RMD96HMA–Prince Albert's model dwelling for the labouring classes designed for 4 families. Each family occupying a flat. Hollow brick construction. Illustration published 1851. A number of these buildings were constructed.
RMHTMK2X–Prince Albert's model dwelling for the labouring classes designed for 4 families. Each family occupying a flat. Hollow brick construction. Illustration published 1851. A number of these buildings were constructed.
RMERG7JD–Labouring colons, 12th century
RM2BW242E–Although railway workers at St Pancras are on strike, men are still labouring many feet below the station, on the reconstruction of King's Cross Underground station. Photo shows: The fenced in construction work outside St Pancras station. 13 October 1938
RMHNK4X3–Digging turf peat by hand for fuel in Ardara, County Donegal, Ireland
RMT96GH6–Edwin Chadwick (January 24, 1800 - July 6, 1890) was an English social reformer who is noted for his work to reform the Poor Laws and to improve sanitation and public health. Chadwick's Report on The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, begun in 1839 and published in 1842, was researched and published at his own expense. A supplementary report was also published in 1843.
RM2M3K5NE–Exterior of a Model Lodging house (centre, left), built by the 'Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes' in St. Giles's. 1847
RMGGH5AT–Ebenezer Elliott (1781 – 1849) was an English poet, known as the 'Corn Law Rhymer' for leading the fight to repeal the Corn Laws which were causing hardship and starvation among the poor. Though a factory owner himself, his single-minded devotion to the welfare of the labouring classes won him a sympathetic reputation long after his poetry ceased to be read.
RMBHN8WG–ancient world, Greece, agriculture, harvest of olives, slaves at work, after amphora, 6th century BC, olive, olives, harvest, harvests, olive grove, olive groves, stick, sticks, labouring, laboring, labour, labor, working, work, people, men, man, slavery, historic, historical, ancient world,
RM2RXMXNC–WORKMEN LAYING CONCRETE, 1950'S
RMFGPK1J–agriculture, peasants, serf are distributed to labour by the reeve, woodcut, Poland, 16th century, people, farmer, farmers, serfdom, serf, worker, workers, scythe, scythes, suppression, suppressions, administrator, overseer, overseers, compulsory labour, drudgery, labouring, laboring, labour, labor, working, work, historic, historical, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMP7GK5W–English: John Thomson: THESE are the two daughters of a respectable boating family. They have been trained to the use of the oar, and the management of boats, from earliest childhood. Happy for them they are not slaves, purchased by some designing dame, and destined for a worse fate than the life of careful industry common to the labouring poor of Canton. The hat worn by the elder sister is made of ratan, closely woven, and varnished so as to render it waterproof; it affords protection from the sun as well as the rain, and serves, indeed, all the purposes of an umbrella. It has, too, this adva
RMMYRJTC–. English: Fleuron from book: An essay on the nature and cure of the king's evil; deduced from observations and practice. The second edition: with an addition of remarkable cases of poor sufferers, cured by the author. Seriously recommended to the Perusal of all unhappy Persons and Families labouring under any Scrophulous Complaints, which have hitherto eluded all Attempts to remove them. Facts are stubborn Things. 325 An essay on the nature and cure of the king's evil; deduced from observations and practice Fleuron N001487-2
RMDB4PW8–agriculture, peasants, serfs workings under surveillance of the reeve, woodcut, Poland, 16th century, people, farmer, farmers, serfdom, worker, workers, harvest, harvests, reaping, reap, reaps, harvesting, harvest, harvests, grain, suppression, suppressions, administrator, overseer, overseers, compulsory labour, drudgery, workings, labouring, laboring, labour, labor, historic, historical, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMW7CNPA–Prince Albert's model dwelling for the labouring classes, 1851. Artist: Unknown
RMDB78RB–agriculture, agricultural work, threshing of grain, drawing, 19th century, after mural, Thebes, Egypt, circa 1000 BC, people, farmer, farmers, peasants, peasant, animal, animals, ox, oxen, bovine, labour, labor, working, work, labouring, laboring, labour, labor, prehistory, prehistoric times, New Kingdom, historic, historical, man, male, ancient world, men, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2HHRY69–Soldiers from the Royal Pioneer Corps men enjoy a bath after labouring on air raid wreckage October 1940
RMD96AD4–Housing conditions of poor labouring family, partly caused by high rents. Landlords were making up to 50% on their investements in already condemned properties. Well-fed and warmly clothed rent collector demands payment from tenants of miserable dwelling. Father sits in despair and mother leans against chimney with fireless grate while 4 skinny children in rags look on. John Tenniel cartoon from 'Punch' London November 1883
RMHTMK30–Ground plan of Prince Albert's model dwellings for the labouring classes, designed for four families, each family occupying a flat. Hollow brick construction. Illustration published 1851. A number of these buildings were constructed
RMKCENF4–Portrait of Robert Tannahill (1774-1810) a Scottish poet of the labouring class. Dated 19th Century
RMENTX91–British National Championship Ploughing Match, Tadcaster. Labouring under an effort to guide his plough into 2nd place in the Horse Ploughing Championship of Great Britain is Albert Battye of Penistone, Yorks. 14th November 1951
RMHNK4X2–Digging turf peat by hand for fuel in Ardara, County Donegal, Ireland
RMD96HMJ–Ground plan of Prince Albert's model dwellings for the labouring classes, designed for four families, each family occupying a flat. Hollow brick construction. Illustration published 1851. A number of these buildings were constructed.
