Navvy Collection

Tring cutting, London & Birmingham Railway, 17 June 1837 (1839). Artist: John Cooke Bourne
Tring cutting, London & Birmingham Railway, 17 June 1837 (1839). Navvies excavating the cutting. Wheelbarrows are filled with spoil at the bottom

British & Chinese road b'ld'rs [i.e. builders], 11 Mar 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
British & Chinese road b'ld'rs [i.e. builders], 11 Mar 1919. Canadian railway troops, possibly with Chinese Labour Corps members

Transportation of lumber for the smelting of iron ore, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Transportation of lumber for the smelting of iron ore, 1910. Group of laborers sitting in front of a pile of logs.

Topographer and Laborers Near the Ust'-Kabyrza Ulus, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Topographer and Laborers Near the Ust'-Kabyrza Ulus, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

A Laborer Returning From a Land-Management Expedition on a Raft After His Dismissal...,1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
A Laborer Returning From a Land-ManFrom a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Commencement of the Thames Embankment works near Westminster Bridge, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Commencement of the Thames Embankment works near Westminster Bridge, 1864. View of '...piles being driven in, and scaffolding of an extensive character being erected to support

A barrack for family workers in Krasnoyarsk, 1890. Creator: Unknown
A barrack for family workers in Krasnoyarsk, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Agricultural Labourers Union at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-Street...1876. Creator: Unknown
Agricultural Labourers Union at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-Street, [London]: Delegates signing Petition, 1876. About a thousand persons from different parts of the country were present

Navvy, 1920. Creator: Helmer Osslund
Navvy, 1920

'Ploughing in Turkestan; Notes on Western Turkistan, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Ploughing in Turkestan; Notes on Western Turkistan, 1875. From Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] and Galpin

Street Paver, before 1927, 1956 publication. Creator: Eugene Atget
Street Paver, before 1927, 1956 publication

Bridge & Workers (Pont De La Mulatiere), Printed 1856 circa. Creator: Edouard Baldus
Bridge & Workers (Pont De La Mulatiere), Printed 1856 circa

The Bahia Railway, Brazil: Paripe Valley - from a photograph by B. Mulock, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Bahia Railway, Brazil: Paripe Valley - from a photograph by B. Mulock, 1860. View of...the heavy works to carry the railway across the valley of Paripe

Workers breaking up rails, 1871-1906. Creator: Pieter de Josselin de Jong
Workers breaking up rails, 1871-1906

Workmen in line with a client, 1860-1865. Creator: Anon
Workmen in line with a client to carry out work on a house, 1860-1865

Building site in the west of old Amsterdam, 1900. Creator: George Hendrik Breitner
Building site in the west of old Amsterdam, 1900

Labourers pulling a heavy cart on Jacob van Lennepkade, Amsterdam, 1900. Creator: George Hendrik Breitner
Labourers pulling a heavy cart on Jacob van Lennepkade, Amsterdam, 1900

Return of the Army Works Corps from the Crimea, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Return of the Army Works Corps from the Crimea, 1856. Mechanics and labourers at Waterloo Station in London. The Army Works Corps...originated in a suggestion made by Sir Joseph Paxton

Culebra Cut, Culebra - Gang of 150 Men Shifting Track By Hand, January 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Culebra Cut, Culebra - Gang of 150 Men Shifting Track By Hand, January 1912. Men working on the Panama Canal project

Culebra Cut - View at Base of Gold Hill, Showing Basaltic Columns Developed By Steam Shovel, 1913
Culebra Cut - View at Base of Gold Hill, Showing Basaltic Columns Developed By Steam Shovel, Cut in March 1913. Men working on the Panama Canal project

Panama Canal, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Panama Canal, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Panama Canal, 1913. Men at work. The Panama Canal project was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken

Panama Canal, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Panama Canal, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Panama Canal, 1913. The Panama Canal project was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken

Panama Canal, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Panama Canal, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Panama Canal, 1913. The Panama Canal project was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken

Navvies embarking at the Birkenhead Docks, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Navvies embarking at the Birkenhead Docks, 1854. Manual labourers leaving Britain for the seat of war in the Crimea....the ranks of the nomadic army of shovellers are continually recruited from

