Commerce Collection

Wall St Crash 1929
The Wall Street Crash makes the headlines of the late news issue

London Stock Exchange - The Stock Jobbers Pitches. Date: early 1960s

Whitby Harbour, Yorkshire
19th century vintage photograph: Whitby Harbour, Yorkshire, fishing boats in the harbour

Advertisement for linoleum manufacturers
An advertisement for M Nairn & Co, floor cloth and linoleum manufacturers of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, with premises also in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Paris. circa 1883

LEGGY SECRETARY 1920 S
A leggy secretary sits by her typewriter and takes a letter, revealing her suspender in the process

Market Place, Romford, London, England. Date: circa 1904

Statue of Liberty and Lower Mannhattan
The Statue of Liberty, Hudson River and lower Mannhattan in 1995 Date: 1995

PAXTON, Joseph (1801-1865). Crystal Palace. 1851. First building with revolutionary modular, prefabricated design, and use of glass. Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London

Farrows Bank Ltd. - The Peoples Bank - 1 Cheapside, London

London Stock Exchange
A busy scene at the London Stock Exchange. Date: late 1960s

Popular Aviation Magazine

Chicago Board of Trade - the interesting, lively, and at times noisy trading on the floor. Date: 1916

French poster, The Future Lies in Socialism
A French poster which declares that The Future Lies in Socialism, showing men who have fought in the First World War facing up to the octopus monster of commercialism, foreign gold

Clocking-In Machine
A Clocking In machine in a factory records the hours workers start and leave the workplace

Lloyds Interior
A busy scene inside Lloyds of London. Date: late 1960s

Lloyds Interior 1960S
A busy scene inside Lloyds of London. Date: late 1960s

Share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields
A share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields Limited, representing 35 shares. Gold deposits were first discovered along the Yukon River in Canada in 1896, and this triggered off a gold rush

Bank of England / Dividend
Dividend Day at The Bank of England

New Lloyds Coffee House
The New Lloyds Coffee House, Popes Head Alley, London - the recognised meeting-place for marine insurers

Saturday shopping by F. C. Twort
A busy marketplace scene in a British town during the 1930s. Shoppers mill around various stalls while the pub is open for business. Date: 1935

London Stock Exchange
A busy scene at the London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange
Business transactions taking place at the London Stock Exchange. Date: late 1960s

Kentucky Railroad Shares
Kentucky and Great Eastern Railway Company - thousand collar share certificate

Coutts Interior
The public office at Coutts and co in the Strand, London

Stationery, Alfred Beer of Bristol, Ladder Manufacturer. 1891

T & W Farmiloe Limited - Rochester Row, Westminster, London
The warehouses of T & W Farmiloe Limited - Rochester Row, Westminster, London

Nautical chart entitled King Hamy. 1502. Parchment
" Nautical chart entitled " King Hamy". 1502. Parchment. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. Barcelona. Barcelona Maritime Museum."

Advertisement for various types of steam engine
Advertisement for Robey & Co of Lincoln (Globe Works), London, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Paris, manufacturers of various types of steam engine. circa 1883

Typing Pool / 1970S
A typing pool full of women typists

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Leviathan, a Drake-class armoured cruiser. HMS Leviathan was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900

St. James Street Montreal, Canada
19th century vintage photograph: St. James Street Montreal, Canada, pedestrian and horse drawn traffic

Cover design, Dombey and Son
Cover design, Part XI of Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, August 1847, with illustrations by Hablot K Browne. 1847

WW2 Christmas card, Lloyds Bank, showing the white cliffs of Dover. Date: 1944

Central Stores & Post Office, High Street, Chalford, Glos
Central Stores and Post Office, High Street, Chalford, Gloucestershire. Date: circa 1909

Japan, Imperial Mint, Osaka - Rolling Mills, Cutting Presses
Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - Rolling Mills, and the Cutting-out Presses. Date: circa 1910s

Haiti - Port au Prince (1 / 3)
The National Bank of Haiti - Port au Prince Date: 1904

Petticoat Lane, London - View down the market
Petticoat Lane, London - a long shot. A street clothes market on Wentworth Street and Middlesex Street

Petticoat Lane, London - Birds eye view
Birds eye view of stalls on Petticoat Lane, London. A street clothes market on Wentworth Street and Middlesex Street

Danish Businessmen
Danish businessmen in Copenhagens stock exchange look pretty much like businessmen anywhere else. Date: 1888

INCOME TAX 1940 / 1
A letter asking for income tax to be paid

Broker and Ticker-Tape
An American stockbroker receives market information on ticker-tape by the electric telegraph

Stock Exchange - Selling
White-faced men shrieked with hoarse voices that they sold - everybody sold !