RM2BW3T26–New picture of entomed men . Ten days in Moose river gold mine . Few hours from life . Entombed for ten days , Dr D E Robertson and Charles Alfred Scadding , the two men trapped in a gold mine at Moose River , Nova Scotia , are now seperated by 12 feet of solid rock from the workers who are labouring night and day to rescue them . Time after time rescue workers have been prevented in their fight by fresh falls and insurmountable obstacles . Now they have to cut off at a slant to escape the solid wall of rock that alone keeps them from the trapped men . Food poured through a drill driven throug
RMHHEMAG–Illustration depicting a London street scene with revellers returning home as the labouring classes start their work day. Illustrated by George Cruikshank (1792-1878) a British caricaturist and book illustrator. Dated 19th Century
RMTXGYTA–Housing conditions of poor labouring family, partly caused by high rents. Landlords were making up to 50% on their investements in already condemned properties. Well-fed and warmly clothed rent collector demands payment from tenants of miserable dwelling. Father sits in despair and mother leans against chimney with fireless grate while 4 skinny children in rags look on. John Tenniel cartoon from 'Punch' London November 1883
RM2K0ABNM–Feargus Edward O'Connor (18 July 1796 - 30 August 1855) was an Irish Chartist leader and advocate of the Land Plan, which sought to provide smallholdings for the labouring classes. A highly charismatic figure, O'Connor was admired for his energy and oratory, but was criticised for alleged egotism
RMGGH58J–Feargus Edward O'Connor (1794 – 1855) was an Irish Chartist leader and advocate of the Land Plan, which sought to provide smallholdings for the labouring classes. After the failure of the plan, O'Connor's behaviour became increasingly erratic, culminating in an assault on three MPs and a mental breakdown, from which he did not recover.
RMHHG7J4–Illustration depicting a London street scene with revellers returning home as the labouring classes start on their day's work; all are watched by the policeman leaning against the gas lamp. Illustrated by George Cruikshank (1792-1878) a British caricaturist and book illustrator. Dated 19th Century
RM2FX8DD7–Statuette of Bayens, labouring workers, October 12, 1964, ARBEIDERS, sculptures, The Netherlands, 20th century press agency photo, news to remember, documentary, historic photography 1945-1990, visual stories, human history of the Twentieth Century, capturing moments in time
RM2T1MFB7–The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945 A British military policeman and a Hungarian soldier on guard duty outside the camp. The Hungarian battalion had to remain in the camp under the terms of the truce and the troops were used for labouring duties.
RMP03XJ9–. English: Fleuron from book: A compleat treatise of the stone and gravel. Comprising its origin, symptoms, best way of easing, true method of cutting, and divers remarkable histories of curing many cruelly afflicted patients. With an Ample Discourse on Lithontriptick; or, Stone-Breaking Medicines. By John Greenfield, M.D. of the College of Physicians, London. The whole Illustrated with proper Figures of the Operation, and Descriptions on Copper-Plates, of some uncommon Stones, taken from Persons He has Cut and others. Absolutely Necessary To be Read by Persons labouring under that Dangerous a
RMCPMMFX–CHIMNEY SWEEP English newspaper advert about 1840
RMW7CNPH–Ground plan of Prince Albert's model dwellings for the labouring classes, 1851. Artist: Unknown
RM2R8Y3NJ–The War in China - Victoria Hong-Kong: Queen's-Road West, 1857. 'The interest attached to the town of Victoria, the capital of Hong-Kong, and the seat of the Colonial Government, has induced us to engrave the accompanying View of a principal street, from an original Sketch...Here the picturesqueness of the large Chinese building in the foreground, with its open bazaars, contrasts strangely with the plainness of the colonial structures beyond it. The labouring classes and small traders are chiefly Chinese, who are ever on the alert for gain. The bazaars invite the passing stranger in every stre
RMG39R2G–WORKERS' COTTAGE/1857
RM2B2B6N7–A girl pulls a cart through the side gallery of a mine.
