Assistant Collection

Bricklayers 1827
A bricklayer standing on a rather precarious looking scaffold. His assistant mixes mortar behind him; his hod for carrying bricks etc is nearby

The Shop Assistant who Lost his Temper by H. M. Bateman
A shop assistant finally loses the plot after bringing out roll upon roll of material for a demanding customer to choose from. 1929

Advertisement for Meccano, Barley & Son, Bath
Advertisement for Meccano and Hornby Trains, sold at Barley & Son, Centre of Corridor, Bath. Date: 1926

The brave Titanic engineers, including 14 of whom were lost
The Titanic engineers; fourteen of whom were lost in the 1912 disaster. 1. W. D Mackie junior fifth. 2. F. A Parsons, senior fifth. 3. P. Sloan, senior electrician. 4. H. Jupe, assistant electrician

Horrockses, Crewdson & Co Ltd, Preston, Lancashire, office and factory -- trade design. 1920

Electric Chainsaw
Two men, possibly the foreman and an assistant, using an electric Damarm Chain Saw to saw up a huge tree trunk. Date: 1930s

Haulier and assistant, Baldwins Level, South Wales
A haulier and his assistant, with a pit pony pulling a truck, at Baldwins Clog and Legging Level, near Pontypool, South Wales

Gold, Silver, Lapis and Obsidian in the Splendid Swords of the Kings - The Royal Treasure of Dorak c.3000 BC - report of the finds from the excavations by James Mellaart, Assistant Director

Queens Park Rangers FC football team, in green and white stripes: Miles (Trainer), Foster (Director), Murphy, Cross, Collins (Captain), Downing, White, Singleton, McLean (Assistant Trainer)

Jeremiah (650-585 BC) dictating his prophecies to Baruch. En
Jeremiah (650-585 BC). Hebrew Prophet. Jeremiah dictating his prophecies to Baruch. Engraving by Pannemaker. The Bible in pictures by Gustave Dore. Colored

Lady Cynthia Colville with David, Philip and Jock
Lady Cynthia Colville, wife of the Hon. George Colville, younger son of the late Lord Colville of Culross pictured with her three sons, David, Phillip and Jock

Winston Churchill posing in the garden of the White House
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, posing hte the grounds of the White House, Washington, dressed in his siren suit. Churchill was in the USA for a meeting with Franklin D

Gandhi, Sonja Schlesin and Hermann Kallenbach
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), Indian independence leader

Doncaster Rovers FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Tate (Assistant Trainer), Sharp, Shaw, Vaux, Wharton, Imrie, Jacobson, Rogers (Captain), McLean (Trainer)

OXFORD WATER DIVINER
Jack Timms dowsing with an assistant at Sendford-on- Thames. He has found over 1000 hidden water supplies since he first exercised his gift & he is much in demand Date: 1937

Birmingham FC football team 1936. Back row: Evans (Assistant Trainer), Grosvenor, Lea, Clack, Fillingham, Hibbs, Booton, Morral, Gibson (Trainer)

Britannia and Eve magazine, March 1933
Front cover illustration featuring an extremely glamorous lady wearing a bright orange coat with fur trims, a yellow hat with orange feather and holding a blue clutch bag

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

The Zulu war. Rorkes Drift, near the scene of the recent co
From a sketch by Major North Crealock, 95th Regiment, Assistant Military Secretary. Panoramic scene of the undulating country on the Zululand/ Natal border

Alchemists Laboratory
An alchemist studies an old instruction manual, while his assistant keeps the furnace going. His workshop is filled with state-of-the-art equipment for The Great Work

Eel Pie Shop
A well-dressed businessman, walking near Temple Bar, Strand, London, is overtaken by a craving for an eel-pie - or is it the comely shop assistant who attracts him ?

