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Wheelbarrow Collection (page 5)

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: Barefoot girls sifting dust in a brickyard, 1871

Barefoot girls sifting dust in a brickyard, 1871. The dust was coal or a mixture of iron and coal dust. It was estimated that at this time there were between 20, 000 and 30

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: Loading up horse-drawn vans at the Wells Fargo general office, New York, USA, 1875

Loading up horse-drawn vans at the Wells Fargo general office, New York, USA, 1875. Wells Fargo & Co was founded in 1852 by Henry Wells (1805-1878) and William George Fargo (1818-1881)

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: The Good Bourgeois, 1893

The Good Bourgeois, 1893. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 20th May 1893

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: Smelting of copper, 1683

Smelting of copper, 1683
Smelting of copper: making liquation cakes by reducing copper in furnaces and alloying with lead, 1683. From an English edition of German metallurgist Lazarus Erckers Beschreibung allerfurnemisten

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: Red chalk study, c1500. Artist: Albrecht Durer

Red chalk study, c1500. Artist: Albrecht Durer
Red chalk study, c1500. Study of demonic characters. From the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: Le Plan Trochu, 1870-1871

Le Plan Trochu, 1870-1871. After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III, the Prussians surrounded Paris on 9 September 1870

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: Roasting copper ore in a furnace at C, 1556

Roasting copper ore in a furnace at C, 1556.. A are cakes of smelted copper, B wooden faggots for heating the furnace. On right a man is using wooden wheelbarrow. From De re metallica by Agricola

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: South Durham Salt Works, 1884

South Durham Salt Works, 1884. Loading crystallised salt into railway wagons. Brine would be pumped up from the borehole, purified, then crystallised

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: Blondin Outdone, 1859

Blondin Outdone, 1859. Palmerston, dressed in contemporary circus costume, wheeling a nervous looking Lord John Russell across a tightrope with Niagara Falls in the background

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: Arch of Pantani, plate thirty-seven from the Ruins of Rome, published January 17, 1797

Arch of Pantani, plate thirty-seven from the Ruins of Rome, published January 17, 1797

Background imageWheelbarrow Collection: Elinor and Lucy Llewelyn, 1853-56. Creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn

Elinor and Lucy Llewelyn, 1853-56. Creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn
Elinor and Lucy Llewelyn, 1853-56



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