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Toil Collection

Background imageToil Collection: The Brewer 1827

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

Background imageToil Collection: Miner at coal face -3

Miner at coal face -3
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Background imageToil Collection: A pair of Suffolk Punch working horses pull a plough

A pair of Suffolk Punch working horses pull a plough in a stubble field in Suffolk, England. A young woman leads the horses and a man handles the plough Date: 2010

Background imageToil Collection: Miner at coal face -2

Miner at coal face -2
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Background imageToil Collection: Miner at coal face -1

Miner at coal face -1
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Background imageToil Collection: Wolverhampton Low Level station - 1

Wolverhampton Low Level station - 1
Wolverhamton Low Level Railway Station before the site was redeveloped. Two men change the points on the track Date: 1992

Background imageToil Collection: Toil and Pleasure Thames Shipping barges Watercolour

Toil and Pleasure Thames Shipping barges Watercolour
Toil, and, Pleasure, Thames, Shipping, barges, Watercolour, painting, Charles, R, Hopkins, 12021802

Background imageToil Collection: Comic postcard, Man with glass of beer at the seaside Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man with glass of beer at the seaside Date: 20th century

Background imageToil Collection: Kashmir - two male rice planters in foothills of Himalayas

Kashmir - two male rice planters in foothills of Himalayas smile happily as they plant rice shoots Date: 1986

Background imageToil Collection: Fisherman unloads buckies whelks at Port William, Galloway

Fisherman unloads buckies whelks at Port William, Galloway, Scotland

Background imageToil Collection: Kashmir - ragged man carries bricks in basket

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

Background imageToil Collection: Barefoot boy with mattock, Sierra Leone

Barefoot boy with mattock, Sierra Leone
A barefoot West African farm boy pauses from working on a smallholding outside Freetown, Sierra Leone. He wears a crucifix on his forehead and carries a heavy digging mattock Date: circa 1982

Background imageToil Collection: Boiler cleaner, Jaipur

Boiler cleaner, Jaipur
A man cleans out the ashes and clinker from the boiler furnace in a dye works in Jaipur, India Date: 1986

Background imageToil Collection: Boys push loaded cart

Boys push loaded cart
Two small boys struggle to push a cart heavily loaded with gas cylinders through the streets of Srinagar, Kashmir Date: 1986

Background imageToil Collection: Man with sack, Kashmir

Man with sack, Kashmir
A Kasmiri man strains to look up and smile for the camera - he carries a heavy load of sacks on his shoulders Date: 1986

Background imageToil Collection: Foundry worker Blists Hill

Foundry worker Blists Hill
Iron furnace worker Grahan Collins takes a breather at Blists Hill Ironworks, Ironbridge, Shropshire. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Background imageToil Collection: Sunlight Soap advertisement, 1903

Sunlight Soap advertisement, 1903
Advertisement for Sunlight soap, manufactured by Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight. This particular advert emphasises the appliance of science to ensure its cleansing capabilities - a picture of an

Background imageToil Collection: FATHERs RETURN 1867

FATHERs RETURN 1867
Joyous reunion of husband and his wife and family after the days toil Date: 1867

Background imageToil Collection: WW2 Christmas card, blueprint style

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

Background imageToil Collection: Toil

Toil. Date 1883

Background imageToil Collection: Patient toil, Moki pueblos, Arizona

Patient toil, Moki pueblos, Arizona. Date between 1898 and 1905

Background imageToil Collection: Labor by Charles Sprague Pearce

Labor by Charles Sprague Pearce
Labor - from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. Found in the North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Background imageToil Collection: Sedan Chair / King Graphic

Sedan Chair / King Graphic
Toil and Pleasure a lady is carried through the snow by servants in a sedan chair Date: circa 1800

Background imageToil Collection: Argentina - Buenos Aires - Monument to Toil & Labour

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Monument to Toil & Labour
Canto al Trabajo - A Hymn/Song/Homage to Toil and Labour (!) - the masterpiece sculpture (commissioned in 1907) by sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia (1879 - 1950) at Buenos Aires, Argentina

Background imageToil Collection: Military tailor and in family in Bethnal Green

Military tailor and in family in Bethnal Green
This is a room occupied by a military tailor and his family at No. 10 Hollybush Place in Bethnal Green in the East End of London

Background imageToil Collection: Federation Celebrated 2

Federation Celebrated 2
Men, women and children toil at the Champ de Mars, Paris, preparing the ground for the Fete de la Federation, celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille

Background imageToil Collection: Adam&eve Doomed to Work

Adam&eve Doomed to Work
condemned to toil:Adam to delve and Eve to spin


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