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Business Collection (page 28)

Background imageBusiness Collection: Lubeck as Trade Centre

Lubeck as Trade Centre
Lubeck, strategically located on the Baltic coast, becomes a leading trading centre of the Hanseatic League, doing extensive business with Scandinavia

Background imageBusiness Collection: Food Supplies

Food Supplies
Getting food is a risky business, with fighting in progress between Communards and government forces throughout the city

Background imageBusiness Collection: Except on Business

Except on Business
Young girl stands by a Christmas dinner table staring at a roast turkey. A dog sits on a dinner chair beside her looking hungry

Background imageBusiness Collection: Edward VII as a freemason

Edward VII as a freemason
Edward VII pictured with the Duke of Connaught as a Grand Master freemason. Freemasonry is a fraternal, secular society dedicated to the principles of brotherly love

Background imageBusiness Collection: Business Hand Shake

Business Hand Shake
Two businessmen shake hands

Background imageBusiness Collection: Richard Hambro & his Mercedes

Richard Hambro & his Mercedes
Richard Hambro and his Mercedes car. Hambro is a succesful business entrepeneur, later to be the founder of JO Hambro Investment Management

Background imageBusiness Collection: Glue Boiling

Glue Boiling
Boiling glue is a lengthy business, you just have to stick at it

Background imageBusiness Collection: Israel / Tel Aviv C1930

Israel / Tel Aviv C1930
Tel Aviv: the business centre

Background imageBusiness Collection: Large clouds of smoke from the spreading fires. The aftermat

Large clouds of smoke from the spreading fires. The aftermat
Fires spreading through San Francisco, completing the ruin of the city. The business distract was completely devastated, with only the steel structures of modern buildings still standing

Background imageBusiness Collection: England / Shere

England / Shere
A view outside A. Weller and Sons Coal Merchants and Cars For Hire business, where a young man in a suit reads the noticeboard, with a boy beside him. Shere, Surrey, England

Background imageBusiness Collection: Board room on wheels for the Birmingham Corporation

Board room on wheels for the Birmingham Corporation
Two photographs showing the board room on wheels for the Birmingham Corporation. The coach was fitted up to enable authorities to transact business while paying official visits

Background imageBusiness Collection: Royal Exchange 1950S

Royal Exchange 1950S
The third building of its kind erected on the same site, the Royal Exchange (1842-44), was built by Sir William Tite at the junction of Cornhill and Threadneedle Street

Background imageBusiness Collection: Manhattan 1960S

Manhattan 1960S
East Side, Manhattan

Background imageBusiness Collection: Donkeys in Sea

Donkeys in Sea
Business is bad at Weston- super-Mare, Somerset, England. The tide has come in on the poor huddled donkeys, much to the glee of one little boy swimming in the sea

Background imageBusiness Collection: Windy Day on the Quais

Windy Day on the Quais
A windy day on the quais of the Rive Gauche : the bouquinistes aren t doing much business at their bookstalls, but les messieurs enjoy the lifted skirts of the ladies

Background imageBusiness Collection: Steps to Business Succes

Steps to Business Succes
Steps to business success !

Background imageBusiness Collection: Royal Exchange Courtyard

Royal Exchange Courtyard
The busy Royal exchange court yard full of men of business and their dogs

Background imageBusiness Collection: London Shoppers 1930

London Shoppers 1930
Crowds of smart shoppers, mostly wearing hats, going about their business in a central London street

Background imageBusiness Collection: Lizzie Davenport

Lizzie Davenport
Lizzie (mrs Blandy), sister of stage magicians William & Ira Davenport, seeing what money was to be made, went into show business too, advertising seances at Boston

Background imageBusiness Collection: Scrooge & Ghost

Scrooge & Ghost
" You will be haunted, " resumed the ghost, " by three spirits." Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley

Background imageBusiness Collection: Dryden / Helene 1922

Dryden / Helene 1922
Hello (real name Helene), Ernst Drydens business associate and lifelong friend. This photo was taken around the time she first met Dryden

Background imageBusiness Collection: Farmer and Landlord 1886

Farmer and Landlord 1886
Lady Day: The farmer complains to his landlord that hes going through a bad patch and can t pay the rent

Background imageBusiness Collection: William Murdock / Smiles

William Murdock / Smiles
WILLIAM MURDOCK Scottish engineer and inventor who worked for Matthew Boulton and James Watts business

Background imageBusiness Collection: San Francisco Quake 4

San Francisco Quake 4
True Grit - a barber paints his sign on a tent set up on the ruined site of his premises, offering business as usual

