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Post mortem table

Anatomy & Pathology

1921-1930

Model of a drain pipe, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

Model bath, London, England, 1815-1900

Ceramics

1815-1900

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

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1830

Original Maudslay oscillating marine paddle engine

Marine Engines

1827

Model flat basin, London, England, 1815-1900

Ceramics

1815-1900

Model toilet, London, England, 1815-1900

Ceramics

1815-1900

Eye ointment pot

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1830

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

Two ceramic legs

Anatomy & Pathology

1921-1930

Model sink, London, England, 1815-1900

Ceramics

1815-1900

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

Motive Power

1807

Soper-type portable disinfector, England, 1879-1913

Public Health & Hygiene

1879-1913

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

Medical Ceramic-ware

1710-1740

Valve from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine

Motive Power

1807

Polar clock, by W. H. Darker, Lambeth; London, mid

Optics

1845-1855

Wood model, scale 1:24, of arrangement for Joseph

Marine Engines

1846

Stern model, demonstrating an arrangement for lifting auxilliary screw propellers

Marine Engines

1850-1890

Model of Fields cycloidal paddle wheel

Marine Engines

1833-1890

Right angled pipe from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine

Motive Power

1807

Scale Model of Machine for Printing Textiles, 1805

Textiles Machinery

1805

Doulton's Pottery Factory, Lambeth

Photographs

05 April 1932

Stoneware dispensing pot with lid

Medical Ceramic-ware

1851-1900

Posset pot lid

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1680-1730

Bestall, maker of polarizing apparatus, objects

.Unattributed

1870

Mr Charles Green, Aeronaut

George Perfect Harding

1839

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar by Doulton of Lambeth, London, 1858-1891

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar by Doulton

Medical Ceramic-ware

1858-1891

Fallowfield wet plate camera for Gem photographs. Sliding body camera of wet plate design for 5 x 4 inch plates. Modified with internal lens panel carrying twelve small lenses, producing twelve pictures 3/4 x 1 inches. Flap shutter on camera front, rack and pinion focusing on front of baseboard but working on camera back. Ground glass focusing screen. Fallowfield and Co. Manufactured before 1890.

Fallowfield Gem Wet Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

1880-1890

Inkwell, cylindrical with central well and holes for four quills, London & North Western Railway, saltglazed brown stoneware, probably by Doulton, Lambeth, c1890. Stamped 'L & N W Rly' on front. Overall: 60 mm x 120 mm.

Stoneware, inkwell, London & North Western Railway

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1890

Footwarmer, London & North Eastern Railway, stone footwarmer marked "LNER Doulton's Improved Footwarmer, Lambeth Pottery, London". Overall: 150 mm x 315 mm x 140 mm, 2.5kg.

Footwarmer, London & North Eastern Railway

Passenger Comforts

1923-1948

Late C19 English pharmacy jar for storage of boric acid and zinc sulphate, by Doulton of Lambeth

Late C19 English pharmacy jar for storage of boric

Medical Ceramic-ware

1840-1910

Late C19 English pharmacy jar for storage of boric acid, by Doulton of Lambeth

Late C19 English pharmacy jar for storage of boric

Medical Ceramic-ware

1840-1910

Inkwell, cylindrical with central well and holes for 4 quills, London & North Western Railway, brown stoneware, probably by Doulton, Lambeth, c1890.

Stoneware inkwell, London & North Western Railway

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1885-1895

Stoneware flagon, Great Northern Railway Horse Dept, made by Doulton and Co., Lambeth, 1885-1914. Overall: 324 mm x 180 mm x 174 mm, 3.51kg.

Stoneware flagon, Great Northern Railway - Horse Department

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1885-1914

Storage and dispensing jar with outlet tap for ferric and ammonium citrate, by Doulton at Lambeth, 1860-1930

Storage and dispensing jar with outlet tap, by Dou

Medical Ceramic-ware

1860-1930

Black stoneware flagon, shaped to represent leather bottle, silver mounted, Doulton of Lambeth, maker, English, 19th century

Black stoneware flagon, shaped to represent leathe

Medical Ceramic-ware

1801-1900

Dispensing pot, earthenware, salt-glazed, with lid, for myrrh pills, of Lambeth, English, 2nd half of 19th century

