Cecil Beaton
A British sailor uses a sewing machine to repair a signal flag on board the armed merchant cruiser HMS ALCANTARA en route to Sierra Leone, 1942
A study of a young woman welder . She is posing for the photographer, leaning against a column. In the background a ship under construction can be seen in a slipway.
A Cecil Beaton photograph of the navigator working at his chart table in an RAF Stirling bomber, 1941.