Subterranean Collection (#2)

Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California, 1878. Creator: Jules Tavernier
Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California, 1878

Cleopatras Needle and Anthonys Pillar, 1872. Creator: Harry Fenn
Cleopatras Needle and Anthonys Pillar, 1872. Rock formations in Weyers Cave, (later known as the Grand Caverns) in the town of Grottoes, Virginia, USA

Scenes in Mammoth Cave, 1874. Creator: W. J. Linton
Scenes in Mammoth Cave, 1874. Tourists visit limestone caverns in Kentucky, USA, the longest cave system known in the world

Chambers in Weyers Cave, 1872. Creator: Harry Fenn
Chambers in Weyers Cave, 1872. The Brides Veil, The Oyster, The Tower of Babel, The Ghost Chamber, The Shell Room : rock formations in Weyers Cave

Crypt of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, late 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Crypt of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, late 19th century. The crypt, constructed in 1172-1173, is the largest cathedral crypt (63.4 metres long) in Britain or Ireland

Repair of the Fleet sewer, City of London, 1854. From the Illustrated London News

Interior of the Fleet Ditch at the back of Field Lane, City of London, 1851. Artist
Interior of the Fleet Ditch at the back of Field Lane, City of London, 1851. Showing a man holding a ladder, behind him lies part of a mammals skeleton

Subterranean Chamber near the Pyramids at Giza, 1802. Artist: Thomas Milton
Subterranean Chamber near the Pyramids at Giza, 1802. Plate 9 from Views in Egypt by Luigi Mayer

"On Echo River" (boat with tourists), Mammoth Cave, Edmondson County, Kentucky, c1891
Ky. - Mammoth Cave: "On Echo River" (boat with tourists), c1891

"Kinhicky's Cairn" (stalagmite), Mammoth Cave, Edmondson County, Kentucky, c1891
Ky. - Mammoth Cave: "Kinhicky's Cairn" (stalagmite), c1891

"The Corkscrew" (narrow upward passage), Mammoth Cave, Edmondson County, Kentucky, c1891
Ky. - Mammoth Cave: "The Corkscrew" (narrow upward passage), c1891

"The Bridal Altar" (stalactites), Mammoth Cave, Edmondson County, Kentucky, c1891
Ky. - Mammoth Cave: "The Bridal Altar" (stalactites), c1891

Standing rocks, Mammoth Cave, Edmondson County, Kentucky, c1893. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mammoth Cave, Edmondson Co. Ky: Standing rocks, c1893. African American man alongside

Heaps of earth - Mammoth Cave, Edmondson County, Kentucky, c1893. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mammoth Cave, Edmondson Co. Ky: Heaps of earth, c1893

Corkscrew - Mammoth Cave, Edmondson County, Kentucky, c1893. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mammoth Cave, Edmondson, Co. Ky. - Corkscrew, c1893. An African American man and woman climbing ladders

The Latomie, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, 1927. Artist: Eugen Poppel
The Latomie, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, 1927. The Latomie are stone quarries that were also used as prisons in ancient times. From Italien in Bildern, by Eugen Poppel [August Scherl, Berlin, 1927]

The mouth of the Holebourne, where it finds the Thames as the Fleet Ditch, London, 1926-1927. The picture shown is under the Blackfriars Railway bridge

The Catacombs, Paris, 1931. Artist: Ernest Flammarion
The Catacombs, Paris, 1931. The Catacombs are old quarries which were converted into an Ossuary in 1786. Illustration from the book Paris by Ernest Flammarion, (1931)

The Caves, Hastings, Sussex, c1920s. St Clements Caves became a tourist attraction in the 1860s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd

The Arch Cave looking north, Jenolan Caves, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. The Jenolan Caves are a series of caverns in the Blue Mountains

Ancient Temple at Hulwud, 1826. Artist: William Frederick Witherington
Ancient Temple at Hulwud, 1826. The temple is dedicated to Shiva in his role of regenerator. In the foreground is a step-well

Circulation of water between sea and mountains, 1665. Blue-tinted flows are from mountains to the sea, while black represents flows taking water from whirlpools in the sea back to the mountains via

Miners blasting, 1879. The men are sheltering behind rocks as the dynamite charge they have set is detonated. (Paris, 1879)

Blowing up Flood Rock, 1885. Workers in underground galleries putting cartridges of dynamite into position in preparation for the blowing up Flood Rock

Exploring a subterranean river in the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA, c1870
Exploring The Styx, a subterranean river in the Mammoth Cave, the system of limestone caverns in Kentucky, USA, c1870. Wood engraving

Hydraulic coal cutting machine, named The Iron Man, 1867
Hydraulic coal cutting machine, named The Iron Man, in position on rail track undergground in a coal seam. Made by Carrett, Marshall & Co. and shown at the Paris International Exposition of 1867

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