Sifting Collection

Cockle gathering at Penclawdd 1857
Eight miles from Swansea on the Loughor river, women gathering and preparing cockles for market. Date: 1857

Coal mining pit boys and girls
The girls and boys who worked in the mines. Children covered in coal who had been working in the mines all day. The maidens (girls) who would sift the coal

Winnowing of sifting tea to remove dust and debris, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Sifting tea, China. Date: 1851

Sifting tea by hand, China. Date: 1851

Chinese men winnowing rice with sieves, Qing Dynasty
Chinese men sifting and winnowing rice with sieves, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

Rice Plant - sifting the husks and grinding the rice
Chinese sifting from the husks and grinding the rice, some of the end product being bought back to England for rice-flour and added to wheat to make bread. Date: 1833

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 3
Flookborough shrimp fisherman Bob Dickinson riddles sand from freshly caught cockles he has just dug from the sand in Morecambe Bay, Cumbria Date: 1993

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 4
Flookborough shrimp fisherman Bob Dickinson riddles sand from freshly caught cockles he has just dug from the sand in Morecambe Bay, Cumbria Date: 1993

Digging for gold in British Guiana (now Guyana). Placer washing as carried out by the tributor or Port Knocker. Date: circa 1910s

Belfast City Tramways, Sand Drying and Sifting Machine - a view of a machine for drying and sifting sand in large quantities indoors. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast)

Japan - A Farmhouse : sifting and threshing rice
Lantern slide of A Farmhouse : sifting and threshing rice.. Part of Box 158 Japan, part of Boswell Collection, slide no. 11 Date: circa 1890s

Man winnowing corn, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Man and boy sifting tea, China. Date: circa 1890

Jewellery Market Stall
Women sifting through trays of jewellery on a stall at Wentworth Street Market, London. Date: 1950s

Japan - Tea Industry - Tea Sifting Date: circa 1908

Pounding rice - Malabar region of Southern India
Sifting, sorting and pounding rice with a large pestle and mortar - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

Kimberley, South Africa - Convicts sorting for diamonds Date: circa 1903

Sand sifting machine

Rice - paddy sifting near Kyiakausan - Rangoon Date: 1952

Brickyard, 1871

Sifting the dirt. Illustration shows a hand labeled The Courts with a shovel labeled Criminal Proceedings scooping from a pile labeled Big & Little Crooks

Canada - Typical Mining Scene
British Columbia, Canada - Typical Mining Scene showing two prospectors blowing black sand from placer gold. The word placer refers to the alluvial deposits in modern or ancient stream beds

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

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

River bed gold sifting on the Turon, Australia
River bed sifting on the Turon river, a sketch from the Turon gold fields, New South Wales. The pump is lowered 12 feet from the surface of the river

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

Rice in China - 8
Sifting the Rice

Sifting Dust, Paddington
Sifting dust beside the canal, Paddington : dustmen hope to make their living from what they find among the rubbish

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