Vintage Photographs Documenting British Women at Work During 1910s _ UK Time Capsule

   

Here's a collection from UBC Library Digital Collections consists of vintage photographs of British women at work during 1910s.

 

General view of brass fittings shop

 

Women inspecting motor engine parts

 

Women straightening and bending steel girder

 

Women painting steel work

 

Women operating radial drilling machines, drilling holes in girders

 

Women copper banding t60 pdr shrapnel

 

Women in charge of electric motor

 

View of canteen at munitions factory

 

Women wheeling away earth excavated for the installation of hydraulic pumps

 

Women operating radial drills, drilling valve covers and strainer plates for weed boxes for marine engines

 

Women stacking wood

 

Women painting War Office vehicles

 

Women cleaning windows

 

Woman acting as helper at punching and shearing machine

 

Women transporting rough castings to the General Store

 

Women engaged in labouring work in dressing shop

 

Woman are with cores for ingot mould

 

Woman at battery drills, drilling angles and T bars for ribs of airship sheds

 

Woman operating vertical drilling machines, drilling angles for connections to ribs of airship sheds

 

Women operating circular saw, cutting steel bar

 

Woman operating a Sunderland gear planer, gear cutting

 

Woman driving 20 ton O.E.T. crane

 

Women inserting and packing tubes in condensors for marine engines

 

Women machining Admiralty electrical fittings

 

General view of women engaged on small parts for boilers and condensors

 

Workers preparing for the construction of concrete ships

 

Railway workers unloading goods from train

 

Women railway workers painting and decorating

 

Mine net workers wiring the floats together

 

Window cleaners

 

Girl operating stitching machine in Leicestershire boot factory

 

British women moulding and finishing stoneware taps at terra cotta works in Leicestershire

 

British women in glass factory cutting shop near Birmingham

 

British women in glass factory near Birmingham

 

British woman splicing airplane joints in aeroplane factory near Birmingham

 

British rubber workers in Lancashire spreading machine for coaling canvas for tire making

 

British women rubber workers in Lancashire fixing studded tires

 

British women asbestos workers in factory in Lancashire

 

British women oil workers in Lancashire moulding cakes

 

British women rubber workers in Lancashire making mouth-pieces for gas masks

 

British women rubber workers in Lancashire forming the foundation for the tread

 

British women Glass Workers