Labour Collection (page 15)

Workmen sweeping snow on a Christmas card -- New brooms sweep clean. Date: circa 1890s

Tea plantation workers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Tea plantation workers in the fields, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1930

Quarry workers, Boma, Belgian Congo, West Africa. Date: circa 1905

Commonwealth Instiute - Diorama - Cotton growing in India
Commonwealth Instiute, London - Diorama - Cotton growing in India. Date: circa 1920s

Cotton harvest in Tripoli (Tarabulus), Lebanon
Cotton harvest with a working girl standing in front of it, Tripoli (Tarabulus) in the north of Lebanon. Date: circa 1910

Membership certificate, Labour Party 50th Anniversary
Membership certificate, In commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Labour Party (1900-1950), for use during the Jubilee Year, with quotations from Keir Hardie and Clement Attlee. Date: 1950

Road making on Praslin Island, Seychelles
Road making on Praslin Island, part of Dr N P Jewells remit in the Seychelles, Indian Ocean. 1912-1914

WW1 poster, French war loans
Poster, Women working in the fields can also help serve France by investing in a Victory Loan. circa 1918

Residence of Ramsay MacDonald at Lossiemouth
The Hillocks - the residence of the first Labour Prime Minister of Great Britain, Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) at Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. Date: circa late 1920s

History of medicine. Parturient. Painting. 15th century. Florence. Italy

Mastaba of Nefer and Kahay. Polychromed relief depicting agricultural scenes. Farmers filling sacks of grain before a tax collector. 5th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. Saqqara. Egypt

List of people who was deported to Siberia by the Russian au
History of Latvia. Occupation first soviet Union (1940-1941). Known Year of Terror (Baigais Gads). List of people who was deported to Siberia by the Russian authorities. June 14, 1941

Georgius Agricola (1494-1555). German scientist. Known as the father of mineralogy. Engraving belonging to his work De Re Metallica. Basel 1564. Colored

Book of Trades, The Quarry Man. 1841

The Prime Minister with his war cabinet
The eight men who control the war machine: left to right (standing): Mr Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio; Mr Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service; Lord Beaverbrook

Cotton gins, Kilwa Kivinje, Tanzania, East Africa
Men working at cotton gins at Kilwa Kivinje, German East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1900

Tea plantation workers, Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Date: circa 1920s

Interior of a printing press in the early modern age. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Arthur Ponsonby and Elizabeth Ponsonby
Arthur A.W.H. Ponsonby (1871-1946), pictured with his daughter Elizabeth Ponsonby in 1924, at the time of the new Labour government, of which he was a politician as under-secretary. Date: 1924

Three women working on a train carriage. London depot

Caricature of Norman Angell, writer and politician
Caricature of Sir Ralph Norman Angell (1872-1967), writer, lecturer and Labour politician. Best known for his book, The Great Illusion (1910), arguing against war from an economic point of view

Man ploughing with two horses
A man ploughing with two horses in a field

Two young men with horse on a farm
Two young men with a horse outside some farm buildings. Date: circa 1920s

Edward G. Hemmerde, Vanity Fair, Spy
EDWARD GEORGE HEMMERDE (1871-1948) English rower, barrister, playwright and politician. Liberal Party Member of Parliament for East Denbighshire

A Plantation on Lake Caijo - Congo, Africa. Two men carry large metal watering cans on two large poles Date: circa 1900s

Tunisia - Metlaoui - Phosphate Society Mines of Sfax-Gafsa - unloading the wagns. Date: circa 1910s

Summer, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people harvesting in the fields, with a storm in the distance

Usine e gaz de Vaugirard, 3 octobre 1870. Depart remis. Calme plot. Entrevue avec M. Picard, il me charge de differentes recommendations importantes pour le gouvernement e Tours. Mr

Carrying-in boy in Alexandria Glass Factory, Alexandria, Va. Works on day shift one week and night shift next week. See photo 2261. Location: Alexandria, Virginia. Date 1911 June

Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years old, all shuck regularly. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina. Date 1911 February

Addie Card, anaemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. See photo No. 1056. Location: Vermont. Date 1910 August

Silver and copper works, Chile, South America

Prisoners spinning yarn - Yerwada Jail, India
Prisoners spinning yarn - Yerwada Jail, Pune, India (Gandhi was imprisoned here for a time, spinning thread whilst imprisoned). Date: circa 1908

Highwaymen punished
A new plan is proposed fo the punishment of highwaymen by hard labour on the roads. Date: 18th Century

Ken Livingstone with Morrissey, Mari Wilson and others
Ken Livingstone (Kenneth Robert Livingstone, b 1945), British Labour politician. Seen here with Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey, b 1959), English singer and songwriter

William Brace, Welsh Labour MP
William Brace (1865-1947), Welsh Labour MP, President of the South Wales Miners Federation from 1912 until 1915. He was an early advocate of a single union for all of Britains coal miners

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

Holborn Union Workhouse Farm and Gas Works, Mitcham
The workhouse farm located near the Holborn Union workhouse, Mitcham, Surrey. Pigs feed from troughs while workhouse inmates stand nearby. A gasometer is visible at the left

Bursa - Interior of the silk textile works - Turkey
The interior of the silk textile works of Bay Freres, Bursa, Turkey. The textile manufacturers of Bursa were responsible for making the silk velvet covering for the Ka aba in Mecca

Lady Megan Arfon Lloyd George (1902-1966) English politician and the first female Member of Parliament for a Welsh constituency

Ray Gunter (1909-1977) English Labour politician shortly after he became MP for Southwark in 1964

Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883-1967), Labour politician and Prime Minister, pictured in uniform during the First World War

Chinese Immigrants
Chinese labour imported into Guadeloupe

Roman Rotary Quern
A Rotary Quern used by the Romans for grinding corn. A number were found intact at the bakery in Pompeii

Class / Capital and Labour
CAPITAL AND LABOUR Satire on the class system

Advertisement, Ministry of Labour Munition Concerts, WW2
Advertisement, Ministry of Labour Munition Concerts, organised by ENSA. circa 1940s

German prisoners making a road in southern England 1917
Some 102, 000 German prisoners making a road through the woods in a picturesque corner of southern England, where they are building their own camp. 1917

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