Turned Collection (page 2)

Turned walnut childs chair. circa 1660

Columbus at Venice
Columbus in Venice 1488, supplicating to the Doge and his ministers, to fund his expeditions to find a new trading route to Asia. He was unsuccessful and was turned down. Date: 1488

Turning wood on a pole lathe, which is turned by a foot pedal. Date: 1930s

Battered Old Shoes Date: 1954

Close Couple with Car Date: 1938

Home delivery room demonstration
A room as it should be prepared for a maternity case by a Queens (district) nurse. Features a bed with a large pillow and sheets turned back, newspaper and bucket on floor and cot to one side

BULL TERRIER / 1971
ROMANY RIVER MUSIC He turns away from the camera in an otherwise mood. Owned by Montague-Johnstone. Date: 1971

BOY IN KNITTED COAT
A small boy posed out of doors wears a 3/4 length light coloured knitted coat with collar & turned back cuffs & shoes with a bar across the instep. Date: late 19th century

OLD AGE / SMART LADY
An elderly lady, well turned out in her coat with fur collar and pearl necklace Date: 1950s

COSTUME / GINGERBREAD 1796
A gingerbread seller wears black shoes, black half- gaiters, dark woollen stockings, rust-coloured plain coat and a small hat with the brim turned up. Date: 1796

ERICSSON TABLE PHONE - 2
A table instrument by the Ericsson Company of Stockholm, Sweden. The handle on the side is turned when making a call, to alert the exchange. Date: circa 1905

GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE English reformer. A Chartist, and Owenite and a turned rationalist. Imprisoned on blasphemy charge in 1842. Date: 1817 - 1906

MARY TO THE RESCUE
When axe and bucket have failed and the fire brigade havent turned up, the owner of a blazing house implores the aid of the Virgin Mary, who kindly offers her help Date: circa 1850

SODOM & GOMORRAH SODOM & GOMORRAH
The Cities of the Plain are destroyed : Lots wife, who turns to admire the show, is turned to a pillar of salt, but the rest of her family escape with angelic help

17th century Potter
A potter at his wheel, turned by his foot, puts the finishing touches to an elegant pot. Date: 17th century

Women trying to vote at New York polling station, 1871
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), noted American feminist, with her sister Jennie Claflin, try to vote in the New York election of 1871, but are turned away. Date: 1871

Old Craven House
Formerly Drury House, it was later rebuilt as Craven House by Lord Craven, and finally turned into a public house, the Queen of Bohemia, named after Lord Cravens unrequited love

Stylish French Girl in revealing negligee with hand mirror
" Please Come" - a pretty ginger-haired girl with bright red lipstick, wearing a large hat with green feathers and a brown fur, makes a forward invitation... Date: 1913

Tea table
Mahogany tea table with a folding half-round top, on turned and tapered legs with pad feet, made in England c.1740. Date: c.1740

Portrait of Louis Wain taken from an advertisement for Phosferine, a tonic medicine, featuring Louis Wain, the famous cat artist

GLC-LFB Turntable ladder overturned on roadway
Lack of stability at speed and when manoeuvring very occasionally resulted in fire engines overturning, because of the relatively high centre of gravity (loading) of the turntable ladder

Folioscope, 1896
more popularly known as the flicker-book, it is simply a succession of images which, if the pages are turned with sufficient rapidity, give the illusion of movement. 1896

17th Century Crane
A 17th century crane, timber construction : the wheel enables it to be turned, for instance when loading a vessel from a dock. Date: 1690

German Dress C14Th
Woman: goffered veil & wimple, kirtle with buttoned sleeves, loose fitting gown, girdle & pouch. Man: dagged cape, gipon (doublet), girdle, piked shoes & hat with an up-turned brim. Date: 14th century

Alice in Wonderland, baby turns into pig
Alice in Wonderland, Alice carries the baby which has turned into a pig. Date: early 20th century

Niobe and her Family
Niobe, proud of her 14 children, imprudently mocked Leto/Latona who had only 2, whereupon Apollo and Diana slew them all and turned Niobe herself into a stone

