Labour Collection (page 23)

The breaking point. A heavy load for an old woman. Lafayette St. below Astor Pl. NY Location: New York, New York (State). Date 1912 February

Woman carrying flowers home to work upon. Thompson St.. Location: New York, New York (State). Date 1912 February

Steamer Glass in Hancock School, Boston. Immigrant children. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Date 1909 October. Steamer Glass in Hancock School, Boston. Immigrant children

General View of, 2 Spinning Room in Indian Orchard Cotton Mill, Indian Orchard, Mass. Location: Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. Date 1916 June 29

A picture of a cotton field

10 yr. old picker on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. Location: G

Girls working at mangle in Bonanno Laundry, 12 Foster Wharf

Composite photograph of child laborers made from cotton mill children. Date 1913

Mary Creed, 14 years old. Selling cigars in store of Mrs. Breslin, 817 Harrison Avenue. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Date 1917 January 24

1: 00 AM Pin boys working in Subway Bowling Alleys, 65 South
1:00 AM Pin boys working in Subway Bowling Alleys, 65 South

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas. Date 1942

Street music: A concertina player with monkey friend, c. 1890
A shabbily dressed but smiling boy plays a concertina in a park, with a monkey perched on his shoulder. Date: c. 1890

Coronation Commissions First Meeting: Mr Attlee
Mr Attlee, at the time, leader of the opposition and a member of the Coronation Committee. 1952

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

The General Election, 1924, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and H. H. Asquith the leaders of the competing political parties appear to be playing musical chairs

Making a new road, Palestine
Men and boys employed in making a new road in Palestine. Date: early 20th century

Government House, Perth
The Government House at Perth, capital of Western Australia, pictured shortly after its completion. The building was designed by Lieutenant-Colonel Henderson of the Royal Engineers

Silhouette of ploughing scene
Silhouette of a ploughing scene, with a man guiding his manual plough across a field with the help of two farm horses

Silhouette, One Sows and Another Reaps
One Sows and Another Reaps -- silhouette showing a farm worker sowing seeds in a field, with horses pulling a plough in the background

Electric devices 1913
Modern electrical devices from 1913: A lady fries herself some eggs for her breakfast in an electric frying pan. A nurse heats some water in a hot water cup

Three Chimneysweeps
Three very young chimneysweeps in the United States of America Date: 1904

Labor by Charles Sprague Pearce
Labor - from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. Found in the North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Estonian immigrants in Sweden
Influx (immigration) of foreign farm workers from Estonia to Sweden, 1946 Date: 1946

Front cover of The Tatler featuring Oswald and Cynthia Mosle
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet (1896-1980), British right-wing politician

Brtish troops breaking stones, Flanders, WW1
British troops breaking stones for road making around the time of the Battle of Broodseinde, Flanders, during the First World War. circa 1917

Workmen laying an oil pipeline in Persia for the BP company. Date: circa 1925

Ditching Tools
An impressive collection of ditching tools, leaning against a wall in Wales. Date: 1950s

Australian Strike
Strikers meet in Flinders Park during the Labour and Shipping Strike. Date: 31 August 1890

Java Textiles Factory
Young girls working in a textiles factory, Java, Dutch East Indies, guarded by foremen. Date: 1930s

Labour Conference 1957
The Labour Party Conference, Brighton, Sussex, England. Date: 30 September 1957

Beach Conference

British troops draining marshes, Salonika Front, WW1
British troops belonging to a Labour Battalion, trying to prevent malaria by draining marshes at Danbabali on the Salonika Front during the First World War. Date: 1917

Two British soldiers working in a ditch, WW1
Two British soldiers working in a ditch full of water during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Canadian troops using Ruston threshing machine, WW1
Canadian troops using a Ruston threshing machine near Amiens, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 16 August 1918

Electricity plyon erected, 1933
Erecting the last pylon: hauling up a section of the 26, 265th steel cable tower built by the central electricity board to carry current all over Great Britain

Chinese labourers filling sandbags near Arras, France, WW1
Chinese labourers filling sandbags near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 13 June 1918

Sappers and miners working on a tunnel, WW1
Sappers and miners working on a tunnel during the First World War. Date: 1916

Threshing wheat during the First World War -- more wheat was needed because of the U-Boat campaign. 1914-1918

Ten per cent more poster, 1948
Large poster with a personal message from Prime Minister Clement Attlee, asking the British public to put in maximum effort in to increase industrial production output by ten per cent

Ramsay MacDonald and others, Foreign Office conference
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), the first British Labour Prime Minister. Seen here with others, including the French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot (1872-1957)

Seychelles Scouts on Armistice Day
Scouts on Armistice Day, laying a poppy wreath at the foot of the monument erected in Mont Fleury Cemetery in memory of the dead members of the Seychelles Labour Battalion. circa 1920s-30s

Orbis Pictus, Farming
Two pages from the 17th century publication Orbis Pictus on husbandry, with a selection of agricultural scenes. Date: 1658

Chinese labourers at Boulogne, France, WW1
A parade of Chinese labourers at Boulogne, northern France, during the First World War. Date: August 1917

Ramsay MacDonald, British Labour Prime Minister
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), the first British Labour Prime Minister. circa 1930s

Hercules strikes Cacus, and view of Rome
Page of text with marginal drawings. At the top in the left margin is a picture of Rome. In front of the city stand two men, one of whom is wearing armour. There are birds flying over their heads

Robots as the farm workers of the future
Robots depicted as the farm workers of the future. Date: 1896

Telephone exchange Date: 19th century

50 Weeks and 14 Days
Fifty weeks hard labour... Fourteen days swank ! Date: 1920s

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