Soil Collection (#5)

Water Extraction
Roadworks for extracting water from high level sandy soil, Britain. Date: 1960s

Sunbathing & Working
Two men and a woman pushing a truck full of soil on rails whilst sunbathing at Physiopolis, a health club and holiday camp. Date: 1930s

The D-Day Landings - 6th June 1944 - General de Gaulle - WW2
WW2 - The D-Day Landings - Operation Overlord - Normandy, France, 6th June 1944 - General de Gaulle surveys the beaches. Date: 1944

Spring, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people planting in a garden, tilling the soil, minding the lambs and gathering spring flowers

Bacillus sp. bacteria
Bacteria are the most diverse and ubiquitous soil organisms present on Earth

Lumbricus terrestris, earthworm
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing the chaeta/setae - involved in the locomotion on an earthworm

Partially fusion-crusted stone
A 294g (10oz) partially fusion crusted stone from the Camel Donga eucrite strewn field. The orange/brown staining on the black, fusion crusted surface is staining from the local soil

on train to Sin Taung - Kalaw
On train to Sin Taung - Kalaw - Water buffalo ploughing. Much of the upland type of farming is responsible for the prevalent erosion = jungle burned back, top soil farmed away in rice, corn

Badlands National Monument - South Dakota - A weird dead area seemingly a propos of nothing at all. Amost a faded negative of Bryce Canyon, pinnacles eroded out of the soft grey soil

Loosening carrots from soil with plow before pulling in order to prevent breaking, near Santa Maria, Texas. Date 1939 Feb

Chalk Soil Ploughing
A fine example of deep ploughing on chalk soil, for the planting of conifers, near Bryants Puddle, Dorset, England. Date: 1950s

Three Arab Gardeners - Morocco Date: circa 1910s

Clay Soil Furrows
Clay soil furrows. Date: 1960s

Good Ploughed Soil
The good, freshly ploughed soil of England. 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

Grave in a shell hole, Belgium, WW1
A Belgian grave in a shell hole, with a makeshift cross, Belgium, during the First World War. A human hand appears to be sticking out of the soil. Date: 20 November 1914

British field hospital marquee, Salonika, WW1
Greek workmen spreading mud on a British field hospital marquee to camouflage it from enemy aircraft at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

Ploughing with a horse team
A team of two heavy horses plough the upslope of an English farmers field, with spectacular rolling countryside disappearing away to a distant horizon. circa 1950s

Frensham Common Heather
Heather is spread wide on the sandy soil of the common at Frensham, Surrey, England. Date: 1906

British Landing Repulsed
A British attempt to land troops on American soil is repulsed by American shore defences Date: 1812

Ploughing, Canada
Five teams of horses pull their ploughs through the Manitoba soil Date: 1890s

Navvies building a new railway line, UK
Navvies building a new railway line at an unidentified location in the UK. A station building can be seen in the top right

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

Tilling a Land Leaguers farm
Local people till the soil on a farm owned by an imprisoned Irish Land League supporter

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

Man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry
A man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry

Sewer Construction under London, 1910
Illustration showing the construction of a sewer from Belgrave Square to Barking, under London, in 1910. On the right of the image is the Greathead Shield

Views of St. Pauls Cathedral, London, 1913
Illustrations and photograph of St. Pauls Cathedral, London, in 1913 when it was felt that the building was suffering from subsidence

Viking Raiders on Coast
Viking raiders slay and rob on English soil Date: 800 - 1000

Lady with Sunshade
She perches on a balustrade, taking care not to soil her crepe chemisier by Premet

De Gaulle Back in France
De Gaulle sets foot on French soil again, liberated by the Free French (with a little help from the Americans, British and other Allies...)

Maypole Dye Ca 1900
Three little girls use MAYPOLE SOAP to dye their clothes - Dyes any color [sic] - does not soil the hands

Twin puppies burrow into rabbit hole
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, try to make the rabbit hole bigger so that they can get through it

Italians in the Alps
France : Italian troops occupy Traversetta, a French frontier post in the Alps : up goes the Italian flag on French soil - Viva Italia ! Viva il Duce !

Americans Land / Japan
Americans triumphant, land on Japanese soil near Tokyo

Old Yokel Gardener
A rustic gardener with rolled up shirt sleeves, digging in heavy soil

Building Trestle Viaduct
Building a trestle bridge : once the woodwork has been completed, soil and rock are washed down onto the lower levels, giving it a solid base

The Culebra Cutting
The American operation : this scene at the Culebra cutting gives some idea of the vast quantity of rock and soil which has to be removed

How to Drink Sewage
How people drink sewage - it leaves the house, soaks into the soil and enters the well from which people pump their drinking water

London Nightmen (Mayhew)
LONDON NIGHTMEN

Leaning Towers / Bologna
The Asinelli Tower (l) and Garisenda Tower (r) with their distinctive lean caused by subsidence of soil and foundation. Both towers were built in the 12th century

Liebig / Cotton 1
Breaking the soil in Africa for cotton cultivation

Police & Footprint
Investigating a robbery, a policeman finds a clue : a footprint in a flower-bed

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