Grinding Collection (page 2)

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

Algeria - Biskra - Nomadic Encampment. Date: circa 1906

A barber sharpens his razors - Adana, Turkey
A barber sharpens his razors on a grindstone turned by his young assistant - Adana, Turkey

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

Roman Rotary Quern
A Rotary Quern used by the Romans for grinding corn. A number were found intact at the bakery in Pompeii

Grinding wheat - Deir Mar Yaqoub Monastery, Qara, Syria
Two seated Women grind wheat using a rotary hand quern at Deir Mar Yaqoub, a monastery dedicated to Saint Jacob near Qara, Syria. Date: circa 1910s

People operating a hand mill. 17th century

Nomadic women mince the grain, Ghardaia
Nomadic women sit in their campsite, with their children, grinding up the grain. Ghardaia, Algeria Date: circa 1910s

Windmill for Grinding Corn, Mourne Mts
Windmill forGrinding Corn, Mourne Mts. - a vertical view of a small windmill for grinding corn. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Mournes). Date: circa early 1900s

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

Kieselguhr Industry, Toome, Grants Calcining and Grinding Factory - a view of a factory for grinding clay. There is a man standing at a door. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

Primitive Method of Grinding Corn With Quern on Inishmurray Island - a man outside building with stone and small shaft. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Sligo: Inishmurray Island)

International Exhibition at Amiens - Senegalese Village
International Exhibition at Amiens, France - Cooking in the Senegalese Village. Date: 1906

Calbourne, Isle of Wight, Hants - Dressing watermill stone
Calbourne, Isle of Wight, Hampshire - " Dressing the stone" at the watermill. Date: circa 1950s

Myanmar - Village Scene - preparing food
Myanmar - Village Scene - preparing (pounding!) food using a large pestle and mortar Date: circa 1910

Tower windmill, Crete. Greece. ca. 1850. Diorama. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

Stone jars and bowls with a small spoon and a small grinding stone with may have been used with a cosmetic palette. Tombs from Gerzeh, Egypt. Predynastic Era. C. 3500-3300 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Tomb equipment of Gemniemh at Saqqara, c. 1990 B. C Brewery
Egyptian Art.Tomb equipment of Gemniemh at Saqqara, c. 1990 B.C. Brewery. Middle Kingdom. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

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

Indians Grinding Corn
Indian women grinding corn Date: 1857

Grinding Corn, Orkneys
A girl of the Orkney Islands grinds corn by hand with a stone quern Date: 1905

Caricature against C. II
Presbyterian Intolerance A caricature against Charles II. Date: 1651

Grinding & Polishing
The Art of Grinding and Polishing of Plate Glass Date: 1749

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

Hemlock flower fairy, Conium maculatum.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Scene inside a mill, Holy Land, with the miller at work grinding corn. Date: 1920s

Training munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute
Scenes showing the training of munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute (run by London County Council) during the First World War

Crofters grinding corn, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

Egyptian knife-grinder, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Trimmers Shop, Iron and Steel Foundry, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the trimmers shop in the iron and steel foundry, Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, for the trimming and grinding of shells of all sizes. Date: circa 1905

West Indies sugar plantation
A sugar plantation in the West Indies, showing cultivation and harvesting of sugar cane, as well as a horse-powered sugar grinding mill. Date: 19th century

Interior of a mill with two millstones
Interior view of a mill with two round millstones at the centre

Japan - Tea Industry - Tea Grinding. Date: circa 1908

China - A Chinese cutler, sharpening a Chinese Cleaver
Shanghai, China - A Chinese cutler, sharpening a Chinese Cleaver on a wetstone. Date: circa 1910s

China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Village Community
China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Rural village Community Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Women preparing food including chopping a daikon
Japan - Women preparing food including a Geisha girl preparing (cutting) daikon (white radish), possibly for takuan or bettarazuke dishes and another woman grinding foodstuffs using a pestle

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

Mapuche Girl grinding toasted wheat - Southern Chile
Mapuche Girl grinding toasted wheat on a quern stone - Southern Chile. Date: circa 1910s

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

Pounding rice - Malabar region of Southern India
Sifting, sorting and pounding rice with a large pestle and mortar - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

Hawaii, USA - Making Poi - Staple food from the Taro Plant
Hawaii, USA - Making Poi. Primary Polynesian staple food mad fom the underground stem of the Taro Plant - known in Hawaii as Kalo. Date: circa 1910s

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