Grinder Collection (page 2)

Two boys sharpening knives - Medenine, Tunisia, North Africa Date: circa 1910s

Organ Grinder 1886
Schoolboys stop to admire the monkey who solicits a financial contribution to the upkeep of himself and his organ-grinding partner

Kieselguhr Industry, Toome, Grinding Bann Clay - a view of a man shovelling clay into a feed for a grinder. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Street Organ Grinder in the East End of London Date: 1905

Egyptian Art. Baking, brewing and butchery scene. Tomb of Wa
Egyptian Art. Baking, brewing and butchery scene. From the tomb of Wadjet-hotep at Sedment. Wood. 7th-11th Dynasty. c. 2150-2050 B.C. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Sharpener street. Colored engraving by E. Alba on a life drawing by D.F. Guisasola. 1879

Snap Playing Card - Scissors to Grind. circa 1900s

Zoological Misfitz - Mr Bruin, organ grinder. early 20th century

Organ Grinder
An Italian organ-grinder in the streets of London Date: 1905

Organ Grinder (Petherick
London characters: the ORGAN GRINDER and his monkey come from Italy, and the songs he sings in our fog-grey streets are warm with nostalgia for their sunny homeland

Verdi cartoon Mailly
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) the Italian opera composer depicted as a music peddler

Tinker sharpening a knife for a maid 1894
A tinker sharpening a knife for a waiting maid. Date: 1894

Hurdy-gurdy organ player
A hurdy-gurdy (orgue de Barbarie) player and his daughter in a French village Date: 1866

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- O, showing an organ grinder with a group of children. Date: circa 1860

The Mummy and the Humming Bird by Isaac Henderson
Promotional postcard for The Mummy and the Humming Bird by Isaac Henderson. First produced at Wyndhams Theatre, 10th October 1901

Tea and coffee flower fairies sharing beverages.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Gallipoli Coffee Machine (Grinder)
A Gallipoli Coffee Machine (Grinder) with crank and section for coffee beans. Trench Art

Egyptian knife-grinder, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Street organist in silhouette
A street organ grinder, his back bent, trundles his old instrument on wheels - a once familiar sight in London. Date: 1926

Street Music: a gutter-ball 1896
An organ grinder finds an appreciative audience of dancing street children. Date: 1896

Rotary hand quern for grinding corn - Palestine, Middle East. Date: circa 1920s

Knife Sharpener, Coffeehouse, Porters, Fez Seller and Map
Istanbul, Turkey - Knife Sharpener, Coffeehouse, Porters, Fez Seller and Map of the Bosphorus. Date: 1898

Egyptian street knife grinder - Port Said. A young boy is fascinated and has popped his head out of a small window to watch the grinder grinding away. Date: circa 1902

Brick making buffalo mill to soften clay - Rangoon -. to pour into a super meat grinder with bullocks going round and round to squeeze it into a malleable mass... Date: 1952

German Organ Grinder with small monkey attracts a crowd of appreciative children (the girl in the foreground is celebrating her birthday), drawn by the music and the spectacle

Street musicians
Three street musicians ply their trade on London Street-an old soldier grinds the organ, whilst a woman and a boy bawl out the words

Street music: St Cecilias Day street scene, 1837
A street scene showing the cacophony of noises to be heard on St Cecilas feast day, the patron saint of music, which falls in November

Street music: organ grinder, 1789
An organ grinder plying his trade, surrounded by various other musicians. A buxom lady plays a stringed instument, while a boy and his dog look on. Date: c.1789

Street music: Organ grinder, 1872
A Civil War veteran turns his hand to organ grinding in New York, 1872. Date: 1872

Street music: hopeful organ grinder
An organ grinder looks up hopefully whilst plying his trade at the kerbside. Perhaps he is serenading someone in a upper window

Oxford Street Traffic
Horse-drawn traffic - and an organ grinder - near Oxford Circus. Date: 1890s

Street music: organ grinders quarter, 1875
An Italian colony in London: the organ grinders quarter near Hatton Gardens. Date: 1875

Coffee Grinder
A stylish coffee grinder. Date: 1980

Street music: Barrel organ grinder, c. 1890
A barrel organ grinder plying his trade. Date: c.1890

Street music: Flemish hurdy gurdy player
Flemish street scene showing a hurdy gurdy player performing for some peasants. Date: 17th century

Street music: Organ grinder, c. 1900
An Italian lady grinds an organ, whilst a girl shakes a tambourine. According to the caption accompanying this picture, the babies next to the wheeled organ are sometime used as a means to draw in

Street music: organ grinder claimant, 1873
The " nobleman" organ grinder: a claimant to a title whilst on tour through the Irish provinces. Though he refused to name himself

Street music: Unfair competition, 1892
A London organ grinder plying his trade finds he can t compete when he plays outside the Royal Albert Hall. Date: 1892

Street music: Talent appreciated, 1869
A cook and parlourmaid admire an organ grinder and his " expressive" playing from a downstairs window. Date: 1869

Street music: Bob the dancing dog, 1816
Blind street musician Charles Wood with his organ and dancing dog Bob. Date: 1816

Street music: The organ grinding nuisance, 1864
A difference of opinion: an old lady and a child encourage an organ grinder to play in the street, despite the pleas of a maid on behalf of a suffering invalid. Date: 1864

An Indian knife grinder
An Indian street knife grinder. Date: circa 1910s

Good Coffee Tip
The essence of good coffee is keeping it hot, so stand the coffee jug in a basin of hot water, put the grounds in the jug, pour on boiling water and stand it by the heated stove. Date: 1930s

Knife-Grinder / Belgium
A knife grinder working at Tournai market in Belgium Date: 1950

Organ grinder, East End of London
An organ grinder gathers a large crowd of children around his machine somewhere in the East End of London. Date: circa 1902

Parisian knife-grinder

Hogarths House, Chiswick, London, 1874
Engraving showing a number of scenes at Hogarths House, Chiswick, London, 1874. The views shown are (clockwise from bottom right): the Mulberry Tree; the Staircase; one of the rooms

Organ Grinder & Monkey
An Italian organ-grinder and his monkey

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