Cutting Collection (page 16)

People on a street of terraced housing, London
Adults and children on a street of terraced housing in the East End of London. The girl on the left appears to be cutting pieces of leather

Little Barber by Muriel Dawson
A scene no doubt familiar to many parents; a tiny little girl finds a pair of scissors in a bedroom and decides to cut her own hair

Miner cutting coal in a narrow seam, South Wales
A miner undercutting or holing the coal in a narrow seam, Plas y Coed Level, South Wales. A solitary candle provides him with light

Machine stone cutting, Portland Prison, Dorset
A machine with toothed blades and a rotating saw cutting up stone. Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area

Little boy with garden shears
A little boy crouches down with a pair of garden shears and chops off a few flower heads

Young boy having a haircut
A young boy having a haircut. He looks up in mock horror as the scissors begin to cut across his nice blond fringe

Various Views of Crete including a panoramic view of Jerapetra, the Venetian Fort at Spinalonga and the construction (and subsequent) use of a canal, built by French forces occupying Crete

Harvesting of Tunisian dates
The harvesting of Tunisian dates near Tunis for Champagne Freres distributed by F. Vinatie of Bordeaux and Marseille. W Dennis of London

Cutting cauliflowers near St Michaels Mount, Cornwall
Three men in Cornwall cutting cauliflowers in the traditional manner and loading them onto a tractor, with St Michaels Mount in the background

Cutting green vegetables near St Michaels Mount, Cornwall
Three men in Cornwall cutting green vegetables in a field, with St Michaels Mount in the background. (2 of 2)

Borneo Sago poster
Poster depicting a stylised scene in Borneo showing sago being harvested. Sago is a type of starch found in the soft innards of certain palms

Officers WWI
French and American officers cutting barbed wire near Badonviller during World War I

A house design by the Alnwick Foundry and Engineering Company Ltd. displayed at the Imperial International Exhibition at Shepherds Bush, London in the Machinery Hall

Lawnmower Dealership
Lawnmowers of every size and variety available from W Hartnup - Engineer of Hurst Green, Sussex

Laying railway track
Gangs of railway labourers work on the laying of a new section of track running beneath a bridge. The lamps held by the navvies cast spectral traces of light across the gloomy atmospheric scene

Wig Maker- Biskra, Algeria
A smart Wig Maker in Biskra, Southern Algeria, gives his seated client a close crop in order to harvest some locks for his latest creation

Moorish Barber - Algeria
A Moorish Barber in Algeria giving his client a rather severe short back and sides in the street outside his house

Turkish Butcher skinning a sheep
A Turkish butcher skinning a sheep in Constantinople

Bethlehem - Working Mother-of-Pearl
Working Mother-of-Pearl used (amongst other things) in the decoration of furniture and small decorative items in Bethlehem, then very much part of the Ottoman Empire

Travelling Barber - Turkey
Travelling Barber, Turkey - shaving a customer

Macedonian Butcher at work
A Macedonian butcher cuts up a sheep

A batsman exhibitis four different shots
A combination action photograph of a batsman, in full cricket kit, plays four different shots, from the classic forward defensive shot (left) through to a cover drive (right)

Narrow Gauge Swiss Railway -1905
A narrow gauge railway in Switzerland - the Brunigbahn Railway

Soldiers cutting hay
Australian soldiers cutting hay for horse fodder near Ypres on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 30th September 1917

Ice-cutting Machine
A late 19th century Steam-powered Ice-cutting Machine operating on the frozen exoanse of the St Lawrence River, Canada. Possibly one of historys more risky undertakings for an apparatus of this

Print Works - The Cutting Machine
A worker at a printing works places a large stack of printed sheets into a cutting machine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Sleeper Cutters Camp in Australia for cutting railway sleepers

Eleanor Lansing Thomas, social secretary to US Secretary of
Eleanor Lansing Thomas, social secretary to Mr John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State in 1954 pictured going through press cuttings

Rusyn People - Hungary
Rusyns - an Eastern Slavic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language (or dialect) known as Rusyn. This appears to be a team working on a railway in the Carpathian Mountain region of Hungary

Preparing and spinning flax - Slovakia
Preparing and spinning flax - Kendertorok Ponikon, Zolyom County, Slovakia - formerly part of the Hungarian Empire. The woman on the right is breaking the flax

Cutting the Corn
A young boy stands in a field watching a horse-drawn harvesting machine cutting the corn

Tapping a rubber tree - Ceylon
A woman in Ceylon tapping a rubber tree with traditional techniques

Travelling Barber - Egypt
A travelling barber in Alexandria, Egypt - he carries the tools of his trade in a small case and people stop him anywhere for a haircut

River Thames Flood Prevention Scheme, 1926
Illustration showing a flood prevention scheme for the River Thames, from Oxford to Teddington, proposed by the Thames Conservancy c.1926

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - making a road to Kumasi
British overseer giving instructions to tribesmen who are cutting down trees and making a road to the Ashanti capital, Kumasi

The Neutral Umbrella
A small umbrella of neutrality offers little shelter to Holland, Norway and the USA who find they are all affected either by cutting of their trade routes

Cutting a channel through the ice, Arctic, c. 1849
Engraving of an imaginary scene showing a British Arctic expedition in the Arctic, c.1849. The engraving shows a group of men cutting a channel through the ice so that their ship

The Stone-Cutting Establishment at Oreston, with part of the
Engraving of the Prince of Wales visiting the Oreston granite quarry, viewing part of the masonry for the new Eddystone Lighthouse, August 1879

A Cardboard Box Factory in Commercial Road, London, 1904
Illustration showing a group of immigrants stirring glue and cutting cardboard to make boxes in a factory in the Commercial Road, London, 1904

Equipment used in the British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876
Engraving showing a variety of equipment used during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. Tents, small boats, cooking utensils and various cutting implements can be seen

Men of the British Arctic Expedition cutting a channel throu
Engraving showing the men of the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, cutting a channel through the ice for their ship to follow

Cutting up a Whale
Cutting up a whale - gathering spermaceti from the head

Whaling in Norway
Cutting up a whale on the Norwegian coast

General Stuarts Headquarters; American Civil War, 1864
Illustration showing General Stuarts headquarters on the Rapidan River; a thickly wooded scene, with soldiers cutting down trees and chopping logs

The Civil war in America: Cutting off a Confederate despatch
A cannon ball lands on the right of the picture, as Federal soldiers try to cut off the despatch boat

T Hayward - Cricketer
Thomas Hayward - cricketer for Surrey and England

The Preparation of Cinnamon in Ceylon
Series of illustrations in The Graphic showing the preparation of cinnamon in Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka). 1. Cutting cinnamon sticks. 2. Peeling the Sticks. 3. Stretching the Cinnamon Bark. 4

Harvesting Grapes
Men cutting grapes from a fine Royal vine in a hothouse at Hampton Court, England. Date: 1930s

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