Cotton Collection (page 6)

The Castle of the Counts
An etching showing a scene in the shadows cast by the Castle of the Counts, or The Gravensteen, at Ghent, East Flanders in Belgium

Grafton's Cotton Voile Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for D. H. Evans & Co. Ltd, the image shows a female model, wearing a pink robe suit in Grafton cotton voile, full skirt, bodice trimmed silk buttons and silk waistband

Captain John Treasure Jones Archive - glassware
Captain Treasure Jones Archive - RMS Queen Mary pair of souvenir goblets 1936-1967 with cotton twist stems, and a QE2 Stuart crystal January 1969 goblet. Date: 1930s-1960s

Cotton Spinning Mill Equipment Date: circa 1898

Textile fragments. Late Intermediate Horizon (1000-1450)
Textile fragments. There were different types of textiles qualities. During the Inca period, the finest was cumbi, made with vicuna. Central coast. Late Intermediate Horizon (1000-1450). Peru

Music cover, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, lyric by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers, featured and broadcast by Billy Cotton and his Band Date: 1941

Countess de la Falaise, studio fashion portrait, by Chanel. Captioned, Innumerable frills adorn our evening gowns'. With description, The Countess de la Falaise

Cotton summer fashions for women. Date: 1954

Summer fashions for women: a canoe-necked poplin dress from Bijou, and a halter-necked Paisley dress in marcella pique from Rembrandt. Date: 1954

Sewing Susan Needles and Threader
Sewing Susan, 49 silver eye needles with threader Date: circa 1950

Music cover, Bon Voyage Cherie, Billy Cotton Band
Music cover, Bon Voyage Cherie, broadcast and recorded by the Billy Cotton Band. Date: 1939

Lancashire Cotton town Knocker Up
A humourous postcard from the Lancashire Cotton Towns where knockers up were employed to waken mill workers. Notice the reference to being on strike and the caption written in Lancashire dialect Date

A Poor old Lancashire Spinner on Strike
A humourous postcard from the Lancashire Cotton Towns when organised strikes were beginning to take hold around 1910 Date: circa 1912

Costume of a lower-class merveilleuse.. Costume of a lower-class merveilleuse, habitue of the galeries de bois of the Palais Royale

Woman Working a Foot Pedalled Power Loom 1854
Factory woman seated at her frame, preparing the wasp for a handloom. At the time the population of upwards of 18, 000 people

Macclesfield Factory Girl Preparing Warp 1845
Factory girl seated at her frame, preparing the wasp for a power-loom in a large manufacturing town in the county of Chester

Cotton bales for loading onto a ship, India
Cotton bales on dock for loading onto a ship, India, c.1870 s

World War II B-29 Superfortress bombers, Yokohama
Vintage World War II photograph - incendiary bombs shower from B-29 Superfortress aircraft over the Japanese city of Yokohama

Trades in Regency Scotland: distillery, cannon boring and paviours. Workers distilling whisky in a distillery in Edinburgh 70, worker boring a cannon at Carron Works factory 71

Trades in Regency England: Spar ornaments, pottery ware and salt refiner. Alabaster stone ornaments made in the Peak District on a mantlepiece 52, shop window with pottery from Etruria

Man weaving cotton on a loom, Senegambia, 18th century. He sits with his legs in a pit, with the warp tied to a large rock, under a mat shade. A weaver. Tisserand negre

Two slatees guard a coffle of enslaved men, Senegal
Two armed Mandinka slatees (slave merchants) guard a coffle of six enslaved men, each wearing a heavy wooden neck collar supported by the man in front. Senegal, West Africa, 1800s

Woman of Senegambia beating cotton, 18th century. She beats the raw cotton instead of carding it. She sits on a wooden bench in front of a thatched hut

Blacksmith or goldsmith at work, Senegambia, 18th century. He works unders thatched hut with tools including fire, anvil, hammer, pincers and bellows. Orfevre ou Forgeron Negre. A goldsmith

Plan of the King of Sines palace, Joal, Senegambia, 18th century. Entrance A, courts B, connecting huts C, kings hut D, wives huts E, reception area F, dining area G, servants huts H

Common cotton bush, Berzelia lanuginosa, Brunia lanuginosa. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Antifever fontinalis moss, Fontinalis antipyretica, Fontanale incombustibule. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

European sea heath, Frankenia pulverulenta. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence

Cotton-spinner or tubular sea cucumber, Holothuria tubulosa. Oloturia tubulosa. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Indo-Pacific sailfish and moonfish
Indo-Pacific sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus 1, and moonfish, Mene maculata 2. Istioforo veliero o Spadaccino, Mene Anna-Carolina

Woman in evening gown of ash blue satin with Irish lace. Manteau du soir en satin bleu cendre avec garnitures d Irlande. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Woman in vest of Scottish silk vest, crepe cotton skirt
Woman sitting in armchair wearing a vest of Scottish silk vest, crepe cotton skirt, with a cat playing with her parasol. Veste de soie ecossaise, jupe de crepon de coton souris

Girl in dress of blue floral crepe du chine
Interior scene with mother and children, and girl in dress of blue floral crepe du chine. Robe de petite fille en crepe du chine bleu fleuri

X-ray had proven useful in World War One, for locating bullets and foreign bodies in wounded men and also detection of any contraband

Model wearing a cotton dress by Sambo, visits Elisabeth Frink, the sculptor in her studio. Frink makes no concessions to the fact she is being featured in a Tatler fashion shoot

First hank of cotton spun by machinery, Birmingham, 1741
A photograph of the first hank of cotton spun by machinery, Birmingham, 1741. Date: 1910

Scene at a Lancashire cotton printing works - singeing machine. Date: 1843

Carding machine in a Lancashire cotton mill
Carding machine with operatives in a Lancashire cotton mill. Date: 1843

Advert, John Todd & Son, Rope Manufacturers, Rutherglen
Advert for John Todd & Son, Rope and Twine Manufacturers and Yarn Spinners, Rutherglen, Scotland. 1905

Advert, James Finlay & Co, Glasgow, Scotland
Advert for James Finlay & Co, Cotton Manufacturers, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Advert, Inglis & Co, Linen and Cotton, Dunfermline
Advert for Inglis & Co, Linen and Cotton Manufacturers, Castleblair and Victoria Works, Dunfermline, Scotland. 1905

Advert, Hay and Robertson, Dunfermline, Scotland
Advert for Hay and Robertson, Linen and Cotton Manufacturers, St Margarets Works, Dunfermline, Scotland. 1905

Meltham Mills 1851
Meltham Mills, near Huddersfield. Brooks family, Royal improved, patent cotton spinning mill. 1851

Guarani man and woman of Paraguay
Guarani people of Paraguay. They wear cotton skirts and hats with nets to hold harvested corn and fruit. From Felix de Azaras Voyages dans l Amerique Meridionale

Sprig of the cotton plant, Gossypium hirsutum, with bolls and leaves. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years

Man of Timor in cotton shawl and skirt, holding a kris dagger. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R

Seed and fruit plants including cacao, calabash nutmeg, pawpaw, sugar apple, durian, tea, camellia, cotton, magnolia, peony, geranium, nasturtium, etc

Young girl of Bugard, French Pyrenees, 19th century. She wears a Pyrenean capulet over a white cornette, wool skirt, cotton fichu and apron, and carries a earthenware vase of the region

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