Chimneys Collection

A Factoryscape in the Potteries, (1938). Smoke from chimneys in the industrial area known as the Staffordshire Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent

Surreal study, 1952. Creator: Shirley Markham
Surreal study, 1952. Illustration for a poem by TS Eliot. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

London from Parliament Hill, pub. 1923. Creator: Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson 
London from Parliament Hill, pub. 1923 (etching)

The Royal Anchor, Liphook, Hampshire, 1936. Creator: Unknown
The Royal Anchor, Liphook, Hampshire, 1936. The Royal Anchor hotel, 18th century coaching inn on the London to Portsmouth road

Sketches from New York: a lager beer brewery at Guttenberg, on the Hudson River, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sketches from New York: a lager beer brewery at Guttenberg, on the Hudson River, 1864. 'The Teutonic population of New York [and] the neighbouring Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Jersey City

The new Sèvres porcelain manufactory in the park of St. Cloud: bird's eye view of...workshops, 1864
The new Sevres porcelain manufactory in the park of St. Cloud [in France]: bird's eye view of the workshops, 1864. '1. Ovens for baking the porcelain; 2. Mill-rooms; 3

The International Exhibition: clay manufactures of the Shropshire coalfields, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: architectural clay manufactures of the Shropshire coalfields, 1862. 'The encaustic pavement in the centre is...in colour red, black, and cream-yellow

The fatal explosion at St. Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The fatal explosion at St. Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley: trench cut to the Dearne and the Dove Canal for the purpose of flooding the pit, 1862

The explosion on Wednesday week at Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The explosion on Wednesday week at Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley, 1862. 'Instantly a dense column of black smoke sprang from the cupola, like a gigantic tower, towards heaven

St. Thomas's Hospital, Surrey Gardens, 1862. Creator: T. H. W
St. Thomas's Hospital, Surrey Gardens, [London], 1862. 'The following decided opinion has been expressed by a leading medical journal

View of the railroad, city of Vladimir, Klyazma River, and water-meadows, 1911.

View of Bahia from the Public Gardens, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
View of Bahia from the Public Gardens, 1864. 'The domed edifice shown on the right is the church of the Benedictine convent; the opera-house appears near the middle of the view; the arsenal

The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Lancashire Textile workers. 'The Carder's business is to see that machinery is kept in perfect working order...The Jack Tenter

The opening of the People's Park, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The opening of the People's Park, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, 1864. Chancellor of the Exchequer and future prime minister William Ewart Gladstone speaking to the crowd

Turnpike-gates in and near London just demolished: Kensington Gate, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Turnpike-gates in and near London just demolished: Kensington Gate, 1864. 'This week has witnessed the abolition of turnpike toll' obstructions upon fifty miles of road in

New Year greeting with farm, 1897-1898. Creator: Sina Mesdag van Houten
New Year greeting with farm, 1897-1898

Residence of Ellery James, between 1911 and 1942. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Residence of Ellery James, between 1911 and 1942

The Waffle-Baker's Shop at Djurgården. Creator: Elias Martin
The Waffle-Baker's Shop at Djurgarden, Unknown date

Leaves from a Sketch-Book - Bits of Kent: Shoreham, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Leaves from a Sketch-Book - Bits of Kent: Shoreham, 1876. Down the steep and winding village street, as I loiter awaiting the train from Sevenoaks

Cigar Smokers, mid 19th century. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Cigar Smokers, mid 19th century. Miller sets the scene of this comical sketch with this caption: "Lady of the mansion gives strict orders that there is to be no drinking or smoking at her

Corner Of Duke Street & High Street (#39), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
Corner Of Duke Street & High Street (#39), Printed 1900

Illustration for Basedow's Elementary Work, 1770. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Illustration for Basedow's Elementary Work, 1770. Plate: Table XXXIII(d). A popular illustrated textbook for children

The Prince Consort's Model Farm at Osborne, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Prince Consort's Model Farm at Osborne, 1858....for more perfect arrangement in all the details and necessary requirements of an agriculturist's homestall the traveller in this or any

The Last Chance, between c1830 and c1840s. Creator: George Cruikshank
The Last Chance, between c1830 and c1840s

