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33 Oakum Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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oakum boy king penguin asleep on beach - oakum stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Oakum boy king penguin asleep on beach

Illustration depicting a prisoner in his cell picking oakum. Dated 19th CENTURY.

A prisoner in his cell.

The tailors' and shoemakers' room at Coldbath Fields Prison in London, circa 1850. Prisoners not sentenced to hard labour are given the choice...

Coldbath Fields Prison

The Pope being carried on the gestatorial chair and oakum being burnt as the procession passes, engraving by Bernard Picart from Religious Ceremonies...

Pope being carried on the gestatorial chair

Tread-Wheel and Oakum-Shed at the City Prison, Holloway', London, 1862. From The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life by Henry Mayhew...

Tread-Wheel And Oakum-Shed At The City Prison Holloway' London 1862

Prisoners on a treadmill and picking oakum in the oakum shed at Holloway Prison, London, 1862. Oakum picking involves teasing out old tarred rope to...

Holloway Prison

Prisoner in the oakum shed at Clerkenwell Prison, London, 1874. Oakum picking involves teasing out old tarred rope to be used for caulking ships. A...

Clerkenwell Prisoners

oakum boy king penguin (aptenodytes patagonicus) with hunched back - oakum stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Oakum boy king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) with hunched back

oakum boy king penguin (aptenodytes patagonicus) sleeping on beach - oakum stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Oakum boy king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) sleeping on beach

oakum boy king penguin (aptenodytes patagonicus) looking at camera - oakum stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Oakum boy king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) looking at camera

The vessel under sail on the left of the photograph is a coasting trader of Kwang-tung build, and may be regarded as one of the clipper fleet of...

Prisoner in his cell picking oakum in am English 'local' jail. From Cassell's Saturday Journal, London, 8th December 1888.

Prisoner in his cell.

Illustration depicting the Culking of a ship's planks with Oakum. Dated 19th Century.

The Culking of a ship's planks with Oakum.

Illustration depicting the spinning of Oakum threads for caulking ships. Dated 19th Century.

The spinning of Oakum threads.

Ship Restorer rolls oakum to seal between the planks on the spar deck of the USS Constitution at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Charlestown, MA on Jun....

USS Consitution Repairs 2015

Serving of Dinner in the Oakum-Room of the Boys Prison at Tothill Fields

Serving of Dinner in the Oakum-Room of the Boys Prison at Tothill Fields

Engraving Depicting Serving of Dinner in the Oakum-Room of the Boys' Prison at Tothill Fields

Engraving Depicting Serving of Dinner in the Oakum-Room of the Boys' Prison at Tothill Fields

Caulking irons, caulking mallet and hemp fiber are seen on the board of a traditional wooden fishing vessel in an artisanal shipyard on the beach on...

Fishing Vessel Shipbuilding In Ecuador

Staff Photo by Doug Jones, Monday, May 1, 2006: Boothbay Shipyard's, Skip Colliins, pulls the oakum caulking, from between the planking of the Bounty...

Boothbay Shipyard's, Skip Colliins, pulls the oakum caulking, from between the planking of the Bount...

women prisoners picking oakum in gaol - oakum stock illustrations

Women prisoners picking oakum in gaol

Jay Whyte caulks the deck of the USS Constitution with oakum while the ship is in dry dock at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston on April 16, 1974.

USS Constitution Put Into Dry Dock In Charlestown

The oakum-shed, Clerkenwell Prison, London, 1874. Oakum is a tarred fibre used in shipbuilding. It used to be made from old tarry ropes and its...

The oakum-shed, Clerkenwell Prison, London, 1874.

Prison discipline, 1884. A Dartmoor prisoner doing solitary punishment at the crank handle. In some prisons this soul-destroying task was put to use...

Prison discipline, 1884. Artist: Anon

Chris Rowsom, director of Historic Ships in Baltimore for the Living Classroom, caulks the seams of the USS Constellation's hull with oakum. Rowsom...

Restoration project gives ship and former inmates fresh start

The Clerkenwell House Of Correction: The Oakum Shed, 1874.

The Clerkenwell House Of Correction: The Oakum Shed, 1874

Roomful of convicts teasing out old tarred rope to be used for caulking ships. The room is run under the silent-stystem at the Middlesex House of...

king penguin. oakum boy. - oakum stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

King Penguin. Oakum Boy.

The Clerkenwell House of Correction: The Oakum Shed 1874.

The Clerkenwell House of Correction: The Oakum Shed 1874

Food network and famous chef Mario Batali signs the chef's jacket of 11-year-old Caroline Oakum at Fox & Obel in Chicago, Illinois, March 10, 2007.

Food network and famous chef Mario Batali signs the chef's j

An uphull battle... The James Craig.Wanted: 50 enthusiastic young people, aged 16 upwards, for harbourside summer work. Learn old crafts and new...

An uphull battle... the James Craig.Wanted: 50 enthusiastic young people, aged 16 upwards, for harbourside summer work. Learn old crafts and new skills on historic ships and bows. Free harbour and sea trips. Lots of fun. No pay, invaluable experience.Elli

***** technical director Roger Eastwood and curator Andy Munns with the John Oxley .Wanted: 50 enthusiastic young people, aged 16 upwards, for...

***** technical director Roger Eastwood (left) and curator Andy Munns with the John Oxley (below).Wanted: 50 enthusiastic young people, aged 16 upwards, for harbourside summer work. Learn old crafts and new skills on historic ships and boats. Free harbour

Prisoner oakum-picking in his cell at Newgate Prison, London, in front of a noticeboard of rules. From the Graphic.

Oakum-Picking at Newgate

An engraving depicting the caulking of a ship's planks with oakum. Dated 19th century.

An engraving depicting the caulking of a ship's planks with oakum

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