Workers Collection (page 17)

Textile workers early 1900s

Textile factory

Steel workers, Bessemer Cupola Stage Date: circa 1900s

Steel workers at Penistone Date: circa 1900s

Steel workers, Bessemer Converting Shop in Penistone Date: circa 1900s

Artwork, two railwaymen Date: 1942

Korea: farm workers
Vintage early 20th century photograph - Korea: farm workers

Shell Workers, by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, WW1
Shell Workers, painting by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, First World War. 1918

Tea plantation workers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Tea plantation workers in the fields, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1930

Quarry workers, Boma, Belgian Congo, West Africa. Date: circa 1905

Indian factory workers making munitions, WW1: shell making
" How India is doing her bit at home: a munitions factory in the Great Dependency. Shell-making: a general view of the complicated machinery which the Indians handle most deftly." 1915

Indian factory workers making munitions, 1915
" How India is doing her bit at home: a munitions factory in the Great Dependency." Cartridge and shell making in India during World War One by native Indians, for use by the British. 1915

Construction workers outside a large building, USA
Large group of construction workers (possibly carpenters, painters, builders, etc) outside a large building, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Cotton harvest in Tripoli (Tarabulus), Lebanon
Cotton harvest with a working girl standing in front of it, Tripoli (Tarabulus) in the north of Lebanon. Date: circa 1910

Communist China - chemical workers
A group of industrial workers discussing a technical issue at a chemical factory in Communist China, working together during the Cultural Revolution with an emphasis on the raising of standards

Communist China - teachers doing manual work
Communist China - teachers from Qinghua (Tsinghua) University and Beijing University forced to do heavy manual work during the Cultural Revolution period

West End riots, 1886 - A friend of the working man
Unemployed men debating the issues of the moment, sketched at the demonstration at Trafalgar Square, London, at the time of the West End riots in 1886

Women Munitions Workers Keighley WW1
On 23rd September 1916, the West Riding Volunteer Regiment organised a flag day and procession with marching bands. It included an attractive tableaux or float by the Keighley National Shell Factory

Women WW1 Munitions Woolwich Arsenal
Interior of the Shell Factory at Woolwich Arsenal showing women workers and some men (supervisors?). The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, employed around 80, 000 people during the first World War

Manufacture of Naval Artillery - Krupp Works, Essen, Germany
Manufacture of Naval Artillery at the Krupp Works, Essen, Germany. Date: 1906

Salt Water dispenser - Frantiskovy Lazne Spa, Czech Republic
Salt Water dispenser (fountain) at the Frantiskovy Lazne (German: Franzensbad) - a town in Cheb District of Karlovy Vary Region in the western Bohemia (Czech Republic), near the town of Cheb

Cardiff Strike - Policemen - Tonypandy Riots
Cardiff Strike - London Policeman brought in to aid management of rioting miners. The Tonypandy Riots, sometimes known as the Rhondda Riots

Industrial Revolution. London. Interior of an English factory. Late 18th century. Nineteenth-century

Germany. Congress of Gotha, 1875, where was founded the German Socialist Party (SPD). Reminder sheet with portrait of Marx and Lassalle at the centre

Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Women Ironing (1884-1886). Orsay Museum. Paris. France

Workers strike in Jumet (Belgium) on 26 March 1886. Strikers destroying an smelter in the H. Bandoux glass factory. Engraving

Farmers plowing and sowing. Late 15th century. Italy
Farmers plowing and sowing. Miniature of Grimani Breviary. Late 15th century. Saint Marks Library. Venice. Italy

Wet Rainy Rain Raining Rains Utagawa Hiroshige
wet, rainy, rain, raining, rains, utagawa, hiroshige, woodblock, woodcut, print, reproduction, postcard, paddy, field, fields, workers, working, agriculture, picking, rice, plat, planting, farming

W Barratt & Co Ltd factory, Northampton, UK
W Barratt & Co Ltd factory, making department, Northampton, UK. mid-20th century

Japanese Scene - Harvesting rice in a paddy field. Date: circa 1909

The Workmans Train. Interior of a third class carriage running workers from the suburbs of London into the city centre. The illustration related to a feature in the same issue of The Illustrated

Group of female factory workers, c. 1910
A group of women factory workers from the Edwardian era wearing clogs. Date: c.1910

Liverpool General transport Strike 1911
Most of the summer of 1911, dockers, railway workers and sailors, as well as people from other trades went on strike, paralysing Liverpools commerce. Transforming trade unionism and Merseyside

New rulers of the German Navy
With the war coming to a close, revolution in Germany had begun with a mutiny by their sailors in response to a desperate order from the Imperial Naval Command seeking a last battle against the Royal

Tea plantation workers, Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Date: circa 1920s

WWII knitting booklet, Home Front Woollies
Front cover of a knitting booklet produced by Weldons featuring a variety of patterns to make garments for war workers from a resolute looking member of the Home Guard to female members of the armed

WWII knitting, New Woollies for soldiers, sailors & airmen
Front cover of a knitting booklet from the Second World War published by yarn manufacturer Weldon, featuring woollen garments which could made for men in the armed services

Port Sunlight - aerial map
Superb aerial view of Port Sunlight, the factory and home of Sunlight and Lifebuoy soaps, together with the model village built on the Wirral by William Lever for the benefit of his workers

The pumping station at Deptford Creek, 1861
The sewage pumping station at Deptford Creek, designed by civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazelgette. Pictured here under construction in 1861. Date: 1861

Paris, France - Building the Arc de Triomphe (de l Etoile). Date: 1830

WW1 cartoon on postcard - munition worker
Expecting a rise shortly. Humorous, First World War postcard depicting a female munition worker jauntily sitting on a barrel of dynamite with a cigarette. A health and safety nightmare. Date: c.1916

Bomb damage, Marlow Road, East Ham, WW2
Panoramic view of extensive bomb damage in Marlow Road, East Ham, London, 28 November 1944, with firefighters and rescue workers. Date: 1944

Miss Jessica Borthwick aka Nell Foy
Miss Jessica Borthwick (1888-1946), aka Nell Foy, sculptor, camera woman and one of the first nurses in France during the First world War

The Country House Season 1915 by Charles Robinson, WW1
House party at Castle Bareacres coming down to dinner during the munitions season. A pastiche on the traditional, upper class house party of the pre-war era

Munition workers guard of honour at Percy wedding, WW1
Munition workers forming a guard of honour at the wedding of Miss Stella Drummond to Lord Eustace Percy (third son of the late Duke of Northumberland) at St. Margaret s, Westminster

Miss Susan Dudley Ryder, Londons 1st lady taxi driver, WW1
Miss Susan Dudley Ryder, who had the distinction of being Londons first female taxi driver, aving passed all the driving tests

Lloyd Georges lady chauffeur
The Right Hon. David Lloyd Georges Napier car being started by his lady chauffeur who, according to The Tatler, handles it in a very skilful manner. Date: 1916

Trench coat for canteen workers by Aquascutum, WW1
A trench coat of khaki drill interlined with oil silk with a detachable fleece lining from Aquascutum and ideal for ladies working in canteens in draughty places such as railway stations during

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