Jobs Collection (page 9)

Lady chauffeur costume from Dunhills, WW1
A tailored suit of velvet Persian skin with hat to match for the lady chauffeur obtained from Dunhill s. Date: 1916

Women farm workers 1917
First World War women farm workers, sorting potatoes into sizes to be sent to London. Date: 1917

Woman bus conductor during WWI
Woman bus conductor wearing uniform standing at the open rear platform, in World War One. Date: 1916

Woman firefighter during WWI
Woman firefighter photographed here wearing unform and holding a hose, during World War One. Date: 1916

Women working at Army Remount Depot, WW1
Soldiers places taken up by ladies from the hunting field at an Army Remount Depot. Two girls here shown mucking out the stables. Date: 1916

A woman chauffeur, WW1
A Miss Webber, the first motor cab driver to be trained and employed by a London cab company due to the shortage of male drivers

Girl golf caddy, WW1
A girl golf caddy at Sandy Lodge golf course during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women brewery workers, WW1
Women employees at work cleansing a vat in one of the Burton-on-Trent breweries during the First World War. Date: 1916

A female hat shop porter, WW1
A lady porter at a hat shop in Regent Street, looking extremely smart in her uniform. Just one of the jobs women did in place of men who had joined up to fight during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women as war-time firemen in their bunks
Members of the Womens Volunteer Reserve in bunks at the Holborn Union Workhouse for aged women, due to being in attendance day and night for duty. Date: 1916

Assembling fuses 1916
Munition workers in World War One, packing fuse heads. 1916

The Womens Legion & Army Waste, WW1
Women inspecting copper vats filled with boiling soup, involved in a scheme originated by Lady Londonderry to lessen waste in camp kitchens

Wartime ferrywoman, WW1
A wartime ferrywoman at work on an English tidal river, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Lady billposters, WW1
Some of the twenty women employed by a large London billposting firm during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women working at convalescent remount depot, WW1
Scenes at a convalescent army remount, where forty to fifty hunting women were employed. The depot was under the District Remount Officer for Berkshire

Women training in aeroplane construction, WW1
In workshops provided by the London Society for Womens Suffrage women are trained in aeroplane construction. They are pictured using acetylene blow-pipes for welding metal parts. Date: 1915

A lady prompter at a London theatre during First World War
Women stage hands at the Kingsway - a lady prompter. As the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News reports, The lighter side of work behind the stage is being done now by women at the Kingsway Theatre

Women working on a tobacco farm, Norfolk, WW1
Women workers gathering the harvest on the tobacco farm at Methwold, Norfolk in 1915. Picture 1 shows them tying and looping tobacco to be placed on stays

A Facer by Wilmot Lunt
An ex-WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) worker asks her pretty friend who is still in uniform and acting as a driver, I wonder why they demobbed me before you? Don t you, Maude. Date: 1919

Carrying On - The W. A. A. C. Girl WWI womens roles
A girl in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps during World War One. Date: 1918

Carrying On - The Whitehall Girl WWI womens roles
A female clerk working at Whitehall during World War One. Date: 1918

Abdulla Cigarette advert featuring Maisie the Munition Worke
One of a series of advertisements for Abdulla cigarettes featuring various girls in typical roles during World War One. Here is Maisie the Munitions Worker. Date: 1918

Rusticating with the Land Girl by Leonard P. Dowd
A page of sketches showing various activities of the Womens Land Army during the First World War including ploughing, threshing

Elizabeth Ltd Clothing advertisement, 1918
Advertisement for Elizabeth Ltd of South Molton Street, London featuring an illustration of a picturesque old English floral smock - just the thing to wear while bringing in the harvest when the men

Miss Gowing the hockey player as farm labourer, WW1
Miss M. G. Gowing, of the Norfolk Ladies hockey team, releasing men for the war, by working on an Essex farm during the First World War. Date: 1916

Woman war-time window-cleaner, WW1
A girl window cleaner dressed in khaki jacket and trousers during the First World War. Date: 1915

Women picking fruit in Kent during World War One, 1916
Female fruit-pickers in the fruit gardens and orchards of Evesham, picking strawberries and gooseberries to be made into jam for British troops; just one of the traditionally male roles taken over by

No Objection Taken - womens war work, 1916
A page of sketches of mans work the men want the women to want, a humorous (and slightly chauvinistic) comment on the traditionally male jobs taken by women during the First World War. 1916

Our Women in War Time - ladies looking after army remounts
Page from The Tatler reporting on the ladies of Berkshire who, under the generalship of Mr Cecil Aldin, South Berks (famous sporting & animal artist as well as Master of the Foxhounds)

A land-girls dress
An example of work-on-land dress available from Shoolbreds of Tottenham Court Roadbuilt entirely out of bronze khaki drill, made of a three quarter length smock coat

A land girl by Helen McKie
A member of the Womens Land Army, dressed bucolically n a smock and sun hat to work in the fields during the First World War. Date: 1918

London street vendors in silhouette
Two London street vendors, one of whom seems to be selling some kind of toy. Date: 1926

Land girls in training 1939
Ploughing theory is studied by means of using model plough on a tray of sand. This class of studies were at an argricultural college in kent

A woman buying bird feed from a street selling in London

Decorating Coronation beakers, 1911
Women at the Royal Doulton Potteries at Burslem, pictured decorating and glazing the Coronation beakers to commemorate the Coronation of King George V in 1911 and given to 100

Advert for recruitment of nurses and midwives 1943
Nurses and widwives needed. The wartime job that can be your career... The girl who becomes a nurse or midwife is doing a war job of vital importance

King George VI visits a Royal Ordnance factory, WWII
King George VI being given a tour of inspection of a Royal Ordnance factory and seeing at first-hand the immense effort being put in to produce arms, in this case anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns

Women finding themselves suddenly unemployed in 1919
" Good-bye-e-e!" These girls marching off to pastures new seem a jolly bunch, although for the 750000 women who found themselves suddenly unemployed in 1919

The woman behind the gun 1916
Ministering angels to the ministry of munitions. Making spiral scrolls with a vertical milling machine. Date: 1916

A French woman collects the tickets on the Paris Metro
As the need for more soldiers grew, many jobs normally carried out by men, women were brought in and trained to do their tasks

High explosives being manufactured at Creusot Works, France
Photograph showing shells being manufactured at the Creusot Works, the Krupp, France. Date: 1915

WRAF-ish by Reginald Higgins
A dashing young woman in the uniform of the WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) waits by her car smoking a cigarette. Date: 1919

Elderly maid digging in the garden c. 1910

A British Nurse
A British nurse from the early twentieth-century. c. 1910

Printing works in 15th c Engraving of 1849
Printing works in 15th c.. Engraving of 1849

The Chocolatada. Detail. Representation of local jobs and scenes. Ceramics. Proc: SPAIN. Alella

Occupation map of the UK
UK Occupations map 1851 Date: 1851

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