Boxes Collection (#12)

Australian troops unloading transport wagon, France, WW1
Australian troops unloading a transport wagon in France during the First World War. Date: 22 May 1917

Concert in Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London
Scene inside the new Royal Festival Hall, on the South Bank, London, with one of the first concerts taking place. The auditorium, balcony and boxes are almost full

Senegalese soldier in a trench, WW1
A Senegalese soldier in a trench during the First World War, location unknown. Date: 1914-1918

Fruit Shop selling Melons, dates and apples - Georgia Date: 1909

Guard of the Hogvakten, Stockholm, Sweden
Guard of the Hogvakten at the Royal Palace or Castle called the Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm, Sweden circa 2008

British artillery in action, Western Front, WW1
British artillery in action against the German position in northern France, Western Front, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

The Charleys in Grief
Engraving of an 1829 cartoon entitled The Charleys in Grief, or the Funeral of the City Watch Boxes. Londons traditional watchmen (or Charleys)

Opening of Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London
Scene at the royal opening of the new Royal Festival Hall, on the South Bank, London, with a full auditorium, and members of the royal family in the royal box -- King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

French Left Luggage Office
A French Left Luggae Office at a Railway Station with a variety of crates, trunks and cases, each containing some rather surprising (and alive!) contents!! Date: 1904

French camp - Thessaloniki
The French army camp - Thessaloniki, Greece. This fascinating card has a strong historical interest - In 1915, during World War I

Housewives Stunt School
Housewife Teresa Vincent leaps from the first floor of a building onto cardboard boxes and mattresses 20 feet below. It makes a change from washing up, she explained. Date: 1960s

Yes! We Have No Bananas. A music sheet cover showing a fruit and vegetable seller who is sorry, but he has no bananas today! He holds out his hands and shrugs in front of his shop. Date: 1920s

Pupils with tuck boxes, Marlborough School
Pupils raid their tuck boxes at Marlborough School. Date: 1962

Britannia and Eve front cover, October 1932
Front cover of Britannia and Even magazine featuring an elegant woman in coordinated blue suit and hat, holding a fur coat, waiting while a bell boy, laden down with her packages and hat boxes

Cigar Shop, New York
Acker, Merritt [Merrall] & Condit. Acker, Merrall & Condit Co. tea testers (Byron list) store; dry goods on shelves and a glassed-in room full of cigars in the center of the store

Reginald Malbys photographic studio
View inside the photographic studio (Woodford, Essex) of Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society

British Troops in Brunei
Ammunition boxes make an improvised, but effective pillbox for British troops in Brunei. The light automatic weapon held by the soldier on the left is a bren gun modified to take Nato ammunition

Matchbox making at home, East End of London
A woman with her three children engaged in making matchboxes at their home in the East End of London. The work, which involved pasting and assembling the boxes, was notoriously badly paid

Salvation Army Womens Night Shelter, East London
The dormitory of the Salvation Army night shelter for women, opened in 1889 at 194 Hanbury Street, Whitechapel in the East End of London

Lewisham Hospital kitchens, south east London
Uniformed catering staff prepare meals in the kitchens of Lewisham Hospital in south east London. A cook at the right is making up plates of salad. Large metal boxes carry the names of hospital wards

Electric train line indicators
Three early train line indicators, with arriows which moved from red to green, depending on whether a train was on that portion of track or whether it had left it

Brother and Sister with fine Go-cart
A small boy (driving) and his elder sister (standing) with their fantastic homemade Go-cart, seemingly constructed out of fruit boxes supported on the chassis of a former large upright pram

Seville Orange Picking - Seville, Spain. Seville oranges are too bitter for modern tastes, and are therefore commonly used to make marmalade

Sorting the herring catch at St Ives, Cornwall
Fishermen sorting the herring catch from nets into boxes and baskets on the beach at St Ives, Cornwall

Thomas Cochrane at home
Major Thomas Cochrane is the fortunate owner of a beautiful villa, the Villa Reve d Or, at Cannes, where these photographs were taken

Market Traders - Covent Garden
Market Traders with their carts and crates and boxes of fruit and vegetables. Covent Garden, Central London

The Stronger Sex by Webster Murray
An elegant woman in fashionable fur collared coat and cloche hat enjoys some light Christmas shopping while her male companion follows behind laden with bags, boxes and gifts

A White Ship
View across a dock toward a smart white navy steamship in port, moored alongside a tall ship. Oil painting by Raymond Sheppard

Railway Cart Overturned - London Strike
A Railway Cart, overturned outside Paddington Station whilst conveying goods of the Keevil Ham Company to their warehouse, during a Strike in London, August 10th, 1911

Tunisia - Perfume shop
The proprietor of a parfumerie peers above his reading glasses to observe the customer (or photographer!) approaching his shop

Packing Bananas - Las Palmas - Gran Canaria
Packaging bananas on the street at Las Palmas, the principle city of the Spanish Municipality of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands

Mountain Postal Service, Switzerland
The Mountain Postal Service in Switzerland. The post is transported in a variety of panniers and boxes on the backs/flanks of mules

A Street vendor of rice wine - Japan
A street vendor serves a female client with rice wine in Kobe, Japan. The man carries the two boxes by means of a pole on his shoulders and cries " Amesake!"

D-Day - American troops taking cover
American troops, including a heavy machine gunner (r) take shelter behind an earth bank during the assault on the normandy coast

Refugees with gas mask boxes
Child refugees with gas mask boxes during World War II

WWII safety precautions
A man with a white hat band on a steel lined crowned bowler hat and carrying a gas mask box during world war II

Gas Masks in London
Man sitting and sleeping in a London park carrying his gas mask box with him in September 1939

Poster with a view of Jaffa
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, showing a view of Jaffa with camels carrying boxes of oranges

Checking a printing machine
A printer checks sheets of card coming through the press sytem. These card sheets bear the printed template for boxes of Cadbury Roses chocolates. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Awarding the War Cross - Dardanelles
The awarding of the War Cross to allied soldiers in the Dardanelles - 16th July 1915. Engineers Park, Sed Dur-Bahr, Turkey

Turkish Market Scene - Bursa, Turkey
Market scene in Bursa - Turkey. Fourth largest city and the first Ottoman Capital. Contains the Mausoleum of Osman Bey, founder of the Ottoman Empire as well as two world famous Sufi Saints

Disguised pill box
Concrete pill box near Poperinghe camouflaged as a ruined cottage on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in August 1918

The Petrovski Quay at Baku, Azerbaijan

Plywood shroud and visor used to test Fred Marion
Photograph of plywood " shroud" and visor, screening every part of the " agent s" body, except for the feet, 1933

Interior and front view of the Little Theatre, Haymarket
Etching showing the interior of the Little Theatre, Haymarket and of the front view of the above, published by Robert Wilkinson, 1 December 1815. HPG/8/2/1 (xxv)

Selection of Toy Cars
A selection of toy motor vehicle, some with their original boxes, including the land speed record-breaking cars John Cobbs fabulous Railton Special and Major Henry Segraves Golden Arrow

Spice Seller - Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
A spice seller near Mandu, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. The trader sells a variety of dried and ground spices from baskets and tin cans, weighing the quanities on a fine pair of brass hand scales

Rhodes, Greece - The Ancient Palace of the Chevaliers - The Italian Barracks

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