Labour Collection (page 19)

Irrigation ditch and sugar cane field, Hawaii, USA. Date: 1935

Chinese Labour Corps praying on New Years Day WW1
Joss pidgin otherwise known as Divine worship in a camp of the Chinese battalion of the Labour Corps in France on New Years Day, 1918. Date: 1918

Laying a railway track near Lima, Ohio, USA
Men at work laying a railway track near Lima, Ohio, USA, with a field of wheat in the foreground. Date: circa 1900

Chinese Labour Corps leaving for China after WW1
Yi-Loo-Ping-An (Good-bye and peaceful travel): the Rev. J. Webster O. C. Chinese Section, British Y.M.C.A. saying farewell to each man of the Chinese Labour Corps as they departed back for China

Illustration, haymaking with a horse-drawn cutter and a dog alongside. Date: 1930

Cartoon, Consequences of a Successful French Invasion, Me teach de English Republicans to work. Scene, A Ploughed Field. By James Gillray. Date: 1798

Hadleigh Salvation Army Colony
Buildings at the Salvation Armys Labour Colony at Hadleigh in Essex

Men engaged in roadworks with a lorry alongside. Date: circa 1930s

Man with two horses in a field. Date: circa 1920s

WW1 - Cartoon - Allies working together
WW1 - A cartoon depicting allies on the Western Front working together. Date: 1918

Ministry of Labour Summer Camp, Brandsby, Yorkshire
Ministry of Labour Summer Camp, Brandsby, York, near Ampleforth, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1930s

Lloyd George, unemployment cartoon 1921
Work for All. Come on everybody, and lend a hand, this isn t a one-man job! Prime Minister Lloyd George tries to rescue a half-drowned man representing trade from the river of unemployment while

British coalition cabinet, 1915
The Coalition cabinet for the Great War : Liberal, Unionist, Labour, Irish, Non-Party, with a key to whos who. Prime Minister H H Asquith formed the Second Asquith ministry

Men on New Stoughton Wagon, Iowa, USA
Two men on a New Stoughton Wagon with spades in their hands. Photograph by Charles Clinton Stevens of Williams, Iowa, USA. The covering on the horse is probably designed to protect it from flies

Sunday Work in the Tunnel of a Great Main Line, Matania
Labour and railway efficiency: Renewing the Permanent Way of a Great Main Line. Sunday work in the tunnel of a great main line outside London - gangs of navvies relaying the permanent way. Date: 1914

WW2 Christmas card with farming scene of ploughing in a field, with the motto Carry On! Date: circa 1942

Women workers WW1 - procession of homage at Palace
Nearly three thousand women workers representing practically every organised branch of womens labour during the First World War and wearing the uniforms of their corps and trades

Workers with hammers

Workmen hammering rivets into a vessel

Dinner reception at election time
Upper class ladies and gentlemen at a dinner reception at election time, with a results board above them naming the four political parties: Conservative, NAT Liberal, Liberal and Labour

Erecting a Nissen hut in the snow, 1917
Buildings on the British front: putting up a Nissen hut in the snow, 1917. Devised by Major Peter Norman Nissen of the 29th Company Royal Engineers of the British Army in April 1916

Suffragette Selina Cooper. Portrait of Selina Cooper (1864-1946), Labour and trade union activist, in the North of England

An Indian labour corps during World War I
Men of one of the Indian labour corps engaged on war work are seen halting on the march through a town in southern France. Date: 1918

British Peace Poster, WW1
Labour Fights Wars and then Pays for them -- Disarm! Chromolithograph poster, by Grafton Art Limited, Peace Poster No 2. Date: 1918

Women candidates for parliament, 1919
Four female candidates for Parliament in the 1918 General Election, when women over the age of 30 were given the vote for the first time

Working women on the land, WW1
An illustration showing two women working on the land during WW1, also captioning how things have changed for women discarded the old things-skirts I mean Date: 1916

Labour Battalion in the village of Domart-sur-la-Luce
Day after advance - Labour Battalion in the village of Domart-sur-la-Luce. August 18. 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

View of the Struma Valley toward the Belachitza Mountains
A view of the Struma Valley looking towards the Belachitza (Beles) Mountains, Salonika. There is also a sketch map on brown paper

Portrait of an unnamed soldier - WWI
Portrait of an unnamed soldier (with a moustache), c. 1916.529456 Private Sidney Dennant Moss, Rba, , (1884-1946), He Served With The 95Th Company Labour Corps

Epileptic Boys Home, Starnthwaite, Westmorland
Part of the home for boys suffering for epilepsy at Starnthwaite run by National Christian Union for Social Service. The site had previously been used a labour colony for unemployed men

October Tree Felling by R Coxon

Harold Wilson with red budget briefcase
Harold Wilson (1916-1995), British Labour politician and Prime Minister (1964-1970 and 1974-1976), pictured with the red budget briefcase in one of the rooms at 10 Downing Street

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

British soldier working on the land, WW1
A British soldier driving a plough during the First World War. Owing to the lateness of the years sowing in 1916, due to bad weather and shortage of labour

Workers threshing grain, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Rise of the Labour Party in Britain by G. H. Davis
The rise of the Labour Party in the British Parliament over the course of 45 years, symbolised as a river growing wider and wider

Jimmy Thomas - British trade unionist & Labour politician
James Henry " Jimmy" Thomas (18741949) - British trade unionist and Labour (later National Labour) politician. Date: 1926

James Ramsay MacDonald - British Labour Politician
James Ramsay MacDonald (18661937) - British politician and statesman, the first ever Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading a Labour Government in 1924

Portrait photograph of Ramsay MacDonald, British politician and the first Labour Prime Minister

Keir Hardie speaking in Trafalgar Square, London, WW1
James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), Scottish socialist politician and Labour leader, speaking to a crowd of people in Trafalgar Square, London, on the outbreak of the First World War. Date: August 1914

Portrait photograph of three French chimney sweeps

Railway workers stop for a group photograph

Man harvesting in a field, He Also Serves, WW1
He Also Serves. A man harvesting in a field at the start of the First World War. The verse below says: He serves no less who toils to save / The harvest for his native land. Date: August 1914

London Railway under Construction
A group of navvies working on an elevated section of an inner London railway. Date: 19th century

Womens Royal Air Force -- Coal Fatigue
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing two women on Coal Fatigue, ie shovelling coal. Date: 1919-1920

Preparing for Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace
Preparing for the Festival of Empire and Pageant of London at the Crystal Palace. Everywhere huge structures are rising upon steel and woodwork skeletons

Support Labour - Masonic Card
Masonic Patriotic card in support of Labour (USA). Date: circa 1910s

Some Labour-Saving Devices by William Heath Robinson
The Top Watch Winder. 1919

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