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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, USALarge group of construction workers (possibly carpenters, painters, builders, etc) outside a large building, North America. Date: circa 1910s
Cotton harvest in Tripoli (Tarabulus), LebanonCotton harvest with a working girl standing in front of it, Tripoli (Tarabulus) in the north of Lebanon. Date: circa 1910
Communist China - chemical workersA 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 workCommunist 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 manUnemployed 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 WW1On 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 ArsenalInterior 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, GermanyManufacture of Naval Artillery at the Krupp Works, Essen, Germany. Date: 1906
Salt Water dispenser - Frantiskovy Lazne Spa, Czech RepublicSalt 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 RiotsCardiff 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. ItalyFarmers plowing and sowing. Miniature of Grimani Breviary. Late 15th century. Saint Marks Library. Venice. Italy
Wet Rainy Rain Raining Rains Utagawa Hiroshigewet, 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, UKW 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. 1910A group of women factory workers from the Edwardian era wearing clogs. Date: c.1910
Liverpool General transport Strike 1911Most 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 NavyWith 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 WoolliesFront 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 & airmenFront 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 mapSuperb 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, 1861The 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 workerExpecting 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, WW2Panoramic 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 FoyMiss 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, WW1House 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, WW1Munition 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, WW1Miss Susan Dudley Ryder, who had the distinction of being Londons first female taxi driver, aving passed all the driving tests
Lloyd Georges lady chauffeurThe 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, WW1A 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
Women welding bomb cases, WW1Women workers wear goggles to fix the tops of bomb cases in position by welding during the First World War. Date: 1916
Creche for the children of munitions workers, WW1Dinner time at a creche for the children of women munition workers at Birmingham. According to the caption in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
A Russian Workers Canteen in 1904A large group of Russian workers eating whilst sitting at long wooden tables in their canteen. Date: 1904
Cyprus - Women Spinning woolCyprus - Cypriot Women Spinning wool and working at a loom. Date: circa 1906
Saint-Claude, France - Fabrique Jeantet-David Pipe Factory - Polishing the pipes using overhead belt-driven polishing machines. (see: 10993880) Date: circa 1909
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Coke Production AreaJapan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto Coke Production Area. Date: circa 1910s
Souvenir postcard from Creil, FranceSouvenir postcard from Creil, a commune in the Oise department in northern France. Date: circa 1910s
Fig packing - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, TurkeyFig packing at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s
Manor or country house garden, with workers. Copper-plate illustration from Richard Bradley, New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. Frontispiece. Date: 1739