Wooden Collection (#72)

Museum souvenirs, Rostov Velikij, Russia
A display of souvenirs, including traditional wooden Russian dolls, on sale in the museum shop at Rostov Velikij (Rostov the Great), Russia

Photo of Stalin and Roosevelt, Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukrain
A photo of Stalin and Roosevelt in the museum section of the Livadia (Livadija) Palace, Yalta, Ukraine, where the historic February 1945 meeting took place between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

A Burmese girl preparing her make-up
A girl from Burma (modern Myanmar) preparing her make-up in front of a very European-style dressing table mirror, set on the floor

Bottling of Mares Milk (Kumis)
Russia - the bottling of Kumis by a Muslim family. Kumis is a fermented dairy product traditionally made from horses (mare s) milk

Mudeford Boathouse - Devon
Boathouse at Mudeford, Devon. Pencil drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Young Boy a holding racing car
A study of a young boy, seated in a high-backed wooden chair, clutching his favourite model racing car. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Old winepress, Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal
An old winepress on display at the firm of Henriques & Henriques SA, Camara de Lobos, near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Heron taking flight
A Heron takes off from a reedbed alongside a stream under a wooden footbridge. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Mother and two children of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A mother and her two children pose for their photograph on a wooden bench. The girl on the left is wearing a sailor dress

Little girl of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A little girl in a garden or back yard with her hoop and stick, a popular game at the time. She is from the settlement of Kostel (also known as Podivin) in South Moravia, now in Czechoslovakia

Sfax, Tunisia - Outdoor merchant or cures / remedies
Sfax, Tunisia - Outdoor merchant in a truly spectacular hat selling traditional local tunisian cures/remedies by the side of the street

Wood Turning, Tunisia
A carpenter turns wood supported using his feet

Selection and packing of dates at Nefta, Tunisia
The sorting / selection and packing into cases of dates at Nefta, Tunisia

Tunisia - Tunis - Halfaouine
The Halfaouine district in Tunis, Tunisia. Groups of men and women sit out in the street chatting on wooden chairs

Lighting in John Lennons study
Remarkable tall and thin coloured lighting in John Lennons study. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Children by an ornate doorway
Five children sitting and standing beside an ornate doorway - Algeria

Packing Bananas - Las Palmas - Gran Canaria
Packaging bananas on the street at Las Palmas, the principle city of the Spanish Municipality of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands

Moorish Woman at the well
A Moorish Algerian woman raising water from a well in a small wooden bucket

Moorish Couscous maker - Algeria
A Moorish Couscous maker, Algeria

Pelota played at Saint Jean de Luz
The Basque game of Pelota played in front of a large crowd at Saint Jean de Luz, France. Pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan

Four happy Algerians
Four happy black Algerians, seated outside a building

Portugal - Water carrier
A colourful depiction of a Portuguese water carrier, with a large barrel on his back. An ornate stone water fountain is in the background of the scene

Native pre-marital rite - Jakarta (Indonesia)
A native girl of Jakarta (Indonesia) straddling a specially-designed wooden mounting block draped with a white cloth in order to catch the blood

The launching of the Constantinople Lifeboat
An elder lifeboatman lifts his hammer to strike out the holding peg to launch the Constantinople lifeboat and its team of lifeboatmen down a wooden ramp. The boat is called the Shellu

Cairo - Egyptain Gates
A pair of gateway doors (possibly to a Mosque) in Cairo, Egypt, showing traditional artistic and architectural styling

Man at work in Kashgar, western China
A man at work in the open air in Kashgar, western China. He is hammering a wooden contraption with rope attached, perhaps a primitive agricultural implement

Man with pan and mallet
A very unusual photograph of a man standing in the middle of his garden lawn with arms outstretched, holding a wooden mallet in one hand and a small metal pan in the other

A young boy at the seaside
A young boy climbing the wooden steps up from the beach to the seafront. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Cradle of Henry V, donated by George V
The cradle of Henry V, donated by George V to the New London Museum, which opened in Kensington Palace in 1912. Prior to this, the cradle was at Windsor Castle

Turkish Bath scene
A Scene inside a Turkish bath. One gentleman reads the daily newspaper, while three serving boys stand at the rear awaiting instruction

Cooking Utensil Salesman
Itinerant cooking utensil salesman, with a wicker backpack and hand basket, containing brushes and wooden platters

Shanghai - porters resting by the roadside
Porters with large wooden barrels and baskets attached to their yolks, rest at the side of the road, some taking refreshment. Further down the street is a vendor of cakes or biscuits

Egypt - Suez - General view including Mosque
Egypt - Suez - General view including the Kafr-Zar Mosque Date: 1910

Customs official tests imported wine
A customs official tests wine from an imported barrel of wine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Turkish man and his young daughter
A Turkish man sits outside his house with his young daughter on his knee

Turkish street scene - Istanbul
Typical back street scene in Constantinople in the 1920s. Mud, rubble and wooden houses predominate the view

Taking the car for a drive along some country lanes in the 1930s

A traditional Jumba house - Istanbul
A traditional Jumba house - Constantinople (Istanbul)

Traditional Yali house - Istanbul
Traditional Turkish houses. This specific style of building is known Yali - " Waterside Mansion"

Constantinople - Whirling Dervish Group with ney players, zither player and Koranic reciter. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia)

Egypt - Group of Mevlevi Dervishes with ney players and drummer. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

Scene on the Bosphorus - European side
A scene on the banks of the Bosphorous on the European side with old Turkish housing - the waterside mansions are called Yali

The Two Models
A woman readjusts a wooden artists model, in a studio full of sculptures, paintings and drapes

A street in Buyukdere, Istanbul, Turkey. Old traditional Ottoman houses at the end of the Sultunate. The upper rooms overhanging the street are called Cumbas

Faik Bey and Bekir Beys shared Yali - Yenikoy, Istanbul
Faik Bey and Bekir Beys shared Yali built in 1906 by the Italian Architect Raimondo d Aronco for Sara Sultan (later bought and shared by Faik Kurtoglu and Bekir Sitki Oyal)

Antioch - Turkey - Large waterwheel
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed

Amasya, Turkey - Bridge over the River Yesilirmak
An extremely rare postcard showing Amasya, Turkey. Mountainous city on the Black Sea coast famous for apples and produced Kings, Princes, scientists

Amasya, Turkey - Cliff Tombs
An extremely rare postcard showing Amasya, Turkey. Mountainous city on the Black Sea coast famous for apples and produced Kings, Princes, scientists

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