- An Egyptian Water-Carrier
- Part of a Telephone Exchange
- Beginning a Tunnel
Tunnels are neither so long nor so frequent upon American railways as upon those of Europe. The longest are from two to two and a half miles long, except one, the Hoosac, about four miles. Sometimes they are unavoidable. The ridge called Bergen Hill, west of Hoboken, N. J., is a case in point. This is pierced by the tunnels of the West Shore, of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western, and of the Erie, the last two of which, are placed at different levels to enable one road to pass over the other. It is by our system of using sharp curves that we avoid tunnels. It may be said, in general terms, that American engineers have shown more skill in avoiding the necessity of tunnels than could possibly be shown in constructing them. When we are obliged to use tunnels, or to make deep cuttings in rocks, our labors are greatly assisted by the use of power-drills worked by compressed air and by the use of high explosives, such as dynamite, giant powder, rend-rock, etc. Rocks can now be removed in less than half the time formerly required, when ordinary blasting-powder was used in hand-drilled holes. - Negro Smiths at Work
- The Sandwich Man
- Photographic Saloon
Photographic Saloon, East end of London - The Cook
The Cook - Plowing in Canaan
- Miners Descending a Shaft
The shaft is frequently called the miners’ tomb; and it is said that the Belgians have intentionally named it The Grave La Fosse). In some mines, so many accidents have occurred in the shaft, that the men never enter it without fear. Great improvements have been made in the mode of ascending or descending, and at the present day the apparatus is considered nearly perfect. The first improvement for the protection of men ascending and descending, was to cover the tubs with a roof, or bonnet, so that falling materials would injure nobody. Besides this, the heads of the men are shielded by hats made of sheet iron or stout leather. An indicator is kept in front of the engine man, so that he knows precisely the position of the tub; and if there are two tubs in the shaft, one ascending and the other descending, he may know when they pass on their way. In some coal mines the tubs or cages are double-decked, and some of them have four tiers or decks. - Pork Butcher
The Pork-butcher (Charcutier).--Fac-simile of a Miniature in a Charter of the Abbey of Solignac (Fourteenth Century). - The Push-cart Man
- Pin and Needle maker
Pin and Needle maker - A Shadoof for drawing water from the Nile
The term sakkieh is applied to all the apparatus for raising water, but the proper name for the Egyptian pole and bucket is shadoof. The shadoof is very ancient, as it is represented on the walls of the tombs constructed three or four thousand years ago. - Hay Carriers
Hay Carriers - Egyptian Social Types (From Tombs)
Egyptian Social Types (From Tombs) - The Poultry Dealer
The Poultry Dealer - Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes The character of Guy Fawkes-day has entirely changed. It seems now to partake rather of the nature of a London May-day. The figures have grown to be of gigantic stature, and whilst clowns, musicians, and dancers have got to accompany them in their travels through the streets, the traitor Fawkes seems to have been almost laid aside, and the festive occasion taken advantage of for the expression of any political feeling, the guy being made to represent any celebrity of the day who has for the moment offended against the opinions of the people. The kitchen-chair has been changed to the costermongers’ donkey-truck, or even vans drawn by pairs of horses. The bonfires and fireworks are seldom indulged in; the money given to the exhibitors being shared among the projectors at night, the same as if the day’s work had been occupied with acrobating - Buy a Fork or a Fire Shovel
- Flowers, penny a bunch
- Troope every one
- Wire worker
Wire worker - A Turkish 'Cavass'
The police were very civil, and the “cavass,” or police officer on duty in front of our party, kept the population from crowding us in conveniently close. The “cavass” was arrayed in gorgeous style, and a franc slipped into his hand proved a good investment; where he had before used words he now used a stick, and soon convinced the multitude that it had no rights which he or we were bound to respect. We had front places, and the fellow even brought a couple of bricks on which the lady of our party could stand and thus preserve her feet from the dampness of the earth. - Fine Large Cucumbers
- Sw-e-e-p
- New Laid Eggs
- Fine Oysters
- Sweet Lavender
- Three Rows a Penny pins
- Stinking Fish
- Fine Writeing Ink
- Dice maker
Dice maker - Letters for post
- Antique Ballads
- Ow-oo
- All a blowin
- Curds and Whey
- The Butcher
The Butcher - Past one c'clock, an' a fine morning
- Fresh Cabbidge
- I love a ballad in print
- Six bunches a penny, sweet bloomin Lavender
- "Buy a fine Singing Bird?"
- Large silver eels
- Fresh and sweet
- Tiddy Diddy Doll
- Cabbages O Turnips
- Goldbeater
Goldbeater - Any Earthen Ware, buy a jug or a tea pot
- Sixpence a pound, Fair Cherryes
- Young lambs to sell
- Dust, O
- Shoe maker
Shoe maker - Chairs to mend
- Buy my sweet Roses
- O' clo
- Great News
- Songs, penny a sheet
- Sand 'O
- Milk below, Maids
- Buy a Live Goose