Pit Collection (page 8)

Ephesus. Roman latrinae
Ephesus. Latrinae, roman public toilets, 1st century AD. Turkey

Ostia Antica. Latrine at the Domus of Triclini, headquarters of the guild of builders. 2nd century AD. Near Rome

British Holiday Camp
Three little girls playing in the sand pit near the playground in a holiday camp. Date: early 1960s

Pit Brow Girls
Pit brow women Date: circa 1905

Oaks Colliery / 1866
The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England. Date: December 1866

KARL MUCK German conductor in action Date: 1859 - 1940

Pit Bank Women / 1904
Pit bank women, Wednesbury. Date: 1904

Coal / Horse / Le Creusot
Lowering a horse at the Le Creusot colliery, France Date: 1869

Robot chorus girls in New York
When a New York impresario replaces his chorus girls with electrically powered robots, his ingenuity is not well received by the audience. Date: 1928

Great Fire Pit, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, USA. A man stands on the edge, looking down. Date: 1920

Cartoon, Pacific Overtures, or, a Flight from St Clouds over the Water to Charley, a new Dramatic Piece now Rehearsing, by James Gillray

Quarries, pits and mines.. Quarries, pits and mines, sections of their drainage systems, and the Quendon barrow for carrying water. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

The Colliery, Duffryn, Glamorgan
The Colliery, Duffryn, Newport, Glamorgan, Wales. Showing the Deep Pit Date: 1920s

Pit Brow Lasses at Work, England. Date: 1900s

Conquest of Hispania (218 BC-19 BC). Roman militia. A Roman encampment in times of the Roman invasion of Spain. Copper engraving by A. Roca ca. 1840. Engraving

A casting-pit of a bell foundry, c. 1830. Date: c. 1830

Josephs Well, Holy Land
The supposed location of Josephs Well. According to biblical legend, Josephs jealous brothers threw him into a pit or empty well before going home

River Tura in North Ural Mountains - a typical large Siberian river with brown waters (coloured by pit) in spring. Near Verhoturye town, Siberia, Russia

Opera at Covent Garden, London. Date: 1913

Senghenydd Universal Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, S. Wales
Rescue scenes as pictured in The Illustrated London News at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales
Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. There were 439 miners killed in total, making this the worst mining accident in the UK

Aftermath of fire, Arts Theatre Club, London
Aftermath of a fire at the Arts Theatre Club, Great Newport Street, Central London, on 4 August 1951. Date: 1951

Sand pit guard, Chislehurst, Kent. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St. Oswalds Place, Upper Kennington Lane

Chalk Pit, Cliffe Creek. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St. Oswalds Place, Upper Kennington Lane

A post at the cement works at Creek Cliffe, Kent
The Chalk Pit Guard Room. A post at the cement works at Creek Cliffe, near the village of Cliffe on the Hoo peninsula in Kent, dated 29.12.15. 21017 Private P. J

Holborn Theatre, London, 1866
The interior of Holborn Theatre, London, soon after it was opened in October 1866. Able to seat 1, 500, the theatre was built by Mr. Simpson, and the architects were Messrs Finch, Hill and Pararie

Little girl playing in sandpit
Little girl playing in a sandpit. circa 1960s

A night at Covent Garden Opera House, 1925
An impression by the artist Fortunino Matania of the interior of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 1925. A performance of Richard Strauss " Elecktra" is portrayed

Pit Pony Pulling Coal
A blinkered pit pony, pulling along coal wagons on a colliery rail track. Point of Ayr Colliery, Scotland. Date: 1960s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Pit and Railway Tracks
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto - The Pit and Railway Tracks. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - The Manda Pit Cages
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto The Manda Pit Cages. Date: circa 1910s

Medals of Valour for Heroes of Pit Disasters
Postcard celebrating (with a poem) the medals of Valour awarded by King Edward VII to the Heroes of the Pit Disasters at Whitehaven

Japan - Miike Coal Fields - Manda Pit
Japan - Map of the Miike Coal Fields and a photograph of the Manda Pit. Date: circa 1910s

Trimeresurus albolabris, bamboo pit viper
Photograph of a bamboo pit viper (Trimeresurus albolabris) wrapped around a tree branch

The Piltdown (Skull) Gravel Pit
The site where the Pitdown specimens were claimed to have been discovered (1912-1915). Photograph believed to have been taken during the winter of 1913

Coix lachryma, pit pit grass
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Tropidolaemus wagleri, green pit viper
Also known as the temple viper or Waglers pit viper. It is a tree dwelling snake found in South-east Asia. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Kamayut fire walking festival - Rangoon - Down the centre is a shallow pit about 20 feet long, 4 feet wide of glowing charcoal fire

Brick making clay pit - Rangoon - Deep clay pits with sweating Indians carrying up baskets of the rich clay on their heads, . Date: 1952

Gillette - Wyoming - Dak Coal Mine - an open pit lignite coal mine, where we could go to the rim and look down. Date: 1952

The Redcoat
People You See. From Teddy Bear (5 September 1970)

Le pied de Nez de Milord Pit. Cartoon shows Napoleon I, wearing laurel wreath and ermine robe, pulls down one side of scale which lifts two frightened monarchs on the other side off the ground; in

Rosedale Mines, North Yorkshire - Ironstone Working
Rosedale Mines, North York Moors, North Yorkshire - Ironstone Working Mines - 1856-1926. Date: circa 1920s

Bear pit, Berne, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Great snow pit, partial view, Riesengebirge, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Great snow pit from below, Riesengebirge, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The pit and the pendulum. Illustration shows a man labeled Consumer tied to a bed with cords labeled Graft Tariff, watches as a pendulum labeled Cost of Living with a sharp blade afixed to the bottom

Theatre going: audience in the pit
A theatre audience enjoying a performance from the view of the pit. Date: c.1850

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