Piles Collection (page 2)

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Votes for Women
A girl sneaks in to the offices of the militant suffragettes to see piles of newspapers, hammers, whips and stones. All part of the W.S.P.Us arsenal

Djibouti - Charcoal Depot at the Port. Date: 1920

Princes Dock - Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay) - commissioned in 1880. Date: circa 1910s

People in a bomb damaged street during WW2
People in a bomb damaged street in Germany during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Wood Market - Timbuktu, Mali, West Africa - a scarce commodity in the arid desert landscape of Central Mali. Date: circa 1910s

Chernivtsi - Ukraine - Ringplatz - Pardini Hohe
Chernivtsi - Ukraine - the entire eastern section of the Ringplatz (Piata Unirii, Central Square) known as Pardini H(Pardini height) until Second World War

Perfumerie Bruno Court at Grasse, France. Sorting through roses at long benches. A vertitable riot of colour and aroma

Cut turf and donkeys - Ireland
Piles of cut turf and a group of donkeys, Lough Shindilla, Connemara, Co Galway

Bombed Bath - St. Andrews Church Damaged
The centre of Bath, the view from Julian Road showing bomb damage to St. Andrews Church (left) after a German air raid - circa August 1940"

Interior of a Hungarian Peasant house
Superb photographic postcard depicting the interior of a Hungarian Peasant house, showing the piles of clean linen and bedding, folding benches, religious pictures adorning the whitewashed walls

Susi - with piles of toys and presents, looking thoroughly exhausted by it all. 1950s

Walking on frozen water beneath Niagara Falls, USA Date: circa 1890

Hands counting money, notes and coins
Hands counting money -- 10 notes, 5 notes, 1 coins and 50p coins. Date: circa 1980s

The Aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake of 18th April 1906, showing devastated and burnt-out buildings, many reduced to piles of rubble

Susi - with Christmas items. 1950s

The Reef, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
The Reef (looking west), Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, with mining dumps (Robinson Deep) in the middle distance. Date: circa 1930

Cyanide dumps, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Cyanide dumps from mining, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1930

Mine dumps, Witwatersrand, Transvaal, South Africa. circa 1930s

Vietnam - Commercial Quay, Saigon circa 1906

General view of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, around the time of the Empire Exhibition, showing a football ground, the offices of British General Electric

Indian Sweet Shop Date: circa 1910s

The Netherlands experienced no shortage during WW1
Poor Little Neighbour. According to the French illustrator of this postcard (Emile Dupuis), whilst France and Belgium were starving and suffering shortages in 1916

Elephant piling Teak - Myanmar. Date: circa 1910s

Itsukushima (Miyajima) Shrine - Hatsukaichi, Japan
Front view of the Prindile Temple (old term) at the Itsukushima (Miyajima) Shrine - Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan Date: circa 1908

Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Kiyomizu dera, officially Otowa-san Kiyomizu-dera - an independent Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto. Date: circa 1910s

Japanese outdoor auction - Fabric and Carpets being sold off by the look of it... Date: circa 1910s

Winter street in Montreal, Canada
Piles of snow line winter streets in Montreal, Canada. Date: circa 1895

Bull Routed / Gallipoli
John Bull routed at Gallipoli. Date: 1915

Reading a Book / Armchair
A woman sitting in an armchair with a rose pattern selects a book from one of the piles on the floor. Date: 1920

Scene in a timber yard, Devon
Scene in a timber yard in Devon, with a man standing on a pile of tree trunks, and another tree trunk being lifted above him. In the foreground are piles of cut planks. Date: circa 1960s

Man with book, Close-up Photography, Manchester
A man has to remove his glasses to peruse a book entitled Close-up Photography in a Manchester bookshop. Date: circa 1981

Construction worker relaxes against bags of cement, Eccles
A construction worker relaxes against bags of Ribble Cement at a building site in Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Bindery, National Cash Register Works, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Women at work in the Bindery of the National Cash Register Works, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1910

WW1 - American Artillery Troops at front with 75mm cannon Date: 1918

Piles of oyster shells, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Piles of oyster shells at Hampton, Virginia, USA, with boats in the foreground. Date: circa 1905

Granite power house, Barre, Vermont, USA
Granite power house and dump piles belonging to Barclay Brothers, Barre, Vermont, USA. Date: circa 1908

Eyam Ball Hotel and rocks, Dovedale
Labelled as the Eyam Ball Hotel, this shows the street approaching the dwelling mentioned - it also notes the piles of rock by the front door which may have been in place for use as a flood defence

India - Simla Kasumpti Bazaar
Black and white. A collection of roughly made buildings in a mountainous area. There are piles of wooden beams all around.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection. Slide number 195. Date: circa 1890s

Blitz in London -- debris outside Soho fire station, WW2
Blitz in London -- piles of debris outside Soho fire station following an air raid, 7 October 1940. Date: 1940

Books stacked on staircase, London SE15
Books indiscriminately stacked on a staircase between first and second floors, discovered during a four-pump fire in Lyndhurst Grove, London SE15, on 27 January 1963. Date: 1963

Forest control officers, Western Front, WW1
Forest control officers sitting on a truck at a forest lumber works on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Forest lumber works, Western Front, France, WW1
Forest lumber works on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

German stores left behind, Western Front, WW1
German stores of bombs, helmets and other items left behind when they were driven out of Pierre St Divion on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

With the high browse 1923
A customer enters a disorganised bookshop to have a browse. Date: 1923

Japanese shop selling pots and pottery Date: circa 1910s

Bananas for Export
Piles of freshly picked bunches of bananas, ready for export, probably in the West Indies. Date: 1930s

Clothing - Air Raid Victims - Queen Elizabeth & Lady Reading
Inspecting a clothes distribution scheme for Air Raid victims (which have arrived in Britain from New Zealand) - a visit by Queen Elizabeth & Eva Violet Isaacs (neaMond), Marchioness of Reading

WW1 - Palestine - Destruction of Nebi Samuel Mosque by Turks
WW1 - Palestine - Destruction of Nebi Samuel Mosque (An-Nabi Samwil also al-Nabi Samuil - The Tomb of Samuel) by Turks in 1917 - this act of sacrilege allegedly cost the lives of many Muslims

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