Flattening Collection

New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure
The New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure. Cartoon by William Heath Robinson

Heath Robinson Cartoon
Cartoon, All for Lawn. A few timely suggestions for levelling our lawns in preparation for the coming tennis season. Groundsman flattening grass

Rolling the steel for pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

16th century Bookbinders
Stages in the binding of a books : stitching the gatherings, flattening the sheets for insertion. Date: 16th century

Chinook family
Chinook tribe, showing a man and woman carrying their baby on the mothers back, a method of flattening the babies forehead was used

Fiscal Inquiry - Free Trade versus Protectionism
Illustration of the political and social argument between Free Trade and Protectionism, which rumbled along in Britain throughout the first decade of the 20th century

Hatmaking Machine
An interesting and intriguing hatmaking machine which is shown here in the process of flattening a hat brim

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