Contained Collection

Tomb of Tutankhamun. s. XIV BC. EGYPT. QUENA
Tomb of Tutankhamun. s.XIV BC. EGYPT. QUENA

Finchleys Zwicky Fire Engine
Finchleys engine - a " Zwicky" built in Tottenhams council works around 1907 by Jean Zwicky who also designed it

Wedding cake
A photograph showing the finishing touches being made to the wedding cake of George, Duke of Kent to Princess Marina of Greece in 1934

Suffragette Jack-in-the-Box Votes for Women
A suffragette Jack-in-the-Box with a bisque headed figure of a snarling woman. She has grey wiry hair which extends either side of a Tyrolean style hat with feather

Portable Steam Pump / 1883
Valiant portable Steam Pump. designed and patented by Merryweathers in 1883. A powerful self-contained pumping engine

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, List of First Class Passengers
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. Rare First Class passenger list that survived the sinking in the pocket of George Brereton. He was a professional gambler

Industrial Dock
This painting shows a man with some rope, with some boats at a dock surrounded by industrial buildings. Stacks of timber are contained in one of the vessels. Date: circa 1915

White Star Line, RMS Olympic - linoleum tile
White Star Line, RMS Olympic - blue-green ground linoleum tile contained within a box frame. 14.5 x 14.5 inches. Date: 20th century

Charles Lightoller archive, three notebooks
Charles Lightoller archive collection of three handwritten note and code books used during WW1, and WW2. The first two are handwritten books of code and marine information

White Star Line, embroidered badge in oak frame
White Star Line, period embroidered officer's cloth cap badge contained within an oak frame in the shape of a ship's wheel

RMS Titanic - passenger's album of scraps
RMS Titanic - album of scraps, which were the property of Richard May, a Titanic passenger who travelled only as far as Queenstown, Ireland

Captain Edward J. Smith on board RMS Olympic
Edward J. Smith, future Titanic captain - original photograph of Captain Smith taken on board RMS Olympic. This is a famous image

The Alcantara Bridge
Etching of The Alcantara Bridge, Extramedura, Spain. Date: circa 1929

Reverse of George V & Queen Mary Christmas card
This card was contained in a tin of tobacco and chocolates given to troops at Christmas 1914. Sailors had a card with the King in Naval uniform

George V & Queen Mary Christmas Card
This card was contained in a tin of tobacco and chocolates given to troops at Christmas 1914. Sailors had a card with the King in Naval uniform. WW1 Date: 1914

HMS Kale, E-class - River-class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Kale, a Hawthorn Leslie type River-class destroyer ordered under the 1903-1904 Naval Estimates and named after the Kale Water in the Scottish Borders

Field of Forty Footsteps
A view of The Field of the Forty Footsteps in 1830. It was was part of meadow lands at the back of the British Museum, once known as the Long Fields, then Southampton Fields

Portable darkroom - Instructions
Written instruction for creating a portable darkroom to develop photographic prints. Date: 1905

Portable darkroom
A man uses a self contained, portable darkroom to develop photographic prints. Date: 19th century

Sci Fi - Apartment City

Nurse coming off night duty. Reverse reads Just off first night duty SMAH 1929. Fisher Harvey Marwick [?sp] Williams. Note our night boxes contained 1 potatoe. Chop. Egg

Red Lion Tavern
Various aspects of the old Red Lion Tavern. Possibly dating from the mid-16th century, this rambling building stood in Chick Lane (also called West Street) near Saffron Hill in West Smithfield

The Village, Strensall, York, England
The Village, Strensall, York, Yorkshire, England. Image 2 (grayscaled in Photoshop) is to show the level of detail contained in the picture.. Date: 1907

Enclosed planet earth as perceived by Cosmas
The enclosed planet earth as perceived by Cosmas, with the planet in the form of a tabernacle

Byzantine Art. Marble slab with geometrical relief. Greece
BYZANTINE ART. GREECE. Marble slab with a relief decorated about floral and geometric motifs intertwined. The central part represents an eagle circumscribed in a circle

