Container Collection (#97)

Interior of a Dindi Village, Benin, West Africa - note the spherical clay container on the left - used for storing water. Date: circa 1908

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France, Les Baux de Provence, pottery store (Editorial Usage Only)

Bottles: Raki me Arra grappa type of spirit, Trebiano Trebbiano, E bardha e Beratit, Kashmer, Shesh i Bardhe. Cobo winery, Poshnje, Berat. Albania, Balkan, Europe

BARBADOS-West Coast-Mount Standfast: Table Setting / Lone Star Hotel & Restaurant
BARBADOS, West Coast, Mount Standfast: Table Setting / Lone Star Hotel & Restaurant

Basket weaving in Swanley 1936 A TopFoto
Basket weaving in Swanley 1936 eTopFoto

An alchemical representation of the four humors in relation to the four elements and their zodiacal signs
FOUR HUMORS. An alchemical representation of the four humors in relation to the four elements and their zodiacal signs. Woodcut from Leonhard Thurneyssers Quinta Essentia, Leipzig, 1574

Aerial view of an industrial area

A tugboat pulling a freight ship

Blitz in London -- demonstrating deluge set, WW2
Blitz in London -- as part of a war weapons week, a firefighter on the Embankment in Central London, 20 May 1941, demonstrates the deluge set

Rakija grappa type spirit flavoured with herbs backlit, Rogacica, Toreta Vinarija in Smokvica village on Korcula island. Peljesac peninsula. Dalmatian Coast, Croatia

South African woman carrying goods on her head
A south african woman, carrying her baby on her back with a wide variety of other goods balanced somewhat precariously (or so it seems to the uninitiated) on her head, including pans, rugs, mats

Molten metal in a vat at the Magnitogorsk iron and steel works, one of the largest metal working plants in Russia. Magnitogorsk was named for its local mountain, Magnitnaya

NAST: INFLATION, 1873. By inflation you will burst. Cartoon, 1873, by Thomas Nast

HELD: SHEIK & SHEBA, 1925. Sheik with Sheba. A John Held, Jr, cover for Judge, 1925

STARK LOVE, 1927. Helen Mundy in a scene from the film

WHISKEY RING CARTOON, 1876. Probe Away! American cartoon by Thomas Nast, 1876, on the continuing investigation of members of the Whiskey Ring

Clipped Box (Buxus sempervirens) bush in container, beside painted wall in garden, Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland

Nice France, Gallery Seating Museum of Modern Art

Wedding Gas Mask
A bridesmaid has a novel wedding gas mask container decorated with silver paper at a wedding in Sidcup in Kent during World War II in 1939

Courtyard In The The Arkadi Monastery, Crete, Rethymno, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

The Bootleggers Rushin Bizness at all Hours of the Clock Postcard. The Bootleggers Rushin Bizness at all Hours of the Clock Postcard

Advertisement for Knowles Utility Ware. ca. 1938, KNOWLES UTILITY WARE. A complete line of cooking, serving, refrigerator and kitchen ware. Heat resisting, cold resisting

A Mad Tea-Party by Arthur Rackham. 1907, A Mad Tea-Party, one of Arthur Rackhams color plates from Alices Adventures in Wonderland, is reproduced on a postcard

Person pushing Iris flowers into plastic foam

Gold rhyton in the shape of a rams head with Dionysus, the nymph Eriope and lion-shaped handle
Thracian civilization, 4th-3rd century b.C. Panagjuriste treasure. Gold rhyton in the shape of a rams head with Dionysus, the nymph Eriope and lion-shaped handle

Australia, Western Australia, Margaret River, Wilyabrup. Hand picked grapes ready for collection in the vineyards

Boxes of Satsumas, Oxkutzcab Market, Yucatan

Boxes of limes, Oxkutzcab Market, Yucatan

A man carries traditional split-bamboo baskets to sell at Kisoro market. Most women in Southwest Uganda carry their farm produce to market in these attractive baskets balanced on their heads

Most women in Southwest Uganda carry their farm produce to market in attractive split-bamboo baskets balanced on their heads. The baskets are made exclusively by men

Up to a year before his circumcision, a Samburu boy will style his hair in a distinctive pudding bowl shape and often rub charcoal and fat into it

A large container vessel discharges its cargo at the port of Djibouti, which is an important facility for land-locked Ethiopia after that countrys war with Eritrea

Ampulla and Spoon, 1953. The pieces (second half 12th century) are part of the Royal Collection at the Tower of London. From The Crown Jewels, by Martin Holmes FSA

Courtyard in Damascus, 1903. Artist: Mortimer L Menpes
Courtyard in Damascus, 1903. From World Pictures, by Mortimer Menpes. Text by Dorothy Menpes. [A. & C. Black, London, 1903]

Patio of the Palace of Photography. c1935
Patio of the Palace of Photography, c1935. The California Pacific International Exposition was an exposition held in San Diego, California in 1935 & 1936

Wine Jar: Ming Dynasty, c1500, (1936). Held by the Eumorfopoulos Collection, London. From The Connoisseur, Vol. 97, edited by H. Granville Fell. [International Studio, London, 1936]

A 20-Carat Gold Ampulla or Anointing Vessel with Effigy of the Magdalen, 1803. From The Connoisseur Volume 102. [The Connoisseur Ltd. London, 1938]

Serving out a days fresh meat ration on board HMS Talbot, 1896. Artist: WM Crockett
Serving out a days fresh meat ration on board HMS Talbot, 1896. The Talbot was a cruiser that entered service in September 1896. A print from The Navy and Army Illustrated, 30th October 1896

Vercingetorix imprisoned in the Tullianum in Rome, c52-46 BC (1882-1884). The Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix was chosen as king by the Arverni

The Oath Box, House of Commons, Westminster, London, 19th century. From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume X, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co

Still life with roses and tulips in a dragon vase, 1882 (1931). Artist: Edouard Manet
Still life with roses and tulips in a dragon vase, 1882 (1931). From Apollo magazine, volume XIII, no 76, April 1931

Eel bucks on the Thames, 19th century

Tinsmiths in a tinsmiths shop, India, 1922. Artist: R Gorbold
Tinsmiths in a tinsmiths shop, India, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume IV: Georgia to Italy

Mitre case of William of Wykeham. 1905
Mitre-case of William of Wykeham. 1905. William of Wykeham (1320-1404) was the Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England, founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford

White-robed inhabitants of Korea, 1936. Artist: Wide World Photos
White-robed inhabitants of Korea, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Mingrelien woman collecting water, c1890. Woman from the Samegrelo (Mingrelia) region of Georgia. Illustration from Caucase and Asie Centrale, Types and Costumes

Raleighs pipes, c1920. Pipes for smoking tobacco, belonging to English adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618). Raleigh brought the tobacco plant from the New World to England

The hot soup man at the front, First World War, 1916, (c1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918, seventh edition

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