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Poster, Keep on Saving, Salute the Soldier. Encouraging people to save money and help the war effort. 1940s
Poster seeking women for the ATS and WaFPoster seeking women to join the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) and WaF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) -- full information at the nearest recruiting centre or your employment exchange
Poster advertising wartime savings -- Salute the Soldier -- to help support the war effort. The soldier is given a movable arm to indicate the total raised to date. 1940s
Women War Work - WWIA nurse cares for a wounded soldier - WWI. A card series examining the role women played during the war. Doing their Date: circa 1916
Wartime poster, conservation of wheat for war effortWartime poster recommending the conservation of wheat. Think!! For every 100, 000 tons of wheat saved by economy 28, 000 troops can be rationed and transported from America. Eat one loaf a week less
Wartime poster, War Savings Are Warships, encouraging people to save more to help the war effort. Showing four warships at sea. 1940s
Wartime poster, Keep On SavingWartime poster, Our Part for Victory, Keep On Saving. Showing how peoples savings help support the war effort. 1940s
Cycling in Lakeland If you cycle in Lakeland you ll find on the whole its a mixture of pushing and losing control !! circa 1920s
Test your StrengthA man tests his punch at a fairground sideshow, while some impressed onlookers gather round to watch. Date: 1950s
Commandeered - postcard by Lawson WoodCommandeered - A postcard by Lawson Wood showing two solid-looking British soldiers commandeering a (now very upset) young lads toy horse
People on deck during a sea trip, South WalesA group of people -- guests and crew -- on the deck of the good ship Effort, during a sea trip, probably off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales
Breaking ground for a new settlement - ChiosTriumphal Greeks Arch for the ceremony around the breaking of the ground for the construction of a new village on the Island of Chios, at this point under Ottoman Turkish control
Bones Make Explosives - World War II posterWorld War Two poster encouraging civilians on the Home Front to save all bones for salvage as they can be made into bombs for the war effort
Argentina - Buenos Aires - Monument to Toil & LabourCanto al Trabajo - A Hymn/Song/Homage to Toil and Labour (!) - the masterpiece sculpture (commissioned in 1907) by sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia (1879 - 1950) at Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bones Wanted for Salvage - World War II posterMinistry of Information poster during World War Two encouraging people to save bones for salvage
Marshall Britannia Boiler transported - IndiaThe transportation of a Marshall Britannia boiler across the Indian countryside by a vast team of oxen and men. Many thousands of portable steam engines were made between the 1840s and 1920s
WW2 - Aircraft manufacture in AustraliaThe Australian aircraft manufacture industry during World War Two. It took the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation 16 months to produce its first 100 Wirraway machines
Spitfire Factory WWIIA woman making Spitfire parts on her machine in a Spitfire aircraft factory during World War II
Metal Collection WWIICollection depot for aluminium pots and pans outside Boro Hall in Brooklyn, America during World War II
Sand bags WWIIMrs. Storer and family stop to watch excavators at work in Hyde Park, London, digging earth for sand bags during World War II
Animal rescue squad WWIIWomen of the Animal Rescue Squad saving a cat from the rubble during World War II
Parcels for the troops WWIIA customer and shop assistant pack a parcel to go to the British troops in France during World War II
Women washing an ambulance WWIIWomen washing an ambulance as part of the war effort during World War II
Army Comforts Depot WWIIWomen working in the Army Comforts Depot where gifts are packed and despatched to British troops during World War II
Munitions Factory WWIIAn enormous Naval gun being lowered into a heated tube for tempering at a munitions factory during World War II
Wartime Vauxhall ProductionMilitary Bedford vehicles line the roads waiting for shipping from the Vauxhall Factory in Luton during World War II
War Effort WWIIA bomb making factory showing the production of bombs in the machine room during World War II
Home Guard WWIIA member of the Home Guard working as a Press Operator on a 250 ton press as part of the war effort on the home front during World War II
Royal visit to ammunition factoryKing George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit an ammunition factory in Birmingham doing their bit for the war effort during World War II
Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (1 / 4)World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings
Beet pulling, World War IWomen beet pulling for the war effort during World War I
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White HouWinston Churchill, British Prime Minister and Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President, at a press conference at the White House following their historic meeting to discuss the Allied war effort
Tram Driver in World War IFemale tram driver in Scotland during World War I
Gardener and Baker of the Womens Auxilary Army CorpDoing Their Bit. Gardener and Baker of the Womens Auxilary Army Corp during the First World War
Everybody Can HelpTwo rather effeminate young men, obviously not cut out to be soldiers, instead help the war effort by knitting for the troops, while smoking rather a lot
Great Scot, Some GrowthA comment on the impressive growth of contribution by Canada to the Allied effort during World War I. The towering Canadian soldier here is a symbol of numerical force
The Railway Girl by Fred TaylorA woman working as a railway porter during World War I, part of a series painted by Taylor for The Bystander entitled, " Carrying On" showing women adopting a variety of traditionally male
Women factory workers wearing respiratory-veilsA group of female factory workers wearing respiratory-veils and carrying a banner. The photograph was taken during a procession in London in July 1916 celebrating the many different roles of women in
Women railway portersPhotograph showing two women railway porters in 1915. As World War I progressed, women began to work in traditionally male jobs as part of the war effort
Wolseley Motors now a shell factoryThe chassis test-shop of Wolseley Motors Ltd. At Adderley Park near Birmingham transformed into a shell factory. As World War I progressed
Scottish girls making shellsFemale munitions workers in Scotland depicted in an illustration by A. C. Michael. As it became clear there would be no decisive swift victory for either side in World War I
England vs. Scotland Football Match, 1901Illustration of the England vs. Scotland Football Match on 30th March 1901, showing Blackburn of England (front left of image, on floor) scoring the first goal of the game
American Civil war. The Fight at Balls Bluff, Upper PotomacDesperate effort made by the 15th Massachusetts regiment to clear the woods by a bayonet charge. From a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly
Refuelling a SteamshipA large group of Japanese workers unloading coal from traditional boats and carrying it at great effort up rope ladders onto a steam liner at Nagasaki Harbour, Japan
Phillipss Toilet AquariusAn advertisement from 1891 for Phillipss Toilet Aquarius, a new water container for wash stands where...no muscular effort required
Police Officers / BlitzDust-covered police officers help with the rescue effort in the bombed areas of London during World War II
Murat to CorsicaJoachim Murat switches sides on news of Napoleons return from Elba, sailing to Corsica in a doomed effort to establish Italian independence
Astronaut Walter SchirraWALTER SCHIRRA One of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, Americas first effort to put men in space