Workman Collection (page 4)

Clearance of the Louvre colonnade, 1764. Creator: Pierre-Antoine Demachy
Clearance of the Louvre colonnade, 1764

Clearance of the colonnade at the Louvre, c1756. Creator: Pierre-Antoine Demachy
Clearance of the colonnade at the Louvre, c1756

Metro works at the Quai Saint-Michel, c1906. Creator: Henri Dabadie
Metro works at the Quai Saint-Michel, c1906

Cider-Making in Devonshire - Pound-House - the Mill and Press - Piling "The Mock", 1850. Creator: Unknown
Cider-Making in Devonshire - Pound-House - the Mill and Press - Piling "The Mock", 1850. View showing the...rollers

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Raising the Ribs of the Transept Roof, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Raising the Ribs of the Transept Roof, 1850. The extraordinary resources of the contractors of the "Crystal Palace" have had no fitter occasion

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Moving a Pair of Transept Ribs... 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Moving a Pair of Transept Ribs, Framed Together, Previous to Hoisting, 1850. When the frame of double ribs is moved to its horizontal position above

Yoshida: The Toyo River Bridge (Yoshida, Toyokawabashi), from the series "Fifty-thre... c. 1833/34
Yoshida: The Toyo River Bridge (Yoshida, Toyokawabashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi), " also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Why?, from Judge, published July 21, 1888. Creator: Bernard Gillam
Why?, from Judge, published July 21, 1888

Who Is in the Soup Now, from Puck, published May, 1889. Creator: Louis Dalrymple
Who Is in the Soup Now, from Puck, published May, 1889

Turpentine plant near Marianna, Florida, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine plant near Marianna, Florida

Home of idle American workman, Near Bridgton, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of idle American workman. Near Bridgton, New Jersey. [Sign: C. Everham. Bricklayer & Plaster']

Cutting Turf, and Preparing it for the Rick, 1850. Creator: Smyth
Cutting Turf, and Preparing it for the Rick, 1850. Making peat charcoal at Derrymullen, Kildare, Ireland:.. two skenes are used to chop or make a long incision in the bank or bench from which

Snow-Sweepers - drawn by Foster, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Snow-Sweepers - drawn by Foster, 1850. Illustration to a story by Thomas Miller. "Clear your snow away, marm? do it for a penny

Turpentine "stiller" near Valdosta, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine "stiller" near Valdosta, Georgia

Turpentine "stiller" near Valdosta, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine "stiller" near Valdosta, Georgia

Turpentine "stiller" near Valdosta, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine "stiller" near Valdosta, Georgia

Turpentine worker, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine worker. Georgia

Cider-Making in Devonshire - Laying the Fruit, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Cider-Making in Devonshire - Laying the Fruit, 1850. Interior of...the pound-house, a building which contains the pound, the cider-press

Cider-Making in Devonshire - Collecting the Grass-Fruit, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Cider-Making in Devonshire - Collecting the Grass-Fruit, 1850. The earliest dropping of the apples takes place about the middle of August

Violent Display of Popular Indignation against the Austrian Marshal Haynau, at Bankside, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Violent Display of Popular Indignation against the Austrian Marshal Haynau, at Bankside, 1850. The Marshal seems to have had little idea of the loathing

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Gutter-Cutting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Gutter-Cutting Machine, 1850. It must be borne in mind, that, besides the rain-water gutter in the top of the timber

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Painting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Painting Machine, 1850. View of...the sash-bar painting apparatus...One of the sash-bars is occasionally passed between the brushes, to keep them clean

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Testing the Girders, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Testing the Girders, 1850. This is effected by means of the hydraulic press invented by Mr

Great Exhibition Building - Paying the Workmen, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Great Exhibition Building - Paying the Workmen, 1850....the exterior of the pay-office is seen on the right, with a workman in the act of taking from the box his weekly wages

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850. View of...the operations of punching bolt-holes in the bars of iron, and cutting off the ends by the shears

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Drilling Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Drilling Machine, 1850. One of Nathan Gough's four-horse vertical high-pressure engines is used for giving motion to the drilling

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Base of Column, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Base of Column, 1850....the construction of drainage is shown

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Glazing the Roof, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Glazing the Roof, 1850....three bays, each eight feet wide, and co-extensive with one 24-feet trussed girder, are clearly shewn

The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - the Transept - (Looking North), 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - the Transept - (Looking North), 1850. View of...the stately trees for whose especial protection the transept was added to Mr

The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - General View of the Works, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - General View of the Works, 1850. The scene on the ground is one of infinite bustle, and yet order

