Brickmaking Collection

Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski
Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d

Brickmaking (Norfolk), c. 1883 / 87, printed 1888. Creator: Peter Henry Emerson
Brickmaking (Norfolk), c. 1883/87, printed 1888. A work made of photogravure, pl. xxii from the album " pictures of east anglian life" (1888)

Brickfield on the River Bure (Norfolk), c. 1883 / 87, printed 1888
Brickfield on the River Bure (Norfolk), c. 1883/87, printed 1888. A work made of photogravure, pl. xx from the album " pictures of east anglian life" (1888)

Brick kiln near Sloane Street, Chelsea, London, 1812. Artist: William Pickett
Brick kiln near Sloane Street, Chelsea, London, 1812

Brickmaking, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Brickmaking, Egypt, 1905. We see here modern natives engaged in brickmaking by the same methods that were employed five thousand years ago

Brick machines, 19th century. Bradley and Cravens brick machine and Claytons brick machine

Brick Maker, 1808. Artist: William Henry Pyne
Brick Maker, 1808. A woman with a handcart goes to get clay; a man dumps his clay into a stirring mechanism which mixes the clay before it is shaped into bricks

Young girl tending the fire holes of a brick kiln, 1871. It was estimated that at this time there were between 20, 000 and 30, 000 children aged between 5 and 16 at work in British brickyards

Ceramics industry, c1870. Various aspects of the ceramics industry from the making of bricks, tiles and drainage pipes to the decoration of porcelain

Building of the Tower of Babel, 1716. Bricks being fired in on-site kilns, while in the foreground masons are working blocks of stone. From the Bible (Genesis 2)

Brickfield, 1808. Artist: William Henry Pyne
Brickfield, 1808. A horse-powered pug mill grinding clay, and a woman with a hack barrow for transporting green bricks to clamps to be dried out before firing

Children carrying loads of clay in the brickyards of the English Midlands, 1871. It was estimated that at this time there were between 20, 000 and 30

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