Pick Axe Collection

Female Lumberjacks
Two young women, female lumberjacks, chopping wood with huge axes on a college farm in Finchley, north London, England

Rasselas and Imlac digging a tunnel
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, together with his companion, the wise man Imlac, digging a tunnel in order to escape the Happy Valley and see what life is like beyond it

Fossil trees in coal mine
Fossilised trees and plants found in a coal mine. Date: C.1870

Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of quarrying (probably granite) at Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Weapons, clothes, tomb and boat of the Chukchi
Pick-axe made with a walrus tusk, stone hatchet of Alaska, wooden instrument with claws used by the Chukchi people to hunt walrus, tomb of the Unalaskans, and baidar (boat)

Quarrymans Tools 18th C
Various tools including pickaxes and hammers, used by quarriers in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Pioneer Sergeant - The Scots Guards
Pioneer Sergeant of The Scots Guards. In 1831 bearskins were issued but the regiment was forced to adopt the title Scots Fusilier Guards as a reason to wear them

German recruitment poster designed by Lucian Zabel: Pioniere heraus! A German soldier carries a shovel, pickaxe and rifle, prepared for every eventuality

Garden tools used by the Royal children. 3 Swiss Cottage, Osborne

Gardening Equipment 18Th
Various gardening tools from the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

French poster, nationalisation of mines
A French poster about the nationalisation of mines. Date: 20th century

Tiling a Roof, Tools
Tools of the roof builders from the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Stoneworkers Tools 18Th
Various tools including pickaxes, hammers and measuring instruments used by stoneworkers and masons in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Demolition of Adelphi Terrace
Two men at work on the demolition of Adelphi Terrace, London, an 18th century block of eleven houses four storeys high designed by Adam

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (2 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

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

Jj Rousseau / Monsiau
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU French writer and philosopher destroying an aqueduct - a scene from his Confessions

Hungarian Salt Mines
A miner rests his pickaxe over his shoulder as he takes a break in the vast salt mines at Steinbruck (?), Hungary

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