Photograph of workmen working on a skewback (upper or sliding bedplate) on the drill roads for the Forth Bridge.

Photograph of the north viaduct girder being raised from its stone pier bases at Inchgarvie, with a caisson on the launchway in the foreground.

Photograph of two men and a boy on temporary wooden staging suspended 360 feet above the sea, riveting the thickest pieces of metal on the bridge together at the top of a cantilever.

Damaged photograph of the Fife cantilever of the Forth Bridge, looking upwards, with the massive skewback sliding base at the bottom.

Photograph showing the Forth Bridge from the south shore showing the effect of mist on the partly constructed cantilever central columns.

Photograph of a brigger's eye view from within a cantilever of a tube and platform on the Forth Bridge during construction.

Photograph of riveters at work, watched by two workers balanced on a Jubilee crane behind.

Photograph of the Fife pier with temporary platforms, cranes and several boats on the water around the pier.

The two men on the left and right of the photograph represent two piers; the stick between them represents the central girder; and the young man sitting in the middle represents the load being placed on the central girder (1885).