Adding Collection

Bonzo adds a fifth to the quartet
Bonzo, listening to music on the radio, adds a fifth to the quartet, and starts to howl. Date: 1923

1940S Housewife Cooking
A housewife cooks on a simple stove in a bare and austere kitchen, adding milk to the pan she is stirring

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

GIRLS PLAY BOWLS / 1940S
Faith Dorn, Alice Talton, Juanita Stark, Lucia Carroll and Jean Ames wait for the final bowl before adding up the score. Date: 1940s

Horus-Seth (2)
In some of his many forms, the falcon-god Horus takes on the attributes of other deities : here he is as HORUS-SETH, adding Seths formidable powers to his own

The Tile House
A photograph showing the entrance to The Tile House, an English home from the early 1900s, with a flagged pathway, overgrown in areas adding to it's charm. Date: circa 1929

Pastry making - Adding Decoration 1907
Add a few pastry leaves for Decoration. Date: 1907

Advert for The Adder Adding Machine. 1909

U. S. Troops depart for Mexico 1914
A line of US soldiers in uniform and full kit march onto a ship, surrounded by wooden boxes full of supplies and weapons, en route to Mexico

Early Adding Machine Date: 1930

ROAST PARSNIPS
Carefully buttering up large parsnip slices and adding salt and pepper before roasting them in the oven. Date: 1930s

WOMAN PREPARES TO DYE
A woman prepares a dye mixture before adding it to a basin of water. Date: 1940s

CHIMNEY SWEEP & BRUSH CHIMNEY SWEEP & BRUSH
A chimney sweep pushes his brush futher up the chimney by adding poles to the end. He seals the chimney up to prevent coal dust pouring into the room. Date: 1940s

Religion / Egypt / Amun
The supreme god of the Egyptian pantheon : sometimes known as AMUN-RE, adding the attributes of RE, the creator sun-god of Heliopolis

Adding Handles to China Baskets Before Firing, Belleek Potteries - an interior shot showing a row of men at a bench adding handles to the china baskets

James Granger / Cook / 1825
JAMES GRANGER book collector whose name is given to the custom of adding extra illustrations to books Date: 1723 - 1776

Sketch of stylish Garden furniture, 1927. Adding comfort and pleasure to summer days in the garden Date: 1927

Come along Daddy, drink it up. Miss. Jane Bull offers her father a steaming mug labelled Votes for Women, adding, You don t know how much good it may do those rheumatic pains of yours

WW2 poster, Elephants know no arithmetic. Its the little things that count. Attention to detail is vital to all good work. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Furniture maker - Local Egyptian artisan, Cairo
Furniture maker, adding bone inlay to an octagonal table - Local Egyptian artisan, Cairo. Date: circa 1910s

Scientist at work adding alcohol to a specimen jar
An end to the effort of moving large volumes of spirit around the storerooms by hand, in the Darwin Centre alcohol is available at the workbench on tap

Girl using adding machine. Date between 1930 and 1935?

Oil field workers adding a length of pipe to drill stream by means of heavy pipe wrenches, Kilgore, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

Adding Yeast
Adding yeast make pear wine. Date: 1960s

Mr George Smith of The British Museum
George Smith had explored the site of ancient Nineveh adding to our knowledge of the Assyrian Empire. He also translated the Gilgamesh epic

Blackpool Pier
Opening of the new pier at Blackpool, Lancashire, adding yet another attraction to this popular holiday resort

Sewing Underwear
Photograph showing a woman adding trim and finishing touches to underclothes in 1911

Fable / the Mock-Bird
THE MOCK-BIRD The mock-bird is chastised by a little warbler for imitating and ridiculing their songs without adding any original strains of his own

AN ABACUS
An abacus adding machine

Decorating Xmas Tree
A little boy and girl, put the finishing touches to their fake Christmas tree, adding the last bits of tinsel and a bell. The presents will be opened tomorrow morning

Defeated Troops Return
Defeated German troops returning home adding further pressure to the political and economic crisis

Mutus Liber - 6
MUTUS LIBER ( The Silent Book ) Adding and Distilling the Ingredients 6 of 15

Witches Brewing
Two witches prepare a magic brew, adding a snake to add a little venom, and a cock to give it flavour

James I / Van Der Werff
JAMES I with two cupids, one winged and one not, who are engaged in adding the emblem of Scotland to the British arms

Adding Machines / Fortune
An array of adding machines

Smoker Calculating ?
A Chinese smoker lies on a mat, apparently adding on his fingers : perhaps he is asking himself if he can afford a refill ?

Jean-Antoine Chaptal
JEAN-ANTOINE CHAPTAL comte de Chanteloup, French chemist, suggested adding sugar to speed fermentation of wine &c

Brewing a Potion
Two witches brew a potion, adding a cock and a snake to the seething cauldron

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