Tools Collection (#13)

Garden Tools Gateway
A curious gateway near Sidmouth, Devon, England, which is made up of various gardening tools and impliments

Group of Workmen C1910
A group of workmen in their Sunday best, but with their workday tools -- possibly on a works outing

Back to the Grindstone
A grinder and his assistant sharpening knives or other tools on a grindstone

Secret Society
Newcomers to a secret society of medicine men are shown the magic objects and substances which will be the tools of their trade

C17 Lamplighter / Woodcut
A lamplighter with the tools of his trade - matches to light the oil lamps at nightfall, a snuffer to extinguish them at the dawns early light

Shoemaker 1867 / Gift Book
A Victorian shoemaker/cobbler at work

Industry / Tools / 1797
Various diagrams of different parts of a blow pipe

Various tools used in cartwrights trade
Various tools used in the cartwrights trade, including a mallet, a hatchet, a file, a plane and a set square

French trades book cover
Cover design for a French book about trades and their associated tools

A Farrier at work, Worcestershire
A Farrier at work, fitting a shoe to a large working horse, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Duel with Whips
Two Parisian cab-drivers fight for love of a laundress, using whips, the tools of their trade : but after the fight she says she wouldn t marry a man who uses a whip so well !

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

Book Binder 1827
A book binder using a vice to compress his books. Other books are in a large press behind him and pots of glue and tools are at his feet

Allotment Workers Ww2
Workers from the city, happily marching with their work tools over their shoulders to allotments or farms as part of the war effort

C16 Screw Press
Two printers working at a very primitive screw press : other tools of their trade are also depicted

Working with Iron / 1930S
Beating an iron rod on an anvil having first softened the metal in the roaring furnace. The workshop is full of tools which hang from the ceiling

Goldsmiths Workshop C16
Interior of the Atelier workshop of Etienne Delaulne, a celebrated goldsmith of Paris

Goldsmith / 16th Century
Goldsmiths at work

Fire Motor-Cycle / Sidecar
A motor-cycle fire-fighting unit, with a sidecar accommodating 500 feet of hose standpipes, branch-pipes, turncocks and tools

Bookbinder (Series)
Le relieur - BOOKBINDER - with his press and other tools of his trade

Salt Tools, C1871
Tools used by Breton salt workers

Blacksmith Scrap
A blacksmith stands with the tools of his trade

Electric Welding
A welder uses an electric arc- welding tool to join the metal parts of a steel structure. The parts are heated to white heat and metal added to make the join

New Schools Pavilion
The People : " New Schools" section of the South Bank Exhibition - the " latest tools and environment for school boys and girls to get the best out of contemporary education"

Skirt & Top Late 1930S
Modern halter-neck top worn with a wrap-around skirt & matching headscarf in a ethnic style print

Alchemists Workplace
An alchemist anxiously watches the progress of his work, while all around him are the tools and the raw materials of his mysterious and indeed sinister calling

Roman Writing Tools
Roman writing tools

Hatter at Work C. 1850
A London hatmaker at work on a hat made from beaver fur, obtained from the Hudsons Bay Company who supplied about 60, 000 furs a year to their Fenchurch Street salerooms

Woodworking 18th C
Cabinet makers at work in a workshop, using various tools. One is making a table, another assembles pieces of a cupboard

AXLE 1690
AISSIEU, modern Essieu : axle or spindle

Fathers Homecoming
Father comes home from work, with his tools in a bag slung over his shoulder : his family are pleased to see him again

Belgian Nuns
The Beguins, Belgian nuns, of the Beguinage convent of Ghent, Belgium, with hoes and spades and other gardening tools over their shoulders

Wine Waiters Tools
A set of implements or tools for Wine Waiters that makers of wines and spirits could have made with their names on to be given away to waiters as a form of advertising

Building a Cathedral
The architects atelier during the construction of a cathedral, with scale model, details of stonework, tools and plans

Emblem of the Sun Fire Office, insurance company
The emblem of the Sun Fire Office, an insurance company established in the early 18th century

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