Pressing Collection

Pressing Cider Apples
The Pound-House of a Devon cider farm : on the right is the mill, and on the left is the press where the mock of crushed apples is built into a square heap for pressing

Cider Pressing 18th C
Apples are being pressed to make cider in a French barn of the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Fantastic Wooden Screw Olive Press - Kabyle People, Algeria
Absolutely Fantastic Wooden Olive Screw Press - Kabyle People, Algeria. The traditional Kabylian economy of the area is based on arboriculture (orchards and olive trees)

Cider pressing
Tower to crush the apples and old cider press in Normandy in northern France. Date: circa 1870s

Pressing a bale of linen, linen production, Victorian period

Linen manufacture, Pressing bale of linen

Pressing cloth in a woollen mill in Bradford, Yorkshire, late Victorian period

Lambeth Doulton Faience Factory - Blunging and Pressing Clay - Victorian period

Blunging and pressing clay in a pottery factory

Ancient wine press, treading the grapes Date: 1840

Le Chiffre DAmour
A portrait painting of a young woman, wearing a summer hat, pressing the palm of her hand to the bark of a tree, she is holding a dead bird with a cane. Date: circa 1918

The Tube Railways of London - group photo of workmen, with greathead shield driving a station tunnel, the ends of the hydraulic rams pressing on flange of furthest ring Date: 1909

Pottery Making scenes Date: 1874

Fantastic Adventures - Dr. Destiny Master of the Dead
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1940, featuring the story Dr. Destiny Master of the Dead by Robert Moore Williams. A weird looking man with a huge head sits on a chair pressing buttons

Comic postcard, Drunken man with water spout Date: 20th century

Egyptian wheat and grape agriculture
Egyptian agriculture: priest of Osiris with sceptre 1, following a man with plow behind two yoked oxen 2, man sowing seed 3 from a box 4, men harvesting wheat with a scythe 5, 6

Jamaican industry was struggling against fierce rivalry of production volumes from the great European Nations manufactures

Pressing house at Chateau D estournel 1871
Vintage of medoc: cuvier or pressing-house at Chateau D estournel. 1871

Pottey - Pressers at work 1880s
Pottery pressing. Date: 1880s

The branches of autumn beech leaves will keep their glossy surface longer if ironed after the usual pressing, with a little beeswax on the iron. Date: 1930s

I too with my soul and body wandering amid the shadows
I too with my soul and body.. wandering amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing

Prices Patent Candle Companys Works 1849
No. 1, Candle manufacturing process at Prices Patent Candle Company: Spreading and stripping department. Date: 1849

Button-making, Elliots Button Factory, Birmingham 1844
Women working at long benches stamping, pressing and punching on buttons at Elliots Factory, Birmingham. Date: 1844

Potato masher and fruit press 1888
Useful kitchen utensil for potato masher and fruit pressing. Date: 1888

TWO AMONG THE REEDS 1879
A couple moor among the reeds, with only a donkey to chaperone them - but if he becomes too pressing, she can hold him at bay with her parasol... Date: 1879

Leather splitting machine at a leather factory, south London
Man operating a leather splitting machine (used for splitting one skin into two thinner skins) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Hat factory workers, Southwark, London 1841
Hat factory workers making beaver (or bever) hats at the Christy hat factory in Southwark, London. Men employed in wetting, rolling, pressing ruffling and blocking the hat bodies. Date: 1841

The Royal Mint - The Medal Presses. Date: circa 1908

Five women in an indoor domestic scene by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795) Date: late 18th century

Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien, Loiret, France
Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Date: 1910s

Kabyle Olive Oil Press - North Eastern Algeria
A quite outstanding postcard (incredible detail) showing an olive oil press in operation in the Kabyle Region of Algeria. The Kabyle people are Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimated

Bookbinding / Diderot
The interior of a French book binding establishment : preparing the leather, sewing the gatherings, making the boards, pressing the volumes. Date: circa 1760

Olive Press to make Olive Oil
Olive Press Date: 1811

French Olive Oil Press. Date: circa 1870

Pifco Electric Trouser Press, for a knife edged crease! 1950s

George McClellan - 3
GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN American military, general-in- chief Union Army but removed for not pressing attack : challenged Lincoln for presidency; governor N.J. Date: 1826 - 1885

Flat Iron 1930S
An electric pressing iron, used by tailors

Susi - with a tube of toothpaste, making a bit of a mess. 1950s

Pressing the Eggs Tight in the Crate and Nailing the Lid - a view of this process at Cookstown market with people looking on. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Tyrone; Cookstown)

Battery of metal Presses at Ford Motor Works, Dagenham. Date: circa 1937

Susi - splashing out with the soda syphon. 1950s

Workshop dedicated to handcrafting the paperboard. Pulping and pressing. 18th Century. Encyclopedie Diderot et d Alembert. Colored engraving

Oil press. Eighteenth-century engraving

Cider Making, 1850
Cider making : laying the fruit before pressing. Date: 1850

Olive Oil Press. Date: circa 1730

Pressing pomace, California wine industry, USA. Date: circa 1910

Advertisement for Fenwick tailoring
Advertisement for Fenwick ladies tailoring department, , with a silhouette of tailors at work by H.L. Oakley. Tailor gowns to order, twelve and a half guineas (just over thirteen pounds)

Emergency call button in telephone box
The emergency call button in a public telephone box -- just press the button and ask for Fire, Ambulance or Police. No number or coins required

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping