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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
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)
The Good Bourgeois, 1893. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 20th May 1893
Smelting of copper, 1683Smelting 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
Red chalk study, c1500. Artist: Albrecht DurerRed chalk study, c1500. Study of demonic characters. From the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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
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
South Durham Salt Works, 1884. Loading crystallised salt into railway wagons. Brine would be pumped up from the borehole, purified, then crystallised
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
Arch of Pantani, plate thirty-seven from the Ruins of Rome, published January 17, 1797
Elinor and Lucy Llewelyn, 1853-56. Creator: John Dillwyn LlewelynElinor and Lucy Llewelyn, 1853-56