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LINCOLN / SPRINGFIELDABRAHAM LINCOLN His home in Springfield, Illinois Date: 1809 - 1865
Chimney Sweep 1869The number of people living in London was on the increase, to get any trade you had to get up very early in the morning, sweeps usual were up and about at starlight, waiting for people to arise
Bianchi MCycle FactoryThe Bianchi motorcycle factory in Italy Date: 1917
FRENCH CHIMNEYSWEEPA French chimneysweep walks through the streets calling his trade : the caption calls him a type that is disappearing Date: 1907
The Roof GardenThe Midland Hotel, Manchester Date: circa 1905
FOLKLORE / BANSHEESover the rooftops... Date: 1898
Young cat (humanised) torn between Good and EvilA young (humanised) cat, torn between Good and Evil, represented by a cat angel and a cat devil. The setting appears to be a rooftop with smoking chimney pots. Date: circa 1840
Large domestic houseA large and quite grand domestic house with leaded windows Date: early 20th century
British factory exterior, Ironmonger Magazine coverBritish factory exterior, as depicted on the cover of The Ironmonger magazine. Date: 1911
Low Moor - Ironworks 1856Exterior of the Ironworks foundry in West Yorkshire. Date: 1856
Signpost to Murder, Cambridge Theatre, LondonSignpost to Murder, a new play by Monte Doyle, at the Cambridge Theatre, London, with Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr and Cyril Raymond. (1 of 2) circa 1962
Train on the Brussels to Ostend railway, Belgium. Date: circa 1900
Abandoned Levant tin mine, near Pendeen, Cornwall, EnglandThe abandoned Levant tin mine, near Pendeen, Cornwall, England. The mine is now renovated, owned by The National Trust and turned into a museum
Stanley Mill, GloucstershireStanley Mill, Stonehouse, Ryeford, Stroud Valley, Gloucstershire. The chimney smokes. In the foreground is a rookery Date: 1989
Rochdale Canal, Sowerby Bridge, YorksGirl with dog running beside Rochdale Canal, Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire. She holds a stick in the water to make ripples. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988
Children and swans StokeThree children feed a white swan on a pond in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. In the background is a Potteries bottle oven and a factory chimney Date: 1987
Boys on footbridge StokeTwo small boys and their mongrel dog run up the steps of a railway footbridge in Stoke on Trent Date: 1987
Two inset views of Izmir, Turkey - Art Nouveau framingTwo inset views of Izmir, Turkey with fantastic Art Nouveau framing. The Caravan Bridge across the Melez River and a Camel Caravan at Profitilya. Date: 1903
Volos, Greece - Kala Nera VillageKala Nera Village, near Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 330km north of Athens and 220km south of Thessaloniki
The Royal Mint - ExteriorThe Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London - Exterior. Date: circa 1908
Technological advances of Home Heating - from coal to gasThe Advantages offered by the advances in Home Heating systems, shifting from coal to gas - the housemaid sends the chimney sweep away as her new gas boiler makes no soot and saves work and worry
Detached house, 1 Carlton Road, Ealing, West London -- home of the Auerbach family. Date: circa early 20th century
American Screw Company s. United States. Engraving, 1884American Screw Company s. Manufactory of patent Gimlet-Pointet Screws. United States. Engraving, 1884
Coal mining. BelgiumCoal mining. Herscheuse Mining. Quaregnon County. Belgium. Colored engraving from 1884
House Flags and Funnels. circa 1910
Stepped Art Deco fireplace 1936Stepped Art Deco fireplace in two dull mottled coloured tiles with raised hearth, more for the bedroom. Date: 1936
Twin chimneys of Barton Power Station, EcclesThe twin chimneys of the long-demolished Barton Power Station reflected in the water of the Bridgewater Canal in Eccles, Manchester
Lebanon - Married Druze Woman with Tantour hatThe traditional vertigious tantour hat of a married Druze (a monotheistic religious community) woman of Lebanon (sadly not an example of the popular trend to replicate the landscape of late 19th)
Battersea Power Station - First Phase OperationalBattersea Power Station, London - on the banks of the River Thames - built in two phases. This is the coal-fired power station in 1934, with the first phase operational (two towers - the A Station)
Old Bill and Co by Bruce BairnsfatherAn ARP warden stands on a rooftop during a very lively air raid and looks down a chimney pot with his binoculars telling those hiding inside, I said, I reckon its time you went to the shelter. 1940
Chimney Sweep & BrushA chimney sweep kneels on the hearth and prepares to insert his brush up the chimney
The Black Country SceneThe sky at night is lit up by the foundries, furnaces and factories of the Black Country - the region around Wolverhampton and Dudley in the west midlands of England
House with leaves and flowers on a greetings cardHouse with leaves and flowers on a cutout greetings card. Date: early 20th century
General view of Penco, Bio Bio, Chile, South AmericaGeneral view of the town and city of Penco, in the Bio Bio region of Chile, South America. Showing the ceramics factory, Fabrica Nacional de Loza, in the centre. Date: circa 1915
Banarsi Dass flour mill, Ambala, Haryana, IndiaBanarsi (Banorsi) Dass flour mill, Ambala (Umballa), Haryana, India. Date: circa 1910
Firth Carpet Co Mills, Orange County, NY State, USAFirth Carpet Company Mills, Firth Cliffe (Firthcliffe), Orange County, NY State, USA. Date: circa 1908
General view of Gefle (Gavle), Gavleborg, Sweden, showing the river estuary. Date: 1908
London Trade Card - William Woodward, Nightman, Carman and Chimney Sweeper, Rubbish Carted, 1 Marylebone Passage, Wells Street, Oxford Market. 18th century
South Africa - Nourse Deep Gold Mine at Witwatersrand. Date: 1906
President Street, Germiston, Transvaal, South AfricaPresident Street, Germiston, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1910
Three chimney sweep boys on a cutout Christmas card, held together by a long brush. circa 1890s
The ruins of Huanchaca, Chile - silver smelting worksHuanchaca ruins - the remains of an old silver smelting plant, located in Antofagasta, Chile. The Antofagasta (Chili) and Bolivia Railway Company plc was incorporated in London in 1888
Peasant Kermis, c. 1665, by David Teniers the Younger (1610David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). Flemish painter. Peasant Kermis, c.1665. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). St. Petersburg. Departure of Russian officers to Serbia as volunteers in the army of General Tchernaieff. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1877
The feast of the Ommegang by Denis van AlslootDenis van Alsloot (1570-1626). Flemish baroque painter. The Feast of the Ommegang. 1616. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain
East Street and Fire Station, Manchester Square, LondonEast Street (now Chiltern Street) and Fire Station, Manchester Square, London, with the Wallace Head pub on the left. Date: circa 1908
Tiled fireplace with wooden surround 1936Slabbed in three different mottled tiles with kerbed hearth and a high oak wooden surround with ebonized shelf in the middle. Date: 1936
Art Deco fireplace 1936Dull mottle tiles with plain vertical pattern to the side and a Art Deco centre. Date: 1936