Cans Collection (page 2)

Shwedagon Pagoda -propitiating Gnats - Rangoon

Salvation Army Canteen Van
The London Fire Brigade had dispensed with its own canteen vans, due to financial cutbacks, and relied on the services of the Salvation Army to provided refreshments to fire crews at major fires

LCC-LFB - Fire investigation, suspected arson fire
The LFB would gather photographic evidence, wherever possible, as to the probable cause of fire where arson was suspected or proven

Cover design, Farman aviation brochure, promoting popular tourism and economical travel, showing a couple in Paris getting ready for a trip to Madrid. circa 1920

A gardener watering his flowers in his tiny garden. A satirical look at gardening in an urban environment. Date: 1928- 1929

Mutual Film Company, New York
Mutual Film Company, 1600 Broadway, New York. Film storage room at the Mutual Film Co. with poster of Charlie Chaplin. Date: 1918

A Load of Rubbish
Looking down into a metal dustbin full of cans, bottles and other rubbish. 1960s

Rue Royale Fires
Fires are started in parts of Paris, often by petroleuses - women carrying cans of fuel. Firemen fight fires in the fashionable rue Royale, seen as symbolic of the old regime. Date: April- May 1871

TIN OPENER
A tin opener, handy for opening tins of Carnation Evaporated Milk and Pork Farmhouse Pate! Date: 1974

Carrying water to the front line, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers carrying water in cans to the men on the front line, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916

Convicts delivering meals to prison cells
Uniformed warders supervise convicts delivering food cans and bread to the cells at an unnamed London prison

Shoppers at a Grocery Store
Elderly shoppers at a Grocery Store

Returning medicine bottle at the Grocers Shop
An elderly gentleman Mr W. Hitchman delivers his bottle of medicine for collection and replacement at his local Grocers Shop

Gipsy boy and girl, eating out of doors
A gipsy boy and girl, eating out of doors in an area littered with tin cans

Biplane bomber with crew and arabs in the desert, Iraq
A biplane bomber in the desert, with crew and arabs resting in the shade of the wings, somewhere in Iraq. Cans of fuel can be seen spread out on the ground

Filling Oil Cans - Hackney Wick
A female employee fills BP Oil Cans at a plant in Hackney Wick, London

Air and Petrol test - Hackey Wick
Female employees at the BP works at Hackney Wick, London perform an air and petrol test

Sealing Cans - Hackney Wick

Water filtration at Gallipoli WWI
All water is carefully filtered and put into covered cans. Even petrol cans are cleaned and used for this purpose

Sfax, Tunisia - Outdoor merchant or cures / remedies
Sfax, Tunisia - Outdoor merchant in a truly spectacular hat selling traditional local tunisian cures/remedies by the side of the street

Child and watering cans
A young child playing with two small watering cans. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

T. A. N. Ltd. Motor Garage
Four Model T Ford cars in the forecourt of the T.A.N. Motor Garage

Petrol can dump
A water filled petrol tin dump in Elvendinghe on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Automobilia Ephemera Collection
A splendid collection of Automobilia Ephemera, including goggles, a rigid ash tray, a map and a long curved car horn!

Spice Seller - Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
A spice seller near Mandu, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. The trader sells a variety of dried and ground spices from baskets and tin cans, weighing the quanities on a fine pair of brass hand scales

Naples, Italy - Street Hot Chestnut Seller, surrounded by a variety of young urchins! He wears a tall top hat at a very rakish angle!!

Baileys Grocery Store and shopkeeper
Baileys Grocery Store and the proud shopkeeper, assessing the weeks window display. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Worcestershire garage and owner before a fire
Worcestershire garage and seated owner surrounded by oils, engine treatments and lubricants. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Ballerina and Cans
A ballerina holds a Liebig can - another floats in the air beside her - two more jars are at her feet

Staff of Co-Op Grocers
The staff of the Co-Op grocery store lined up behind the counter

Holmes Grocery Shop
Serving behind the counter at Holmes grocery shop

Tinsmith in Workshop
A tinsmith at work fashioning useful household objects such as watering cans out of tin; his children help in the workshop

Housemaid & Hot Water
A housemaid hurries with cans of hot water for a guests morning toilet

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