Sorting Collection (page 2)

Czech Republic - Mobile Post Office - Auto Posta
Czech Republic - Mobile Post Office and Sorting Vehicle - Auto Posta. Date: 1937

Duke of York at the reconstructed G. P. O. at Mount Pleasant
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) at the reconstructed G.P.O. at sorting Office at Mount Pleasant, London - November 1934

A young woman doing up her Fathers smock
A young woman sorting out her Fathers smock, preparing for him to go out with his (equally-elderly) wife, whilst her man stands to one side, with a sack over his shoulders

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Coke Production Area
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto Coke Production Area. Date: circa 1910s

Fig packing - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig packing at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Perfumerie Bruno Court at Grasse, France. Sorting through roses at long benches. A vertitable riot of colour and aroma

Scene in the harbour, Aberdeen, Scotland
Scene in the harbour, with fishermen sorting their catch and buyers browsing, Aberdeen, Scotland. Date: 1962

Paddington Postal FC football team
Paddington Postal (sorting office) football team, 1904-1905. Date: 1904-1905

Japan - Winnowing the rice by hand and by machine. Date: circa 1910s

Communist China - sorting weapons and ammunition
Communist China - soldiers sorting weapons and boxes of ammunition captured from the enemy, probably during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). circa 1940s

Sorting medical supplies, Schaedels Farm, Lindi, WW1
Sorting medical supplies for the dressing station at Schaedels Farm, a place of relaxation for exhausted soldiers near Lindi, East Africa, during WW1. 1917

Sorting Eels in the Tanks, Toome - a view of a man sorting eels at the waterside with another man onlooking. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

The Harvest of the Sea, Ardglass - a view on the harbour pier of lots of workers sorting and cleaning fish. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Ardglass). Date: circa early 1900s

Sorting and weighing diamonds, Kimberley, South Africa, circa 1888 (Robert Harris studio). Date: circa 1888

W. P. Hartleys Aintree Works - Grading Seville oranges
W. P. Hartleys Aintree Works - Women workers grading and classifying Seville oranges and selecting those good enough for Hartley s. Date: circa 1906

Illustrated London News cover - the Diamond Diggers
Front cover of The Illustrated London News showing two diamond diggers in South Africa, in the valley of the Vaal river, Orange Free State

Post Office Sorting 1904
The General Post Office, St Martin s-Le-Grand, London: Foreign Mail Sorting Room. (1 of 2) Date: 1904

Sorting Laundry
A young housewife sorts out a pile of laundry. Date: 1940s

Gpo Parcel Sorting
The General Post Office, London : sorting parcels at Mount Pleasant Date: 1939

African-American women and children sorting cotton at the Atlantic Cotton Compress Company in Pensacola, Florida, USA. Date: 1900s

GPO Sorting Office, Mount Pleasant, London
GPO Sorting Office, Mount Pleasant, Farringdon, near Grays Inn, County of London, England. Date: 1903

Lux advertisement, 1923
Advertisement for Lux soap, manufactured by Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight. Ideal for dainty fabrics the illustration shows a mother and her children sorting through clothing from her drawers

Clearing away wreckage at Cuffley by Matania, WW1
A scene at Cuffley, Hertfordshire showing the wreckage of the L-21 German zeppelin airship brought down by Lieut. William Leefe Robinson on the night of 2 September 1916

Blitz in London -- aftermath of bombing, with some people sorting through the rubble and others stopping for a refreshment break. Date: 1940s

Interior of a sorting car on a newspaper express train
London newspapers being sorted and packed in transit on board an express train in specially constructed cars, during the night journey

Sorting & packing newspapers overnight at W H Smith
Men working at long tables at W. H. Smith sorting and packing newspapers for distribution by rail throughout the country. Each of the long tables represented a main railway line

Departure of mail to British Soldiers
The regular despatch of soldierss letters and parcels throughout World War One. Several million letters and cards are sent weekly to different fronts

Viscountess Gladstone working for base hospitals, WW1
Viscountess Gladstone, along with the Hon. Lilian and Winifred Douglas Pennant (half -sisters of Lord Penrhyn) and Miss Poole working to provide garments

Women farm workers 1917
First World War women farm workers, sorting potatoes into sizes to be sent to London. Date: 1917

Soldiers sorting military post, WW1
Men of the Royal Engineers sorting out letters at the G.P.O in 1915. The ever-increasing volume of letters and parcels to troops in various parts of the world necessitated experienced men who

Women sorting coffee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Women sorting silk worms, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Cleaning and sorting coffee, India
Workers cleaning and sorting coffee, India. Date: circa 1890s

British artillerymen sorting shells, Western Front, WW1
British artillerymen sorting shells in the snow on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

King George VI visits a Royal Ordnance factory, WWII
King George VI being given a tour of inspection of a Royal Ordnance factory and seeing at first-hand the immense effort being put in to produce arms, in this case anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns

Poole Fishermen
A group of fishermen on the beach at Poole, Dorset, England, sorting their fishing nets. Date: early 1930s

Margate Fishermen
A group of fishermen on the beach at Margate, Kent, England, sorting their fishing nets. Date: early 1930s

Sorting Hair 1930S
A young woman sorting and packing hair, perhaps for wigs or even bedding. Date: early 1930s

Carrying Mail Sacks
Trusty workers at the General Post Office, lugging huge sacks of heavy mail over their shoulders. Date: early 1930s

Pounding rice - Malabar region of Southern India
Sifting, sorting and pounding rice with a large pestle and mortar - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

Kimberley, South Africa - Convicts sorting for diamonds Date: circa 1903

Sorting and weighing tea leaves - Sri Lanka
Sorting and weighing tea leaves at the Great Western Tea Factory - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1920s

Packing Easter Lily Buds, Bermuda. Date: 1906

Salvation Army Elevator - Sorting Paper and String
A man at work sorting paper and string at one of the Elevator depots run by the Salvation Army to provide work for destitute men. Date: 1938

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