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"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

Background imageWorkers Collection: Drying Yellow Incense

Drying Yellow Incense
Riza Amrullah

Background imageWorkers Collection: Workmen from cannery at King's Cove, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown

Workmen from cannery at King's Cove, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Workmen from cannery at King's Cove, between c1900 and 1916

Background imageWorkers Collection: Aerial tramway, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Lomen Brothers

Aerial tramway, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Lomen Brothers
Aerial tramway, between c1900 and c1930

Background imageWorkers Collection: A car at the office of the Znamensky glass factory, 1880-1917. Creator: IA Driakhlov

A car at the office of the Znamensky glass factory, 1880-1917. Creator: IA Driakhlov
A car at the office of the Znamensky glass factory, 1880-1917. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageWorkers Collection: Passenger ship on the Lena, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Passenger ship on the Lena, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Passenger ship on the Lena, 1890. The album "Views of the Yakutsk Region" contains 151 photographs. Subjects include the Lena River shore; various forms of river transport--including boats

Background imageWorkers Collection: Transporting workers to the mines, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Transporting workers to the mines, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Transporting workers to the mines, 1890. The album "Views of the Yakutsk Region" contains 151 photographs. Subjects include the Lena River shore; various forms of river transport--including

Background imageWorkers Collection: Workers offices of the Berdsk Consumer Society, 1880. Creator: GP Putintsev

Workers offices of the Berdsk Consumer Society, 1880. Creator: GP Putintsev
Workers offices of the Berdsk Consumer Society, 1880. From a collection of 153 photographs and documents held in the Berdsk Historical Art Museum

Background imageWorkers Collection: The Interior 'Clean Up' day at the Deadwood Terra Gold Stamp Mill, one of the Homestake... 1888

The Interior "Clean Up" day at the Deadwood Terra Gold Stamp Mill, one of the Homestake... 1888
The Interior. "Clean Up" day at the Deadwood Terra Gold Stamp Mill, one of the Homestake Mills, Terraville, Dakota []. Interior of saw mill; men working on equipment

Background imageWorkers Collection: Tea sorting, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin

Tea sorting, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin
Tea sorting, end of 19th century. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century and early 20th century by the famous revolutionary-populist

Background imageWorkers Collection: Tea sorting, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin

Tea sorting, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin
Tea sorting, end of 19th century. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century and early 20th century by the famous revolutionary-populist

Background imageWorkers Collection: Tea Tasting, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin

Tea Tasting, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin
Tea Tasting, end of 19th century. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century and early 20th century by the famous revolutionary-populist

Background imageWorkers Collection: Brick tea packaging, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin

Brick tea packaging, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin
Brick tea packaging, end of 19th century. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century

Background imageWorkers Collection: Brick tea packaging, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin

Brick tea packaging, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin
Brick tea packaging, end of 19th century. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century

Background imageWorkers Collection: Packaging of slab tea, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin

Packaging of slab tea, end of 19th century. Creator: Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin
Packaging of slab tea, end of 19th century. From a collection of 71 items (photographs and negatives on glass) made in the late 19th century

Background imageWorkers Collection: Workers of the Gorokhov mill with their families, 1904. Creator: Unknown

Workers of the Gorokhov mill with their families, 1904. Creator: Unknown
Workers of the Gorokhov mill with their families, 1904. Berdsk is located in Novosibirsk Oblast in central Russia, along the Novosibirsk Reservoir just south of Novosibirsk city

Background imageWorkers Collection: Dock in course of construction at Boulogne, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Dock in course of construction at Boulogne, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Dock in course of construction at Boulogne, [France], 1862. The entire dock, including the sluice-entrance, will cover nearly seventy English acres...the total cost...is estimated at something like

Background imageWorkers Collection: The first courtyard of the Salzgries barracks in Vienna, 1880. Creator: Emil Hutter

The first courtyard of the Salzgries barracks in Vienna, 1880. Creator: Emil Hutter
The first courtyard of the Salzgries barracks in Vienna, 1880

Background imageWorkers Collection: Girls making cartridges for Enfield rifles at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Girls making cartridges for Enfield rifles at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Girls making cartridges for Enfield rifles at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1862. Our illustration was taken [at]...the Royal Laboratory Department...near the Plumstead marshes

Background imageWorkers Collection: View of the road construction near the village of Practichi, 1909

View of the road construction near the village of Practichi, 1909. Creator: Vladimir Ivanovich Fedorov
View of the road construction near the village of Practichi, 1909. Amur Oblast Museum of Regional History and Folklife

Background imageWorkers Collection: Types of Chinese workers (Manchus), 1909. Creator: Vladimir Ivanovich Fedorov

Types of Chinese workers (Manchus), 1909. Creator: Vladimir Ivanovich Fedorov
Types of Chinese workers (Manchus), 1909. Amur Oblast Museum of Regional History and Folklife

