Workers Collection (page 7)

English women in ship yards, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women in ship yards, between c1915 and 1918. Women at work building navy ships during World War I in England.

War Factory, France, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
War Factory, France, between c1915 and 1918. Men working in a factory in France during World War I.

Farmerette, Los Angeles, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Farmerette, Los Angeles, between c1915 and 1918. Probably shows a "farmerette" member of the Woman's Land Army of America (later Women's Land Army)

Los Angeles [woman] mail carrier, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Los Angeles [woman] mail carrier, between c1915 and c1920. A woman postal worker during World War I in Los Angeles, California.

A.I.C.P., Miss Bruere's Women Workers, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
A.I.C.P., Miss Bruere's Women Workers, 1917 or 1918. Women workers at the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, New York City, probably during World War I.

In a Detroit shop, 26 Dec 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
In a Detroit shop, 26 Dec 1917 (date created or published later). Two women wearing overalls as they work in a factory in Detroit, Michigan during World War I.

English women finishing a 9.2 shell, between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
English women finishing a 9.2 shell, between c1915 and 1917. Women workers inspecting 9.2 explosive shells in a factory during World War I.

English women in shipbuilding yards, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
English women in shipbuilding yards, between c1915 and c1920. Women at work building navy ships during World War I in England.

English Post women, between c1915 and c1917. Creator: Bain News Service
English Post women, between c1915 and c1917. English post women from London carrying mailbags during World War I.

Women in brass fitting shop, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Women in brass fitting shop, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Women working in a brass fitting shop in England during World War I.

English furnace woman in iron works, between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
English furnace woman in iron works, between c1915 and 1917. A woman stoker England in front of a furnace at an ironworks during World War I.

Woman blacksmith, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Woman blacksmith, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. A woman blacksmith in England during World War I.

Women working on propeller, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Women working on propeller, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Women working on a propeller in a navy shipbuilding yard in England during World War I.

Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. The members of the Women's Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service at the 71st Regiment Armory, New York City, May 1917, during World War I.

Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Women in the motor corps of the National League of Women's Service taking the oath of allegiance at the 71st Regiment Armory

Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Major Connell, surgeon of the 71st Regiment, inoculating one of the three hundred women in the Women's Motor Corps of the National League

English women sifting steel grit, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women sifting steel grit, between c1915 and 1918. Woman working in factory in England during World War I.

L.C.C. Tech Institute, Munitions Class, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
L.C.C. Tech Institute, Munitions Class, May 1917. A woman receiving training in machine work in a munitions class offered by the London County Council in May 1917 during World War I, England.

London Common Council Tech., Lessons in Tracing, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
London Common Council Tech., Lessons in Tracing, May 1917. Women receiving training in machine work in a munitions class offered by the London County Council in May 1917 during World War I.

English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Women driver volunteers standing in front of automobiles during World War I, in England.

Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Red Cross nurses standing behind guns at an Army and Navy Tea Room during a fundraiser for the Actor's Fund.

Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. The interior of a military hospital car with nurses on the Canadian Pacific Railway during World War I.

Women workers, England, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Women workers, England, between c1915 and c1918. Women working in a field with hay in England during World War I.

Women working, England, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Women working, England, between c1915 and c1918. Women working in a flour mill in England during World War I.

A strong culture creates a strong cooperative, 1918. Creator: Unknown artist
A strong culture creates a strong cooperative, 1918. Private Collection

Railway employees against the background of train cars, 1910-1919. Creator: Unknown
Railway employees against the background of train cars, 1910-1919. From a collection of 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Workers of the rolling workshop V.U. Baraboshkina, 1915. Creator: Unknown
Workers of the rolling workshop V.U. Baraboshkina, 1915. From a collection of 153 photographs and documents which show groups of students and teachers, local mills

Kirosskii quarry, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Kirosskii quarry, 1915.

Soon-to-be-finished portion of the lock, Kuzminskoe, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Soon-to-be-finished portion of the lock, Kuzminskoe, 1912.

