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Drying Collection (page 6)

Background imageDrying Collection: Blow Drying a Bulldog

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Cycling Peat

Cycling Peat

Background imageDrying Collection: Spreading out their little wings

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Watercolour sketch with buildings and boat

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Making Tiles 18th C

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Oast Houses 1908

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Female Type after Bath

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Chinamans Pigtail

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Blow Dry Poodle

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Oast Houses, East Sussex

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Castles in the Sand by Muriel Dawson

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Colourful but shabby gipsy caravan

Colourful but shabby gipsy caravan
A colourful but shabby gipsy caravan, with a guard dog chained to it. In the background some washing is drying on a hedge

Background imageDrying Collection: Hanging out the washing

Hanging out the washing
A young housewife takes advantage of a breezy day and hangs out her washing on the line

Background imageDrying Collection: Georgia - Tbilisi - Buildings of Old Tbilisi

Georgia - Tbilisi - Buildings of Old Tbilisi
Old Buildings in a traditional neighbourhood of Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis

Background imageDrying Collection: Food drying or sorting in Kashgar, western China

Food drying or sorting in Kashgar, western China
Men drying or sorting food on mats in the open air in Kashgar, western China

Background imageDrying Collection: Drying cloth in Kashgar, western China

Drying cloth in Kashgar, western China
Pieces of cloth hung out to dry in Kashgar, western China

Background imageDrying Collection: Mudeford Boathouse - Devon

Mudeford Boathouse - Devon
Boathouse at Mudeford, Devon. Pencil drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Background imageDrying Collection: Young woman in a kitchen with two children

Young woman in a kitchen with two children
A young woman in a kitchen with her two children -- a girl of about four or five, and a baby. The baby has just had her bath and the woman is drying her with a towel

Background imageDrying Collection: Nurse dries baby after bath

Nurse dries baby after bath
A hospital nurse dries a baby with a towel after bathing it

Background imageDrying Collection: The Admiralty and naval vessels - Algiers

The Admiralty and naval vessels - Algiers
The Admiralty and elements of the Algerian Navy. The lighthouse can be seen in rear

Background imageDrying Collection: Empire Exhibition Scotland - The Clachan

Empire Exhibition Scotland - The Clachan
A replica Scottish hamlet - The Clachan - at the Empire Exhibition at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Scotland. This area of the exhibition was sponsored by the Scottish island ferry company Caledonian

Background imageDrying Collection: An Immense Cloth Finishing Dryer

An Immense Cloth Finishing Dryer
A factory worker uses an immense cloth finishing dryer, in a promotional photograph for Dalglish. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Background imageDrying Collection: Drying coffee beans - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Drying coffee beans - Sao Paulo, Brazil prior to placing in sacks and exporting around the world

Background imageDrying Collection: Education, girls, cookery

Education, girls, cookery
A well equipped cookery class. One girl slices, some use mixing bowls, some are at the sink washing and drying. A selection of cakes cool on baking racks in the foreground

Background imageDrying Collection: Processing reeds and plants

Processing reeds and plants
Agricultural processes in a province in North-west India, now a part of modern-day Pakistan. The men are collecting reeds and drying plants on a long string from a rapidly-drying riverbed

Background imageDrying Collection: Izmir, Turkey - The Turkish Baths

Izmir, Turkey - The Turkish Baths
A fine view of the ornate domes of the Turkish Baths at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Background imageDrying Collection: Izmir, Turkey - Thread tanning works

Izmir, Turkey - Thread tanning works
A wool-dyeing factory for the carpet trade at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. The company boss is pictures with a couple of his foreign clients

Background imageDrying Collection: Ghana - Fish Drying Kilns

Ghana - Fish Drying Kilns

Background imageDrying Collection: Egypt - Rod el Farag - Pot Factory

Egypt - Rod el Farag - Pot Factory
A Pottery at Rod el Farag, Cairo, Egypt

Background imageDrying Collection: A bathtime scene, by A. E. Bestall

A bathtime scene, by A. E. Bestall
Small Girl (owner of the teddy bear), after careful inspection of herself after her bath: You know, mummy, God must be magic, Hes made me without a single seam

Background imageDrying Collection: Gathering seaweed for food, Ireland

Gathering seaweed for food, Ireland
Scenes showing men, women and children gathering seaweed for food on the coast of Clare, west of Ireland. They are also shown picking, drying and selling d hlisk, and gathering corrigan

Background imageDrying Collection: Borneo / Dyak Drying Heads

Borneo / Dyak Drying Heads
The Dyak method of drying heads. The enemys head is cut off, the brains scooped out before being hung (as shown) on a rod of bamboo

Background imageDrying Collection: Fragments in the scientific bathroom, washing away the salts

Fragments in the scientific bathroom, washing away the salts
Fragments from the walls of Babylon being washed. A scientific bathroom where antiquities were first cleaned of corroding salts. They were then transferred to the bakery for specialist drying

Background imageDrying Collection: American Indians. Salmon eaters of British Columbia

American Indians. Salmon eaters of British Columbia
American Indians cooking or drying salmon on a wooden frame over a camp fire

Background imageDrying Collection: America, The Chinese in San Francisco. Pulverising shrimps

America, The Chinese in San Francisco. Pulverising shrimps
Chinese in wide brimmed hats spreading shrimps with a rake for drying and crushing

Background imageDrying Collection: Womans Bathroom

Womans Bathroom
A womans bathroom; a feminine sheme of delicately engraved mirrors, with maple furniture and radiators under drying cupboards. The new British furniture, a complete home in the modern manner

Background imageDrying Collection: Drying Machine

Drying Machine
Several engravings illustrating an ingenious device for drying clothes; a forerunner of the fold-up telescopic clothes drier used instead of a line and pegs

Background imageDrying Collection: Hair-drying device, 1928

Hair-drying device, 1928
A helmet used to dry and set hair, on display at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition at White City, 1928

Background imageDrying Collection: The Preparation of Cinnamon in Ceylon

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

Background imageDrying Collection: Servants Washing Line

Servants Washing Line
The intimate apparel of the female servants of the Edwardian Country House blows in a good drying wind out side the attic room window

Background imageDrying Collection: Kitchenmaid in Kitchen

Kitchenmaid in Kitchen
The kitchen maid hard at work drying dishes over the butler sinks

Background imageDrying Collection: A Little Dry Rotting

A Little Dry Rotting
A horse-drawn quick-drying frame for bathers at seaside resorts. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Background imageDrying Collection: Hanging Clothes on Line

Hanging Clothes on Line
A little girl hangs out clothes belonging to her dolls to dry on a washing line

Background imageDrying Collection: Doing the Drying Up

Doing the Drying Up
A happy young housewife in a red top dries up her yellow plastic collinder

Background imageDrying Collection: Drying Muslins

Drying Muslins
Muslins in the Drying Room after bleaching

Background imageDrying Collection: Kentish Oast Houses

Kentish Oast Houses
These familiar landmarks of Kent are the red brick and tiled hop kilns used for drying hops after harvesting. This one sits beside the village pond

Background imageDrying Collection: Straw Hats Drying

Straw Hats Drying
Hundreds of straw sun-hats being dried in the open air at a Luton factory

Background imageDrying Collection: Girl with Towel / Profile

Girl with Towel / Profile
A dark haired beauty with cats eye make-up holds a striped towel to her chest



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