Sujet

Great Exhibition Building - Paying the Workmen, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Great Exhibition Building - Paying the Workmen, 1850. '...the exterior of the pay-office is seen on the right, with a workman in the act of taking from the box his weekly wages, contained in a small open cylinder of zinc, together with a slip of paper, having his name, his number, and the exact amount due to him written thereon....At the exit gate...is stationed a policeman, whose duty it is to see that each man, as he passes from the pay-box to the exit gate, casts the zinc box into a large basket...Now, with a view to prevent confusion, separate gangs of men...are called up...among so large a number, there may be five Browns, six Joneses, and seven or more Robinsons...By this system of classification and internal office arrangements, fifteen men are paid in one minute; and consequently, as there is only one pay-box, four hours are required to pay the whole of the eighteen hundred men'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_292

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

39,0Mo (3,3Mo) / 23,2cm x 42,0cm / 2745 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people male event office job man men guy occupation British policeman workmen workman Victorian century Britain profession paying newspapers press administration exhibition B&W metaphor engraved engraving admin 19th century black & white black and white B W pay day wages nineteenth century The Print Collector cultural event Great Exhibition 1851 Illustrated London News ILN newspaper Unknown Sir Joseph Paxton Paxton Joseph Paxton Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations pay-day working man Joseph Sir Joseph 19th-century Great Exhibition of 1851