Protective Workwear Collection (page 2)

Illustration of woman wearing laboratory coat and cap

Steel Nerves
Men at work on Battersea Power Station walking along a narrow girder with trains and the gasometer in the background

Laughing Servant
A house servant enjoys a laugh in the garden. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Camera Shy
A keeper lifts the shell of a giant tortoise in London Zoo so that the photographer can get a good view

Fire Fighter
A fire fighter in full protective clothing, stands beside a fire engine with his hose

Billingsgate
1892: Market porters loading wagons with goods at Billingsgate fish market, London. (Photo by Paul Martin/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Girl and boy playfully doing chemistry experiments

Salmon caviar, Russian specialty, bad salmon eggs are sorted out by hand, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

Tower Armoury
circa 1890: The Armoury in the Tower of London, the fortress on the Thames begun soon after 1066 and later extended. It has served as a palace, a main state prison and in modern times as a museum

Sitting On Fence
circa 1857: Farm workers chatting over the fence in 1857-8. William Grundys English Views. (Photo by William Grundy/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Edwardian Maid
1900: A housemaid at her writing desk. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Two men welding, holding protective masks, (B&W)

Man welding outdoors

Mother and daughter in supermarket, shop assistant weighing groceries

Sewer worker descending below street, (B&W), close-up

Diver
circa 1900: A diver goes down from the salvage ship Blakey to the wreck of the British schooner Cape Horn off the coast of Chile to recover a cargo of sunken copper

Rainswept
June 1919: A window cleaner keeps the rain off his head by wearing his bucket as a hat. (Photo by Roper/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Miners Safety
October 1908: A man demonstrating Shamrock safety gear for the coal mining industry. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Goods Guard
26th October 1907: A guard standing at the end of a goods train in the Great Central Railway goods yard. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Eagle Hut
circa 1905: A worker for the YMCA at the American Eagle Hut. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pit Safety
1st April 1908: A mining rescue team wearing safety apparatus. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fireman Sladen
circa 1900:s Sladen, a fireman. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Antibiotic Plant
Technicians at Europes newest and most modern antibiotic plant on its opening day. The plant in Sandwich, Kent, cost ?2, 500, 000 to establish and manufactures Terramycin, Tetracyn

Two Canadians
December 1915: Two Canadian cavalrymen and their horses prepared for training. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Goods Porter
26th October 1907: A goods porter on the Great Central Railway pushing a crate. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Always Remembered
circa 1920: A sand blaster cutting the names of some of the 11, 500 missing, on the Vimy Ridge Memorial. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pit Safety
1908: A demonstration of safety equipment at a mining rescue school. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flu Epidemic
A man sprays the inside of a bus of the London General Omnibus Co with anti-flu preparation during the flu epidemic which followed the First World War, London, 2nd March 1920. (Photo by H. F)

Railway Employees
26th October 1907: A platelayer and ganger working on railway track. It was many years before bright clothing was introduced to make track workers readily visible

Women War Workers
circa 1915: A Woman working on an engine in an engineering shop. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rain Gear
Two spectators at Ascot wearing a tent-like bag to protect them from the rain

Checking Pollution
19th February 1980: Two men in protective clothing check for oil and gas pollution on the beach at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. (Photo by Mike Lawn/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Metal Worker
A worker pouring white hot metal into moulds

Metal Welding
An iron welder at work

Arsenic Test
Two scientists, testing for arsenic and chemical pollution during their routine pollution patrol, Ventnor beach, Isle of Wight

Nathans Weapons
3rd May 1930: Medieval weaponry and armour belonging to costumers Nathan s, including a pike, halbard, spear, mace, axe, long sword and broadsword. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Artificial Sun
17th April 1942: Civil Defence Workers in Finsbury are beating the winter pallor with free sun lamp treatments. They call it Mixray at the Finsbury Health Centre

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