Cutting Collection (#2)

The Wirral Railway, Cheshire, First Turf cut by Mr Gladstone, 21 October (engraving)
1603669 The Wirral Railway, Cheshire, First Turf cut by Mr Gladstone, 21 October (engraving) by Holland Tringham, Joseph (1861-1908); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Wirral Railway, Cheshire)

Advert for Universal hair extensions 1915
Using human hair extensions to change your hairstyle, in a range of colours. 1915

Hand holding tile in tile cutter

Japan, Imperial Mint, Osaka - Rolling Mills, Cutting Presses
Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - Rolling Mills, and the Cutting-out Presses. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki - Orthodox Priest and Nougat seller in a street scene also featuring a red cross nurse. Date: circa 1916

A barbers shop
A barber tends to his clients hair in a sixteenth-century barber shop. 16th Century

Saint Martin cutting his cloak. Middle 15th century. Aragonese school. Gothic art. Tempera on wood. SPAIN. Barcelona. National Art Museum of Catalonia

Wig Shop - Middle Temple, London
E Albins Wigmaker and Hair Cutters Shop, selling wigs to the members of the Legal Profession, based in the vicinity of the Middle Temple, London. Date: 1857

The Not Forgotten Royal Tea Party, 1937
Cutting the cake for wounded soldiers at Buckingham Palace: Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth attend the Not Forgotten Tea Party at the Royal Riding School at Buckingham Palace

Hejaz Railway, people on line at Amman, Jordan
View of the Hejaz (Hedjaz) Railway (part of the Ottoman railway network, linking Damascus and Medina), with people on the line at Amman, Jordan. Date: early 20th century

Portland Prison, Dorset - Stone cutting using a huge circular saw Date: 1912

Treating foot corns, satirical artwork

GWR construction work at Pontlliw, South Wales
Construction work taking place on the Great Western Railway near the village of Pontlliw, near Swansea, Glamorgan, South Wales

Tunnel construction, Great Western Railway, South Wales
Tunnel construction taking place on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales

Harvest workers, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Harvest workers in a field above the town of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Poster depicting people cutting bananas in Jamaica
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting people cutting bananas in Jamaica

Reaping sugar canes in the West Indies
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting the reaping of sugar cane in the West Indies

Khyber Pass - Afghanistan / Pakistan - Khyber Railway Tunnel
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Diamond Cutting
A true Representation of the Diamond Cutters Wheel or Mill

Hissarlik (Troy) Digging
A clear example of the excavation style of Heinrich Schliemann at Hissarlik, cutting through later occupation levels, actually missing Homerian deposits!

Desclieux / Coffee Plant
Captain Gabriel Mathieu Desclieux, a French Navy Officer, uses his water ration to save a single coffee plant which instigated the entire Martinique Coffee Industry

A View of the Highgate Archway, 1821, engraved by John Hill (1770-1850) (aquatint)
GHL6201 A View of the Highgate Archway, 1821, engraved by John Hill (1770-1850) (aquatint) by Pugin, Augustus Charles (1762-1832) (after); London Metropolitan Archives

A Stone Quarry, 1833 (colour litho)
STC169232 A Stone Quarry, 1833 (colour litho) by Kretzschmer, H. (fl.1883) (after); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; German, out of copyright

June - the palace and the Sainte-Chapelle, 15th century, (1939). Creators: Hermann Limbourg
June - the palace and the Sainte-Chapelle, 15th century, (1939). Juin - Le Palais Et La Sainte-Chapelle. Barefoot peasants hay-making in the fields: men wield scythes as they cut the grass

British Countryside - Cutting Chestnuts
British Countryside - A Woodman cutting Chestnuts at Midhurst, Sussex - from which barrel hoops, fencing and bean sticks are made. Date: 1938

Chinese paper cuts, or Jianzhi, a folk art dating back many centuries. Seen here is a colourful landscape with trees, mountains, a temple, and a bridge across a river. Date: late 19th century

Peat cutting, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Construction of a Railway Line, 1841. Digging a cutting on the Great Western Railway. Broad gauge line by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) appointed engineer to the GWR in 1833

Cabinet Makers in Shoreditch
A man guides a piece of wood through a large saw at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. 1940s

Sussex Smugglers / C18Th
SUSSEX SMUGGLERS Daniel Cater chained in the Turff House at Old Mill s. John Cobby is kicking him and Benjamin Tapner is cutting him across the eyes and nose while he is saying the Lords Prayer

Re-Cutting the Koh-I-Noor Diamond
The Duke of Wellington cuts the first facet during the re-cutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. It had been exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851, but was discovered to be not quite perfect

England, Lincolnshire, Walcot. Combine harvester harvesting wheat

Navvies at Work
Navvies at work in a railway cutting

The Dog Groomers, 1820 (colour litho)
XIR205745 The Dog Groomers, 1820 (colour litho) by Chalon, John James (1778-1854); Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France; English, out of copyright

Cartoon - WWI - Haircut
A cartoon making light of the perils of life on the front line and the frequent need for surgical intervention to operate on soldiers

Tree surgery. Tree surgeon using a chain saw to trim the branches of a tree

Oxy-acetylene welding
MODEL RELEASED. Oxy-acetylene welding. Worker in heavy heat-resistant protective clothing holding oxy-acetylene welding equipment

A factory worker cuts a block of wood
A young apprentice carpenter uses a large industrial jigsaw to cut a block of wood, while an older employee supervises his work. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

MS 293b
Illuminated manuscript cutting. Collage with historiated initial and border from a Choir Psalter. Maker & Production: Avila. Illumination, parchment and gold, circa 1482- circa 1492

Bob Burman's car after accident - Indianapolis, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Bob Burman's car after accident - Indianapolis, between c1910 and c1915.

They Spruce Themselves Up (Se Repulen), 1799. Creator: Francisco Goya
They Spruce Themselves Up (Se Repulen), 1799.

Cutting the First Turf of the Great Southern Railway at Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Cutting the First Turf of the Great Southern Railway at Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. W. B. Jones

Illustrations of the War in Denmark: barrack life of Danish soldiers: Sunday morning, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Illustrations of the War in Denmark: barrack life of Danish soldiers: Sunday morning, 1864. Engraving '...illustrating the barrack life of the Danish soldiers at Sundsmark, in the Isle of Alsen

Cutting teeth on steel file blanks
5311825 Cutting teeth on steel file blanks; (add.info.: Engraving depicting cutting teeth on steel file blanks, Sheffield. Dated 19th century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

The Judgement of Salomon (colour litho)
5198589 The Judgement of Salomon (colour litho) by Pinchon, Joseph Porphyre (1871-1953); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Judgement of Salomon)

The splitting of a diamond
5311915 The splitting of a diamond; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the splitting of a diamond (diamond cutting). Dated 19th century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

The process of cutting a diamond
5311853 The process of cutting a diamond; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the process of cutting a diamond by removing the projecting portion of stone by rubbing against a second diamond set in a)

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