Background imageBusiness Collection: Advert / London Hatter

Advert / London Hatter
A London hatter advertises his business by parading a giant top hat through the streets

Background imageBusiness Collection: Floris V, Full-Length

Floris V, Full-Length
FLORIS V, COUNT OF HOLLAND Established toll rights in Amsterdam in 1275 leading to thriving business climate; murdered

Background imageBusiness Collection: Floris V, Head Portrait

Floris V, Head Portrait
FLORIS V, COUNT OF HOLLAND Established toll rights in Amsterdam in 1275 leading to thriving business climate; murdered

Background imageBusiness Collection: Java / Surabaja 1935

Java / Surabaja 1935
Surabaja: Kempang Diepoen, business centre Date: 1935

Background imageBusiness Collection: Mania / Speculators

Mania / Speculators
Railway speculators in Capel Court, a lane leading to the Stock Exchange, where dealers congregate to do business

Background imageBusiness Collection: Benjamin Lee Guinness

Benjamin Lee Guinness
BENJAMIN LEE GUINNESS Irish brewer; manager (from 1825), sole proprietor (1855) of brewing business founded by his father; first lord mayor of Dublin (1851)

Background imageBusiness Collection: Coach and Train

Coach and Train
A coach rolls peacefully along the road - but in the distance is the train which will soon put the stagecoach out of business

Background imageBusiness Collection: Photo, Wall Street 1929

Photo, Wall Street 1929
The heart of Manhattans business district, with Trinity Church dominating the narrow street

Background imageBusiness Collection: Butlins Skegness Camp

Butlins Skegness Camp
Billy Butlin revolutionises the holiday camp business with camps, like this at Skegness, which offer all kinds of on- the-spot family activities and entertainment facilities

Background imageBusiness Collection: D-B Suit / Burton 1938

D-B Suit / Burton 1938
A businessman in smart grey, striped double-breasted suit with broad, long lapels & loose fit trousers

Background imageBusiness Collection: All-Purpose Feminist

All-Purpose Feminist
A useful all-purpose card for feminists of all persuasions - just write your own slogan on the board, and you re in the protest business !

Background imageBusiness Collection: Jesus the Chiseller

Jesus the Chiseller
Young Jesus wields mallet and chisel, helping his father in the family carpentry business

Background imageBusiness Collection: Corn-Cutters Card

Corn-Cutters Card
An 18th century London corn- cutters card... Apply to me, your feet I ll mend

Background imageBusiness Collection: Satire on Monopolies

Satire on Monopolies
Monopolies, octopus-like, threaten to founder the frail craft of business

Background imageBusiness Collection: Jesus Blesses Business

Jesus Blesses Business
The Sons of Business are blest by Jesus who approves the honest tradesman as an agent of social welfare and bestower of blessings on mankind

Background imageBusiness Collection: Royal Exchange (2Nd)

Royal Exchange (2Nd)
Interior of the second Royal Exchange, London, where business is transacted in the courtyard

Background imageBusiness Collection: Costume / Man 1955

Costume / Man 1955
Frenchman in a formal pin- striped suit with a double- breasted jacket with long lapels which end at the second button & a trilby hat

Background imageBusiness Collection: Cheap furniture maker

Cheap furniture maker, London

Background imageBusiness Collection: James Baird, Ironmaster

James Baird, Ironmaster
JAMES BAIRD Scottish ironmaster : his family business at one time produced 300, 000 tons of iron a year; his profits largely went in Church benefactions

Background imageBusiness Collection: Edinburgh, Cowgate

Edinburgh, Cowgate
A row of slightly run-down houses in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh with residents chatting and doing business on the street

Background imageBusiness Collection: 100 Yrs Business Travel

100 Yrs Business Travel
The development in business travel over 100 years: from stagecoach to aeroplane

Background imageBusiness Collection: Making Butter, Holland

Making Butter, Holland
The ingenious Dutch harness machinery to the business of butter-making; after churning in large barrels it is decanted into smaller ones

Background imageBusiness Collection: Up Vesuvius by Rail

Up Vesuvius by Rail
Negotiating the lava flow on the upper slopes of Vesuvius was an exhausting business until this funicular was constructed in the 1880s, commemorated in popular song

Background imageBusiness Collection: Baking Bread in France

Baking Bread in France
Near each house was an oven for baking bread - making bread is a serious (and labour intensive) business at St Anne, Brittany. Not like popping out to Tesco



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