Girl making nails

#Picture Number ST176

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Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of female industrial labour: a young girl makes spike nails (large iron nails, 4 to 9 inches long), using a foot-operated jack hammer and a hand hammer. This was hard, strenuous work, done by girls aged 14 to 18, who earned a mere 5s a week.