Sweat Collection

The Brewer 1827
Brewers sweat and toil as they stir and brew beer and haul heavy barrels up and down a ladder next to the sweltering heat of a kiln

Manila Docks
Unloading a shipment of cargo from ships in Manila docks, Philippines. Three young men in shorts wipe the sweat from themselves in the heat. Date: late 1930s

The croupiers who showed signs of emotion 1927
Croupiers starts to sweat after giving all the casinos money to a lucky winner, who is disappearing under a pile of cash in front of him

Strong Cheese repels diner and waiter
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series

Comic postcard, Overweight soldier chasing a train. Date: 1914-1918

Obese people running to catch a stage coach in Georgian England
Obese men and women sweating as they run to a country inn to catch a stage coach in Georgian England. Too hot and too late

Roman bath, balm vase and scraper
Black basalt bath tub or labrum in the Vatican Museum 1, black basalt plate found in Tivoli 2, Etruscan vase in the Vatican Library 3, bathing balm vase in the Capitoline Museum 4

Needlewomen here... Image 11 of a series on the benefits of Australia over England & encouraging emigration. Date: 1863

Roll out the barrel, cartoon gardener rolling lawn, with music playing from a neighbour's house, as if in mockery of the man's efforts

Comic postcard, Little girl up a tree Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, breathing in short pants Date: 20th century

The Sweaters Furnace or the Real Curse of Labour: an unscrupulous boss works blood, sweat and tears from his employees in the textile industry Date: 1888

Kashmir - ragged man carries bricks in basket
A ragged man carries bricks in basket on his shoulders as he labours in the streets of Srinagar, Kashmir Date: 1989

Boy with crucifix on his forehead, Sierra Leone
Head and shoulders portrait of West African boy with crucifix on his forehead and sweat on his brow, Freetown, Sierra Leone. He looks directly and the camera and smiles Date: circa 1985

Diamond polishing, Jaipur, India
A man squats on the floor by the window of his Jaipur workshop and polishes diamonds with a hand powered cutting machine Date: 1987

Sweat House, Maghera, Co. Derry - a view of the entrance to a sweat house in the ground with a woman to the left of the opening. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Maghera)

Tailors Sweat Shop, East End of London, 1904
Engraving showing a dark, cramped tailors sweat shop with Jewish immigrants sewing at a bench or asleep in beds in same room, London, 1904

Bathing and washing in Ancient Rome -- a family using strigiles in a bath house

Cartoon, Lord Garmoyle in India
Cartoon, Lord Garmoyle -- in India

Suffragette Female Agitator
One solution for dealing with the problem of the Female Agitator. Hang a lump of cheese around her neck, tie her hands behind her back and introduce a hungry rodent

Sweat House, Ballyshannon - a view of a stone round dwelling with small opening as a door. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal: Ballyshannon). Date: circa early 1900s

Teach-An-Alais Or the Sweat House, Inishmurray - a view of an early stone building. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Sligo: Inishmurray Island). Date: circa early 1900s

WW2 Christmas card, blueprint style, designed by the architect and politician Alfred Bossom (1881-1965). Date: 1940

Anwar Sadat addresses the Israeli Parliement
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt(1918-1981) addresses the Israeli Parliament

Morellia simplex, sweat fly
The sweat fly or syrphid fly looks like a very small bee and can be seen hovering around flowers. Specimen for the collections of the Natural History Museum

Woman wiping sweat. Print shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman wiping her face. Date 1798, printed between 1918 and 1923

RAF air cadet lugging kit
An RAF trainee air cadet during World War Two lugging his kit into camp at night at RAF Heaton Park, Manchester

RAF air cadet shovelling coal
Cartoon of a Royal Air Force air cadet on training at Heaton Park, Manchester, shovelling coal

Navajo Sweat House - Tuba City, Arizona
Navajo Sweat House (or Sweat Lodge or sweathouse ) - Tuba City, Arizona

Reservist (Hot Sweat!)
A Reservist

Racial / Sweat Lodge 1896
American Indian sweat lodge

Veronica and Jesus Image
Saint Veronica shows some friends the cloth with which she wiped the sweat off Jesuss face as he carried his cross, on which his portrait is miraculously imprinted

Adam and Eve Banished
Adam and Eve, having eaten the Forbidden Fruit, are expelled from Eden and told they must henceforward work for their living by the sweat of their brows

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