Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Post mortem table ceramic

1921-1930

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Post mortem table, Lambeth, England, 1921-1930

1921-1930

Footwarmer, London & North Eastern Railway

1923-1948

Drug jar for extract of cinchona bark, Lambeth, London, England, 1710-1740

1710-1740

Posset pot lid

1680-1730

Singleton's Golden Eye Ointment stoneware jar lid

1750-1900

Pot for Singleton's eye ointment, England, 1760-1830

1760-1830

Original Maudslay oscillating marine paddle engine used on paddle ships and thames speed boats

1827

Mr Charles Green, Aeronaut

1839

Polar clock

1845-1855

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar

1858-1891

Wood model

1846

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar by Doulton of Lambeth

1858-1891

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar

1858-1891

Right angled pipe from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

Valve from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

Salt glazed stoneware drug jar for borax crystals

1858-1891

Stoneware dispensing pot

Stoneware dispensing pot with lid

1851-1900

Stoneware pharmacy jar

1860-1890

Stoneware pharmacy jar

1860-1890

Eye Ointment Pot

1760-1830

Dispensing pot

1851-1900

Dispensing pot

1851-1900

Doulton's Pottery Factory, Lambeth

05 April 1932

Stern model, demonstrating an arrangement for lifting auxilliary screw propellers

1850-1890

Earthenware pharmacy storage jar of lead lotion

1830-1910

Pharmacy jar

1830-1900

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar

1858-1891

Large stoneware storage jar

1880-1930

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar

1858-1891

Tin glazed earthenware dispensing pot

1620-1700

Case for hypodermic syringe

1871-1900

Soper-type portable disinfector, England, 1879-1913

1879-1913

Four Sanitary Ware Models by Doulton

1801-1900

Scale Model of Machine for Printing Textiles, 1805

1805

Bestall, maker of polarizing apparatus, objects

1870

Model of Fields cycloidal paddle wheel

1833-1890

Black stoneware flagon

1801-1900

Early C19 round-bottomed stoneware vessel

1815-1860

Late C19 English pharmacy jar for storage of boric acid and zinc sulphate

1840-1910

Model of Henry Maudslay's table engine, 1807

1807

Model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24), made by Maudslay, Sons and Field Limited, Lambeth, London, 1807

Model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

Two ceramic legs part of a post mortem table ceramic, by Doulton, used until 1944 at the Rotherhithe Mortuary, c. 1925.

Two ceramic legs part of a post mortem table ceramic

1921-1930

Carbon water filter in urn with floral decoration in relief, English, 1883, by Doulton

Carbon water filter in urn with floral decoration in relief

1883

Two identical earthenware boot warmers, made by Doulton and Watts at the Lambeth pottery, English, 1884-1900

Two identical earthenware boot warmers

1884-1900

Brush Electric Lamp

Brush Electric Lamp

1879-1889

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Overcrowding that is Typical of Conditions in the Coloured Quarters of Some British Towns." Originally published in Picture Post, July 2, 1949. Story titled "Is There a British Colour Bar?", about racism in Britain. Caption in magazine reads: "Mrs. Johnson lives with two daughters, whose husbands are seamen, and eleven grandchildren. She and six grandchildren sleep in three beds in this room: Mrs. Johnson and two children in the bed, top right, three children in the bed on the left, and an older grand-daughter in the bed in the foreground." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Overcrowding that is Typical of Conditions in the Coloured Quarters of Some British Towns

1949

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Air of an Industrial Present". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Railway arches everywhere. And under every other arch, a coal-yard. The coalman's wagon is a vital part of the Elephant's sooty scene." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Air of an Industrial Present

1949