Timber Collection (page 4)

English oak, black variety, Quercus robur nigra. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Workers building the Dutch fortress at Batavia, now Jakarta, Indonesia. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Plants of Sri Lanka: tamarind 1, sago palm 2, cassia 3 and teak 4. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Native Americans of Paraguay converted by Jesuits shown wearing clothes, plowing the land, spinning yarn, and living in a timber house with a shrine to the Virgin Mary and Jesus

Sessile oak, Quercus petraea (Durmast oak, Quercus sessiliflora). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Common British oak tree, Quercus robur. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Box tree, Buxus sempervirens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Sawyers cutting timber into planks with a large saw in a saw-pit. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810

Timber rattlesnake and water snake
Timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus 1, tail rattle 3, and water snake, Muraena pinnis adiposis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Ceylon satinwood and cashew nut trees
Ceylon satinwood, Chloroxylon swietenia, vulnerable 1, and cashew nut, Anacardium occidentale 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Greenheart, Chlorocardium rodiei (Nectandra rodioei). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London

Rustic Bridge, Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire. circa 1900

Discharging a cargo
Illustration of timber being lifted from cargo ship. Artist: Otto Arpke (1886-1943) Date: 1935

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthplace, Portland, Maine, USA
Birthplace of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1915

Adverts, Lees, Anderson & Co, Lawson & Co, Scotland
Adverts for Lees, Anderson & Co, Engineers, Boilermakers and Shipbuilders, Govan, and Lawson & Co, building contractors, merchants, etc, Park Saw Mills, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Adverts, Brownlee & Co, J & R Tennent Limited, Scotland
Adverts for Brownlee & Co Limited, Timber Merchants, Glasgow, and J & R Tennent Limited, Brewers, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Advert, Brownlee & Co, Timber Merchants, Glasgow
Advert for Brownlee & Co, Timber Merchants and Saw Millers, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Metropolitan Extension under construction 1864
Metropolitan Extension Railway under construction at Smithfield, London. 1864

Astronomer looking at the sky from an attic room. Date: circa 1860s

Milkmaid on a donkey, Normandy, Northern France
Milkmaid sitting on a donkey, doing her deliveries in Caudebec-en-Caux, Normandy, Northern France. Date: 1922

Woodcutter at work, Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France
Woodcutter at work in the hunting forest at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, near the famous Chateau de Chambord, built for King Francis I in the 16th century. Date: 1922

Peasants crossing a stream on horseback, Finland. Date: 1922

Court in the Kings Palace, Bhutan, South Asia. It has typically massive timberwork. The troughs in the middle are royal baths, used medicinally. Date: 1922

St Catherines Church, Canvey Island, Essex. Date: early 20th century

Torrence Avenue, South Deering, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Torrence Avenue, South Deering, on the far South Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1908

St Lukes Catholic Church, Ogallala, Nebraska, USA
St Lukes Catholic Church and rectory, Ogallala, Nebraska, USA. Date: 1910s

Mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, dating back to 1807. circa 1938

Flatford Mill, Suffolk, a Grade I listed watermill on the River Stour. Date: 1930

Construction of the new bridge : part of the platform for depositing materials. Date: 1855

A medieval covered staircase, part of Lord Leycesters Hospital Warwick, England. Built during the reign of Henry VI, it has a 14th century chapel. Date: 14th century

Bennington, Hertfordshire, England, a very charming village in a rural corner of the county. Date: 1950s

The Library, Durham Cathedral, famous for its beautiful timber roof. The cathedral was built between 1093 and 1133, Co Durham, England. Date: 1950s

Elephant lifting wooden logs - Rangoon, Burma
circa 1910s

Mangrove bark store built - Picault Island, Aldabra Group
Store being built for drying mangrove bark at Picault Island, part of the Aldabra Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1

INDUSTRIAL WINDMILL
A windmill in the Glacier National Park which gives power to a sawmill used by Native American Indians to cut the timber felled from the mountainside, USA. Date: 1940s

GERMAN TIMBER INDUSTRY
A lumbering team make their way back from the Black Forest, Germany, the horses pulling a heavy cart full of timber. Date: 1930s

AUSTRALIAN LUMBER WAGONS
A convoy of lumber wagons, drawn by cattle, crossing a river in Queensland, Australia. Date: 1930s

HAULING WOOD, MINNESOTA
hauling wood in Minnesota. This enormous stack of logs is piled (how, one wonders ?) onto a sledge which is dragged over the ice by a team of four horses. Date: 1893

Fleet Street - 1930s
A rich gentleman crosses Fleet Street outside Prince Henrys Room, one of the few timber- framed buildings (dating from the 1600s) still in existence in London Date: 1930s

LOADING A BIG BEAM
Loading a large beam of wood onto a cart. Date: circa 1810

WOODCUTTERS CHOP LOGS
Woodcutters chop up trees into logs. Date: circa 1810

WOODCUTTERS SAW A LOG
Woodcutters saw a log. Date: circa 1810

WOODMAN & DOG IN SNOW WOODMAN & DOG IN SNOW
A woodman walks through the snow with his dog and an axe under his arm. Date: 1865

USA / MISSISSIPPI RIVER
The violent tributaries of the Mississippi River. Date: mid 19th century

17th Century Woodcutter
An early woodcutter Date: 17th century

WILLIAM LOWNDES TOLLER FOY - Timber dealer and businessman. Date: 1911

Oil cars at shipping station, Bakersfield, Kern County, USA
Oil cars at Southern Pacific shipping station, Bakersfield, Kern County, USA. Date: circa 1910s

A forester cuts logs with a chain saw during tree felling opertations in Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England. Date: 1991

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