Workers Collection (page 15)

Workers tea break beside the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal
Two male factory workers take a tea break on the banks of the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal at Tinsley Locks, Sheffield, England. Date: 1996

Indian carpet factory - 2
A man squats on the floor to put the finishing touches to an Indian rug in a carpet factory in Jaipur, India Date: 1987

Indian carpet factory - 1
A man squats on the floor to put the finishing touches to an Indian rug in a carpet factory in Jaipur, India Date: 1987

Foundry worker Blists Hill
Iron furnace worker Grahan Collins takes a breather at Blists Hill Ironworks, Ironbridge, Shropshire. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Thebes, Upper Egypt, North Africa - Tomb of Nakht - Vineyard workers squeezing grapes to produce wine. Date: circa 1920s

Cocoonery - Silk Manufacture - Syria. Date: circa 1905s

Port Sunlight - Cheshire, Merseyside - Mens Social Club and Bowling Green. Date: circa 1910s

Salvation Army officers serve Covent Garden Market workers
United Kingdon General Strike, 1926 - Salvation Army officers serve Covent Garden Market workers with tea and biscuits, free of charge

Reeling the Silk for wedding dress train, Princess Elizabeth
Reeling the Silk for the wedding dress train of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) - Lullingstone Silk Farm, 1947. Date: 1947

Lancashire engineering factory workers including a very young apprentice (front centre). Date: circa 1910s

Threshold Photograph - family outside their terraced home
Threshold Photograph - Edwardian family (on the way up - they have just re-pointed the brickwrk and put in some new lace curtains!) outside their terraced home Date: circa 1911

The Royal Mint - The Cutting Room. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - The Medal Presses. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - The Chancellor Balance
The Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London - The Chancellor Balance. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Gold Melting House. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Silver Melting House. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Gold Rolling (fine) Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Gold Rolling. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Annealing Furnaces. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Weighing Room Date: circa 1908

Construction of the Mont Blanc Tramway, France
Team of workers working on the construction of the Rogues line - Mont Blanc Tramway, France. Date: circa 1905

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England - Theatre Royal. A statue of Samuel Morley, English woollen manufacturer, political radical, MP, abolitionist

Cadburys Bournville, Birmingham - Girls Gymnasium Exterior
Cadburys Cocoa and Chocolate Works at Bournville, Birmingham - Girls Gymnasium - Exterior view. Date: circa 1909

Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien, Loiret, France
Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Date: 1910s

Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes - Louis Leopold Robert
Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes (a quadrangular area of former marshland in the Lazio Region of central Italy, extending along the coast southeast of Rome)

Hershey Chocolate Company, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Hershey Inn, Hershey Chocolate Company Factory, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. Providing apartment accommodation for some of the workers at the plant. Date: circa 1907

The National Vigilance Association - NVA Workers, London
The National Vigilance Association - NVA Workers at work at a London Railway Station. The NVA was a society established in August 1885 " for the enforcement

Easter Lily Field in Bloom, Bermuda. Commercial production of bulbs initially started in Bermuda in 1853 and as late as the 1890s, Bermuda controlled 90% of the lily market in the United States

The new U. P. W. Headquarters, Clapham, London
The new U.P.W. (Union of Postal Workers) Headquarters, Clapham, London. The architect, L A Culliford designed the new headquarters for the Union of Post Office Workers roughly on the footprint of

Madame Delfaus school of carpet making, Algiers, Algeria
Children employed at Madame Delfaus school of carpet making at 84 Boulevard Valee, Algiers, Algeria, North Africa. Date: circa 1905

Duke of York at the reconstructed G. P. O. at Mount Pleasant
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) at the reconstructed G.P.O. at sorting Office at Mount Pleasant, London - November 1934

Miners at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall -- leaving at the end of the last shift, before the mine was closed. Date: circa 1986

Plumbago preparation, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Plumbago (Leadwort) preparation, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Crosfields soap works, Warrington 1886
Crosfields Soap Works, Warrington, Cheshire, England. Date: 1886

Distress in Lancashire: mill-hands work on Preston Moors
The distress in Lancashire: mill-hands at work on Preston Moors. Unemployed operatives levelling waste ground on the north side of the town, over seen by inspectors

Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. 19th ce
Textile Industry. 19th century. Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. Women working in the roving. Colored engraving

Printing press. 17th century
Printing press. Seventeenth century. Colored engraving of Gottfried Historical Chronicle. Frankfurt, 1619

Coal mining. Belgium
Coal mining. Herscheuse Mining. Quaregnon County. Belgium. Colored engraving from 1884

Burma - Socialist Propaganda postcard
Burma (now Myanmar) - Socialist Propaganda postcard from the early years of the Socialist State in Burma. The card appears to be showing a happy unity between a soldier representing the military

Laying pacific railroad
Laying of pacific rail road in America. Date: 1868

Carry On - Women in wartime silhouette, WW1
Types of Britains women armies - Land lasses, Town toilers and Sea Sirens. Three types of women during the First World War depicted rather romantically in silhouette

Harlene hair tonic advertisement, WW1
First World War advertisement for Harlene hair products, discussing in great detail the alarming epidemic of hair troubles resulting from war conditions

Paris, France - Tour Eiffel, construction work. Date: 1889

War Workers Alphabet
A poem of the alphabet showing wartime womens working jobs from A to Z, including things such ass for shepherdess. Every letter of the alphabet includes an illustration

Miss Flora Petersen, a canteen-worker (and dog), WW1
Portrait of Miss Flora Petersen, sister of the Countess of Wilton, who, reports The Tatler spent some time nursing the wounded during the Great War before taking up canteen work in Boulogne

Elizabeth Asquith at work
Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith (1897-1945), later Princess Bibesco, English writer, daughter of British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his second wife, Margot

Formosa Oolong Tea advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Formosa Oolong Tea Rooms, the perfect place to unwind after a tiring day doing war work, such as these nurses pictured

Employees - Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA
The 25, 000 Employees of the Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA pose for a group photograph in front of the factory buildings

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