Working Collection (#12)

Miner working a high seam Victorian period

Private Electric Motor Car on tracks - Panama Canal
Private Electric Motor Car operating on lines of track and used by Heads of the Engineering Divisions/Departments working on the Panama Canal. Date: 1913

Engineering apprentices Victorian period Date: 19th century

Shire Horses early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Roll out the barrel, cartoon gardener rolling lawn, with music playing from a neighbour's house, as if in mockery of the man's efforts

Advert, Lyons Tea House, waitress known as a Nippy Date: 20th century

A Mushrebieth Workshop, Cairo, Egypt
A Mushrebieth Workshop, Cairo Egypt Date: 1898

Working the cage engine at a coal mine

Coal Mining Working the Cage Engine early 1900s

Whitby Working Girls Victorian period

The Bing Boys are here, WW1 revue, Alhambra Theatre
The Bing Boys are here, WW1 revue at the Alhambra Theatre, London - Emma (Violet Loraine) goes up the social ladder Date: 1916

Fisher Girls at Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk Date: circa 1950

WW2 - Ladies May Now Leave Their Machines
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Ladies May Now Leave Their Machines, written by Diana Murray Hill. The image shows the backs of wartime working women. Date: 1944

WW2 - Emergency Control Room
A photograph of some figures working in a British railway emergency control room. Date: circa 1944

WW2 - Shop 7
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Shop 7, written by Kenneth Hemingway. The image portrays a pair of wartime figures including a fashionably dressed young woman

WW2 - Peggy Speeds The Plough
An illustrated front cover of a WW2 children's book, Peggy Speeds The Plough, written by Madge S. Smith. The images portray wartime agricultural working women, land girls

WW2 - Fighter Station Operations Room
A photograph of some figures working inside a British WW2 operations room of a Royal Air Force fighter station. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - R. A. F. Armament Section
A photograph which shows some British WW2 Royal Air Force personnel of the armament section, working on the guns of an aircraft. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - R. A. F. Wireless Operator Workshop
This photograph shows some British WW2 Royal Air Force trainees working at a wireless operator mechanics workshop. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Panther Aero Engine
A photograph of some British WW2 Royal Air Force fitters working on a Panther aero-engine. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Land Girl Greetings Card
The inside of a WW2 greetings card, the fold out illustration portrays a young British land girl working on her red tractor. Here's to the modern farmer's boy. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Christmas Card, F. A. N. Y
A WW2 Christmas greetings card illustration which portrays a saluting woman working for The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, a British independent all female charity which was heavily active in nursing

Ross-on-Wye, Wye Valley, Herefordshire, viewed from The Meadows - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Donkeys of Clovelly, Devon - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Maison Ruinart, Reims, Marne, France
Pouring the champagne by hand, in the winery at Maison Ruinart, the oldest champagne house in the world, founded in Epernay in 1729 by Nicolas Ruinart, in Reims, Marne, Grand Est, France

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, Harland and Wolff employee
White Star Line, RMS Titanic, rare bookpost real photo postcard of Titanic in Belfast written by a Harland and Wolff employee

White Star Line, staff photographed in Southampton office
White Star Line, real photo postcard of staff in the White Star Line's office in Southampton. Date: early 20th century

Harland and Wolff, Belfast, gatehouse wall clock
Rare gatehouse wall clock from Harland and Wolff, Queen?s Road, Belfast, dating from approx. 1900?1910 and still in working condition

WW2 Nerve Centre Of Fire Service Control
This illustration portrays a young woman working for the British Fire Service as part of the Home Front during WW2, she is on a call at a nerve centre. Date: circa 1941

WW2 W. V. S. Salvage
This illustration shows a man speaking to a salvage officer working for the Women's Voluntary Service during WW2, with a large container of items to be recycled for better use. Date: circa 1941

WW2 Home Front Window Cleaner
This illustration portrays a woman who working as a window cleaner during WW2, she is carrying a ladder over her shoulder and a bucket in her hand. Date: circa 1941

WW2, Hard Work
An illustration which shows a little boy helping out with the war effort, by working in the garden at home, unfortunately, a large rock has crashed on his foot! Date: circa 1940s

Iraqi Minister of Development Mohammad Ghussein & colleagues
The Iraqi Minister of Development Mohammad Ghussein, colleagues and their spouses at the Department of Development - Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1950s

French engravers workshop, men working on wood blocks Date: 1897

The Engravers Workshop, Engraving and Printing on Copper Date: 1853

Inking the Copper Plate, Engraving and Printing on Copper Date: 1853

Portuguese fruit and vegetable vendor with donkey, Lisbon, Portugal Date: circa 1895

The Printing Press Room, Engraving and Printing on Copper Date: 1853

The Copperplate Press, Engraving and Printing on Copper Date: 1853

Advertisement Illustration, Woman With Cats
An advertisement illustration showing a woman working in a room, with two black cats perched nearby. Date: circa 1939

Reeves & Sons Gouache Colour Advertisement
A photographic advertisement for Reeves & Sons Ltd, promoting gouache colour paint, for use by artists and studios across England. The picture shows an artist working on a poster. Date: circa 1939

Fifty Weeks Labour and Fourteen Days Swank!
Comic postcard - Fifty Weeks Labour... and Fourteen Days Swank! Date: 1930

Farmers cutting the hay
Victorian farmers working in the field, cutting the hay by hand, with the help of horses and the family. Date: circa 1890s

Merton Abbey Tapestry Looms
A photograph showing women working at the tapestry looms of Merton Abbey, William Morris, being a fervent believer in socialism, paid his workers here more than average

Cover design, Do it yourself, August 1964 - two bedrooms from one Date: 1964

The Sign Shop, Pether's Sign Makers, London Date: 1903

Inner Office and Shop, Pether's Sign Makers, London Date: 1903

Corner of the Stamping Room, Pether's Sign Makers, London
A corner of the Stamping Room, Pether's Sign Makers, London Date: 1903

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