Shovel Collection (page 3)

Seller of iron wares
Buy a fork or a fire shovel. Street seller of iron wares. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Partly finished battlefield road at Flanders 1917
Second Battle of Flanders: Troops in the front are capturing positions and beating off counter attacks night and day. While the temporary lulls of infantry fighting between each thrust forward

The Gentle Art of Excavating - A New Multi-Movement Drag Sho
A new multi-movement drag shovel excavating for the foundations of a new cinema. A typically convoluted digger, made from recycled bits of houses

Womens Royal Air Force -- Coal Fatigue
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing two women on Coal Fatigue, ie shovelling coal. Date: 1919-1920

Bronze cooking utensils recovered from Pompeii, Italy
Bronze cooking utensils recovered from excavations at Pompeii, Italy. Date: 1906

A Cosy Diner - Workmen have lunch amid the air raids
Keep Calm and Carry On. A quite fantastic photograph showing two workmen engaged in repairing air raid damage in the London area continue with their private luncheon although the sirens have sounded

Clearing the snow
People You See. From Teddy Bear (9 January 1965)

Laying cement. Fathers newly laid cement path is ruined by the pet dog

Shovelling snow

Polish infantryman
A Polish infantryman in full war kit complete with shovel. The Illustrated London News calls him a type of soldier who can endure privation, make long marches without difficulty

Game / Shuffleboard 17C
Men playing shuffleboard (or shovel-board) in an English inn Date: 17th century

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

Man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry
A man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry

Bosnia - Sarajevo - Railway Workers
Happy smiling Railway workers, delighted at having completed the railway link between Samac and Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina - then under Russian occupation)

Satire on the plea for a labourers vote
Excellent political satire on the plea for a labourers vote, as both a Tory and a Liberal Politician get down on their knees to beg for the vote of the common working man

Industrial furnaces
Workmen in front of two Meldrum Brothers patent furnaces, manufactured in Manchester. The furnaces may be " destructors", for the purpose of burning town refuse

Shovelling rubble onto a lorry
A workman bends down to shovel up some rubble from roadworks onto the back of a lorry

A road sweeper
A rather ragged dustman or road sweeper with his sweeping brushes and shovel, cart and empty bottle of ale! Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

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

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

Young Cloudesley Shovel Swimming With Despatches
Engraving taken from the painting Young Cloudesley Shovel Swimming with Despatches through the Enemys Fire. In the background can be seen the stern of a 16th or 17th century warship

Ladies by a Fireside
Two young ladies sit in front of an open fire : should they require them, a whole battery of tools are available to poke the coals, shovel the ash or brush the hearth

Man Shovels Snow
A young man clears heavy snow with a shovel, from the pavement outside his home and from around a parked motorcycle!

Man Clears Snow
A young man clears heavy snow with a shovel, from the pavement outside his home

Costume / Girl / Franchomme
Girl wears a red fur or plush hat, buttoned up tunic or skirted jacket with soutache (Russian braid) over her dress, matching cape with blue lining & leather gloves

Menelik Works
King Menelik picks up a shovel and shows he is not too proud to work

Steam Shovel Canada
Using a steam shovel to clear away heavy debris while constructing a railway

Digging in the Catacombs
Early Christians, with pick, shovel, and a flaming torch, dig themselves secret places for their meetings in the Roman catacombs

Miner (Series)
Le mineur - MINER - sets off down the mine, pick and shovel on his shoulder, safety lamp in his hand

Bristol Sugar Refinery
Workers shovel sugar at the Counterslip refinery in Bristol, England

Gold in California
A prospector, armed with pick and shovel, sieve and six- shooter

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