Manual Collection (page 2)

Expert grinder at Wilkinson Sword Works, WW1
Expert grinder at Wilkinson Sword Works, working on a new bayonet during the First World War. 1914-1918

Poster, Four Years in the Fight, WW1
YWCA Poster, design by Lucien Jonas, Four Years in the Fight, The Women of France, We Owe Them Houses of Cheer, United War Work Campaign, First World War. circa 1918

Great Crane at Woolwich Arsenal, in south east London, London, laying in marsh land between Greenwich and Gravesend. The majority of heavy guns for the Navy

Waltham Abbey Haymaking
Haymaking with a horse and plough on a farm at Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. Date: early 1930s

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

Graphology Manual
GRAPHOLOGIE French manual by Dr Cornelius Ruys on the study of handwriting

Harvest workers near St Davids, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Harvest workers gathering and threshing near St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Italian Miner - Mineo, Sicily. It is likely he was employed to mine the local calcareous ashlars, used to build many of Mineos public buildings

French Cartomancy Book
Comment se tirer les cartes soi-meme (How to interpret the cards yourself) - a French popular manual by Madame Athena

Electric Tattooer
Max O Reilly, of New York, invents an electric tattooing pen which is not only faster than the manual method, but also less painful

An early typing pool
From the start, typing was perceived as the archetypal employment opportunity for women : this is the Typing Office of the Society for the Employment of Women

French Philately Manual
Albert Laplanches popular guide to stamp collecting

PIANO-TYPE FIRE ENGINE
Piano type manual fire-engine, named after a resemblance of the shape of the bodywork to that instrument. Nozzles and branch-pipes were carried on brackets on the main frame

Late C18 Fire Engine
Known as a bed-poster, this London engine is a manual machine worked by pumping handles on either side : a Beadle and a Watchman are in official attendance

Reading the Cards
French manual on how to tell fortunes with playing cards

WW2 poster, Lend a Hand on the Land, the Londoners Land Club. Date: circa 1940

Rubber Plantation - Malaysia - Overseer and Coolies. Date: circa 1910s

Field Gun outside the TJaegershof Restaurant
The restaurant has a small but interesting museum which is concerned with the activities nearby, including the St Sixtus Abbey

Silhouette, Ploughman with plough and horses

Logging scene near Auburn, California, USA, known for its California Gold Rush history. Date: circa 1908

British recruitment poster, Are You in this? WW1
British recruitment poster, design by Robert Baden-Powell, Are You in this? First World War. 1915

Boys and girls taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. They were working on a river project. Date: 1963

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

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 1 and Bedford MK
Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1 being pushed back into its hide by a Bedford MK 4-tonner, during a field deployment in Germany

French engravers workshop, men working on wood blocks Date: 1897

The Engravers Workshop, Engraving and Printing on Copper Date: 1853

Inking the Copper Plate, Engraving and Printing on Copper Date: 1853

The Printing Press Room, Engraving and Printing on Copper Date: 1853

The Copperplate Press, Engraving and Printing on Copper Date: 1853

Weighing and Packing Tobacco at Ogden's Factory, Liverpool Date: 20th century

Ocean Liner - Stokers Manual 1912
Ocean Liner - rare copy of the 1912 Stokers Manual. Date: 1912

Earliest practical reaper harvester invented by Rev Patrick Bell Date: 1828

Mrs Tryon the Tailor's Wife

Mrs Mills the Miller's Wife

Mr Mills the Miller

Mr Tryon the Tailor

Mr Snob the Shoemaker

Mr Pots the Painter

Mr Chips the Carpenter

Mr Brick the Builder

Brownies ploughing the fields Date: 1910

Brownies in the Bakery Date: 1910

Brownies harvesting the cornfields Date: 1910

The Tan Yard, Leather Factory Date: 1874

Pottery Making scenes Date: 1874

Rounding Pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

Polishing Pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

Paper making from rags Date: 1874

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