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Granite Quarrymen's Huts, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

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Granite Quarrymen's Huts, 1857. Accommodation for stone-workers in Scotland. 'One of the vast natural depots is the granite quarries at Rubislaw (pronounced Robsley), within a mile of Aberdeen, which is mostly built of it, and is hence called "the Granite City". The huts represented...are such as are used by the workmen, and in wet weather are turned down...Besides these there are more substantial buildings in the quarries for the accommodation of the hands employed...There are, perhaps, about 80 to 100 men at each of the quarries, some quarriers getting, perhaps, 15s. on an average per week; others more; and there are curb and causeway stone dressers working by the piece who make sometimes 22s. per week'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_352

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NA

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

4,3Mo (482,0Ko) / 44,4cm x 41,9cm / 1258 x 1187 (72dpi)

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building work stone worker housing British color Scotland hut huts accommodation century granite Aberdeen Britain newspapers press concept quarry B&W engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century workers The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper granite quarry Unknown 19th-century