Occupations Collection

1960s STUDIO SETTING OF FAMILY DRESSED AS CHRISTMAS NUTCRACKER DOLL CHARACTERS LOOKING AT CAMERA CHRISTMAS TREE IN BACKGROUND

1970 1970s IBM SYSTEM 360 COMPUTER ROOM MAIN FRAME DATA STORAGE

WW2 poster, Fly with the RAF
WW2 poster, Men in reserved occupations can now fly with the RAF as pilot or observer. Apply nearest combined recruiting centre. Date: 1941

Drummer Gene Krupa
United States: c. 1947 Jazz drummer and compser Gene Krupa playing the drums

Fleming At Desk
24th March 1958: Ian Fleming, British author and creator of James Bond, at his desk in his study. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images)

Brickmaker (engraving)
2801950 Brickmaker (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Brickmaker)

Wedgwood vase (engraving)
5212859 Wedgwood vase (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wedgwood vase)

A film crew at work in the newly cobbled Richardson Street, in Heaton, Newcastle for Catherine Cooksons The Fifteen Streets in 1989

Lonely Copper
August 1929: A London policeman finds himself without any traffic to direct on a rainy night on the River Thames Embankment between Chelsea and Westminster. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Harlem Eaterie
circa 1930: A high class lunch room in Harlem, New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Mending Nets, West Cornwall Fisheries Exhibition
A posed group of eight women wearing traditional costumes and carrying out tasks associated with the fishing industry

Pilchard seine boat, Cornwall County Fisheries Exhibition
Pilchard seine boat on the River Kenwyn at Back Quay in Truro, with Samuel Brokenshire carriage factory in the background

Illustration of a Daily Mirror Photographer having a steady hand and not needing a tripod for his camera

A line-up of Green Goddess fire engine ready for action in the hanger at RAF Catterick

Drayman and their horses from the Scottish and Newcastle Breweries doing their deliveries in 1977

The band headed the procession of strikers from Swan Hunter shipbuilders in Wallsend

Lifeguard Drill
circa 1930: Australian lifeguard drill using a safety-line. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Sailors demonstrating flag semaphore system

The Cricketer. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1964. Date: 1964

Teesside Butchers, 53 years a butcher, Circa 1972

Mr. Phil Bowden of Benwell who is a third generation chimney sweep

The Vaux Percherons, or dray horses are lined up for inspeciton in 1970

Edwin Macklow, second generation cobbler at work in his fathers shop

Farriery may become a lost art, but the ancient smithy at Blaydon flourishes now, for Messrs. Bell and Company, the owners, have turned their attention almost exclusively to the making of boat hooks

The giant size of the dry dock at Brigham and Cowans, South Shields is seen here with the ship that is now in for inspection & repairs. Circa 1960

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), the Russian composer. (Photo by Henry Guttmann Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Isamu Noguchi With Paphnutius
New York, New York: August 10, 1924 Isamu Noguchi, the young Japanese art student with his most recent creation, Paphnutius

Mr Putty The Painter (colour litho)
2797334 Mr Putty The Painter (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr Putty The Painter)

Mrs Grub The Gardeners Wife (colour litho)
2797331 Mrs Grub The Gardeners Wife (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mrs Grub The Gardeners Wife)

Mr Clamp The Carpenter (colour litho)
2797306 Mr Clamp The Carpenter (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr Clamp The Carpenter)

Mrs Clamp The Carpenters Wife (colour litho)
2797307 Mrs Clamp The Carpenters Wife (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mrs Clamp The Carpenters Wife)

Mrs Putty The Painters Wife (colour litho)
2797335 Mrs Putty The Painters Wife (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mrs Putty The Painters Wife)

Mr Grub The Gardener (colour litho)
2797330 Mr Grub The Gardener (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr Grub The Gardener)

Land girls on their way home from the field in military area East Anglia The harvest has to be got within fourteen days MSI WW2

Whitbreads Shirehorses in St. Thomass Street leading horses hengist and Horsa with Gilbert and Sullivan behind in 1973

Fishermen emptying a cran of fish into boxes ready for sale in 1967

Occupations 1883 - London Street Dog Seller. 1883

Two Trapeze Artists
Sarasota, Florida: March 13, 1941 Two aerial artists for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus start limbering up for the summer circuit

Model Aeroplanes
Members of the RAF at the Model Aeroplane Club at play. (Photo by Crouch/Getty Images)

Bus driver (b / w photo)
3637514 Bus driver (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bus driver. Illustration for Wonderful London by St John Adcock (Fleetway, c 1930)

The Lifeboat Men. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

The Cross Country Runner. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1968. Date: 1968

Wheelwright (engraving)
2802012 Wheelwright (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wheelwright)

Colliery (engraving)
2808341 Colliery (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Colliery)

Perfumers, Sangwine, trade card (engraving)
983967 Perfumers, Sangwine, trade card (engraving) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Perfumers, Sangwine, trade card.); Look and Learn / Peter Jackson Collection

Hyde Park Sheep
16th March 1938: Hyde Parks own shepherd taking his sheep along the Serpentine pathway to new grazing ground elsewhere in the park. His dog has taken to the water to stop the sheep from swimming off

Workers at William Pretty and sons Ltd in Ipswich sitting at their Singer machines putting in the elastic bands in underwear November 1935

