Dirty Collection (page 10)

Unidentified English engineering works, early 20th century (b / w photo)
3656155 Unidentified English engineering works, early 20th century (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Unidentified English engineering works)

In Darkest New York, Midnight in a Cheap Underground Lodging Cellar, "three cents a spot"(litho)
6022052 In Darkest New York, Midnight in a Cheap Underground Lodging Cellar, " three cents a spot" (litho) by American School

Oxford, Clarendon Buildings (b / w photo)
5986785 Oxford, Clarendon Buildings (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Oxford, Clarendon Buildings)

Preparing for May-Day (colour litho)
6003452 Preparing for May-Day (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Preparing for May-Day. Illustration for Chatterbox (1901)

Chimney sweep (b / w photo)
6030841 Chimney sweep (b/w photo) by European Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Chimney sweep.); Look and Learn / Valerie Jackson Harris Collection; out of copyright

A Steamer in Dirty Weather (oil on panel)
5889033 A Steamer in Dirty Weather (oil on panel) by Dade, Ernst (1868-1933); 18.4x28.6 cm; Private Collection; Photo eThe Ms Gallery, London; English, out of copyright

Deptford and the Thames (engraving)
5213535 Deptford and the Thames (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Deptford and the Thames)

The Dorty Bairn (engraving)
671728 The Dorty Bairn (engraving) by Wilkie, David (1785-1841) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Dorty Bairn. From The Wilkie Gallery (Virtue, c 1870)

The Thrifty Househusband (coloured engraving)
979135 The Thrifty Househusband (coloured engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Thrifty Househusband.); © Look and Learn

The Chimney Sweep as a Guide (coloured engraving)
979120 The Chimney Sweep as a Guide (coloured engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Chimney Sweep as a Guide.); © Look and Learn

Public view of the once elegant dining room in the dirty warehouse, Leadenhall Street, London (engraving)
585920 Public view of the once elegant dining room in the dirty warehouse, Leadenhall Street, London (engraving) by English School

Ground Plan of the Norwich Lunatic Asylum (engraving)
2774111 Ground Plan of the Norwich Lunatic Asylum (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ground Plan of the Norwich Lunatic Asylum)

Dog (chromolitho)
2803155 Dog (chromolitho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dog. Illustration for Pen and Pencil magazine, late 19th century.); © Look and Learn

Disadvantages of a short cut. "I have kept my dear Amelia waiting a deuced long time
Disadvantages of a short cut. " I have kept my dear Amelia waiting a deuced long time! - but this short cut will soon bring me to her enchanting presence;

Comic postcard, Two women having breakfast - postcard from the vicar Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Young couple out hiking Date: 20th century

One of the thousands of Scottish women that came to Great Yarmouth in the herring harvest to pack and gut fish in the months of October and November. Date: November 1910

Comic postcard, Lost and found clothing Date: 20th century

Illustration for Phil Mays Gutter-Snipes (lithograph)
3098217 Illustration for Phil Mays Gutter-Snipes (lithograph) by May, Phil (1864-1903); Private Collection; (add.info.: Illustration for Phil Mays Gutter-Snipes (Leadenhall Press, 1896)

Illustration for Phil Mays Gutter-Snipes (lithograph)
3098204 Illustration for Phil Mays Gutter-Snipes (lithograph) by May, Phil (1864-1903); Private Collection; (add.info.: Illustration for Phil Mays Gutter-Snipes (Leadenhall Press, 1896)

Building workers laying concrete, City of London
Building workers laying concrete on a building site in the City of London. Date: circa 1950s

A street market in Londons East End
Second-hand clothes stalls in an East End street market in London. Date: circa 1950s

Comic postcard, Little girl doing the housework Date: circa 1918

Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - baker baking bread
Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - a baker at work baking bread. Vintage 19th century photograph

Chacun pour Soi, 1864 (oil on canvas)
LST257062 Chacun pour Soi, 1864 (oil on canvas) by Rousseau, Philippe (1816-87); 97x130.5 cm; Private Collection; eLawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York; French, out of copyright

Street crime, 1554 (woodcut)
XJF277664 Street crime, 1554 (woodcut) by Jode, Gerard de (1509-91); Private Collection; (add.info.: Illustration from ENCHIRIDION RERUM CRIMINALIUM or PRAXIS RERUM CRIMINALIUM by the lawyer Joost de)

Cartoon, Horrible Incident in Real Life
The master of a household visits the kitchen to get a little supper after the servants have gone, only to find it crawling with cockroaches. 1852

Illustration of Alfred Le Pete (1841-1909) in Gros-Jean et son cure
ICA4836935 Illustration of Alfred Le Pete (1841-1909) in Gros-Jean et son cure, 1881 - Jesus sends the devil into the body of two thousand pigs - Anticlericalism

Allegorical representation of November. A man with a group of pigs eating acorns
GIA4817865 Allegorical representation of November. A man with a group of pigs eating acorns. Miniature of a 14th century manuscript

L Plate au beurre, number 461, Satirique en couleurs
ICA4915677 L Plate au beurre, number 461, Satirique en couleurs, 1910_1_29: Case Dreyfus - Rochefort Henri (1831-1913), Dog

December: slaughter of pigs. Miniature taken from "Breviaire d amour"
LRI4667108 December: slaughter of pigs. Miniature taken from " Breviaire d amour" (Breviari d Amor) by Ermengol de Beziers (Matfre Ermengau) (Ermengaud) (died 1322), 13th century

The cycle of the months: detail November (pig slaughtered). 12th century (fresco)
LRI4664875 The cycle of the months: detail November (pig slaughtered).12th century (fresco) by Spanish School, (12th century); Colegiata de San Isidoro, Leon, Castilla y Leon

