Plug Collection

Japan - Geisha - See no evil, Hear no evil, speak no evil
Japan - Three Geisha girls - miming the phrase See no evil, Hear no evil, speak no evil. Date: circa 1904

In the Famous Plug Street Wood by Matania
A relief party marching back to the trenches through Ploegstreet Wood (known as Plug Street), south of Ypres. The scarred trees lining the soldiers route bear the scars of shelling

Champion Spark Plug Service Sign
Enamel sign advertising Champion Dependable Spark Plug Service. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Young woman with a pronounced lip plate - Mozambique
A young Maconde (Makonde) woman with a pronounced lip plate - Portuguese East Africa (modern-day Mozambique) circa 1910s

Riots at Salter Hebble, Halifax
Disturbances at Salter Hebble in Halifax, part of the 1842 general strike, also known as the Plug Plot Riots, The riots started among the miners in Staffordshire, England

WW2 - R. A. F. Electrically Heated Boots
This photograph shows a British WW2 Royal Air Force pilot fitting the plug for electrically heating his boots. Date: circa 1940s

Enfield 8000 Electric Car at a petrol station
An Enfield 8000 Electric Car at a petrol station, where a woman holds out an electric plug to the puzzled pump attendant. The battery-operated city car was manufactured between 1973 and 1977

Skating, the Hard Frost and the Fire-plug. Apprentices and dandies ice skating on a frozen canal 82, woman with kettle at a frozen waterpump in a cold winter 83

Waterman, Ticket Porter, Fellowship Porter, Coachstand and New Milk from the Cow. Waterman, Ticket Porter and Fellowship Porter 79

Botocudo natives of the Amazon, with plugs
Botocudo natives of the Amazon, busts and profiles showing plugs in earlobes and lower lip. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of Men

Man and woman of the Aymore or Botocudo people, Brazil. The man with the distinctive plugs (botocudo) in his ears may be Manuel, who was exhibited in Paris in 1844

Portraits of Botocudo people of Brazil with their distinctive wooden lip and ear plugs, including the brave chief Jeparack and a decorated shrunken head

Botocudo chief with lip and ear plugs, Amazon, Brazil
Botocudo chief and family with their distinctive lip and ear plugs, Amazon, Brazil. Naked man with bow and arrows, woman carrying children and bag

Lengua or Juiadge people of Paraguay, with their distinctive lip plugs or barbotto. Male hunters with bow, arrows and quiver, women roasting meat on a fire

Advert for Reyrolle electric plug & sockets 1929
Safe to handle, domestic electrical apparatus, protected plug and sockets, made with British standard. Date: 1929

Early Motor Cars - diagram of first petrol-driven car
Early Motor Cars - diagram of the workings of the first petrol-driven car

Birthday card for a child, Hot Water Bottle. 20th century

Horse doping tests in a laboratory, Newmarket
Horse doping tests -- a laboratory technician in a white coat turns a knob on a Packard Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer, used for testing samples at the Horse Doping Test Centre in Newmarket

Enamel sign for Champion Spark Plugs
An enamel sign advertising the Champion Spark Plug Service. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Electrical household appliances 1929
Products from the Harrods catalogue electrical department, household items with a flexible wire and wall plug. Date: 1929

Oscilloscope for EEG monitoring in ESP testing
A Hewlett Packard four-beam oscilloscope for EEG (electroencephalogram) monitoring during ESP testing. Date: 20th century

Metropolitan Police headphones and radio

Main Volcanic Neck in Triassic Sandstone, Scrabo, Newtownards - a view of the plug of a volcano in sandstone surround. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Newtownards). Date: circa early 1900s

Gibbs Happy Families - Mrs Sparks the Electricians wife. 20th century

Face in garage window, Sale, Greater Manchester
A face peeps out through a garage window in Sale, Greater Manchester. Date: circa 1979

Vitromant Coloured Shelf Lavatory (Wash Basin / sink) - from the Vitromant Sanitaryware range - from a catalogue for Nicholls and Clarke Ltd. London

Soldiers in a wood near Ypres, Belgium, WW1
Soldiers in a wood near Ypres, Belgium, marching along Regent Street. In the famous Plug Street wood, a relief party is marching back to the trenches. Date: 1915

Model of triplane, sparkplug fuselage and metal wings, WW1
Model of a triplane with a sparkplug fuselage and metal wings. Trench Art

Poster, Champion plug
Poster, Champion, Britains favourite plug. Date: circa 1950

Pushfulness at Plug Street by Bairnsfather
Pushfulness at Plug Street Colonel Ian Jelloid of the Blobshire Rifles being an energetic and businesslike man believes in advertising as an antidote to stagnant warfare A cartoon by Captain Bruce

Tegenaria gigantia, house spider
Its usually the males which are seen struggling in baths, as they tend to wander in searching for females and get stuck. The males have longer legs and slimmer abdomens that the females

Chew Punch plug tobacco. National Tobacco Works, Louisville, Ky. Black man and white man in pugilistic pose, Punchinello clown and dog wearing hat and collar on wall. Date c1886

Fishing Plug
A fishing plug lure. Date: 1960s

Dangerous Plug
A badly wired plug, liable to give anyone a nasty electric shock

Haida Woman
A Haida woman of Queen Charlotte Island, northwest America : note the lip-plug, an ornament supposed to be attractive

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