Clay Collection (page 8)

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

ST AUSTELL - 1926
Carthew clay works, St Austell, Cornwall

Prometheus Forms Man
Prometheus forms man of clay and against the wishes of Jupiter steals fire from heaven to animate his work

Cornish Coal Lorry
Cornish coalmen unloading coal from their lorry onto a ship before it sets sail from the harbour with its cargo of China clay

Brick Making
Brick making: a wheelbarrow is used to transport moulded bricks while a pony turns a mixer to produce the clay, sand and water mixture

England / Charlestown
The small but busy harbour of Charlestown, a quaint little Cornish sea port. The local industry is devoted entirely to the shipping of china clay to all parts of the world

The tunnel from the heading
View down the second tunnel beneath the Thames. (Isambards Rotherhithe Tunnel being the first) The tunnel passes from Tower Hill to Tooley Street, near the London Bridge Station

Clay Cross Miners / Shaft
Colliers at the Clay Cross mine at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, wait at the bottom of the pit as their colleagues are hauled to the surface, 300 yards above

Costume / Dutch Fisherman
A Dutch fisherman in grey coat, fur hat and clogs, and a clay pipe in his hand

Jean Bart Smoking
JEAN BART French naval, smoking a clay pipe

Carlyle / Chelsea Moonligh
THOMAS CARLYLE Scottish philosopher and historian, enjoying a moonlit evening outside his Chelsea home

Nu Kua Shih
The goddess Nu Kua, half woman, half dragon, created the first humans out of clay. She also repaired the sky & heavens after a great battle

Man Smoking a Pipe
A portrait of Aesop, the Drunken Rhyming Cobler (sic) of Eton smoking a clay pipe

China Clay Quarry
A china clay quarry near St. Austell, Cornwall. The quarries are often 300 feet deep and a mile round the top. The clay is washed out and the white sand is separated

Polk Inaugurated 1845
James Polk, the Democratic candidate, defeats his Whig rival Henry Clay and is inaugurated as president at Washington DC

1845 NY Election Demo
The Democratic party mounts a massive demo in favor of their candidate James Polk. It pays off, and he will be elected president, defeating Henry Clay, and be a good one

1845 NY Election
Supporters of the rival candi- -dates for president confront one another in a New York street. Polk will defeat Clay and become one of the finest of American presidents

Roman home Lighting
Well-to-do Romans on special occasions light their homes with torches and bronze candelabras : more commonly, clay oil lamps are used

Prehistoric Lamp
The cave-dwellers light their caves with lamps made of clay, burning oil derived from animal fat

Jean Bart Smokes
The French admiral Jean Bart depicted smoking a long clay pipe

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