Workers Collection (page 48)

Disinfecting a home - 1
DISINFECTING A HOME Workers for the Paris prefecture disinfect a home where tuberculosis or cholera have occurred

Society of Rail Servants
A wonderfully illustrated commemorative certificate, conferring the rail workers of Market Rasen into membership of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants

Homestead Steel Strike
HOMESTEAD STEEL STRIKE Workers at the Carnegie Steel Company mills at Homestead, Pennsylvania, in armed battle against the Pinkerton men hired to protect the plant

Social / Broadway 1857
New York office workers on their way down Broadway in the early morning

Russian Fish Merchants
Three Russian workers in tunics, boots and warm hats transport fish for trading

Building Collapses / 1902
Construction workers fall from the sky as a building and associated scaffolding collapse at Rosy-sous-Bois, France

Bournville Scene
A street scene at Bournville, a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, originally designed for workers in Cadburys chocolate factory

Bristol Sugar Refinery
Workers shovel sugar at the Counterslip refinery in Bristol, England

Salt Tools, C1871
Tools used by Breton salt workers

Taking on Mail / Port Said
Taking on the mail, Port Said, Egypt

Industry / Soap 1830S
Cutting a block of soap into bars Date: 1830s

Benefit Soc. Certificate
Allegorical depictions of suffering, succour, prudence, sickness & acts of God. Also carpenters, masons, weavers, printers, blacksmiths, farm worker, bricklayers & engineer

Chicago Riots & Police
CHICAGO RIOTS Stirred up by fiendish anarchists, workers riot - and have to be put down with brutal force - police cower from the demonstrators stones

Chicago Riots
CHICAGO RIOTS Stirred up by fiendish anarchists, workers riot - and have to be put down with brutal force - dispersing the demonstrators

Italian Steam Tram
Steam trams are a nuisance in cities, but on rural routes like this Italian example they are economical and provide low cost transportation for low- paid workers

Haymaking, France C1920
Barefoot & in sabots, French farmhands make hay while the sun shines. A little boy bearing a big jug brings a much needed drink to the workers

Jaures Adressing Workers
Jean Jaures, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, adresses a crowd of weavers on strike at Houplines (North of France)

Oiling a Crane Pulley
Two construction workers risking life and limb to oil the pulleys on top of a huge crane

New Swindon
The settlement of New Swindon, built when the Great Western Railway came to what was then a small market town, to house the workers needed for the engine and maintenance works

Port Sunlight Brochure
The front cover of a brochure describing PORT SUNLIGHT with emphasis on working conditions and the many services provided for the workers from Soap Packers to Engine Drivers

George V Inspects Shells
King George V inspecting the shells at Holmes and Co. munition works, Hull

Hoeing Sugar Beet
Women workers hoeing sugar beet on a farm in Essex, England

Northumberland Harvest
Harvesting on a Northumberland farm, England, where, even in the 1930s, many of the women workers still wore their quaint costumes of many generations past

Marshall Thresher
A rather fashionable young woman photographed on a Marshall box, threshing and bagging oats. Men, farm workers are all around her, Wirral, Cheshire, England

Student Agitators 1848
Students in Vienna form part of the revolt with radical liberals and workers calling for constitutional reform. One of the many European revolutions of the year 1848

Demo Suppressed
An arbeitertrawall (workers demonstration) in the streets of Berlin is suppressed by the forces of law and order. Date: 16 October 1848

German Workers Riot
A riot by workers in Breslau is suppressed by the military

Bronze Age Metalwork
Bronze Age metal workers pour liquid bronze into casts

Winter Palace Event
How the Tsar deals with complaints - demonstrating workers gunned down by the Army outside the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg

Dwarfs / Underground Work
A team of dwarf miners, the " underground workers" in action

Excavation Tomb / 1923
The excavation of Tutankhamens tomb

Midday Meal
Country children take the mid- day meal to workers in the fields

Farming 15th Century
Le Travail des Champs - farm workers sowing, plowing, harrowing, reaping, threshing, digging, planting trees &c

Boy & Girls in Belgium
MINING Women and child workers at the Charbonnages du Trieu- Kaisin, Viviers, Belgium

Women Munitions Workers
Siemens factory - Women munitions workers pose with banner What the Girls are doing to help the Men at the Front

Red Flood Let Loose 1931
The Red Flood let loose Workers are swept through an open lock

Women in Ww1 Factory
Women workers in munitions factory in Britain

Pounding a White-Hot Iron Bar
Metal workers pounding a white-hot iron bar. The workers are all quite young boys

Cotton Workers, India
Cotton workers, India

French Thresher 1859
BATTAGE A LA VAPEUR - A French steam thresher by Renaud & Lotz, Nantes

Events / Britain
When general Haynau, Austrian general who had put down patriotic rising with severity, visits London he is assaulted by the workers at Barclay & Perkins Brewery

Rail / St Pancras Built
Construction workers try not to desecrate the burials in St Pancras Churchyard as the new terminus is built

Steel Industry
Bessemer converter in a steel foundry

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