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Worker Collection (page 7)

Background imageWorker Collection: GPO Post Office workers and GWR motor bus, London

GPO Post Office workers and GWR motor bus, London, with driver and passengers. Date: circa 1910

Background imageWorker Collection: Machine for bending the barrel hoops 1875

Machine for bending the barrel hoops 1875
This operator bending the barrel hoops. Date: 1875

Background imageWorker Collection: Cutting screw threads with hand chaser 1875

Cutting screw threads with hand chaser 1875
Skilled operator cutting threads or screws on a lathe by hand. Date: 1875

Background imageWorker Collection: Central telephone exchange 1903

Central telephone exchange 1903
The post office central telephone exchange, St. Pauls Churchyard, London, England. Date: 1903

Background imageWorker Collection: Postcard booklet, ploughing a field, Dixieland, USA

Postcard booklet, ploughing a field, Dixieland, USA
Postcard booklet, man and horses taking a rest from ploughing a field, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Background imageWorker Collection: Postcard booklet, collecting gum from pine trees, USA

Postcard booklet, collecting gum from pine trees, USA
Postcard booklet, turpentine industry, collecting gum from pine trees, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Background imageWorker Collection: Postcard booklet, southern tobacco field, USA

Postcard booklet, southern tobacco field, USA
Postcard booklet, a southern tobacco field, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Background imageWorker Collection: Postcard booklet, workers cutting sugar cane, USA

Postcard booklet, workers cutting sugar cane, USA
Postcard booklet, workers cutting, shocking and stocking in the sugar cane fields, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Background imageWorker Collection: Postcard booklet, making syrup, Dixieland, USA

Postcard booklet, making syrup, Dixieland, USA
Postcard booklet, making syrup for hot cakes in the open air, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Background imageWorker Collection: Postcard booklet, Greetings from Dixieland, USA

Postcard booklet, Greetings from Dixieland, USA, showing a cotton picker asleep with his head inside a basket. Date: 1937

Background imageWorker Collection: Knot porter 1746

Knot porter 1746
Knot porter from London, carrying lots of parcels on his back. 1746

Background imageWorker Collection: Parcel mail porter 1846

Parcel mail porter 1846
Parcel mail porter in London. Date: 1846

Background imageWorker Collection: The Catch of the Season - Asquith & the Vote, 1917

The Catch of the Season - Asquith & the Vote, 1917
Prime Minister Herbert Asquith shown being helped aboard a bus with the help of a female conductor during the First World War

Background imageWorker Collection: Liberty Loan, Preparing the Bonds at Washington U. S. A 1917

Liberty Loan, Preparing the Bonds at Washington U. S. A 1917
Women worker at the bureau printing presses, bonds had to go through lots of processes before the finish result was ready to be purchased by the public. Date: 1917

Background imageWorker Collection: COMMUNISM / YOUNG WORKER

COMMUNISM / YOUNG WORKER
Front cover of the communist magazine " The Young Worker", featuring Karl Liebknecht, who was murdered on 15 January 1919. Date: 1924

Background imageWorker Collection: MUSSOLINI STRIPS

MUSSOLINI STRIPS
Mussolini is warmly applauded when he strips to the waist to show that he, too, is a worker, when he gives a triumphant agrarian speech in the fields Date: July 1938

Background imageWorker Collection: Street worker and horse Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1980s

Street worker and horse Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1980s

Background imageWorker Collection: During the severe winter weather the Great Arthur Street Mission of Golden Lane were

During the severe winter weather the Great Arthur Street Mission of Golden Lane were keeping starving people of the East-End of London feed. Men seated on long benches, being served warm soup

Background imageWorker Collection: Women working in a large factory making wax candles with a foreman standing watching them

Women working in a large factory making wax candles with a foreman standing watching them

Background imageWorker Collection: Vietnamese wood worker and his family outside their home. Date: 1890s

Vietnamese wood worker and his family outside their home. Date: 1890s

Background imageWorker Collection: Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire

Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire
circa 1910s

Background imageWorker Collection: Smiling Welder Date: 1945

Smiling Welder Date: 1945

Background imageWorker Collection: Lancashire, England - Textile Cotton Mill worker and looms

Lancashire, England - Textile Cotton Mill worker and looms. Date: circa 1905

Background imageWorker Collection: Japan - Ainu woman weaving

Japan - Ainu woman weaving. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageWorker Collection: Bystander front cover, Bairnsfather cartoon, German shells

