into the cornfield ! Date: circa 1860

Unhairing a goatskin at a leather factory, south London 1842
Workman unhairing a goatskin (removing the hairs with the edge of a knife) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Staking tawed leather at a leather factory, south London
Workman staking tawed leather (stretching, smoothing and softening) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Drawing goatskins at a leather factory, south London
Two men drawing goatskins at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. The process involves repeatedly soaking the skins in a solution of lime and water over a number of weeks

Leather splitting machine at a leather factory, south London
Man operating a leather splitting machine (used for splitting one skin into two thinner skins) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

BOY APPRENTICES, 2 OF 3
Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 2 of 3 pictures Date: circa 1890

BOY APPRENTICES, 3 OF 3
Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 3 of 3 pictures Date: circa 1890

Wigan Colliery Lasses
Colliery lasses of Wigan Date: 1900

FRENCH CHIMNEYSWEEP
A French chimneysweep walks through the streets calling his trade : the caption calls him a type that is disappearing Date: 1907

SCHOUTEN EXPLORING
The exploring journey of Wouter Schouten in the East Indies - a contemporary appraisal of life and conditions Date: 1676

Street sweeper 1863
Young barefoot boy sweeping the streets for some money. Date: 1863

Trapper seated 1867
TRAPPER AND PUTTERS A small boy opens and closes the trapdoor while another child pushes a laden wagon along a narrow gallery. Date: 1867

Boy - Girls in Belgium
BELGIUM Women, girl and boy workers at the Charbonnages du Trieu- Kaisin, Viviers Date: 1911

Rolling cigars by hand at Copes factory, Liverpool
Hand-rolling cigars at Copes factory in Liverpool. Date: 1891

Sending a message over the tickertape circuit
A woman sending a message containing coffee quotations over the tickertape telegraph circuit. Date: 1891

Imaginary life forms on the planet Jupiter -- living with gravity more than twice that of Earth, with atmospheric conditions to match, imposes severe restrictions on them. Date: 1940

Making tar in the forests of Sweden
The process of making tar in the forests of Sweden. Date: 1819

Dustman and cart collecting refuse
The dustman calls out to householders to bring out their refuse, while his mate tips the buckets into the cart. Date: circa 1840

Construction of sewer at Peckham, south east London
Construction of the high-level southern sewer at Peckham, south east London. Date: 1861

Child labour, clerk for a lawyer
Lawyers clerk, France Date: 1841

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