Worker Collection (page 20)

Queen Elizabeth meets a bride-to-be, WWII
While touring a busy army clothing factory, Queen Elizabeth meets Miss Edith Nichols, a bride-to-be who talked to the Queen while wearing her wedding dress with orange blossom in her hair. Date: 1939

Two women in a factory operating machinery. A barrel of green paint is part of the process. The Factoru produced (among other things) lead shrapnel for use in explosive artillery shells (WW1)

West Indies sugar plantation
A sugar plantation in the West Indies, showing cultivation and harvesting of sugar cane, as well as a horse-powered sugar grinding mill. Date: 19th century

Support Labour - Masonic Card
Masonic Patriotic card in support of Labour (USA). Date: circa 1910s

Kaffir Woman, Trinidad
Kaffir woman (Black former plantation worker) in Trinidad, West Indies carrying a large bale of Firewood. Date: circa 1910s

Women finding themselves suddenly unemployed in 1919
" Good-bye-e-e!" These girls marching off to pastures new seem a jolly bunch, although for the 750000 women who found themselves suddenly unemployed in 1919

Disappearing Industries- a cuckoo clock repairer
A man holding a clock, walks the streets of a quiet village looking for work. Date: 1885

The woman behind the gun 1916
Ministering angels to the ministry of munitions. Making spiral scrolls with a vertical milling machine. Date: 1916

Female agricultural workers in Oxfordshire
Women at work on the land in Oxfordshire in July 1916. Women replaced the large numbers of male workers who had left to join the army. Date: 1916

Potential army recruit looks at the proclamation
Two soldiers look on as a civilian reads the notice which shows how volunteers can enlist. These soldiers were known as Kitcheners Men and were often from the same factory or town

French Iron Worker 19C
A French iron worker. Date: 1851

Trinidad Airport
The Help Desk of a rather empty waiting lounge in the BOAC Building, Port of Spain Airport, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: late 1960s

High explosive shells ready for the final process at Creusot
After having passed through all the series of foundry operations at Creusot, from the initial stage, when as a rough ingot of steel, the metal is received at the factory

High explosives being manufactured at Creusot Works, France
Photograph showing shells being manufactured at the Creusot Works, the Krupp, France. Date: 1915

Sor Patrocinio
Maria de los Dolores Rafaela Quiroga, known as SOR PATROCINIO, Spanish religious stigmatic and reputed miracle- worker who played influential part in Spanish politics. Date: 1809? - 1891

Message Valve
A London office worker sending messages through a valve. Date: early 1930s

Feeding Poultry 1930S
An English farmer feeds his hens in between some haystacks. Date: early 1930s

Cotswolds Hay Cart
Farm workers with the hay cart on a Cotswolds farm. Date: early 1930s

Quedgeley Haymaking
Haymaking on a farm at Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, England. Date: early 1930s

Haymaking 1930S
Haymaking on a farm in the Cotswolds, England : Unloading hay from a horse cart onto a haystack. Date: early 1930s

Giant Haystack
A large haystack on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Children Haymaking
Children on horseback helping to collect hay on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Farmer with Wheelbarrow
An English farmer in the Cotswolds, wheeling his wheelbarrow through a farm gate. Date: early 1930s

Gathering Hay 1930S
Collecting hay with horses on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Harvesting Potatoes
Harvesting potatoes with a horse-drawn reaper on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Royal Mint Machinery
Bars of gold being fed into the stamping machines at the Royal Mint. Date: 1930s

Building a Stage Set
A theatre production worker hauling up a stage set of a castle, under the direction of the stage manager! Date: early 1930s

Wonky Stage Set
A theatre production worker holds onto a stage set of a castle to prevent it from falling on the stage manager! Date: early 1930s

Election propaganda postcard for the Liberal Party, featuring a quote from The Chancellor of the Exchequer (and future Prime Minister) David Lloyd George on 30th July 1909

Thessaloniki, Greece - Macedonian Weaver and loom Date: circa 1910s

Morocco - Weaver working at his loom. Date: circa 1930s

Propeller and rudder of large ship
The propeller and rudder of mid-sized vessel, with a hardy dock worker demonstrating the scale of the thing. Date: circa 1920s

French Coutryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers / Harvesters
French Countryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers/Harvesters Date: circa 1905

WW2 - Italian brides of American GIs arrive in USA
WW2 - Seven Italian brides of American GIs reach the United States of America through the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation on the last stage of their journey to their new homes

Swiss agricultrual workers take a break from haymaking and scything and share a swift tipple. Date: circa 1910s

An Old Herdsman, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Date: 1892

Country scene on a plantation in Jamaica, West Indies
Country scene of workers on a plantation in Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1908

WW2 - Japan - Woman Factory Worker working hard for her country. Date: circa 1940s

Tapping a rubber tree - Singapore Date: circa 1908

Soviet Armenia - Cheese Factory
Soviet Armenia - Kalinin Mechanical Steam Cheese Plant No.1 - Foreman Akushev inspects the pressed round cheeses. Date: circa 1930s

Soviet Armenia - Collective Farmer - Ortakent Village
Soviet Armenia - Collective Farmer Matevasyan Zarmandukht - Ortakent Village, Mikoyan District. Date: circa 1930s

Uruguay - Palenque Gaucho by J M Blanes
A Uruguayan Palenque Gaucho Date: circa 1902

Beehives, queen bees, and worker bees. Illustration from Gilles August Bazin, The natural history of bees. Date: 1744

WRAF-ish by Reginald Higgins
A dashing young woman in the uniform of the WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) waits by her car smoking a cigarette. Date: 1919

Taxidermist working on wolf teeth, 1935
One of the several behind-the-scenes shots taken for the February 1935 edition of Weekly Illustrated, 1st Class Technical Assistant Percy Stammwitz adds final touches to the teeth of a wolf

Natives grinding food. Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Woman in a jinrikisha (Japanese rickshaw), Japan

Woman being carried in a litter, Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

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