Employed Collection (page 2)

Convicts being searched, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area. This view shows prison officers searching convicts on their return from work

Quarries, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area. This view shows small groups of men cutting stone by hand while prison

Turnspit Dog Type
A turnspit dog depicted when not turning a spit : but this engraving shows the type of dog that was employed for this purpose

Match Makers
The Match Makers of the East End. The match-making industry employed mainly female workers and came to prominence in 1888 during the match-making strike when, led by Annie Besant

Mumtaz-I-Mahal
MUMTAZ-I-MAHAL favourite wife of emperor Shah Jahan : when she died, he employed 20, 000 craftsmen to construct the Taj Mahal in her memory (1630 - 1653)

?Ko-i-Staun Foot Soldiery in Summer Costume, Actively employed among the Rocks?. One of 30 coloured lithographs, from the series

Quad tractors with women drivers posing by cabs
Photograph of Quad tractors with women drivers posing by cabs.One of 7 photographs relating to the trades in which Auxiliary Territorial Service personnel were employed, 1939-1945. Date: 1939

Method Employed in Colour Decoration of Plate Rims, Belleek Potteries - an interior shot showing a woman decorating a plate rim. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Fermanagh: Belleek)

Myanmar - Yangon - Elephants moving timber Date: 1906

Three men in the gardens of Quex House, with saw
Three men are standing in the garden of Quex House. One is holding a long saw. The man on the left is in civilian clothes and may have been employed at Quex Park

Three men standing by wooden escape ladder at Quex
Three men are standing by an extendable wooden ladder. Two of the men are wearing the patients uniform of hospital blues but the trousers only

Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice
Lord EDMOND GEORGE FITZMAURICE Statesman employed in the Foreign Office. Date: 1846 - 1935

Stamping Clay by Foot
This method of stamping clay by foot was still employed as late as the 1930s for making the large pots used for melting glass - the method used by the Ancient Britons. Date: 17 February 1933

Simon Bosboom
SIMON BOSBOOM German architect and sculptor, born in Emden, employed by the Elector of Brandenburg, worked in the Netherlands. Date: 1614 - 1670

John of Capistrano
ST JOHN OF CAPISTRANO Franciscan monk, much employed in diplomacy : in 1456 he helped to defend Belgrade against the Turks. Date: 1386 - 1456

Dogs Help Smugglers
Dogs are employed by smugglers to carry contraband goods across the Belgian border. Date: 1902

Guitar on its Own
A six-stringed instrument, usually used as a solo instrument or to accompany a singer, but occasionally employed in an orchestra. Date: 1897

Chinese Merchant Ship
A Chinese merchants Lorchas ship employed in the Canton River. Date: 1857

Women Compositors
Women compositors, employed by the Society for the Employment of Women Date: 1888

Popular Healer
Madeleine, born in 1827, employed in a French chateau near Amiens, acquires a wide reputation for her healing skills based on old wives tales and traditions Date: circa 1880

Chaucer / Phillips
GEOFFREY CHAUCER English poet, writer of The Canterbury Tales, also employed as a diplomat and customs officer Date: 1340 - 1400

Tachikawa Ki-55 Ida -employed as standard Army basic trainer, replacing Ki-9

Junkers Ju 88A -while used mainly for horizontal bombing, the type could be employed as an anti-shipping dive bomber

Junkers J10 or CLI employed corrogated metal skinning throughout

Female lift attendant at a West End business, WW1
" Men must fight, and women must work." A woman lift attendant at a business in London in 1915. 1915

Firemen at Battersbys hatworks were obviously employed in house, and despite the equipment being satisfactory, when a fire broke out in 1906 there was insufficient water pressure in the mains to be

Women at a car mechanics class, WW1
Women at a school in London established by Gabrielle Borthwick (daughter of the late Baron Borthwick) where driving and mechanics were taught during the First World War

Women Gardeners at Windsor, WW1
One of the four women gardeners employed at Windsor Castle during the First World War, pictured opening the top-lights in the glass-houses

Dickins & Jones First World War advertisement
Advertisement for Dickins and Jones, the department store in Regent Street, London, advertising their rich, brocaded crepe shirts

Lady Cowdray with one of her lady gardeners
Lady Cowdray, a strong supporter of the Womens Land Council, seen with one of the many lady gardeners who was employed on her large estate at Cowdray Park, Midhurst during the First World War

Soldiers released by the War Office for land 1917
Helping to feed the nation: Convalescents ploughing hospital ground; a farm party. Upper photograph, shows convalescent soldiers at a hospital in one of the home countries

Filling in ration books
Girls employed to fill in ration books with names and other information before being distributed to the British population in 1939. Date: 1939

Women workers for WWI
400, 000 women were employed by the Ministry of Munitions in 1916, theses women came from France and England and more were required to keep up with the demand. Date: 1916

Home of Paulding
The home of James Kirke PAULDING, American writer who employed the nom-de-plume Launcelot Langstaffe, esq. Date: 1857

Madame Delfaus school of carpet making - Algiers, Algeria
Children employed at Madame Delfaus school of carpet making at 84 Boulevard Valee, Algiers, Algeria, North Africa. Date: circa 1906

Actor delighted to receive news of well paid role
Theatrical Appointment - Ten Quid a week. An actor delighted to receive news of his forthcoming lucrative contract! Date: 1892

Arrested for wearing a corset advertising placard
" Why pick on me, officer? Its my guv nors idea!" A policeman is not sympathetic to the protestations of the beardy gentleman employed to parade in front of a Drapers shop wearing a corset

Prints for the people A national exhibition of prints made by artists employed by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration

Women in industry. Tool production. Inspecting thousands of drills each day, women employed by a large Midwest drill and tool company must learn to detect the tiniest flaw in these vital machine

Captain Hughes, lately employed on special service in Circassia (he brought the important intelligence to the Allies at Kertch of the fall of Anapa)

Young Cigarmakers in Englahardt & Co. Tampa, Fla. There boys looked under 14. Work was slack and youngsters were not being employed much

Bowling Alleys, connected with Geo. P. Grays, Bastable Caf on Genesee St. About 8 very small boys employed here. Work until midnight. Photo taken at 11:30 PM Location: Syracuse, New York (State)

A little spinner in Globe Cotton Mill. Augusta, Ga. The overseer admitted she was regularly employed. Location: Augusta, Georgia. Date 1909 January

C. & NW RR, Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Date 1943 April. C. & NW RR, Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

School of carpet making, Algiers
Children employed at Madame Delfaus school of carpet making at 84 Boulevard Valee, Algiers, Algeria, North Africa. Date: 20th century

BRIGHTON QUEEN
A paddle steamer employed for holiday excursions. Date: 1934

Steamship Samaria
Passenger liner of the Cunard White Star line, employed as a troopship in World War One. Date: circa 1915

Kitchen and inmates, Portland Prison, Dorset
A kitchen or cook-house at Portland Prison, Dorset. Inmates in arrow-patterned uniforms stand in front of a row of large steam-heated cooking coppers

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