Carpenter Collection (#4)

Hyperechia nigripennis, robber fly
A robber fly, an African predatory fly with a carpenter bee (Xylocopa) that it mimics. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885)
Member of the Challenger expedition (1873-1876) with responsibility for Orbitolites. The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876)

Philip Herbert Carpenter
Portrait of Philip Herbert Carpenter, scientist and stalker or Crinoids on board HMS Challenger during the expedition of 1872 - 1876

London Fire Brigade HQ workshop, Lambeth
Men at work in the London Fire Brigade HQ workshop, Lambeth

Poster promoting Holland - Toymaker
A Dutch craftsman surrounded by the wooden toys he has been making - a design for a poster promoting tourism. circa 1960

La premiere extravagance. Buying the cradle

First pier at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

The Pageant of the Child, Wandsworth, London
Scene from The Pageant of the Child, a set of beautifully staged tableaux produced by the Waifs and Strays Society at Wandsworth Town Hall, London

Chinese Carpenter building a house
A Chinese Carpenter building a house using traditional techniques. Date: circa 1910s

Ledbury Market Hall
The fine old Market Hall at Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. It was built in 1663 by John Abel, who then held the office of the Kings (Charles II) Carpenter. Date: 17th century

Monastic Carpenter
A Carthusian monk carpenter at work at the monastery of La Valsainte, Switzerland. Date: early 1940s

Preparations for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, 1852
The Nelson Monument in St Pauls cathedral, as preparations for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington get under way. Date: 1852

Apprentice cabinet maker, Shoreditch, London
An apprentice learning his trade at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. c.1947

Welsh Cabinet Makers with prams
The shop of W. Davies, a Cabinet Maker and Undertaker, of Station Road, Llanelli who was known as Davies the Celfi (Davies the Furniture)

Girl Takes Doll to Shop
A young girl takes her doll to a carpentry shop and asks them if they would mend her doll, whose head has fallen off. Date: 1879

Carpenters in the 18th C
A group of carpenters on a building site in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Child labour in carpenters shop
Carpenters apprentice, France 1841

Boys in training at a Borstal institution
Boys in training in a carpenters workshop at an unidentified Borstal institution

Music cover for I Met Her In The Crystal Halls, a Ballad inspired by the Great Exhibition, with words by J E Carpenter (1813-1885) and music by Stephen Glover (1812-1870)

Mary Carpenter(1807-1877)Social reformer and educator

Wood Turning, Tunisia
A carpenter turns wood supported using his feet

Sawing a large plank
Two carpenters use a large upright saw to split a large wooden plank. A colleague is signalling a break with the arrival of a cup of tea, whilst two boys look on with keen interest

Carpenters building a wagon
Three carpenters working on a wooden wagon, using traditional tools and techniques. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Tiny Town carpenters constructing a shop
A group of Tiny Town carpenters constructing a shop, part of a Tiny Town exhibition at Olympia, West London

Victoria Cross, The New Order of Valour
Special colour supplement from the ILN, June 1857 to commemorate the introduction of the Victoria Cross, a new order of valour first bestowed by Queen Victoria upon Crimean War veterans

Cricket / Team / Australia
Lord Sheffields Australian Team: Carpenter, Attewell, Lohmann, Read, Bean, Sharpe, Thoms, Briggs, McGregor, Grace, Peel, Stoddart, Abel

Cricket / Team / Essex
Essex Burns, Mead, Armour, McGahey, Pikett, Russell, F.L.Fane, Kortright, H.G.Owen (Captain), G.F.Higgins, F.G.Bull, Carpenter

John Carpenter, Clerk
JOHN CARPENTER Citizen of London, Town Clerk and benefactor

The Shadow of the Cross
JESUS OF NAZARETH The boy Jesus on the shoulders of his mother Mary, making the sign of the cross

William Boyd Carpenter
WILLIAM BOYD William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, royal chaplain and clerk of the closet to Edward VII and George V. Created KCVO in 1912. Great orator

Carpenter at Work / Sawing
A carpenter uses a large frame saw to split a thin piece of wood held tightly to his bench

Chinese Carpenter
A Chinese carpenter carrying a large block of wood on his back

Aesop / Carpenter
Of a Carpenter illustration to Caxtons 1484 edition of Aesops Fables

The Carpenter 1827
A carpenter planing the edge of a board; a Turkey stone for sharpening his tools is in his work box and a newly made door and roof rafters behind him

British Female Soldiers
British women soldiers do some carpentry. Date: 1917

15th Century Carpenter
A companion carpenter at work with an axe

A Chiltern Carpenter
A Chiltern woodworker shaves a piece of wood, probably a chair or table leg

The Old Shipyard - a carpenter shapes the timbers of a sailing vessel

Wood / Carpenter / Miss Chip
Miss Chip the Carpenters Daughter, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

Wood / Carpenter / Mstr Chip
Master Chip the Carpenters Son, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

Wood / Carpenter / Mrs Chip
Mrs Chip the Carpenters Wife, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

The Walrus & Carpenter
The Walrus & The Carpenter The Walrus eats the last oyster

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