Queue Collection (#3)

Beirut, Lebanon - Lebanese at Hadett Railway Station. Date: circa 1902

A library for troops on Western Front
Photograph: A library for troops on Western Front.Shows a queue of men, some with books and newspapers outside a library. The sign for the library reads

Getting a Document Stamped At Somerset House by H M Bateman. This illustration shows the red tape of Somerset House, tax offices

Rotten Row, Hyde Park - Summertime, long queue and carriages Date: 1904

United States. Washington. A public reception day by Preside
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908). President of the United States. Washington. A public reception day by President Cleveland in the East Room of the White House

Versailles Palace C1740
A view of the monumental baroque palace of Louis XIV with a stream of visitors arriving in carriages & on foot. Date: circa 1740

Ymca Tea Car
War workers and troops form a queue and others enjoy a cuppa and a snack on the bonnet of the YMCA " Tea Car", providing refreshments for them and those made homeless by bombing Date

Philadelphia Soup Kit
The clientele of a soup house in Philadelphis, PA : some come out, warmed with soup, while others queue for theirs. Date: 1875

Rail Strike, queing for the tram-car 1919
Hundreds of commuters in london queing patiently for the already over utilsed tram-car. October 1919

Registering Unemployed
Registering the unemployed at Chelsea, London, 1887. Date: 1887

French Railway Station
An animated scene in a French railway station - passengers queue for tickets, a porter carries a heavy case, a mother tells her children not to get lost, a boy pats a dog... Date: circa 1885

Butchers Queue
Women of Paris form an orderly queue outside a butchers shop. Date: December 1870

Admission to Casual Ward
Waiting in a queue for admission to the Casual Ward Date: 1874

Ticket office queue at station
Passengers queue to purchase their tickets. Date: 1891

Madame Tussauds, Marylebone Road, London
Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1920

Passengers at Oxford Circus tube station, Central London
Passengers queueing for twopenny tickets at Oxford Circus tube station booking office, Central London. Date: circa 1900s

Princes Theatre
Promotional postcard of Princes Theatre, now the Shaftesbury Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, the last of the eight pre-Great War theatres built in Shaftesbury Avenue. Date: circa 1911

People queueing for food, Russia
People in a Russian city queueing for food at a time when supplies were low, after the October Revolution of 1917. Date: circa 1918

Strand Theatre
Promotional postcard for the Strand Theatre, London. Designed by the well known theatre architect W. G. R. Sprague it originally opened in 1905 as the Waldorf Theatre

People queueing for bread with police guard, Russia, WW1
People queueing in a street for bread at a time when food supplies were low, guarded by the imperial police, Russia, March 1917, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Cartoon, Field hair trimmer, WW1
Cartoon, A field hair trimmer for cutting the hair of German soldiers. A long queue of hairy men wait their turn. Date: 1916

A group of Japanese women board an aircraft
A group of Japanese women queue to board an aircraft. They are all dressed in Kimonos. Date: 1932

WW1 - Comment on the food shortage
WW1 - To ensure food supply during shortages, National and local food control committees were established to ensure food distribution across the country

Floral tributes at the Cenotaph, November 1920
A little girl adds her contribution to the mass of floral tributes left at the Cenotaph, following its unveiling in Whitehall at the Armistice Day ceremony on 11 November 1920

German tournament armor from the first half of the 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Queue waits to perform assisted jump Date: 1937

WW2 Christmas card, Good Cheer -- a sailor, an airman and a soldier queue up for a welcome cup of tea at the NaFI. Date: 1941

Enquirers at the British Consulate, Paris at outbreak of WW1
Enquirers at the British Consulate, Paris at the outbreak of WW1 Date: 1914

Main Lobby of a large bank, New Orleans, USA
View of the Main Lobby of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Suffragette Window Smashing Bow Street
This shows a large queue of people, surrounded by police, waiting to enter Bow Street Magistrates Court. Captioned on reverse, Window Smashing Continued

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Punch Project"
Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, " Punch Project". Date: 1889

Woman Ticket Collector WW1. Young lady inspecting railway tickets at the train station with queue of admiring men, one in uniform. Captioned, Held up for Inspection. Date: circa 1916

German prisoners line up to be vaccinated, WW1
Captured German soldiers during the Battle of Menin Road wait by a tent to be vaccinated Date: 1917

The Bank of England at the beginning of World War I
The prospect of a shortage of gold owing to the threatened rupture of financial relations with the Continent resulted in a highly unusual spectacle at the Bank of England in London

London Houseless Poor Asylum
A queue of men wait for admission to the London Houseless Poor Asylum in Cripplegate. Date: 1908

Cubs in refectory, Baden Powell House, London
Cubs queueing for food in the refectory of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

London recruits at Southwark Town Hall, WW1
Crowds of men anxious to attest under the Derby scheme, crowded into the corridors of Southwark Town Hall in December 1915

Belgian soldiers wait for railway passes, WW1
Belgian Army troops, on leave in London, wait at Aldwych for railway passes to visit their refugee families. As many men who were granted leave from the front had relatives in England

Hollywood Canteen, Hollywood, California, USA
The Hollywood Canteen (for Service Men), Hollywood, California, USA. Located on Sunset and Cahuenga, this establishment lifted the spirits of soldiers with free food, song, dancing

Celebration of the journey of the last tram in Southampton, Hampshire

Dunlop advert featuring cars queueing up the Mall for the Co
Advertisement for Dunlop tyres, featuring one of the spectacles of the London Season, with a long queue of smart cars (sporting Dunlop tyres obviously), on the Mall in St

Cars in the Mall bearing debs to court presentations
A familiar sight in central London during the Season - a long line of cars snaking its way up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace

Womens Royal Air Force -- Pay Parade
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women queueing up to receive their pay from male officers. Date: 1919-1920

Crowded street with parade, China
Crowds watch a parade, possibly a military one, in China. The men wear their hair in the traditional queue hairstyle with a long pigtail. Date: C.1913

Crowded street, China
A crowded scene in China with horses pulling small covered wagons. It appears to be some sort of parade, perhaps military. The men wear their hair in the traditional queue hairstyle. Date: C.1913

British soldiers in China, c. 1911
A Chinese man in traditional clothes and with a queue pigtail hairstyle talks to a pipe-smoking westerner, with other men in the background

Embarkation of Inniskilling Fusiliers
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, stationed in China, disembarking from a train at Tientsin (now Tianjin) docks for transfer to a troopship to take them back to Europe

Inniskillings in transit
The Inniskilling Fusiliers, stationed in China, are recalled to Europe to fight in World War One. Here photographed in transit at Tientsin (now Tianjin) docks

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