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Pedro Velarde y Santillan (1779-1808). Spanish captain. SignPedro Velarde y Santillan (1779-1808). Spanish artillery captain famous for his death in the Dos de Mayo. Sign manual. Velarde Museum. Muriendas. Cantabria. Spain
Parchment. 11th century. Land donation for Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. Document signed by the Abbot Oliva (972-1046). Episcopal Museum of Vic. Catalonia. Spain
Figurine depicting a carder at the 17th and 18th centuries. Sabadell History Museum. Catalonia. Spain
Workers on sugar plantation, Trinidad, West IndiesWorkers on a sugar plantation, cutting and carting sugar cane, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: circa 1910s
Road building on Guam, Western PacificRoad building on the American island of Guam, Western Pacific. Date: circa 1908
Hop Picking -- a Victorian family in the English countryside. 19th century
Book of Trades, The Rope Maker. 1841
Cheery Families - Mr Clamp the Carpenter. 1890s
Book of Trades, The Pavier. 1841
Book of Trades, The Wheel Wright. 1841
Book of Trades, The Sawyer. 1841
Japanese Scene - Labourers take a break in a paddy field. Date: circa 1908
Road worker with cement and wheelbarrowRoad worker in a residential street with spade, cement and wheelbarrow. Date: 1970s
MANUEL GARCIA 1805-1906MANUEL PATRICIO RODRIGUEZ GARCIA son of Manual del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garcia, the famed Spanish tenor. He invented the laryngoscope. Date: 1805 - 1906
Suez Construction 4Digging the cutting between the Sweet Water canal and Nefiche : giving some idea of the massive scale of the operation, most of which is done by manual labour. Date: 1863
POTTERS 1827Potters at work, using a manually-operated wheel. Date: 1827
Boat Building by machinery. 1861
Lumber workers in El Dorado County, California, USA with a pile of pine trunks. Date: circa 1910s
Steam shovel at Santa Cruz, Panama Canal constructionBucyrus steam shovel in operation, at Santa Cruz, Panama Canal construction, loading railcars with soil. Date: circa 1914
Fishermen hauling fish onto a junk, ChinaTwo fishermen hauling a catch of fish up onto a junk, China. Date: circa 1930
People working in a back yard, ChinaPeople working in a back yard, with pig rooting around, China. Date: circa 1930
Man and boy, seed drill, field near Plymouth, DevonMan and boy with horse and seed drill in a field near Plymouth, Devon. circa 1960s
Scene in a timber yard, DevonScene in a timber yard in Devon, with a man standing on a pile of tree trunks, and another tree trunk being lifted above him. In the foreground are piles of cut planks. Date: circa 1960s
Man in timber yard, sawing tree trunk, DevonMan in a timber yard, sawing a tree trunk, Devon. Date: circa 1960s
Narrow gauge railway with men and skip wagonNarrow gauge railway with men, tipper skip wagon loaded with rocks, and quarry buildings. Date: circa 1920
Man at work thatching a roof, Devon. circa 1960s
Man working on road repairs, Liverpool Road, EcclesA man working on road repairs in Liverpool Road, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977
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
Laying a railway track near Lima, Ohio, USAMen at work laying a railway track near Lima, Ohio, USA, with a field of wheat in the foreground. Date: circa 1900
Woman at work in a kitchen, Mexico. Date: circa 1905
Cartoon, Consequences of a Successful French Invasion, Me teach de English Republicans to work. Scene, A Ploughed Field. By James Gillray. Date: 1798
Mullers New Orphan Houses, Bristol - CarpentryBoys learn carpentry in the manual training class at Mullers New Orphan Houses, Bristol
French Theatre -- Farce du Porteur d EauFarce du Porteur d Eau (Farce of the Water Carrier). A water carrier with two buckets suspended from a metal ring says how much he likes to see pretty girls as he walks along the street. Date: 1632
Men engaged in roadworks with a lorry alongside. Date: circa 1930s
WW1 - Cartoon - Allies working togetherWW1 - A cartoon depicting allies on the Western Front working together. Date: 1918
Fairground worker closing lorry before departureA fairground worker closing the back of the final lorry before departure to a new location. Date: circa 1960s
Scouts and cubs at work, Ghana, West AfricaScouts and cubs at work clearing a compound, Ghana, West Africa
Firemen by Thomas RowlandsonA sedan chair transporting 2 ladies preceeded by a fireman. Pedestrians carrying a lamp and sheilding from the rain with an umbrella
Workers with hammers
Workmen hammering rivets into a vessel
Kensington Vestry firefighters with trailer pump. Date: 1860s
Weekly LFB drill display with manual and motor pumpsWeekly LFB drill display with an old manual pump and a modern turbine motor pump both brought into action, 26 August 1936. Date: 1936
Weekly LFB drill display with old manual pumpWeekly LFB drill display with an old manual pump brought into action, 26 August 1936. Date: 1936
Firefighter in Orange Street, London W1, WW2Firefighter operating a two-man manual hose in Orange Street, London W1, 21 September 1942. Date: 1942
Shand Mason horse-drawn manual pump and crewA Shand Mason horse-drawn manual pump, with crew from Red Cross Street fire station in traditional costume, taking part in the 1932 Lord Mayors Show, City of London
LFB firefighter, manual method of hose layingAn LFB firefighter in brass helmet demonstrating the manual method of hose laying, with the hose in folds over his shoulder
LFB firefighters pulling manual hose cartLFB firefighters at Fire Station D (Floating) pulling a manual hose cart and ladder, August 1938. Date: 1938
