Soil Collection (page 4)

Cartoon, The distracted gardener, WW1
Cartoon, The distracted gardener. A man is having trouble remembering what he planted in his garden. He thinks it might have been a bag of sugar! Date: 1917

Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Weed the Gardeners Son. circa 1930s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Weed the Gardener. circa 1930s

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

Steam shovel at Santa Cruz, Panama Canal construction
Bucyrus steam shovel in operation, at Santa Cruz, Panama Canal construction, loading railcars with soil. Date: circa 1914

Tractor at work, Wieringermeer, North Holland, Netherlands
Man at work on a tractor on reclaimed land in Wieringermeer, North Holland, Netherlands. Date: circa 1930s

Little boy playing in a garden, digging the soil with a trowel. Date: circa 1970s

Man and boy, seed drill, field near Plymouth, Devon
Man and boy with horse and seed drill in a field near Plymouth, Devon. circa 1960s

Narrow gauge railway with men and skip wagon
Narrow gauge railway with men, tipper skip wagon loaded with rocks, and quarry buildings. Date: circa 1920

Woman with an Olympus XA 35mm camera
A young woman takes a photograph with an Olympus XA 35mm camera, the same camera used to take this photograph of her! Date: circa 1981

Main Street, Marysville, Kansas, USA
Main Street looking west, Marysville, Kansas, USA. Date: circa 1910

Fifth Avenue South, Jamestown, North Dakota, USA. Date: circa 1908

Main Street, Winner, South Dakota, USA
View of Main Street looking south, Winner, South Dakota, USA, with the Winner Hotel, the Phillips Hotel, two banks and a restaurant. 1911

Men engaged in roadworks with a lorry alongside. Date: circa 1930s

Abandoned trench on the Western Front, WW1
An abandoned trench on the Western Front, WW1. Date: 1914-1918

Debris on the Western Front, WW1
Debris left behind on a battlefield on the Western Front, WW1. Date: 1914-1918

Little boy watering the garden
Little boy with a large watering can, watering the garden on a sunny day. Date: circa 1960s

Men on New Stoughton Wagon, Iowa, USA
Two men on a New Stoughton Wagon with spades in their hands. Photograph by Charles Clinton Stevens of Williams, Iowa, USA. The covering on the horse is probably designed to protect it from flies

Wreck of City Light Station, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA
Wreck of the City Light Station, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA, seen here on 24 September 1909 after the collapse of the dam. Date: 1909

Drilling an Oil Well - Boring by Turbine. Liquid mud is pumped at high pressure through a non-revolving pipe to a turbo drill (shown in the inset enlargement) at the bottom of the well

Over-dried soil with cristallized salt on its surface - typical salinated desert soil near Kumdag. Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - burrows for shelter in the soil - for the night (Agrionemys horsfieldii ). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Cracked soil in a desert near Kum-Dag. summer - Turkmenistan - former CIS

Scouts on an outdoor activity, Ghana, West Africa
Scouts taking part in an outdoor activity, Ghana, West Africa

French cub scout digging in a field

Finnish boy scout as ARP warden, Helsinki, WW2
Finnish boy scout as ARP warden at the headquarters of the Finnish Boy Scouts Association, Helsinki. Date: circa 1940s

Boy scouts turning peat, Denmark
Boy scouts turning peat for drying, Denmark

Blitz in London -- typical close-up of rubble, WW2
Blitz in London -- a typical close-up of rubble following an air raid. Date: 1940s

Kingston scouts climbing slope, Jamaica
Boys of No.1 Scout Troop, Kingston, Jamaica, climbing a scree slope

Toddler playing in garden
Toddler playing in the garden with a plastic spade. circa 1970s

Interior of a mine crater, Western Front, WW1
Interior of a large mine crater on the Western Front during World War One, with the tiny figures of three men. Date: circa 1916

How Does My Garden Grow? by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy tends his springtime bulbs, watched by a robin on a branch. Date: 1942

Home Gardening magazine, October 1928
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a lady on plant up of bowl with bulbs. Advice on how to achieve good blooms and strong foliage is contained inside. Date: 1928

Shell hole on road, Western Front, France, WW1
A shell hole in a road on the Western Front in France during World War One. It was the result of a British shell striking the road near a German ammunition wagon

Water Extraction
Roadworks for extracting water from high level sandy soil, Britain. Date: 1960s

Sunbathing & Working
Two men and a woman pushing a truck full of soil on rails whilst sunbathing at Physiopolis, a health club and holiday camp. Date: 1930s

The D-Day Landings - 6th June 1944 - General de Gaulle - WW2
WW2 - The D-Day Landings - Operation Overlord - Normandy, France, 6th June 1944 - General de Gaulle surveys the beaches. Date: 1944

Spring, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people planting in a garden, tilling the soil, minding the lambs and gathering spring flowers

Bacillus sp. bacteria
Bacteria are the most diverse and ubiquitous soil organisms present on Earth

Lumbricus terrestris, earthworm
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing the chaeta/setae - involved in the locomotion on an earthworm

Partially fusion-crusted stone
A 294g (10oz) partially fusion crusted stone from the Camel Donga eucrite strewn field. The orange/brown staining on the black, fusion crusted surface is staining from the local soil

on train to Sin Taung - Kalaw
On train to Sin Taung - Kalaw - Water buffalo ploughing. Much of the upland type of farming is responsible for the prevalent erosion = jungle burned back, top soil farmed away in rice, corn

Badlands National Monument - South Dakota - A weird dead area seemingly a propos of nothing at all. Amost a faded negative of Bryce Canyon, pinnacles eroded out of the soft grey soil

Loosening carrots from soil with plow before pulling in order to prevent breaking, near Santa Maria, Texas. Date 1939 Feb

Chalk Soil Ploughing
A fine example of deep ploughing on chalk soil, for the planting of conifers, near Bryants Puddle, Dorset, England. Date: 1950s

Three Arab Gardeners - Morocco Date: circa 1910s

Clay Soil Furrows
Clay soil furrows. Date: 1960s

Good Ploughed Soil
The good, freshly ploughed soil of England. Date: 1950s

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