Product Collection (#47)

Milk processing
Milk being poured into a large vat before processing into dairy products

Giovanni Schiaparelli lunar advert. Dating from around 1889, this advert (for Liebigs Meat Extract) shows the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835-1910)

Harvesting potatoes. Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) being harvested and transferred straight into the truck for transporting

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

Western Russian Fmily drinking Mares Milk
Family from the Baltic Region - Far Western Russia at this period - passing round a bottle of Kumis. Kumis is a fermented dairy product traditionally made from horses (mare s) milk

Bust Enhancement Advertisement, 1916
Advertisement for a bust enhancement product sold in Britain, 1916. The advertisement headline reads Flat-chested for 15 years, she developed her bust six inches in thirty days

Four swimmers, two in Bovril teeshirts
Four swimmers pose for their photograph. The two men are wearing Bovril teeshirts, while the two boys wear one-piece swimming costumes

Soda Crystallising
Washing soda is an essential household product : in the crystallising house it is converted into convenient crystal form

Cotton - Cloth Hall
The finished product awaiting despatch to customers round the globe, at the Cloth Hall, Leeds

Cotton Processing
Scene in a cotton mill - women working at bobbin and drawiung frames while a barefoot boy carries away the finished product

Workshop of a cartwright
A cartwrights workshop, with the finished product being assembled outside in the street

Flower necklace sellers in City Market, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka state, India, Asia

Souq at the Medina (old Town), Marrakesh, Morocco. North Africa, Africa

Spices for sale in the Old City, Essaouira, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Cleo De Merode / Trade
CLEO DE MERODE French actress and dancer advertising a product called Lulu, which helps her keep light and slim

Eau De Cologne Russe
Eau de Cologne Russe - with its two-headed eagle motif - is a product of the Societe Francaise des parfums d Orient, so perhaps it really comes from Russia

African Product Label
A small African boy - whose name is evidently Toto - is featured on this label for a domestic product

Arab on Product Label
A stately Arab stands near some palm trees at sunset, holding a string of beads

Ricksha Boy Label
Ricksha Boy - in traditional plumed headdress - on a product label

Chaka, Zulu Chief
CHAKA, (Shaka, Tshaka) Zulu leader who ruthlessly conquered and ruled most of southern Africa : depicted here on a product label for a humdrum domestic product !

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