Storage Collection (#15)

Scientist working with specimens
Scientist checking the temperature of freezer store of specimens at The Natural History Museum, London

Zoological specimens
Specimen jars stored in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London. Assembled over hundreds of years, these specimens are still highly relevant to contemporary biological research

Zoological specimens in the Darwin Centre
Specimens in spirit jars stored in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London. Assembled over hundreds of years

Specimen jars containing crustaceans
Shelves of specimen jars containg crustaceans

Lizard specimen held in the Darwin Centre
Lizard specimen in a spirit jar held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Storage jars for spirit collection
Storage jars come in a huge variety of designs, reflecting changing styles over the years, as well as cost and availability

Visitors in the Tank Room in the Darwin Centre
Scientist showing visitors zoological specimens held in the Tank Room in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Lacquer commode
A lady, wearing an evening gown by Worth, stands by an elegant lacquer commode. Date: 1914

LCC-LFB aftermath of a fire, Vauxhall Bridge Road
Fire crews damping down following a major blaze in Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico, involving a large single storey corrugated storage facility

LCC-LFB hose laying lorry (HLL) at Lambeth HQ
Lee Greens (C49) hose laying lorry on display in Lambeth headquarters station drill yard. The 3.5 inch hose is stored in such a way that the mile of hose carried can be fed from the rear of

London Salvage Corps sheeting a warehouse wall
Following a serious fire the London Salvage Corps have protected an external face of the affected warehouse by placing a series of salvage sheets down the side of the building

Stocks of fire brigade hose fittings, LFB HQ workshops
An assortment of pump collector heads, hose adapters and suction hoses on the floor of the London Fire Brigade workshops at Lambeth

Mutual Film Company, New York
Mutual Film Company, 1600 Broadway, New York. Film storage room at the Mutual Film Co. with poster of Charlie Chaplin. Date: 1918

View of the Arsenal, Constantinople, with HMS Caesar
View of the Arsenal at Constantinople, Turkey, with HMS Caesar in the background. Date: circa 1919

Storage Shed - Corner Brook - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1920s

Sudan - Jur Tribesman making a Grain Bin at Bahr-el-Ghazal Date: circa 1910s

Large Minoan Strage Jar - Pithoi
The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos revealed a remarkable set of large Minoan storage jars, or pithoi. The compartments in the floor were for grain and produce

Cold Storage Warehouse, New York
Building, Cold Storage Warehouse, 13th Avenue. View from opposite corner of a large cold storage warehouse at 13th Avenue, New York; decorative ironwork and shuttered arched window

Greece - Palace of King Minos at Knossos
The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos revealed a remarkable set of large Minoan storage jars, or pithoi. The compartments in the floor were for grain and produce

Water filtration at Gallipoli WWI
All water is carefully filtered and put into covered cans. Even petrol cans are cleaned and used for this purpose

Storage house, Khanty Mansiysk museum, Russia
A storage house of the Khanty tribe on display at the open air Okrug Ethnographic Museum (Torum Maa) in Khanty Mansiysk, Western Siberia, Russia

Refugee storage WWII
There are a few storage rooms in each camp where people keep their belongings during World War II. Thus the transfer from summer to winter equipment becomes quite an affair, performed in shifts

Computer Systems - Tape Storage
Three men examine a tape storgae device for a large industrial computer system. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Charcoal works - Quay de Grenelle, Paris
Piles of wood at a charcoal works, Paris

Charcoal production - wood storage, France
Charcoal works at Quay de Grenelle, Paris. A horse-drawn wagon is loaded up

Train Storage Yard
A good example of perspective in a large train storage yard. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Model of a computer room layout
A planned layout of a computer room, including terminals and long banks of tape storage devices.Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Meat in storage, World War I
Meat in storage in the London docks on the runway from the ship during World War I

Sailing Dinghy and some Hulks, Britain, c. 1877
Illustration showing three people in a small sailing dinghy crossing the bows of an old hulk, Britain, c.1877. The hulk has had its masts removed and would have been permanently moored

Paris Warehouse
Les bains de Julien, Paris, used as a warehouse by a wine merchant : workmen are cleaning and repairing wine barrels

A Calculating machine
The control panel of the automatic sequence-controlled calculating machine at Manchester University; showing the monitor cathode-ray tube with Dr. T. Kilburn (left) and Professor F. C

Plante Accumulator
The accumulator (a secondary or storage battery) invented by French physicist Gaston Plante

Tarxien Temple / Large Pot
A large storage pot discovered at the site of the Tarxien Temples - dated to circa 2500 BC - at Paola, Malta

Cannon Street Station
Opened 1 September 1866. Designed by Sir John Hawkshaw. The glass roof was removed prior to World War Two, but was damaged in storage and was replaced

Scandinavian chest of drawers
The Swedes call this a bureau, but its really a rather handsome, if somewhat ponderous, chest of drawers

Ours is a Hopi Home
The homes of the Hopi people of Arizona (built and owned by the women) are on three levels : access to the upper floors (used for storage and such) is by ladder

Cabinet for Victoria
Visitors to the Crystal Palace admire the craftsmanship of this large and somewhat obtrusive cabinet made by Messrs Holland for Queen Victoria

Converted Cheffonier
A bookcase made from a cheffonier, now that cheffoniers are no longer a la mode

Warship / Ist Draught
First Draught of a Ship of the First Rate. A profile cross- section of a warship showing the structure, framework, layout of decks, canons & how provisions are stowed

Art Deco Cupboards
A stylish set of matching Art Deco cupboard, wardrobe and bedside table intended for those who crave a tasteful ambiance even in the bedroom

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