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Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Adzing and Planing Machinery, 1850. Creator: Unknown

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Adzing and Planing Machinery, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Adzing and Planing Machinery, 1850. The machinery requisite for this twofold operation is fixed on a long deal bench, breast-high from the floor

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Cutting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Cutting Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Circular Cutting Machine, 1850. The timbers to be planed by the machine are placed on the top of a traversing stage

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Sash-Bar Finishing Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Sash-Bar Finishing Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the Sash-Bar Finishing Machine, 1850. As in every other part of the works the utmost skill is displayed with regard to economising power

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Glazing Wagon, 1850. Creator: Unknown

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Glazing Wagon, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Glazing Wagon, 1850. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Sash-Bar Machine, for the Great Exhibition Building, in Hyde Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown

The Sash-Bar Machine, for the Great Exhibition Building, in Hyde Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Sash-Bar Machine, for the Great Exhibition Building, in Hyde Park, 1850....we find a communication from Mr. Paxton on this subject, dated 13th March, 1840, in which he says that

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of the Building in Hyde Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of the Building in Hyde Park, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of the Building in Hyde Park, 1850. The progress of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition, next year

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Fallen Railway Arches in Copenhagen-Fields, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Visit of...Prince Albert to the Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park... 1850. Creator: Unknown

Visit of...Prince Albert to the Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park... 1850. Creator: Unknown
Visit of His Royal Highness Prince Albert to the Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - the "Parting Cheer", 1850

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 1850

Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 1850. Owing to the clearness of the water, and the gradual declivity of the shore

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Stock Sound, 1940. Creator: Eric Hallstrom

Stock Sound, 1940. Creator: Eric Hallstrom
Stock Sound, 1940. Two workers carry out street work in a wintry Stocksund, outside Stockholm

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Workmen laying track, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown

Workmen laying track, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown
Workmen laying track, between c1900 and 1927

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Workmen from cannery at King's Cove, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown

Workmen from cannery at King's Cove, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Workmen from cannery at King's Cove, between c1900 and 1916

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Natives, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown

Natives, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Natives, between c1900 and 1916. Group portrait of six men and one boy standing in front of a corrugated tin building, Tanana(?), Alaska

Background imageWorking Man Collection: A Bridge 6 Sazhens Long. Kedrovsko-Borodavskaia Road, 1906-1908

A Bridge 6 Sazhens Long. Kedrovsko-Borodavskaia Road, 1906-1908. Creator: Dorozhno-Stroitel'nyi Otdel
A Bridge 6 Sazhens Long. Kedrovsko-Borodavskaia Road, 1906-1908. Photographs documenting various stages in the construction of dirt roads in the Tomsk region by workers

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Man using tool to strip logs, Central Asia?, between 1905 and 1915

Man using tool to strip logs, Central Asia?, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Man using tool to strip logs, Central Asia?, between 1905 and 1915. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Demolition of Hungerford Market to make room for the Charing-Cross Railway Station, 1862

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Commencement of the Thames Embankment: driving the first pile... 1862. Creator: Unknown

Commencement of the Thames Embankment: driving the first pile... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Commencement of the Thames Embankment: driving the first pile in front of the Duke of Buccleuch's mansion, [London], 1862

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Inundation in the Fens: the syphon dam of the middle-level drain, 1862. Creator: Unknown

The Inundation in the Fens: the syphon dam of the middle-level drain, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Inundation in the Fens: the syphon dam of the middle-level drain, 1862. The employment of the syphon is quite a novel feature in the history of drainage. Should the experiment now devised by Mr

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Carpenter, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky

Carpenter, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Carpenter, Samarkand, between 1905 and 1915. Man shaving bark from a length of timber. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100... 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100... 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100 pounders, 1862. In viewing the manner in which the work is carried out in the various branches of the Royal

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the guns at the proof-butts, 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the guns at the proof-butts, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the guns at the proof-butts, 1862.... to fire a piece of ordnance...by the ordinary method of a man pulling a friction-tube while others are

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: finish-turning a 100-pounder, 1862. The gun, being now completely built up, is carried to a lathe for the purpose of being finish-turned

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: the beehive, 1862. This is the upper floor of a two-storied building upwards of 200ft. in length and 60ft

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Progress of the International Exhibition Building: the Western Annexe, for machinery, 1862

Progress of the International Exhibition Building: the Western Annexe, for machinery, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Progress of the International Exhibition Building: the Western Annexe, for machinery, 1862. The International Exhibition of 1862 was a world's fair held from 1 May to 1 November 1862 in South

