Cutting Collection (page 2)

Poster depicting people cutting bananas in Jamaica
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting people cutting bananas in Jamaica

Reaping sugar canes in the West Indies
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting the reaping of sugar cane in the West Indies

Khyber Pass - Afghanistan / Pakistan - Khyber Railway Tunnel
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Diamond Cutting
A true Representation of the Diamond Cutters Wheel or Mill

Hissarlik (Troy) Digging
A clear example of the excavation style of Heinrich Schliemann at Hissarlik, cutting through later occupation levels, actually missing Homerian deposits!

Desclieux / Coffee Plant
Captain Gabriel Mathieu Desclieux, a French Navy Officer, uses his water ration to save a single coffee plant which instigated the entire Martinique Coffee Industry

British Countryside - Cutting Chestnuts
British Countryside - A Woodman cutting Chestnuts at Midhurst, Sussex - from which barrel hoops, fencing and bean sticks are made. Date: 1938

Chinese paper cuts, or Jianzhi, a folk art dating back many centuries. Seen here is a colourful landscape with trees, mountains, a temple, and a bridge across a river. Date: late 19th century

Cabinet Makers in Shoreditch
A man guides a piece of wood through a large saw at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. 1940s

Sussex Smugglers / C18Th
SUSSEX SMUGGLERS Daniel Cater chained in the Turff House at Old Mill s. John Cobby is kicking him and Benjamin Tapner is cutting him across the eyes and nose while he is saying the Lords Prayer

Re-Cutting the Koh-I-Noor Diamond
The Duke of Wellington cuts the first facet during the re-cutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. It had been exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851, but was discovered to be not quite perfect

Navvies at Work
Navvies at work in a railway cutting

Cartoon - WWI - Haircut
A cartoon making light of the perils of life on the front line and the frequent need for surgical intervention to operate on soldiers

A factory worker cuts a block of wood
A young apprentice carpenter uses a large industrial jigsaw to cut a block of wood, while an older employee supervises his work. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Shoot for Academy Albums - Wedding Photography Date: circa mid-1960s

Shoot for Academy Albums - Wedding Photography. Date: circa mid-1960s

Shoot for Academy Albums - Wedding Photography Date: circa mid-1960s

NUPE and GMBATU school meals campaign, Croydon
NUPE and GMBATU representatives at a press conference to launch a Save our school meals campaign in the London Borough of Croydon, 29 June 1983. Date: 1983

Diagram of the lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) - the site of the discovery of a Cranium of Homo rhodesiensis, in Mutwe Wa Nsofu Area on June 17

Photograph of the lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) - the site of the discovery of a Cranium of Homo rhodesiensis, in Mutwe Wa Nsofu Area on June 17

A spectacular Kirchner Leipzig band saw, Germany
A spectacular Kirchner Leipzig band saw in a woodworking workshop, Germany. Date: circa 1910s

Prehistory. Paleolithic. Hunters manufacturing weapons and cutting skins. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Cartoon, The Washington Hatchet
American design for a Japanese screen. It is announced that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance is to be terminated in favour of an understanding between the Four Great Powers that have interests in

The Rape of the Lock by Gerda Wegener
Haircut and shave - new version. Stylised illustration by Gerda Wegener showing three women getting the new fashionable shingled hair cuts. Date: 1925

Champion Australian axemen at the London Hippodrome
Peter McClaren, the champion axeman of Australia) and Harry H. Jackson, giving an exhibition of tree cutting at the London Hippodrome in 1907. Date: 1907

Pregnant Guppy N1024V under construction with On Mark Engineering at LAX - March 1962. the conversion was carried out in stages

Kazakh man cutting hay with a scythe
A Kazakh man wearing a chapan (Kazakh quilted dressing gown) and kalpak, working in a field with a scythe, cutting hay. 20th century

Native Carpenters - India - using rules, planes and chisels. Date: circa 1903

Advert for Tricoline artificial silk fabric, with illustration of a young woman studying a dress pattern with her fabric laid out ready for cutting. Date: 1920s

Cutting sisal, Clarendon, Jamaica Date: early 1900s

Cutting sisal Clarendon Jamaica early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Cutting sugar cane, Jamaica Date: early 1900s

Cutting sugar cane, Jamaica, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Cutting and weighing logs in St Elizabeth Jamaica early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Scything grass, Whalley Abbey Gatehouse Date: early 1900s

Cutting wheat with a cradle Pennsylvania USA early 1900s

Farmer using a scythe Victorian period

Cutting an Ice Grotto, Glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, Victorian period

Cutting soap into bars, Port Sunlight, Wirral

Cutting soap into bars, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Woodcutters, England, Victorian period

Navvies building a railway line in the UK, early 1900s

Wood yard traction engine

Train trapped in a snowdrift in Scotland - probably the 1930s

Cutting cane, Jamaica

Barber Shop early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Irish Peat Carriers early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

RMS Titanic, May Collection, archive of ephemera
RMS TITANIC MAY COLLECTION, small archive of personal ephemera relating to Titanic passengers Richards and Stanley May. It includes a South Western Hotel luncheon menu from July 1914 for the Spithead

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