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DONKEY-POWERED MILLA Roman donkey-driven Asinus or Jumentarioe Mill. Date: Ancient Rome
PENNY GAFF 1870Audience and actors at a Penny Gaff, London Date: 1870
Childrens Autumn costumes for promenade wear 1886Fashion clothing for girls from ten to four years old. Date: 1886
WOOL PROCESSINGProcessing wool: spinning, reeling, warping & weaving. Date: 18th century
DEAD CATS IN BUTCHERSA butcher, planning to use cat meat as a cheap alternative, tells a distraught cat owner: No madame, I have no idea where your pet cat can have got to! Date: 1870
BLIND SASH MAKERS 1870Blind boys making sash lines at the school for the Indigent Blind, St. George-in-the- Fields, London. Date: 1870
SANANTONIO LAND SHAREShares in the San Antonio, Texas, Land and Irrigation Company Date: 1914
CUBA SUGAR SHAREOne thousand shares in the Compania Azucarera Baragua, a Cuban sugar producer Date: 1922
GLASS FURNACE 1930SA glassmaker heating glass in a furnace. Date: 1930s
LOADING A BIG BEAMLoading a large beam of wood onto a cart. Date: circa 1810
WOODCUTTERS CHOP LOGSWoodcutters chop up trees into logs. Date: circa 1810
WOODCUTTERS SAW A LOGWoodcutters saw a log. Date: circa 1810
WOODMAN & DOG IN SNOW WOODMAN & DOG IN SNOWA woodman walks through the snow with his dog and an axe under his arm. Date: 1865
GOING TO MARKET OLD / NEWGoing to market - the old way and the new way Date: 1830
SLATE QUARRY / WALESLord Penryns slate quarry, near Bangor, North Wales. Date: 1808
PERFUME MANUFACTURE 1898Distilling lavender in Castellane, Basses-Alps, France. Date: 1898
KilnsTwo men cut peat to be used in the tall kilns standing behind them. Date: 1803
COALPORT WORKSThe Coalport China works in Shropshire, originally opened by John Rose in 1796 alongside the Shropshire Canal. Manufacture at the works ended in 1926. Date: 19th century
WORKMEN WAITING FOR JOBSWorkmen waiting to be engaged in the place of the Hotel de Ville, Paris. Date: 1869
AFRICAN BLACKSMITHSCentral African blacksmiths Date: circa 1870
GERMAN BLACKSMITHA German blacksmith and his assistant work on a horseshoe. Date: 19th Century
Culture for working classesA philanthropic employer who paid his workforces expenses to an art exhibition hears how they visited the tea-gardens instead. Date: 19th century
Villiage shop 1867Long established shop with the shopkeeper starting as an apprentice and taking over the company many years later. Date: 1867
SAINT SEBALD (DURER)SAINT SEBALD German pilgrim of Nuremberg who performed miracles such as turning stones into bread. Date: 8th century
COTTON CLEANED / INDONESIACleaning cotton in the village of Sembalum, half-way up the volcanic mountain of Rinjani, on the island of Lombok, Indonesia. Date: 1932
USING POTTERS WHEELUsing the potters wheel - the beginnings of a tall pot. Date: 1965
WAREHOUSE IN LONDON / DOREWorking in the warehouses at Pickle Herring Street, London. Date: 1870
LONDON WAREHOUSESGoods are loaded, unloaded and hoisted at Londons busy Pickle Herring Street warehouses Date: 1870
ANTONY OF EGYPTSAINT ANTONY OF EGYPT Much-tempted desert hermit, depicted as living on the outskirts of a 16th century German town Date: 251 - 356
BILLINGSGATE - DORE 5Setting out the fish at BILLINGSGATE market Date: 1870
BILLINGSGATE - DORE 4Porters, merchants and customers at BILLINGSGATE fish market Date: 1870
BILLINSGATE FISH MARKETBILLINGSGATE fish market, London : landing the days catch Date: 1870
BUSTLE AT COVENT GARDENThe bustling scene at Covent Garden market, London, as the wagons arrive in the early hours of the morning with fruit and vegetables from the country Date: 1870
WAGONS, COVENT GARDENHorse-drawn wagons bring fruit and vegetables to Covent Garden from the country in the early hours of the morning Date: 1870
COVENT GARDEN / DORE 1Covent Garden : fruit and vegetables arriving from the country in the early hours of the morning Date: 1870
GERMAN PEASANTS 1512Durer made this etching shortly before the Reformation brought civil strife to Germany, making the peasants lot even harsher than before Date: 1512
CARBONATE OF LIME QUARRYWorking in a carbonate of lime quarry, Norfolk. Date: 1930s
SHOVELLING COALMen shovel coal into horse drawn carts above the ground. Date: 1930s
LIFT ASSISTANTA lift girl opens the lift doors and waits outside the lift in her uniform. Date: 1930s
WEAVING IN SANDWICH SHOPSandwich woven fabric being made in the weaving shop of Josper Peanson and Staff, Sandwich, Kent. Date: circa 1930
CHINA CLAY / DOCKYARDTransporting China Clay from Charlestown, near St Austell, Cornwall, to the docks. Discovered in the UK in the 1740s, St Austell is one of the main sources of China Clay. Date: 1930s
CHINA CLAY / UNLOADEDShooting a lorry-load of china clay into the hold of a waiting steamer. Discovered in the UK in the 1740s, St. Austell is one of the main sources of China Clay. Date: 1930s
COAL / CHINA / MULEA mule at the pit-head of a British coal mine in Kailan, North China. Date: circa 1930
WEAVING ON A HAND LOOMA woman weaving on a hand loom. Date: circa 1930
Anglo Saxon ChieftainAn Anglo-Saxon chief goes into action, wearing no armour beside his helmet Date: 975
BLACKSMITHS / SHIRE HORSEFour blacksmiths shoe a shire horse while his owner stands and watches. The horse, who is blinkered, stands patiently. Date: circa 1930
SCOTTISH HAND-MILL C18A Scottish handmill (2-part Quern) used for grinding up small quantities of corn. Date: 1769
RICHS FAMILY / HOGARTHJOHN RICH: Theatrical Manager & Actor credited with the invention of the pantomime with his wife Mrs Stevens & their 4 children at his villa at Cowley, Middlesex. Date: 18th century