Unemployed Collection (page 2)

Meeting of workers unemployed in Trafalgar Square. London. United Kingdom. Engraving by Rico in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1886

Social / Homeless London
Unemployed sleeping rough in London Date: 1908

Registering Unemployed
Registering the unemployed at Chelsea, London, 1887. Date: 1887

Anarchism Tempts Man
Anarchy, portrayed as a shadowy skeletal figure, tempts an unemployed worker Date: 1886

Unemployment in Britain in 1903
Unemployed workers processing along the Strand, London - not a one-off event but a daily happening Date: February 1903

The industrial crisis in Lyon: unemployed French workers. Date: 1884

Needlewomen emigrating to Australia aboard the Madagascar
Needlewomen, made unemployed by mechanisation, emigrating to Australia aboard the Madagascar, with the help of a special fund. Date: 1853

Needlewomen emigrating to Australia - Home at Hatton Garden
A transit home at Hatton Garden for needlewomen, made unemployed by mechanisation, emigrating to Australia with the help of a special fund. Date: 1853

Come down under Australia emigration poster 1926-7
Poster encouraging British emigration to Australia, 1926-7. To the young unemployed miner, come down under and be a digger on the surface. Work, health and happiness on the land in Australia

Lady French helping women find work, WW1
Lady French, wife of General French, pictured in a work room at Harrods where unemployed women were engaged at a wage of ten shillings a week with a good dinner and tea daily

Epileptic Boys Home, Starnthwaite, Westmorland
Part of the home for boys suffering for epilepsy at Starnthwaite run by National Christian Union for Social Service. The site had previously been used a labour colony for unemployed men

A trade union rally in Hackney for the unemployed. London

Unemployed French Men
Unemployed French men sitting around a fire, Paris, France. Date: 1930s

Two Actors outside a theatre comment on a Flea Circus
Two Actors outside a theatre (on observing the playbills displayed) pass comment on a Performing Flea Show. First Actor (resting) - " H m - a scratch company." Date: 1892

On Poverty Point - out of work London Actors chatting
" On Poverty Point" - York Road, London SE1 - The York Hotel pub. Out of work actors discussing their lot, most on the point of poverty... Date: circa 1895

A couple of Cockney Loafers. Date: circa 1890s

London unemployed people, without money or food
" London unemployed people, without money or food. Image published in " The Illustrated London News"."

Unemployed people from East End of London beg
" Unemployed people from East End of London beg for money. Image published in " The Illustrated London News". Engraving."

Unemployed workers demonstrate along London streets
" Unemployed workers demonstrate along London streets against the lack of employment. Drawing by F.Barnard published in " The Illustrated London News". Engraving."

United Kingdom (19th c. ). Society. An unemployed
United Kingdom (19th c.). Society. An unemployed coming back home

Men Cutting Wood at a Church Army Relief Depot
Unemployed men queue for work at a relief depot run by the Church Army. Location unknown. Date: Early 1900s

Men Queue at a Church Army Relief Depot
Unemployed men queue for work at a relief depot run by the Church Army. Location unknown. Date: Early 1900s

Unemployed Men Outside West Ham Workhouse
A crowd of unemployed men stand outside the West Ham Union workhouse demanding poor relief during a period of high unemployment. Police officers, some mounted, are present to maintain order

Works Progress Administration presents an exhibition of selected skills of the unemployed Div. of Womens & Professional Projects

Howard Street, called Skid Row, the street of the unemployed in San Francisco, California. Date 1937 Feb. Howard Street, called Skid Row, the street of the unemployed in San Francisco, California

Unemployed man, Omaha, Nebraska. Date 1938 Nov

Wife of unemployed coal miner, suffering from TB, living in old company store. Abandoned mining town of Marine, West Virginia. (See 50110-D)J. Date 1938 Sept

Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note social security number tattooed on his arm. Oregon. See general caption number 46. Date 1939 Aug

Unemployed trapper, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Date 1935 Oct

Sketches of people by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. The main subject is a Before and After representation of an unemployed man in civilian clothes (right)

Cartoon on Laziness
" Whats that! You ve got the sack at the Munition Works! - What for?" " I Dunno - I never done nothing!" Date: circa 1915

The unemployed in the East End, London
The unemployed in the East End of London wait outside Mansion House. There is a notice saying - Mansion House Fund Notice - and the men are applicants for the relief fund

Wallingford Farm Colony
Wallingford Farm Training Colony was set up in 1911 by William Henry Hunt. It took unemployed young men off the streets and trained them on the land prior to helping them emigrate to one of

Men searching for coal on slag heap
A line of unemployed men carrying sacks search for lumps of coal on a slag heap in South Wales. In the background are railway lines and clouds of smoke and steam rising from the engines

Crowd / Unemployed 1912
The March of the Unemployed: men and boys Date: 1912

Looting in Leipzig / 1923
Riots break out in Leipzig when the unemployed loot the city centre. Date: 1923

Hollesley Bay Labour Colony Farm, Suffolk
Part of the Hollesley Bay Labour Colony Farm, Suffolk, set up in 1906 for the unemployed of London. Each worker was given a house and a piece of land upon which to become self-sufficient

Labour yard, Bethnal Green Employment Association
A labour yard operated in the late 1860s by the Bethnal Green Employment Association in East London to provide work for the unemployed

Transformation from young tramp to soldier
Before-and-after pictures of a young vagrant transformed into an army cadet over a three-month period with the help of former Oxford Liberal MP Frank Gray

Salvation Army elevator dormitory
A dormitory in a Salvation Army Elevator. Elevators, which aimed to help the unskilled or unemployed, combined a factory space together with hostel accommodation for those working there

Duchess of Fife at Church Army Labour Tent opening
The Duchess of Fife (Princess Louise, Princess Royal, 1867-1931), eldest daughter of Edward VII, opening the King Edward VII Labour Tent in Kingsway, Central London, for the Church Army

Duchess of Westminster at Church Army depot
Katherine Caroline Cavendish, Duchess of Westminster (1857-1941), second wife of the 1st Duke of Westminster, opening a Church Army Labour Relief Depot in Artillery Row, Central London

Sphere front cover: Prince of Wales visiting unemployed
Front cover from The Sphere, April 1933, showing Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor (1894-1972) inspecting the allotment gardens at Woolwich of the unemployed

Engaging Dock labourers at West India Dock
Illustration by A. Forestier showing unemployed men being engaged as dock labourers at West India Dock, London. Many aspects of dock work were relatively unskilled

Unemployed Men
A group of unemployed Italian men, Saffron Hill, near Farringdon, London EC1

Unemployment / Germany
Berlins unemployed - a sign of the economic distress

Unemployed Seeking Work
Unemployed man walks the streets with a plaque hanging around his neck which reads, " I will take on any work of any type immediately."

Out of Work 1931
Unemployed... but hoping for work

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