The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg, 1639. Creator: Cornelis de Man
The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg, 1639. Other Title(s): A Whale-Oil Factory of the Nordic or Greenland Company on Amsterdam Island at the north end of Spitzbergen (Svalbard)

Farmhouse near Helvoirt, 1814-1816. Creator: Pieter Barbiers
Farmhouse near Helvoirt, 1814-1816

Detroit Rubber Works, Detroit, Mich. c1908. Creator: William H. Jackson
Detroit Rubber Works, Detroit, Mich. c1908

Edison Electric plant [Detroit Edison Company], Detroit, Mich. between 1900 and 1910. Creator: William H. Jackson
Edison Electric plant [Detroit Edison Company], Detroit, Mich. between 1900 and 1910

Washburn-Crosby Co.'s flour mills, Buffalo, N.Y. c.between 1910 and 1920. Creator: William H. Jackson
Washburn-Crosby Co.'s flour mills, Buffalo, N.Y. c.between 1910 and 1920. "Milwaukee of Buffalo" on cargo ship; "Cornell" on tugboat

Power house, National Cash Register [Company], Dayton, Ohio, (1902?). Creator: William H. Jackson
Power house, National Cash Register [Company], Dayton, Ohio, (1902?)

Dining room with chimney in Renaissance style, c.1925. Creator: Monogrammist HK
Dining room with chimney in Renaissance style, c.1925

View of the Rossmarkt in Frankfurt am Main, 1745-1775. Creator: Anon
View of the RossMarkt in Frankfurt am Main, 1745-1775. An avenue with chestnut trees and on the right the St. Katharinen-Kirche

Drawings of the new steam engine for nine pumps in Hellevoetsluis, 1802. Creator: Jan Blanken
Drawings of the new steam engine for nine pumps in Hellevoetsluis, South Holland, 1802. Technical drawing of a steam engine: four elevations

Country inn with horse and wagon, 1640-1649. Creator: Isaac van Ostade
Country inn with horse and wagon, 1640-1649

New Aqueduct at Trieste - the Machine Rooms, 1856. Creator: Edmund Evans
New Aqueduct at Trieste - the Machine Rooms, 1856. Of late years, in consequence of the extension of its suburbs and the increase of its population from ten to sixty thousand

The Explosion at Lund Hill Colliery, Barnsley, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Explosion at Lund Hill Colliery, Barnsley, 1857. Disaster at a coalmine on the South Yorkshire Railway, belonging to Taylor and Co....a fearful explosion occurred

Lundhill Colliery, Barnsley, the Scene of the Recent Explosion, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Lundhill Colliery, Barnsley, the Scene of the Recent Explosion, 1857. Sightseers after a mining disaster. Every train to-day has brought a large number of "excursionists

View of Port-Marly on the Seine, with the laundry, 1880. Creator: Johan Conrad Greive
View of Port-Marly on the Seine, with the laundry, 1880

Study of a brick house, c.1779-c.1858. Creator: Hendrik van der Burgh
Study of a brick house, c.1779-c.1858

Paper mill, Combined Locks, Wis. between 1880 and 1899. Creator: Unknown
Paper mill, Combined Locks, Wis. between 1880 and 1899

Landscape with factories in Montluçon, 1861. Creator: George Sand
Landscape with factories in Montlucon, 1861. Industrial scene by French author and activist George Sand (born Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin) who wore men's clothes in public without a permit

Boat on a canal, a house and two windmills, 1801-1873. Creator: George Pieter Westenberg
Boat on a canal, a house and two windmills, 1801-1873

The blacksmith, 1876. Creator: Charles Rochussen
The blacksmith, 1876

Landscape with figures and a bridge near a farmhouse, 1756-1813. Creator: Anthony Andriessen
Landscape with figures and a bridge near a farmhouse, 1756-1813

Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich. (1906?). Creator: Unknown
Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich. (1906?)

Illinois Steel Works, South Chicago, Ill. between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Illinois Steel Works, South Chicago, Ill. between 1900 and 1905

Stork nest on a chimney, c.1880-c.1910. Creator: Anon
Stork nest on a chimney, c.1880-c.1910. Two storks feed their youngsters in the nest with outstretched beaks

Loading cotton into a steamer, Savannah, Ga. c1904. Creator: Unknown
Loading cotton into a steamer, Savannah, Ga. c1904

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