Conditions Collection (page 18)

Making Table Forks 1926
Women making table forks at the Souete Generale de Coutellerie, France

Factory Interior 1925
Women working at the Ilford (Essex, England) branch of the Drayton Paper Works

DRAYTONs PAPER 1915
Interior of the Drayton Paper Works, Fulham, Lonodn, showing workers sorting reams of freshly produced paper

Liverpool Picket Line
Strikers at Liverpool picket to prevent strike-breakers

DRAYTONs PAPER 1925
A male worker at the Ilford (Essex, England) branch of the Drayton Paper Works

Pasting Carrier Bags
Women pasting Pontings carrier bags at the Drayton Paper Works, Fulham, London

The Sweeps Home
The sweeps home

Needlewomen / Trayer / Iln
Three industrious needlewomen sit around a table sewing

Dressmakers Work at Home
Dressmakers sit up all night working in poor light to finish their work

Basket Weaving, 1867
Victorian basket weavers at work

Stoneworker, 1867
A Victorian stoneworker in a quarry

Demo. by Waiters 1917
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - Demonstration by waiters for better working conditions

Early Trade Union C1835
Initiation into a TRADE UNION - due to official hostility (unionists were perceived as revolutionaries) the earliest unions conducted themselves like secret societies

Sentinel at Sebastopol
A sentinel of the Zouaves (French) before Sebastopol, while his colleagues forage for firewood - a scene evocative of the harsh conditions of the war

Copper mine at Colcoath, Camborne, Cornwall
A copper mine with men and women at work, at Dolcoath, Camborne, Cornwall

Western Union operating room, New York, USA
The Western Union main operating room at the companys New York offices, showing a front view of the switchboard, the pneumatic message system and the mechanical in-house system

Crossing Sweeper
Boy crossing-sweeper in an elegant district of London

Striking masons meeting in a London pub
A committee meeting of striking masons held in a London pub

Female operator, Howe Bridge, Lancashire
Female operator wiping the flyers in the old section of the Cardroom at Howe Bridge Cotton Spinning Co. Atherton, Lancashire

Female Clerk in china factory
A female clerk at work in a china factory

Snug Winter Quarters a comment on Napoleons claim that weather conditions favour his strategy in Russia

A Winter Gale at Scapa
Blustery winter conditions prevail at Scapa Flow; British warships ride the gale

Trench Conditions 1915
German (left photograph) and British troops (right photograph) struggling to cope with the appalling trench conditions; the British bale water using a giant ladle

Aircraft in Storm
The powerful passenger aircraft of the future will be able to fly in all weather conditions, even a desert sandstorm like this

London Workmen / Dore
London workmen

Builders Wait for Hire
Building Labourers waiting for hire

Women in Coal Mine / 1840
Women working down a Northumbrian mine

Telegraph Boy & Sweeper
Slack! A telegraph boy & a crossing sweeper waiting for work

Messenger Boys / 1913
Messenger boys

Making Machine Parts
A man making machine parts

Wigan Colliery Girls
Two Wigan colliery girls

Crossing Sweeper C. 1860
A crossing sweeper

Too Young to Work 1866
A mother is told that her children are too young to be sent to work

Child Selling Matches
A London street Arab selling matches

Orderly Boy
An orderly boy

Newspaper Boy / C 1905
A newspaper boy

Bradford Wool Worker
A Bradford wool worker working in intense heat

Manchester Mill Girls
Dinner Time. Mill-girls at a Manchester cotton factory

Symbolic Industry Worker
The worker symbolically portrayed

Matchbox Making / London
The whole family, including a number of children, make matchboxes in their home, Bow in Londons east end

Tailors Work in Slum
A group of men, women and children work as tailors in a slum apartment. They sit on the floor of a very bare room to sew

Box Making in London
A little girl helps her mother by carrying the boxes she has just stuck together, while her sister plays on the floor

Women Reeling Thread
Women reeling thread into skeins at J & P Coats, Paisley

Women Winding Yarn 1920
Women winding yarn at J & P Coats, Paisley

Women Twisting Yarn 1920
Women twisting yarn into thread at J & P Coats, Paisley

French Workers Refusal
French workers, hearing of the dreadful working conditions on the Canal, refuse to leave the ship that has brought them to Panama : the Colon police force them to disembark

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