Sorting Collection (page 4)

Firefighters doing productive work in lull period, WW2
During the longer lulls in firefighting activities, NFS firefighters took part in industrial production for the countrys war needs

Delivery of the mail at Rand Airport - Johannesburg
Card issued for the Empire Exhibition - Johannesburg, South Africa. The airmail section of the General Post Office in Johannesburg

English man sorting fabrics for trade in Yokohama. Japanese print shows a merchant examining cloth which possibly reminds him of his wife

Making a new road, Palestine
Men and boys employed in making a new road in Palestine. Date: early 20th century

Date picking and collecting - Iran
The Date Industry in Iran - picking, sorting and boxing. Date: circa 1910s

Preparation of Palm Oil - Sierra Leone Date: circa 1904

Gunners with heavy gun and shells, Salonika Front, WW1
Gunners sorting shells for a heavy gun on the Salonika Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

Trimming Sponges, Nassau, Bahamas Date: circa 1910s

Sorting Whale Blubber
Fishermen sorting out whale blubber on shore. Date: 1930s

Swedish Air Cadets
New Swedish Air Force recruits sorting out their uniforms in front of their barracks. Date: 1930s

Edecan Champagne
Sober women sorting bottles of Edecan Champagne, Mexico, South America. Date: 1930s

Geology Students
Sixth form A level Geology students, sorting through their booty after a day on nearby May Hill. The Wilderness Field Study Centre, Britain. Date: early 1970s

Muslim women sorting ammunition, Turkey, WW1
Muslim women sorting ammunition for the British army in Turkey during the First World War. Date: 1917

Australian Field Post Office, Henencourt, France, WW1
Scene inside the Australian Field Post Office at Henencourt, northern France, during the First World War, showing men sorting the post into pigeonholes. Date: March 1918

Chinese man, Tank Corps workshop, Teneur, France, WW1
A Chinese worker salvaging tank track plates at the British Tank Corps Central Workshops, Teneur, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Middlesex House of Correction, Clerkenwell, London
The Middlesex House of Correction, opened in 1794, was later known as Cold Bath Prison, then Clerkenwell Gaol. It became a debtors prison before closing in 1885

Coal screening machine, Llanerch Colliery, South Wales
View of a jigger or coal screening machine at Llanerch Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

Paper sorting, Salvation Army Elevator
Men sorting paper at one of the Salvation Army Elevators. The Elevators provided the destitute with both short-term work and hostel-style accommodation

Woman sorting out washing in a river
A woman standing knee deep in a river, sorting out items for washing which she has placed on various rocks

Food drying or sorting in Kashgar, western China
Men drying or sorting food on mats in the open air in Kashgar, western China

Sorting the herring catch at St Ives, Cornwall
Fishermen sorting the herring catch from nets into boxes and baskets on the beach at St Ives, Cornwall

Life on board a man-of-war
Life in the British navy on board a man-of-war. 1. Playing up the colours, 8am; 2. A Corrobborie in the gun room on Saturday night; 3. Taking up the slops; 4

Selection and packing of dates at Nefta, Tunisia
The sorting / selection and packing into cases of dates at Nefta, Tunisia

Poster depicting the sorting of manganese ore
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting the sorting of manganese ore

Sorting Mail
Sorting mail at the post office at the turn of the century

Izmir, Turkey - The Sorting of Figs
Fig sorting at a depot Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey

Izmir, Turkey - Tobacco Factory
Valonia Oak processing factory at Izmir, Turkey

News from home
A photograph of British soldiers sorting letters from home on the Western front, August 1916

Sorting mail on a train
Illustration by Ernest Prater showing male postal workers aboard a London and North-Western train sorting mail

Sorting room at the General Post Office
Engraving from 1875, showing the sorting room of the General Post Office with workers (all male) stamping and sorting mail

The inland letter office of the General Post Office, London showing male workers weighing, stamping and sorting letters

Fig Industry in Smyrna
Series of five images showing the fig industry of Smyrna (modern day Izmir in Turkey). 1. Sorting. 2. Weighing. 3. Packing. 4. Waiting for Loads. 5. Making Boxes and Cases

Mail Sorting Office
Postal workers at the General Post Office (Britain), manually sorting mail into pigeon holes

The London Office of the Society for the relief of the sick
A sketch of volunteers sorting and packing linen bandages for the sick

Draytons Paper Works
Workers making and sorting paper at Draytons Paper Works, Fulham, London

DRAYTONs PAPER 1915
Interior of the Drayton Paper Works, Fulham, Lonodn, showing workers sorting reams of freshly produced paper

Feeding Silkworms / China
Feeding silk worms with mulberry leaves & sorting the cocoons. The whole family seems to be involved

Sorting Silk Cocoons
Sorting silk cocoons for size & quality in Italy

French Mail Train 1909
The wagon-poste of a French mail train : the bureau ambulant (mobile sorting office)

Sorting Oysters
oyster sorters sorting oysters

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