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Clay Collection (page 6)

Background imageClay Collection: Making Clay Pots

Making Clay Pots
A man moulds vast clay pots, which will later be used for melting glass into. Date: 1930s

Background imageClay Collection: Racial /s Africa / Zulu

Racial /s Africa / Zulu
A Zulu woman: her hair is dressed with red clay Date: 1905

Background imageClay Collection: Transporting China Clay

Transporting China Clay from St Austell, Cornwall, to the docks. Discovered in the UK in the 1740s, St Austell is one of the main sources of China Clay. Date: 1930s

Background imageClay Collection: Roof Tiler Lays Slates

Roof Tiler Lays Slates
Roof tilers at work laying on the slates. Date: 1930s

Background imageClay Collection: Henry Clay (Chappel)

Henry Clay (Chappel)
HENRY CLAY American statesman, known as the great pacificator Date: 1777-1852

Background imageClay Collection: John Randolph / Npg / Vol II

John Randolph / Npg / Vol II
JOHN RANDOLPH American statesman, fought harmless duel with Henry Clay Date: 1773 - 1833

Background imageClay Collection: Robin with a Pipe

Robin with a Pipe
A robin smokes a clay pipe - a very early Christmas card Date: circa 1860

Background imageClay Collection: Tottenham Hotspur FC football team 1922

Tottenham Hotspur FC football team 1922. Back row: W Minter (Trainer), Smith, Clay, Blake, Grimsdel, Walters, McDonald. Front row: Walden, Seed, Cantrell, Thompson, Dimmock. Date: 1922

Background imageClay Collection: Man smoking a clay pipe, c. 1800

Man smoking a clay pipe, c. 1800
Man sitting comfortably on a bench smoking a clay pipe, c.1800 Date: C.1800

Background imageClay Collection: Aborigines with bodypainting, Borogegal man of Port Jackson

Aborigines with bodypainting, Borogegal man of Port Jackson.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Background imageClay Collection: Dance of the Ohlone people in feathers and bodypaint

Dance of the Ohlone people in feathers and bodypaint.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Background imageClay Collection: Interior Harveys Engine House, East Pool Mine, Pool

Interior Harveys Engine House, East Pool Mine, Pool
Interior Harveys Engine House, East Pool Mine (tin, copper and china clay), Pool, near Redruth, Cornwall, England. Showing the to cylinder of Harveys Engine. Date: 1900s

Background imageClay Collection: Turkmen girl - in traditional dress - boils water

Turkmen girl - in traditional dress - boils water for tea on an outdoor stove - a bread-stove build of clay is behind. Karahoudan village - foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan

Background imageClay Collection: Paris Exhibition 1900 - Chinese potters

Paris Exhibition 1900 - Chinese potters
Slide showing a colour picture of a exhibition of group of chinese men working clay.. Part of Box 198. Boswell Collection. Paris Exhibition. Slide number 24

Background imageClay Collection: Plasticine advertisement, WW1

Plasticine advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Harbutts Plasticine from 1918, offering something to do to pass a pleasant hour when the weather is dull and wet and things at home seem gloomy

Background imageClay Collection: Cooking food for army in the field WWI

Cooking food for army in the field WWI
Various types of ovens and kitchens, from brick and clay ovens, parallel kitchen, broad arrow kitchen, aldershot ovens and internally heated oven burrowed into the side of a bank. Date: 1915

Background imageClay Collection: Syrian Housing

Syrian Housing
Syrias villages are poor, and these domed houses are characteristic dwellings. They are made of clay and erected over a wall of stones or ruins. Date: 1930s

Background imageClay Collection: HENRY CLAY

HENRY CLAY American statesman with his autograph Date: 1777-1852

Background imageClay Collection: School of Sculpture

School of Sculpture
A class of female students at the London County School of Sculpture modelling clay busts based on live models. Date: 1930s

Background imageClay Collection: Clay Modelling Students

Clay Modelling Students
Young men learning clay modelling at the London County School of Sculpture. Date: 1930s

Background imageClay Collection: South Africa - Brickmaking

South Africa - Brickmaking. Date: circa 1908

Background imageClay Collection: Jeremiah breaking the potters vessels

Jeremiah breaking the potters vessels
Jeremiah breaking the Potters vessels. circa 19th century

Background imageClay Collection: Cartoon of clay-diggers / peasants and mole

Cartoon of clay-diggers / peasants and mole. Woodblock by George Cruikshank, from Chandos Wren-Hoskyns, Talpa or the Chronicles of a Clay Farm. An Agricultural Fragment(3rd edition). Frontispiece