RMBR9R54–Vintage photo circa 1923 of a miner at work in an unidentified coal mine in the USA.
RMHHEMA5–Illustration depicting two working class couples conversing. Dated 19th Century
RMT3DK5F–Plantation workers sowing seeds in British India 1945
RM2H3X6NC–Men on a makeshift ladder in Rangoon harbour, working a pile driver, with ships of various sizes in the background., 1909.
RM2BW3J5D–New picture of entomed men . Ten days in Moose river gold mine . Few hours from life . Entombed for ten days , Dr D E Robertson and Charles Alfred Scadding , the two men trapped in a gold mine at Moose River , Nova Scotia , are now seperated by 12 feet of solid rock from the workers who are labouring night and day to rescue them . Time after time rescue workers have been prevented in their fight by fresh falls and insurmountable obstacles . Now they have to cut off at a slant to escape the solid wall of rock that alone keeps them from the trapped men . Food poured through a drill driven throug
RMW10KKJ–KINGAROY, QUEENSLAND, circa 1984: An unknown shearer competes in a time trial at an A and P show in rural Queensland, circa 1984.
RMDF28FY–Historical picture from the1950s by J Allan Cash of two local afghan men turning the wooden handles of a wooden rachet above a water hole or well out in the middle of a rural desert area of Afghanistan.
RMW106N9–Engraving of men loading a biffa, or giant sling, used in warfare from the 13th to 16th centuries in Europe.
RFC2TG6D–Early autotype, Logwood trees cut down in Campeche, Mexico, historical picture, 1884
RF2DBKMDP–Halftone of a Jewish child watching two men wringing the water out of a hide at a tanning factory in ancient Joppa
RFCNY3EA–Palanquin or sedan bearers in Korea, historical illustration, wood engraving, circa 1888
RMW106NF–Engraving of a surgeon removing an arrow from a man's chest on the battlefield. From a woodcut from H. Gersdorf, 1528
RMP03XHW–. English: Fleuron from book: A compleat treatise of the stone and gravel. Comprising its origin, symptoms, best way of easing, true method of cutting, and divers remarkable histories of curing many cruelly afflicted patients. With an Ample Discourse on Lithontriptick; or, Stone-Breaking Medicines. By John Greenfield, M.D. of the College of Physicians, London. The whole Illustrated with proper Figures of the Operation, and Descriptions on Copper-Plates, of some uncommon Stones, taken from Persons He has Cut and others. Absolutely Necessary To be Read by Persons labouring under that Dangerous a
RM2HX0XBG–British soldiers and men of the Chinese Labour Corps working in the timber yard at Caestre preparing wood for railway construction, 14 July 1917.
RMBRTWGN–Construction workers, topping-out ceremony, historical image, ca. 1930
RMDB4RAB–agriculture, agricultural work, plowing and seeing, drawing, 19th century, after relief, Egypt, circa 2000 BC, men, man, drag, dragging, pull, pulling, ploughs, plows, old kingdom, sowing, sow, sough, farmer, farmers, muscular strength, muscle power, prehistory, prehistoric times, working, labouring, laboring, labour, labor, field work, fieldwork, field, fields, seeing, see, plough, plow, ploughing, plowing, historic, historical, ancient world, people, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2R8Y3N5–Asylum for the Temporary Reception of Insane Soldiers, at Fort Pitt, Chatham, 1857. Patients 'labouring under insanity...are temporarily received, and, after a short but strict observation, are discharged - the quiet, industrious, and harmless to their friends or parishes, willing to receive them; the dangerous and helpless to Gun Hall Asylum...A corridor extends the whole length of the building for the use of the patients, who are thus enabled to take open-air exercise daily, regardless of the weather. The ramparts form a barrier to the rear of the Asylum; and in the front is a tastefully-arr
RMG3BKY6–WORKERS' COTTAGE
RMBR4AKA–Historical image, cable layers, ca. 1923
RMDREX09–Hydraulic drills at work on Culebra Cut
RMBRATXY–Vintage photo c1908 by Lewis Wickes Hine of boys working in a coal mine in West Virginia, USA.
