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A Brewhouse, 1747. Designed and engraved for the Universal Magazine, (January 1747). Hand-coloured later
Punishment of Prostitutes in Switzerland, c18th century. Dragging the Scavengers Cart. Women shovel manure into a cart
The Great Plague of 1665, (c1850). The London plague of 1665 was also known as The Black Death. Colour plate from Pictures of English History, George Routledge & Sons, (London, New York, c1850)
The Hills and Fort of Douaumont, Verdun, France, 18 March 1916, (1926). Douaumont was the site of one of the network of forts built around the city of Verdun
Royal Engineers, c1890. Artist: Geoffrey Douglas GilesRoyal Engineers, c1890. A coloured lithographic plate from Her Majestys Army by Walter Richards, JS Virtue & Company, (London, c1890)
Sand O, St Giless Church, London, 1805. A copper plate representing the itinerant traders of London, from Modern London; Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis
In China, Incident between Russians and English, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 7th April 1901
Inside a Cheshire salt mine, 1889. Miners are gathering loose rock salt after blasting, and loading it into a horse-drawn tub for hoisting to the surface
Women washing the precious metal platinum from alluvial gravels, Urals, Russia, 1916
The coal miner carrying his tools and safety his lamp, 1890. From Mining and Ore Dressing Machinery. (London, 1890)
Bulking tea in the warehouses of the East & West India Dock Company, London, 1874. Bulking was a process necessary especially with Indian tea
Surfacing a road with granite setts, Paris, c1900. Liebig trade card
Laying a Macadam road surface and compacting it with a steam road roller, Paris, c1900. Workmen are wearing wooden shoes (sabots). Liebig trade card
Laying sleepers and rails (permanent way) on the Transvaal Railway, South Africa, 1893
A Sub-Lime Character, early 19th century. A building labourer carrying a hod of mortar
Miners washing for gold in the Californian gold fields, 1853. The apparatus they are using is called a Long Tom. The discovery of gold in 1848 led to mass immigration into California
Mining prospector in the Californian gold fields, 1853. The discovery of gold in 1848 led to mass immigration into California
Gold mining, California, USA, c1868. Miners using a hydraulic method invented in California, washing down gold-bearing ore with a jet of water
The Californian Balloon Railway, a novel way of travelling to the Californian Gold Rush, 1849. A prospector riding on the back of a large bird, flying towards California
Clearing snow on the Champs Elysees, German-occupied Paris, winter, 1941
Coal delivery, 1860. A footman collecting a scuttle of coal from the cellar under the pavement at the very moment when the coalman shoots a sack of coal from Newcastle through the manhole in
Basuto miners in De Beers diamond mines, Kimberley, South Africa, c1885. In 1887 and 1888 Cecil Rhodes amalgamated the diamond mines around Kimberley, which included De Beers, into Consolidated Mines
