Grinding Collection (page 3)

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

Tyre grinding lathe

Tool grinding machinery

Slide lathe arranged for grinding. Height of centres 7 inches

Enoplosus armatus, old wife
Watercolour 378 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Goe in mag gee, from the Watling Collection

Natives grinding food. Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Peasants grinding corn at Jerusalem, Holy Land. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Saw Grinders at Sheffield Grinding Mills, Yorkshire
Saw grinders place sheets of metal against a rotating cutter at Sheffield Grinding Mills. Date: 1844

Senegal - Food Preparation
Preparation of butter and the cooking and grinding of nuts in a Senegalese village Date: circa 1910s

India - Ghati Women Grinding Corn Date: circa 1907

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

Israel - Women grind corn with a handmill
Women working with a rotary quernstone handmill to grind corn - Israel - at thsi stage under Ottoman control. Date: circa 1908

Balinese Flour Grinders
Girls grinding sago flour, Bali, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Mexico - Wheat grinding, Tehuantepec
A young girl grinding wheat on a stone, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. The girls sister and baby brother sit behind, watching this most traditional of mexican scenes

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: 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

Processing sugar cane, 1877
Grinding sugar cane in Cuba. Date: 1877

West Indies sugar mill
Interior view of a sugar mill in the West Indies. Date: 19th century

De Mornays patent sugar-mill, Brazil, 1854
The interior of a mill house showing de Mornays patent sugar-mill on the Carauna Estate, in Pernambuco, Brazil. Date: 1854

Knives and Scissors to Grind Oh
Old Street Cries -- Knives and Scissors to Grind Oh!! 20th century

Parisian knife-grinder

A Banffshire Crofter

Unknown location, Middle East
An unidentified location, somewhere in the Middle East, with two soldiers standing on guard. There is a national flag near the top of the right-hand wall

Making Scythes / Grinding
Making scythes at Belbroughton, Worcestershire. Here the blades are being ground by hand on huge wheels

Roman Grape Press / Mdina
Two Roman grape presses (one complete with grinding stones) at the Mdina Museum

Indian Grinding Corn
Indian women grinding corn in a hand-mill

Rice in China - 10
Grinding the Rice

Industry / Pen Manufacture
Women at work in the pen grinding room

Industry / Cutlery 1827
A cutler and his assistants sharpening knives at a grinding wheel

C18 Farm Equipment
New Invented Implements used in Husbandry - cutting, winnowing, threshing, cutting and grinding machines illustrative of the revolution in farming then proceeding

Grinding Corn Ethiopia
An Ethiopian woman uses a saddle quern to grind corn

Knife Grinder in Paris
A man grinding knives and scissors in Paris

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