Abacus Collection

Chinese Abacus 1814
A man uses a " swan-pen" - a Chinese version of the abacus

BOOKMAKERS
Kendall and McManus bookmakers stand by their blackboards as the race commences. Top tips include No.2, Westcroft

Chinese Pharmacy 1864
Traditional Chinese dispensaries have changed little over time. Herbs are weighed out in daily doses, and patients receive bags of herbs to last the treatment. Date: 1864

Japanese man counting on an abacus

Barnardo's Kindergarten
Interior of an unidentified Barnardo's kindergarten. A large abacus stands at the centre. Date: circa 1908

Italy. Sicily. Archaeological site of Agrigento. Temple of J
Italy. Sicily. Vallery of the Temples. Archaeological site of Agrigento. Temple of Juno Lacinia. 450 BC. Measuring 15 x 16.90 m. Doric style, peripteros 6 columns. Date:

Chinese swan pan or abacus, and pottery shop, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

Toy shop assistant
People You See. Toy shop assistant. From Teddy Bear (15 August 1964). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1964

At the Toy Shop - People You See. From Teddy Bear (23 December 1967). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1967

Papyriform column. Egypt
Papyriform column of grey granite. The abacus has the name of King Amenhotep III and the axis shows the name of Merneptah of the 19th Dynasty

Hans the Clever Horse
Hans a horse of singular mathmatical skill, with his handler, and his tutor Wilhelm von Osten, who was convinced that animals possessed an intelligence equal to humans

Italy. Paestum. Ruins. Campania. Southern Italy

Italy. Paestum. Temple of Neptune
Greek art. Magna Grecia. Italy. Paestum. Temple of Neptune, actually dedicated to the goddess Hera. Built around 450-460 BC. Doric style. Front

Temple on Aegina. Doric capital from the cella of the temple
Greek art. Aphaia Temple on Aegina. Doric capital from the inner room (cella) of the temple. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Abacus, also called a counting frame. Cesis. Latvia

Greek Art. Sanctuary of Olympia. Doric column at the Palaestra. Hellenistic period. 3rd century B.C. Greece

Greek Art. Nymphaeum of Herodes Atticus. Doric column. Greec
Greek Art. Nymphaeum of Herodes Atticus. Built around the year 160. Doric column. Altis. Sanctuary of Olympia. Greece

Greek Art. Temple of Zeus. Ruins (471-456 BC). Altis. Olympia. Greece

Greek Art. Parthenon (447-438 BC). Entablature. Acropolis. A
Greek Art. Parthenon. Was built between 447-438 BC. in Doric style under leadership of Pericles. The building was designed by the architects Ictinos and Callicrates

Man with abacus, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

A Street Hardware Stall, Japan - selling a wide array of goods including scissors, tongs, trowels, pans, hinges and metal rods. Date: circa 1910s

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Birds on a Wire

The red snappers dream: Ebisu using an abacus. Print shows a red snapper in a basket dreaming that Ebisu, one of the seven lucky gods of Japan, is using an abacus. Date 1805

Thames Street, Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand
Old historic buildings in Thames Street, in the business district of Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand

Settling the Bargain- Fishmongers shop in St. Petersburg
Freezing conditions at a market stall showing fish being weighed and the fishmonger totting up the total on an abacus

AN ABACUS
An abacus adding machine

Dolls at School
A smart little girl in a pretty dress with matching red shoes, ribbons and alice band, plays teacher with her blackboard and chalk. Her doll and teddy are the pupils

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