Manual Collection (page 7)

Java, Indonesia - Ploughing with a team of oxen. Date: circa 1930s

Methods of Arresting Bleeding with various tourniquets, clamps, manual pressure, forceps, knotted handkerchiefs and bandages. Date: circa 1880s

Syrian Porter carries two enormous trunks on his back
A Syrian Porter carries two enormous trunks on his back. Date: circa 1910s

Coalman delivering coal in a street of houses. Date: circa 1970s

Plumbago preparation, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Plumbago (Leadwort) preparation, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Distress in Lancashire: mill-hands work on Preston Moors
The distress in Lancashire: mill-hands at work on Preston Moors. Unemployed operatives levelling waste ground on the north side of the town, over seen by inspectors

Jones Sewing Machine - By Royal Appointment
Jones Sewing Machine - by Royal Appointment to both the former Queen Alexandra and current (then ) Queen Mary. Date: circa 1910s

Croydon Fire Brigade, Thornton Heath horse fire engine
Thornton Heath was one of three stations in the Croydon Fire Brigade -- the other two were the main Croydon headquarters station and South Norwood

Foundry workers, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The moulders at Robert Warners Foundry, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in a group photo outside the moulding shop. The large gear wheels were used in the manufacture of water pumps for which the foundry

Men with dram, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three men with a loaded dram (truck) of coal at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Comic postcard, Underground Movement Date: 20th century

Workmen sweeping snow on a Christmas card -- New brooms sweep clean. Date: circa 1890s

Tea plantation workers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Tea plantation workers in the fields, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1930

Quarry workers, Boma, Belgian Congo, West Africa. Date: circa 1905

Construction workers outside a large building, USA
Large group of construction workers (possibly carpenters, painters, builders, etc) outside a large building, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Communist China - teachers doing manual work
Communist China - teachers from Qinghua (Tsinghua) University and Beijing University forced to do heavy manual work during the Cultural Revolution period

Road making on Praslin Island, Seychelles
Road making on Praslin Island, part of Dr N P Jewells remit in the Seychelles, Indian Ocean. 1912-1914

Ship breakers of T W Ward Ltd, with old boiler
Ship breakers, T W Ward Ltd (headquarters in Sheffield) -- men at work (possibly in Morecambe) with an old steamship boiler. Date: circa 1908

Three frogs learning how to swim on a greetings postcard -- two of them are reading the instruction manual while another one teaches them. Date: circa 1890s

Book of Trades, The Quarry Man. 1841

Cotton gins, Kilwa Kivinje, Tanzania, East Africa
Men working at cotton gins at Kilwa Kivinje, German East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1900

Tea plantation workers, Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Date: circa 1920s

ZULOAGA, Santiago Agust�(18th century). Spanish
ZULOAGA, Santiago Agust� (18th century). Spanish miltary marine. Navigation Manual and dictionary Tratado instructivo y prᣴ ico de maniobras navales

Two men cross-cutting tree trunk, Western Front, WW1
Two men cross-cutting a tree trunk on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Man ploughing with two horses
A man ploughing with two horses in a field

Tunisia - Metlaoui - Phosphate Society Mines of Sfax-Gafsa - unloading the wagns. Date: circa 1910s

A group of Coolies, India. Historically, a coolie (variously spelled cooli, cooly, kuli, quli, koelie etc.) was an Asian slave or manual labourer, particularly in southern China

Four genera of sea-weed. Engraving by James Peterkin, from William Henry Harvey, A manual of British marine algae. Date: 1849

Portrait of William Henry Harvey. Stipple engraving by F. Holl after Sir Frederick William Burton R.H.A. R.W.S. (1816-1900), from William Henry Harvey, A manual of British marine algae

LCC-MFB Red Cross Street fire station, City of London
Red Cross Street fire station, City of London, built by the London County Council (LCC) and opened in 1900. It was one of four fire stations (plus a river station at Blackfriars)

Fire brigade horse drawn manual fire pump
A horse drawn manual fire pump typical of those used by the London Fire Engine Establishment (1833) and in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade before the widespread introduction of horse drawn steam engines

Cheam Borough Fire Brigade, Surrey
Superintendent of Cheam Fire Brigade with the winners of a Brigade competition shield. A manual horse drawn pump stands in the rear

Carrying-in boy in Alexandria Glass Factory, Alexandria, Va. Works on day shift one week and night shift next week. See photo 2261. Location: Alexandria, Virginia. Date 1911 June

Addie Card, anaemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. See photo No. 1056. Location: Vermont. Date 1910 August

Sign Language Card
DACTYLOLOGIE - manual alphabet for deaf-mutes. Date: late 19th century

Silver and copper works, Chile, South America

Hullah and his pupils, 1842
John Pyke Hullah (1812 -1884), English composer and teacher of music, with his pupils at the second great choral meeting at Exeter Hall in 1842

Summoning a Spirit
Standing in a magic circle, manual in one hand and sword (to be on the safe side) in the other, a magician summons a spirit to do his bidding

Susi - with kitten and typewriter. 1950s

Woman helping with the harvest, WW1
Woman helping with the harvest during the First World War, 31 July 1916. Date: 1916

Milkmaid and cow, Madresfield, Worcestershire, WW1
Milkmaid (D Pentreath) and Midget the Jersey cow, in the village of Madresfield, near Malvern, Worcestershire, during the First World War. Date: 1915

French Railway Alphabet - Z for Zingueurs (metalworkers). 19th century

French Railway Alphabet - U for Usine (workshop). 19th century

Man at work thatching a cottage roof, West Country. Date: circa 1960s

Steam fitters at loco shed, Exeter St Davids, Devon
A group of four steam fitters outside the locomotive service shed at Exeter St Davids station, Devon. Date: 1959

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