RMDRD1MJ–Turkish prisoners WWI
RMT3DJXW–Plantation workers sowing seeds in British India 1945
RM2BW3WBF–New picture of entomed men . Ten days in Moose river gold mine . Few hours from life . Entombed for ten days , Dr D E Robertson and Charles Alfred Scadding , the two men trapped in a gold mine at Moose River , Nova Scotia , are now seperated by 12 feet of solid rock from the workers who are labouring night and day to rescue them . Time after time rescue workers have been prevented in their fight by fresh falls and insurmountable obstacles . Now they have to cut off at a slant to escape the solid wall of rock that alone keeps them from the trapped men . Food poured through a drill driven throug
RM2M96D08–A man doing some heavy duty building work on a hot, sunny day.
RMWHA91B–The Public Soup Kitchen. a Plea for the poor. North West Public Soup Kitchen Instituted to assist in preserving the health of the labouring classes.
RMBRTT9A–Woman sewing on a sewing machine, historical image, ca. 1952
RFJMA37H–Old illustration of a young boy labourer in Rio de Janeiro. Created by Riou after Biard, published on Le Tour du Monde, Paris, 1861.
RM2HJPN76–Early Stone Quarry, La Croix-aux-Coqs, in the Yéres Valley Normandy France. Vintage Illustration or Engraving 1865
RFCNY3CH–Tea sorters in China, historical illustration, wood engraving, circa 1888
RMW106NH–Engraving of a landsknecht or drummer, used for giving commands in battle duirng conflicts of the middle ages and later
RMP03XHP–. English: Fleuron from book: A compleat treatise of the stone and gravel. Comprising its origin, symptoms, best way of easing, true method of cutting, and divers remarkable histories of curing many cruelly afflicted patients. With an Ample Discourse on Lithontriptick; or, Stone-Breaking Medicines. By John Greenfield, M.D. of the College of Physicians, London. The whole Illustrated with proper Figures of the Operation, and Descriptions on Copper-Plates, of some uncommon Stones, taken from Persons He has Cut and others. Absolutely Necessary To be Read by Persons labouring under that Dangerous a
RMRACJAY–Labourers unload a ship carrying woollen textiles in England during the age of the Plantaganets.
RFC2TE5C–Dog catchers in Berlin, Germany, historical illustration, circa 1886
RMDB40MD–agriculture, agricultural work, farmers working on the ground with hoes, drawing, 19th century, after mural, Beni Hassan, Egypt, 12th Dynasty (circa 1994 - 1781 BC), Middle Kingdom of Egypt, people, hoe, hack, hackiron, hoes, hacks, tool, tools, field work, fieldwork, field, fields, labour, labor, working, work, labouring, laboring, labour, labor, men, man, prehistory, prehistoric times, historic, historical, clipping, clippings, cut-out, cut-outs, ancient world, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2K03XNT–Anniversary Fete at the Arboretum, Derby - The Entrance Gateway, 1854. Crowds visit public gardens in Derbyshire. '...thousands upon thousands of the labouring classes, from the busy hives of Birmingham, Burton, Sheffield, Leicester, and Nottingham, poured into Derby, to commemorate the opening of the Arboretum, presented to the people by their constant friend and generous benefactor, the late Joseph Strutt [a cotton mill owner]'. The grounds were laid out by John Claudius Loudon, 'the distinguished landscape gardener...[Strutt had stipulated] "That the Arboretum shall be open to all clas
RM2J4FNPW–Engraving of a running footman from India, published circa 1890
RM2PT94YR–Prisoners at forced labor cutting stones in the Wiener Graben quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp.
RMETX4EB–Illustration. Plate 401. Silver and Goldsmithing. Encyclopedie. Edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. 18th c.
