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  • Tags: Women's working life

HORT 15CG 027.tif
Daffodil pickers in fields, possibly Gulval.
Same as HORT 15CG 026
Although exact date given 1965-05-16, trees look very bare and daffodils in bud

HORT 15PG 024.tif
Jeffrys Flower Farm, Trannack, Penzance

HORT 15PG 020.tif
Old Hulk in Newlyn Harbour was built from concrete used to store coal for fishing fleet. Bombed during war
Penzance in background

HORT 15PG 019.tif
Picking Emperor Daffodils at The White House

TRANS 8.226.tif
P O Copyright. Women Drivers & Grooms formed into a Corps to man the Mail Van during 14-18 War

OCC 4.002A.tif
A postcard (and photo copy of the postcard), postmarked Camborne Nov 30, 1906, which is captioned, 'Fresh Pilchards', and depicts a woman sitting in a cart pulled by a donkey, with baskets of fish in the cart with her. The woman pictured is actually…

COMM 8.040.tif
Telephone Operators at Manual Switchboard. Date may be later than 1920 - may be late '20s.

MIN 4.028.tif
A group of 'bal maidens' at Dolcoath who helped to "dress" or prepare the ores for crushing by the mills or stamps. Large numbers of women were employed in this way on all Cornish mines in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. In fact, during the…

COMM 8.039.tif
Ladies of the Post Office seen here operating at an early telephone exchange when all calls were connected by hand at every intermediate exchange.

COMM 8.038.tif
Ladies of the Post Office seen here sorting telegrams which had been handed in at various counters, and sending them to the appropriate transmission points.

COMM 8.036.tif
Typical telephone operator, circa 1900-1905. National Telephone Company.

COMM 8.035.tif
Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)

PEOP 8.062.tif
A group of postwomen at Barnet. with their bicycles.

PEOP 8.061.tif
A woman wearing the original uniform for postwomen, issued 1915.
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