Labour Collection (page 20)

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

Building the Aswan Dam
Excavation at the Western Channel of the Aswan Dam on the River Nile in Egypt. Date: 1902

A portrait of Sidney Webb
Sidney James Webb (1859-1947) founded the Fabian Society in 1884 and became an active member of the Labour Party between 1924-1931. Date: 6th June 1894

Little Toy Maker
Swedish children are taught to make toys out of wood and straw. Here is a little girl with her first masterpiece ! Date: 1930s

James Henry Thomas
JAMES HENRY THOMAS British trades unionist and Labour politician Date: 1874 - 1949

Sir Albert Sassoon
Sir ALBERT ADDALLAH SASSOON son of David S. member of merchant family who throve on the opium trade and exploiting cheap native labour, earning large fortune and honours. Date: 1818 - 1896

Denis Healey with Labour budget box 1978
Denis Healey, with his Budget Box, when he was Labour Party Chancellor of the Exchequer. Date: 1978

Men at Holiday Camp
Men sunbathing and digging at Physiopolis, a health club where people used to meet and holiday together. Date: 1930s

Frank Hodges Mp
FRANK HODGES English labour statesman Date: 1876 - ?

Advertisement for Cavendish boilers with female model (Pat Knight). 1959

China - Chinese Farmer carrying two large bundles of a yolk
China - Chinese Farmer carrying two large bundles of his crop of choice by means of a yolk across his shoulders. Date: circa 1910s

Chinese Mining Boy, South Africa
A Chinese Mining Boy, South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

Chinese Mining Boys - South Africa
Three Chinese Mining Boys. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

Chinese Musicians - one playing an Erhu - South Africa
Chinese Musicians - one pictured playing an Erhu - in South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

China - Shanghai - Heavy cart pulled by a human team
China - Shanghai - Heavy street cart (laden with wooden crates) pulled by a human team. Date: circa 1930

Police in Chinese Compound, South Africa - contracted miners
Police in a Chinese Compound, South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

WW2 - The Scales of Victory - Oil and Steel Output compared between the Free Labour of the British Commonwealth and the USA and the Slave Labour of Germany and her subject nations

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

One Encore too many - Boy performer collapses backstage
One Encore too many - A young boy performer collapses backstage and is tended to by his female co-star, a kindly clown and another older member of the ensemble

WW1 - Austrian, German and Turkish Prisoners put to work on Italian streets. Postcard issued by the Y.M.C.A. Hut Fund Date: circa 1917

Diamond Mine - Kimberley, South Africa Date: 1877

Digging for gold in British Guiana (now Guyana). Placer washing as carried out by the tributor or Port Knocker. Date: circa 1910s

Pap and cake sellers, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa. Pap is a traditional porridge / polenta made from mielie-meal (ground maize). Date: circa 1920s

Turin, Italy - The US Pavilion - Turin International Exhibit
Turin, Italy - The United States Pavilion at the Turin International Exhibition of 1911 at the Parco del Valentino. Date: 1911

Boy Street Seller - Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia. Date: circa 1920

WW2 poster, Scrap Heap
WW2 poster by Fougasse, Scrap Heap -- When you scrap a job, you scrap all the labour thats gone on it. Please don t add to the heap! Date: circa 1942

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

Spain (1910). Solidaridad Obrera, publication
" Spain (1910). " Solidaridad Obrera", publication of the Labour Societies. Cover with the news of the Labour National Congress (Barcelona, 4th November 1910)."

CAMACHO, Marcelino (1918-2010). Spanish sindicalist, general secretary of Comisiones Obreras (Spanish Communist Labour Union) from 1976 to 1987

The telephone women (1904). Picture of Le Petit
" The telephone women (1904). Picture of " Le Petit Journal". Engraving."

Water seller (18th c. ). Engraving. FRANCE. Paris
Water seller (18th c.). Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)

Firewood carrier (16th c. ). Engraving. FRANCE
Firewood carrier (16th c.). Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)

LEO XIII (1810-1903). Pope (1878-1903). Rerum
" LEO XIII (1810-1903). Pope (1878-1903). Rerum novarum. Encyclical issued by the Pope in 1891, first one in addressing the condition of the working classes.Title page of the Spanish translation

Germany (1892). Second Reich. Socialist demonstration at the Opera Square, Berlin (February 1892). Riot broken up by the police. Engraving

SPAIN. Madrid. Funeral of five Labour lawyers murdered by extreme right gunmen in the neighbourhood of Atocha, Madrid (1977)

Manuscript Facts of the Romans (13th c. ). Bricklayers
" Manuscript " Facts of the Romans" (13th c.). Bricklayers. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Marks Library)."

DURRUTI DOMINGO, Buenaventura (1896-1936). Spanish anarchist leader. SPAIN. Madrid. Fundaci󮠤 e Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (FAL)

Spain (1919-1921). Poster about the repression

Industrial Revolution. Capital and labour. Comic strip depicting the social inequalities which arouse as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing published in the magazine Punch (1848)

The strike of Creusot of 1870. Meeting of factory workers in the pay moment. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

United States. Child Labour
ABREU Y BERTODANO, Jos Antonio de (1717-1775). Spanish translator and historian. Title page of his work Collection of the

Loading Chile saltpeter in Pascua (Chile). 1891

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