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Background imageWorks Collection: Cadburys Chocolate - Bourneville Works, Bourneville, Warwic

Cadburys Chocolate - Bourneville Works, Bourneville, Warwic
Cadburys Chocolate - Bourneville Works, Bourneville, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Lily Pond in Girls Recreation Grounds Date: 1920s

Background imageWorks Collection: The Bristol Filton works in October 1910

The Bristol Filton works in October 1910 after the addition of two new sheds. Date: 1910

Background imageWorks Collection: Charlemagne visiting the construction works of

Charlemagne visiting the construction works of
" Charlemagne visiting the construction works of Aix la Chapelle, in 796 BC. Illustration from " Grandes Chroniques de France", edition by Antoine V鲡 rd (15th century). ITALY

Background imageWorks Collection: At present he works Bulgaria

At present he works Bulgaria. Illustration shows a puppeteer labeled Russia with marionettes labeled Bulgaria and Macedonia engaged in a sword fight; the Bulgarian puppet is about to cut the head off

Background imageWorks Collection: Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electri

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc.. Poster encouraging skilled laborers to join the Seabees as part of the war effort. Date between 1941 and 1943

Background imageWorks Collection: Exhibition Interior design by the interior design staff, Fed

Exhibition Interior design by the interior design staff, Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration. Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of interior design. Date between 1936 and 1941

Background imageWorks Collection: Reduced fire hazard thru planned housing

Reduced fire hazard thru planned housing. Poster promoting planned housing as a method to reduce fire hazards in cities. Date between 1936 and 1938

Background imageWorks Collection: Home safety is home defense Men: to learn proper fire contro

Home safety is home defense Men: to learn proper fire control join the fire department auxiliary corps at the nearest fire house

Background imageWorks Collection: Sew for victory

Sew for victory. Poster promoting sewing as contribution to the war effort, showing outline of sewing machine with war images. Date between 1941 and 1943

Background imageWorks Collection: Exhibition - WPA Federal Art Project

Exhibition - WPA Federal Art Project. Poster announcing WPA Federal Art Project exhibition at the Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon St. Boston, Mass. Date between 1936 and 1938

Background imageWorks Collection: Ah, Wilderness! Federal Theatre Playhouse, Tulane & Miro Str

Ah, Wilderness! Federal Theatre Playhouse, Tulane & Miro Streets. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Ah, Wilderness

Background imageWorks Collection: Find syphilis Help employees get blood tests

Find syphilis Help employees get blood tests. Poster promoting employer-sponsored blood tests for the detection of syphilis, showing a doctor drawing blood from a worker in an industrial setting

Background imageWorks Collection: Help yourself Help yourself

Help yourself Help yourself
Help yourself. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Help Yourself at the Hollywood Playhouse, showing a hand holding a stack of money. Date 1937

Background imageWorks Collection: Cincinnati Federal Symphonic Orchestra, Works Progress Admin

Cincinnati Federal Symphonic Orchestra, Works Progress Administration presents young peoples concert under the sponsorship of the Hamilton Mothersingers at the Wilson Auditorium

Background imageWorks Collection: X-Ray, radium, surgery - the three recognized treatments for

X-Ray, radium, surgery - the three recognized treatments for cancer Consult your doctor or health bureau. Poster promoting diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Date between 1936 and 1939

Background imageWorks Collection: Planned housing fights disease

Planned housing fights disease. Poster promoting planned housing as a method to deter disease in cities, showing microorganisms. Date between 1936 and 1938

Background imageWorks Collection: Water shortage and supply: Londons water stores, 1921

Water shortage and supply: Londons water stores, 1921
Seriously depleted by drought: Londons water stores in 1921 for seven million people, spread over 558 square miles.The Thames estuary is viewed looking east, towards the sea

Background imageWorks Collection: A factory worker cuts a block of wood

A factory worker cuts a block of wood
A young apprentice carpenter uses a large industrial jigsaw to cut a block of wood, while an older employee supervises his work. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Background imageWorks Collection: Landscape view of Dudleys iron works. Showing the pollution

Landscape view of Dudleys iron works. Showing the pollution
Night-time view of Dudley in the West Midlands and its iron works

Background imageWorks Collection: The Metropolitan Underground, works in progress

The Metropolitan Underground, works in progress
The building work in progress at Kings Cross, to host part of the Mertropolitan underground railway. The first section of the underground was completed in 1863

Background imageWorks Collection: Crossness Interior

Crossness Interior
Crossness Pumping Station - interior

Background imageWorks Collection: Longwy Steelworks, France

Longwy Steelworks, France
The plate mill at Longwy Steelworks in Frnace

Background imageWorks Collection: Lorgues / Marchena Works

Lorgues / Marchena Works
Antonio de Marchena, friar and astronomer, who advised Columbus

Background imageWorks Collection: Gobelins Tapestries

Gobelins Tapestries
Weaving tapestry at the Gobelins works, on the outskirts of Paris

Background imageWorks Collection: Tattooist, Samoa

Tattooist, Samoa
TATTOOING IN SAMOA A Matai (= tattooer) works on a young man : he does about 40 cm2 in an hours session, continued at intervals till the operation is completed

Background imageWorks Collection: John Bunyan / Whole Works

John Bunyan / Whole Works
JOHN BUNYAN English preacher and writer

Background imageWorks Collection: Mary Brunton - 2

Mary Brunton - 2
Mrs MARY BRUNTON The authoress of Self- Control, Discipline and other works