RM2AKN957–The War Cry . revenue and agreat assistance to the labouring to come. This advice, however, wasnot heeded, the only restrictionplaced on whaling being that stationsshould not be nearer one anotherthan twenty miles, and that eachstation should employ but one steam-er. The result was that whalingstations multiplied, until, by 1905,eighteen were In operation, oecupy- A Whaie. sels took 858 whales, in 1907 fourteenvessels managed to get but 481, In ten years there have been takenout of the waters in the immediatevicinity of Newfoundland, 4.2S5whales. The result is that many oEthe smaller companies
RMDFC1AX–Printing. The typesetter (Fig 1) has the letters all arranged before him in the typecast. 'Encyclopedie'.
RMT3DJYM–Plantation workers sowing seeds in British India 1945
RMDF708P–Loom for weaving stockings. Engraving. Encyclopedia.18th century.
RMF8RMY6–Krupp Martin steel mill, Essen, Germany, c. 1890,
RMETX4G7–Illustration. Plate 450. The Patisserie. Encyclopedie. Edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. 18th c. Engraving.
RMBRTW2A–Female workers in a factory, historical image, ca. 1916
RMEFYD3A–female carpenter, c. 1900, Germany, Europe,
RMC16KC7–Historic photograph, man delivering mail
RM2HJP2MK–Drying Yard and Shed in Old Brickworks or Brick Factory Perrey Le Havre France. 1865 Illustration or Engraving
RMBR56EK–Historic photograph, workmen laying cables, around 1930
RMP03XGY–. English: Fleuron from book: A compleat treatise of the stone and gravel. Comprising its origin, symptoms, best way of easing, true method of cutting, and divers remarkable histories of curing many cruelly afflicted patients. With an Ample Discourse on Lithontriptick; or, Stone-Breaking Medicines. By John Greenfield, M.D. of the College of Physicians, London. The whole Illustrated with proper Figures of the Operation, and Descriptions on Copper-Plates, of some uncommon Stones, taken from Persons He has Cut and others. Absolutely Necessary To be Read by Persons labouring under that Dangerous a
RMA9RW51–B/W of two rural women terracing stony land to prevent soil erosion on a food-for-work programme. Tigray, Ethiopia
RFC2TDK0–Dog catchers in Berlin, Germany, historical illustration, circa 1886
RMFGRRHB–photography,manufacture of photographic paper,separation of egg-white and yolk to create the emulsion,albumen papermill,Dresden,wood engraving,19th century,19th century,graphic,graphics,Germany,industries,paper industry,papers,photographic paper,photocopying paper,albumen paper,manufacture,manufacturing,producing,produce,works,working,work,labouring,laboring,labour,labor,worker,workers,factory,factories,fabrication,production,egg-white,white of an egg,yolk,emulsion,historic,historical,woman,women,female,people,Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2TBKC66–"The Franciscan Sculptor and his Model", by H. S. Marks, from the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1861. Engraving from a painting. 'It was a strange conceit which led Mr. Marks, a deservedly rising artist, to fashion this amusing picture of a young Franciscan monk labouring in the sculptor's art for the adornment of his monastery, and with one of the lay brothers of the establishment for his model. It was a strange conceit, and very cleverly and with infinite humour has he carried it out. The young sculptor, with an ill-suppressed smile on his intelligent face, is by vigorous blows
RMFFYMN6–agriculture, farm labour, harvest, farm labourers and maids cutting grain with sickles, copper engraving, 17th century, 17th century, graphic, graphics, works, working, labouring, laboring, field, fields, grain, harvesting, cutting, cut, cuts, sickle, hook, sickles, hooks, maiden, farmgirl, raging thirst, thirsty, quench one's thirst, drinking, drink, agriculture, farming, agricultural work, farm labour, farm labor, harvest, harvests, farm labourer, farm labourers, historic, historical, people, Artist's Copyright has not to be cleared
RM2FN6T96–Engraving of a man in traditional Middle East clothing sowing seeds by hand, circa 1890
RMDB78Y5–agriculture, agricultural work, counting of the grain, clerk register the amount of bushels, drawing, 19th century, after mural, Thebes, Egypt, circa 1000 BC, people, farmer, farmers, peasants, peasant, labour, labor, working, work, labouring, laboring, labour, labor, prehistory, prehistoric times, New Kingdom, acre clerks, writing, scribe, scribes, administration, bureaucracy, bureaucracies, official, officials, clerk, clerks, historic, historical, man, male, clipping, clippings, cut-out, cut-outs, ancient world, men, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RM2P5M649–Engraving of a man stripping wood for making baskets, circa 1880
RFCNXKHM–Steam washing laundry of the Berlin Charite hospital, Berlin, Germany, historical engraving, 1883
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