Applications Collection

Metric System
Applications of the metric system to dimensions, weight and money

Fantasy wall hanging, circa 1900. Wooden pelmet, velvet lambrequin, plush drapes, gourgouran curtains, silk blind and chair. Planche 21. Croisee Fantaisie

Botanic Gardens Regents Park
The Royal Botanic Society was a learned society founded in 1839 by James de Carle Sowerby under a royal charter to the Duke of Norfolk and others

Roman-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Valance sheet, lambrequin drapes, brocatelle curtains. Planche 6. Croisee Style Roman. Cantonniere drap, application meme etoffe

Neo-Greco-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Gilded pelmet, decorated cream drapes, satin curtain, and painted wall decoration. Planche 2. Croisee Neo-Grecque

Renaissance-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Wooden pelmet, velvet drapes with silk embrodery, damask wall hanging. Planche 10. Croisee Style Renaissance

Luxury Egyptian-style wall hangings, circa 1900. Painted wood and lacquer pelmet, satin lambrequin, velvet curtain, decoration with ancient Egyptian flower motifs. Planche 1. Croisee Genre Egyptien

Applicants for relief from the poor box 1887
Mothers with their children handing in applications for relief, to the Magistrates Court. Date: 1887

Women recruits for police jobs lined up
Women recruits for jobs with the Metropolitan Police in London lined up in uniform wearing armbands with the initial WPSR (probably standing for Women Police Service Recruit). Date: circa late 1910s

Sub-Inspector Barnett with women applicants
Sub-Inspector Barnett at Metropolitan Police headquarters, receiving applications from women to work for the London police force. Date: circa late 1910s

Women applicants for police jobs lined up
Women applicants for jobs with the Metropolitan Police in London lined up, some of them already in uniform. Date: circa late 1910s

LCC-MFB Recruitment strength test
There were many applications to join the MFB and there were about 99% rejections. A stern standard of physical fitness was laid down by the LCC and the Brigade

Collecting and applying for pensions at the post office
The introduction of pensions for the elderly. Images of men and women filling out applications in post offices after old age pensions were introduced by David Lloyd George in 1908

Science Exhibition 1930
LIEGE, BELGIUM Exhibition of Grande Industrie, Sciences & Applications

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