Groom Ernest Marks with Whitbreads shirehorses Hengist and Horsa in 1973

Mark Macklow is third generation cobbler at his grandfathers shop in Gateshead

Edwin Macklow, first generation cobbler at work in his shop

Optical Department. ca. 1932, Alexandria, Louisiana, USA, SCHNACKs OPTICAL DEPARTMENT. A complete and entirely separate department devoted exclusively to an optical service second to none

Bicycle Broadcasting
Washington, D.C.: May 30, 1936 Star NBC sports announcer Jim McGrath and NBC engineer Phil Merryman commandeer a tandem bicycle to be able to announce the 25 mile marathon today in Washington, D.C

17th century Rope Maker
Two cordwainers - rope makers - wind the twisted fibres. Date: 17th century

Tufts Has Radio Faculty
Medford, Massachusetts: March 26, 1922 Tufts College has the first radio faculty in the country

A Sports Reporter At Work
Pebble Beach, California: c. 1958 A sports reporter at the Crosby Clambake Golf Tournament

Old Fish Street Hill and the Monument to the Great Fire with members of the London Fire Brigade, London, England, 19th century. From Old England: A Pictorial Museum, published 1847

Bookmaker Sidney Glanz waves to punters waving cash at him through a glass window inside his betting shop in the Isle of Man. No cash betting is allowed in his shop June 1969

1920s 1930s HORSE-DRAWN WHEAT HARVESTING

A palm tree boat also called donga carries jute fibres on the marsh in Gopalganj, Bangladesh.

Girl playing tuba

1940s WOMAN ROSIE THE RIVETER SUPERIMPOSED OVER AIRPLANES IN FACTORY 1940s WARTIME WWII

1920s 1930s TWO MEN WESTERN COWBOYS SITTING BY CAMPFIRE DRINKING COFFEE TALKING SUMMIT OF PASS NEAR BOW LAKE ALBERTA CANADA

1960s SYMBOLIC BUSINESSMAN IN SUIT & HAT HOLDING BRIEFCASE DUMPED FIRED MADE REDUNDANT LAID OFF UNEMPLOYED SITTING IN TRASH CAN

Aboriginal school Northern Territory Australia Teacher with a mixed class of “cattle station” owners children and aborigines from nearby Rittarangu Community, Urapunga, , Roper River

People in a horse sleigh in austria

Naked woman with cigarette and glass of wine

A butcher's shop that was considered the most modern and newest retail store in Berlin at that time

Berlin, Germany: c. 1929 The most modern methods and equipment are used for the germ research being done at Dr. Piorkowski's Bacterio-Physiological Institute in Berlin

Circus Clown
circa 1930: Lulu the clown wearing a traditional costume and make up. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Cotton Pickers
circa 1930: Two cotton pickers standing by a heap of cotton at the G A Starr Plantation in Greensboro, South Carolina. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

New abattoir supplying Teesside with fresh meat, Marton, Middlesbrough, 8th March 1967

Titos Hair Salon, Middlesbrough, Circa 1971

The Western Cinema in Leeds which is run by the Shann family. Dad is the projectionist while mum and daughter are working in the box office, confectionary stand and selling ice cream in the interval

Women Wrestling in 1941

Actors Lesley Nightingale and Selena Carey-Jones as undercover police at a hippy pop concert in 1984

The fishing boat Castle jDawn arriving at North Shields Fish Quay in 1975

Woman escapologist Jill Fletcher. 1965 A1140

Tom Jones never had any trouble from girls clad in bikinis. But we re not talking about the singer. Instead, its Tom Jones the lifeguard, who is featured in todays archive picture from July 1972

Captain Hector McMullen, who retires after his record-breaking flight on the Concorde. February 1985 P004608

Draymen and their horses from the Vaux Brewery in Sunderland in 1964

Workers from at Swan Hunter shipbuilders in Wallsend leave after a shift

Double and Single Winch Oyster Dredge Boat
Boat on the river with a winch and net and oars. A wooden sign on the boat identifies it as a double and single winch oyster dredge boat

Pilchard drift boat, Cornwall County Fisheries Exhibition
Pilchard drift boat on the River Kenwyn at Back Quay in Truro showing Samuel Brokenshires carriage factory in the background

Shrimper on River Fal, Cornwall County Fisheries Exhibition
Titled Shrimper on River Fal. An elderly man with a large shrimping net

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"Occupations: A Glimpse into the Diverse World of Work" "Join the RAF and Fly High: WW2 Poster Inspires Courage and Adventure" "Fleming at Desk: Unveiling the Creative Mind Behind James Bond" "Gene Krupa's Rhythm Reigns: The Legendary Drummer Who Set Hearts on Fire" "The Cricketer's Graceful Dance with Bat and Ball Captivates Sports Enthusiasts" "The Cross Country Runner: Embodying Endurance, Determination, and Triumph" "Wheelwrights' Artistry in Motion: Preserving Tradition Through Masterful Craftsmanship" "Henry Freeman's Tale of Resilience: The Sole Survivor Amidst Tragedy at Sea" "Brigham and Cowans Dry Dock: Witnessing Engineering Marvels on a Grand Scale" "Mending Nets, Weaving Stories: West Cornwall Fisheries Exhibition Celebrates Coastal Heritage" "Pilchard Seine Boat Chronicles Cornish Fishing Legacy at County Fisheries Exhibition” “Sailors' Silent Language Revealed: Flag Semaphore System Transcends Barriers”