Digging Collection

Mechanical digger

Peat cutting, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Yellow fork lift truck

Digital illustration of wooden pegs gauging depth for patio in excavated soil

Men Digging in Streets During Gold Rush
(Original Caption) Alaska gold rush of 1898 -- first hour's work. Undated photo shows men digging in the streets of a small Alaska town

Girls working in Garden
New York, NY: Young gardeners at the Avenue A Children's Garden- Avenue A and 66th St

Miners Work Underground
(Original Caption) Klondike Goldrush. Miners working underground. Gold Hill Y.T. Undated photograph. BPA#2 2209

African Am Family Moving North; Illus
(Original Caption) ORIGINAL CAPTION (in German) READS: "The Negro travelling from the South

Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way Lithograph by Currier & Ives
(Original Caption) Across the Continent. "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way." Undated Currier and Ives lithograph

The Man Who Can Make the Dirt Fly Cartoon by Dalrymple
Caricature, Theodore Roosevelt: "The Man Who Can Make Dirt Fly." Lithograph, 1905

Construction of the Panama Canal
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Girl (6-7 years) with shovel on beachNarragansett, Rhode Island, USA. July 22, 1914

Elephant pulling sleigh in snow
12/15/1917-New York, New York-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Picture shows a Central Park Zoo elephant helping to clear the snow on the park roadway

Mothers Planting Tree During Ceremony
(Original Caption) 1920- New York, NY: Mother's Day celebration in Central Park, NYC. Gold Star mothers plant a tree to commemorate the envent

Digging for Coal by Railroad
(Original Caption) Poverty and scarcity of coal for fuel is the only reason for this occupation

Archaeologist Digging Around Boat
(Original Caption) Find Century-Old Boat Well Preserved In Excavation

WPA Road Construction Workers Widening Streets
(Original Caption) WPA Work Program: Curb stones removed and street widened by making sidewalks narrower. Photograph, ca. 1935

Crowd Watches Digging for Bones of Torso Victims
Finding of the bones of the twelfth

Men Planting Seedlings on Clear-Cut
A group of Civilian Conservation Corps members plant seedlings on a clear-cut hillside in Oregon

Chicago Subway Under Construction
Construction crane lay the girders to support Milwaukee Avenue as the subway is constructed in downtown Chicago

Women Digging Defenses
(Original Caption) Women help dig Leningrad defenses. Russia- Leningrad inhabitants, including women of all ages, take shovels and picks to help to defend their city to the last. October 25, 1941

Invasion of Sicily
A soldier digs a deep hole on a beach in Sicily after the allied invasion of Sicily

Digging In
Assigned to an advance post days after the allied landings at Nettuno on January 22nd, fifth army men "dig in" on the bank of the Mussolini Canal

Chinese Construction Workers Building Airfield Using Picks
(Original Caption) 3/31/1944-China: Lack of modern equipment and machinery isn't stopping the resourseful Chinese from building modern airfields in China

American Soldiers Dig Foxholes
(Original Caption) 04/05/1945-Germany: DIGGING IN ON FAR SIDE OF RHINE

Man Digging Automobile Out of Snow
(Original Caption) 12/26/1947- New York, NY- Optimists who brought their cars into the city today and confidently parked them in parking lots, had their problems when they tried to get home

Cleaning Snow off of Buried House
(Original Caption) 1949- Denver, CO- Home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Larson of Logan County, Denver, CO, after the recent blizzard

Terra Cotta Soldiers in Qin Shi Huangdi Tomb
4/27/1984- Peking, China: Ronald Reagan and Premier Zhao Ziyang shake hands in foyer of Great Hall prior to talks

Students Dig Trenches in Nicaragua
Nicaraguan children dig defensive trenches while a Sandinista soldier looks on. Officials fear attacks by U.S.-backed contra soldiers before elections in 1984

Man Digging Through Two Feet of Snow
(Original Caption) 12/28/1987- Denver, CO- Mitch Samu starts the long process of digging out from under two feet of snow eary 12/28 in Denver

Three girls (4-5) playing in sand on beach
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Men And Women Digging For Own Coal
(Original Caption) Due to the high cost of living during World War I, the poorer men and women in New York had to dig for their coal as shown in our picture. Photograph, ca. 1917

General View Of Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine
(Original Caption) General view of mining operations in the Hull-Rust-Mahoning iron ore mine - the World's largest at Hibbing, Minnesota

California Gold Diggers Illustration
An illustration of gold miners from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion magazine, 1856

Irish Women Digging Up Potatoes
(Original Caption) Roscommon County, Ireland- Women digging in a field for a crop of potatoes in the Hundred Acre Bog. Undated engraving. BPA2# 5555

12th Century Manuscript Illustration of Medicinal Plant Gathering
A medieval herbalist supervises gathering of medicinal plants, as depicted in a 12th century Apuleius-Dioscorides manuscript. | Located in: Eton College

Men Digging for Gold
(Original Caption) 1878- "We find gold on our lot. Gold in Canada- Emigrant life in the backwoods." Men are shown with tools, digging in the ground for gold. Illustration

