Worker Gallery

China - Cultural Revolution Poster - Chairman Mao

The Many accomplish great things - Cultural Revolution poster from the People's Republic of China, featuring happy workers heading out to work, many holding aloft the Little Red Book, the red flags flying and Chairman Mao as the sun, shining down on his people. Date: circa 1968

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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The iron worker and King Solomon

The iron worker and King Solomon. Print showing a blacksmith sitting on a stool next to the throne of Solomon, thought to be a usurper, the crowd rushes forward to remove him. The man explains to Solomon that the temple could not have been built without tools made by blacksmiths (iron workers), whereupon Solomon grants him a seat of honor. Relates to quote from Isaiah, 54.16 and text from a Jewish legend. Date c1889

© Mary Evans / Library of Congress

The NeedleWorker, WW1 knitting with Jessie Pope poem

Page from The Needle Worker from March 1915, advising readers on knitting for men and boys and featuring, The Knitting Song, a poem by Jessie Pope, reflecting the national mania for knitting comforts for the troops at this time. Date: 1915

© The Joyce Meader Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

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