Employment Collection (page 8)

Parisian street cleaners (colour litho)
8673203 Parisian street cleaners (colour litho) by Jeanniot, Pierre Georges (1848-1934); Private Collection; (add.info.: Parisian street cleaners)

Merchant ship, 15th Century (woodcut)
8672865 Merchant ship, 15th Century (woodcut) by German School, (15th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Merchant ship, 15th Century)

Bean gathering (engraving)
8635274 Bean gathering (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bean gathering; women working in the fields)

Farm workers resting during the harvest (engraving)
8635203 Farm workers resting during the harvest (engraving) by Barnes, Robert (1840-95); Private Collection; (add.info.: Farm workers resting during the harvest)

Roman bakery (engraving)
8635721 Roman bakery (engraving) by German School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Roman bakery. Illustration from Rom)

Sculptor making a copy of a statue (engraving)
8635268 Sculptor making a copy of a statue (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sculptor making a copy of a statue)

F for fruiterer (chromolitho)
8677320 F for fruiterer (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: F for fruiterer. Woman cutting fruit on a counter)

Men's costume of Vannes, Morbihan (colour litho)
8677221 Men's costume of Vannes, Morbihan (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Men's costume of Vannes, Morbihan, Brittany, France)

Sponge fishing, Syria (engraving)
8677053 Sponge fishing, Syria (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sponge fishing, Syria: preparing the sponges for market)

Billingsgate Market, London (b/w photo)
8676300 Billingsgate Market, London (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Billingsgate Market, London)

Scissors grinder, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676058 Scissors grinder, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Old Mayes, the scissors grinder, Sussex)

Miners working in the gypsum mine, Mountfield, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676051 Miners working in the gypsum mine, Mountfield, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miners working in the gypsum mine, Mountfield)

Furnace in a Sussex brickworks (b/w photo)
8676026 Furnace in a Sussex brickworks (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Furnace in a Sussex brickworks)

Sussex moss collectors (b/w photo)
8676024 Sussex moss collectors (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sussex moss collectors)

District nurse doing duty on a houseboat in Chichester harbour, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676016 District nurse doing duty on a houseboat in Chichester harbour, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

London's nightly wash (b/w photo)
8676180 London's nightly wash (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: London's nightly wash: street cleaning outside the Law Courts, Strand)

Horse-driven pug-mill at the Mark Cross brickyard, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676133 Horse-driven pug-mill at the Mark Cross brickyard, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Charcoal burner's camp in the Sussex Weald (b/w photo)
8676097 Charcoal burner's camp in the Sussex Weald (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Charcoal burner's camp in the Sussex Weald)

Remaking the Great North Road (b/w photo)
8675901 Remaking the Great North Road (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Remaking the Great North Road)

How films are made (litho)
8675850 How films are made (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: How films are made. Illustration from How it is Made, by Ellison Hawks (Odhams Press Limited)

The making of a sound film (litho)
8675790 The making of a sound film (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The making of a sound film)

Manufacturing railway track in a rolling mill (colour litho)
8663937 Manufacturing railway track in a rolling mill (colour litho) by Dressel, August (b.1862) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Manufacturing railway track in a rolling mill)

Kimberley Diamond Mine, South Africa, 1872 (litho)
8663727 Kimberley Diamond Mine, South Africa, 1872 (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: General view of the Kimberley Diamond Mine, South Africa, 1872)

Trevithick's traction engine driving a threshing machine (litho)
8663708 Trevithick's traction engine driving a threshing machine (litho) by German School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

The invention of gunpowder as the work of the devil (woodcut)
8663703 The invention of gunpowder as the work of the devil (woodcut) by German School, (16th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Large scale dairy (colour litho)
8663901 Large scale dairy (colour litho) by Dressel, August (b.1862) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cross section view of a large scale dairy)

Grape harvest in a French vineyard (b/w photo)
8663853 Grape harvest in a French vineyard (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Grape harvest in a French vineyard)

Manufacture of perfume and soap (colour litho)
8663669 Manufacture of perfume and soap (colour litho) by Kranz, Wilhelm (1853-1930); Private Collection; (add.info.: Manufacture of perfume and soap)

Fishermen of the Wadden Sea, Germany (colour litho)
8663649 Fishermen of the Wadden Sea, Germany (colour litho) by Saltzmann, Carl (1847-1923); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fishermen of the Wadden Sea, Germany)

