Dried Collection

Poster, The Vegetabull, a vegetable dish made with dried eggs or household milk is as good as a joint (post-WW2 rationing was still going on at this time). 1947

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Large fig factory
The scale of the fig industry at Izmir is demonstrated in this postcard showing a huge warehouse with a multitude of baskets and workers

Salting / Smoking Fish
Fish is salted, dried and smoked

Peru - Huancayo in Wanka Quechua (Wankayuq) - the capital of the Junin Region, in the central highlands. Date: circa 1910s

Myth / Tibet / Country / Mice
THE COUNTRY OF THE MICE The mice cross the river on cakes of dried yaks dung

A Selection of Museum Specimens
Specimens here include an Entomological tray of insect from the order Orthoptera, a herbarium sheet from Cooks first voyage collected in New South Wales, Australia in 1770 and fish specimens

- Argentina
Young Argentinian men in traditional costume drinking Mate, a traditional South American infused drink, prepared from steeping dried leaves of yerba mate (llex paraguariensis)

Stacking Reed for Thatch
Stacking reeds to dry at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. Once they have dried, they will be used for thatching roofs

The desert town of Dhiban, south of Amman, Jordan
The desert town of Dhiban, Jordan, Known to the Moabites as Dibon, it is located in Madaba Governorate, south of Amman and east of the Dead Sea

American Samoa - Pago Pago - production of copra
Pago Pago, Capital of American Samoa - the cultivation of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) for the production of copra, the dried flesh of the coconut

WW2 - Home Front - children from the Buckingham Gate Central School, evacuated to Handcross, West Sussex, lay out herbs in Drying shed (a converted boiler house) at Nyman s, Handcross

WW2 Christmas Card Illustration
A WW2 Christmas greetings card illustration issued by the directors and staff of dairy companies including Dried Milk Products Limited, Cow & Gate Limited and Home Counties Dairies Limited

Yarmouth Herring Fishery, Drying the Herrings Date: 1854

Japan - Dried Laver (Seaweed) Dealer
Dried Laver Dealer, Japan. Green laver, known as aonori in Japan, sea cabbage in China, and parae in Korean, is a type of edible green seaweed, including species from the genera Monostroma and Ulva

Poster Pageant - Advert for Egall, Pure Dried Eggs 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London. Over a mile long in the West End, well known familiar bill board posters

Woman Having her Hair Dried 1928
A woman sits under a chrome-plated hair dryer, exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition. Date: 1928

Manure dryers, India, c. 1870 s
Manure dryers, India, c.1870s The work was carried out mostly by low caste women, and used to create fuel for cooking

Autumn in early summer, Kensington Gardens
Girls in Kensington Gardens playing among dried leaves fallen from the trees during a period of hot weather and prolonged drought in the summer of 1921. Date: July 1921

Molesey Weir, usually noted for its rush of water, shown completely dry during a period of prolonged drought in 1921. Date: 1921

Pot Pourri. Young lady in a crinoline with a basket of fragrant dried plant materials and an elegant porcelain pot. Art nouveau style. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Scenes from Guinea, Africa, 1820
The palace of the King of Dahomey at Abomey 37, an African man hiding a fetish 38, and people of Whydah worshipping a huge snake 39. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Workers drying pollack near the sea, 18th century
Pollack, Pollachius pollachius 97, and workers preparing and drying fish in a shed, Europe, 18th century. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural

Limes, peppers, mammy apple and nuts
Limes, Zanthoxylum fagara A, varieties of Capsicum annuum: cayenne pepper B, pimento pepper C, and chili pepper or dago peepee D, and mammee or mammy apple, Mammea americana E, pistachio nut

Interior of a large communal house in Nootka Sound, with villagers smoking and drying fish, sleeping and caring for children. The beams are decorated with large totemic faces

Tools, weapons and instruments of the Camacan people, Brazil
Tools and weapons of the Camacan people of Bahia, Brazil. Bow 1, arrow 2, 3, woven apron 4, bag 5, headdress with foliage 6, a gourd percussion instrument or kechieeh 7

Costumes of the Aleutian natives of Bristol Bay, Alaska
Costumes of the Aleutian natives of the Nushagak area, Bristol Bay, Alaska. Men and women in sealskin and fur clothes with boxes, mirror, beads. Dried fish on a beam

Aleutian natives building boats and drying fish at a village in the Nushagak area, Bristol Bay (Porto dei Francesi), Alaska

Strychnine tree and ginseng root
Strychnine tree, Strychnos nux-vomica 1, with fruit in section a, grain b, flower c, and ginseng, Panax quinquefolius 2, with flower d, root e, dried root f

Native weaving industry, Cameroon, Central Africa
Two men weaving a mat from long dried reeds or palm leaves on a wooden loom, in Cameroon, Central Africa (formerly in German West Africa). Date: 1922

Dried fish stall Japan circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Teens Help with Dishes Date: 1948

DYEING CLOTH WITH INDIGO
Indigo in India. Lengths of cloth are dyed and dried in the sun. Date: 1878

Madrid, Spain - Segovia Bridge over the Manzanares River
Madrid, Spain - El Puente de Segovia over the Rio Manzanares. Designed by Juan de Herrera under commission of King Philip II of Spain, it was built from 1582 to 1584 with a total of nine spans

Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Central America - Drying Henequen. After extraction from the plant, henequen is processed as a textile in various forms to obtain a range of products for domestic

Comic postcard, fishing strategies Date: 20th century

Real ferns on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Real leaves and ferns on a Christmas card, with a white lacy edging. circa 1890s

MAKING CHRISTMAS CAKE
Making a Christmas cake, beating eggs to add to the butter and sugarr, with other ingredients, such as flour, dried sultanas, etc. to be added later. Date: 1930s

Travelling through Somalias savanna
Four travellers riding donkeys through a dried out riverbed in the Somali savanna. Date: circa 1920

Muscat, Oman - Packing dates for export
Muscat, Oman - Two women pack dates for export into small boxes

Hastings Fishing Huts
A fisherman repairing nets on the beach at Hastings Old Town, with the famous black huts, where the nets are dried, in the background

Glax-ovo advert, chocolate flavour dried milk, every drop is sheer nourishment

Lurig and R. Dall - a glimpse of Lurig in the distance and in the foreground a dried up river. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Cushendall). Date: circa early 1900s

Dried Beds, Lough-A-Veema - a view of the cracked and dried beds of the vanishing Lough. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Loughareema). Date: circa early 1900s

Pot Hole in Lough a Veema, Source of Underground River, Co. Antrim - a view of a pot hole in the dried up Lough. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Loughareema). Date: circa early 1900s

Tram Construction at Belfast, Interior of Drying Stove in Controller Shop - a view of control boxes for trams being dried inside. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast)

Causeway( Cassy ) Water and Bridge, Co. Down - a view of a stone bridge taken from the almost dried up river. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down). Date: circa early 1900s

Spray of leaves and a bee on a Christmas card
Spray of red, blue and green leaves and a bee on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

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