Worker Collection (page 6)

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

First professional female chauffeur 1909
Sheila O Neill, the first professional female chauffeur in London, photographed in her car, with a medical accident emergency case on the seat next to her that reads " Miss Sheilah O

Woman gardener on her motor-cycle 1916
Woman jobbing gardener on her motor-cycle with her tools. During the war many women entered the agricultural industry, becoming manual labourors to replace men as they went off to fight. 1916

Female bus conductor in full uniform stepping out of her bus on a snowy London street. circa 1916

Women working at the Victoria Press 1861
Women and girls working as compositors under the supervision of a man at the Victoria Press printing office in Great Coram Street, London

Women training to become motor-bus conductresses 1917
Women on a trial trip on a motor-bus as part of their training to become conductresses. The Illustrated London News comments on the war

Female postal workers in London, c. 1915
Three female postal workers walking through a London street in full uniform and with satchels to carry their post. During the war, the Post Office lost 75

Line of female ambulance drivers 1918
Female Red Cross ambulance drivers standing in a line in front of their vehicles with their mascot, a great Dane. The Sphere describes Queen Marys specific interest in the role of women in the war

Female land army workers resting after a full day 1918
Women in Theydon, Essex, resting, socialising and reading in their club room after a days training for land army work. The Womens Land Army was established in 1917 to replace male workers in

Women unloading van outside veterinary hospital 1918
Women photographed unloading a forage van outside a veterinary hospital in London, specialising in the treatment of injured horses

Women farm workers loading a cart, May 1918
Two female farm workers as they load a cart with " roots for cattle", possibly swedes. The Sphere gives an extremely complimentary report of female work on farms describing how " there

Woman harvesting apples as old man watches 1918
Old man watches, " not altogether unmixed with disapproval", as women harvest apples in an English garden. The Sphere comments on the mixed reaction of the old man

Common Humble Bees (Bombus terrestris) -- male, large female, and worker. Date: 1843

Plans for a tunnel under the River Thames, 18th century
Plans for a tunnel under the River Thames, with two lanes for horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians, workers excavating the tunnels

Chinese potter throwing a porcelain cup on a potters wheel, powered by an assistant. Another worker arranges cups on a board for the oven

A turner in apron using a foot-powered treadle lathe or turning bench. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

A worker using mechanical power to press paper in a mill. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Tin-plate worker in apron beating tin on an anvil with a mallet surrounded by tin buckets, pots, urns and utensils. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

A metal worker using a wire-drawing machine to make thin wire. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Metamorphosis of honey bees, honeycomb, queens, drones and chain of worker bees. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Worker with large axe, artisan, merchant and woman of Paris. Costumes of the people of Paris, reign of King Francis I of France

Pan floor, Hershey Sugar Refinery, Central Hershey, Cuba. Date: circa 1920

Advert, The Scrivener Cuff Protector
Advert for The Scrivener Cuff Protector, from H L Castle, High Street, Watford. 1909

Hop pickers waiting for the midnight train, London Bridge Station, London. 1892

Chinese workers picking poppies for opium. 1930s

Women workers raking out white hot coke, Vauxhall
Women workers raking out white hot coke at Vauxhall Gas Works, London

Coaling a steamship, Nagasaki, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Patriotic poster, Buying British - has put me in a job
Thanks! Buying British - has put me in a job. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis, reinforced by a speech by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII)

Patriotic poster, Buy British - To provide your wages
To provide your wages some must Buy British - Set a good example yourself. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

Stokehole of the Atlantic Liner 1903
Stokers in the boiler room on board a atlantic liner. Date: 1903

Demolition of the old London Bridge 1832
Demolition of the Great or Chapel-Pier of old London Bridge in 1832. March 1832

Lloyd George and Pankhurst as one voice 1915
David Lloyd George, British statesman at the time, speaking on the embankment, London; " We have witnessed a very fine procession of women who are anxious to help their country in the hour of

Women workers loading cart at London Gas Works, WW1
Women workers loading a coke cart at a London Gas Works during the First World War. 1914-1918

Bovril factory workers packing supplies, WW2
Bovril factory workers packing emergency ration packs for British forces, probably at the factory in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, during the Second World War. Date: early 1940s

Political poster, Chinese Labour -- a commentary on British gold mining activities in the Transvaal, South Africa. circa 1906

Flushing the sewers 1860s
With the population expanding and dumping coursing blockages below the depths of London, men wearing heavy oilskin protective clothing would go into the tunnels to unblock the sewers with a combing

Coal-whippers
Coal been brought from the mines was transported by ship to London docks to be sold, illustration showing a gang of coal-whippers on board bringing the coal up from below deck using pulley system

Design for a pair of Model Cottages for Labourers, Mechanics etc. 1857

Village blacksmith 1870
Village smithy stands in front of the open forge. Date: 1870

Study, An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald Ziegler
Study for a painting, An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald Ziegler. A reflection on postwar mass unemployment and social unrest, recalling the 1926 General Strike. late 1920s

Drawing, An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald Ziegler
Preparatory drawing for a painting, An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald Ziegler. A reflection on postwar mass unemployment and social unrest, recalling the 1926 General Strike. late 1920s

Leaving the Munitions Works, by Winifred Knights, WW1
Leaving the Munitions Works, watercolour by Winifred Knights, First World War. 1919

YWCA Poster, For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, WW1
YWCA Poster, design by Adolph Treidler, For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, Care for Her through the YWCA, United War Work Campaign, First World War. circa 1918

Crossing-sweepers 1849
Poor couple sweeping the streets of London. Date: 1849

Able-bodied street-sweeper
Sweeping the streets of London

Crossing-sweeper that has been a maid servant
Woman sweeping the streets of London

Arrival of a milk train, Paddington Station 1903
Milk arriving at Paddington Station, London. Milk trains day and night bring in heavy full churns, a long line of carts driven in

GPO Post Office female worker in uniform in a studio photo - Postwoman No.1, possibly in Beverley, Yorkshire. Date: circa 1910

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