Worker Collection (page 5)

Scottish Fisher-Woman in Great Yarmouth 1932
One of the 3, 000 Scottish women that came every year to Great Yarmouth in the herring harvest to gut fish in the months of October and November. Date: October 1932

One of the thousands of Scottish women that came to Great Yarmouth in the herring harvest to pack and gut fish in the months of October and November. Date: November 1910

Draycott, Cotswold village, Butler Saw Mills workmen with a steam traction engine in the background. Date: circa 1908

Street Life London 1878 - The Wall Worker
John Thomson Street Life London 1878 - The Wall Worker

WW1 poster, A Call to Action! to all employees
WW1 poster, A Call to Action! from Woodrow Wilson to all industrial employees working on government contracts, issued by the Navy Department. Date: circa 1917

Workers in foundry pouring molten metal
Metal foundry workers pour molten metal from a ladle into moulds. Date: circa 1950s

Hurrying to the office, Knightsbridge, London
Workers hurry to get to their offices in Knightsbridge, London. Date: circa 1930s

Building workers laying concrete, City of London
Building workers laying concrete on a building site in the City of London. Date: circa 1950s

Comic postcard, Two drunks in the street and water board worker Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, council worker Date: 20th century

General Strike - Scene at The Bank - City of London - view down Lombard Street. The Strike lasted 9 days between 4th - 12th May, 1926. Date: 1926

General Strike - Policeman riding with volunteer bus drivers. The barbed wire on the bonnet is to stop protestors damaging the engine. The strike lasted 9 days between 4th and 12th May, 1926

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

A W. V. S. worker selecting a frock for a little girl
A W.V.S. worker selecting a frock for a little girl. Date: circa 1941

W. V. S. Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven
A W.V.S. (Womens Voluntary Service) Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven out of bricks, a piece of metal plate and a broken piece of drainpipe. Date: circa 1941

Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19

Senegal bushbaby or lesser galago, Galago senegalensis. The galago of the Senegal. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuves l Afrique, Paris, 1814

Worker, soldier and queen termites, Macrotermes bellicosus
Worker termite, Macrotermes bellicosus of Guinea 1, head of worker 2, soldier 3, head of soldier 4, female, winged state 5, and pregnant queen 6

Fragment of a banner of miners from Tyrol, 15th century
Fragment of a banner of silver and copper miners from Tyrol, late 15th century. St. George kills a dragon next to a scarlet eagle

Charles Martin, a working miner from Dinnington Colliery who was also a successful artist, having painted in oils 270 pictures, many of which he had sold

Cartoon, Unfair Trade Winds (International Free Trade)
Cartoon, Unfair Trade Winds -- a satirical comment on competitive trade from overseas, adversely affecting the economy at home. Date: 1884

Cartoon, Strike Home! (strikers injure each other)
Cartoon, Strike Home! A working man who is on strike is dismayed to find that the local baker is also on strike -- the suggestion is that all they are doing is injuring each other by striking

A Charlie or London Watchman. 1885

Cartoon, Vulcans Best Customer (Peace)
Cartoon, Vulcans Best Customer -- the angel of Peace asks the blacksmith Vulcan if hes very busy. A list of weapons to be produced is written up on the wall on the right

Cartoon, The First Question (Derby and Disraeli)
Cartoon, The First Question -- Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli, having just won a General Election for the Conservative party, are asked by a working man what they are going to do for him

Cartoon, How Does It Strike You? A jester, representing Fun, asks a grumpy striking ironworker how he feels about a ship named Capital leaving the nations shores. Date: 1866

Cartoon, Noble Poulterers; or, Licensed to Sell Game -- a Peer of the Realm, making money out of the game caught on his estate, mostly fed at the expense of his tenant farmers. Date: 1845

Girl Workers of London - The Waitress. 1898

Golf club workers, Trafford Park, Manchester, with a cart. 1900

Girl Workers of London - The Shop Girl. 1898

Girl Workers of London - The Match-Box Makers, Taking the Boxes Home. 1898

Girl Workers of London - The Lady Florist. 1898

Girl Workers of London - The Lady Clerk. 1898

Girl Workers of London - The Factory Girl. 1898

Girl Workers of London - The Costumiere, theatre and fancy dress. 1898

Girl Workers of London - The Barmaid. 1898

Sowing seeds
Young farm worker sowing seeds. Date: circa 1902

Road painters carrying broken white line stencil, Sept 1939
Road painters carrying the " blackout stencil" which enabled workmen to paint broken white lines down the centre of roads with ease, in order to reduce accidents when driving in blackouts

Female ambulance worker in uniform, September 1939
A female ambulance worker photographed as she travels to work in London, a few weeks into the Second World War. As well as uniform, this ambulance worker carries her gas mask and torch. Date: 1939

Mlle. Loger, first girl to enter world-famous Gobelin works
Mlle. Loger, a seventeen year-old French girl seen at her loom in the Gobelins tapestry works in Paris. During the companys four centuries, it had not, until that point

Female ambulance staff training volunteers, September 1939
An " ambulance girl" in full uniform explains the operation of the gas mask to two female volunteers in the newly formed All-India Ambulance unit

Women queueing for Auxiliary Air Force posts, September 1939
Women in London queueing for posts in the Womens Auxiliary Air Force, a few weeks after the outbreak of war. The WaF was founded by the King in June 1939

Women with high-profile war connections, September 1939
Series of women, closely associated with high-ranking men, photographed in uniforms shortly after the outbreak of war, September 1939

Women painting kerbside for blackouts, September 1939
Women of the Voluntary Ambulance Service painting the kerbside between their headquarters and the first-aid post to allow them to find their way in a blackout. Date: 1939

Womens Land Army volunteers in training, September 1939
Volunteers for the Womens Land Army learning basic agricultural skills, courtesy of the East Sussex Agricultural College. The Sphere comments on the health benefits of country life. 1939

Valentine makers at work 1880
The process of making Valentines cards which were popularlised in the Victorian period, largely due to advances in industrial printing which made them affordable

Londons first female railway porter, April 1915
Londons first female railway porter photographed as she carries milk churn at Marylebone Station. Date: 1915

Women building the elevated railway in Tokyo, October 1904
Female labourors as they carry bricks for use in the construction of the elevated railway, Tokyo. The caption describes how women working in manual labour was not uncommon in Japan. Date: 1904

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