Tray Collection (page 8)

Advertisement for Nescafe -- female model with tray. 1959

WW2 - Home front - British housewives queue to buy eggs
October, 1940 - British housewives queue to buy eggs, both domestically sourced and supplied from the Dominions - in this case, Canada. Date: 1940

Japan - Tea Industry - Tea Sifting Date: circa 1908

Japan - Tea Industry - Tea Drying Date: circa 1908

Japan - Tea Industry - Tea Grinding. Date: circa 1908

Japan - Silk Industry - Cutting the Mulberry leaves, for the silkworms to consume as they grow to maturity. Date: circa 1907

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms 20 days after hatching Date: circa 1907

Russo-Japanese War - Bringing up shells for the field guns. Date: circa 1905

Japanese Silk Industry - Storing the Cocoons Date: circa 1910

Japanese Silk Industry - Cleaning silk worm beds. Date: circa 1910

Thessaloniki, Greece - Waiter at a Jewish Cafe Date: circa 1905

Thessaloniki, Greece - Itinerant Meat Seller / Butcher
Thessaloniki, Greece - Itinerant Street Meat Seller with scales and young assistant. Weighing out some fowl. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Jewish Fruit Sellers Date: circa 1910s

Poole Pottery - A Coffee Set and various painted pieces. Poole Pottery was founded in 1873 on Poole quayside (East Quay), where it continued to produce pottery by hand before moving its factory

Russian itinerant street vendor of bread / cakes Date: 1902

Russian itinerant street vendor cakes / pastries / biscuits
Russian itinerant street vendor with his tray of covered cakes, pastries and biscuits. Date: 1902

Russian itinerant street peddlar / vendor. Date: 1902

California, USA - drying prunes in the hot sun Date: circa 1910s

Orange Seller - Istanbul, Turkey Date: circa 1904

Tray of shells

Tray of Precious Gemstones held in the mineralogy department of the Natural History Museum

Tray of Precious Gemstones held in the mineralogy department of the Natural History Museum

Entomological specimens of Lepidoptera
Unidentified photograph of mounted specimens of butterflies and moths

Linda Pitkin

Scientist working in Entomology Department
Entomologist working with arachnid collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Scientist identifying specimens
Entomologist identifying arachnid specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

Pharmacopoea drawer
A pharmacopea drawer dating back to before 1753 from the Sir Hans Sloane collection. A drawer containing the different ingredients for the preparation or mixing of medicines

Canteen staff
People You See. Canteen staff. From Teddy Bear (7 December (year unknown))

Cook and Waitress
People You See. From Teddy Bear (5 February 1966)

Baker Baking Cakes
A baker pipes the finishing touches onto some cakes on a baking tray Date: 1970s

Blind Craftsman 1930S
A blind man making a tray at St. Dunstans school established in 1915 to provide essential training and rehabilitation for ex-Service men blinded during warfare &c. Date: early 1930s

Cigarette butts in a tin

Firefighters tackle oil tray fire, Lambeth HQ
An item from the drill display where firefighters extinguish a blazing oil tray fire using foam from two gallon (10 litre) fire extinguishers

Presenting a snow bunny on a tray in front of a tea shop. Print shows a person walking to the left, mostly hidden by a snow-covered umbrella, a woman walking to the right

A waitress carrying a tray of food. Date between 1830 and 1842

Kyogen play with four characters, two wear hats, one possibly portraying a woman; there is a fish with carving knife on tray in the background

Woman walking, holding a large tray or hat over her head, followed by a small boy. Date between 1890 and 1940

Tray or table with offerings. Date 1878 Dec

The Sphere Christmas Number 1939
Front cover of The Sphere Christmas Number featuring a Dutch painting by Terborch of two ladies singing and playing a lute. A servant boy brings in a tray. Decoration by Harold Nelson. Date: 1939

Silhouette of a woman in an armchair, relaxing with a cigarette and a teatime tray. The caption reads: It takes her from Monday to get fit again for Friday

Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale
" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street

A Flutter in the Boudoir by A. K. Macdonald. An elegant late 18th century lady wearing the tiniest of outfits is warned of the imminent arrival of a youthful-looking male suitor

Urological Chair, Table
Urological Chair and Table combined, with pull-out tray for drainage. [This catalogue contains 2000 pages of medical equipment] Date: 1930

David Wright woman with tray of food and drink
Elegant woman in a red dress with a tray of food and drink, and an American flag behind her, representing one of The Girls They Left Behind

Vietnam - Tonkin Province
Northern Vietnam - Tonkin Province - a serene young woman holding a large woven fabric-covered circular object - possibly a tray or a sieve. Date: circa 1910s

Butchers boy and bakers boy
A butchers boy and a bakers boy having a chat. first published 1879

Disappearing Milk Trick
Magic at Maskelynes : Magician Mr. Edward Victor, assisted by the lovely Miss Eileen O Connor, demonstrated the amazing Disappearing Milk trick! Date: 1930s

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