Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
57 results
  • Italian Panama Canal construction workers (?), Juan Grande. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Panama Canal construction workers on arrival at the train station, Gorgona. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Panama Canal construction workers (American and European) dining in the Isthmian Canal Commission (I.C.C.) hotel, Culebra. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Crystal Palace during its re-erection at Sydenham, London: construction workers taking a break on site. Photograph by Philip Delamotte, ca. 1854.
  • Malaria: a construction worker receiving medical attention designed to prevent the spread of malaria. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
  • A worker in construction or in heavy manufacturing industry looking favourably at items of protective clothing; advertising the use of protective clothing in heavy industry. Colour lithograph, 1982.
  • Ditch, two months after grass burning; Panama Canal construction work. Photograph, 1910.
  • Hand-cleared ditch in a grassy field; Panama Canal construction work. Photograph, 1910.
  • The Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal construction works: looking south from east. Photograph, 1910.
  • The Culebra Cut after heavy rain: Panama Canal construction work in progress. Photograph, 1910.
  • Open earth draining of a swamp at Mount Hope; Panama Canal construction work. Photograph, 1910.
  • Menufia Canal, Egypt: reconstruction work to the first Aswan Dam: trollies bearing construction materials. Photograph by F. Fiorillo, 1910.
  • Construction work in front of Bridewell prison and the jail governors house, Edinburgh, Scotland. Steel engraving by W. Tombleson, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • Colón, Panama, before the sanitary works that were implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal: a ditch runs down the centre of a street lined with wooden houses. Photograph, 1908.
  • Colón, Panama: men construct sewers in the middle of a road lined with wooden houses, as part of a programme of sanitary work implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Colón, Panama: men construct sewers in the middle of a road lined with wooden houses, as part of a programme of sanitary work implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Colón, Panama: men construct sewers in the middle of a road lined with wooden houses, as part of a programme of sanitary work implemented during the construction of the Panama Canal. Photograph, 1910.
  • Medicina diastatica or sympatheticall mumie: containing, many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick. By the construction, extraction, transplantation and application of microcosmical & spiritual mumie. Teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, etc / Abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... Translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.
  • South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.
  • A painter on a crane, eating a meal, while a cleaner tells him to eat his food elsewhere; advertising the value of cleanliness for safety in the building trades. Colour lithograph after L. Fries, 192-.
  • The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • 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.
  • St Thomas's Hospital: when temporarily in Surrey Gardens, viewed from the ornamental lake. Wood engraving by T. H. Wilson, 1862.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: frontage during final stages of construction by Trollope & Colls, 1931. Photograph.
  • A monument within which is suspended the flayed skin of a man, with a canal system as an allegory of the circulation of blood, and other allegories of anatomy. Engraving, 1651.
  • A monument within which is suspended the flayed skin of a man, with a canal system as an allegory of the circulation of blood, and other allegories of anatomy. Engraving, 1651.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
  • Wellcome chemical works. Tabloid building