Shift Collection

Coal miners in shaft lift, South Wales
Several coal miners with blackened faces stand in the shaft lift at the end of their shift in a coal mine in South Wales

Night Shift by David Wright featuring a cheeky red-haired woman wearing a diaphanous night dress, seated on a luxurious satin bed

Miners in a Lift Shaft
Miners about to descend for their shift underground at Lynemouth Colliery

A womens war workers football match in London, 1917
The team of munitions night workers taking the field for a football match against the day shift women, in the London district. Date: 1917

Miners and owner, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A group of men at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. They are the current shift of miners plus the owner, standing near a wooden headframe connected to a mineshaft

Glapwell Colliery, Mining
Miners from Glapwell Colliery, north east Derbyshire, black and dirty from the pit at the end of their work shift. Some carry miners lamps

Typewriter Keys / Fortune
Typewriter keys on the cover of a magazine

Holeproof Hosiery 1924
A woman, so proud & pleased with her Holeproof stockings, bends down to admire them while she daintily lifts her black see-through shift out of the way

Wellington reorganizes his defence - Battle of Waterloo
7pm - June 18, 1815. The Duke of Wellington reorganizes his central defence after the loss of La Haye Sainte. At the same time, The Prussians once again regain control of Plancenoit

Glapwell Colliery, Mining
A miner from Glapwell Colliery, north east Derbyshire, black and dirty from the pit at the end of his work shift. A group of cleaner looking miners wait, possibly to start their shift

Tennis-playing brunette beauty prepares to smash
Striking! A tennis-playing brunette beauty prepares to hit a net-side smash shot. It looks like game, set and match for her handsome male companion. Date: early 1940s

Burnley Miners / 1956
Miners coming off their shift, at Cape Bank Hall Pit, in Burnley, Lancashire

Roller-skating girl cutting a dash on the beachside boardwal
Frivolous - a roller-skating beauty cutting a dash on the beachside boardwalk Date: early 1940s

Glapwell Colliery, Mining
Miners from Glapwell Colliery, north east Derbyshire, black and dirty from the pit at the end of their work shift. Glapwell colliery closed in the 1970s

Clay Cross Miners
Colliers - getters of the coal - at the end of the shift at Clay Cross mine

Harrods advertisement Yves St Laurent dress
Advertisement for London department store, Harrods, featuring a knee length, long-sleeved shift dress designed by Yves St Laurent but made in London exclusively for Harrods

Young Girls Underwear
A girl wears lace & ribbon edged cotton drawers, a chemise, a wadded bodice to keep her chest warm, socks & shoes with a bar across the instep

Coal Mining Miner at end of his shift early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Alma Rubens
Actress Alma Rubens (1897-1931) appearing as Lady Hermione in the film Gerald Cranston's Lady'. Date: 1924

Turkish women - 1920s - Liberation in Dress
A set of cards issued to reflect the fact that soon after Ataturk took over in Turkey in the 1920s, there was liberation by women from the old modes of dress

Motomachi Street, Kobe, Japan - popular shopping street. Date: circa 1910s

Nottinghamshire Miners
A group of Nottinghamshire miners leave the pithead after completing their shift Date: January 1974

Notts strikers and their last mornings work: The final shift at Clifton Colliery. Date: October 1920

Paddington Station, arrival of the night Mail 1902
Arrival of the night mail at Paddington Railway Station, London. Date: 1902

Shop girls dressing in the morning. Four shop girls dressing, fixing their hair in front of mirror, adjusting their stockings, playing with a cat. These little workers show such ingenious coquetry

Women playing a portable game of fate, while
Les Oublies. A woman in the shade of a tree eats oublies (pastries, also known as plaisirs), while two women and a girl spin an arrow on a portable barrel as a man in gaiters looks

Railway train with rotary snow shifter. 1893

Washing L. C. C. tramcars 1900
In the evening trams go back to the yard at ten oclock and are still coming in at eleven, the stableman promptly takes the horses and cleaning can begin

Cartoon portrait, GEORGE JOACHIM GOSCHEN, 1st VISCOUNT GOSCHEN MP, as a parrot on a perch, whose allegiances shift from Conservative to Liberal according to circumstances. Date: 1881

Pits and pitmen - night-shift 1871
Night-shift down the pits, half an hour before the shift starts at five-thirty in the evening, the miners meet on the pit-heap for a chat by a fire, this engraving was took from Seaham

French Campaign in Morocco - Red Cross - Casablanca Hospital - A Nurse working a ten hour shift. Date: 1908

Studio Portrait of a woman in elegant shift dress and string of pearls - note the attractive folding table she is resting against... Date: 1910s

Miners at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall -- leaving at the end of the last shift, before the mine was closed. Date: circa 1986

Anne Ballantyne and Rosemary Flegg, 1960s fashions
Anne Ballantyne, secretary to Kasim, the art dealer, pictured with Rosemary Flegg, theatre and dress designer. Both girls are wearing dresses designed by Flegg with ric rac trim and embellishment

Tall blonde with pink nightdress and stockings
Step-in High! A tall blonde girl in profile, with long long legs and stockings and a sheer pink nightdress -she stands in front of some fine floral wallpaper. Date: early 1940s

Pretty girl caught getting dressed
Caught " Una-wears" - a curly-haired lovely is shocked to be discovered whilst getting dressed into a tiny sheer green undergarment. Date: early 1940s

Young girl in a pink dress with leaves and flowers
A young girl in a bright pink dress, holding a bunch of leaves and flowers. 1920

Susie Bisco in 1960s fashions
Susie Bisco, fashion coordinator for an advertising agency in New York, pictured wearing a black and white check dress (and English import for Bigi of Bergdorf Goodman)

Charlotte Rampling in Jean Varon
Actress Charlotte Rampling (born 1946) pictured in her Avengers dress by Jean Varon (designed by British designer John Bates), black and white crepe

Maternity wear by Motherhood, 1965
Mrs Peter Blond (aka the model Virginia Wynne-Thomas) pictured wearing a simple maternity shift dress in Liberty-print wool of marigold colours on black with double frills at the elbows

No Peeking! A brunette lays down the law to a Peeping Tom
No Peeking! A brunette lays down the law to an invisible onlooker, who is seemingly admiring her choice of tiny red (with black spots) beach wear and red high heeled shoes. Date: early 1940s

Peek-a-boo! A Blonde starlet with tights and bare back
Peek-a-boo! A Blonde starlet standing alongside a some red stage curtains covered in little black stars, looks back over her shoulder

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

Listening post WWI
Listening post in a mine shift during World War I

Industrial Ireland in wartime: how Belfast is doing its bit, including with making ships and munitions, gathering sphagnum moss for wound dressings, and sending men for the front. 1916

Modern and Old Costume in Turkey
Soon after Ataturk took over in Turkey in the 1920s, there was liberation by women from the old modes of dress. Instead of impenetrable veils, they wore lighter, thinner veils

Uckingen Ironworks / 1899
Change of shift at Uckingen Ironworks, Germany. Date: 1899

Lady Dressing Circa 1860
A well dressed young lady, in evening dress, assists another lady to dress. Her camisole or possibly chemise is clearly visible & her gown is obviously in two parts. Date: circa 1860

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