Workers Collection (page 10)

Calvinist priests laying hands on a man, Switzerland
Two Calvinist priests laying hands on a man kneeling on a cushion, and woman of Zurich in mourning clothes, Switzerland, 16th century. Lutto di una Zurichese &c

The Sponge Exchange at Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA
Scene at the Sponge Exchange - the largest in the world at Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Ernest Bevin giving speech at East Woolwich
Ernest Bevin giving a speech to socialist workers at his East Woolwich constituency after a period of illness. Continuing as foreign secretary

Front cover of a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine for the working classes founded by Thomas Bywater Smithies in 1855, committed to encouraging temperance, protestantism

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

Manual and sedentary workers, 1942
Exercises for manual and sedentary war workers, 1942. Date: 1942

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

Scene outside Mansion House underground station, London, showing the arrival of City workers in their top hats at 10am. Date: 1896

Scenes in a Chocolate Factory by Steven Spurrier
Chocolate in the making at J. S. Fry and Sons, Bristol. Top picture shows melangeurs grinding cocoa beans and sugar. In the middle, women workers mould chocolate cakes and bars

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

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

Janet Hogarth at Encyclopedia Britannica dinner 1910
Janet Hogarth speaking at an Encyclopedia Britannica dinner held to celebrate the contribution of women to the recent completion of the eleventh edition

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 making flowers 1912
Women from the John Grooms Crippleage and Blind Mission making artificial wild roses to be sold at Alexandra Day. In 1912

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

Women jam makers at work, May 1918
Women working in the boiler room of a jam factory in England. Jam-making process, output of the factory and the importance of jam to the armys food supply, needing approximately 100

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

French women signing up for war work, September 1939
A group of Frenchwomen engaged in signing up for Passive Defence and Red Cross work shortly after the outbreak of war in September 1939. Date: September 1939

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