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Women are employed performing a variety of domestic tasks. Coloured etching with aquatint by W.H. Pyne after himself, aquatint by J. Hill.

Brick-making: a young woman is pulling a large wheelbarrow full of clay while a boy tips a barrow load into a pug-mill, to which a horse is attached by a yoke. Coloured aquatint with etching after W.H. Pyne, 1805.

Civil engineering: building the Victoria Bridge across the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal. Coloured lithograph by the Kell brothers, 1860.

The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

Months of the year: October. Engraving after P. Stevens.

A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.

Months of the year: January. Engraving after P. Stevens.

The London Workhouse: the street and courtyard facades with a pair of medallions. Engraving by T. Dale after R. Schnebbelie, 1819.

People doing laundry at the dhobi ghat, during bubonic plague outbreak, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.

Civil engineering: one section of the Menai box girder bridge. Lithograph by Day & son, 1849, after M. Foster.

Months of the year: August. Engraving after P. Stevens.

Months of the year: December. Engraving after P. Stevens.

A man and a woman in a vineyard in autumn; representing the benefits of the fiftieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.

Discrimination at work : it's so over : new laws mean you don't have to put up with grief over your sexual orientation. Not anymore / Stonewall.

The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

Scenes inside the General Post Office at St Martin's-le-Grand, London. Wood engraving by J. Bell, 1875.

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A man and a woman in a vineyard in autumn; representing the benefits of the fiftieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.

Discrimination at work : it's so over : new laws mean you don't have to put up with grief over your sexual orientation. Not anymore / Stonewall.

The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

Scenes inside the General Post Office at St Martin's-le-Grand, London. Wood engraving by J. Bell, 1875.

Work

Images from the collections

Images about Work

Works from the collections

A man and a woman in a vineyard in autumn; representing the benefits of the fiftieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.

Discrimination at work : it's so over : new laws mean you don't have to put up with grief over your sexual orientation. Not anymore / Stonewall.

The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.

The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

Scenes inside the General Post Office at St Martin's-le-Grand, London. Wood engraving by J. Bell, 1875.

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