Worker Collection (page 16)

Coffee ranch in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The inset image shows a native worker shelling the beans. Date: circa 1895

Florence Parbury, traveller and war worker
Florence Parbury, described by the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News as one of our most versatile and accomplished women, and a great traveller

A Mere Matter of Form by Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
Distressing mistake of the cook recently released from a munition factory. A familys cook absent-mindedly shapes the pudding for that day into a shell, much to the shock and panic of her employers

Country scene near Nagasaki, Japan
Country scene with farm workers near Nagasaki, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Gwen Aldin at Army Remount Depot, WW1
Gwen Aldin, daughter of the artist Cecil Aldin, pictured with one of her charges at an Army Remount Depot during the First World War

People harvesting in a field, with a steam tractor and a cart. Date: circa 1920s

Man with a harvesting machine in a field
Man with a horse-drawn harvesting machine in a field. Date: circa 1920s

Men engaged in roadworks with a lorry alongside. Date: circa 1930s

Four people with a tractor in a field, transporting hay. Date: circa 1920s

Haymaking in a field
People haymaking in a field. Date: circa 1920s

Fairground worker closing lorry before departure
A fairground worker closing the back of the final lorry before departure to a new location. Date: circa 1960s

Termites and mound.. Termite: male 1a, magnified 1b, worker 2a, magnifed 2b, female 3, pregnant female 4, nest 5, and cross section through mound 6

Female lift attendant at a West End business, WW1
" Men must fight, and women must work." A woman lift attendant at a business in London in 1915. 1915

Face workers in a tin mine, Cornwall, with the seam of tin visible on the right. Date: circa 1980s

Lord Norbury as a munition worker
Well-known peer doing his " bit" as a fitter in an aeroplane factory. The Earl of Norbury pictured in overalls, who, at the age of fifty three years

Textile Mill Worker and Machinery, England. Date: 1900s

Female Office Worker - Secretary
Female Office Worker/Secretary, England. Date: 1938

Soldiers Refreshment Bar, Victoria Station, London, WW1
Soldiers crowding into the refreshment bar at Victoria Station, London, where they are served by Red Cross workers. 1915

WW1 - French Women working in Munitions Factory Date: 1916

Edwardian factory worker Christopher Tipping
1901 Census - Christopher Tipping aged 55 (so about 60 in the photo) a Hatter - Blocker of hats, born Stockport. His lived at 27 Sydney Street, Stockport with his wife Betty aged 64

Bureaucratic staff in ministries in 1919
A diagram showing the inflation in temporary and female personnel in various Ministries in Westminster and Whitehall necessitated by the First World War

Making sphagnum moss dressings, Dartmoor, WW1
A group of cutters and machinists at Princetown on Dartmoor making cases for sphagnum moss which would become surgical dressings during the First World War

Volunteer in Womens Land Army on Duchy of Cornwall farm
Miss C. M. Matheson, a novelist, working as a volunteer under the Womens Land Service scheme during the First World War at the home farm near the village of Stoke Climsland

A Proposal in Flanders by Bairnsfather
Humours from the Front - No 31 A Proposal in Flanders The point of Jeans pitchfork awakens a sense of duty in a mine that shirked A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

CAIN, Henri (1859 - 1937). The Workers Lunch, from Le Petit Journal, 1891 (colour litho). Private Collection. Engraving

ACEVEDO, Isidoro (1867-1952). Spanish writer and socialist politician. Secretary of PSOE (Spanish Socialist Party) in 1896

Worker - Sisal Plantation. Tanzania, Africa

The Needle Worker, WW1 knitting & sewing booklet
Front cover of monthly magazine, The Needle Worker, from the Great War period featuring a photograph of a Belgian kepi cap - the knitting pattern for which was inside. Date: c.1915

Doll dressed in crochet as a soldier, WW1
A doll dressed in a crocheted military uniform - pattern in The Needle Worker magazine, March 1915. Date: 1915

Dolly Goes Back to the Land, land girl, WW1
An attractive young woman posed with a spade on a farm, part of the female agricultural workforce during the First World War - though her outfit does not suggest shes a member of the Womens Land

Munitions Girl by Helen McKie
Look at the girls who REALLY work To strafe the German and the Turk - The girls who slave at making shells And scorn the screeds of H. G

Illustrated War News - King decorates munition worker
Front cover of The Illustrated War News with a photograph of King George V decorating Miss Lizzie Robinson, a munitions worker from Glasgow, for excellent conduct and attendance at her work

Womens War Work WW1 Munitions
A painting of a munitions worker by Edith Harwood (1894-C1916) wearing the blue uniform of overalls and bonnet, the woman holds, with gloved hands, a shell

Spanish refugees in Gibraltar are given a meal of soup and bread by local boy scouts after crossing the frontier from Spain, 4 February 1965. Although Spanish-speaking, their passports are British

A woman tractor driver during WW1
A woman tractor driver at Wye in Kent oiling a government tractor during the First World War, one of the numerous traditionally male roles taken on by women during the conflict. Date: 1918

Beechams Pills advert with land girl, WW1
That cheerful spirit! Which goes hand in hand with Beechams Pills. A land girl cheerily shovelling what looks like manure during the First World War - all carried out without complaint thanks to

People at Salvation Army medical centre, Ghana
People receiving treatment at a Salvation Army medical centre in Begoro, southern Ghana, West Africa

Port Sunlight - where work and pleasure go hand in hand
Double page spread from The Illustrated London News showing scenes at Port Sunlight, the model village built by William Lever (Lord Leverhulme) to house workers at his soap factory

Barges by William Henry Pyne 1805
Hand coloured etching with aquatint engraved by William Henry Pyne. Plate 35 from The Costume of Great Britain, 1805. Date: 1805

General Electric strike, Schenectady, New York, USA
General Electric strike on pay day, 8 October 1913, in Schenectady, New York State, USA. 1913

Woman Munition Worker 18 Pounder Gun. Drawing of a munitions worker, designed by Miss A.D. Wargent, a worker in factory Five, in aid of the 18 pdr gun fund, June 1918

Paris, France - Tour Eiffel, Foundations. Date: 1888

Paris, France - Eglise Sainte Clothilde et Sainte Valere. Date: 1857

Paris, France - Cour du Dragon. Date: 1884

Women War Work WW1 Munitions. Woman Munition Worker tuining shells in a munitions factory Date: 1918

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

Paris, France - Place Vendome. Date: circa 1810

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

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