Work Collection (page 100)

Womens Work WW1 Munitions. With Fond greetings from a Munition worker helping to Carry on This badge proves I m a Worker, who can ne er be dubbed a Shirker Date: circa 1916

Womens War Work Shells Cammell Laird. A view of the women shell makers at the Sheffield factory of Cammell Laird Date: circa 1917

Women Doing Mens Work Policewoman WW1. Policewoman in a leap year demands to know the mans name - and address. Date: circa 1917

Women Doing Mens Work WW1. Woman in uniform down on one knee proposing to her sweetheart in reversal of roles. Date: circa 1917

Chinese shoemaker, San Francisco, California, USA
Chinese shoemaker, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: circa 1905

Chinese waiter, San Francisco, California, USA
Chinese waiter carrying a tray on his head, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: circa 1905

Chinese telephone office, San Francisco, California, USA
Chinese workers at a switchboard in the telephone office, San Francisco, California, USA. The building was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of April 1906. Date: early 20th century

Miners at mine entrance, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Miners at mine entrance, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: early 20th century

Roof Garden, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Women relaxing on the Roof Garden of the H.J. Heinz company building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1900

Suffragette Selling Votes for Women. A cartoon of an out-of-work Hawker, asking Lady de Vere (1858-1934) (Lady Sybil de Vere Capell) who is working for the cause, Ows your - business? Date: 1911

Suffragette Arson Whitekirk. St. Marys in Whitekirk, East Lothian, after the fire of 26th february 1914. Suffragette militants were suspected, and, as the churchs minister wrote

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

Womens War Work WW1. Shows a woman station porter, beside the caption, A credit to their country. The accompanying rhyme states

Women Munitions Work WW1. Rather glamourous munitions worker in purple dungarees standing next to 2 shells, with caption, You should see how the girls fill them! Date: circa 1916

Womens Work WW1. Women workers in many trades and professions, celebrated in this image by Lucy Kemp-Welch, Womens work in the great war, 1914-1918 Date: circa 1918

Women on War Work Postwoman WW1. A man groans and sweats as a large postwoman with bag sits on his knee. Date: circa 1916

Woman Worker WW1. Young woman worker surprises elderly lady by saying she is going to work in a night shift. Well I never! Date: circa 1917

Woman at Work & At Play WW1. Woman at work in a factory and at home playing the piano keeps husband in her thoughts. Date: circa 1916

Womans Work in WW1. Lady bus or tram conductress with ticket machine asks, How far do you want to go Date: circa 1916

War Work Women Lift Operator WW1. Shows a lady lift operator in smart uniform with caption, Buttons we can t live without. Date: circa 1918

Paris, France - Tour Eiffel, construction. Date: circa 1889

Paris, France - Tour Eiffel, laying the foundations. Date: circa 1889

Paris, France - Tour Eiffel, painting. Date: 1889

Suffragette At Home / At Work
Suffragette At Home/At Work. Two Views of the Suffragette baby at home and at work - rallying for the cause. Date: circa 1908

Paris, France - Rebuilding Rue Monge, Rive Gauche. Date: 1868

Paris, France - Rebuilding, Pont au Change. Demolition of the Pont au Change and of La Cite in order to extend the Boulevard de Sebastopol. Date: 1859

WW1 The Ladys World cover - dreadnought cushion cover
Front cover of a First World War period The Ladys World Fancy Work Book featuring a topical design for a dreadnought cushion cover. Date: c.1915

An Indian labour corps during World War I
Men of one of the Indian labour corps engaged on war work are seen halting on the march through a town in southern France. Date: 1918

Roman Coppersmiths Workshop
A Roman marble relief of a coppersmiths workshop showing hammering, finishing and weighing. The forge and bellows are in the background with finished ware

Costumes of the Red Cross: an English nurse, 1915
Ministering angels and what they are wearing: varieties of the Allied Red Cross headgear. An English nurse, portrayed in 1915. Date: 1915

Woman Firefighter - Taking on traditional male roles
First World War postcard charting womens role in filling many traditionally male jobs. In this case, a female firefighter stands in her uniform, hose at the ready. Date: circa 1916

Firefighters in action, Waterden Road, London N1, 23 January 1956. The basement windows had been bricked up, which caused delay in reaching the seat of the fire

Costumes of the Red Cross: an Russian nurse, 1915
Ministering angels and what they are wearing: varieties of the Allied Red Cross headgear. A Russian nurse, portrayed in 1915. Date: 1915

Costumes of the Red Cross: an Japanese nurse, 1915
Ministering angels and what they are wearing: varieties of the Allied Red Cross headgear. A Japanese nurse, portrayed in 1915. Date: 1915

Costumes of the Red Cross: an French nurse, 1915
Ministering angels and what they are wearing: varieties of the Allied Red Cross headgear. A French nurse, portrayed in 1915. Date: 1915

Allotments in Fleet Street, London, WW1
Quite possibly the innermost allotment in London, a plot between Fleet Street and Fetter Lane cultivated by two sisters, the Misses Kersey, where they grew cabbages, cauliflowers, beetroots

Woman delivery van driver, WW1
A woman in uniform takes over a traditional male role as the driver of a horse drawn delivery van during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Woman bus conductor, WW1
A girl bus conductor in her blue uniform, with gaiters and turned up hat, rings the bell on the no 25 route which travels from Marble Arch in central London to Ilford on the outskirts of East London

Woman railway officials on the Underground, WW1
Two women in uniform working on the London Underground during the First World War in jobs which were previously carried out by men. Date: 1914-1918

Fire alam post, Cooks Road, Vauxhall, WW2
Fire alarm post (FA41) protected by sandbags outside the AFS station in Cooks Road, Vauxhall, with an LFB fire engine on the left, around the start of the Second World War. Date: 1939

British Peace Poster, WW1
Labour Fights Wars and then Pays for them -- Disarm! Chromolithograph poster, by Grafton Art Limited, Peace Poster No 2. Date: 1918

Munition workers watch Royal Investiture on Clydeside, WW1
Female munitions workers of the National Projectile Factory on Clydeside, dressed in their work clothes, fill the stands at the Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow where they watched King George V carry out a

Growing food in Chancery Lane, WW1
Mr Hubert Hall, resident officer of the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, pictured hard at work in the gardens of the old Rolls House, where

Royal Vinolia Cream advertisement, munition worker, WW1
Advertisement for Royal Vinolia Cream from 1917 featuring a female munition worker - the ideal candidate for as dirty and rough work may be in your service for the nation...but Royal Vinolia cream is

Two women dispatch riders, Towler and Trayner. They went on a world tour on their motorbikes, getting as far as Australia, where they both married and settled down. Date: 1958

Firefighters at a fire in Goswell Road, London EC1
Firefighters at the premises of H Robin and Sons Ltd, 119-123 Goswell Road, London EC1, on 30 April 1958. Showing men chalking up details of progress during the fire

Gas explosion, Godliman Street, City of London
Results of a gas explosion in Godliman Street, City of London, on 4 August 1939, with firefighters in action with hosepipes. Date: 1939

Making a silhouette: a fairground silhouettist
A side show at Shepherds Bush - a silhouette artist at the Anglo-American Exhibition at White City demonstrates his art by cutting a portrait of a seated woman while a crowd at his studio entrance to

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