The Great Exhibition of 1851 - General View of the Works - (Looking East), 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition of 1851 - General View of the Works - (Looking East), 1850. In the view of the Building Works looking East - which was taken from an elevated position on the south side of

One of the Retorts for Burning the Turf into Charcoal, 1850. Creator: Smyth
One of the Retorts for Burning the Turf into Charcoal, 1850. Drying peat to make charcoal at Derrymullen, Kildare, Ireland....in the centre or main building are the furnaces, thirty-six in number

Frozen-Out Gardeners and Snow Clearers - drawn by Foster, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Frozen-Out Gardeners and Snow Clearers - drawn by Foster, 1850. Illustration to a story by Thomas Miller. During winter, gardeners couldn't work because of the cold weather

The Late Attack upon Marshal Haynau - Escape of Marshal Haynau in the Police Galley, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Late Attack upon Marshal Haynau - Escape of Marshal Haynau in the Police Galley, 1850. During a visit to London, the Austrian general Julius Jacob von Haynau was attacked by an angry mob who

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders, 1850. View of...the large crane, by which the cast-iron girders are unloaded from the waggon - one of Pickford's in the present

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Adzing and Planing Machinery, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Adzing and Planing Machinery, 1850. The machinery requisite for this twofold operation is fixed on a long deal bench, breast-high from the floor

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Cutting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Cutting Machine, 1850. The timbers to be planed by the machine are placed on the top of a traversing stage

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Sash-Bar Finishing Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Sash-Bar Finishing Machine, 1850. As in every other part of the works the utmost skill is displayed with regard to economising power

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Glazing Wagon, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Glazing Wagon, 1850. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

The Sash-Bar Machine, for the Great Exhibition Building, in Hyde Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Sash-Bar Machine, for the Great Exhibition Building, in Hyde Park, 1850....we find a communication from Mr. Paxton on this subject, dated 13th March, 1840, in which he says that

Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of the Building in Hyde Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of the Building in Hyde Park, 1850. The progress of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition, next year

Fallen Railway Arches in Copenhagen-Fields, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Fallen Railway Arches in Copenhagen-Fields, [London], 1850. Extension of the Birmingham Railway to Blackwall. Last week, one of the most important works on this line

Visit of...Prince Albert to the Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park... 1850. Creator: Unknown
Visit of His Royal Highness Prince Albert to the Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the "Parting Cheer", 1850

Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 1850. Owing to the clearness of the water, and the gradual declivity of the shore

Stock Sound, 1940. Creator: Eric Hallstrom
Stock Sound, 1940. Two workers carry out street work in a wintry Stocksund, outside Stockholm

Workmen laying track, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown
Workmen laying track, between c1900 and 1927

Workmen from cannery at King's Cove, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Workmen from cannery at King's Cove, between c1900 and 1916

Natives, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Natives, between c1900 and 1916. Group portrait of six men and one boy standing in front of a corrugated tin building, Tanana(?), Alaska

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"Building Empires, State by State: A Tribute to the Workman" In this captivating illustration from "Railway Ribaldry" by W Heath Robinson, we witness the ingenuity and dedication of a workman. With his tools in hand, he embodies the spirit of craftsmanship that has shaped our world. Displayed proudly alongside is a trades union membership certificate, symbolizing solidarity and protection for workers' rights. It serves as a reminder of the collective strength that empowers individuals like our workman to strive for better conditions and fair treatment. A snapshot captures another remarkable moment in history - a man diligently working at Dinorwig Slate Quarry in North Wales. His unwavering commitment echoes through time, reminding us that hard work knows no boundaries or limitations. "No Fear" resonates boldly across an inspiring poster advertising Pollards Storefitters. This motto encapsulates the fearless attitude required to tackle any challenge head-on; it reminds us that with determination and resilience, success is within reach. The image of workers splitting slates during World War II evokes memories of unity and sacrifice. These men understood the importance of recycling cans to aid the war effort in East Ham, London – their contribution played an integral role in protecting their nation's freedom. Moving forward in time, construction workers on the foreshore near Workington install power cables for Robin Rigg offshore wind farm. Their tireless efforts ensure sustainable energy sources for generations to come – proof that every they are make a lasting impact on our planet's future. Locomotive maintenance unveils yet another facet of skilled labor – these unsung heroes keep our railways running smoothly day after day. Their expertise ensures safe travels for countless passengers who rely on efficient transportation systems worldwide. Delving deeper into history reveals railway cutting works where fossilized trees were discovered. The diligent excavation carried out by these dedicated workmen unraveled secrets hidden beneath layers of earth - connecting us with our prehistoric past.