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Dating from the mid 13th century this is the first (extant) map to incorporate the travel reports of Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta. It shows Asia up to India, marking places like the Delhi Sultanate and others with reasonable accuracy. The atlas also…

View looking over sheds and pipework. A few men working centre right. Date stamped bottom left.

Workshops\ Cottage James Tangye 1825 son founder Cornwall Wks Smethwick

Workshop - Saws, Carpenters tools

Large wheel driving what looks like an early lathe for turning wood

Works machinery and cars at turning triangle. Dam and tower can be seen in the background on right.
Stamped on the reverse "Richards Brothers, Penzance"

Toilets demolished turned into seating area

Battery rocks.

Workmen and solid-tyred Thornycroft lorry in coal yard.

Workers of various ages standing together, two are sitting. The man on the right sitting, is holding a dog whist the man standing on the right has a dog at his feet. Another dog sits at the left of the image.

A group of workers who were likely employed in Mining or Clay production.

Sewing room of Knitting Factory. There was a knitting factory at Orchard Place, The Fradgan which burnt down in 1956/57. First woman on left facing camera possibly Phylis Lodey, known as Nanette.
Newlyn Archive offers the following information…

This photograph is a duplicate of IND 16HG012, showing workers in a factory in Newlyn. Please refer to OND 16HG012 for more information, including the names of a few individuals.