Working Collection (page 21)

GPO engineer at work, London
GPO engineer working on underground telephone cables on a street in Central London. Date: circa 1960s

East Enders celebrate Silver Jubilee, London
Londons East Enders celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary, with decorations on their house. Date: 1935

Electrical insulator factory
Factory producing ceramic insulators used in National Grid power transmission. Date: circa 1950s

Demoltion wth bulldozer, South London
Bulldozer clears rubble during demolition of a house in South London. Date: circa 1950s

Decorating an office building, London
A team of decorators painting the outside of an office building in Central London, working from ladders with no protective head gear. Date: circa 1950s

Cleaners at work in Central London
Two cleaners wash down the fascia of the Royal Dutch Airlines offices in Central London. Date: circa 1960s

Cart being pulled by dogs in rural France
Delivery cart pulled by dogs in rural France. Date: circa 1930s

Building workers laying concrete, City of London
Building workers laying concrete on a building site in the City of London. Date: circa 1950s

Building progress inspection, Paris
City officials inspect the progress of a building under construction, Paris. Date: circa 1930s

Building demolished manually, Bromley, Kent
A commercial building in Bromley, Kent, being demolished the hard way, by hand. Date: circa 1950s

Barges on Londons River Thames at Woolwich
Barges working on the River Thames at Woolwich, SE London. Date: 1930s

A steam train ride for children
Scale working steam train preparing to give ride to children. Date: 1950s

Keep smiling! Sheels are piling, Men are joining, Women toiling, All are working, Nothing shirking, So.... Thumbs Up! Date: circa 1916

Comic postcard, Little girl doing the housework Date: circa 1918

The Maid-Of-All-Work is put upon. Now, Betsy be quick and wash up the breakfast things, clear the kitchen, make the beds, and get me up carefully a pair of sleeves

Comic postcard, council worker Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, man gardening, two sparrows Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A Little bit of Overtime
The concept of overtime, that is working beyond ones contracted hours, became formalised just before WW2. This little bricklayer has another interpretation of the phrase

Lord Palmerston delivering the prizes at the South London Industrial Exhibition, at the Lambeth Baths in Westminster Road, London, 1865. Date: 1865

Work on the tramway in Kingsway, London, connecting the lines in the north and south. Date: 1905

The dancers of Variety in 1929. Hope Minor and Edward Root (Top left), Janet Martine an RKO headliner (top middle), Neva, an acrobatic dancer with Dave Apollon (top right)

Two of the Pearl Eatons Radio Pictures girls Alice Jans and June Glory, 1930 who were last seen in The Cuckoos. Pearl Eaton was a dance director, formerly working on Broadway for Dillingham

Cottages at Runswick Bay, Yorkshire
19th century vintage photograph: Cottages at Runswick Bay, Yorkshire

Working family outside cottage Runswick Bay Yorkshire
19th century vintage photograph: Working family outside their cottage, Runswick Bay, Yorkshire

Children working with silk worms, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

c. 1880s Japan - working with silk worms
c.1880s Japan - working with silk worms

Working with silk worms, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Women working with silk worms, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Woman playing koto stringed musical instrument, Japan
Young woman playing a koto stringed musical instrument, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Japanese geisha in an ornate kimono writing a letter. Vintage 19th century photograph

Narrow street, working class district, Venice, Italy, childr
Vintage 19th century photograph: Narrow street in a working class district of Venice, Italy children with bare feet

Elephant at Work
A working elephant picking up timber with his trunk. Artist: Charles Kingsley Cook Date: 1907

Group of six women, wearing aprons or overalls. They look as if they are staff at a school or a large house, or perhaps factory workers of some sort. Date: 1920s

A father poses with his little boy in a back street. Date: 1920s

Scotch Herring Women Workers 1902
Towns of Yarmouth and Lowesoft in the East Anglian ports were full of women from Scotland, coming down to help with the herring harvest in October and November

The Sketch Photographic Interviews XXXiX - Mr John Hassall
Page from The Sketch featuring a photographic interview with the artist John Hassall. He is seen at work in his studio at 88 Kensington Park Road, sweeping up and working on his large watercolour

Indignant General to Cook: Well I wouldn t stay in a place like that five minutes. Two servants discuss John Hassalls famous Help! poster advertising vacuum cleaners which they view with suspicion

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

A smiling young woman in a headscarf and apron washing up or preparing food in a kitchen or scullery. Tea towels hang from the airer above, assorted ladles and pans are close to hand

Sledge dogs
Canadian Eskimo Dogs or Canadian Inuit Dogs are an Arctic breed of working dog. Artist: Eileen Hood. Date: circa 1925

Women of the working class in Tokyo, 18th century
Women of the working class in Tokyo, Edo Era, 18th century. A laundress washing clothes in a tub, a menial maid carrying water pales with yoke, servant with brush, and nursemaid with baby

Edo street scene, 18th century. A dance teacher and pupil on the left, a nori (glue) seller is beckoned by workers in a small family business

King Philip II of Spain working on El Escorial, 1584
King Philip II of Spain overseeing the work on the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial built in 1584. Surrounded by courtiers, soldiers, magistrates and masons. Scoglio di Filippo II

Working class gent with his two young daughters
Working class gent walks proudly along a British seaside seafront with his two young daughters. Date: circa 1920s

Charles Martin, a working miner from Dinnington Colliery who was also a successful artist, having painted in oils 270 pictures, many of which he had sold

Motto frontispiece in a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine aimed at the industrial classes, advocating temperance and education. Laborare est Orare - To Work is to Worship

Front cover of a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine for the working classes founded by Thomas Bywater Smithies in 1855, committed to encouraging temperance, protestantism

Man at work in an oil rig control room
Man at work in the control room of an oil rig drilling platform off the coast of Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

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