Here's a collection from UBC Library Digital Collections consists of vintage photographs of British women at work during 1910s.
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General view of brass fittings shop |
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Women inspecting motor engine parts |
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Women straightening and bending steel girder |
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Women painting steel work |
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Women operating radial drilling machines, drilling holes in girders |
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Women copper banding t60 pdr shrapnel |
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Women in charge of electric motor |
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View of canteen at munitions factory |
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Women wheeling away earth excavated for the installation of hydraulic pumps |
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Women operating radial drills, drilling valve covers and strainer plates for weed boxes for marine engines |
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Women stacking wood |
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Women painting War Office vehicles |
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Women cleaning windows |
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Woman acting as helper at punching and shearing machine |
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Women transporting rough castings to the General Store |
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Women engaged in labouring work in dressing shop |
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Woman are with cores for ingot mould |
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Woman at battery drills, drilling angles and T bars for ribs of airship sheds |
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Woman operating vertical drilling machines, drilling angles for connections to ribs of airship sheds |
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Women operating circular saw, cutting steel bar |
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Woman operating a Sunderland gear planer, gear cutting |
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Woman driving 20 ton O.E.T. crane |
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Women inserting and packing tubes in condensors for marine engines |
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Women machining Admiralty electrical fittings |
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General view of women engaged on small parts for boilers and condensors |
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Workers preparing for the construction of concrete ships |
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Railway workers unloading goods from train |
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Women railway workers painting and decorating |
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Mine net workers wiring the floats together |
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Window cleaners |
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Girl operating stitching machine in Leicestershire boot factory |
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British women moulding and finishing stoneware taps at terra cotta works in Leicestershire |
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British women in glass factory cutting shop near Birmingham |
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British women in glass factory near Birmingham |
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British woman splicing airplane joints in aeroplane factory near Birmingham |
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British rubber workers in Lancashire spreading machine for coaling canvas for tire making |
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British women rubber workers in Lancashire fixing studded tires |
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British women asbestos workers in factory in Lancashire |
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British women oil workers in Lancashire moulding cakes |
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British women rubber workers in Lancashire making mouth-pieces for gas masks |
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British women rubber workers in Lancashire forming the foundation for the tread |
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British women Glass Workers |