Labourer Collection (page 3)

Labourer Inside Cottage
An agricultural labourer with his family in their cottage in Whitnash, Warwickshire Date: 1872

Napoleon III escaping from life imprisonment
Napoleon III, disguised as a labourer, escapes from the Chateau de Ham, where he had been condemned to life imprisonment in 1840. The escape was successful -- two days later he turned up in London

Pineapple field near Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, with workers filling wooden crates with the fruit. Date: 1935

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

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

People harvesting in a field, with a steam tractor and a cart. Date: circa 1920s

Man with a harvesting machine in a field
Man with a horse-drawn harvesting machine in a field. Date: circa 1920s

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

Four people with a tractor in a field, transporting hay. Date: circa 1920s

Haymaking in a field
People haymaking in a field. Date: circa 1920s

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

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

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

Fellah with donkeys, Holy Land
A fellah (Arab peasant, farmer or agricultural labourer) with two donkeys on a narrow road with cactuses on either side, Holy Land. Date: 1920s

Fellah with camel and donkey, Jerusalem
A fellah (Arab peasant, farmer or agricultural labourer) with camel and donkey in a Jerusalem street. Date: 1920s

War work for the elderly, WW1
An old farm labourer in Essex returns to the plough to help in the war effort during the First World War. The gentleman pictured was nearly eighty years of age and had several sons in the Army

Coolie in grass coat, Japan
Coolie (manual labourer) in grass coat, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Miss Gowing the hockey player as farm labourer, WW1
Miss M. G. Gowing, of the Norfolk Ladies hockey team, releasing men for the war, by working on an Essex farm during the First World War. Date: 1916

Jat Zemindars, India
Group photo of four Jat Zemindars, India. The Jat people are traditionally a non-elite group who worked on the land. Zemindars are small local landholders. Date: circa 1890s

Little girl at harvest time by Muriel Dawson
A little girl helping out in the fields at harvest time, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s

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

Algiers, Algeria - Harvesting by Mechanical & handheld means Date: 1910

Russian Countrywoman with pitchfork and red headscarf
Russian Countrywoman with wooden pitchfork and red headscarf. Date: 1903

Egyptian Fellahs Women (and child)
Egyptian Fellahs (a peasant, farmer or agricultural labourer) Women (and child). Date: circa 1910s

The New Compensation Act of 1906
" The New Compensation Act" - " Never mind Bill, we re insured!" - a pair of labourers are not unduly concerned at the blocks of stone falling on their heads

A group of Jolly Good Fellahs - Syria
A group of Syrian Fellahs, Aleppo, Syria. The word Fellah is used to denote a peasant, farmer or agricultural labourer in the Middle East and North Africa

French Coutryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers / Harvesters
French Countryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers/Harvesters Date: circa 1905

Swiss agricultrual workers take a break from haymaking and scything and share a swift tipple. Date: circa 1910s

Labourer aghast at the cost of his young sons education Youngster: " Father, Teacher says I ve gotten ter bring a penny wi me to school termorrer ter buy a slate pencil wi

Bermuda - Packing Onions
Packing onions into wooden crayes ready for international export - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

Labourers Cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

Avro 504K being used for joyriding in 1925. From Left: Mike Crocker, labourer; Capt P. Phillips; F.E. Draycott, assistant engineer and A.J. Adams, licensed engineer. Date: 1925

First balloon flight over the English Channel, from Dover to the French coast, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Seen here is the balloon in flight between Calais and Boulogne, with a fisherman

A French woman picking grapes in a vineyard. The rural French countryside

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

Silhouette, Straws Show Which Way the Wind Blows
Straws Show Which Way the Wind Blows -- silhouette showing a farm labourer loading straw onto a cart on a windy day

Cartoon on Laziness
" Whats that! You ve got the sack at the Munition Works! - What for?" " I Dunno - I never done nothing!" Date: circa 1915

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

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

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

Chile - Agricultural Labourers Camp
The customs of the agricultural labourers in Chile - a temporary camp where the men are spit-roasting meat and drinking Chilean wine. Date: circa 1910

C12th Male Dress
Labourer: Phrygian cap, hooded tunic hitched up, long stockings & short boots. Rich Jew: conical hat with brim, mantle pinned with a brooch, super-tunic, girdle & pouch. Date: 12th century

Scene outside city wall in Kashgar, western China
Workers in a field outside a city wall in Kashgar, western China

Satire on the plea for a labourers vote
Excellent political satire on the plea for a labourers vote, as both a Tory and a Liberal Politician get down on their knees to beg for the vote of the common working man

Shovelling rubble onto a lorry
A workman bends down to shovel up some rubble from roadworks onto the back of a lorry

Digging up the tarmac on a road
A workman in a trilby hat digs up the tarmac surface of a road with a pneumatic drill

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