Extraction Collection

Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. September 1902
A view of the quarry face showing workers sitting on a granite block weighing an estimated 2, 738 tons. It was claimed to be the largest single block ever quarried

Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. 1903-1904
A general view of Polkanuggo Quarry with steam traction engine BETA No 483 and workers posing for the camera. The traction engine was made around June 1885 by John Fowler of Leeds

Quarry in Mabe or Constantine, Cornwall. 1903-1904
A view of the quarry face showing two workers with sledge hammers standing by a granite block that is being dressed. Part of the Freeman & Sons, Penryn Collection. Photographer: Unknown

Titterstone Quarry EAW020122
Titterstone Quarry, Clee Hill, Shropshire. Photographed by Aerofilms Ltd in 1948

Dhustone EAW020127
Dhu Stone Quarries, Clee Hill, Shropshire. Photographed from the south-west by Aerofilms Ltd in 1948

Picture No. 11050092
Marcellus Shale natural gas bearing rock gas extracted using controversial fracking or hydraulic fracturing New York, USA Date:

Seaham Colliery CCX_14349_02
Seaham Colliery, Seaham, County Durham. Begun in 1849, it was producing coal into the 1980s before final closure in 1993. At it height, in 1914, the colliery employed 2

Freeman & Sons dressing floor, probably Penryn, Cornwall. 1903-1904
Classical granite columns on the dressing floor of Freeman & Sons works. The man pictured is either Bernard Freeman or his brother. Part of the Freeman & Sons, Penryn Collection. Photographer: Unknown

Transporting granite blocks for King Alfreds statue to Penryn Station, Penryn, Cornwall. 1901
Fowler traction engines 7974 and 9016 are pictured hauling blocks of granite from one of the Mabe quarries to Penryn Station, for onward transportation by train to Winchester, Hampshire

Tresahor Quarry, Constantine, Cornwall. 1903-1904
A general view of the quarry with the crane used for moving the granite blocks. Part of the Freeman & Sons, Penryn Collection. Photographer: Unknown

Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. Around 1900
A view of the quarry face showing workers holding the tools of their trade while dressing stones. Blocks of granite are ready to be moved using the cranes based at the edge of the quarry

Elsecar Low Pit Colliery 28940_055
Elsecar Low Pit Colliery, Hemingfield, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Photographed in May 2017

Elsecar Low Pit Colliery 28940_052
Elsecar Low Pit Colliery, Hemingfield, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Photographed in May 2017

Peat cutting with blocks drying Isle of Skye, Scotland
MAB-20 Peat cutting with blocks / briquettes drying Isle of Skye, Scotland Extracting fuel fossil seam. Mark Boulton Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Young woman tapping a rubber tree, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Quincy Copper Mine, Hancock, Michigan - Shaft No. 2
Quincy No.2 mine shaft (with the old hoist house at right) at the Quincy Copper Mine, Hancock, Michigan. This amazing structure was eventually replaced with the steel structure at the site today

Industrial Revolution. England. Mining. Nineteenth-century engraving

Picture No. 11050106
Marcellus Shale natural gas bearing rock gas extracted using controversial fracking or hydraulic fracturing New York, USA Date:

Star of the East Gold Mine, Ballarat, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Star of the East Gold Mine, Ballarat, 1901. Ballarat on the Yarrowee River in the Central Highlands of Victoria, was transformed during the Victorian gold rush. From " Federated Australia"

Maen Quarry, Constantine, Cornwall. 1903-1904
A general view of the quarry with the crane used for moving the granite blocks. A number men can be seen with cut blocks at the foot of the quarry face. Part of the Freeman & Sons, Penryn Collection

Bosahan Quarry, Constantine, Cornwall. 1903-1904
General view of the quarry with men standing by cut granite blocks and the crane used for moving the blocks. Two men are standing either side of a horse and cart

Maen Quarry, Constantine, Cornwall. Around 1900
A view of the quarry face showing workers holding the tools of their trade while dressing stones. Blocks of granite are ready to be moved using the crane. Photographer: Samuel John Govier

American Samoa - Pago Pago - production of copra
Pago Pago, Capital of American Samoa - the cultivation of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) for the production of copra, the dried flesh of the coconut

Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08786
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE

Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08782
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE. A view of the restoration of Whitley Bay Golf Course following the completion of opencast mining on the site

The dentist, 1523. Creator: Lucas van Leyden
The dentist, 1523. A dentist, clad in a large, fanciful hat and an ornate robe, probing the teeth of a clearly agonised, impoverished peasant

A beekeeper
5307431 A beekeeper.; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a beekeeper. Top: a feeding bottle which would be filled with syrup to replenish stores after honey is extracted)

The Turon Gold Field in New South Wales
5311930 The Turon Gold Field in New South Wales; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the Turon Gold Field in New South Wales: the man in the left of the picture is raising a bucket of soil which will be)

