Method Collection (page 9)

Designs for Cake Tops, Crescent Scroll Border Design Date: 1936

Cake Border and Side Scroll Designs, Ring Construction Date: 1936

Cake Decorated Border Construction. Fine Drop Scroll Piping Date: 1936

Cake Border and Side Scroll Designs, (43) Reversed " C" Scroll Border, (44) Crescent Shell Border with Bevelled Edge. Date: 1936

Designs for Cake Tops, Serrated Border Design Date: 1936

Wedding Cakes with Stucco Finish and Moulded Decorations
Wedding Cakes with Stucco Finish (Left) and Moulded Decorations (Right Date: 1936

Advert for Stewart hair specialist 1928
Models wearing the steam method, giving permanent waves or the detachable extention wavelet. 1928

Ulysse Trelat
ULYSSE TRELAT French physician and surgeon, who also concerned himself with psychiatry and other medical matters. Famed for the Trelat method. Date: 1828 - 1890

The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France - Trap for fish
The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France. These constructions of long supported poles and igh nets were arranged as a trap for fish

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms awake from hibernation
Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms during second hibernation phase. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms begin to construct cocoons Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering silkworms from egg paper
Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering the silkworms from the egg paper using a delicate feather brush. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Bombyx mori Moths lay eggs on paper Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Reeling the cocoons by foot reel Date: circa 1909

Washing Day, Shanghai, China - hanging clothes out to dry on a pole at the front of the house. Date: circa 1906

South Korea - Three men fishing on the River in Joseon
South Korea - Three men fishing on the River in the Joseon Province. Date: circa 1920s

South Africa - Brickmaking. Date: circa 1908

Drying Fish - Kamchatka Peninsula - Far Eastern Russia
The Method the people of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far Eastern Russia dry fish (on racks) and melt down the grease and oils for other uses. Date: circa 1800

Maxim Gorky, Russian Writer with a Gusli Player
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Maxim Gorky) (1868-1936), Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist

Singapore - Tapping a rubber tree. Date: circa 1930

Short S8 Calcutta G-EBVH City of Athens
Short S8 Calcutta, G-EBVH, City of Athens, of Imperial Airways, on shore at Alexandria showing the emergency aerial up and the method of securing the machine

Eastmanosteus, Gogo fish
The Gogo fish, Eastmanosteus, was one of the first ever fossils extracted using acid

New Methods of Plants 1682
Book plate from Methodus Plantarum Nova in which John Ray published his natural system of plant classification

Aboriginal method of climbing trees
Drawing 75 from the Watling Collection titled Method of Climbing Trees by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Voltaire, Franois-Marie Arouet, Also
DESCARTES, Ren (1596-1650). French rationalist philosopher, mathematician and scientist. Discourse on Method (Discours

NFS firefighter rolling out fire hose, WW2
A London Region NFS firefighter in an instructional photograph demonstrating the correct method of rolling out a line of hose

South Africa - Transfer by basket at East London
South Africa - Passengers transferred by basket from the Mail Steamer at East London Date: circa 1910s

To the right hon able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved sic rollers

Platinum mining in the Ural Mountains - the cleaning process. The Urals run north to south through western Russia, from the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan. Date: circa 1903

Maiolica Plate - A Maiolica painter at work. Italian (Caffaggiolo) c.1515. Date: circa 1515

Filtering drinking water - Cairo, Egypt. An egyptian man has collected water from the River Nile in his animal skin container and now transfers this water to a large terracotta pot

Irish Jaunting Cars
Jaunting Cars, still a favourite method of carrying tourists, at Ross Castle, near Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. Date: 1950s

Hand-Feeding a Puppy
A tiny premature or runt puppy is hand reared, by inserting a fine plastic feeding tube into its mouth. The lives of thousands of puppies each year are saved by this method. Date: late 1960s

Japanese Straw Boaters
If we MUST bring back the straw hat, why not copy the Japanese method of popularising it? Three straw boaters, worn with advertising sandwich boards! Date: 1933

Mineral Analyser
The TELSEC portable non- dispersive X-ray mineral analyser offers a fast method of measuring selected elements in ores, soils, slags, etc. Date: November 1970

Djibouti, East Africa - Hairdressers
Djibouti, East Africa - Traditional methods of hairdressing. Date: circa 1910s

Oiling and Coaling on land
Light labour and hard labour: oiling and coaling on land. The new method and the old- a contrast. The top image shows a torpedo boat taking in oil fuel through a hose linking her with a tank in

Oiling and Coaling in mid-ocean
Bunkering at sea: oiling and coaling in mid-ocean. The new method and the old- a contrast. The top drawing show the simple

View of Rome
An imaginary view of Rome in a marginal drawing. In front of the city stand two men, one of whom is wearing armour. There are birds flying over their heads

Bert Ralton and his New York Havana Band, c. 1922
Bert Ralton and his New York Havana Band recording c. 1922, using the acoustic method. Date: c.1922

COACH AND HORSES SIGN
A very fine inn sign illustrating the method of travelling in bygone days - the Coach and Horses, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1950s

Bowls at Country House
A gentleman instructs an elegant lady on the best method of playing her bowl. Date: 1893

Why Captain Scott did not rely wholly on dogs
Page from The Sphere with drawings and photographs of the huskies used in Captain Scotts first polar expedition in 1901-4

Met Police stopwatch -- outer casing
A Metropolitan Police issue stopwatch for the purpose of catching speeding motorists. This method worked on the principle of timing motorists over specific distances to estimate their speed

Cutting cauliflowers near St Michaels Mount, Cornwall
Three men in Cornwall cutting cauliflowers in the traditional manner and loading them onto a tractor, with St Michaels Mount in the background

Moving hay on a pulley system - Hardanger, Western Norway
West Norway - Hardanger. Moving a large bundle of hay up and down a steep slope on an elaborate and rather remarkable string and pulley system

Diagram showing The Detector
Undated diagram showing " The Detector", a method for testing substances in a glass bottle using brass terminals and a cylinder to feel the " etheric reactions". HPG/85/8"

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