Boxes Collection (#13)

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

The Corn Merchant s
The Corn Merchants - two girls talk to the Corn Merchant standing behind his counter

The Boot Shop. A young girl wearing a white bonnet and holding a white muff, tries a new pair of boots, shown to her still in the box by the shop attendant

The Hatters Shop. A smartly-attired young gentleman tries on a top hat in front of a full-length mirror in a Hatters shop

Fourteen days leave during World War I
Soldiers on fourteen days leave changing French money into English at one of the change boxes in the platform during World War I

Set of Hornby toy trains & rolling stock

Early Turkish anti-aircraft gun team
Early anti-aircraft gunners. Turkish troops shooting down a Pigeon flying machine in the early years of the First World War

State Stables, Buckingham Palace
The interior of the State Stables at Buckingham Palace, London

Emigration. Emigration Vessel Between Decks
Sleeping quarters for women and children, with trunks and hat boxes and all kinds of luggage stowed away

Emigration. Irish Emigration. The Emigration Agents Office
Engraving of the Emigration Office at Cork, of Mr G. O Neil. Crowded with men discussing business and reading papers and families with women and children sitting on boxes, waiting for their ship

Ingeniously improvised upholstery
A group of British officers of a moter machine-gun battery are pictured relaxing upon chairs made from empty ration boxes

Passengers and Dogs
Three sportsmen and their dogs enjoy boxes of biscuits in their railway compartment

A Cardboard Box Factory in Commercial Road, London, 1904
Illustration showing a group of immigrants stirring glue and cutting cardboard to make boxes in a factory in the Commercial Road, London, 1904

Emigrants arriving at a train station in the Mid-West of Ame
Engraving showing a small group of immigrants, with boxes and bundles, arriving at Griggsville Station, in the Mid-West of the USA, 1886

Embarkation of an Emigrant Ship, Liverpool, 1850
Engraving showing a bustling dock yard scene as emigrants, with trunks and boxes, line up to board their ship at Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850

Making Music Boxes 1890
Operatives in a toy factory make music boxes

Civil War in America: arrival of a Federal steamer
Arrival of a Federal steamer, with flag of truce at Madisonville, Lake Portchartrain. The scene shows men, women, children and black servants with boxes and travelling bags waiting for the steamer

Hospital Saturday fund
A sketch of volunteers counting the contents of the collection boxes

A Friend in Need
Humorous illustration showing a little girl helping a small terrier dog to reach up to post a letter

Fig Industry in Smyrna
Series of five images showing the fig industry of Smyrna (modern day Izmir in Turkey). 1. Sorting. 2. Weighing. 3. Packing. 4. Waiting for Loads. 5. Making Boxes and Cases

Boy Posting Letter 1887
A little boy stretches to post a letter in the box at Bowlers Green, Surrey: this was before all letter boxes were painted red

Napoleon Elected
Presidential elections - the ballot-boxes are taken to the Hotel de Ville, Paris, to be counted. Louis Napoleon will be the outright winner

Aunt Sallys Christmas Boxes: John Crasss Discomfiture
A Victorian family around a dining table during the distribution of envelopes of money, or Christmas boxes to servants. The servant who has just received his is either embarrassed or unimpressed with

Happy Evacuees 1940S
Not all evacuees were sad to leave the city for the country. Here are two boys (brothers), grinning with excitement in anticipation of the adventures to come

Hut / Shackleton / Antarctic
The hut left by Ernest Shackleton at Cape Royds on Ross Island, Antarctica. Everything is just as it was left including hay for the ponies and meat for huskies

German Icesafe / Catalogue
A selection of German made cabinet ice safes

Silk Processing
Silk-workers examine and prepare the silkworms Eggs in order to put them into Bags or Boxes for hatching

MILLINER / 1908
A fashionable woman tries on hats at the milliner s

Shoe Shop / Le Rire
A lady is helped with a pair of new boots, while a man in the background looks up the skirt of another woman on a stepladder

Owen Jones Chinese 60
Designs from porcelain, paintings, woven fabrics and wooden boxes

Children Wrap Presents
Two little girls and a little boy amuse themselves by making home-made gift boxes. Old cardboard boxes are covered with decorated wrapping paper and a scrap or drawing added

MCVITIE & PRICEs 1937
McVitie & Prices Christmas Specialties in presentation boxes

Crystal Palace / Opera
In consequence of the great pressure for lodgings, the Proprietor of Her Majestys Theatre allows parties visiting the opera to live in their boxes until the next day

Boxing Day / Cruikshank
Scene featuring puns on boxing day : a child has his ears boxed; two men are boxing; notices advertise coaches to Boxhill; boxes are carried on shoulders

Advert / Choc Boxes 1910
Chocolates in boxes (France)

Advert / Choc Fernando
Elegant lady with two boxes of Fernando chocolates, made in Milan

Box Making in London
A little girl helps her mother by carrying the boxes she has just stuck together, while her sister plays on the floor

Old Match-Seller / 1904
An old woman sells boxes of matches in the London streets

Kph-I-Noor Pencils
You can purchase Hardtmuths renowned Koh-i-Noor pencils in a variety of forms, neatly packed in boxes

New York Street Arabs
A night scene in a New York alley - supperless and homeless boys bed down for the night with boxes and straw

Gem Freezer
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