Collection
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Photograph of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and others at the Launch of the SS Great Eastern
Early 1900s print of an 1857 photograph by Robert Howlett (1831-58), of a group of men including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, on the site of the construction of the SS Great Eastern, at Millwall on the Isle of Dogs. The series of photographs by the young Howlett documenting construction of the SS Great Eastern, then the …
Photograph of the Brunels’ Rotherhithe Home
This is an albumen print of a photograph of the Brunels’ house at 26 Cow Court, immediately south of the Thames Tunnel works. The photograph has been mounted on card, with a printed portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel below. The photograph is commemorative, certainly datable to after the death of Marc Isambard Brunel in 1849, …
SS Great Eastern Stereocard
Anonymous stereocard showing the SS Great Eastern off the coast of Southampton
I.K. Brunel by the Launching Chains of the SS Great Eastern
Albumen print by Robert Howlett (1831-58)