Dirt Collection

Grass track racing at Bishops Waltham, Coffin and Bungay on Jap motorcycles. Creator: Unknown
Grass track racing at Bishops Waltham, Coffin and Bungay on Jap motorcycles

Balloting for the coal strike, Wheatsheaf Colliery, Pendlebury, January 1912, (c1920). Artist: Topical Press Agency
Balloting for the coal strike, Wheatsheaf Colliery, Pendlebury, near Manchester, January 1912, (c1920). Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume IV, by Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s)

Moving dirt in trench (France), between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Moving dirt in trench (France), between c1915 and 1918. Men moving dirt in a trench in France during World War I.

Dirty clothes and flies, American River camp, near Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dirty clothes and flies. American River camp, near Sacramento, California

Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton

Housing for migratory cotton field laborers near Casa Grande, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Housing for migratory cotton field laborers near Casa Grande, Arizona

Housing for migratory cotton laborers near Casa Grande, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Housing for migratory cotton laborers near Casa Grande, Arizona

Roadside meeting with Durham County farmer, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Roadside meeting with Durham County farmer. North Carolina. He gives road directions by drawing in dirt with stick

Lambeth Gas Works, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Lambeth Gas Works, 1872. In the 19th century, gas was manufactured from the distillation of coal, highly pollutant with waste products and usually sited in poorer areas of London

Why greedily thus bendest more on me?, c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré
" Why greedily thus bendest more on me, than on these other filthy ones, thy ken?", c1890. Dante and the Roman poet Virgil encounter Alessio Interminei of Lucca immers d in ordure

John Gilpins horse splashes mud on a womans dress, 1878, (c1918). Creator: Randolph Caldecott
John Gilpins horse splashes mud on a womans dress, 1878, (c1918). John Gilpin was the subject of a comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper entitled " The Diverting History of John Gilpin"

Sewer sluice gates, London, 1939. Interior of a sewer showing the sluice gates

Interior view of the premises of Nathaniel Bentley, Leadenhall Street, City of London, 1804. People inspecting one of the rooms inside the house that Bentley allowed to decay into squalor after his

Passing a Mud Cart, 1821. Artist: Richard Dighton
Passing a Mud Cart, 1821. A dandy on the pavement is splashed in the face and dress by liquid mud (or worse) from a cart. Plate I of A London Nuisance

The Unfortunate Beau, 1772; a maid takes out her mop to the great distress of a passing beau whose clothes are splattered

New road under construction, Germany, 1936. Labourers shovel dirt into carts pulled by horses. From Germany: The Olympic Year, published by Volk und Reich Verlag. (Berlin, 1936)

The Man with the Muckrake, c1916. Artist: William Strang
The Man with the Muckrake, c1916. An illustration from John Bunyans The Pilgrims Progress. An English nonconformist preacher and writer

Soapine household cleaner, late 19th century. American trade card for Kendall Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Whale blubber was used in some soap products

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