Workers Collection (#25)

Ethel Gabain and a sitter
Ethel L鯮 tine Gabain (26 March 1883 30 January 1950), French-English artist. Gabain was a renowned painter and lithographer and among the founding members of the Senefelder Club

Artisans Model Cottage
Example of an artisans model cottage, the type of which was suggested by The Artisans Suburban Cottage Movement to provide comfortable homes for working populations in towns and cities. 1862

General Strike 1926 - procession in Manchester
Strike scenes in Manchester - a great procession of corporation tramwaymen starting from Albert Square, led by their band. Date: 1926

London bus strike 1891
Front cover of The Penny Illustration Paper showing the first strike by London transport workers in 1891, over working conditions and pay. Date: 1891

Night workers laying an electric cable in London 1900
Workmen working in the streets at night laying electrical cable. Date: 1900

Three women in a small business - wearing overalls - sadly their exact profession is not easy to determine. The machine (back left) may be some form of polishing wheel?? Date: 1930

The industrial crisis in Lyon: unemployed French workers. Date: 1884

Frozen-out-gardens 1850
Bitter cold winter months were very harsh for men from the country-side, usually digging vegetables. The winter season and frozen grounds made it hard to find work

Getting a rise in the World 1912
Photograph of the tallest skyscraper (at the time) being built in New York by the Woolworth Company. Workman holding on with nothing but rope chains and without any safety equipment

Chinese workers pruning trees, California, USA
Chinese workers pruning trees on a peach farm, California, USA. Date: circa 1908

Canada - Hamilton Bay - Ice Harvest - Sawing ice sheet
Canada - Hamilton Bay, Ontario - Ice Harvest - Sawing ice sheet Date: 1912

Salvation Army Home, Lower Clapton Road, London. At various times, the premises served as a rescue home, a knitting home, and a training institute for the Armys women social workers. Date: circa 1908

Great hop-pickers demonstration 1908
Dense crowds in Trafalgar square, demonstrating against a threatened industry of foreign hop imports, large crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square, London, estimated forthy to fifty thousand people

Workers with delivery cart, Brighton, Sussex
Group of workers with delivery cart belonging to a Brighton company, but taken by a Hastings photographer. 19th century

Narrow gauge railway with men and skip wagon
Narrow gauge railway with men, tipper skip wagon loaded with rocks, and quarry buildings. Date: circa 1920

Dockers unload sugar at the West India Docks, London Date: 1889

The West India Docks, London - Opening of a new Dry Dock Date: 1878

West India Import Dock, Poplar, London Date: circa 1830s

East India Import and Export Docks, London Date: circa 1850

Glove cutters at work, Gloversville, New York State, USA
Glove cutters at work in Gloversville, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1913

WW2 poster, Allies in the Shipyards -- the workers portrayed above are all workers in the same British shipyard. With black and white photographs, and coloured flags of Allied countries on the left

WW2 poster, steelworkers in action
WW2 poster (before lettering added), showing steelworkers in action in a factory. Date: circa 1940

Winston Churchill with female munitions workers, 1918
Winston Churchill, when he was Minister of Munitions, is escorted through the yards by female munitions workers at Georgetowns filling works near Glasgow on a visit on 9th October 1918. Date: 1918

Pineapple field near Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, with workers filling wooden crates with the fruit. Date: 1935

Coffee ranch in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The inset image shows a native worker shelling the beans. Date: circa 1895

Womens aircraft work in World War One
Photograph showing a decorated lorry contributed by the Sunbeam Motor Car Co, Ltd, to Our Day, pageant at Wolverhampton. The work of one of the womens departments and bears

Womens Legion pulling a broken down ambulance, WWI
Members of the Womens Legion, who worked convoying wounded soldiers among many other tasks, pulling a broken-down ambulance during the First World War. 1918

LCC Ambulance Girls, WWI
London County Council ambulance girls pictured with their ambulance wearing new shrapnel helmets. 1918

Unbeaten team of lady footballers, WWI
The undefeated team of Humber girls, made up of munitions girls from the Humber factory. The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News comments that they play, serious football

A Mere Matter of Form by Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
Distressing mistake of the cook recently released from a munition factory. A familys cook absent-mindedly shapes the pudding for that day into a shell, much to the shock and panic of her employers

Country scene near Nagasaki, Japan
Country scene with farm workers near Nagasaki, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Female Army Remount Workers during First World War
A group of women working as stable hands at an Army Remount Depot in Berkshire, overseen by the artist Cecil Aldin who was also a keen huntsman and Remount Officer for the area

Gwen Aldin at Army Remount Depot, WW1
Gwen Aldin, daughter of the artist Cecil Aldin, pictured with one of her charges at an Army Remount Depot during the First World War

People harvesting in a field, with a steam tractor and a cart. Date: circa 1920s

Man with a harvesting machine in a field
Man with a horse-drawn harvesting machine in a field. Date: circa 1920s

Fishery workers on a quayside
Fishery workers engrossed in their work, surrounded by barrels on a quayside. Date: circa 1920s

Men engaged in roadworks with a lorry alongside. Date: circa 1930s

Four people with a tractor in a field, transporting hay. Date: circa 1920s

Haymaking in a field
People haymaking in a field. Date: circa 1920s

Two minutes silence at Mansion House, 1920
Crowds observing the two minutes silence on Armistice Day, 11 November 1920, outside Mansion House in the City of London. Date: 1920

Female lift attendant at a West End business, WW1
" Men must fight, and women must work." A woman lift attendant at a business in London in 1915. 1915

Women gunnery opticians, Illustrated War News, WW1
Women gunnery " opticians". Learning gun-sight lens making at Northampton Institute during the First World War. Date: 1917

Women ambulance attendants and drivers, WW1
Women acting as attendants and drivers at the new London County Council Ambulance station in Bloomsbury, wearing a special uniform adapted to the special needs of their employment when on duty

Face workers in a tin mine, Cornwall, with the seam of tin visible on the right. Date: circa 1980s

Vintage Caravan, England. Showing Deaf Reformer & Photogrpaher Selwyn Oxley - Caravan workers enjoying a mid-day meal on the van - Inside the door is the Ephphatha Almanack 1913. Date: 1910s

Midland Railway Workers with a Kirtly Steam Locomotive 0-6-0, Britain. Pre the 1907 renumbering. Date: 1900s

Biplane - Aircraft Factory, Thought to be at Coventry, Warwi
Biplane/Aircraft Factory, Thought to be at Coventry, Warwickshire, England. Showing women workers manufacturing a planes tail - World War One Date: 1910s

Broadstone Railway Station Workers, Dublin, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Midland Great Western Railway - Picturing the Signal Shop workers on an outing Date: 1910s

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