Dirty Collection (#32)

Sorgheloos Carrying a Sheaf, 1541 (engraving) (b / w photo)
XJF271070 Sorgheloos Carrying a Sheaf, 1541 (engraving) (b/w photo) by Dutch School, (16th century); Private Collection; Dutch, out of copyright

Death Dispensary, 1830 (engraving) (b / w photo)
XJF208333 Death Dispensary, 1830 (engraving) (b/w photo) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

A Miner (oil on canvas)
XIR198413 A Miner (oil on canvas) by Meunier, Constantin Emile (1831-1905); Musee de la Chartreuse, Douai, France; Belgian, out of copyright

Children of the Streets of Paris, 1852 (oil on canvas)
XKH155706 Children of the Streets of Paris, 1852 (oil on canvas) by Hausmann, Friedrich Karl (1825-86); 163.5x205.5 cm; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; German, out of copyright

Dirty bride or wedding of Mopsus and Nisa, print maker: Pieter van der Heyden, Pieter Brueghel I, Cornelis van Tienen, 1570 and/or 1616 - 1678

The Strict School Master, 1868 (w / c on paper)
BAL109697 The Strict School Master, 1868 (w/c on paper) by Muckley, William Jabez (1837-1905); 45.7x66 cm; Private Collection; Haynes Fine Art at the Bindery Galleries, Broadway; English

Dirty Illinois Route 66 sign, Atlanta, Illinois, USA

HINE: STREET BOYS, 1909. Three boys hanging out in a doorway late at night in Boston, Massachusetts. Photograph by Lewis Hine, October 1909

CHICAGO: TENEMENT, 1910. Italian immigrant family in a tenement home, Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1910

CHICAGO: TENEMENT, 1912. Two children on a bed in a tenement home in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1912

MIGRANT SHACK, 1910. The sleeping area of a small shack on Forsythes Bog, occupied by De Marco family with 10 living in one room, Pemberton, New Jersey. Photograph by Lewis Hine, September 1910

Young man wearing a plaid shirt in a backyard

Rebellious man wearing jeans and a plaid shirt at a gas station, smoking

Young man wearing elegant clothing with a bag over his shoulder in front of the New Palace in Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Young happy man holding an apple at a market

Young man by the sea

Young man by the sea, portrait

Young girl lying on a pony

Portrait of a young woman with long hair, sensual

Fashion, young woman with dress and necklace

Portrait of a young bare-chested man

Portrait of a young bare-chested man, stretching his hand

Man in shorts in the city

Fashion shot of a man in a cardigan

Portrait of a man in winter

Wellington boots covered in mud

Coloured hull covered with algae in the dry dock, Hvide Sande, Jutland, Denmark, Europe

Black Pug with its face smeared with cow dung

Yellow arrow on blue asphalt

Girl, two years, face caked in sand, drinking from beverage can, Namibia

DORE: LONDON, 1872. Bluegate Fields. A slum in London. Wood engraving after Gustave Dore, from the series London: A Pilgrimage, 1872

CHINA: MEN AND BOYS, c1909. A group of Chinese men and boys gathered around pile a of logs on the street in China. Photograph, c1909

WWI: SOLDIERS, c1916. A British Red Cross orderly escorting a wounded German soldier to a field hospital in France. Photograph, c1916

Street scene of the Blue Houses, Jodhpur, the Blue City, Rajasthan, India, Asia

GEORGIA: TEXTILE MILL, 1913. Young men and boys working at a Hosiery Mill in Rome, Georgia. Photograph by Lewis Hine, April 1913

HINE: CHILD LABOR, 1911. Nine of these children from 8 years old up go to school half a day. They shuck oysters for four hours before school and three hours after school and on Saturday from 4 A.M

HINE: CHILD LABOR, 1911. Two young illiterate brothers that work at the glass factory in Alexandria, Virginia. Photograph by Lewis Hine, June 1911

HINE: CHILD LABOR, 1911. A group of shrimp pickers in the Peerless Oyster Co. working during the short noon recess in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Photograph by Lewis Hine, March 1911

HINE: CHILD LABOR, 1913. A ten-year-old girl walking home from working at the Deep River Cotton Mills in Randleman, North Carolina. Photograph by Lewis Hine, May 1913

GEORGIA: TEXTILE MILL, 1909. Young children and adult textile workers in front of the Tifton Cotton Mill in Tifton, Georgia. Photograph by Lewis Hine, January 1909

HINE: CHILD LABOR, 1909. A young spinner working in the Globe Cotton Mill in Augusta, Georgia. Photograph by Lewis Hine, January 1909

HINE: CHILD LABORER, 1908. A young worker waiting for the night shift at a glassworks factory in Indiana. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1908

HINE: CHILD LABOR, 1913. A four-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy pick cotton and live in migrant wagons in McKinney, Texas. Photograph by Lewis Hine, October 1913

HINE: HOME INDUSTRY, 1911. A mother and her seven-year-old daughter working on lace in a tenement at 301 East 114th Street in New York City

HINE: HOME INDUSTRY, 1911. A mother and her thirteen-year-old daughter working on pillow-lace in a dirty tenement kitchen at 213 East 111th Street in New York City

HINE: HOME INDUSTRY, 1911. A family making willow plumes from feathers, as the unemployed truck-driver father observes the work in an unsanitary tenement apartment at 309 East 110th Street in New

HINE: HOME INDUSTRY, 1911. A family making feathers late at night as the unemployed father observes the work in an unsanitary tenement apartment in New York City

HINE: HOME INDUSTRY, 1911. A family including the father shelling nuts in basement with unsanitary conditions in New York City. Photograph by Lewis Hine, December 1911

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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.