Construction of the lock, Kuzminskoe, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Construction of the lock, Kuzminskoe, 1912.

Transportation of lumber for the smelting of iron ore, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Transportation of lumber for the smelting of iron ore, 1910. Group of laborers sitting in front of a pile of logs.

Work at the Bakalskii mine, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Work at the Bakalskii mine, 1910. A family, with shovels and horse-drawn carts, working at the iron mines in the Bakaly hills

Demolition of Blackfriars Bridge, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Demolition of Blackfriars Bridge, [London], 1864. View from the Surrey bank of the Thames, showing '...the scaffolding which has been erected facilitate the removal of materials...[Also visible

Descent into the Anzherskaya mine, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Descent into the Anzherskaya mine, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Cross-cutting, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Cross-cutting, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Bremsberg from below, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Bremsberg from below, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Electric station boilers, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Electric station boilers, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Forge, 1911. Creator: Kozlov
Forge, 1911. From a collection of documents and photographs from more than thirty participants of the Russian Civil War in the Kuzbass

Employees of the Znamensky glass factory on a forest walk in the vicinity of the village, 1910-1913. Creator: S. Ia
Employees of the Znamensky glass factory on a forest walk in the vicinity of the village, 1910-1913. From a collection which includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei

A Laborer Returning From a Land-Management Expedition on a Raft After His Dismissal...,1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
A Laborer Returning From a Land-ManFrom a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Chinese quarter of the Chincha Islands, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Chinese quarter of the Chincha Islands, [Peru], 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Oswald Younghusband of the quarter inhabited by Chinese labourers employed in the guano trade

Baling machine for hay, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Baling machine for hay, 1915.

Irkutsk The railway track in Glazkovsky suburb, 1904-1917. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk The railway track in Glazkovsky suburb, 1904-1917. National Library of Russia

Laying concrete for the dam's sluice, Beloomut, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Laying concrete for the dam's sluice, Beloomut, 1912. Workers and supervisors posing for photograph amid preparations for pouring cement for sluice dam foundation across the Oka River near

Water pumps, Beloomut, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Water pumps, Beloomut, 1912. Uniformed men posed at a water pump construction site.

View of the city of Irkutsk from the Irkutsk Bridge. Glazkovskoe suburb, 1900-1904. Creator: Unknown
Eastern Siberia. View of the city of Irkutsk from the Irkutsk Bridge. Glazkovskoe suburb, 1900-1904. National Library of Russia

Group of railroad construction participants near the town of Kem, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Group of railroad construction participants near the town of Kem, 1915. The narrow gauge railway that runs from the town of Kem to the port of Kem-Pristan.

Sawmill, Oka River, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Sawmill, Oka River, 1912. Several men standing near a sawmill.

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping

"Workers: The Backbone of Nations, United by Labor" From the bustling streets of China during the Cultural Revolution to the coal miners in South Wales and Cornwall, they have always played a vital role in shaping societies. In Chairman Mao's China, a powerful cultural revolution poster depicted workers as heroes, inspiring unity and progress. Meanwhile, deep underground in shaft lifts and at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen and South Wales coal mines, brave miners risked their lives daily to fuel industrial growth. The Workers May-Pole design showcased solidarity among laborers striving for socialist ideals. In 1910 Britain, even political parties recognized the importance with colorful posters appealing for support. Swindon witnessed the dedication of builders constructing diesel locomotives while LNER promoted North East Coast Exhibition through an artistic poster celebrating hardworking individuals. Artists like Harold Harvey captured scenes from clay pits in Cornwall - be it Polkanuggo Quarry or Leswidden - highlighting arduous work that sustained local economies. Soviet propaganda also exalted workers' contributions under the sun of the motherland. Boris Parmeev's iconic poster from 1970s USSR symbolized strength gained through collective effort. Across continents and eras, these glimpses into worker's lives remind us that they are not just cogs within a system but essential pillars upon which nations stand tall. Their unwavering determination fuels progress and shapes our shared future.