Ludwig And. Feuerbach
LUDWIG ANDREAS FEUERBACH German philosopher, pupil of Hegel but turned to naturalistic materialism, opposing organised religion

Blackpool Illuminations
The famous Blackpool Illuminations, Blackpool being Lancashires famous City of Light, when six miles of promenade are turned into a blaze of light

Three Chinchilla Kittens
These three adorable Chinchilla kittens sit together in an up- turned basket

Medusa (Anon)
The chief of the Gorgons, her face is so terrible that anyone who sees it is turned to stone : but Perseus slays her by looking in a mirror as he removes her head

Atlas Carrying World
Atlas, a Titan who was punished for rebelling against the Gods by being made to carry the heavens on his shoulders; later he was turned to stone, becoming the Atlas Mountains

Rinaldo D este, Cardinal
RINALDO D ESTE, cardinal Italian soldier, turned churchman : bishop of Reggio, son of Francesco I duca di Modena. (Warning, there are many persons of this name !) Date: flourished 1640s

Noble & Middle Class C14
Clothing of the upper & middle class: voluminous outer garments resembling cloaks or mantles, fur hats with narrow up-turned brims. N.B shoes with bars, pouch & dagger. Date: 14th century

French Costumes 1477-80
Woman: mantle, gown with a square neckline, hat with a floppy brim. Men: hat with a round crown & the brim turned up at the back, gown, doublet & jacket with hanging sleeves. Date: 1477 - 1480

English Costume C15Th
Men: cap with turned up brim, chaperon with liripipe, hose, short houppelandes ( one with dagged sleeves). Woman: fur- trimmed gown, hanging sleeves, high-crowned bonnet headdress Date: 15th century

English Costume C14Th
Woman: mantle, sideless surcoat, wimple & goffered veil. Men: gipon, girdle & pouch, parti-coloured hose, piked shoes, cap with up- turned brim, armour. Date: 14th century

Costume / Brass of C15Th
Monumental brass in Digswell Church, Hertfordshire: wide, padded headdress with veil, houppelande with turned down collar, long funnel sleeves, kirtle sleeves visible. Date: early 15th century

German Officials 1670
German professionals (possibly legal dress): full-bottomed wigs, hats with cocked brims, coats with deep turned back cuffs like boot-cuffs, cloaks. Date: 1670

Woman wear a merry widow hat and Plumes
Young woman in a narrow fitting skirt, high necked blouse, full-length coat with black lapels & turned-back cuffs & a broad brimmed hat with plumes. Date: circa 1913

Margherita Turned Out
Margherita di Cortona, when her noble lover is murdered, goes home but is turned away by her mother, together with her fatherless son. (She will become a nun and a saint) Date: 1273

Tourists at the Pyramids
European tourists enjoy a champagne lunch with a fine view of the Pyramids and the Sphinx onto which the lady has turned her back Date: circa 1903

Sir Charles Hall
SIR CHARLES HALL lawyer, earning 10 000 per annum in the Chancery Court (say 1m today); no wonder he turned down the offer to become a judge Date: 1814 - 1883

Building Underground
Building the London Underground, using the cut- and-cover method whereby a trench is turned into a tunnel Date: 1860s

Two boys emptying a piggy bank onto a table. The coins seem to be mostly penny and threepenny pieces (pre-decimalisation). Date: circa 1960s

Two boys in Lathkill Dale, both very smartly turned out at the edge of this very detailed picture of the Dale. Date: 1906

Hatworks employee at Battersbys factory identified by the photographer as Christopher Tipping, smartly turned out but with a less imposing backdrop. Date: 1902

Suffragette on Bonfire Chislehurst 1908. Preparing the bonfire in Chislehurst, Kent for the celebrations on November 5th 1908

Lady Eveyln Beauchamp, 1929
Lady Evelyn Beauchamp (nee Herbert), daughter of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon at the races, 1929. The Countess wears a wrap-coat of fine cloth, with a scarf collar and romantic short Cavalier cloak

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