Digging Collection (page 7)

Italian postcard, infantrymens dugout, WW1
Italian postcard depicting La Casa del Fante (the home of the infantry) during the First World War. The men are lying asleep in their dugout, their spades and picks leaning up against a post

Men at Holiday Camp
Men sunbathing and digging at Physiopolis, a health club where people used to meet and holiday together. Date: 1930s

Japan - Women collecting mussels on the beach at low tide. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki - Vegetable Garden at the Agriculture School
Thessaloniki, Greece - Students at work in the vegetable garden at the Agriculture School. Date: circa 1906

Colonial Indian Troops digging trenches on the Western Front Date: circa 1915

Digging for gold in British Guiana (now Guyana). Placer washing as carried out by the tributor or Port Knocker. Date: circa 1910s

Two little children building a sandcastle at the seaside
The Childrens Paradise Two little children building a sandcastle at the seaside. Date: circa 1890s

Manganese Mine, Insuta, Gold Coast, Ghana, West Africa. Discovered in 1915 when allies were in dire need of Manganese ore

Racing Illustrated - A doubtful starter - a seaside donkey is les than keen on taking a corpulent holidaymaker for a stroll across the sand... Date: circa 1903

French sappers undermining a German trench - WWI Date: circa 1916

Pioneer Regiment entrenching in France - WWI
A Pioneer Regiment - British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks - dig trenches on the Western Front - WWI. Date: circa 1915

Dinosaur egg excavation, 1925
George Olsen showing his find of dinosaur eggs to Roy Chapman Andrews during the 1925 expedition to Mongolia by the American Museum of Natural History

Gold washing at gold mine, Sandy Point, Strait of Magellan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Bone digging, Elizabeth Island, Strait of Magellan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Piltdown cricket bat
Side view of sharpened piece of elephant thighbone, presented as a digging implement. Commonly referred to as the Piltdown cricket bat. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Baryonyx excavation, 1983
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London excavate fossils of Baryonyx walkeri from the crazy paving of blocks that hold the fossils, Surrey, England, 1983

Elderly maid digging in the garden c. 1910

Road menders and pipe layers
People You See. Road menders and pipe layers. From Teddy Bear (23 March 1968)

Pandemonium in the farm yard. A tractor has been driven into the pond and many children rush to help

Puppy on beach

Soldiers digging trenches in France. First World War

French soldiers posing with their hoes
French soldiers posing with hoes used for digging trenches in front of a train carriage. First World War

A Sly Dig by William Heath Robinson
Humorous illustration showing the unfortunate sequence of events due to the energetic trench digging by a little boy on a beach, or, as the captions reads

Excavations of Roman Fort in City of London
The site of a Roman fort, uncovered during an archaeological dig in Falcon Street, in the City of London. The fort, which was built before the ancient city wall is pictured in the shadow of

Excavating in the bombed Cripplegate area
Mr W. F. Grimes, Keeper of the London Museum (Museum of London) assisted by a volunteer, archaeological worker, Miss Adrienne Farrell, in the excavations at Monkwell Street in the City of London

World War One photos from the air
The advancing French as seen from a low-flying aeroplane: in individual trenches and moving. Aerial photographs of French soldiers in World War One on the Western front

Silhouettes of soldiers in wartime
Some of our lads -- silhouettes of soldiers in wartime. Including a piper playing the bagpipes, men standing on guard or chatting, a drummer, men carrying tools and materials for trench digging

Labor by Charles Sprague Pearce
Labor - from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. Found in the North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret digging
Princess Elizabeth of York (now Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret of York seen digging in the garden at St. Paul s, Waldenbury, Welwyn, Hertfordshire in August 1932. 1932

Ditching Tools
An impressive collection of ditching tools, leaning against a wall in Wales. Date: 1950s

British troops draining marshes, Salonika Front, WW1
British troops belonging to a Labour Battalion, trying to prevent malaria by draining marshes at Danbabali on the Salonika Front during the First World War. Date: 1917

Two British soldiers working in a ditch, WW1
Two British soldiers working in a ditch full of water during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Sappers and miners working on a tunnel, WW1
Sappers and miners working on a tunnel during the First World War. Date: 1916

Eight children mourning a dead bird

Trinidad and Tobago - Pitch Lake at La Brea Date: circa 1920s

Avalanche victim aided by St Bernards
At the Hospice du Grand Saint- Bernard (2472m), dogs are trained to rescue unfortunate travellers who lose their way in the darkness and snow on the Alpine pass

Digging the Garden
An old man digs over the vegetable patch of his walled garden. Date: 1930s

The Broken Spade
A brother consoles his sister who has broken her spade while digging too forcefully in the sand. Either that, or more likely HE broke it, and he is saying sorry... Date: 1890

Eeling in Kent / 1930S
Eel spearers at work on the marshes at Reculver, Kent, England. By digging a pronged spear into the mud, skilled eel catchers catch as many as ten pounds of eels an hour. Date: 1930s

Australia Sunday Digging
During the Gold Rush: Sunday at the diggings. Date: circa 1850

Digging Garden 1970S
A suburban housewife digging the garden. Date: 1975

Land Girl by George Ranstead
A member of the Womens Land Army during World War One is depicted in her uniform shovelling manure or soil. An impression by George Ranstead

RAF air cadet shovelling coal
Cartoon of a Royal Air Force air cadet on training at Heaton Park, Manchester, shovelling coal

Sketches in Africa - Burning Shells for Lime
Native farmers on the Mozambique coast, near the mouth of the Zambesi river pictured collecting and burning shells in order to make lime to fertilise the soil they are working

Miner working in Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner working in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

A London dust-yard
A pig rummages in a London dust-yard, while a man digs through the rubbish and women sieve the dust hoping to find things of value

The Unemployed and the Workhouse, satirical postcard
Two workmen are digging a hole outside a workhouse. A dishevelled tramp figure asks them why they are working when the workhouse would give them a home for free

Birds eye view of Culebra Cut, looking North, Panama Canal

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