Boxes Collection (page 10)

Eve and her luxuries, WW1
Eve, the fictional gossip columnist of The Tatler magazine, pictured surrounded by some of her favourite luxury items - hats, dresses and lingerie

Sewing boxes and baskets, WW1
Fitted sewing box and a floor standing sewing box, available from Mark Cross Ltd of Regent Street. Perfect for the many ladies sewing for soldiers and sailors during the First World War. Date: 1914

Maori Ornamental Wooden Carvings - New Zealand. They are an image of Rangihaeata carved by himself, the stern-post of a large canoe, carved boxes for tail feathers, the head of a carved wooden spear

Buying games for the Tatler scheme, WW1
Cartoon showing a lady leaving her car after spending a day buying various games to contriubte to the Tatler magazines Games Bureau

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett writing a despatch, Dardanelles, WW1
Ellis Ashmead-Barlett (1881-1931), British war correspondent, pictured at his typewriter resting on ammunition boxes after the landing at Anafarta, writing a despatch

A night at Covent Garden Opera House, 1925
An impression by the artist Fortunino Matania of the interior of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 1925. A performance of Richard Strauss " Elecktra" is portrayed

Stacks of provisions, Western Front, France, WW1
Stacks of boxed provisions on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers with shells, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers with a large stack of shells on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Japanese troops carry ashes in Tokyo
Returned from the front line during the war with China, Japanese troops march through Tokyo carrying boxes containing the ashes of their comrades who have died during the conflict Date: 1937-1945

British soldier with improvised sentry box, WW1
A British soldier standing guard outside an improvised sentry box made of German ammunition containers, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Bonzo the cartoon dog springing out of a box. Bonzos Annual, 1935 Date: 1935

Limehouse
Scene in a Limehouse Street in London with two-horse coal cart ridden by two tradesmen passing a stationary cart piled high with large boxes and crates Date: 1930s

Advert for Dubarry gift cases 1934
A seletion of beautifully decorated gift cases from Dubarry, including perfume, flower scented bath crystals, fragant talcum powder, 2 tablets complexion soap and handkerchief puff. Date: 1934

Business card design, woman with shopping
Business card design, depicting a woman out shopping with two large boxes containing the latest fashions. Date: 20th century

Waterside scene with jetty, houses and church, Scotland
A waterside scene in Scotland with a jetty, houses and a church. Barrels can be seen piled up on the left

Landing stores at Lundy
A small rowing boat lands stores on the beach at the Island of Lundy. Around 1645, Barbary Pirates under command of the Dutch renegade Jan Janszoon operating from the Moroccan port of SalÚá»ccupied

The Fishing Fleets in the North Sea: A Night Scene off the D
A picture by Fortunio Matania depicting the smaller boats delivering their boxes of fish to a carrier. The large carrier is the first to transport the fish from the trawlers

Musical box by Nicoles Freres
Music boxes by Regina and Polyphon. Also pictured is an Edison phonograph. Date: c.1900

Flying Melons
Boxes of Ogen melons waiting to be loaded onto a plane at Lod (now Ben Gurion International) airport, Tel Aviv, Israel. Date: 1960s

Diabolo Revival
This young woman, working in a toy shop, shows off many boxes of the game Diabolo, a craze sweeping through the nation. Date: early 1930s

Retail therapy
A man accompanying hes wife shopping. Date: 1926

Japan - Geisha Girls eating noodles Date: circa 1905

WW2 - Home front - British housewives queue to buy eggs
October, 1940 - British housewives queue to buy eggs, both domestically sourced and supplied from the Dominions - in this case, Canada. Date: 1940

The Packing Warehouses - Bournville, Birmingham, England
The Packing Warehouses - Cadbury Chocolate Factory Bournville, Birmingham, England Date: circa 1904

A decorative box seller and three geisha customers - Japan Date: circa 1906

Three boys on a desert island captured by an indigenous man, who nails their packing case clothing to a long pole and carries them away midst weeping sore and wailing. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on a desert island meet an indigenous man Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on desert island vanquish a rhinoceros
Three schoolboys on desert island bravely vanquish a rhinoceros using their makeshift bows and arrows. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on desert island shoot at sparrows using makeshift bows and arrows made out of laces, bones and saplings. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on desert island have to wear packing cases
Three schoolboys, washing up on desert island, have to resort to wearing empty wooden packing cases. Date: 1898

Gathering of Syrian Shoeshine boys - just a small fraction of a Artisan Group said to number 900 members. Date: circa 1908

Corset Department, Crowley-Milner Department Store, Detroit, Michigan, USA Date: circa 1940s

Two Algerian soldiers firing from behind the cover of a cart. Date: circa 1915

Sulmona, L Aquila, Italy - Teatro Maria Caniglia
Sulmona, Province of L Aquila, Italy - Teatro Comunale Littorio (interior) - designed by Architect Guido Conti Date: circa 1933

Russian itinerant street peddlar / vendor. Date: 1902

Russian Mother helps teach her daughter to read by pointing to words on posters on a brick wall. Date: 1902

Exporting Ceylon Tea at Colombo Docks - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1920s

Repatriation to Greece from Turkey
Greeks being allowed to returned to Greece from Turkey - 26th October 1964 - repatriations were therefore still occuring at this late date

Man delivering a letter on a box-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of medicines
Christmas card in the shape of a bottle of medicine and boxes of pills for various ailments. circa 1890s

Glove box with greeting on a Victorian Christmas card (open). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Advert for 4711 Eau de Cologne 1931
Let the inspiration of 4711 guide your choice this gift time.... let the inimitable fragrance of this really genuine Eau de Cologne pay sincere tribute to beauty. Date: 1931

Advert for Mackintoshs toffee 1933
All the makings of a merry party Date: 1933

As seen from the boxes. Illustration shows HH Rogers, John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and a man labeled Armour, possibly J

Soldiers posing for a photo with a box of potatoes. France

Tea Tasting at Matheson, McClaren & Co. Edinburgh. Date: 1909

Turkish merchants, Constantinople, Turkey
Turkish merchants at the entrance to a shop in Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey. Date: early 20th century

Native festival at Suez, Egypt
A native festival at Suez, Egypt, with children riding in wooden boxes. Date: 20th century

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