TPG Gallery-The only authorized Shutterstock distributor in Taiwan

Matchbox-makers at Bow, 1871. ...thousands of poor people in London...depend on the sale and manufacture of these useful little things for their daily bread...560,000,000 boxes of common wooden lucifer-matches...are made in Great Britain in a year. Women and children are mostly employed both in their manufacture...The occupation of dipping the ends of the matches in some phosphoric compound liquid is stated to be very unhealthy...no detail of the work is more suitable for little boys and girls...Our Illustration...in the dwelling of a humble family at Bow, represents children busied in this useful task, which they are commonly able to begin at less than five years of age. Thin wood-shavings...are brought to be folded by the little hands of these babes into the shape of each part of the match-box...The side of the outer case has a piece of sandpaper...pasted upon it, for friction with the match to be lighted...The only thing painful in their toil is that the sand-paper is apt to make the soft skin of their little fingers sore... They are paid at the rate of twopence-half-penny the gross, or twelve dozen, for the boxes they make...The retail seller must, therefore, get a very good profit indeed. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

XL
Sketch

dpi

Details

Creative#:

TOP30072058

Source:

達志影像

Authorization Type:

Release Information:

須由TPG 完整授權

Model Release:

Property Release:

Right to Privacy:

Same folder images:

Same folder images

Chinase Keywords
English Keywords

London England female women woman people male boy boys child children girl girls interior work man men family home arts industry class danger housing art guy dangerous basket baskets clothes British tired industrial dress poor poverty chemicals chemical location Victorian century Britain inside parenting match bow matches newspapers press toxic clothing print childcare company concept matchbox weary APPAREL B&W apron aprons ripped sandpaper torn engraved engraving rags domestic life family life peril RAGGED Working Class tattered child care 19th century Health and safety Indoors black &white black and white B/W working-class nineteenth century Tower Hamlets match box match boxes The Print Collector child labour East End Illustrated London News social class TGN women at work wood engraving working conditions ILN newspaper working Unknown container housing conditions piece work piecework 19th-century clothing &dress fashion &clothing The Illustrated London News Bryant &May Bryant and May lucifer matches

&&&&19th 19th-century APPAREL B&W B/W Britain British Bryant Bryant Class Collector East End England Hamlets Health ILN Illustrated Illustrated Indoors London London London May May News News Print RAGGED TGN The The Tower Unknown Victorian Working and and and apron aprons art arts at basket baskets black black bow box boxes boy boys care century century century chemical chemicals child child child childcare children class class clothes clothing clothing clothing company concept conditions conditions container danger dangerous domestic dress dress engraved engraving engraving family family fashion female girl girls guy home housing housing industrial industry inside interior labour life life location lucifer male man match match match matchbox matches matches men newspaper newspapers nineteenth parenting people peril piece piecework poor poverty press print rags ripped safety sandpaper social tattered tired torn toxic weary white white woman women women wood work work work working working working-class

Account：
Password：
Confirm Password：
User Type：
Full Name：
Phone：
Email：
Company：
Latest Location：
Currency：
Language：
Postal Code：
Address：
Industry：

Subscribe to non-watermark images
Subscribe to Editorial Content
Subscribe E-Journal
Gender：
Fax：
Mobile Phone：
Department：
Title：
Country：
Province：
City：
Bank：
Sub-Branch：
Bank Account：

Details

Select your country or region

選擇您的語言