Powder Collection (page 7)

Using Williams Talc
Williams Talc Powder

Window Wash Stuff 1919
Bon Ami for crystal-clear windows - in both cake or powder form

Royal Baking Powder 1919
Royal Baking Powder

No Guinea Pigs / The Town before you, or welch wigs, or whimsicalities, or how to save the tax on Hair Powder

Licenc d to Wear
Licenc d to wear hair powder

Dried Milk & Eggs
An open kitchen cupboard, stocked with dried milk and dried egg powder, essential items during World War Two rationing

Explosion at Regents Canal, a barge covered in petroleum and gun powder blew up as it passed underneath the bridge on the night of1st of October 1874

Clearing up after the explosion at Regents canal
Clearing up the debris after a massive explosion caused a bridge over the Regents Canal to blow up. A barge covered in petroleum

Knitted Dressing Gown
Elegant, loose fitting, wrap- over dressing gown with funnel shaped sleeves in powder blue lace stitch Shetland wool edged with swansdown

Pudre De Riz Advert
Le Diaphane poudre de riz (rice powder) - adherant, invisible, hygienic - as used, the words imply, by Sarah Bernhardt herself !

French Arquebusier / C17Th
A French foot Arquebusier with his ornate arquebus gun

Kidfitting Corsets 1911
The newly fashionable long line corsets which create the Directoire or Empire silhouette in lighweight batiste for the summer months

Victor Stiebel / Outfit
A wedding guest ensemble designed by Victor Stiebel for Miss Evans Jones comprising of an elegant bias cut powder blue dress with an eletric blue coat and hat

French Field Guns - 5
A battery of French 155 cannons, using 9 kilos of powder to fire a projectile of 40 kilos

French 220 Mortar
A French 220 mortar requires 6 kilos of powder to discharge a projectile weighing 98 kilos

French Artillery - 11
One gunner of the foot artillery of the French Garde Royale steps back after loading the gun : his mate places the powder which will fire the cannon

1795 / Cartoon / Powder
Leaving Off Powder, or A Frugal Family saving the Guinea. A response to Pitts tax on hair-powder

Smokeless Powder 2 of 2
Gunfire using Vieilles smokeless powder - a vast improvement on normal powder (2 of 2)

Smokeless Powder 1 of 2
Gunfire using normal powder, creating a cloud of smoke (1 of 2)

Landing the Powder
GUY FAWKES Fawkes and Catesby unload the barrels of gunpowder under cover of night

Bertram Mills Clowns
A bunch of clowns from the Bertram Mills Circus apply their make-up in their dressing-room

Advert / Swandown Powder
Swandown face powder - for the complexion

Advert / Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom perfume, toilet powder and soap - none nicer!

Advert / Royal Baking Powd
Royal Baking Powder

Cromptons Flu Powder
Cromptons flu powder, sold for 2d

The Toilette of Salome (Second Version). An illustration from Salome by Oscar Wilde, 1894. Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)

French Musketeer 1586
A French musketeer : note the smouldering fuses, to light the powder

A Touch of Powder
A touch of powder

Langtry Balm - named after the popular actress from Jersey - is not a powder, does not contain powder, but is far superior to face powders

Arquebusier 17th Century
An Arquebusier insert the powder into his Arquebus, a portable long-barrelled pre- cursor to the musket, which had a wheel or match-lock action and a hook-shaped butt

Dressing / Theatre 1910
A gentlemanly admirer, with a bouquet concealed behind his back, waits on an actress, who sitting at her dressing table in a pink corset & stockings, serenely adjusts her hair

Ipso Washing Powder
IPSO - the Wonder Worker - washes by itself

Powder Plot Cellar
Interior of the Crypt or Powder Plot Cellar beneath the old Palace of Westminster looking towards Charing Cross. It was taken down in June 1833

Boer War Camp Scene
British camp scene during the Boer War where, according to private Ward of the Frontier Mounted Police, Borwicks Baking Powder enabled them to enjoy excellent bread

Rifle Volley 1890
Demonstration of the aftermath of a volley of shots from rifles using smokeless powder. 2 of 2

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