Workmen Collection (page 10)

Laying a Macadam road surface and compacting it with a steam road roller, Paris, c1900. Workmen are wearing wooden shoes (sabots). Liebig trade card

View of the Moika River by the Imperial stables, St Petersburg, Russia, 1809. Artist: Andrej Martynoff
View of the Moika River by the Imperial stables, St Petersburg, Russia, 1809. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

Group of parisian workmen participating in the Commune, photograph. Paris Commune 1871

Flooding during the excavation of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1828 (1836). Tom, Jerry and Logic having a narrow escape as water breaks through during a visit to the Thames Tunnel workings

Flooding during the excavation of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1828 (1836). On 12 January 1828, water flooded into the workings of Marc Isambard Brunels tunnel beneath the River Thames

Tunneling shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1842
Tunneling shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1825-1843. Men at work in the tunneling shield, patented in 1818 by the tunnels designer, Marc Isambard Brunel

Construction of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1825-1843. Section of Marc Isambard Brunels tunnel showing men at work in the tunneling shield (right) while others take away spoil

Germain Sommeillers compressed air rock drill used in excavation of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, 1874
Germain Sommeillers compressed air rock drill used in the excavation of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, 1874. The Mont Cenis Tunnel was built between 1857

Construction of the St Gotthard Tunnel beneath the Alps, 1880. The tunnel was built to link Italy and Switzerland by rail

Completion of the St Gotthard Tunnel beneath the Alps, 1880. The tunnel was built to link Italy and Switzerland by rail. Workmen from the two ends of the 9 1/4 mile-long tunnel broke through the last

Casting cannon, 1751-1780. Drying clay patterns which would be used to produce a mould into which molten metal would be run. From Denis Diderots Encyclopedie. (Paris, 1751-1780)

Using bellows to increase the draught in a furnace, 1540. Woodcut showing a workman using bellows to increase the draught in a furnace for refining copper

Rule Britannia, 1882. Britannia is not sure whether or not she has jurisdiction over the proposed Channel Tunnel. From Punch, or the London Charivari, July 15, 1882

Fire and Smoke, 1871. Artist: Joseph Swain
Fire and Smoke, 1871. A Mephistophelean French communist points the way with his petrol bomb as he urges the British workman to fight with him in the cause

Corn versus Chaff, 1860. John Bull represents the agricultural worker in the heat of the day working to gather the harvest so that the people may be fed through the coming winter

How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed, 1858. A British workman in overalls and boots holds a large brush in one hand, and a handkerchief to his nose with the other

The Cottage. The man warming his hands at the fire is a rural worker. This one room has to provide living and sleeping accommodation for his wife and large family

Men standing in the cutting shield, Rotherhithe Tunnel, Stepney, London, August 1907. Front view of the shield with workmen standing in compartments where the shield partly emerged into Shaft 4

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