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Construction workers

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  • A street scene with building work going on: an old man holds his cap out to a well-dressed man who refuses to help him. Lithograph by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: frontage during final stages of construction by Trollope & Colls, 1931. Photograph.
  • The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.
  • A painter on a crane, eating a meal, while a cleaner tells him to eat his food elsewhere; advertising the value of cleanliness for safety in the building trades. Colour lithograph after L. Fries, 192-.
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Catalogue

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    Pugin's builder : the life and work of George Myers / Patricia Spencer-Silver.

    Spencer-Silver, Patricia. | Date: 1993
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    A street scene with building work going on: an old man holds his cap out to a well-dressed man who refuses to help him. Lithograph by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé.

    Bellangé, H. (Hippolyte), 1800-1866. | Date: [1824] | Reference: 32192i
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    The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.

    Sheeres, Charles William. | Date: 1855 | Reference: 38459i
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    • Online

    South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.

    | Date: 1862 | Reference: 18552i
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    Men building Hadrian's wall, being reprimanded by a Roman centurion. Photograph after W.B. Scott.

    Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890. | Date: [19--?] | Reference: 3154415i
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