Dispensing pot, earthenware, salt-glazed, with lid

Medical Ceramic-ware

1851-1900

Stoneware portable disinfector, by Stiff, London, English, 1880-1930

Stoneware portable disinfector

Public Health & Hygiene

1880-1930

Salt glazed stoneware drug jar for borax crystals, by Doulton of Lambeth, London, 1858-1891

Salt glazed stoneware drug jar for borax crystals,

Medical Ceramic-ware

1858-1891

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "A Ghost Strayed from Old Greece". 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: "Corinthian pillars in a Hogarthian slum. In the burnt-out Metropolitan Tabernacle, Victorian preacher Spurgeon raised his warning voice on Thursdays and Sundays." Photographer's stamp on verso.

A Ghost Strayed from Old Greece

Photographs

1949

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Gloomy Yard That Fails to Damp the Spirit". 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: "A losing battle with the grimy air. Two bob where four should be. And nowhere to keep the baby's pram. Yet still the local housewife is a battler, whose tone has eloquence and force." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Gloomy Yard That Fails to Damp the Spirit

Photographs

1949

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Part of the Image of the Elephant: The Horse Dealers". 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: "The face of the Elephant wears all expressions -- victorious, defeated, homely and hoodlum. The live look of the working girl, the dead pan of the wide boy. The waggish grin of the barrow-monger buying a pony in the Horse repository. Faces to laugh at. Faces to wink at. Faces that hit you like a blow." Photographer's stamp on verso.

Part of the Image of the Elephant: The Horse Dealers

Photographs

1949

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "In Thousands of Similar Basements Live Tens of Thousands of Similar Folk: Yet Each Is Different". 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: "There are countless rooms like it at the Elephant, innumerable folk in the same image. Yet every one is special. The hunger, the love, the dreams and imaginations, are all shared by all, yet particular to each. One contemplates a new job, another a new boy-friend. Somebody plans to bath a baby. Somebody plans to burgle a baker's. Somebody wonders if her husband's untrue. Somebody wonders how much he'll make tonight at his chestnut can." Photographer's stamp on verso.

In Thousands of Similar Basements Live Tens of Thousands of Similar Folk: Yet Each Is Different

Photographs

1949

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Two Who Don't Much Care". 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: "Life is real, life is earnest. But there's always sports books, dream books, books of true confessions." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Two Who Don't Much Care

Photographs

1949

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Elephant by Night Is a Different Place Thronged with Different People". 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: "The multifarious bustle still goes on at night. But the slums are masked. The watching bricks unfreeze. Manners and customs mellow in the light of the stalls. The all-day workers relax, as they make for the movies or the boxing match. The all-day idlers become purposeful as they drift to cheap beds." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Elephant by Night Is a Different Place Thronged with Different People

Photographs

1949

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image shows two women wearing dresses and sitting on a promenade railing at Blackpool Beach. Photo taken with a Box Brownie camera and originally published in Picture Post, July 7, 1951. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Blackpool - Taken on a Box Brownie

Photographs

1951

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "On the Curb of a Liverpool Pavement a Coloured British Subject Expresses the Indignation of His People". Originally published in Picture Post, July 2, 1949. Story titled "Is There a British Colour Bar?", about racism in Britain. Caption in magazine reads: "Officially there is no colour bar in Britain. But from restaurant-keepers and landladies, employers and employees, even from the man in the street, says Nathaniel Ajayi, he and his people meet with considerable colour prejudice. Ajayi has lived in five European countries, was a British Prisoner-of-war in Germany, but says he knows of no European country where the coloured man is treated with more unofficial contempt than in Britain." Photographer's stamp on verso.

On the Curb of a Liverpool Pavement a Coloured British Subject Expresses the Indignation of His People

Photographs

1949

English delftware eye ointment pot, blue and white, inscribed round sides, "W.S. Folgham, Union Place, Lambeth", 1800-1830

English delftware eye ointment pot

Medical Ceramic-ware

1800-1830

Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

Photographs

1941

Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

Photographs

1941

Ceramic device with annular groove for cotton wool and fitting for rubber tube and bulb (missing) by which magnesium powder, placed in central tube, may be blown through flame of burning methylated spirit soaked cotton wool. No.5888. Royal Doulton Ware for Kodak Limited.

Kodak Magnesium Flash Lamp

Photographic Technology

1907