Soil Gallery

Communist China - teachers doing manual work

Communist China - teachers from Qinghua (Tsinghua) University and Beijing University forced to do heavy manual work during the Cultural Revolution period. They are carrying stones to reinforce a dyke, in order to prevent flooding.
circa 1960s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1960s, 60s, Beijing, Booklet, Carry, Carrying, China, Chinese, Communism, Communist, Countryside, Cultural, Dyke, Field, Fields, Flooding, Heavy, Land, Manual, People, Peoples, Propaganda, Puddle, Qinghua, Republic, Revolution, Rural, Sixties, Soil, State, Stones, Teachers, Tsinghua, University, Water, Work, Worker, Workers, Working

General view of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa

General view of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, around the time of the Empire Exhibition, showing a football ground, the offices of British General Electric, and cyanide dumps from mining in the distance. Date: circa 1936

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

1930s, 1936, 30s, Africa, African, Building, Buildings, Cyanide, Dump, Dumps, Gillman, Gillmans, Gosse, Horace, Industry, Johannesburg, Mine, Mines, Mining, Pile, Piles, Poison, Poisonous, Roof, Roofs, Soil, South, Southern, Thirties, Toxic, Transvaal

Planting Potatoes

An old male farm worker, plants potatoes from the sack over his shoulder in the Wirral, Cheshire. Back- breaking work, especially in heavy, stiff clay soil. Date: 1950s

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1950s, Back, Bending, Breaking, Britain, Cheshire, Clay, Farm, Farming, Heavy, Male, Old, Planting, Plants, Potatoes, Sack, Shoulder, Soil, Sore, Stiff, Wirral, Work, Worker