Hard labour posters & prints

Workers unloading coal from a barge, early twentieth century French School

Transporting Stone Blocks Friedrich von Keller

Woman and children coal 'putters', Mid and East Lothian, Scotland, c1848 Unknown

Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814 Lester

Woman and boy drawing a corve containing 3-4 cwt of coal, Bolton, Lancashire, 1848 Unknown

Prisoners at work, Sakhalin, Russia, 1890s. Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky

Tread-Wheel and Oakum-Shed at the City Prison, Holloway English School

Brixton purgatory Anonymous

Ceceders in Limbo - ie - vagabond's made usefull ... Ansell

Woman 'putter' dragging a sledge of coal along a narrow seam, South Wales, c1848 Unknown

Tread-Wheel and Oakum-Shed at the City Prison, Holloway Anonymous

In the Anchor-Forge at Soderfors. The Smiths Hard at Work Pehr Hillestrom

Hard Hat Anonymous

London Nightmen English School

Flushing the Sewers English School

Labourer Indian School

The Labours of the Months: July, c. 1580 Italian master

Worsted manufacturing, c1845 Unknown

Coal Miners of Le Creusot during the Second Empire Jules Ferat

750 Tea pickers off-loading Clive Wilson

August Anonymous

Woman Hard at Work Ironing Anonymous

Out of Work/Hard Times Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Work: Workman with Carnation in his Mouth, 1852-65 Ford Madox Brown

Chinese Men Pulling Heavy Loads of Silver Bullion Anonymous

Peasant with Hands to the Ground Georges Seurat

Workers on the Quai de la Seine at Billancourt, 1902-3 Maximilien Luce

Harvester Resting in the Fields Peter de Wint

New Labor Camp Anonymous

1950s Portrait Fireman Serious Expression Metal Fire Hard Hat Engine 4 Anonymous

Workers at Gold Mine Anonymous

Norfolk Island English School

Elsie and Sadie working at Yazoo City Yarn Mills, Mississippi said they were 13 years old, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

When the Day's Work is Done Charles James Adams

Women Transporting Refuse. War Office photography, 1916 English Photographer

Factory Children, or Love conquerd fear! English School