17th century dentistry
6117157 17th century dentistry; (add.info.: A patient is tied to a chair while a dentist extracts a tooth. After a 17th century engraving by Aert van Waes.); Photo © Ken Welsh

Jack Cade (d1450) English rebel of Irish extraction, leader of Kentish Rebellion during reign of Henry VI
535505 Jack Cade (d1450) English rebel of Irish extraction, leader of Kentish Rebellion during reign of Henry VI, declaring himself Lord of London. Held London for about 2 days

Washing ore to extract gold, 16th century (engraving)
540732 Washing ore to extract gold, 16th century (engraving); (add.info.: Water is fed into a sieve containing crushed ore)

Woodblock engraving depicting the eagle stone (in the mouth of an eagle) which was enclosed accretion of small loose
5308559 Woodblock engraving depicting the eagle stone (in the mouth of an eagle) which was enclosed accretion of small loose stones: it was supposed to possess magical properties

Woodblock engraving depicting the extraction of a precious stone believed to exist in the head of a toad
5308557 Woodblock engraving depicting the extraction of a precious stone believed to exist in the head of a toad, 15th century (engraving); (add.info)

Work at the Bakalskii mine, 1910. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Work at the Bakalskii mine, 1910. A family, with shovels and horse-drawn carts, working at the iron mines in the Bakaly hills

Stone crusher, Beloomut, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Stone crusher, Beloomut, 1912. Men standing near a stone cutting machine, river in background

Gold Miners Near Beechworth, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Gold Miners Near Beechworth, 1901. Beechworth in the north-east of Victoria, Australia, saw major growth during the gold rush of the mid-1850s. From " Federated Australia"

Copper Mines, Walhalla, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Copper Mines, Walhalla, 1901. Walhalla was a small town in Victoria, Australia, founded as a gold-mining community in late 1862 and at its peak home to around 4, 000 residents

Gold Diggers at Work near Beechworth, Victoria, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Gold Diggers at Work near Beechworth, Victoria, 1901. Beechworth in the north-east of Victoria, Australia, saw major growth during the gold rush of the mid-1850s

Granite Quarries, Trawool, Victoria, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Granite Quarries, Trawool, Victoria, 1901. Trawool in central Victoria, on the middle reaches of the Goulburn River, first explored by Hume and Hovell in 1824, was later settled as a sheep station

A veteran East Prussian Infantryman Frenkiel (who won the Iron Cross) in his full service uniform - clearly of Polish extraction. Date: circa 1900s

Kettleness quarries 34113_012
Former alum quarries and jet workings at Kettleness, North Yorkshire, 2019

Kettleness quarries 34113_013
Former alum quarries and jet workings at Kettleness, North Yorkshire, 2019

Mining PDA01_02_01_00001
Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire. A miner operating a piece of machinery in Ladywash Mine near Eyam. The Ladywash Mine was originally opened as a fluorspar mine but is often

Melbur China Clay Works 33707_001
Melbur China Clay Works, Cornwall, 2018

Chimney Stack 35082_002
Redruth, Cornwall, 2021. Pedn-an-drea Chimney Stack, built for a pumping engine at a tin and copper mine

Reshaping the land JLP01_08_008795
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE. A view of scrapers at work during the restoration of Whitley Bay Golf Course, following the completion of opencast mining on the site

Reshaping the land JLP01_08_008791
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE. A view of scrapers at work on a spoil heap during the restoration of Whitley Bay Golf Course

Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08779
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE. A view of the restoration of Whitley Bay Golf Course following the completion of opencast mining on the site

Bentley Grange shaft mounds 20721_047
Bentley Grange, Denby Dale, Kirklees, West Yorkshire. Shaft mounds formed as the spoil heaps of a series of pits used for iron ore mining

Ironstone mining 28657_015
Tankersley Park, Barnsley. Ironstone mining shaft mounds, 2015. SK3498

Ironstone mining 28657_011
Tankersley Park, Barnsley. Ironstone mining shaft mounds, 2015. SK3598

South America, Peru, Cusco, Sacred Valley, Maras. A Quechua woman extracting salt from the Pre-Hispanic Inca Maras salt pans (Salinas/Salineras de Maras)

The dentist, 1748-1798. Creator: Willem Joseph Laquy
The dentist, 1748-1798

Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine, between 1900 and 1910. Creator: William H. Jackson
Hoisting ore & lowering miners, Lead Homestake Mine, between 1900 and 1910

Ableman's Narrows, between 1880 and 1899. Creator: Unknown
Ableman's Narrows, between 1880 and 1899

Gallery in Falun Copper Mine, c18th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom
Gallery in Falun Copper Mine, c18th century

Falun Copper Mine, c18th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom
Falun Copper Mine, c18th century

Copper Foundry at the Falun Mine, c18th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom
Copper Foundry at the Falun Mine, c18th century

"Falcon Steps" at the Falun Copper Mine, c18th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom
"Falcon Steps" at the Falun Copper Mine, c18th century