People Dig Trenches In Preparing For War
(Original Caption) 5/4/1949-Shanghai, China: Working under military supervision, residents of Shanghai frantically dig trenches in the suburbs of the city

Men Using Jackhammers During Dam Construction

Archaeological Dig at Nippur
(Original Caption) 1952-Iraq- Members of the University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania expedition to Nippur, Iraq digging in a city of the 20th century BC

Assyrian Treasure Hunt
In the cradle of civilization, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, British Archeologist M.E

Jordanian Archaeologists Unearthing Ancient Tower
(Original Caption) Jordanian workers, trained in archeological work, are seen on the top of a tower which is believed to date back to 7, 000 B.C

Mary Leakey Excavating
On the site where she discovered the skull estimated to be six hundred thousand years old, Mrs. Mary Leakey, wife of Dr. Louis B. Leakey, works away

Mary and Louis Leakey Studying Skull Fragments
Husband and wife Louis and Mary Leakey study fossilized skull fragments which may belong to the "missing link" between ape and man

President Kennedy Planting a Tree
President John F. Kennedy participates in a tree-planting ceremony in Ottawa, Canada

Louis and Mary Leakey Digging For Bones
(Original Caption) Tanganyika: Louis S. B. Leakey and his wife, Mary, are shown digging for bits of bones and tools of prehistoric humans. Filed 7/22/1961

West Germans Resting from Digging Tunnel
Two West Germans take a rest from digging a tunnel nine feet under a border street between West and East Berlin

Lyndon Johnson Breaking Ground
(Original Caption) A Shovel-Full. Washington: President Johnson picks up the traditional shovel-full of dirt during ground-breaking ceremonies for the John F

Workers Digging in Rectangular Pit
(Original Caption) 12/10/1966-Ratnapura, Ceylon- Dressed in typical native attire, Ceylonese workers dig a pit in search of gem gravel

Soldier Digging a Grave
A United States Marine digs a grave in a church courtyard near Quang Tri in Vietnam in 1967

Archaeological Site on Thira
(Original Caption) Greece

James Mavor and Others Excavating
(Original Caption) 3, 400 Year Old City Found, Linked to Atlantis. Thera, Greece: James M. Mavor, Jr

Dug-In Bunker And Trench Complex
Bunkers and trenches are built up at Khe Sanh by US marines during the Vietnam War

Phu Giao, South Vietnam
Male and female members of South Vietnam's militia force help dig anti-tank trenches to protect this town from possible attack from the north

Digging at the Site of Peking Man
(Original Caption) Anthropologists and local workmen dig near the original cave where the "Beijing Man" skull was discovered 50 years ago in the nearby village of Zhoukoudian

Workers and Students Dig Up Cobblestones
(Original Caption) 7/17/1980-La Paz

Motorists Dig Out Cars on Snowy Parkway
(Original Caption) 2/12/1983-New York

megatherium
Megatherium (" Great Beast")

hesperornis
Hesperornis was a large bird, reaching up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) in length. It had virtually no wings, and swam with its powerful hind legs

West Front of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales
Tintern Abbey, in Monmouthshire, Wales, was founded in 1131 beside the River Wye - the boundary between Wales and England

Senior woman digging in garden
Easy Retouch, outdoors, day, side view, full length, crouching, casual clothing, 70s, one senior woman only, one person, retirement, leisure, domestic garden, caucasian appearance, hobbies

Construction Equipment
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Blue machinery
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Men Working
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Earth Moving Equipment
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Bulldozer
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Futuristic Dump Truck
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Placer Mining By Oldtimers
An example of placer mining for gold, with three men, named Spriggs, Lamb, and Dillon, working alongside a sluice box, Rockerville, South Dakota, 1889. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Tractor pulling a plough

Illustration, Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata) digging in ground, side view

Illustration of Common Mole (Scalopus aquaticus) burrowing underground

Illustration of the burrowing technique of a Razor clam (Ensis sp. )
Illustration of the burrowing technique of a Razor clam (Ensis sp.)

Family of small rabbits close to his burrow monitored closely over his mother
Nature reserve of the saw Mariola in Bocairent. Valencian community, Spain

Peat briquettes used for fuel in private homes are dried by the citizens themselves, Birr, Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Steel Mill
1st May 1955: Men working at the furnaces of a Sheffield steel mill. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8067 - Importance Of Yorkshire - unpub. (Photo by Joseph McKeown/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Peat Extraction
24th September 1955: A sixteen-ton disc ditcher harvesting Highland peat for fuel

Relaxed cat
Relaxed Cat peeing and it want privacy

Street in ancient Rome
Illustration of a Street in ancient Rome

The excavated Pompeii
Illustration of The excavated Pompeii

Pompeii
Illustration of Pompeii

South American amalgam mill

Multi-row hoeing
Antique illustration of a multi-row hoeing

Amalgamation farm
Antique illustration of a Amalgamation farm, miners working on surface mine

The Treasure Seeker
Engraving of a man unearthing buried treasure, 17th century. Based on work by the Dutch artist Leonard Bramer. (Photo by /Getty Images)

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