Drying Collection (page 5)

Cartoon, Night in Venice, showing people sitting out on the roofs of their houses during a hot summer night. It was the last contribution to The Bystander by the cartoonist Horace Sydney

Tatler front cover - Life in the lunch hour
Front cover of The Tatler in 1960 featuring a young woman under the dryer in a hairdressing salon, Simon of Knightsbridge, where they guaranteed a hairdo in under an hour

Boy drying his face on a towel
A boy looks up rather guiltily, having been caught drying his face and hands on a towel when they are not properly clean. The water in the sink is filthy. Date: 1953

Japanese Women washing fabric
Japanese Women washing and drying strips of fabric (for wall hangings?). Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Three Japanese women washing patterned fabric strips Date: circa 1905

Hondarribia, Spain - House in the Marina Neighbourhood with its many occupants! Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Tea Industry - Tea Drying Date: circa 1908

Washing Day, Shanghai, China - hanging clothes out to dry on a pole at the front of the house. Date: circa 1906

Fresno, California, USA - drying figs in the hot sun. Date: circa 1910s

Drying Fish - Kamchatka Peninsula - Far Eastern Russia
The Method the people of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far Eastern Russia dry fish (on racks) and melt down the grease and oils for other uses. Date: circa 1800

Sheets of Rubber drying on racks - Malaysia Date: circa 1920s

Washing Day at Jolendam, The Netherlands
A truly superb photographic postcard showing the extensive Washing Day at Jolendam, The Netherlands. Date: circa 1930s

Vietnam - preparing (drying) the skin of a shot panther, pictured with the French hunter who realised his demise... Date: circa 1910s

Russian Waiter in his pristine white uniform and clutching a teatowel, which appears not to have The 50 Best Windmills of East Anglia on it... Date: 1902

Drying radishes in the sun - Japan Date: circa 1910s

Mumbai, India - Dhobies drying Cloths - Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat
India - Dhobies drying the Cloths at the Dhobi Ghat (Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat), a well known open air laundromat in Mumbai, India

Making Mud Bricks, Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Chinatown, Singapore - drying clothes on long poles
Chinatown, Singapore - a street at first glance seemingly bedecked by flags, at second glance clearly showing a novel way to dry ones laundry! Date: circa 1920

California, USA - drying prunes in the hot sun Date: circa 1910s

Drying Raisins - Renmark, River Murray, South Australia Date: circa 1908

Drying coffee beans in the sun - Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Ceylon Tea - withering the green leaf - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1920s

Drying Day at the Robert Infantry Barracks, Peshawar, NWFP (North West Frontier Province). Date: circa 1910s

Drying fish on the thatch roof, Southern Ireland
Drying fish on the thatch roof of a country cottage, Southern Ireland Date: circa 1930s

Rennes, France - Chateau Branlant - The Washhouses - Maison de Cadet Roussel. Busy washing day! Date: circa 1907

Tobacco drying and group of workers, Philippines

BRU ALBIсс, Jos頨19th century). Saffron drying
BRU ALBIс с, Jos頨 19th century). Saffron drying. 1870s. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Valencia. San Pio V Fine Arts Museum

IRAN. Tehran. Golestan Palace. Tea growing. Leaf

Drying a rag book
Putting a rag book out to dry on the washing line. From a catalogue of Deans Rag Books Date: circa 1930

Teddy having his bath

LCC-LFB - Safety in the home, fire prevention campaign
A photograph from the Brigades fire prevention campaign. The hazards of drying cloths and teatowels over a lit gas cooker are highlighted, showing how this could lead to fires

Dolly Tub and Wringer 1904
Dolly tub and wringer, Yorkshire, 1904 Date: 1904

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Kiln
A malt-drying kiln at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands Date: 1909

Clothing of oil drilling workers drying on steam pipe, Kilgore, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

Raisin drying racks in Southern California. Date c1901

Macedonian Farmstead (and occupants) Date: 1918

Dunure Fishing Ropes
Fishing ropes drying in a corner of the little harbour at Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland, with its castle in the background. Date: 1950s

Blow Drying a Bulldog
A patient bulldog gets a blow dry after its bath in a pet grooming salon. Date: early 1930s

Cycling Peat

Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun (Have You Watched the Fairies). 1920s

Watercolour sketch with buildings and boat
A watercolour sketch with buildings, washing drying on a line, and a boat

Making Tiles 18th C
A French tilery from the 18th century with the kiln and the tiles outside for drying. Date: Circa 1760

Oast Houses 1908
Oast houses and hops being taken for drying. Date: 1908

Female Type after Bath
A pretty young woman dries herself after her bath. Date: circa 1910

Chinamans Pigtail
A new use for the chinamans pigtail A Chinese man using his pigtail to hang out his laundry 1900

Blow Dry Poodle
A small white poodle is blow dried having been washed. Date: 1960s

Oast Houses, East Sussex
A fine cluster of Oast Houses (a building designed for the drying of hops) although these particular ones are to be found in East Sussex, near to Hastings

Castles in the Sand by Muriel Dawson
Lovely illustration featuring a little girl in a striped swimsuit and a big red straw sunhat, drying off her doll on the beach, presumably after a dip in the sea

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