William Strickland's sketch of the wheel and flange of the Great Western Railway. The sketch shows details of the metalwork used in securing the rails. Dimensions of the various bolts and nuts are shown.
Laundry; Domestic life; Laundresses; Housework; Kettles; African Americans; Women domestics; Houses; Women
An African American woman is pictured at the back of a multi-story dwelling stirring laundry that is heating over a fire in a black iron kettle. The house, with clothes drying on the porch rails, is visibile behind her. A dinner bell is mounted...
Railroads; Railroad construction & maintenance; Construction; Embankments
A pen and ink sketch of a transverse view of an embankment on the Great Western Railway. The sketch shows Strickland's descriptions of the details used in the erection of railroad embankments.
William Strickland's sketch of the ground plan of framings used in the construction of the Great Western Railway. Strickland provides dimensions of the structural frame.
