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Potter making a clay vessel on a wheel driven by a labourer turning a crank. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
Wheelwright hammering a metal cover onto a wooden wheel in a yard. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
Woman spinning yarn on a spinning wheel in front of a cottage. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
Gentleman painter with paintbrush in front of an easel in his atelier. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
Watch maker in apron seated at his bench making metal gears. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
Trunk maker making a leather chest in his workshop. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
Wool-comber combing out wool remove short fibres. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
Rope maker twisting rope yarns together on a rope walk while an apprentice turns a wheel to revolve the hook. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades
Tin-plate worker in apron beating tin on an anvil with a mallet surrounded by tin buckets, pots, urns and utensils. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades
A metal worker using a wire-drawing machine to make thin wire. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
English mariner with sextant on a beach in front of a lighthouse and tall ship. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
Some Clerical Types by John Kendal, The Embryo. 1901
Lithographic printing-press 1876Printer and his apprentice, putting on the ink on the pre-made etched stone. Date: 1876
Blacksmith hammering at a lump of metal with a long hammerBlacksmith in his forge hammering at a lump of metal with a long hammer. Date: 1887
Weaving at Spitalfields, England, Industry and IdlenessIndustry and Idleness by William Hogarth, showing weaving at Spitalfields, England, contrasting the discipline of one apprentice with the slovenly behaviour of another. Date: First published 1747
APPRENTICE BRICKLAYERSLondon County Council schoolboy apprentices learning bricklaying. Date: 1930s
BOYS TAUGHT TRADESTwo 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
THE VILLAGE TINKER 1870The village tinker walks along the road looking for business with his young apprentice who is in charge of their donkey. Date: 1870
BOY APPRENTICES, 2 OF 3Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 2 of 3 pictures Date: circa 1890
BOY APPRENTICES, 3 OF 3Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 3 of 3 pictures Date: circa 1890
HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 88. The industrious apprentice has grown rich and become Sheriff of London Date: 1747
Industry: The idle prentice punished5. The idle prentice turnd away and sent to sea (final destination unknown). Date: 1747
Osbornes leapIn 1559, Sir William Hewet (Clothworker) was mayor, whose income is estimated at lb6, 000 per annum. Hewet lived on London Bridge, and one day a nurse playing with his little daughter Anne
Nontron, Dordogne - Blacksmith High School. Date: 1906
Lancashire engineering factory workers including a very young apprentice (front centre). Date: circa 1910s
Ancient Gem Cutter and Apprentice - Sri LankaAncient Gem Cutter with his cutting and polishing tools and (his middle-aged!) Apprentice - Sri Lanka. Date: circa 1908
Freemason InitiationThe initiation of an apprentice Date: 1890s
Skewen Colliery workmen, Glamorgan, South WalesWorkmen and apprentices of the Skewen Colliery repair shop in Glamorgan, South Wales, in a group photograph
TOOTHACHE GARGOYLESThe Dentists Apprentice : This gargoyle, on the church at Monksilver, Somerset, England, looks like it has bad toothache. No wonder, with a mouth like that! Date: Medieval
Temptation by Berthold Genzmer - a young lad with a basket full of porcelain ornaments is tempted to pilfer a slice of sweet pie/cake from his Bakers apprentice friend (balanced carefully on his head)
Blue Print for a fine career, 1960 (c).Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, after Mike Buckley (APD 0222), published by HMSO, 1960 (c).In modernist style on a blue background
An Incident in the Life of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), when as a young man he worked in the printing trade. 1895
RETINNING POTS & PANSThese two young men, wearing protective gloves, are retinning old pots and pans, putting them through a chemical process to remove verdigris (fats and grease) &c Date: 1930s
Window Cleaning GirlsA team of " Georginas", demonstrate the proper way to clean window panes from the inside of an office block while the male window cleaners are away in the army. Date: early 1940s
Thomas Guy / Bookshop / DixoTHOMAS GUY English bookdealer as a young apprentice in his bookshop; he went on to found Guys Hospital, London, in 1722 Date: 1645? - 1724
American Navy apprentice boy sailors on the USS Brooklyn Cruiser, America Date: circa 1900
Apprentice House, Styal, CheshireApprentice House, Styal, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. Date: 1910
A child pretending he is a musician. Illustration published in Harpers Magazine. Engraving
LOUIS IX, Saint Louis, of France (1214-1270). King of France (1226-1270). Depicting the kings life. Gothic art. Miniature Painting
Barrel maker, JapanBarrel maker at work, Japan. Date: circa 1890s
Barrel makers, JapanBarrel makers at work, Japan. Date: circa 1890s
Wynkyn De WordeJAN van WYNKYN DE WORDE printer in London, apprentice to Caxton and his successor Date: ? - 1634
Annie WilsonANNIE WILSON - innkeepers wife and guide to Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh, where she perpetuated such legends as the Apprentices Pillar. Burns wrote a poem in her praise. Date: CIRCA 1780
Girls Learning CarpentryA class of German girls learning carpentry. Date: early 1930s
Andrew Johnson, PresANDREW JOHNSON 17th president of the USA, tailors apprentice who reached the White House only to be impeached for his policies : he was acquitted. Date: 1808 - 1875
Yeni Camii (New Mosque) viewed from Galata Bridge, IstanbulThe Yeni Cami ( New Mosque of the Valide Sultan ) in Constantinople, Turkey. Standing at the Stamboul end of the Galata Bridge
Hue, Vietnam - Bellringer outside Palace Audience ChamberHue, the capital city of Thua ThienHue Province of Vietnam - The bellringer outside one of the Audience Chambers of the Royal Palace and possibly his (very) young apprentice! Date: circa 1910s
Russia - Two Russian Glaziers at work. Date: 1902