Digging Collection (page 8)

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

Hydraulic drills at work on Culebra Cut, Panama Canal

An angle in the Canal at Empire, Panama Canal

Panama Canal
Location for permanent docks at Balboa, Panama Canal

Archaeological excavations, Roman Forum, Rome, Italy

Excavated Roman buildings, Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy
View of some excavated Roman buildings on the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy

Sand bags WWII
Mrs. Storer and family stop to watch excavators at work in Hyde Park, London, digging earth for sand bags during World War II

St. Quentin-Busigny Line 1918
Soldiers working on the embankment of the St. Quentin-Busigny Line crater on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1918

Digging trenches
British soldiers digging reserve trenches in Oudezeele Nord on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 1st June 1918

Workmen digging in the cellar of Borley Rectory
Undated photograph of workmen digging in the cellar of Borley Rectory. HPG/1/3/7 (vii)

Construction workers in Kashgar, western China
Construction workers with a lorry in a street in Kashgar, western China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Dug in - D-Day - Machine Gun Team
A British machine gun team dug in on a Normandy beach during the assault phase of Operation Overlord - the allied D-Day landings in France on 6th June 1944

Trench digging 1916
Excavating machine for digging trenches near Grivillers, Somme on the French front during World War I in June 1916

To The Rescue by William Heath Robinson
Sequential cartoon by William Heath Robinson with the first picture showing a policeman directing a large army of helpers towards a top hat and gloves lying forlornly in the snow

Home Defence, World War I
Home Defence, Wandsworth Battalion digging trenches on Wandsworth Common during World War I in August 1917

Seaside scene - Turn of the Century
A seaside/holiday scene from the turn of the 19th/20th century. Children play in the sand and in the surf while elegantly dressed parents promenade

America, San Francisco. Gold-Washing at the Diggings
Engraving of two men engaged in digging for gold and sifting the ore in a cradle, washing the silt away from the crystals of gold in the river

British soldiers building a trench by joining shell craters
A photograph of British soldiers digging a trench by linking craters left by artillery bombardment, September 1916

Wearing respirators in a trench
Photograph of British soldiers wearing respirators while digging a trench to guard against fumes from bursting shells. The Germans first used poison gas at Ypres on 22nd April 1915

Excavated houses unearthed at Herculaneum
An ancient Roman town unearthed beneath thirty feet of solidified mud from the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D

Dry digging, Turon gold fields, Australia
Dry digging on the Turon, a sketch from the Turon gold fields, New South Wales. This proved to have the richest finds on the river yielding approximately 400 ounces

Roman Antiquities
A group of Roman vases and utensils discovered in Barrow-on-Soar near Leicester. Skeletons were also discovered by labourers digging for limestone

Seasons / June / Potatoes
Digging up potatoes

Early Stonehenge Drawing
A wonderful early drawing of Stonehenge, not too over-elaborate in detail, and showing some early 17th century archaeologists and the bones that are digged up !

Gardening Tasks
Digging - Hotbed - Dibbling - Pruning and nailing - Grafting - Raking - Edging - Tying up

Tunisia / Carthage / Excav
Treasure-hunting excavations at the site of Ancient Carthage

The First Sand Castle by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a red dress and a white bonnetto protect her from the sun, building her first sandcastle

Chichen Itza / Chaacmol
At Chichen Itza (site on the Yucatan Peninsula) Archaeologist August Le Plongeon and his wife pose with a colossal statue of Chaacmol, leader of the Itzaes

Albert I / Belgium / Pj 1914
King Albert of Belgium, along with senior army officers, dig trenches, keen to play their part in defending their country against the German forces

Digging a Rail Cutting
The construction of the Tring Cutting. Railway navvies dig out the earth and rock by hand with the spoil lifted up to the top of the bank by horse- powered winches

Spot of Gardening
This dependable looking chap partakes of a spot of gardening and what better to keep his chest warm than this knitted two-tone waistcoat using basket weave stitch

Poes the Gold Bug
THE GOLD BUG We dug steadily for two hours ; the treasure is discovered

Costume / Navvy
A London navvy wearing a white smock, peaked cap & stout boots, smokes his pipe as he digs a ditch. A lantern alerts passersby to mind the hole

Dante / Tomb / Ravenna / Ils
DANTE ALIGHIERI Italian poets remains discovered at Ravenna

Moscow Trenches Made
Approximately half a million Muscovites take part in the digging of anti-tank ditches around Moscow

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