Physical labour posters & prints

Labourer Indian School

Repairing the Railway, 1874 Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky

The Labour Yard of the Bethnal Green Employment Association English School

Building trade, c1845 Unknown

Women Screening Coals at the Pit's Mouth, image from 'The Wonderland of Work' by Clara L. Mateaux, published 1884 by... American School

Construction Worker Carrying Bricks Anonymous

London Nightmen English School

Horses Straining at a Load, 1864 Charles (after) Verlat

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

Use of the Sun: the Carriers A.F. & Bonnencontre

Breaker boys at Hughestown Borough Coal Co. Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

Cotton: its Cultivation and Preparation in America English School

Engraving of Children Working in a Factory Anonymous

Man Working in a Mine Anonymous

Labourers Putting Down a Pavement Thomas Rowlandson

Transporting Stone Blocks Friedrich von Keller

Women Transporting Refuse. War Office photography, 1916 English Photographer

Specimens from Mr Punch's industrial exhibition of 1850 John Leech

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

Work, c.1863 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Telegraph boys using shower baths, Postal Tel. Co., Broadway, New York, 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

The Steel Works, 1895 Maximilien Luce

Bricklayers at a Building Site, 1875 Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel

The Reapers William Henry Gore

Little Boy's Home at Farningham Britain 1891 Anonymous

Working on the Metro under the Place de l'Etoile, 1899 Gaston Brun

Saint Sergius labours (Triptych, Mid part), 1896 Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov

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

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

Out of Work, 1888 Ralph Hedley

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

Rosie, aged 7, illiterate, working for a second year as an oyster shucker at Varn & Platt Canning Company, Bluffton,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Haymaking Arthur Hopkins

Field Labourers, in the International Exhibition 1871 Anonymous

Laborer and Family, Labor is Life Anonymous

French Agricultural Labourer Anonymous