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. Creator: W Thomas

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Background imageWorking Man Collection: The Metropolitan Railway and the Fleet Ditch, 1862. Creator: JM Williams

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the... 1862

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the... 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the bars previous to coiling, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Progress of the International Exhibition building: the forge, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Progress of the International Exhibition building: the forge, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Progress of the International Exhibition building: the forge, [London], 1862. View of...a portion of the works going on at the building for the Great Exhibition which is well calculated to give an

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Progress of the International Exhibition building: finial of the Eastern Dome, 1862

Progress of the International Exhibition building: finial of the Eastern Dome, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Progress of the International Exhibition building: finial of the Eastern Dome, [South Kensington, London], 1862. A ceremony something in the nature of a coronation has taken place...by the erection

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Members of the South Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps at work by torchlight in the gardens... 1862

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

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Progress of the International Exhibition Building: Night effect of the Western Dome... 1862

Progress of the International Exhibition Building: Night effect of the Western Dome... 1862. Creator: M Jackson
Progress of the International Exhibition Building: Night effect of the Western Dome, seen from the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, [Kensington, London], 1862

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Casting a monster cylinder for Her Majesty's armour-plated frigate Agincourt at Maudslay... 1862

Casting a monster cylinder for Her Majesty's armour-plated frigate Agincourt at Maudslay... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Casting a monster cylinder for Her Majesty's armour-plated frigate Agincourt at the foundry of Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Westminster-road, London, 1862

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Poem by Ise, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu

Poem by Ise, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), ca. 1835

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Man in Top Hat Holding a Hammer and Wrench, 1860s- early 70s. Creator: Unknown

Man in Top Hat Holding a Hammer and Wrench, 1860s- early 70s. Creator: Unknown
Man in Top Hat Holding a Hammer and Wrench, 1860s- early 70s

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Interior of the old workshop at Hellebæk, 1859. Creator: Constantin Hansen

Interior of the old workshop at Hellebæk, 1859. Creator: Constantin Hansen
Interior of the old workshop at Hellebaek, 1859

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Wooden box industry - Mrs. Graham inspecting log on machinery with two workmen standing by, c1910

Wooden box industry - Mrs. Graham inspecting log on machinery with two workmen standing by, c1910

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Plaster Cast Figurine, c. 1940. Creator: Austin L. Davison

Plaster Cast Figurine, c. 1940. Creator: Austin L. Davison
Plaster Cast Figurine, c. 1940

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Government truck, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks

Government truck, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Government truck

Background imageWorking Man Collection: City sanitation workman washing streets at Fulton fish market, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks

City sanitation workman washing streets at Fulton fish market, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
City sanitation workman washing streets at Fulton fish market. New York, New York

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Dock stevedores packing and icing fish at the Fulton fish market, New York, 1943

Dock stevedores packing and icing fish at the Fulton fish market, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. Dock stevedores packing and icing fish at the Fulton fish market

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Loading debris from wrecked buildings on Independence Avenue, Washington, D. C, 1942

Loading debris from wrecked buildings on Independence Avenue, Washington, D. C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Loading debris from wrecked buildings on Independence Avenue

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Construction workman wrecking a church on Independence Avenue, Washington, D. C, 1942

Construction workman wrecking a church on Independence Avenue, Washington, D. C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Construction workman wrecking a church on Independence Avenue

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Construction workman, Washington, D. C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks

Construction workman, Washington, D. C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Construction workman

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Possibly: Preparing the ground for the construction of emergency buildings

Possibly: Preparing the ground for the construction of emergency buildings
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Washington, D.C. Preparing the ground for the construction of emergency buildings on Independence Avenue]

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Late evening scene at the Fulton fish market, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks

Late evening scene at the Fulton fish market, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. Late evening scene at the Fulton fish market

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Workmen from the sanitary department flushing the street in front of the Fulton... New York, 1943

Workmen from the sanitary department flushing the street in front of the Fulton... New York, 1943
New York, New York. Workmen from the sanitary department flushing the street in front of the Fulton fish market late in the evening

Background imageWorking Man Collection: Building plank tobacco barn to replace old log one, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Building plank tobacco barn to replace old log one, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1939 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Building plank tobacco barn to replace old log one. Building takes approximately one week, this barn can be built for one hundred dollars. The average life of a barn is fifteen to twenty years



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