Labourer Collection

Four-horse Ploughing team at work - South Downs, East Sussex
Sons of the soil - A four-horse Ploughing team at work in on the South Downs - East Sussex. Date: circa 1920s

Social / Knights Hill 18C
A gentleman farmer on his horse at Knights Hill, Surrey, seat of Lord Thurlow. The farm labourer carries a harvest barrel

A Shetland Peat Carrier
A Woman of the Shetland Islands carring turves of peat in a wicker back pack basket. She does her knitting whilst she walks (possible some distance). Date: circa 1910s

Interior of a Dorsetshire Labourers Cottage
Interior view of a peasants cottage in Dorset in 1846, accompanying an article reporting on the poverty and squalor of some villages in the county

Man ploughing with gas mask, September 1939
Man photographed as he ploughs his field in Surrey. The Sphere notes his gas mask which he hangs from the handle of his plough. Date: 1939

Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of granite rocks at Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Kaiser Wilhelm II at Kiel shipyard, Germany, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, visiting Kiel shipyard, Germany, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 2 October 1918

Farming / Mowing 1899
A mowing scene: the mower sharpens his blade with a stone

Kazakh man cutting hay with a scythe
A Kazakh man wearing a chapan (Kazakh quilted dressing gown) and kalpak, working in a field with a scythe, cutting hay. 20th century

Labourer Mr Idris Silman takes a break, Tredegar, Wales
Mr Idris Silman, a manual labourer, takes a short break while digging up the road in Tredegar, South Wales. He sits on the raised pavement with his shovel. The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Workman, Burnley, Lancashire, early 1900s

Our Bairn, labourer and wife with baby
Our Bairn - a labourer walking home from work with his wife and their baby Date: 19th century

Agricultural labourers, The End of a Long Day Date: 1891

Fellah's makeshift hut, Dead Sea, Holy Land
A makeshift hut constructed by a fellah (Arab peasant, farmer or agricultural labourer), by the Dead Sea, Holy Land. It is made of sticks, mats and oil cans. Date: 1920s

Old Tom, gardener and farm labourer, in later years - he worked in Arthur Trowers large garden in Redhill, Surrey. Date: 1910

1860s Japan - portrait of a coolie labourer porter Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China

1860s Japan - portrait of a porter Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China

Chinese peasants in grass coats, c. 1880 s
Chinese peasants in grass coats, c.1880 s

c. 1880s Japan - labourers in grass coats

Working elephants and estate coolies, India, c. 1880 s
Working elephants and estate coolies, India, c.1880 s

Coolie, farm worker, labourer, smoking a pipe, Japan
19th century vintage photograph: coolie, farm worker, labourer, smoking a pipe, with a grass coat, Japan

c. 1890s New Zealand - harvesting corn in a 500 acre field
c.1890s vintage photograph New Zealand - horses and reaping machines binders, harvesting corn in a 500 acre field

Plan and elevation of a Regency thatched cottage, cottage orne. Floorplan shows drawing room, parlor, library, kitchen, scullery, store and greenhouse

People haymaking. circa 1930s

Road painters carrying broken white line stencil, Sept 1939
Road painters carrying the " blackout stencil" which enabled workmen to paint broken white lines down the centre of roads with ease, in order to reduce accidents when driving in blackouts

Londons first female railway porter, April 1915
Londons first female railway porter photographed as she carries milk churn at Marylebone Station. Date: 1915

Women building the elevated railway in Tokyo, October 1904
Female labourors as they carry bricks for use in the construction of the elevated railway, Tokyo. The caption describes how women working in manual labour was not uncommon in Japan. Date: 1904

Female land army workers resting after a full day 1918
Women in Theydon, Essex, resting, socialising and reading in their club room after a days training for land army work. The Womens Land Army was established in 1917 to replace male workers in

Women farm workers loading a cart, May 1918
Two female farm workers as they load a cart with " roots for cattle", possibly swedes. The Sphere gives an extremely complimentary report of female work on farms describing how " there

Woman harvesting apples as old man watches 1918
Old man watches, " not altogether unmixed with disapproval", as women harvest apples in an English garden. The Sphere comments on the mixed reaction of the old man

Labourers cottage near Penshurst, Tonbridge, Kent
Labourers cottage in Swiss style in Redleaf Park near Penshurst, Tonbridge, Kent, by this time accessible via the new railway from London to Dover. Date: 1843

Chinese labourer with umbrella and peasant
Chinese labourer with bamboo-and-paper umbrella and peasant in rice-straw cape, QIng Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Potter making a clay vessel on a wheel driven by a labourer turning a crank. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Farmhand using traditional binder at harvest time, Cornwall
Farmhand using a traditional binder in a cornfield at harvest time, Cornwall. Date: 1979

Man operating a combine harvester, Cornwall. Date: 1965

Men using a reaping machine at harvest time, Cornwall. Date: 1970s

Farmer winnowing grain while children watch. 19th century

Channel Tunnel attempt between Dover and Folkestone, Kent
Channel Tunnel digging attempt between Dover and Folkestone, Kent, with machinery and workmen. Date: 1880

Political poster, Chinese Labour -- a commentary on British gold mining activities in the Transvaal, South Africa. circa 1906

Ballast-heavers 1850s
Ballast-heavers or also named as mudlarks at work, labourers dredging the River Thames for the opportunity of finding something valuable amongst the mud

Recruiting London dock labourers. 1887

Design for a pair of Model Cottages for Labourers, Mechanics etc. 1857

A tryst at the spring, 1890s. Date: 1890s

Countrywomen and man flirting, 1890s
Three countrywomen chat and flirt with a farmhand with a rake, 1890s Date: 1890s

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

Wheat Harvest Steam Traction Engine Threshing Machine
A Wheat Harvest Steam Traction Engine Threshing Machine. circa 1865

Farm labourer smoking, Japan, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Tangier, Morocco - A Road Sweeper Date: circa 1905

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