Quarry near the Hemelschen Berg in Oosterbeek, 1864-c. 1865. Creator: Maria Vos
Quarry near the Hemelschen Berg in Oosterbeek, 1864-c. 1865

Marble quarry near Rutland, between 1890 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Marble quarry near Rutland, between 1890 and 1905

Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist, 1651. Creator: Johannes Lingelbach
Italian Marketplace with a Quack Dentist, 1651. Other Title(s): Marketplace in an Italian Town, with an Itinerant Toothpuller

Entrance to a quarry in Montmartre, 1816. Creator: Etienne Bouhot
Entrance to a quarry in Montmartre, 1816

Who Cares?, from Puck, published October 15, 1890. Creator: Charles Jay Taylor
Who Cares?, from Puck, published October 15, 1890

Cliff Mine, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Cliff Mine, between c1900 and c1930

Hydraulic gold mining, between c1900 and 1923. Creator: Unknown
Hydraulic gold mining, between c1900 and 1923

Gastineau Gold Crushing Plant, between c1900 and 1923. Creator: Unknown
Gastineau Gold Crushing Plant, between c1900 and 1923

Gold mine, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Gold mine, between c1900 and c1930

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

Group portrait of a woman and three men, crouched outside, smiling; one... between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Group portrait of a woman and three men, crouched outside, smiling; one of the men is displaying a dish of panned gold, between c1900 and 1916

Frank G. Carpenter in middle of bucket at gold mine, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Frank G. Carpenter in middle of bucket at gold mine, between c1900 and 1916

Loading copper on ship, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Loading copper on ship, between c1900 and 1916

Loading copper on ship, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Loading copper on ship, between c1900 and 1916

Gold in pan, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Gold in pan, 1916

$1, 250, 000 in gold bullion at Miners and Merchants Bank, 1906. Creator: Lomen Brothers
$1, 250, 000 in gold bullion at Miners and Merchants Bank, 1906

Man panning gold on Nome Beach, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Lomen Brothers
Man panning gold on Nome Beach, between c1900 and c1930

Men panning gold, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Lomen Brothers
Men panning gold, between c1900 and 1927

Montana Mine, 1889. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
Montana Mine, 1889. Eight men, holding pick axes and shovels, standing in front of entrance to mine

Open cut in the great Homestake mine, at Lead City, Dak, 1888. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
Open cut in the great Homestake mine, at Lead City, Dak, 1888. Distant view of mine entrance; four men posed on or near three mining cars on tracks

Transporting workers to the mines, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Transporting workers to the mines, 1890. The album "Views of the Yakutsk Region" contains 151 photographs. Subjects include the Lena River shore; various forms of river transport--including

Celebrating Deadwood people celebrating the building of the largest reduction works of... 1888. Creator: John C. H
Celebrating. Deadwood people celebrating the building of the largest reduction works of the kind (for gold and silver ores) in the world []

Deadwood and Delaware Smelter at Deadwood, SDak, 1890. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
Deadwood and Delaware Smelter at Deadwood, SDak, 1890. Smelter industry buildings and equipment; a few men posed in front of buildings

We have it rich Washing and panning gold, Rockerville, Dak Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb... 1889. Creator: John C. H
We have it rich. Washing and panning gold, Rockerville, Dak. Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon at work []. Showing three men, with a dog, panning for gold in a stream. Title transcribed from item

Gold Dust Placer mining at Rockerville, Dak Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon at work, 1889. Creator: John C. H
Gold Dust Placer mining at Rockerville, Dak Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon at work, 1889. Three men placer mining with shovels, picks and pan

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"Unearthing History: A Glimpse into the World of Extraction" Step back in time to Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall in 1903-1904 as workers toiled tirelessly amidst rugged landscapes. Witness the sheer magnitude of Titterstone Quarry EAW020122 and Dhustone EAW020127, where men harnessed their strength to extract precious resources from deep within the earth. Transport yourself to September 1902 at Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall captured beautifully in Picture No. 11050092. Feel the energy and determination radiating from those who shaped this industry. Explore Seaham Colliery CCX_14349_02 and delve into the depths of coal extraction. Marvel at the bravery displayed by miners who risked their lives daily for a livelihood. Journey further into history with Tresahor Quarry, Constantine, Cornwall in 1903-1904 - witness skilled craftsmen shaping stone with precision and artistry. Discover another quarry nestled between Mabe or Constantine, Cornwall during that same period; observe how human ingenuity transformed raw materials into structures that still stand today. Immerse yourself once more in Polkanuggo Quarry's rich past around 1900. Experience firsthand how generations before us extracted valuable resources while leaving an indelible mark on our landscape. Finally, visit Elsecar Low Pit Colliery through captivating images like 28940_055 and 28940_052. Gain insight into a world where sweat-soaked brows were rewarded with black gold – coal that fueled nations. These glimpses into extraction's history remind us of humanity's ceaseless quest for progress. Let us honor those who labored relentlessly beneath unforgiving terrains so we may enjoy modern comforts today.