Shovelling Collection

Dalhart, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Dalhart, between c1915 and c1920

The Voyage to China: stokehole of a steam-ship on the Red Sea, 1872. Creator: Unknown
The Voyage to China: stokehole of a steam-ship on the Red Sea, 1872....the half-naked stokers tending the engines, which [is] terrible work in August, with the thermometer, on the deck above

Dalhart, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Vernon Dalhart, between c1915 and c1920. Shows singer and songwriter Vernon Dalhart (1883-1948)

Shovelling snow in City Hall Park, New York, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Shovelling snow in City Hall Park, New York, 1910

The Damrak in winter, 1735-1807. Creator: Hendrik Pothoven
The Damrak in winter, 1735-1807

U.S.S. Massachusetts, fire room, between 1896 and 1901. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. Massachusetts, fire room, between 1896 and 1901

Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait...Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms to control the pest. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Farmers sacking grasshopper bait, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers sacking grasshopper bait. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms to control the pest. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Taking gold from Chatanika, sluice-box, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Taking gold from Chatanika, sluice-box, between c1900 and c1930

Man shovelling ears of dried corn from wagon through feed store window

Chicago and North Western R.R. Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs

A "hooker"shovelling redfish onto the scales in the Fulton fish market
New York, New York. A " hooker" shovelling redfish onto the scales in the Fulton fish market

Loading debris from wrecked buildings on Independence Avenue
Washington, D.C. Loading debris from wrecked buildings on Independence Avenue

Icing barrels of fish at the Fulton fish market, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. Icing barrels of fish at the Fulton fish market

Asakusa Imado, from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)
Asakusa Imado, from the series " Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)", c. 1832/33. The Tile Kilns at Imado, Asakusa

A Winter-Morning, - Shovelling Out, published 1871. Creator: George A. Avery
A Winter-Morning, - Shovelling Out, published 1871

Scavengers Cart, 1788. 1788. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Scavengers Cart, 1788

The Night Mall, 1930. Creator: William Newenham Montague Orpen
The Night Mall, 1930. From " The Wonder Book of Railways", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, 1930]

Snow-Clearing, 1933. Creator: John Christensen
Snow-Clearing, 1933

Steeping, couching and flooring malt, 1886. Beer-making involves malting (germination of barley or other grain)

John Bull and the sinking fund, 1807. Artist: James Gillray
John Bull and the sinking fund, 1807

Inside a Greathead Tunnelling Shield, 1926. From My Railway Book, No. 40, by Cecil J. Allen. [John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd. London, 1926]

On the Footplate of a Great Western Express Engine, 1926. From My Railway Book, No. 40, by Cecil J. Allen. [John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd. London, 1926]

Sunlight, 19th century. Artists: James Clark, Ralph Nevill
Sunlight, 19th century. From The Studio Volume 14 by Ralph Nevill. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1898]

Stacking salt in the great salt fields of Solinen, Black Sea, Russia, 1898. Detail from a stereoscopic card

Bulking tea at a tea warehouse, 1874. A print from Sketches in a Tea Warehouse, a supplement to The Illustrated London News, 12 December 1874

Swedish peasants prospecting for lake ore, c1880. Artist: Mairray
Swedish peasants prospecting for lake ore, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

Sugar making at the Counterslip refinery, Bristol, 1873. Artist: WB Murray
Sugar making at the Counterslip refinery, Bristol, 1873. A print from the Illustrated London News, (29 November 1873)

Punishment of Prostitutes in Switzerland, c18th century. Dragging the Scavengers Cart. Women shovel manure into a cart

The frozen Seine, winter, Paris, 1895. Artist: Henri Meyer
The frozen Seine, winter, Paris, 1895. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 24th February 1895

Inside a Cheshire salt mine, 1889. Miners are gathering loose rock salt after blasting, and loading it into a horse-drawn tub for hoisting to the surface

Women washing the precious metal platinum from alluvial gravels, Urals, Russia, 1916

Bulking tea in the warehouses of the East & West India Dock Company, London, 1874

Laying a Macadam road surface and compacting it with a steam road roller, Paris, c1900. Workmen are wearing wooden shoes (sabots). Liebig trade card

Laying sleepers and rails (permanent way) on the Transvaal Railway, South Africa, 1893

Miners washing for gold in the Californian gold fields, 1853. The apparatus they are using is called a Long Tom

Clearing snow on the Champs Elysees, German-occupied Paris, winter, 1941

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