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  • Child apprentices in textile factory. Apprentice greeting former friend, the workers in rags.
  • Child apprentices in textile factory. The children supplement their scanty rations from the pig trough
  • Alexander the Great being mocked by the apprentices in the studio of Apelles. Etching by Salvator Rosa.
  • Masters, seamen and apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations : Class A.(M.) : national health insurance contribution card.
  • Masters, seamen and apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations : Class A.(M.) : national health insurance contribution card.
  • Exterior of an 18th century mill. The apprentices were housed in the garrets. Two sheep before and after the coming of the new agriculture (differences in stock, 1680 & 1808).
  • In a Spitalfields silk weaver's shop two contrasting apprentices, Tom Idle, asleep, and Francis Goodchild, engrossed in his work, sit at their looms overseen by their master. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1749.
  • A pharmacist and his apprentice - the apprentice points out that a customer can't be taking his medicine because he is getting better quickly. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • Interior of a pharmacy, the pharmacist and his apprentice at work. Engraving.
  • A man making paper; his apprentice carrying away the finished sheets. Woodcut by J. Amman.

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