English Oil Lamp 1800
A London lamplighter on his ladder refills a street lamp with the oil which his assistant passes to him

The discoverers of Tutankhamen
Standing on the steps leading to the doorway of Tutankhamens tomb are (from left to right) Lady Evelyn Herbert, her father Lord Carnarvon, Mr Howard Carter and Mr B

John Bews shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands
John Bew, Wholesale & Retail Tobacco & Cigar Merchant, and Ship Insurance Agent -- his shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands, with a female assistant standing in the doorway. Date: circa 1905

Society & Shop Girls
Two elegant, society ladies are attended to by a shop girl who sees to their every whim. Several pairs of discarded shoes lie about the floor for the assistant to pick up later

Burying the Hatchet
A terrible accident during a street circus act where a knife-thrower misjudges his aim and hits his woman assistant in the head with his throwing hatchet

Comic postcard, Customer and shop assistant - artificial legs Date: early 20th century

Height of the double bottom on a great liner
Our sinkable ships: how far they are protected at the present time. The height of the double bottom in a great liner: 5 ft 3 in

Hotel Grant, Madison and Dearborn Streets, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Leonard Hicks, Proprietor & Manager and George F. Roberts, Assistant Manager. Date: circa 1908

New York World's Fair, Office
This photograph shows the furnished interior of the Executive Assistant Commissioner's office at the New York World's Fair, held at Flushing Meadows during 1939-40. Date: circa 1939

New York World's Fair, Assistant Commissioner's Office
This photograph shows the furnished interior of the Assistant Commissioner's office at the New York World's Fair, held at Flushing Meadows during 1939-40. Date: circa 1939

Jean-Baptiste Clery (1759-1809). Personal valet to King Louis XVI of France. Portrait. Engraving. History of the French Revolution. Volume I, 1876

Interior of a kitchen. Facsimile from an engraving
Interior of a kitchen. Butcher eviscerating a pig and people preparing the meat. Facsimile from an engraving in Calendarium Romanum, by Jean Staeffler, published in Tubingen, Germany, 1518

The butcher and his assistant preparing to slaughter an animal. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century

Byzantines, 1000-1200. From left to right: emperor
Byzantines, 1000-1200. From left to right, 15: emperor, 16: court assistant, 17: prelate's costume, 18: lonely man who dwelled in deserts, 19: court assistant, 20: regal costume

Byzantines, 1000-1200. From left to right: emperor, court assistants and prelate's costume. Chromolithography. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu. Volume V, 1884

Sigmund Holbein, German painter, c.1465-1540
Sigmund Holbein, German painter, brother of Hans Holbein the Elder, c.1465-1540. Assistant on the Dominican altar in Frankfurt in 1501. Sigismundus Holbein Augustanus

A physician and his servant, 13th century
Bearded doctor with parchment scroll instructing his assistant with mortar and pestle. The doctor wears a Phrygian cap, mantle, dalmatica with embroidered girdle and hem, purple tunic underneath

Drinkers and fiddler outside a village tavern, Georgian era. Sailors, a soldier and a yokel drink with a flirty buxom wench on a bench at a public house as a blind fiddler plays music

Victimarius, an assistant at a ritual sacrifice, ancient Rome. He carries an axe, wears an apron or limus, and leads a bull by a rope. A musician plays the tibia or aulos. Victimaire

Private secretary to the Sultan, Ottoman Empire. He wears a turban, green pelisse coat trimmed with fur, yellow boots

Bogeymen catching and punishing bad children, 1802
A group of bogeymen catching and punishing bad children. Mr and Mrs Bogeyman beat kids while assistant Gatapiat brings a child in a wicker cage to a prison

Altar to the goddess Fortuna. Second half of 2nd century AD
Altar to the goddess Fortuna. Inscription: To Fortuna. Valerius Lupus, assistant of the centurion, accomplished his vow of free will. Second half of the 2nd century AD

Spain, Madrid. Circo Price: The American shooter Mr. Paine, executing his risky exercises with his wife as assistant. Drawing from life by Daniel Perea. Engraving by Bernardo Rico

Comic postcard, accident with bacon slicer Date: 20th century

Late Neolithic Statuettes from Hacilar in north-western Anatolia, excavated during the 1960 season by James Mellaart, Assistant Director, The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. Date: 1961