Background imageClay Collection: Belemnotheutis antiquus

Belemnotheutis antiquus
A well-preserved Upper Jurassic squid aged 160 million years. This specimen originates from the famous clay deposits in Wiltshire

Background imageClay Collection: Limacina mercinensis, holoplanktonic mollusc

Limacina mercinensis, holoplanktonic mollusc
Fossilised specimens of Holoplaktonic molluscs found in early Eocene, London Clay at Highgate, London. 58 million years old

Background imageClay Collection: Fossil collecting near Aveley, Essex

Fossil collecting near Aveley, Essex
Palaeontologists collecting the remains of a woolly mammoth and a straight-tusked elephant from a clay pit near Aveley, Essex in 1964

Background imageClay Collection: Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck, fossil oysters

Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck, fossil oysters
About 190 million years old, found in the Lias clays and limestones of the Jurassic period. Commonly called Devils Toenails

Background imageClay Collection: Clay Toy Turtles and spiders

Clay Toy Turtles and spiders
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge (1858-1949). Captioned: Clay Toy Turtles with Heads and Legs that waggle costing one anna. Cawnpore

Background imageClay Collection: Shale

Shale
Compacted platy clay particles give shales their typical laminated structure. Shale is a sedimentry rock which is composed of many fine-grained clay particles

Background imageClay Collection: Spizella pallida, Junco hyemalis, Passerina amoena

Spizella pallida, Junco hyemalis, Passerina amoena
Plate 398 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Background imageClay Collection: Seated Woman wirh Child. Clay figure. Greek art

Seated Woman wirh Child. Clay figure. Greek art. Sculpture. ITALY. Taranto. Taranto Archaelogical National Museum

Background imageClay Collection: ALGERIA. EL OUED. Timimoune. Typical house built

ALGERIA. EL OUED. Timimoune. Typical house built with red clay

Background imageClay Collection: ARGENTINA. SAN JUAN. Ischigualasto National Park

ARGENTINA. SAN JUAN. Ischigualasto National Park. Moon Valley (Triassic geological period). Clay spheres

Background imageClay Collection: Philosopher. ITALY. Taranto. Taranto Archaelogical

Philosopher. ITALY. Taranto. Taranto Archaelogical National Museum. Clay figure. Greek art. Sculpture

Background imageClay Collection: Xochipilli. Prince of Flowers

Xochipilli. Prince of Flowers
Human head going out from animals jaws. Late classical period. Clay. Maya art. Sculpture on rock. Proc: MEXICO

Background imageClay Collection: Urn with a seated character

Urn with a seated character

Background imageClay Collection: Portrait of Claude Renoir

Portrait of Claude Renoir
RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919). Portrait of Claude Renoir. Baked clay relief. Relief

Background imageClay Collection: Bouquet in a Clay Vase

Bouquet in a Clay Vase
Breugel, Jan, The Elder, called Velvet Bruegel (1568-1625). Bouquet in a Clay Vase. Flemish art. Oil on wood

Background imageClay Collection: Kore

Kore. Baked clay. Archaic Greek art. Sculpture. Proc: SPAIN. L Escala. Empories

Background imageClay Collection: Brick making buffalo mill to soften clay - Rangoon

Brick making buffalo mill to soften clay - Rangoon -. to pour into a super meat grinder with bullocks going round and round to squeeze it into a malleable mass... Date: 1952

Background imageClay Collection: Brick making clay pit - Rangoon

Brick making clay pit - Rangoon - Deep clay pits with sweating Indians carrying up baskets of the rich clay on their heads, . Date: 1952

Background imageClay Collection: Death of Col. Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, Feby. 23d, 1847

Death of Col. Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, Feby. 23d, 1847. Group of officers surrounding the dying Col. Clay. Date c1847

Background imageClay Collection: Champion Stallion George Wilkes, the great sire of trotters

Champion Stallion George Wilkes, the great sire of trotters

Background imageClay Collection: Hon. Henry Clay

Hon. Henry Clay

Background imageClay Collection: Burning of the Henry Clay steamship near Yonkers

Burning of the Henry Clay steamship near Yonkers

Background imageClay Collection: The grand trotter St. Julien, driven by Orrin A. Hickok: by

The grand trotter St. Julien, driven by Orrin A. Hickok: by volunteer, dam by Sayres Harry Clay. Date c1880

Background imageClay Collection: St. Julien: by Volunteer, dam by Sayres Harry Clay

St. Julien: by Volunteer, dam by Sayres Harry Clay. Date c1879

Background imageClay Collection: The king of the turf St. Julien, driven by Orrin A. Hickok

The king of the turf St. Julien, driven by Orrin A. Hickok: by Volunteer, dam by Sayres Harry Clay. Date c1880



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