Wheel Collection (page 33)

Game / Roller Wheel / 1927
Le Sourire introduces the new American sport of roller wheel

Organistrum
A larger form of hurdy-gurdy, sometimes used in churches; the right hand turns a handle which rubs the strings against a resined wheel while the left hand fingers the keys

Dealing with Jaywalkers
Device for picking-up jay- walkers in the street; after being sucked in, they find themselves inside a treadmill condemned to keep running

Sleeping Beauty / Briar
The witch shows Sleeping Beauty the spinning wheel (Grimm)

C18 Cider Mill
An 18th-century cider press in Devon, the wheel turned by a horse

Lady Changes Wheel
A lady motorist changes a wheel, looking over her shoulder to see if some kind gentleman will stop and give her a helping hand

Mama at the Wheel
Mama takes the wheel

French Monocycle 1950
At Saint-Etienne, a French inventor drives his monocycle, sitting inside the wheel, at speeds up to 140 km/h

Cabbie of a Victoria
A London cabbie soliciting custom for his Victoria four-wheel cab

French Senate Cartoon
The French Senate personified as an old man putting sticks in a wheel to prevent progress

Costume / Bon Genre C. 1816
Pelisse: roll collar & blue border, robe: scalloped cuffs, ruff & hem; robe: wrap-over body & transparent under- sleeves; tall plumed hats; green robe with vandyked hem

Social / Serbia Postman
A postman of Montenegro brings a letter to a housewife as she sits at her spinning wheel

Fowlers Steam Plough
Fowlers patent four-furrow steam-plough, an exhibit of the International Exhibition

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

Kent Village Street
Boys play marbles, a girl wheels her little sister in a pram, unworried by traffic in the High Street of Biddenden, Kent. Date: 1907

Knife Grinders Dog
A dog helps a French knife- grinder by turning his wheel like a treadmill

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

Farming Couple 1790
A relatively prosperous farming couple. She wears a fashionable white muslin gown & shoes with pointed toes & vamps. He is more informally attired in his shirt sleeves

Religion / Egypt / Khnum 2
The ram-god KHNUM is the creator of life, which he does on his potters wheel, while Thoth measures the span of the persons life

17th Century Smithy
A blacksmith at work in his smithy, powered by a water wheel; logging and other activities are also taking place

Spinning Cotton
Spinning cotton using a spinning wheel

Jersey Spinning Wheel
An Englishwoman using a Jersey spinning-wheel to spin wool which has been carded with the cards lying at her feet

Spinning, Holland
A Dutch woman at her spinning wheel, with hanks of thread at her feet

Spinning, Saxony Wheel
A woman spins wool on a Saxony type of spinning wheel

Spinning, Wales
A Welshwoman in traditional dress poses rather self- consciously outside her cottage with a spinning wheel

Spinning, Ireland
An old Irishwoman at her spinning-wheel

Spinning, Flanders
a Flemish housewife at her elaborate and elegant spinning wheel

Buddhist Prayer Wheel
A huge wooden prayer wheel at Ladakh (India/Pakistan)

Spinning Wool 1930S
Two old dames using combs and and a traditional spinning wheel to spin wool which will be used on a hand loom, Sandwich, Kent, England

Using a Spinning Wheel
A young woman spinning wool on a spinning wheel to be woven into very light summer coats

Tibetan Lady and Wheel
A Tibetan woman with her prayer-wheel

Sea Serpent Rears Up
An ugly winged serpent of the sea rears up to confront a startled sailor who lets go the ships wheel in fright

Baby Abandoned / 1860
A mother abandoning her child at a convent baby wheel

Fireworks after Boyne
Firework display given by the gentry & folk of Covent Garden to commemorate the return of the victorious William III after the Battle of Boyne in Ireland. Bonfires are lit

Swedish Cottage Inter
Cock, hen and chicks are welcome in this Swedish peasant home with its rustic furniture, spinning wheel and all

Donkey Carisbrook
At Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight, a donkey turns the wheel that raises water from the well

Pyne - Knife Grinder
THE KNIFE GRINDER trundles his wheel from street to street, calling out to housewives and servants to bring out their knives and scissors for him to sharpen

Egyptian Sakiyeh
The sakiyeh is used to irrigate fields and gardens, by raising water in a series of bowls on a wheel which is kept in continual motion by cattle

Danish Lady Motorist
A Danish lady motorist takes the wheel for a trip in the country

Normandy Peasants 1856
Industrious Norman peasants working by the fire in Calvados

The Iron Stove
The princess rides on a plough wheel over the three swords which are being wielded through holes in the ground. (Grimm story)

Rien Ne Va Plus
RIEN NE VA PLUS ! a croupier sardonically watches the spin of the roulette wheel, knowing that the house is going to win anyway

Wheel of Fortune / Card
A fortune-teller uses a wheel of fortune

Monte Carlo / Allers 1924
Gamblers at the tables - a winner, and the losers

Big Wheel / Le Cirque
People on the Ferris wheel

Pistols Breech-Loading
Breech-loading wheel-lock pistol, with an ivory stock - it was used in the time of Henry VIII

Three little girls with a large Easter egg on a trolley
Three little girls with a large pink Easter egg, so big they have to wheel it on a trolley !

Chariot race accident
Chariot racing in the Circus at Rome -- one of the chariots overturns on the bend, causing an obstruction for the chariot behind

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