Background imageWorkers Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100... 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100... 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100 pounders, 1862. In viewing the manner in which the work is carried out in the various branches of the Royal

Background imageWorkers Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the guns at the proof-butts, 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the guns at the proof-butts, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the guns at the proof-butts, 1862.... to fire a piece of ordnance...by the ordinary method of a man pulling a friction-tube while others are

Background imageWorkers Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862. The gun, being now completely built up, is carried to a lathe for the purpose of being finish-turned

Background imageWorkers Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. This is the upper floor of a two-storied building upwards of 200ft. in length and 60ft

Background imageWorkers Collection: The new iron-clad fleet: framing of Her Majesty's steam-frigate Achilles, 50 guns, 1862

The new iron-clad fleet: framing of Her Majesty's steam-frigate Achilles, 50 guns, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The new iron-clad fleet: framing of Her Majesty's steam-frigate Achilles, 50 guns, 1862. The construction of this gigantic iron frigate, under the superintendence of Mr. 0. W

Background imageWorkers Collection: Buryat mechanics making 'burkhanov' - Buryat goods, 1895-1939. Creator: L Veniukov

Buryat mechanics making "burkhanov" - Buryat goods, 1895-1939. Creator: L Veniukov
Buryat mechanics making "burkhanov" - Buryat goods, 1895-1939. This collection includes more than two hundred photographs taken during scientific expeditions into the most remote wilderness

Background imageWorkers Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. Creator: W Thomas

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Background imageWorkers Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Background imageWorkers Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the... 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the... 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the bars previous to coiling, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Background imageWorkers Collection: Progress of the International Exhibition building: the forge, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Progress of the International Exhibition building: the forge, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Progress of the International Exhibition building: the forge, [London], 1862. View of...a portion of the works going on at the building for the Great Exhibition which is well calculated to give an

Background imageWorkers Collection: Laborers awaiting work at the Hill of Idleness Types of Russian working... between 1885 and 1886

Laborers awaiting work at the Hill of Idleness Types of Russian working... between 1885 and 1886. Creator: Unknown
Laborers awaiting work at the Hill of Idleness Types of Russian working people at Tumen [ie, T i umen]?, between 1885 and 1886

Background imageWorkers Collection: Progress of the International Exhibition Building: Night effect of the Western Dome... 1862

Progress of the International Exhibition Building: Night effect of the Western Dome... 1862. Creator: M Jackson
Progress of the International Exhibition Building: Night effect of the Western Dome, seen from the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, [Kensington, London], 1862

Background imageWorkers Collection: Trades demonstration at Florence against the temporal power of the Pope, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Trades demonstration at Florence against the temporal power of the Pope, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Trades demonstration at Florence against the temporal power of the Pope, 1862. Engraving from a sketch by M. Mariani. [View of]...a demonstration in answer to the last declaration of Cardinal

Background imageWorkers Collection: Old mine, 1890. Creator: Unknown

Old mine, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Old mine, 1890. This collection consists of forty-four photographs of Sakhalin Island and the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Background imageWorkers Collection: The New French Treaty - No. II. Lyons and French Silks, 1862. Creator: Unknown

The New French Treaty - No. II. Lyons and French Silks, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The New French Treaty - No. II. Lyons and French Silks, 1862. View of the Croix Rousse...[this] was for a very long period the head-quarters of the population of canuts

Background imageWorkers Collection: Finishing shells at Woolwich Arsenal, 1862. Creator: W Thomas

Finishing shells at Woolwich Arsenal, 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Finishing shells at Woolwich Arsenal, 1862. Exertions are continued at Woolwich to supply munitions of war to the British possessions in North America...The splendid shell foundry is capable of

Background imageWorkers Collection: Salted Fish Processing

Salted Fish Processing
Sugiarto Widodo

Background imageWorkers Collection: Fishing Net

Fishing Net
Ajit Kumar Majhi

Background imageWorkers Collection: drying fish

drying fish
Pavol Stranak

Background imageWorkers Collection: Daily Life

Daily Life
Ajit Kumar Majhi

Background imageWorkers Collection: No.227

No.227
ADIREK M

Background imageWorkers Collection: The old Ladakhi

The old Ladakhi
Olivier Schram

Background imageWorkers Collection: Sunning Colored Fabrics

Sunning Colored Fabrics
Riza Amrullah

Background imageWorkers Collection: Drying Yellow Incense

Drying Yellow Incense
Riza Amrullah

Background imageWorkers Collection: Salted Fish Processing

Salted Fish Processing
Sugiarto Widodo

Background imageWorkers Collection: Watermelon seller

Watermelon seller
Dmitry Skvortsov

Background imageWorkers Collection: Fishing Net

Fishing Net
Ajit Kumar Majhi

Background imageWorkers Collection: drying fish

drying fish
Pavol Stranak



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"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.