'The Manchester Ship Canal, lock gates at Eastham, 1891, 1891. Creator: Charles William Wyllie
'The Manchester Ship Canal, lock gates at Eastham, 1891, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts Office, Waterloo-Road, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts Office, Waterloo-Road, 1854. After the British government requests a Civil Engineering Corps to build the Grand Crimean Central Railway, the London offices of Peto

The New Victoria Dock Works, Plaistow Marshes, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The New Victoria Dock Works, Plaistow Marshes, 1854. Expansion of the River Thames shipping trade capacity by Peto, Brassey and Betts

Navvies at the North-Western Railway Terminus, Euston-Square, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Navvies at the North-Western Railway Terminus, Euston-Square, 1854. Manual labourers leaving London for the seat of war in the Crimea....there are instances of men who have risen from the pick

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

Loading copper, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Loading copper, between c1900 and c1930

Japanese cavalry troops watching over their supplies on the beach at Chemulpo, 1904. Creator: Robert Lee Dunn
Japanese cavalry troops watching over their supplies on the beach at Chemulpo, 1904

Russian wheat warehouse, Chemulpo, c1904. Creator: Robert Lee Dunn
Russian wheat warehouse, Chemulpo, c1904. Koreans and Japanese laborers filling bags with wheat(?) at a warehouse

Group of labourers in front of a chain-link fence, between 1905-1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Group of labourers standing, posed, in front of a chain-link fence, with sacks piled behind, [Russia/Central Asia?], between 1905 and 1915. Goods wagon on the left

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

Dock in course of construction at Boulogne, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Dock in course of construction at Boulogne, [France], 1862. The entire dock, including the sluice-entrance, will cover nearly seventy English acres...the total cost...is estimated at something like

Labourers loading sacks onto railway at factory warehouse, between 1905 and 1915
Labourers loading sacks onto railway at factory warehouse, [Russia/Central Asia?], between 1905 and 1915. The sacks are probably filled with raw cotton

The Flood in the Fens: making the cofferdam, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Flood in the Fens: making the cofferdam, 1862. The hopes, mingled largely with fears, of the Marshland farmers are centred upon the gigantic cofferdam which Mr

The Great Flood in the Fens: attempt to form a dam in the middle-level drain, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Great Flood in the Fens: attempt to form a dam in the middle-level drain, 1862. The destruction of the sluice connected with the Middle-Level outfall...has been attended with the most serious

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

Laborers awaiting work at the Hill of Idleness Types of Russian working... between 1885 and 1886. Creator: Unknown
Laborers awaiting work at the Hill of Idleness Types of Russian working people at Tumen [ie, T i umen]?, between 1885 and 1886

Members of the South Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps at work by torchlight in the gardens... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Members of the South Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps at work by torchlight in the gardens of Burlington House, Piccadilly, clearing the ground for a drill-shed, 1862

Fleet-Street, deepening the sewer, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Fleet-Street, deepening the sewer, 1845. Workers improving the underground waste system in London, with Temple Bar in the distance....the difficulty of keeping open the traffic

Diving-Bell Used in the Construction of the Thames Tunnel, (c1878). Creator: Unknown
Diving-Bell Used in the Construction of the Thames Tunnel, (c1878). Diving bell being used to plug a hole in the bottom of the River Thames

Railway line near Wandsworth Station, London, 1838. Artist: JR Jobbins
Railway line near Wandsworth Station, London, 1838. View showing navvies working on the line. Possibly the Surrey Iron Railway, a narrow guage railway that opened in 1805

View of construction work at St Katherines Dock, Stepney, London, January, 1828. The docks opened in October 1828. They were the only major project to be undertaken in London by the famous engineer

Excavation work for the north pier and tidal dam at Blackfriars Bridge, London, 1864. The new Blackfriars Bridge was designed by Joseph cubitt and opened in 1869

Demolition work being carried out on Blackfriars Bridge from the Surrey shore, London, 1864. The first Blackfriars Bridge built by Robert Mylne in the 1760s was replaced by a new crossing designed by

Demolition work being carried out on Blackfriars Bridge, 1864. Artist: George Maund
Demolition work being carried out on Blackfriars Bridge, 1864. The first Blackfriars Bridge built by Robert Mylne in the 1760s was replaced by a new crossing designed by Joseph Cubitt

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