Craft Collection (page 15)

Children painting eggs

Jugend front cover, two young women dancing
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting two young women dancing. They are holding symbolic items representing arts and crafts, including an artists palette and brushes

LCC-LFB Fireboat Alpha, River Thames
From 1912 the previously used rafts, towed by tugs, were replaced by Londons first fireboats. These steam driven self-propelled shallow draught craft were based on the Royal Navy gunboats

LCC-MFB Fire float and tug at drills
Prior to the MFB acquiring its first purpose made fireboat, a tug would tow a fire float (containing a steam fire pump) to the scene of riverside blazes and fires on ships on the Thames

MFB fire float and tug on the River Thames
A Metropolitan Fire Brigade fire float and tug on the River Thames. These composite craft were introduced in 1877 and used until 1900 when they were replaced by fireboats

MBW-MFB fire float and tug at drill on River Thames
These fire floats and tugs were composite craft introduced in about 1877. They were replaced by fireboats from 1900

Building a new NFS fire station, Rudolph Road, Bushey, WW2
With the longer lulls in enemy bombing following the Blitz on London, fire service personnel were put to more productive work in addition to their normal training and drills

London Region NFS / AFS fire floats and tenders, WW2
London firefighters and Auxiliary firefighters crewing fire floats and fire tenders, fitted with trailer fire pumps for wartime use, checking equipment and manoeuvring the craft on the River Thames

Book cover design, Airships and Other Aerial Craft
Book cover design, The Boys Book of Airships and Other Aerial Craft, by Harry Delacombe and EJ Partridge, London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1910. 1910

Free summer art classes for children Drawing and painting, metal craft - sculpture, pottery - lithography : Queensboro Community Art Center

Craft school Pottery, modeling, weaving, painting, drawing, woodcarving, sewing, needlework, metalwork, photography. Poster for WPA Federal Art Project sponsored art

Hundreds are receiving free instruction Drawing, painting, weaving, lithography, sculpture, etching, metal craft, photography, costume illustration at Harlem Community Art Center

Poster promoting Holland - Toymaker
A Dutch craftsman surrounded by the wooden toys he has been making - a design for a poster promoting tourism. circa 1960

A lighter-than-air craft, consisting of one large balloon and four smaller balloons harnessed together, decorated with French flags

Fellow craft

Marquis of Wellesleys Boatman, India
The Dandy or Boatman of the Marquis of Wellesley (Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley - 1760-1842), in his livery, depicted in front of the State Yacht, the Soonamooky

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (5 / 7)
Lake Garda (Italian - Lago di Garda or Benaco) - the largest lake in Italy. A two-masted sailing barge (barque) moored up at a harbour at Riva to receive a cargo of sacks of grain. Date: circa 1910s

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (6 / 7)
Commercial sailing craft moored up in the harbour at on the banks of Lake Garda (Italian - Lago Garda or Benaco) at Riva. The barge in the foreground still contains its cargo of cut timber

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (4 / 7)
The distinctive two-masted sailing barge (barque) on the still waters of Lake (Lago) Leman in Northern Italy Date: circa 1910s

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (1 / 7)
Sailing barge passing in front of the Island of Pescatori (Island of the Fishermen) on Lake Maggiore, Italy. Date: circa 1910s

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (2 / 7)
View toward the shore of Lake Como and the distant houses of Menaggio. A heavily-laden sailing barge crosses the still waters of the Northern Italian Alpine lake. Date: circa 1910s

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (3 / 7)
A sailing barge on Lake Como, Northern Italy Date: circa 1910s

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (7 / 7)
Lake Garda (Italian - Lago Garda or Benaco) - a two-masted sailing barge on the waters of the lake with the imposing form of the Italian Alps (specifically the peak of Monte Baldo)

Man carrying withies for lobster pot making, Devon
A man carrying withies (willow branches) to be used in the making of lobster pots, at Start Bay, Devon. Date: circa 1970s

Women doing needlework, Sweden 1920s. Date: 1920s

Cairo - Brasswork Factory in the Khan el-Khalil Bazaar Date: circa 1903

Bootmakers in Cyprus
Making traditional Cypriot heavy boots in Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Thatching
A roofer makes a thatched roof Date: 1950s

Repairing a windmill
Repair of a windmills sails, Sabyholm, Sweden. 1964 Date: 1964

Swiss Textile Industry - Bern
A card celebration the Swiss Textile Industry. An interesting historical addition, this card was posted 6 days prior to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo

Boats on the Nile at dusk - Cairo, Egypt
Dahabiya boats morred on the banks of the River Nile in Egypt. The view in the beautiful light as the sun begins to set on the still mirror water. Date: circa 1930

UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (1 / 4)
Dippers at work, glazing the ware, Date: circa 1910s

Boatmen of Jaffa in their barque, Israel (then under Ottoman control) - the boatmen used to ferry visitors from larger ships into the port in these craft. Date: circa 1903

TENBY BAY
A quiet scene, with moored craft in the harbour at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Date: 1950s

Indian totem pole carver at work. Date: 1911

Elderly Native American women weaving baskets Date: 1909

Wales / Conway Estuary
A glimpse of the esturay of the River Conway, north Wales, a peaceful anchorage for small craft, under the shadow of the grey walls of Conway Castle. Date: 1940s

UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (4 / 4)
Flat presser making dishes at a pottery in Burslem, Staffs Date: circa 1910s

Jews making mosaics - Syria
Jews making Mosaic patterns in Syria. The tessera are being cut by a craftsman with a handsaw, while his young assistant mixes the suitable cementing adhesive

UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (2 / 4)
Making toilet ware at Burslem, Staffs (making the jugs for jug and basin sets). Date: circa 1910s

Java - A goldsmith at work Date: circa 1910s

Cottage industry in Smaland, Sweden Date: 1940s

Indian Silver and Gold Craftsmen
Metalworking in silver and Gold in India Date: circa 1920s

Richard Old and Milan Cathedral
A scale model of Milan Cathedral, Italy, made up of over 8000 pieces by model maker Richard Old. This was the crowning glory of his Richold Collection Date: 1932

Russian Berlin Work Pattern with a spider and his web. Date: 1937

British fleet with torpedo craft, WW1
View of the British fleet, with torpedo craft, at sea during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

River Thames - 1953
View from Hungerford Bridge towards the City - Festival Hall Pier on right, Waterloo Bridge crossing the Thames and St. Pauls in background. Pleasure craft on water

New Zealand - Moonlight Boating, Riverton
New Zealand - Moonlight Boating in the Narrows at Riverton Date: circa 1910s

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