Shaping Collection

Poole Pottery - Shaping a pot on the potters wheel
Shaping a pot on the potters wheel. Poole Pottery was founded in 1873 on Poole quayside, where it continued to produce pottery by hand before moving its factory operations away from the quay in 1999

Dressing Fante Ladys hair - Sekondi, Gold Coast, Africa
Dressing a Fanti (Fante) Ladys hair - Sekondi, Gold Coast, West Africa (modern Ghana). Date: circa 1910s

The beautiful gardens of Levens Hall, a manor house in the Kent valley, near the village of Levens and 5 miles south of Kendal in Cumbria. Gardeners at work clipping the impressive topiary

Brickmaker shaping clay bricks in a mold next to a kiln. Bricks lay drying on a wheelbarrow. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J

Iron smelting in a furnace, Bronze Age, Kazakhstan area
Craftsmen (blacksmiths) of the Bronze Age in the Kazakhstan area, smelting and shaping metal (iron) using an ancient furnace with bellows. 3000-1200 BCE

Ancient metal workers, Kazakhstan
Two Kazakh craftsmen (blacksmiths) shaping metal by hammering. In the background are a yurt, horses, camels and camel keeper. BCE

Iron processing in Bronze Age, Kazakhstan area
Bronze Age craftsmen (blacksmiths) processing iron with special tools, shaping the metal by hammering. In the background are yurts and a mountain landscape. 3000-1200 BCE

A machine-tool shaping a gas-turbine engine turbine blade. Date: circa 1965

Scots Pines
A landscape photograph which shows a bending river, shaping a large mound which is densely populated with scots pines, which sit opposite a golf course, probably in Dunfermline, Scotland

Assist the Remedies of Nature 1933
Removal superfluous hair: A warm mixture paraffin and shellac applied to the ladies eyebrows and peeled off a few minutes later. Date: 1933

Block machinery or lathe at Portsmouth naval docks, including shaping engine, early 19th century

PROMETHUS CREATES
Prometheus is responsible for shaping Man from Earth and Water, then Athena/Minerva breathes life into him. So who needs Adam and Eve ?

GLASS 18TH CENTURY 14
GLACES SOUFFLEES Blown glass : furnaces for reheating the glass while shaping the object Date: 1765

Hairdressing in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1930s

Wartime underwear article, Britannia and Eve magazine, 1940
Page from Britannia and Eve magazine, September 1940, reporting on various types of foundation garments to ensure a controlled figure under clothing

Mexico - Lady making tortillas. She is rolling out the dough on a stone (with a rolling pin), shaping the tortillas and cooking them on a hot stove, with a elaborate stone chimney. Date: circa 1905

The Zulu wars. A Zulu blacksmith forging an assegai
Scene depicting a Zulu making a spear in a fire and shaping it into the famous zulu weapon. Male and female zulus are in the foreground, while two European men watch in the background

Children shaping Jack-o lanterns
A group of children cutting & shaping their Jack-O lanterns in time for Halloween. Date: circa 1910

Shaping a Horseshoe
A young farrier (blacksmith) uses a hammer and chisel on his anvil to shape a horseshoe. Date: 1960s

Duplex nut shaping machine

Nut shaping machine

Brick making hand shaping - Rangoon - then at tables under a thatched sun shelter, teams of three shape and press it into metal moulds, some children aged 12 (but look more like 8)

Making a herring barrel, Lowestoft
A cooper making a herring barrel in Lowestoft, Suffolk. By the mid-1960s, fish catches from Lowestoft were greatly diminishing, particularly the herring. Date: 1909

UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (4 / 4)
Flat presser making dishes at a pottery in Burslem, Staffs Date: circa 1910s

UK ceramics Industry at Burslem, Staffs (3 / 4)
Potter at his wheel (in his 80th year!) making vases Date: circa 1910s

MAKING A TRUG BASKET
Shaping a trug basket at Herstmonceux, Sussex, England. 1940s

Butt Welding railway rails
A fantastic colour photograph showing the sparks flying up during the butt welding of railway rails. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Preparing Seeds for Raspberry Jam rations
A ridiculous amount of workers chipping, shaping, carving

American Indians. The peaceful integration of the red indian
Young Sioux men shaping metal on an anvil

Making Oars 1930
Making wooden oars for the Oxford verus Cambridge boat race - shaping the haft

A Cooper at Work
A cooper uses a hand adze to shape one of the bands used to hold together the individual slats which make up a barrel or keeler tub. The workshop is known as a cooperage

Potter (Series)
Le potier - POTTER - shaping a pot on his wheel

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