A London Fire brigade wheeled ladder escape vehicle
Outside the London County Council boundary, Penge, to the south of London, was one of many fire brigades which had just one fire station covering its geographical area

Cigar holder owned bys / Sgt A Deaco
Cigar holder owned by S/Sgt A Deacon, 31st Coy Army Service Corps, 1902 (c).Meerschaum, carved with three seated pug-dogs in full relief; contained in a case of moulded black leather.Made in

Small jar for ointments. Roman. Clear blown glass. From Necropolis of Corca, province of Girona. Catalonia. Episcopal Museum of Vic. Spain

Egyptian Art. Cups and vases in alabaster. Contained perfume. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain

Greek Art. Panathenaic amphore. Wessel painting. Wrestlers. The large container was once filled with olive oil and given as a prize at the Panathenian Games in Athens to the winner of the depicted

Bullocks Museum
The interior of the museum, in Piccadilly, London = the Pantherion contained stuffed animals and exotic creatures in glass cabinets. Date: circa 1820

Cruikshank / Indigestion
An early 19th century gentlemans self-contained room. It includes a hob grate, letter rack, wash stand, curtained off bed, pelmet & curtains, table, rug & fender

Autumn Dress 1899
Grey & black dress: open bodice, embroidered revers with short cape, gored skirt with pleated panels contained to the knee with cords & buttons & flaring out below. 1899

Slide pack of archival photographs from the IWM
35 mm. transparencies of IWM photographs contained in a booklet. Trench Warfare - this educational slide pack contains 24 black

C Ward. Quex Park Vad Hospital
C Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in the second gallery of the Powell-Cotton Museum. B Ward, in the first gallery, was through the archway on the left of the photograph

Sicily - Syracuse Catacombs
Black and white Victorian lantern slide of the Catacombs of St John in Syracuse. The catacombs contained 20, 000 Early Christian tombs, though they are now empty following looting by grave diggers

Switzerland - Blumlis Alp
Black and white lantern slide of the Bluemlisalp, a massif of the Bernese Alps, in the territory of the municipalies of Kandersteg and Reichenbach im Kandertal

LFB vehicle with hosepipes folded up inside

Hosepipes folded up inside an LFB vehicle

Hinged brass tobacco tin - East Yorkshire Regiment
A small hinged brass tobacco tin engraved on reverse - (2856 Private) Arthur C. Stephenson and dated 1918. Together with an engraved badge of the East Yorkshire Regiment with the place names of

Wall-mounted matchbox with crossed swords
A wall-mounted matchbox contained in the shape of a shield, engraved with crossed swords, crown and Flanders. Trench Art

Film, wireless and gramophone in the home by G. H. Davis
Talkies a self-contained cinema, gramophone and radio-set for household use, mechanism of synchrophone. Date: 1931

The Albergo Popolare in Milan
Milans Albergo Popolare, opened in 1901, was modelled on Londons Rowton Houses and provided cheap accommodation for working men

Two women at a railway station, South London
Two young women at a railway station in South London. An advertisement on the opposite platform is for property, houses of character for 745 freehold

A Cosy Diner - Workmen have lunch amid the air raids
Keep Calm and Carry On. A quite fantastic photograph showing two workmen engaged in repairing air raid damage in the London area continue with their private luncheon although the sirens have sounded

One of the self-contained passenger cabins - Junkers Ju90
One of five self-contained passenger cabins of the Junkers Ju90

Convair Atlas on display at Las Vegas
Group photograph of Convair Atlas on display at Las Vegas with Douglas Thor, Boeing Bomarc, Northrop Snark and Discoverer satellite mock-up - the Atlas was an actual ICBM modified for exhibition use

Ramon Berenguer III (1082-1131). Count of Barcelona (1096-1131). Sepulchre made in 1893 in which is contained the sarcophagus of 12th c. SPAIN. CATALONIA. GERONA. Ripoll

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