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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

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

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

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1830

Model of Henry Maudslay's table engine, 1807

Motive Power

1807

Soper-type portable disinfector, England, 1879-1913

Public Health & Hygiene

1879-1913

Model flat basin, London, England, 1815-1900

Ceramics

1815-1900

Late C19 English pharmacy jar for storage of boric

Medical Ceramic-ware

1840-1910

Model toilet, London, England, 1815-1900

Ceramics

1815-1900

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

Black stoneware flagon, shaped to represent leathe

Medical Ceramic-ware

1801-1900

Dispensing pot, earthenware, salt-glazed, with lid

Medical Ceramic-ware

1851-1900

Salt glazed stoneware drug jar for borax crystals,

Medical Ceramic-ware

1858-1891

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar by Doulton

Medical Ceramic-ware

1858-1891

Eye ointment pot

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1830

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar, by Doulton

Medical Ceramic-ware

1858-1891

Earthenware pharmacy storage jar of lead lotion, b

Medical Ceramic-ware

1830-1910

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

Original Maudslay oscillating marine paddle engine

Marine Engines

1827

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

Motive Power

1807

Doulton's Pottery Factory, Lambeth

Photographs

05 April 1932

Scale Model of Machine for Printing Textiles, 1805

Textiles Machinery

1805

Singleton's Golden Eye Ointment stoneware jar lid

Pharmacy-ware

1750-1900

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

Stoneware pharmacy jar, made by Doulton at Lambeth

Medical Ceramic-ware

1860-1890

Stoneware dispensing pot with lid

Medical Ceramic-ware

1851-1900

Case for hypodermic syringe

Therapeutics

1871-1900

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar, by Doulton

Medical Ceramic-ware

1858-1891

Stoneware pharmacy jar, made by Doulton at Lambeth

Medical Ceramic-ware

1860-1890

Dispensing pot, stoneware, for pilewort, by Doulto

Medical Ceramic-ware

1851-1900

Large stoneware storage jar, English, by Doulton a

Medical Ceramic-ware

1880-1930

Early C19 round-bottomed stoneware vessel

Medical Ceramic-ware

1815-1860

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar, by Doulton

Medical Ceramic-ware

1858-1891

Salt glazed stoneware drug storage jar, by Doulton

Medical Ceramic-ware

1858-1891

Pharmacy jar, for storage of mercury perchloride s

Medical Ceramic-ware

1830-1900

Posset pot lid

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1680-1730

Bestall, maker of polarizing apparatus, objects

.Unattributed

1870

Mr Charles Green, Aeronaut

George Perfect Harding

1839

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

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

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