Wooden Collection (page 77)

Children Clean Teeth
Children at the National Adoption Societys home in Harlesden brush their teeth standing at a wooden table using bowls

Narrow Plank Bridge
Though rudimentary in design, this bridge, consisting of a single wooden plank, provides the pedestrian with a simple yet efficaceous means of traversing a narrow stream

Pressing Grapes by Hand
In Bordeaux, France at this time they crushed grapes by hand using a long handled tool with 3 spokes (possibly like a potato masher) to extract the juice

Wine Press, 1870S
Type of grape press in use in Burgundy which used iron internals for extracting the juice

French Baby / Early 20Th
A typically French child in a long and flappy gown, wearing a white little cap and clogs and eating an apple. There is a flower market in the background

Weaving a Tapestry
A woman weaving a tapestry of Arms of the Weavers of London 1700 on a wooden hand loom

Weaving on a Hand Loom
A woman using a table hand loom, which apparently can weave anything in any type of pattern

Pyne - Welsh Washerwomen
WELSH WASHERWOMEN Like French peasants, Welsh woman use a wooden spatula to beat their linen clean on a flat stone beside a stream

Moonlit Hut & River
A sense of foreboding pervades as a man & boy hurry past a wooden shack with its red glowing windows to a boat moored on a river bank beneath a castle & moonlit sky

Liebig Games - 2
Three boys construct a tower with wooden bricks, learning some of the basic principles of physics - gravity, balance and the distribution of loads

Ballad Singers
Ballad singers: the man plays the violin and hobbles on his false wooden leg, while the woman sings from the ballad sheets

Pyne - Fishermen
FISHERMEN hauling their boat onto the beach by winding it in on a capstan : it is pulled over wooden timbers, greased to help it slide

Flags during Jousting
A house decorated with various flags during a jousting tournament (possibly France)

Advert for Fridge 1912
An early refrigerator by McCray of Kendalville, Indiana, USA

Alice / Tweedles Armoured
Alice ties armour on to Tweedledee and Tweedledum

New Guinea Talisman
NEW GUINEA TALISMAN grotesquely carved wooden figure, intended to frighten away evil spirits by being even more hideous than them

Wooden Toy Soldiers / 1803
French wooden toy soldiers on their horses which have wheels

Mechanical Whisk 1925
From wooden spoon to mechanical whisk - saving time and fatigue !

Peter I The Great, Tsar of Russia, in Holland
Peter I The Great (Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov), Tsar of Russia (1672-1725, reigned from 1682) during his fact-finding visit to Holland, seen here in his lodgings at Zaandam

Shaman of Yakutia, Siberia
A Shaman of Yakutia, Siberia, calls on the tribal deities to heal a sick man

Automatic Bridge Playing machine
An Automatic Bridge Playing machine. The (human) player inserts a coin, is shown his own hand and the dummy s, and plays by inserting plugs in holes representing the cards

Mud cabin at Kildare, Ireland
Two women in a mud cabin at Kildare, Ireland

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