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GPO Post Office workers and GWR motor bus, London, with driver and passengers. Date: circa 1910
Machine for bending the barrel hoops 1875This operator bending the barrel hoops. Date: 1875
Cutting screw threads with hand chaser 1875Skilled operator cutting threads or screws on a lathe by hand. Date: 1875
Central telephone exchange 1903The post office central telephone exchange, St. Pauls Churchyard, London, England. Date: 1903
Postcard booklet, ploughing a field, Dixieland, USAPostcard booklet, man and horses taking a rest from ploughing a field, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937
Postcard booklet, collecting gum from pine trees, USAPostcard booklet, turpentine industry, collecting gum from pine trees, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937
Postcard booklet, southern tobacco field, USAPostcard booklet, a southern tobacco field, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937
Postcard booklet, workers cutting sugar cane, USAPostcard booklet, workers cutting, shocking and stocking in the sugar cane fields, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937
Postcard booklet, making syrup, Dixieland, USAPostcard booklet, making syrup for hot cakes in the open air, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937
Postcard booklet, Greetings from Dixieland, USA, showing a cotton picker asleep with his head inside a basket. Date: 1937
Knot porter 1746Knot porter from London, carrying lots of parcels on his back. 1746
Parcel mail porter 1846Parcel mail porter in London. Date: 1846
The Catch of the Season - Asquith & the Vote, 1917Prime Minister Herbert Asquith shown being helped aboard a bus with the help of a female conductor during the First World War
Liberty Loan, Preparing the Bonds at Washington U. S. A 1917Women 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
COMMUNISM / YOUNG WORKERFront cover of the communist magazine " The Young Worker", featuring Karl Liebknecht, who was murdered on 15 January 1919. Date: 1924
MUSSOLINI STRIPSMussolini 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
Street worker and horse Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1980s
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
Women working in a large factory making wax candles with a foreman standing watching them
Vietnamese wood worker and his family outside their home. Date: 1890s
Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershirecirca 1910s
Smiling Welder Date: 1945
Lancashire, England - Textile Cotton Mill worker and looms. Date: circa 1905
Japan - Ainu woman weaving. Date: circa 1920s
Bystander front cover, Bairnsfather cartoon, German shellsAlas! 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
Potters throwing clay 1836Potters in the act of throwing clay. Date: 1836
Stonemason 1856Stonemason about cut into a stone block with his mallet and chisel. Date: 1856
Village carpenter 1855Interior of a workshop with a village carpenter using a wooden smoothing plane. Date: 1855
French female munitions worker making powder primers 1916A photograph of a female munitions worker, as she makes the primers and other associated percussion cap parts for shells, in a French munitions factory
Vintage in Medoc: Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte 1871Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte, France. Date: 1871
Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham 1844 Elkington & CoScenes from Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham, woman worker, burnishing. Date: 1844
Londons drapers 1900Busy work room in a drapers in London. Date: 1900
New sorting-room at General Post Office 1846New Inland department of the General Post Office in St. Martins-le-Grand in London. Date: 1846
Spinning machine or engine 1843A steam-powered silk spinning machine or engine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby. Date: 1843
Steam sewing factory 1854A 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
Oldest lace-worker in bucks 1904Old lady sitting with a pillow with bobbins and pins. Date: 1904
New public pillar post box 1857New 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
INDIAN TEXTILE WORKERWomen 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
METAL WORKER 1960SA young man welds metal with a blow torch Date: 1960s
MANUFACTURING GLOBESA man making globes by sticking two halves together Date: 1930s
Female WaC RAF motor-cyclist at work 1918Female WaC RAF motor-cyclist driving a staff officer through the Strand, London, with the famous Russian restaurant, Romanos, in the background
WOMEN IN FACTORY / 1917A Frenchwoman working in a factory during World War One. Date: 1917
PREGNANT WORKER / 1907A pregnant worker is told not to come to work the next day. Date: 1907
Matchbox maker in LondonA good days work A London matchbox maker surveys the pile of matchboxes she has just made. Date: 1890
DUTCH PEARL WORKER C17A Dutch craftsman working with pearls Date: 17th century
FRENCH TONNELLIERA French TONNELLIER - a barrel-maker Date: circa 1740
FRENCH WEAVERA French hand-loom worker at his loom, driven by the treadles beneath his feet Date: early 20th century
Street sweeper 1863Young barefoot boy sweeping the streets for some money. Date: 1863