Grinding Collection

A Fountain Pen Repair Shop - Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
A Fountain Pen Repair Shop - The Pen Shop - at 112 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Date: 1940

Advertisement for various types of steam engine
Advertisement for Robey & Co of Lincoln (Globe Works), London, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Paris, manufacturers of various types of steam engine. circa 1883

Frys Chocolates
Advertisement for Frys Chocolate and Cocoa Manufactory in Bristol showing illustrations of the roasting room, boiling sugar, grinding chocolate, the pan room

Persian women using a large grindstone, Iran Date: circa 1900s

Racial / Lebanese Women
Drusian women of the Lebanon grinding corn

Interior of French Cutlery Factory, Thiers - Knife Grinders
Interior of French Cutlery Factory (Coutellerie), Thiers, France - Knife Grinders (Emouleurs). Date: circa 1920s

Bronze Age settlement, Kazakhstan area. A young woman sits on the ground, grinding grain in a stone mill. In the background are ancient houses, cattle and sheep. 3000-1200 BCE

Cleobury Mortimer corn mill
The miller carries a sack of corn for grinding at Cleobury Mortimer mill, Shropshire England. First published The Daily Telgraph Date: 1986

Isle of Skye - grinding corn - Victorian period

Bulldog, The British Abrasive Wheel Co Ltd, Sheffield
Bulldog, The British Abrasive Wheel Co Ltd, Tinsley, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Hull Grinding workshop with grindstones

Grinding corn, Isle of Patmos, Greece, early 1900s

Bird shaped mortar. Zoolith used to grind hallucinogens
Bird shaped mortar. Zoolith used to grind hallucinogenic substances. It was collected in 1777 by Captain Geronimo Verde on Santa Catarina Island (Brazil). Sambaqui culture (3000 BC-500 AD). Stone

Men with grinding stones sharpening knives, Egypt
Vintage 19th century photograph: men with grinding stones sharpening knives, Egypt

Milling grain, Cairo, Egypt, c. 1880 s
Milling grain, Cairo, Egypt, c.1880 s

Knife grinder at work, Central London
Itinerant knife grinder at work on a Central London street. Date: circa 1950s

Bheel or Bhil women grinding corn, India
19th century vintage photograph: Bheel or Bhil women grinding corn, India

Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - Lesghi men grinding sword
Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - Lesghi men grinding the blade of a sword. Vintage 19th century photograph

Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron works and flax spinning. Workers seated at grinding wheels in a cutlery factory in Sheffied 58

Brewing, steel ware and gloves, and a mineral waters spa in Regency England. Brewers stirring vats of beer mash in a Reading brewery 4, women buying gloves in Woodstock 5

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, grinding chocolate. 1893

Bread or corn tortilla-making in Mexico. Men and women grinding maize, making tortilla and grilling them on a griddle over a fire

Machinery for making cutlery, 18th century
Machinery for making cutlery: troughs of a grinding mill, tongs for pressing knife handles, pressing vice and spring drill

Mill for grinding colour paints. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman

Sheffield - Castle Grinding Mill for cutlery 1853
Exterior view of the Castle Grinding Mill for cutlery at Sheffield. Date: 1853

Preparing bread from the manioc root
Natives of Madagascar preparing bread from the manioc root. Date: 1834

Frys Chocolate & Cocoa manufactory 1884 Frys Chocolate & Cocoa manufactory 1884
Part 2 of the chocolate manufacturing process: the grinding room in the Frys chocolate factory in Bristol. Date: 1884

Corn hand-mill. Date: circa early 13th century

Street trade - knife grinder
knife grinder on the streets. Date: 1885

GLASS MAKING 1755 - 3
The Grinding Pollishing of PLATE GLASS. Date: 1755

ALCINOUS HANDMILL / C17TH
Alcinous handmill in operation. Date: 17th century

SCOTTISH HAND-MILL C18
A Scottish handmill (2-part Quern) used for grinding up small quantities of corn. Date: 1769

Sheffield Steel manufactures 1866
Sheffield : scythe-grinders. Date: 1866

Druse women of the Lebanon grinding corn Date: 1822

A steelworker makes a shower of sparks in his workshop
A steelworker sends a shower of sparks flying as he uses an angle grinder to finish a metal structure in his workshop in Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Date: 2004

Craftsman puts finishing touches to replica suit of armour
Sparks fly as a skilled craftsman puts the finishing touches to a replica suit of armour with conquistador-style morion in his workshop in Birmingham, England Date: 1992

Diamond polishing, Jaipur, India
A man squats on the floor by the window of his Jaipur workshop and polishes diamonds with a hand powered cutting machine Date: 1987

Cleobury Mortimer mill wheels
The miller grinds corn on original mill wheels at the Cleobury Mortimer mill, Shropshire England. First published The Times Date: 1986

Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai, India
Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai (Madras), India Date: circa 1920

Two Native African Matabele women grinding maize outside a hut. Date: circa 1930

England. Guildford. High Street. Engraving
England. Guildford. High Street. Surrey County. 1875. Millerlove colored Engraving

Pattern 1796 Heavy Cavalry Troopers sword, 1814 (c); blade is stamped with the makers name, I Gill; the original hatchet blade made this Pattern useless for thrusting

Boatmens Children - pounding rice - India Date: circa 1910s

Korea: grinding grain
Vintage early 20th century photograph - Korea: grinding grain

Girls school at Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
A group of girls with their maid washing and grinding harvest at the girls school at Fianarantsoa (meaning good education ), Madagascar. Date: circa 1907

Grinding Corn With a Saddle Quern, Co. Antrim - a view of an old lady sitting outside grinding corn with a stone. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

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

Shea butter production - Senegal
Shea butter preparation, baking shea tree nuts - pounding and grinding, Senegal, West Africa. The French name karite (as detailed on this card) comes from ghariti

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