Scavenging Collection

Thames Mudlarks
Barefoot mudlarks scavenging in the Thames at low water

Beachcomber, Marloes
A beachcomber with his pet Jack Russell dog on the beach at Marloes, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. He carries an old plastic stool and a boat fender he has found on the beach

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 11
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A view of some of the makeshift buildings that have grown among the rubbish tips. This is where the better off Zabballeen people live circa 1995

TOWER OF SILENCE
The top of a Parsee Tower of Silence, Dakharma, where the dead bodies are exposed to the elements and to scavenging birds. Date: 19th century

Sewer hunter 1860s
Sewer hunters who made their money by combing through the sewers beneath London streets, sieving through the raw water for a small opportunity of finding something valuable like a ring that somebody

Ballast-heavers 1850s
Ballast-heavers or also named as mudlarks at work, labourers dredging the River Thames for the opportunity of finding something valuable amongst the mud

LONDON SCAVENGER
THE LONDON SCAVENGER. Date: 1862

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 10
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 8
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by two donkeys stops in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 9
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig by the leg. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 6
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small girl child dodges past a donkey cart in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 7
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by three small donkeys carries rubbish and three men from the tip Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 5
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. Three young girls sift though the smoking rubbish Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 2
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A femae child wearing what might once have been a pretty pink dress. It is now ragged and filthy Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 4
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy carries a tin can into which he will put small metal items he finds among the rubbish Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 3
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy scrabbles in the rubbish with his bare hands. More children work behind him Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 1
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A ragged child finds a piece of bread among the rubbish and offers it to her sister, who clings to her brother Date: circa 1995

Rubbish tip Zabbaleen children, Cairo
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1995

Rubbish tip Zabbeleen children, Cairo
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1995

Occupations 1883 - Mud Larks. 1883

Arctic Fox feeds on carrion of a Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida Sc) near a fishermen hunters hut (Alopex lagopus). Kara sea shore, tundra of Taimyr peninsula, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic, winter

Old women scavenging, East End of London
Two old women scavenging for rotten vegetables amongst market garbage in the East End of London. The scene may have been artificially constructed by superimposing several separate images

Marabou Storks surround a Zebra carcass
Marabou storks fighting over a Zebra carcass. This large and powerful bird eats mainly carrion, scraps and faeces, but will also take fish, frogs, insects, eggs, small mammals and reptiles

Housebreaking Gommecourt 1917
Soldiers demolishing a house recycling bricks in the ruins of Gommecourt on the British Front in France during World War I in March 1917

Black Vultures scavenging - Mexico
Natures scavengers. Black Vultures scavenging in the street - Mexico Date: circa 1930s

The Thames at Mortlake
The river bank at MORTLAKE at low tide - boys scavenging at the waters edge

Coal Shortage / Germany
Coal Shortage

Pyne - Dustman
THE DUSTMAN He actually pays a fee for his contract, for there is money to be made by scavenging through the rubbish he collects from house to house

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