Worker Gallery

China - Cultural Revolution Poster - Chairman Mao

The Many accomplish great things - Cultural Revolution poster from the People's Republic of China, featuring happy workers heading out to work, many holding aloft the Little Red Book, the red flags flying and Chairman Mao as the sun, shining down on his people. Date: circa 1968

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Hong Kong street scene, 1890s C016/4499

Hong Kong street scene. Pedestrians, carts, rickshaws and signs in both Chinese script and English on a hill street in Hong Kong in the 1890s. At the time, this area was a British colony. This lantern slide, by US explorer and survey photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), was obtained for the World's Transportation Commission, a worldwide survey carried out for the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, USA. The lantern slides in this collection were hand-coloured with dyes and paints. Here, the areas at far right and left have not been coloured

© LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Country Round Dixton Manor, c.1725 (oil on canvas) (detail of 18102)

CHE68504 Country Round Dixton Manor, c.1725 (oil on canvas) (detail of 18102) by English School, (18th century); The Cheltenham Trust and Cheltenham Borough Council; (add.info.: Dixton Harvesters;); PERMISSION REQUIRED FOR NON EDITORIAL USAGE; English, out of copyright.
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