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Docks

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  • Archangel: (above) two reindeer harnessed to a sledge which a boy is driving; (below) ship building docks and ferry. Etching.
  • Civil engineering: sections of various dock walls. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being lifted off a hospital ship and carried away on stretchers. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. de Haenen after J. Bruton.
  • Canton, China: Canton City from the river with boats and junks in the foreground. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • Malta: view of Grand Harbour and buildings along Barriera wharf towards Fort Lascaris and Upper Barrakka. Photograph by H. Agius, c. 1881.
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    Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, on the left, viewed from afar with many ships in the foreground, on the right the Royal Dockyard on the Isle of Dogs. Engraving.

    | Reference: 34484i
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    Ships at anchor in a Flemish port. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1746, after David Teniers.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Date: [1746] | Reference: 3064078i
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    A funeral procession of politicians bearing the coffin of the 1765 Stamp Act to its tomb in the docks where American trade was carried out. Etching after B. Wilson, 1766.

    Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788. | Date: [1766] | Reference: 2475206i
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    Fairbairn's wrought iron tubular crane.

    | Date: January 31st 1852 | Reference: 46114i
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    Two pictures: a man sits by an empty barrel; a hooka and other smoking accessories. Wood-engravings.

    | Reference: 25019i
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