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Glasgow Street SceneAn electric tram grinds along Charing Cross, past a row of fruit barrows
Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai, IndiaPounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai (Madras), India Date: circa 1920
Boatmens Children - pounding rice - India Date: circa 1910s
Shea butter production - SenegalShea butter preparation, baking shea tree nuts - pounding and grinding, Senegal, West Africa. The French name karite (as detailed on this card) comes from ghariti
Myanmar - Village Scene - preparing foodMyanmar - Village Scene - preparing (pounding!) food using a large pestle and mortar Date: circa 1910
Grinding Corn, OrkneysA girl of the Orkney Islands grinds corn by hand with a stone quern Date: 1905
Crofters grinding corn, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Date: late 19th century
Japan - Tea Industry - Tea Grinding. Date: circa 1908
China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Village CommunityChina - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Rural village Community Date: circa 1910s
Japan - Women preparing food including chopping a daikonJapan - 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
Mapuche Girl grinding toasted wheat - Southern ChileMapuche 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 IndiaSifting, 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
Street musiciansThree street musicians ply their trade on London Street-an old soldier grinds the organ, whilst a woman and a boy bawl out the words
India - Ghati Women Grinding Corn Date: circa 1907
Israel - Women grind corn with a handmillWomen working with a rotary quernstone handmill to grind corn - Israel - at thsi stage under Ottoman control. Date: circa 1908
Mexico - Wheat grinding, TehuantepecA 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: Organ grinder, c. 1900An 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
Rotary Quern MillingChinese worker grinds corn using a hand-powered rotary quern, a form of industrial machinery in use since late prehistoric times
German Domestic SceneThe daughters of the house, about to go shopping, ask papa (who has a wooden leg, doubtless won fighting the French) for money, while mama grinds the coffee