Sardine industry in Brittany, France (b/w photo)
8663595 Sardine industry in Brittany, France (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sardine industry in Brittany, France)

Manufacture of tallow candles (engraving)
8663785 Manufacture of tallow candles (engraving) by French School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Manufacture of tallow candles for domestic use, 18th Century)

Blacksmith's workshop in ancient Greece (litho)
8663782 Blacksmith's workshop in ancient Greece (litho) by German School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Blacksmith's workshop in ancient Greece)

Prospecting (woodcut)
8663778 Prospecting (woodcut) by German School, (16th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Prospecting. From De Re Metallica, by Georgius Agricola, 1556)

Extraction of bismuth, 16th Century (woodcut)
8663773 Extraction of bismuth, 16th Century (woodcut) by German School, (16th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Extraction of bismuth, 16th Century)

Mining (woodcut)
8663753 Mining (woodcut) by German School, (16th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mining. From De Re Metallica, by Georgius Agricola, 1557)

Smelting copper and lead ores (woodcut)
8663746 Smelting copper and lead ores (woodcut) by German School, (16th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Smelting copper and lead ores)

Smelting silver-bearing lead ores, Freiberg, Saxony (engraving)
8663744 Smelting silver-bearing lead ores, Freiberg, Saxony (engraving) by German School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Smelting silver-bearing lead ores, Freiberg, Saxony)

Lead smelting, Freiberg, Saxony (engraving)
8663743 Lead smelting, Freiberg, Saxony (engraving) by German School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lead smelting, Freiberg, Saxony)

Silver mine of Saint Nicolas, La Croix-aux-Mines, France (engraving)
8663740 Silver mine of Saint Nicolas, La Croix-aux-Mines, France (engraving) by French School, (16th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Silver mine of Saint Nicolas)

Extraction of mercury, 16th Century (woodcut)
8663735 Extraction of mercury, 16th Century (woodcut) by German School, (16th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Extraction of mercury, 16th Century)

Obtaining diptheria serum from horse blood, Marburg, Germany (colour litho)
8663905 Obtaining diptheria serum from horse blood, Marburg, Germany (colour litho) by Gehrke, Fritz (1855-1916); Private Collection; (add.info.: Obtaining diptheria serum from horse blood, Marburg)

Embossing press, 18th Century (engraving)
8663700 Embossing press, 18th Century (engraving) by French School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Embossing press, 18th Century. From Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie, 1771)

Production of glycerine (engraving)
8663678 Production of glycerine (engraving) by German School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Production of glycerine by decomposing fat using high-pressure steam)

Glassblowers at Glashutte in the Black Forest (colour litho)
8663511 Glassblowers at Glashutte in the Black Forest (colour litho) by German School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Glassblowers at Glashutte in the Black Forest, Germany)

Sorting the tea during harvest in Sri Lanka (b/w photo)
8663588 Sorting the tea during harvest in Sri Lanka (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sorting the tea during harvest in Sri Lanka)

Champagne production, France (b/w photo)
8663585 Champagne production, France (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Champagne production, France)

A corner of a taxidermist's shop in Camden Town (b/w photo)
8664256 A corner of a taxidermist's shop in Camden Town (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The animals went in one by one)

Woodman, spare that tree! (litho)
8655911 Woodman, spare that tree! (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Woodman, spare that tree! Lovers mourning their special tree as it is felled by a woodman)

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From the Royal Navy to the Metropolitan Police, employment opportunities have shaped history. Step into the past with a glimpse at iconic recruitment posters like the Royal Navy's vintage advertising poster and the German propaganda poster from WW1. Reflect on moments of resilience, as seen in The Jarrow March of 1936, where determined marchers sought better employment prospects. Witness diversity in roles through recruitment signs for organizations like WaC and WRNS, showcasing women's contributions during wartime. Celebrate empowerment as Welsh women road builders pave their way in South Wales. Explore solidarity through trades union membership certificates and witness craftsmanship within a dressmaker's workshop. Marvel at Ford Motor Company employees who drove innovation in Detroit, Michigan, USA. And finally, cheer for progress as seven women police officers form a netball team - breaking barriers one game at a time. Employment has always been more than just work; it is an ever-evolving tapestry that weaves together stories of ambition, dedication, and collective growth.