Working Collection (page 9)

Team of Carpenters making a cart
Three carpenters make a cart under the watchful gaze of an elder craftsman or the intended recipent of the cart. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Arthur Moreland, commercial artist, best known for his book Humours of History, published in 1921, containing 160 comic historical cartoons from The Daily News

Farmers walk and lead a team of working horses across a harvested cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Emigrants embarking at the Royal Albert Docks, London, 1911
Illustration showing emigrants about to board the New Zealand liner Paparoa to make passage to Queensland, Australia, 1911

Two women workers at the factory gates, Derby
Two female workmates pose outside the factory gates at Burroughs & Sturgess, Frederick Street, Derby

Farming / Mowing 1899
A mowing scene: the mower sharpens his blade with a stone

Boy Apprentices, 1 of 3
Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 1 of 3 pictures

Workers - May Day 1936
Workers organisations May Day celebrations in Hyde Park - London

Silk Worker in Burnley
A woman working in a silk & rayon mill, Burnley, Lancashire, Britain

Jolly Plump Cook 1640
A jolly, plump cook (surrounded by poultry and other meats) proudly holds up a freshly made pie, decorated with a feather

Strike Meeting / Boldon
Colliers wives are summoned to a mass meeting at Boldon, Co. Durham

A Man Filleting Fish
A man in hat and overcoat fillets fish on a stall

An early typing pool
From the start, typing was perceived as the archetypal employment opportunity for women : this is the Typing Office of the Society for the Employment of Women

New type of light tank demonstrated at Aldershot
A group of small machines with a pill-box turret, working over rough ground at Aldershot

Matchmakers / London / 1871
Female matchmakers working in the East-End of London

Woman Feeds Chickens
An older woman in a long dress and wide-brimmed hat throws handfuls of chicken feed on to the ground for the chickens to peck at and scratch in the straw

Hands-Free Telephone Set
A telephone receptionist (possibly working for the emergency services) uses a rather cumbersome hands-free telephone, worn around the neck

Feeding the Horse Team

Medieval Workers 15C
Labourers & Artificers

Bobbin Winding
Bobbin winding in a Lancashire cotton mill

Outside the Pub, 1914
A group of drinkers assemble outside the Carpenters Arms pub for a photograph, bringing their glasses with them

Old Dog Tray Rescue
Old Dog Tray, a Newfoundland, rescues his young mistress from a watery grave

Farming / Reaping 1899
A reaping scene

Napoleon I on Elba
NAPOLEON I in exile on the island of Elba comes across one of his former Garde Imperiale, now working as a stone-mason

Belgian Baby & Dogs
A typically Belgian child in a long blue gown, wearing a white little cap and clogs meets two dogs as big as her pulling a straw cart

Chimneysweep Falls
A chimney collapses - and a chimneysweep falls

Dog Parachutist
At Saint Catherine, Canada, a police dog parachutes down with her master

Girl in Kitchen Garden
Girl working in a rural kitchen garden collecting cabbages

Philippines - Gaddang or Gaddane tribe with weapons
c.1890s South East Asia - Philippines - member of the Gaddang or Gaddane tribe with weapons

c. 1880s India - woman beggar and children
c. 1880s India - image from an album of Indian types and trades designed to illustrate India to a British viewer - beggar woman and children

A tea ship, the Loudoun Castle (spelt Louden Castle in the picture), from Hankow, China, commencing unloading ( breaking bulk ). The ship discharged from her vast hold 40, 000 packages of tea

Cartoon, Specimens from Mr Punchs Industrial Exhibition of 1850 (to be improved in 1851). A satire on the forthcoming Great Exhibition, under the leadership of Prince Albert

Mrs and Mrs Romilly (Esmond and Jessica Mitford)
Jessica Mitford (1917 - 1996), author and fifth of the six Mitford sisters, photographed with her first husband and cousin, Esmond Romilly, at a Miami restaurant they ran in 1940

Interior of a working class home 1920
Decor of early 1910s working class home, but photograph taken near the end or just after the First World War, showing carpeted floor, wallpaper, photographs in frames and ornaments on shelving

WW2 poster, Lend a Hand on the Land, the Londoners Land Club. Date: circa 1940

A pair of Suffolk Punch working horses pull a plough in a stubble field in Suffolk, England. A young woman leads the horses and a man handles the plough Date: 2010

Jolly farmers wife with hen and eggs
A jolly grey-haired farmers wife holds a red hen and a basketful of eggs. She wears a large straw hat and a floral-patterned apron. It is summer. Staffordshire, England Date: 1990

Old man in pigeon loft, Stoke
An old man wearing a cloth cap checks his racing pigeons in his back yard pigeon loft Date: 1987

Bottle oven Stoke
A man walks past a redundant pottery with its chimney and bottle oven in The Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England Date: 1987

Coal mining terraced houses at Tredegar, South Wales
Rows of terraced, working class houses on a winter hillside in Tredegar, South Wales. First published in The Sunday Times in 1988. 1988

Washing Potatoes - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe, Lancashire
The proprietor/owner washes Potatoes in a rotary hand-cranked washer prior to peeling at the rear yard of a Fish & Chip Shop at Morecambe, Lancashire. Date: circa 1901

Young girl preparing chips - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe
A young girl (likely the daughter of the shop owner) prepares chips at a Fish & Chip Shop in Morecambe Lancashire. Note the wonderful chipper machine on the counter

Kitty Lord music hall vocalist. Began working life as a servant and progressed to living in a house in Regents Park. Performed worldwide between 1894 and 1915 including Egypt and Argentina

George Galloway, British left-wing politician, at his desk
George Galloway (b 1954), British left-wing politician, formerly a Labour MP, before founding the Respect Party. Seen here working at his desk. From 2001 Vice President of the Stop The War Coalition

Sir Gordon Carter, Clerk of Ascot Racecourse, racing fixtures Date: 1930

c. 1880s India - fakir or holyman, beggar
c. 1880s India - image from an album of Indian types and trades designed to illustrate India to a British viewer - fakir or holy man

A group of working class men and boys, c. 1900. Date: c. 1900
A group of working class men and boys, c.1900. Date: c.1900

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