Bystander front cover, Bairnsfather cartoon, German shells
Alas! My poor brother Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather on the front cover of The Bystander showing a stereotypical German munitions worker pouring glycerine into a shell case and opining, Alas

Background imageWorker Collection: Potters throwing clay 1836

Potters throwing clay 1836
Potters in the act of throwing clay. Date: 1836

Background imageWorker Collection: Stonemason 1856

Stonemason 1856
Stonemason about cut into a stone block with his mallet and chisel. Date: 1856

Background imageWorker Collection: Village carpenter 1855

Village carpenter 1855
Interior of a workshop with a village carpenter using a wooden smoothing plane. Date: 1855

Background imageWorker Collection: French female munitions worker making powder primers 1916

French female munitions worker making powder primers 1916
A photograph of a female munitions worker, as she makes the primers and other associated percussion cap parts for shells, in a French munitions factory

Background imageWorker Collection: Vintage in Medoc: Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte 1871

Vintage in Medoc: Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte 1871
Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte, France. Date: 1871

Background imageWorker Collection: Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham 1844 Elkington & Co

Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham 1844 Elkington & Co
Scenes from Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham, woman worker, burnishing. Date: 1844

Background imageWorker Collection: Londons drapers 1900

Londons drapers 1900
Busy work room in a drapers in London. Date: 1900

Background imageWorker Collection: New sorting-room at General Post Office 1846

New sorting-room at General Post Office 1846
New Inland department of the General Post Office in St. Martins-le-Grand in London. Date: 1846

Background imageWorker Collection: Spinning machine or engine 1843

Spinning machine or engine 1843
A steam-powered silk spinning machine or engine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby. Date: 1843

Background imageWorker Collection: Steam sewing factory 1854

Steam sewing factory 1854
A large clothes manufactures at Holloway and Co factory, here you can see twenty machines at work, driven by steam power attended by young women. Date: 1854

Background imageWorker Collection: Oldest lace-worker in bucks 1904

Oldest lace-worker in bucks 1904
Old lady sitting with a pillow with bobbins and pins. Date: 1904

Background imageWorker Collection: New public pillar post box 1857

New public pillar post box 1857
New freestanding public post box of 1857, set up in the streets of Metropolis, designed by A. Copper, C.E. of Great George Street and Mr. W. J Wills superintended the ornamentation. Date: 1857

Background imageWorker Collection: INDIAN TEXTILE WORKER

INDIAN TEXTILE WORKER
Women in India are much in demand in the weaving industry, where they are considered more skilled than men. Strict rules forbid them from working at night. Date: 1937

Background imageWorker Collection: METAL WORKER 1960S

METAL WORKER 1960S
A young man welds metal with a blow torch Date: 1960s

Background imageWorker Collection: MANUFACTURING GLOBES

MANUFACTURING GLOBES
A man making globes by sticking two halves together Date: 1930s

Background imageWorker Collection: Female WaC RAF motor-cyclist at work 1918

Female WaC RAF motor-cyclist at work 1918
Female WaC RAF motor-cyclist driving a staff officer through the Strand, London, with the famous Russian restaurant, Romanos, in the background

Background imageWorker Collection: WOMEN IN FACTORY / 1917

WOMEN IN FACTORY / 1917
A Frenchwoman working in a factory during World War One. Date: 1917

Background imageWorker Collection: PREGNANT WORKER / 1907

PREGNANT WORKER / 1907
A pregnant worker is told not to come to work the next day. Date: 1907

Background imageWorker Collection: Matchbox maker in London

Matchbox maker in London
A good days work A London matchbox maker surveys the pile of matchboxes she has just made. Date: 1890

Background imageWorker Collection: DUTCH PEARL WORKER C17

DUTCH PEARL WORKER C17
A Dutch craftsman working with pearls Date: 17th century

Background imageWorker Collection: FRENCH TONNELLIER

FRENCH TONNELLIER
A French TONNELLIER - a barrel-maker Date: circa 1740

Background imageWorker Collection: FRENCH WEAVER

FRENCH WEAVER
A French hand-loom worker at his loom, driven by the treadles beneath his feet Date: early 20th century

Background imageWorker Collection: Street sweeper 1863

Street sweeper 1863
Young barefoot boy sweeping the streets for some money. Date: 1863



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