Pounding Collection

Police Officer Walking
Metropolitan Police officer pounding the beat in London

C16 CHEMISTs SHOP
MEDICINES WHILE YOU WAIT: a druggist of the 16th century prepares a medicament, pounding the ingredients with pestle and mortar while two customers wait with their dog. Date: circa 1570

Pounding corn in Korea - Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Date: circa 1910

1860s Japan - portrait of a group pounding rice Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China

Pounding rice - the last cleaning using fans, Japan
Vintage 19th century photograph: farming, agriculture, food processing, pounding rice - the last cleaning using fans, Japan

c. 1880s Japan - cleaning and pounding rice
c.1880s Japan - cleaning and pounding rice

c. 1880s Japan - pounding rice
c.1880s Japan - pounding rice

AUSSIE SURFERS 1960S
Australian surfers riding big breakers on huge surfboards and surf canoes, enjoying an exciting ride and an exhilarating pounding by the waves. Date: 1960s

17th century Apothecaries
Apothecaries preparing medicines, pounding the ingredients with pestles in a mortar. Date: 17th century

Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai, India
Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai (Madras), India Date: circa 1920

Congo - Women from the Kasai region
Democratic Republic of Congo - Women from Kasai. Date: circa 1901

Shea butter production - Senegal
Shea butter preparation, baking shea tree nuts - pounding and grinding, Senegal, West Africa. The French name karite (as detailed on this card) comes from ghariti

Pounding rice, Japan, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

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

A Chinese peasant pounding rice Date: 1823

Japanese bakers pounding rice Date: circa 1860

Rice-pounding, Madagascar Date: circa 1860

Body pounding machine at Battersbys hatworks - the castnig on it identifies it as locally made, and the background is incredibly untidy! Date: 1902

Scene in Kaffir Kraal (village settlement), Zululand, Southern Africa Date: circa 1904

Hawaii, USA - Making Poi - Staple food from the Taro Plant
Hawaii, USA - Making Poi. Primary Polynesian staple food mad fom the underground stem of the Taro Plant - known in Hawaii as Kalo. Date: circa 1910s

American Indians. The Red Indian on show at Earls Court. M
A native American and his wife pounding corn in a large pestle and mortar

Very Robust Bed 20C
Italian beds are designed to take a fearful pounding - dancing elephants wouldn t break the springs !

Fiat Ansaldi 1903
A signorina enters her cosily upholstered Fiat Ansaldi while her chauffeur is exposed to piercing wind, scorching sun, pounding rain and driving snow

Ethiopia - Sorghum
Ethiopia (Abyssinia) - Pounding sorghum, a cereal plant also known as Indian millet

Pounding a White-Hot Iron Bar
Metal workers pounding a white-hot iron bar. The workers are all quite young boys

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