Manual Collection (page 9)

Rubber Factory workers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

National telephone exchange 1 January 1912
The General Post Office of the British government assumed all control of the national telephone system. Date: January 1912

Labrador dog at window, with typewriter, Crediton, Devon
Labrador dog at an open window, with a manual typewriter inside the room, Crediton, Devon. Date: 1963

Four men with trowels and cement on boards, USA
Four men with trowels and cement on boards, outside a log cabin, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Four cooks inside their work premises, USA
Four cooks inside their work premises, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Railway workers outside their work premises, USA
Five railway workers outside their work premises, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Butchers and others outside their work premises, USA
Butchers and colleagues outside their work premises, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Blacksmiths outside their foundry or forge, USA
Three blacksmiths and two other men outside a foundry or forge, North America. Date: circa 1910s

The Cotton Industry, a Romance of Modern Work -- trade design. 1920

Men at work on bomb-damaged house
Men at work on a bomb-damaged house, just after the end of the Second World War. circa 1946

Workers in the sugar fields, Fiji, South Pacific. Date: circa 1900s

Communist China - communal exercise session
Communal exercise session for timberyard workers during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China. circa 1970

Communist China - farm workers in discussion. They are probably educated people from a town or city, forced to do manual work, in this case fruit picking, during the Cultural Revolution. circa 1960s

Communist China - agricultural workers, probably educated people from a town or city, forced to do manual work during the Cultural Revolution

Susi - with manual typewriter
Susi - standing on top of a manual typewriter, her back paws on the keys. 1950s

Cadburys Happy Families - Mr Roses
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Mr Roses the Gardener. circa 1950

Sleeping workmen in a cart
Two exhausted workmen sleeping in the back of a cart. circa 1900

Ploughing with horses
Man ploughing a field with two shire horses. circa 1910

Elizabethan servants polishing saucepans

Welchs Table-Cloth Printing Works, showing embossing presses, dye wheel, beck, and printing by hand. 1852

Italian missionary pipe layers, Kenya, East Africa
Italian missionary industrial pipe layers, Kenya, East Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Malo-les-Bains, France - women fishing for shrimp
Malo-les-Bains, France - two women fishing for shrimp sieve through shallow water with large nets on poles. circa 1910s

People at work, The London Gazette
People at work in the offices of The London Gazette, near Fleet Street, London. The publication has been described by some as the worlds most boring newspaper

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

Removal of horse trough in Eastbourne, Sussex
Removal of a horse trough on a street in Eastbourne, Sussex. Date: circa 1962

Air crash investigation, clerical staff at work
Air crash investigation, three clerical staff at work in an office. Date: 1960s

Picking oranges, Riverside, California, USA
Workers picking navel oranges, Riverside, California, USA. The boxes are labelled Riverside Navel Orange Company. Date: 1898

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