Person employed in the physical work during construction

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.

St Thomas's Hospital: when temporarily in Surrey Gardens, viewed from the ornamental lake. Wood engraving by T. H. Wilson, 1862.

xix, 294 pages, 77 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm

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

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 22.4 x 17.6 cm

1 print : wood engraving ; image 20 x 22.2 cm

1 print : lithograph, with printing ink ; border 14.8 x 20.4 cm

1 photograph : photoprint, toned in brown ; sheet 36.1 x 36.1 cm

Men building Hadrian's wall, being reprimanded by a Roman centurion. Photograph after W.B. Scott.

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

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 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.

Men building Hadrian's wall, being reprimanded by a Roman centurion. Photograph after W.B. Scott.