Mortar Collection (page 4)

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

S. O. S. by Bairnsfather
S.O.S. The Hard Lines of Communication A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, in which two soldiers under heavy bombardment talk over the trench communication line

Situation Shortly Vacant by Bruce Bairnsfather
In this Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, a gormless soldier peers from the house hes held up in into a recently made crater. It would appear that he doesn t see the second mortar. Date: 1916

British heavy trench mortar, Western Front, WW1
A Brtish heavy trench mortar firing on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Russo-Turkish War, Siege Mortar + Crew
A Russian Mortar (siege weapon) and its crew during the Russo-Turkish war (April 24, 1877 March 3, 1878). Date: circa 1877

French mortar in action, Western Front, WW1
A French 370 mm mortar gun in action on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

James Nasmyths floating mortar of short range by which an enemy invading ship may be destroyed

The Rev. William Baker, Vanity Fair, Wag
The Rev. WILLIAM BAKER (1841 - ) Head Master of Merchant Taylors School, England for 30 years. Born in Reigate and educated at MTS and St. Johns College, Oxford. Caption: MTS Date: 1841 -

Lighting the fuse of a battery of four crapouillots 1915
French infantry bombardiers about to fire their home-made trench mortars under the watchful eye of the captain of the company. 1915

John Price, Librarian
JOHN PRICE Bodleys librarian at Oxford wearing his mortar-board. Date: 1734 - 1813

Schoolmaster reacts angrily as his window is smashed by an errant cricket ball. Date: 1898

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

Teacher scolding pupil for defacing the classroom walls
A stern Master scolding a small schoolboy for defacing the classroom walls with a humorous set of scribbles including the OXO Bull in a cup of tea and a little stickman. Date: circa 1920s

Gallarus Oratory, near Smerwick, Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry
Gallarus Oratory, near Smerwick, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. This strange building is an early Christian chapel, stone with no mortar. Date: circa 1910s

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

Preparing Manioc at Banghi in the Congo. Fufu, or cassava bread, is made in Africa by first pounding cassava (Manioc) in a mortar to make flour (as shown here)

Indian Village Life - Separating Butter and Crushing Spices. This is from the North West Frontier Province, then Northern India on the border with Afghanistan - now part of Pakistan

British Mortar Battery in action at Landikhana, NWFP Date: circa 1920s

Two bronze mortars used during the First Carlist War. SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeric (armoury)

Mortar. Drawing shows a stone(?) wheel pestle on a spool in a tray; mortar and pestle. Date 1878 Nov

Mortar Battery, Morris Island, S. C
Mortar Battery, Morris Island, S.C. Photograph shows Union officers and solders on Morris Island in Charleston harbor, standing by mortars aimed at Fort Sumter. (Source: Date 1865

Mortar batteries in front of Picquet house Light Division. Photo shows five men and three mortars at a mortar battery with bomb-proof shelter. Date 1855

The Mamelon & the Malakof from the front of the mortar batteries. Date 1855. The Mamelon & the Malakof from the front of the mortar batteries. Date 1855

U. S. Marines on Guadalcanal
U.S. Marines on the island of Guadalcanal during the campaign to take the strategically placed island. Allied forces landed on 7 August 1942

Quiet day in the Mortar Battery. Four soldiers relaxing in a mortar battery. Date 1855. Quiet day in the Mortar Battery. Four soldiers relaxing in a mortar battery. Date 1855

Poster: Waste Paper goes into Action. Paper makes shell containers, cartridge wads, rifle grenade washers, mortar bomb carriers, etc. Put out paper for salvage. circa 1940s

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

Preparation of Palm Oil - Sierra Leone Date: circa 1904

German mortar damage to fort, Liege, Belgium, WW1
Damage to a fort in Liege, Belgium, caused by a 42cm German mortar during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Senegal, West Africa - preparing couscous
A Senegalese woman crushing chickpeas to make couscous using a huge pestle and mortar and a young man from the Ouoloff tribe, Senegal. Date: circa 1903

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