Mats Collection (page 2)

Japanese porters carrying a lot of luggage including suitcases, carpets and sundry other possessions - rural Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Moslems Pray in Desert
Egyptian Moslems at prayer in the desert, with their prayer mats spread out on the sand Date: 1904

Advertisement, Swing Needle Embroidery Transfer
Advertisement, Dressing Table Mats, Swing Needle Embroidery Transfer. circa 1960s

A Japanese Koto player. A Koto is a type of Zither with 13 strings, played by plucking the strings with ivory plectrums attached to the fingers. Date: 1932

Japan - Girl practising Ikebana Flower Arrangement. Date: 1932

Japan - A girl making ceremonial tea. Date: 1932

Japanese family group - different styles of kimono and hair dressing Date: 1932

Japanese children putting their dolls to bed on a hot night
Japanese children putting their dolls to bed on a hot summer night. Date: 1932

Japan - Woman and Young Girl Play with a Kitten. The round window is an eminent feature of the Japanese style of architecture, reminding people of the elgance and refinement old Japan. Date: 1932

Blind ex-soldiers at St Dunstans Hospital Making Mats. Date: circa 1920

Boy doing high jump at athletics event
A boy doing the high jump at an athletics event. Date: circa 1930s

Wakashan hut, with men barbecuing fish, totem pole, and dried fish.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Bath Characters by Edouart - mat seller
The itinerant mat seller in Bath, one of a series of Bath characters taken by the silhouette artist, Auguste Edouart in Bath between 1826-7. Date: 1827

India - Shrine at Rams Birthplace, Fyzabad
Black and white. Structure made of thatched plant material with an archway. Inside there are lamps, decorated mats, flowers and metal containers.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection

Japan - Making reed mats on a simple frame loom
Black and white lantern slide showing Japanese men making reed mats on a simple frame loom Date: circa 1890s

Scouts singing, Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific
Scouts (male and female) singing, Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific. Date: 1977

Mat makers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

British working party on ice, Western Front, WW1
A British working party carrying wooden platforms across a frozen canal on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Japanese women sorting grain
Japanese women sort, grade and winnow grain. Date: circa 1910s

Winter in the British Lines on the Somme 1917
In February 1917, when the ground was sodden with slush and snow everywhere, work had to be still done, making or capturing trenches

Japan - Japanese Women pose for a photograph with babies
Japan - Japanese Women pose for a photograph with their babies Date: circa 1903

Korean Villagers - Street sellers?
Korean Villagers - Street sellers with brooms, brushes and mats for sale? Date: circa 1907

Congo, Africa - Sacks of Coffee prepared for export. Date: 1911

India - Two Muslims at prayer - rooftop Date: circa 1910s

The third Boeing C-97A Stratofreighter 48-399
The third Boeing C-97A Stratofreighter, 48-399, in MATS markings

French trench at Sava, Cameroon, Africa, WW1
View of a French trench at Sava, Cameroon, west central Africa, during the First World War. Date: 1914

Macedonia - Woman working at a loom
Bitolao (Bukovo), Macedonia - Jolly weaver woman, working at her loom, making pale mats

Food drying or sorting in Kashgar, western China
Men drying or sorting food on mats in the open air in Kashgar, western China

Sarajevo - Three Young Turks praying

Mexican itinerant brush salesman, also a seller of mats, hand brooms and small bags

Ox cart on a village street - Madhya Pradesh - India
An ox cart driven through a narrow village street in Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Ministers of Sultan Mulaye-Youssef - close to Tangiers
The Ministers of Sultan Mulaye-Youssef - in a tent close to Tangiers, Morocco. Sultan Mulaye-Youssef was regional Moroccan ruler and promoter of education in the country

London Central YMCA Gymnasium
The London Central YMCA Gymnasium with a wide variety of athletic training and gymnastic apparatus

Social / Romanian Mats
Romanian mat sellers

London / Cries / Mat Man
The mat-man sells mats made from a strong fibre that adheres to the shell of the coconut and are very rare

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