Background imageWorks Collection: Obsessed Alchemist

Obsessed Alchemist
An alchemist, obsessed with his quest, works at his furnace while friends and neighbours drink and enjoy themselves

Background imageWorks Collection: LCC-MFB Greenwich fire station

LCC-MFB Greenwich fire station
Located at 9 Lindsell Street on the corner of South Street SE10, Greenwich fire station was built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (a forerunner of the London Council)

Background imageWorks Collection: SPINNING STREET DOG

SPINNING STREET DOG
While its master plays the organ, a dog works a spinning wheel, to the admiration of passers-by in the streets of Paris Date: circa 1816

Background imageWorks Collection: Tom Davies bookseller

Tom Davies bookseller
Thomas Davies bookshop in Russell Street. Tom Davies, bookseller, actor and author and friend of Boswell and Johnson, who amongst other works wrote The Life of Garrick (1780)

Background imageWorks Collection: Clay pipes from Southorns pipeworks, Broseley, Shropshire

Clay pipes from Southorns pipeworks, Broseley, Shropshire
A selection of clay pipes found in the workshops of Southorns pipeworks, Broseley, Shropshire - now The Broseley Pipe Museum Date: 1987

Background imageWorks Collection: Mr Ivor Southorn, at the Brosley Clay Pipe works

Mr Ivor Southorn, at the Brosley Clay Pipe works
Mr Ivor Southorn, whose great, great grandfather William Southorn started clay pipemaking on an industrial scale in Broseley, Shropshire

Background imageWorks Collection: Trades in Regency England: glass-blowing, colliery

Trades in Regency England: glass-blowing, colliery and tanning. Workers blowing molten glass into bottles and goblets in a Newcastle factory 67

Background imageWorks Collection: Eric Ravilious

Eric Ravilious
11th anniversary poster for the Golden Cockerel Press, an Englishfine pressoperating between 1920 and 1961. The private press made handmade limited editions of classic works

Background imageWorks Collection: Champion (Scissors) Ltd, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Champion (Scissors) Ltd, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Champion (Scissors) Ltd, Champion Works, Petre Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire -- Rebuilding British Kitchens. Offer of Kumfi-Kut kitchen scissors when limited supplies permit, in a postwar letter

Background imageWorks Collection: Days of the Week by John Hassall

Days of the Week by John Hassall
Illustration by John Hassall to the traditional rhyme attributing different characteristics depending on what days of the week a person is born

Background imageWorks Collection: McClintons Soap Works, Ballymaclinton, Ireland

McClintons Soap Works, Ballymaclinton, Ireland
Franco-British Exhibition of 1908 - McClintons Soap Works, in the Irish village of Ballymaclinton. 1908

Background imageWorks Collection: Lithographic printing-press 1876

Lithographic printing-press 1876
Printer and his apprentice, putting on the ink on the pre-made etched stone. Date: 1876

Background imageWorks Collection: Charles Tennants St. Rollox Chemical Works

Charles Tennants St. Rollox Chemical Works
St. Rollox Chemical Works in Glasgow, making dry bleaching powder which was sold world wide and grew to be the worlds largest chemical Works

Background imageWorks Collection: Foden 6-ton rigid 6-wheeler Tractor Matilda TD 3236

Foden 6-ton rigid 6-wheeler Tractor Matilda TD 3236
Foden Tractor, regn. TD 3236, number: 11788, Matilda. Built in 1925 by Edwin Foden, Sons and Co of Elworth Works, Sandbach as a 6-ton Wagon, later converted to Tractor

Background imageWorks Collection: Windmills at the Salt Works - Aden, Yemen

Windmills at the Salt Works - Aden, Yemen. circa 1920s

Background imageWorks Collection: The Salt Works, Aden, Yemen

The Salt Works, Aden, Yemen - a line of wagons pulled along railway tracks by a camel circa 1920s

Background imageWorks Collection: Foden Tractor HX2197

Foden Tractor HX2197
Foden Tractor, regn. HX2197, number 13832, The Dorset Wanderer, at a steam rally in Lambeth. Built in 1930 by Edwin Foden, Sons and Co of Elworth Works, Sandbach

Background imageWorks Collection: Foden Wagon RO6330

Foden Wagon RO6330
Foden Wagon, regn. RO6330, number 13488, at a steam rally in Lambeth. Built in 1929 by Edwin Foden, Sons and Co of Elworth Works, Sandbach, powered by a compound steam engine. Date: 24 July 1978

Background imageWorks Collection: Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive WB9110 Perseverance II

Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive WB9110 Perseverance II (msn 3483), built in 1913 with an 8 Nhp compound steam engine. Seen at an auction at Walford Cross near Taunton in 1959

Background imageWorks Collection: Burrell Devonshire General Purpose Traction Engine

Burrell Devonshire General Purpose Traction Engine TA1849 Jellicoe (msn 3368), with Coeur De Lion 5nhp Engine, built 1913, at a 1959 Walford Cross auction. With Aveling & Barford Steam Roller YA2197

Background imageWorks Collection: Labourer Mr Idris Silman takes a break, Tredegar, Wales

Labourer Mr Idris Silman takes a break, Tredegar, Wales
Mr Idris Silman, a manual labourer, takes a short break while digging up the road in Tredegar, South Wales. He sits on the raised pavement with his shovel. The Sunday Times Date: 1988



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