The pig, the goat and the sheep (le cochon, la chevre et le mouton
DUV4214659 The pig, the goat and the sheep (le cochon, la chAvre et le mouton) - Fables by La Fontaine, 19th century (engraving) by Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47)

An original Danish race: pig race in the city of Slagelse. Engraving
XEE4183840 An original Danish race: pig race in the city of Slagelse. Engraving. One of " The Little Journal Illustrates", 1927. Private collection

Peasants plowing the fields. Detail of The effects of good
LRI4579031 Peasants plowing the fields. Detail of The effects of good and bad government on the city and the countryside. (Fresco, 1338-1339) by Lorenzetti, Ambrogio (1285-c.1348); Palazzo Pubblico

Ulysses and his companions transformed into pigs by the magician Circe - in "
GIA4731407 Ulysses and his companions transformed into pigs by the magician Circe - in " Cosmographia" by Sebastian Munster, Basel 1558 by Swiss School

Two men carrying a pig on their shoulder. Illustration for the news 76
GIA4795185 Two men carrying a pig on their shoulder. Illustration for the news 76 (New 6 of the eighth day) of the " Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio dit Jean Boccaccio (1313-1375)

Circus: a board representing different types of shows of learned animals featuring
GIA4795764 Circus: a board representing different types of shows of learned animals featuring elephants, a goat, a bear, horses and a pig

Pork production. The pig is slaughtered and the butchers cut the pieces
GIA4784946 Pork production. The pig is slaughtered and the butchers cut the pieces. Illumination from the milking of medicine and dietetics " Tacuinum sanitatis", 14th century. Bibl

Pig shaped ceramic unguentarium, 580-560 BC
LRI4590366 Pig shaped ceramic unguentarium, 580-560 BC by Etruscan, (6th century BC); Museo Nazionale Archeologico Cerite, Cerveteri, Rome, Lazio

Verraco, pork figure in granite, from Avila, 2nd-1st century BC
LRI4685851 Verraco, pork figure in granite, from Avila, 2nd-1st century BC. by Celtic, (1st century BC); National Archaeology Museum, Madrid, Spain; (add.info.: Celtic art: Verraco)

Missionary Square in Meuong Ngan. Engraving by Eugene Burnand
LSE4334099 Missionary Square in Meuong Ngan. Engraving by Eugene Burnand, to illustrate the story " Journey in Upper Laos", in 1880, by Dr. P.Neis

The peasants in the vicinity of Pisino (Croatia), gather for the sale of their farm
LSE4330018 The peasants in the vicinity of Pisino (Croatia), gather for the sale of their farm products on the market: poultry, piglets

Obstructions of the anterieties, thus immobilized, of valaque pigs, in Romania
LSE4328189 Obstructions of the anterieties, thus immobilized, of valaque pigs, in Romania. Engraving to illustrate the voyage from Paris to Bucharest, by Lancelot, draftsman, in 1860

A Marauder - Painting by Evariste Vital Luminais (1822-1896), Oil On Canvas, 19th century
LSE4313632 A Marauder - Painting by Evariste Vital Luminais (1822-1896), Oil On Canvas, 19th century, French Art - Musee de Tesse, Le Mans by Luminais, Evariste Vital (1822-96); Musee de Tesse

Cartoon about the country. A peasant woman and her pig: "Ben names a pig, great Gieu
XEE4166794 Cartoon about the country. A peasant woman and her pig: " Ben names a pig, great Gieu, its dirty." Engraving in " Petity Journal pour Rire", 1879

Sixtus V (Felice Peretti: 1520 - 1590, 225th pope): Felice, 10 years old
XEE4115205 Sixtus V (Felice Peretti: 1520 - 1590, 225th pope): Felice, 10 years old, shepherd of swine, shows the way to Ancona to Brother Pacomo

Pig that refuses to move forward and that bars the road to an automobile - drawing
LSE4108665 Pig that refuses to move forward and that bars the road to an automobile - drawing. by French School; Private Collection; (add.info)

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"Unearthing the Dirty Secrets: A Glimpse into Coal Miners' Lives in South Wales and Cornwall" Step back in time to witness the gritty reality of coal miners as they ascend from the depths of shaft lifts, their faces smeared with soot. In South Wales, these brave souls toiled tirelessly, risking their lives daily for a livelihood that sustained communities. Venture further into Folly Ditch at Jacobs Island, circa 1878, where an unknown creator captures a scene shrouded in mystery. The air thick with grime and uncertainty, this image hints at a world hidden beneath layers of dirt. At Geevor Tin Mine in Pendeen, Cornwall, a lone miner stands amidst rugged terrain. His weathered face tells tales of perseverance and determination against all odds. These men battled darkness and filth to extract precious minerals that fueled industries far and wide. The coalface was their battleground - blackened hands digging deep into the earth's core. In South Wales, miners worked relentlessly under treacherous conditions to meet the insatiable demand for coal during an era when energy needs knew no bounds. Travel across oceans to New Zealand through an antique map from 1873. As explorers navigated uncharted territories on distant shores, they encountered lands untouched by civilization's cleansing touch – raw beauty concealed beneath layers of untamed wilderness. In Sweden's Volvo 240 GL lies another tale entwined with dirt – not just physical but metaphorical too. This iconic vehicle symbolizes resilience; its sturdy frame defying weariness despite traversing rough terrains year after year. A Punch cartoon depicts Faraday offering his card to Father Thames – perhaps suggesting that even great minds recognize the inherent connection between science and nature's dirty secrets flowing within rivers' veins. But cleanliness is also elusive; it slips through our fingers like grains of sand as we strive for godliness.