Manual Collection (page 5)

Apple rose, Rosa villosa
Apple rose, Rosier velu, Rosa villosa. Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Mlle. F. Legendre from Pierre Boitards Rose-Lovers Complete Manual, Roret, Paris 1836

Provence rose, Rosa provincialis
Provence rose, Rose de provins, Rosa provincialis. Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Mlle. F

Burnet rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia (Rose pimprenelle, Rosa spinosissima). Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Mlle. F

Alpine rose, Rosa alpina
Alpine rose, Rose des Alpes, Rosa alpina. Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Borromee from Pierre Boitards Rose-Lovers Complete Manual, Roret, Paris 1836

Virginia rose, Rosa lucida
Virginia rose, Rosa luisante, Rosa lucida. Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Mlle. F

Bracteate rose, Rosa bracteata
Bracteate rose, Rose bracteolee, Rosa bracteata. Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Borromee from Pierre Boitards Rose-Lovers Complete Manual, Roret, Paris 1836

Rosa horrida (Rose herisson, Rosa ferox). Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Borromee from Pierre Boitards Rose-Lovers Complete Manual, Roret, Paris 1836

Austrian copper rose, Rosa foetida (Rose jaune capucine, Rosa lutea var. bicolor). Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Mlle. F

Rosa persica (Rosier a feuilles simples, Rosa simplicifolia). Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Borromee from Pierre Boitards Rose-Lovers Complete Manual

Craftsmen at floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London
Craftsmen at work in the printing room of the Smith and Baber floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London. They are spreading paint on printing blocks

Craftsman at floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London
Craftsman at work at the Smith and Baber floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London, spreading thick paint onto a canvas cloth with a long trowel. Date: 1842

View inside a floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London
View inside the Smith and Baber floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London, showing the drying room. Date: 1842

View inside a copper and lead factory, London
View inside the Pontifex and Wood copper and lead factory, Shoe Lane, London. Date: 1842

Sumach tan tub at a leather factory, south London
Sumach tan tub (part of the goatskin tanning process) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Gas works retort house, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London
Men at work in the retort house of the gas works at Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. The retort house contained the retorts (vessels) in which coal was heated to generate the gas

Gas works, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London
Scene outside the gas works in Horseferry Road, Westminster, London, at a time when the streets were lit by gas. Date: 1842

People working in a soap and candle factory, south London
People working in the B T & W Hawes soap and candle factory on the south bank of the River Thames in London, showing soap-boiling coppers. 1842

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

Combine harvester at work in a field, Cornwall, with a group of children on the left. Date: 1965

Man operating a combine harvester, Cornwall. Date: 1965

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

Typical British Industries - File Cutters. 1892

Hop pickers waiting for the midnight train, London Bridge Station, London. 1892

Ship construction in a British dockyard, WW1
Ship construction in a British dockyard, First World War. 1914-1918

The New System of Delivering Coal. circa 1840

Almacks Petite Ball-Room Manual and Polka Guide
Book cover, Almacks Petite Ball-Room Manual and Polka Guide. circa 1850

Emigration - Arrival in Canadian Forest
Emigration - Arrival in the Canadian Forest - no work no eat. 19th century

Woodcutter at work, Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France
Woodcutter at work in the hunting forest at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, near the famous Chateau de Chambord, built for King Francis I in the 16th century. Date: 1922

Peasant women sawing wood, Republic of Estonia
Peasant women sawing wood in winter, wearing warm sheepskin coats, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922

Young woman at harvest time, Republic of Estonia, carrying a rake and sickle. Date: 1922

Peasant workers having a tea break, Republic of Estonia
Peasant workers having an afternoon tea break, with black bread and weak tea from a samovar, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922

Young peasant woman shearing a sheep, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922

Young housewife at work, Republic of Estonia
Young housewife at work, doing the laundry in a three-legged washtub, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922

Peasant washerwomen at work, Republic of Estonia
Three peasant washerwomen at work by the river, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922

Three fishermen outside their hut, East Anglia, England, one of them repairing his nets, the other two chatting. Date: 1922

Fisherman repairing his nets, East Anglia, England. Date: 1922

Shoeshine man in a Central London street, ready and waiting with his brushes on display. Date: 1922

Two women doing building work, Vienna, Austria
Two women doing building work, mixing cement, in a suburb of Vienna, Austria. Date: 1922

Woman working in cold storage carrying meat, WW1
Woman working in cold storage carrying meat during the First World War. 1914-1918

Craftsmen overhauling lamps, South Wales
The Great Coal Strike - craftsmen busy overhauling lamps in South Wales. 1921

Margarine factory fighting food shortage, WW1
Margarine factory fighting a food shortage due to German submarine action during the First World War. 1914-1918

Great Railway strike, LNW managers and clerical staff
Great Railway strike - LNW (London and North Western) Railway managers and clerical staff loading food. 1919

Women workers loading cart at London Gas Works, WW1
Women workers loading a coke cart at a London Gas Works during the First World War. 1914-1918

Infant feeding and management, 1925
Front cover from a manual on infant feeding and management, produced by Allen and Hanbury s. Date: 1925

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

Man carrying a heavy weight. Date: circa 1910s

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