Woman chimney sweep
Horace Nicholls was one of two professional photographers who were commissioned in 1917 by the Women's Work Committee of the newly founded Imperial War Museum to take photographs of women at work during the First World War. This photograph shows a woman chimney sweep in Kent, 'carrying on the business of her husband who was a sweep before the war' - one of the many examples of women stepping into previously male-dominated professions during the period between 1914 and 1918.
IWM Q 30758
