Mortar Collection (page 3)

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

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

Happy Families Animals - Master Penguin. circa 1940s

Happy Families - Mrs Teacher. circa 1940s

Roman floor mosaic. Antonine Period. Alemdar (Istanbul)
Roman floor mosaic. Coloured stone and mortar. Antonine Period. Detail. From Alemdar (Istanbul). Archaeological museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Roman floor mosaic. Cos (Istankoy). 2nd century AD
Roman floor mosaic. Coloured stone and mortar. 2nd century AD. From Cos (Istankoy). Archaeological museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Detail of a fireplace, used for the preparation of the pharmacy products. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Pharmaceutical containers with inscriptions, and mortar. pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Pharmacy jars (glass and ceramic) and mortars. Museum of Pharmacy. Turku. Finland

Charles Harcourt and others with placards
Charles Harcourt (real name Charles Parker Hillier, 1838-1880), British actor, and others with placards. From January 1880 he was the secretary of the National Dramatic Academy. 1880

Old Maid card - Schoolmaster. circa 1940s

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mr Chalk the Schoolmaster. circa 1935

Caricature of Madge Kendal, English actress and manager
Caricature of Madge Kendal (Margaret Shafto Robertson, 1848-1935), English actress and (with her husband William Hunter Kendal) theatre manager

Women in Glass Factory
Two women working in a glass factory. They are mixing something with a pestle in a mortar; a Bunsen burner with a large flame sits on the work surface. Date: circa 1930

Disraeli / Headmaster
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy becomes the New Head Master, alias Prime Minister, on the resignation of Lord Derby on 27 February 1868 Date: 7 March 1868

Apothecary 1827
An apothecary mixing medicines with a pestle and mortar in his laboratory. Date: 1827

Undergraduate of Bradfield College, Berkshire, in academic mortar board and gown. Date: 1939

Schoolboy with book on a New Year card
Schoolboy sitting reading a book (A Volume of Good Wishes) on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl going for a walk on a Christmas card
Boy and girl going for a walk arm in arm on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Sierra Leone - Making Palm Oil - crushing the fruits to release the oil. Date: circa 1910s

Three educated owls on a New Year card, with verse and snowy landscape. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl reunited on a Christmas card -- she has just met him at the railway station and they are returning home. Date: circa 1890s

The New Mortar for Bridging Chasms, Heath Robinson WW1
America in the Field - The new mortar for bridging chasms. A line of American soldiers traverse a chasm chained on wheeled chairs to a shell sent flying into the air

Suggestion for Utilising Enemy Trench Mortars, WW1
Suggestion for Utilising Enemy Trench Mortars Captured in France drawn by William Heath Robinson in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Page design, commencement, School Silhouettes
Page design for commencement in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

Cover design, School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA. Depicting a young woman with her pet dog

WW1 - Firing a mortar
WW1 - Three soldiers positioned in a dug-out trench, aiming and firing a mortar at its target. Date: circa 1915

Refuse collector at work on a Balham street, SW London. He is wearing a mortar board which someone has thrown away. Date: circa 1960s

Matteo di Marco Palmieri, Florentine apothecary, 15th century.. Handcolored illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from Historical Costumes from the 12th to

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

WW1 - Manufacture of Aerial Torpedoes - France Date: 1916

Oxford University robes: Bachelor of Music
A Bachelor of Music at Oxford University sporting a mortarboard and long, black gown with white fur hood. Date: 1920s

Oxford University robes: Doctor of Music (full dress)
A Doctor of Music at Oxford University sporting a mortarboard and long, red gown. Date: 1920s

First World War (1914). Ypres bombing (Belgium) with German mortar bombs (November, 1914). Illustration by G. Fraipont. Drawing

Mortar from Palestine. Neolithic
Mortar from Palestine, c. 4000 BC. Neolithic art. Ceramics. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Monistrol de Montserrat. Museum of Montserrat. Proc: ISRAEL. TRANSJORDAN

Illustrated War News - Dog in a trench mortar, WW1
Front cover of the Illustrated War News featuring a photograph of a small dog peering out of the gun barrel of a German trench mortar captured by Canadians on the Western Front. Date: 1917

Hauling Italian Artillery in Trentino
In the province of Trentino, on the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy, a heavy Italian mortar is hauled into position up a mountain slope

Suffragette Dog Home from College. A dog in a mortar board apparetly Just Home from College declares her support for the cause. Date: circa 1909

Suffragette Dog in Mortar Board. Collie dog wears a mortar board and has a Votes for Women sign around its neck. The Caption reads

Knocked out German trench mortar at chateau at Hangard
Knocked out German trench mortar at the gates of the ruined chateau at Hangard. Taken by 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles - August 17th 1918

German 42cm guns bombarding Antwerp
German 42cm guns and Austrian howitzers bombarding Antwerp in autumn 1914. 1914

Trench mortars captured from the Germans, 1914
Trench mortars captured from the Germans seen here at Ramscapelle behind the Yser line. They throw a murderous shell at very close range. Date: 1914

Chinese Civil War
An anti " red" gunner ready to load a stokes trench-mortar. At the time the warring parties are divided into two group, on the one side, the northern " anti-Red" allies

A Really Welcome Economy by Bruce Bairnsfather
A Really Welcome Economy " One shell-less day a week wouldn t be a bad idea, would it Bert?" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1917

Its the Little Things that worry by Bruce Bairnsfather
Its the Little Things that Worry What is so particularly annoying to Private Lovebird is, that he would not have had this bother with his dug-out if his leave had not been postponed A cartoon by

The Reconnoitring Mortar by Heath Robinson
This Heath Robinson cartoon show a new German innovation; soldiers with binoculars being launched into the sky. Several little nuances give it away as a Heath Robinson immediately, the mad premise

There goes our Blinking Parapet again by B Bairnsfather
In this cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather, a mortar strike obliterates a hefty part of the trench living area, while the cynical soldiers sit by, looking fairly apathetic to the whole experience

A Matter of Moment by Bairnsfather
A Matter of Moment " What was that, Bill?" " Trench mortar" " Ours or theirs?" A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, featuring his popular characters

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