Browse Items (96 total)
Sort by:
Interior E Richards Photographers , Queen Street , Penzance.
The best of the three images of the interior of E. Richards, photographers. Queen Street , Penzance.
Woman Picking Strawberries in field near Penzance
Lizzie ran Newspaper Shop Jamaica Place Heamoor
Staff of Union Hotel in uniform of the day
Note elaborate working uniform
Unidentified uniformed men and women in garden
Possibly staff of large house or hotel
Horse Drawn Royal Mail Van. Postwoman, 1914
P O Copyright. Women Drivers & Grooms formed into a Corps to man the Mail Van during 14-18 War
Fish Vendor Lizzie Boynes on her Donkey Cart
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…
Telephone Operators at Manual Switchboard
Telephone Operators at Manual Switchboard. Date may be later than 1920 - may be late '20s.
Bal Maidens in Towsers Surface Captain in White
A 19th century scene at Tincroft Mine in Carn Brea. The man and 'bal maidens' with their hammers and typical Cornish shovels broke down the large lumps or ore to prepare it for further crushing and washing when the tin and copper was later refined on…
Posed photo of Bal Maidens at Dolcoath
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…