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Here we have an allegedly c. 1855 construction photograph described as follows:

• Building Site. A construction site A photograph of a construction site with part of a steam engine, taken by Samuel Smith (1802-1892) in about 1855.

Some of the things we see are the ones missing in those horse/buggy construction photographs we normally run into. In my opinion things have to be exactly the other way around. Meaning a lot of equipment, and occasional horses.

Anyways, if you see anything worth commenting in this c. 1855 photograph, please share.

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[DanFromMN]

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Username: DanfromMN
Date: 2020-06-08 12:41:24
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That crane up top in the back seems to be on a track. Interesting.
Gantry crane - Wikipedia

That thing looks enormous. I wonder what they used to set it up?

Gantry or overhead cranes were invented in 1876... so your photo is probably fake. Cause, you know, wikipedia is always right. /sarcasm
Overhead crane - Wikipedia

Thank you Sampson Moore! Your violin collection is awesome!
Sampson Moore - Wikipedia

 

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Username: tsims101
Date: 2020-06-08 14:15:13
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Surely its a demolition site not construction?

Looks like they are taking apart a fallen building, and that steam engine is buggered beyond repair.

Do you think?

 

[Revelinmusic]

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Username: revelinmusic
Date: 2020-06-09 10:24:11
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You can just tell it is not a construction site by the unevenly shaped large blocks in the front of the picture.
Look at the staining of the columns or the metal that is supposed to hold the building up. It looks rusted.
Its a photograph of a clean up of a mess of an old factory maybe.
Yes. That track is used to transport heavy objects. I have seen that type of railing on the bottom of a beam.
Now it is becoming more clear to me at what I am looking at.
Left in the photo is columns. If you look carefully you can see wheels.
This is the same for the right side.
The beam in the middle slide back and forth.
And the object in the middle is to pick up objects.
Possibly an assembly line.
Now why to add this lifting mechanism that is used in industrial assembly areas before building walls of a building?
I don't know why. Wait...
Then this is not a construction photograph.
Another clue look at the stone brick chimneys. on the right of the picture.
Most like this area used to be a factory/industrial area.
Maybe producing steam engines. I am not certain.
Also the building in the middle of the picture, that triangular shack could be just built as you know on modern construction sites,
how there is a little portable building for the engineers to work right?
That could be a little shack for the clean up crew, or something that was built after to house an object.
Way back in the picture is some lines that I cannot make out what it exactly it with certainty.
Maybe power lines, but don't trust me on that statement.
Oh yeah, you would need electric power or some type of power to power that device.
I don't want to haul heavy metal parts vertically up without some kind of machine assistance.
I have not looked at wikipedia/official history for a long time so I did not realize how F*** up the official narrative is until I looked up wikipedia on electricity generation, and I was surprised.
The biggest sign of this not being a construction site are those rusted metal beams.

Wikipedia:
"Commercial electricity production started in 1870 with the coupling of the dynamo to the hydraulic turbine"

Well if this photo is from 1855 then, "Houston, we have a problem",

Distortion of the Truth. Case closed.

 

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Username: Tazx55
Date: 2020-06-09 10:56:31
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Yes like everything else about history. Lies, lies and more lies.
The PTB are really stupid to think that normal everyday people, let alone those that are awake will not see this and figure it out.

 

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Username: jd755
Date: 2020-06-09 12:30:04
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From the op site;
Samuel Smith was a successful timber merchant who moved to Wisbech in Cambridgeshire in the late 1840s when he retired from business.

This suggests to me he may have photographed his timber yard or someone else's & it has been mis-titled.
The crane is running atop wooden columns which suggests it is itself made of wood, although steel is a possibility, & is in actual fact a chain pulley crane operated from the ground by a man. Its not lifting things to a great height which again suggests moving uncut logs & timber about. The lifting again being done by chain pulley.
There is a stack of wood bottom left which further suggests it's a timber yard.

 

[igneous]

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Username: igneous
Date: 2020-06-09 12:37:30
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I went on a Samuel Smith Search last night and he took a lot of photographs of Wisbech, UK. I'll put some at the bottom for you to see; they look like they may have been taken around the same time.

He took a lot of pictures of trains and working areas but I was unable to re-locate this particular spot through other pictures or by going through books!

Am also putting a link to a nice little site that has some of S.S. photos of Wisbech . . . check out the octagonal building towards the bottom of the page of this site.

Wisbech - 1850s photos


Photos by Samuel Smith:

 

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Username: jd755
Date: 2020-06-09 12:43:29
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Here's the zoomable versions Samuel Smith | Science Museum Group Collection

Here's another photo showing a gantry for moving timber & logs from boat to yard.