Labour Collection (page 10)

Keepeth the Sabbath from polluting 1856
Our only day, the Sabbath is the workingmans chapter. Date: 1856

Work at the Embankment, London 1868
Workmen improving the public stretch of road alone the River Thames, 70 to 100 feet in width and stretching from Westminster to Blackfriars more than a mile and a-half in length

American poster, Join the land army, WW1
American poster, design by Lambert Guenther, Get behind the Girl he left behind him, Join the land army, First World War. circa 1918

YWCA Poster, For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, WW1
YWCA Poster, design by Adolph Treidler, For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, Care for Her through the YWCA, United War Work Campaign, First World War. circa 1918

On this occasion there was the usual confusion, illustration by Percy Horton for Labour Weekly. 1925

Crossing-sweepers 1849
Poor couple sweeping the streets of London. Date: 1849

Able-bodied street-sweeper
Sweeping the streets of London

Crossing-sweeper that has been a maid servant
Woman sweeping the streets of London

Boys crossing-sweepers, London boys asking an affluent gentlemen for a penny for keeping the streets tidy. Date: circa 1850s

Postcard booklet, ploughing a field, Dixieland, USA
Postcard booklet, man and horses taking a rest from ploughing a field, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Man refusing - Outstretched arms with open palms
Book cover design: No politics please by Don McGregor, Finchley Labour Party, 1946 Date: 1946

Bomb - Sinking ship - Life boat
Book cover design: The way out by Fenner Brockway, 1888-1988. Independent Labour Party (Great Britain) 1942 Date: 1942

British people
ILP pamphlet cover illustration: The real battle for Britain by Walter Padley.Independent Labour Party, 1943 Date: 1943

Propeller plane - Cruise liner
Book cover design: A socialist plan for peace, Independent Labour Party - circa 1945. Date: circa 1945

Bloody sword
ILP pamphlet cover illustration: Sword over Europe, Independent Labour Party (Great Britain) circa 1930. Date: circa 1930

Labour Party Song Book
Sheet music cover illustration: Labour Party song book : labour anthems, traditional songs & community favourites, the Labour Party (Great Britain), 1955. Date: 1955

Bomb damaged building
ILP pamphlet cover illustration: War is not inevitable by Bob Edwards 1905-1990.Independent Labour Party - circa 1945. Date: circa 1945

Poster, He risked an accident just to clean a machine
Poster, Ministry of Labour and National Service, ROSPA, He risked an accident just to clean a machine. Designed by H M Bateman. 1931

Stratford-upon-Avon, Mop Fair 1899
Standing for Hire, Stratford-upon-Avon, said to be the largest fair in England, regarded by the agricultural class in the district as the chief holiday of the year

Kitchener Camp WWII
Refugees labouring at the Kitchener Camp Date: 1939-1945

German Prisoners in Morocco
German Prisoners captured during the First World War, digging trenches in Morocco Date: 1915

John Burns
John Elliot Burns (1858 - 1943), English labour leader. Date: 1913

STALIN IN 1917
Stalin, at the Sixth Congress of the Russian Social- Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) urges the necessity to prepare for an armed uprising. Date: August 1917

The Sweaters Furnace or the Real Curse of Labour: an unscrupulous boss works blood, sweat and tears from his employees in the textile industry Date: 1888

INDUSTRY / METALS / IRON
Three young men struggle and strain to push a rail truck full of iron ore uphill as part of their Labour Service training. Date: 1930s

Boy with a spade, taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. He was working on a river project. Date: 1963

Boy with a wheelbarrow, taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. He was working on a river project. Date: 1963

Boys and girls, supervised by a man, taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. They were working on a river project. Date: 1963

Boys taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. They were working on a river project. Date: 1963

Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire
circa 1910s

Moving the Great Bell 1858
Officially known as the Great Bell but better known as Big Ben, entering the arch, being propelled by levers upon a tramway. Date: 1858

Bethnal-Green Employment Relief Association 1868 Bethnal-Green Employment
Labour-yard of the Bethnal-Green Employment and Relief Association, in East London. The stagnation of trade which followed on the commercial crisis of 1866

Flower Girl postcard circa 1905
A young girl sells violets on the streets of London. She wears a clean white apron over her short skirt and a red neckerchief. Date: circa 1905

HOPKINS / SEASONS / SPRING
SPRING - 1 OF 4 Ploughing the field with three shire horses. Date: 1882

LOVES LABOUR LOST
Act IV, Scene II Jaquenetta asks Holofernes to translate a letter for her; Costard, Dull & Sir Natheniel look on Date: 1793

LOVES LABOURS LOST
Act IV, Scene I The Princess & her train Date: Nineteenth century

Cartoon, Sowing Tares (Socialism)
Cartoon, SOWING TARES -- the Socialist devil sows tares (weeds) in the field of labour, a parody of a religious painting by Millais, His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. Date: 1886

MACDONALD STATE OCCASION
Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald dresses up for a state occasion Date: 1924

Chimney Sweep 1869
The number of people living in London was on the increase, to get any trade you had to get up very early in the morning, sweeps usual were up and about at starlight, waiting for people to arise

Herakles - Cerberus
The last Labour of Herakles is to descend to the Underworld and capture the three-headed dog Cerberus; he does this, but returns the dog to Hades who needs him as a watchdog

Street sweeper 1863
Young barefoot boy sweeping the streets for some money. Date: 1863

Trapper seated 1867
TRAPPER AND PUTTERS A small boy opens and closes the trapdoor while another child pushes a laden wagon along a narrow gallery. Date: 1867

Cotton Mule Spinning 1835
Interior of cotton factory: mule spinning, Lancashire, child sweeps inside moving machine. Date: 1835

A fantasy farm labourer, dressed in a costume made up of the tools of his trade. Date: circa 1700

Child labour, clerk for a lawyer
Lawyers clerk, France Date: 1841

London costermonger 1850s
Here partaters! kearots and turnips! fine brockelo-o-o!. Date: circa 1850s

Telegraphic message boy
Telegraph boy employed to deliver telegrams, holding his leather satchel with an important sealed message, which is probably sent up by a Manchester or Birmingham manufacturer to one of the London

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 6
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small girl child dodges past a donkey cart in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

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