Nicholas Nickleby as an assistant to Wackford Squeers
Nicholas Nickelby (left) gets a low-paying job as an assistant to Wackford Squeers, who runs the school Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire

Comic postcard, Couple at an underwear counter - real silk undies Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman buying material in a shop Date: 20th century

Little Women - Meg buying silk for a new dress
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Meg buying silk for a new dress, far beyond her household budget, encouraged by her friend Sallie. 1880

Wallpapers and Decorations, John Gilkes, Brighton
Advertising poster, Wallpapers and Decorations, John Gilkes & Sons, North Street, Brighton. circa 1920

Men assisting Howard Carter with Tutankhamuns tomb
The men assisting Mr Howard Carter: the three head men (at back) who are helping Mr Carter to pack and remove the objects from Tutankhamuns tomb to that of Seti II. 1923

Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot - Blue-Grey Metallic Body
Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot with grey blue body and colourful buttons and digital-style display panel

Bristol Aeronautical Corporation XLRQ-1 11652, the 2nd prototype amphibious assault transport glider at the Naval Air Material Centre (NAMC) Philadelphia

Boulton Paul Chief Test Pilot, A. E. Gunn, with his assistant
The newly-appointed Boulton Paul Chief Test Pilot, A.E. Gunn, right, with his assistant Lt R. Mancus alongside a Boulton Paul Balliol, May 1949. Date: 1949

Comic postcard, Woman customer and shop assistant - napkin rings Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two shop assistants Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Returning faulty fountain pen Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man looking for postcards suitable for mother-in-law Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman at gents underwear counter Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man asks for help in department store Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man asks for directions in department store Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Customer in shop Date: 20th century

Stanley Austin, author, assistant editor of The Magnet
Caricature of Stanley Austin, author, assistant editor of The Magnet, by Philippe Ledoux Date: circa 1930

Three men in charge of the Queen Mary - Captain, Chief and Assistant Chief Engineers Date: 1936

Ministers, In The Restroom
This sketch shows a French minister speaking with a restroom assistant who is holding a towel, saying Give me another one, you can see that this one is clean. Date: circa 1901

Men In Conversation
A sketch showing a man speaking with a shop assistant or workman. Date: circa 1901

Notes relating to Board of Trade Titanic inquiry
RMS Titanic, Captain Maurice Clarke Archive. Typed notes dated 28 April 1912 relating to the Board of Trade enquiry into the Titanic disaster

Georgian cartoon, What a Treat! by Henry Heath Date: 1829

Vanni Marcoux, H G Moore and Lalla Miranda
Signor Vanni Marcoux (L), bass, H G Moore (R), assistant stage manager, Mme Lalla Miranda, soprano Date: 1910

Advert, Footgloves, luxury footwear for ladies
Advert, Footgloves, Luxury Footwear for Ladies Date: 1910

James Jennings, assistant editor of The Tatler for many years, now retiring. Date: 1940

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Una ayuda y otra (One help and another). Engraving by Ramon Puyol about the international help belonging to the fist series of Drawings of the Civil War. Litography

Spanish Civil War Ajut Permanent A Madrid Help
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Spainish Civil War (1936-1939). Ayudad a Madrid sufrido y heroico (Help the suffering and heroic Madrid). Poster by Cabana y Contreras. SPAIN. Barcelona

Bill Wainwright, journalist and Communist Party member
William (Bill) Wainwright (1908-2000), journalist, pamphleteer and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He became the CPGB Assistant Secretary in 1956

Assist the Remedies of Nature 1933
Removal superfluous hair: A warm mixture paraffin and shellac applied to the ladies eyebrows and peeled off a few minutes later. Date: 1933

Apparatus that Assist the Remedies of Nature 1933
A cure for facial blemishes: The Siemens-Reinger apparatus, treatment by the means of X-rays anything from tiny warl to a widespread skin disease. Date: 1933

Comic postcard, Woman complains about dress size Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Customer in department store - walk this way Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Ordering a pair of trousers Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman buying underwear in a shop Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Customer in Wholesale Department hoping for a cash discount Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man with female shop assistant Date: 20th century

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