Bank Collection (page 34)

Bowery Savings Bank. Main banking room at the Bowery Savings Bank, on the Bowery

Navvies building a new railway line, UK
Navvies building a new railway line at an unidentified location in the UK. A station building can be seen in the top right

Group of girls at Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
A large group of girls at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. They are sitting on a grassy bank wearing identical smock dresses, pinafores and straw hats

British Ballad, Fair Helen of Kirconnell
FAIR HELEN (Helen of Kirconnell - Kirconnel - Kirkconnel) British ballad of Scottish origin telling the tragic tale of Helen Irving (Fair Helen of Kirkconnel) daughter of the Laird of Kirkconnel

View of Windsor Castle from across the River Thames
A general view of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, from across the River Thames, with people and boats in the foreground

Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London
Street scene outside the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street, City of London, on a busy day

Waterfall on the Panama Canal Bank

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Double page spread in a diary for 22-27 November
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 22-27 November. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Bank Hall Colliery, Mining
Bank Hall Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, England. Study of an Italian migrant worker, fresh from the pit face

People at a boating event in the Wye Valley, Mid Wales
A crowd of Edwardian people, adults and children, at a boating event in the Wye Valley, probably in the Mid Wales area

Boats off Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, South Wales
A coal boat and a fishing vessel off the coast at Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The village is located on the western bank of the Cleddau Estuary

Boat off Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, South Wales
A long passenger boat off the coast at Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The village is located on the western bank of the Cleddau Estuary

Man on canal bank with canal boat, South Wales
An Edwardian man poses by a tree on a canal bank, with a canal boat called the Rambler behind him, somewhere in South Wales

High Street and Lloyds Bank, Haverfordwest, South Wales
View of the High Street, including Lloyds Bank, in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Young children in a classroom
A class of young children in an elementary school. The desks are in banked rows. Their teacher stands at the left. A child on the front row has fallen asleep

River frontage of Bridewell Prison, London
The river frontage of Bridewell Prison, London, showing its granaries. Bridewell was established in a former palace of Henry VIII on a bank of the River Fleet

Encounter between a dog and two swans
An intrepid little dog is seen off by two swans, who would rather not share their riverbank with him

Two girls fishing in a stream. They are looking at what they have caught in a milk bottle

Tours and Excursions in the Emerald Isle, with Cooks
Cover illustration for Tours and Excursions in the Emerald Isle (Ireland), with Thomas Cook & Son of Dublin, Belfast and London

National Shoe and Leather Bank, New York
National Shoe and Leather Bank and Chambers Buildings, New York City, America

Iraqi bank official with a large safe, Iraq
An Iraqi bank official with a large safe, somewhere in Iraq

Alexandroupoli, Greece - The Imperial Ottoman Bank
Imperial Ottoman Bank at Alexandroupoli (Dedeagatch), Greece - still under Ottoman control at this time. The Treaty of Lausanne (24 July 1923)

Italy - Vercelli - Savings Bank (Cassa di Risparmio)

Lyon, France - Quay on the Rhone and the Guillotiere Bridge
Lyon, France - The quayside on the banks of the River Rhone and the Guillotiere Bridge. Guillotiere is a quarter in Lyon, situated on the left bank of the Rhone

Arrys oliday by John Hassall
A group of youngsters lark about and amuse themselves on a Bank Holiday

Statue below the Juche Tower, Pyongyang, North Korea
A statue depicting three members of the proletariat, one with a hammer, one with a sickle and one with a writing brush (an idealised worker, a peasant and a " working intellectual" )

View across the Mekong River, Chiang Khong, Thailand
View across the Mekong River at Chiang Khong, Thailand, with Laos in the distance, and river boats on the near bank

Calcutta, India - Bank of Bengal

Calcutta, India - Chartered Bank

Ivanhoe Polka, music sheet
Cover design for a music sheet of the Ivanhoe Polka, by Thomas Browne, depicting two medieval horsemen in armour on the bank of a river in the moonlight, based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott

Shantytown near Paroa, South Island, New Zealand
General view of Shantytown, a recreation of a typical 1880s West Coast gold mining town near Paroa, Greymouth, South Island, New Zealand

Duck hunting, unidentified location
Duck hunting in an unidentified location on the bank of a river

Bank run in Berlin WWI
A run on a Savings Bank in Berlin, Germany during World War I

Girl in traditional Czech Costume / Cesky Tesin
Cesky Tesin - a town in the Karvina District, Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. The town is commonly known in the region as just Tesin and lies on the west bank of the Olza River

Man & Sheep stare across the Seine
A Gentleman and a curious sheep (!) inspect the view across the River Seine at Le Manoir-sur-Seine - a wonderfully bizarre card!

Lenin Statue, Vladimir, Russia
Statue of the Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) in front of a bank in the city of Vladimir, Russia

College Green and the Bank of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

The Bank of England - Art Nouveau Border
A rather ordinary photograph (apart from the provenance - see below!) of England, but set within a spectacular Art Nouveau border!

Comic Postcard - A run on the Bank
A Run on the Bank - a policeman chases a young boy, who had been defying the notice not to bathe. A humourous card playing with the meaning of this phrase

Groynes on the seashore
Partially washed-away old groynes on the seashore. Pencil sketch by Raymond Sheppard

River flowing through a rocky valley
A river flowing through a steep-sided rocky valley. Pen and ink drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Cannon Street Station from the Thames
A view from the south bank of the River Thames at London (at low tide), looking toward Blackfriars Bridge and Cannon Street station. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Boats out of the water
Boats pulled up out of the water, possibly in the Norfolk Broads. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Falmouth - The Bank & Killigrew Monument
The Killigrew Monument at Grove Place, Falmouth, Cornwall - a mysterious structure seemingly constructed solely as a memorial to this famour family of the town

San Francisco - Market Street - overhead street view
A fantastic birds-eye view down a San Francisco street, with the famous tram cars, in two lanes (both ways) defying the hilly nature of the terrain in places!

Bank of England, London
The Bank of England, London with much traffic in the foreground in the form of horse buses, wagons and carts and many pedestrians

Aswan, Egypt
A panoramic view of Aswan, Egypt. The city stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center. Its ancient name, Swenet, translates as trade

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