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Working Man Collection (#4)

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Turpentine 'stiller' near Valdosta, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Turpentine worker, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Cider-Making in Devonshire - Laying the Fruit, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Cider-Making in Devonshire - Collecting the Grass-Fruit, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Violent Display of Popular Indignation against the Austrian Marshal Haynau, at Bankside, 1850

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: 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. 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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Painting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Testing the Girders, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Great Exhibition Building - Paying the Workmen, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Drilling Machine, 1850

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

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Glazing the Roof, 1850

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - the Transept - (Looking North), 1850

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - General View of the Works, 1850

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: 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. 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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: One of the Retorts for Burning the Turf into Charcoal, 1850. Creator: Smyth

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Frozen-Out Gardeners and Snow Clearers - drawn by Foster, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Late Attack upon Marshal Haynau - Escape of Marshal Haynau in the Police Galley, 1850

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: 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. 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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Cutting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: 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. 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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Glazing Wagon, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: 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. 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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: 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. 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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Fallen Railway Arches in Copenhagen-Fields, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Visit of...Prince Albert to the Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park... 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Stock Sound, 1940. Creator: Eric Hallstrom

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Workmen laying track, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown

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

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

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Natives, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: A Bridge 6 Sazhens Long. Kedrovsko-Borodavskaia Road, 1906-1908

A Bridge 6 Sazhens Long. Kedrovsko-Borodavskaia Road, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
A Bridge 6 Sazhens Long. Kedrovsko-Borodavskaia Road, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Man using tool to strip logs, Central Asia?, between 1905 and 1915

Man using tool to strip logs, Central Asia?, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Man using tool to strip logs, Central Asia?, between 1905 and 1915. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Demolition of Hungerford Market to make room for the Charing-Cross Railway Station, 1862

Demolition of Hungerford Market to make room for the Charing-Cross Railway Station, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Demolition of Hungerford Market to make room for the Charing-Cross Railway Station, [London], 1862. Our View is taken from the lower end of Villiers-street

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Commencement of the Thames Embankment: driving the first pile... 1862. Creator: Unknown

Commencement of the Thames Embankment: driving the first pile... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Commencement of the Thames Embankment: driving the first pile in front of the Duke of Buccleuch's mansion, [London], 1862

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Inundation in the Fens: the syphon dam of the middle-level drain, 1862. Creator: Unknown

The Inundation in the Fens: the syphon dam of the middle-level drain, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Inundation in the Fens: the syphon dam of the middle-level drain, 1862. The employment of the syphon is quite a novel feature in the history of drainage. Should the experiment now devised by Mr

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Carpenter, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky

Carpenter, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Carpenter, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. Man shaving bark from a length of timber. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100... 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100... 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100 pounders, 1862. In viewing the manner in which the work is carried out in the various branches of the Royal

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the guns at the proof-butts, 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the guns at the proof-butts, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the guns at the proof-butts, 1862.... to fire a piece of ordnance...by the ordinary method of a man pulling a friction-tube while others are

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862. The gun, being now completely built up, is carried to a lathe for the purpose of being finish-turned

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. This is the upper floor of a two-storied building upwards of 200ft. in length and 60ft

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Progress of the International Exhibition Building: the Western Annexe, for machinery, 1862

Progress of the International Exhibition Building: the Western Annexe, for machinery, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Progress of the International Exhibition Building: the Western Annexe, for machinery, 1862. The International Exhibition of 1862 was a world's fair held from 1 May to 1 November 1862 in South

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. Creator: W Thomas

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Metropolitan Railway and the Fleet Ditch, 1862. Creator: JM Williams

The Metropolitan Railway and the Fleet Ditch, 1862. Creator: JM Williams
The Metropolitan Railway and the Fleet Ditch, [London], 1862. In a few months Paddington will be joined to the City by a new thoroughfare...This line has a width of nearly thirty feet

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the... 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the... 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the bars previous to coiling, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field



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