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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
Cricket Illustrated - Run Out! A rather sozzled gent is escorted from the premises (a Music Hall) by the doorman. His helpful Junior understudy follow behind with the wobbly chaps overcoat
Baroness Rudoleine von Simolin an apprentice at KronfeldsBaroness Rudoleine von Simolin, an apprentice at Kronfelds factory in Hanwell, alongside Kronfeld Drone de Luxe, G-AEEN
Freemasonry Assembly to receive the Masters (18th c.). Etching. SPAIN. Madrid. National Historical Archive of Madrid
Courtesan watching a young apprentice in bed. Print shows a courtesan watching a young female student in bed with a client. Date between 1768 and 1771
Masters chart. Entered apprentice
A courtesan and her apprentice (Shinzo). Print shows a courtesan, full-length, sitting, holding a brush for painting or writing, with an apprentice. Date between 1774 and 1777
Bootmakers in CyprusMaking traditional Cypriot heavy boots in Cyprus Date: circa 1910s
Female Initiation - 1A female candidate is initiated as an Apprentice, crossing a see-saw which symbolises the danger of the faux-pas. Date: 1891
Brush MakingYoung brushmakers knotting bristles after dipping them in pitch, Leicestershire, England. Date: 1950s
Apprentice BlacksmithsBoys, apprentices, learning how to be blacksmiths. Date: early 1930s
Franco-British Exhibition - White City - Young PotterThe Franco-British Exhibition - White City - A Young indigenous Algerian Potter - from the Ceramic School of M. Soupireau. Date: circa 1910s
Apprentice cabinet maker, Shoreditch, LondonAn apprentice learning his trade at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. c.1947
Kirchner Girl Circa 1913Parisian milliners apprentice delivering a new hat wears a short narrow skirt with a buttoned split at the side, Louis heel shoes, blouse with tie & a square, brimless hat. Date: circa 1913
Apprentice ReceivedAn apprentice is ceremonially received into a French Lodge by the Master Date: 1890s
Girl Takes Doll to ShopA young girl takes her doll to a carpentry shop and asks them if they would mend her doll, whose head has fallen off. Date: 1879
Child labour in a tailorTailors apprentice, France 1841
Child labour in carpenters shopCarpenters apprentice, France 1841
Boy pushing coal wagon in mine at Halifax, YorkshireA boy with a belt and chain around his waist pushes a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire
Boy dragging coal wagon with belt and chain in mineA boy with a belt and chain around his waist drags a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire
Hiltons Shoe Company StoreHiltons Shoe Company. The Branch Manager and his young employee stand outside the shop, which has taken direct branding to a new level - preventing even the casual passer-by from ever forgetting
A Trainee SignalmanA trainee signalman operates the junctions on a model railway as part of his training. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
The Yeni Cami MosqueThe Yeni Cami ( New Mosque of the Valide Sultan ) in Constantinople, Turkey. Standing at the Stamboul end of the Galata Bridge
Female ApprenticeA female apprentice is inducted into one of the French lodges which admit the existence of women and accept them as Co-Masons
Thomas GuyBorn in 1644, Guy completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament. He moved to London and spent eight years as a booksellers apprentice
Thomas Guys tombThe tomb of Thomas Guy in the chapel at Guys hospital. Born in 1644, he completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament
The London Apprentice a fine old Georgian inn overlooking the River Thames at Isleworth, Middlesex, England
C17 ChimneysweepA chimney sweep and his apprentice, who was sent up the chimney
Apprentice Miners / 1966Apprentice miners being trained in Derbyshire
Paper Factory ApprenticeA young apprentice and fellow workers at the Drayton Paper Works, Fulham, London
Back to the GrindstoneA grinder and his assistant sharpening knives or other tools on a grindstone
SHOEMAKERs SHOP 1875A shoemaker and shoe repairers shop and workshop, with two well-heeled lady customers admiring a display of shoes and boots
A Farrier at work, WorcestershireA Farrier at work, fitting a shoe to a large working horse, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd
Racial / Japan / Girl / GeishaA girl (possibly an apprentice geisha) sitting in an elaborate and heavy kimono
London Coster / ScrapA London costerman, balancing a basket of fruit on his head, calls out to attract trade; his apprentice rides a carrot- chewing mule laden with more produce
C16th HattersTwo hatters and an apprentice are involved in some of the various processes involved in hatmaking
Window Cleaning GirlGeorgina, replaces the male window cleaner whilst he is in the army during World War Two. She wears an apron, a ladder on her shoulder and a bucket over her capable arm
Sorcerers ApprenticeThe Sorcerers Apprentice : " and then there came another splash from overhead"
Apprentice IndentureIndenture, whereby Charles Midwinter junior is bound apprentice to John Anthony Gray, London stationer, for seven years. Gaming and taverns are discouraged
Tycho Brahe / ApprenticeTycho Brahe as an apprentice at Leipzig
Hogarth / Industry / Idle 44. The industrious apprentice a favourite and entrusted by his master
Hogarth / Industry / Idle 33. The idle apprentice gambling in the churchyard during Divine Service
Ambroise Pare SurgeonAmbroise Pare, French surgeon (1510-1590) Began his career as an apprentice barber-surgeon in Paris