London City / Midland Bank
A queue at the counter of the London City and Midland Bank, Ludgate Hill

Large ships on the Hooghly River, Calcutta, India
19th century vintage photograph: Large ships on the Hooghly River, Calcutta, India

Founding of the Bank of England - proposed by William Paterson, the Bank of England was formed with Sir John Houblon as its first Governor, initially located in Mercers Hall. Date: 1694

Map of Bergen in 16th c. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Bank of England Old Lady
Old lady of Threadneedle Street, holding onto a Bank Stock(ing) of reserve, berates the rash speculators

Hard Boss Scolds Clerk
I have no more time ro spare, said Mr Goldie. " You came late to begin with." ; a hard boss scolds his elderly employee, who has filled the bin with paper

Bank of England Founded
Proposed by William Paterson, the Bank of England is formed with Sir John Houblon its first Governor, initially located in Mercers Hall, then in Grocers Hall till 1734

Rail Share Certificate
NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILWAY COMPANY stock certificate Date: 1906

Steamship harbour at Algiers - the wine export section
The steamship harbour at Algiers - the wine export section. Thousands of barrels of wine awaiting transportation to Europe

Grannie Typist
88-year-old Mrs Caroline Blore, using her own typewriter in her back garden

18th Century Taxation
Satire on the taxes with which people were burdened in the latter 18th century

An early typing pool
From the start, typing was perceived as the archetypal employment opportunity for women : this is the Typing Office of the Society for the Employment of Women

Colquhoun / Freeman
PATRICK COLQUHOUN Police magistrate, Scottish merchant and reformer, founder of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce in 1783

Stock Exchange Traders
Four City traders on the London Stock Exchange compare notes

Boss and Secretary 1928
A secretary stands beside her boss, seated at a desk whose size indicates his importance

Tax Collectors 1806
Tax collectors on the doorstep

Shannon Copier
The Shannon No-chemical Letter Copier copies at the fantastic rate of forty letters a minute - whats more a juvenile may operate it. How does it work? Shannon aren t saying

Joihn Laws Scheme
Satire on John Laws Louisiana fiasco. Scots economist appointed controller-general of finances in France, he launched the disastrous Mississippi bubble

Tobacco auction sale, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA Date: 1943

Chamber of Commerce building, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Date: 1936

Iraq - Customs House, Basra. Date: circa 1917

Iraq - Ashar Creek and Coffee Shops, Basra. Date: circa 1917

Africa - African Market. Date: circa 1970s

Africa - African Market. Date: circa 1970s

Africa - Market Scene. Date: circa 1970s

Africa - Young brassware vendor. Date: circa 1970s

Market Reports - Rentes (sic) are Up - a glamorous woman dispatches her date's top hat with a can-can high kick! Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - Turkish letter marked as Opened by Censor
WW1 period - A letter from The British Chamber of Commerce of Turkey and the Balkan States (incorporated), Constantinople - marked as Opened by Censor - addressed to Messrs. Massey-Harris Ltd

El tuno, 1875, by Esteban Villanueva y Vinarao (1859-1920)
Esteban Villanueva Vinarao (1859-1920). Philippine painter. El tuno, 1875. Portrait of one of the peasants who arrived in Manila to trade their products. Oil on canvas, 68 x 53 cm. Prado Museum

The Merchant. Scene depicting two rich merchants in a port. The Death chooses one of them who is resisting, trying, in spite of the situation, to take some coins that he was counting at the time

The Pedlar. The Death is depicted visiting a peddler who walks around carrying all his wares to sell

Plan of the Island of Rhodes in the 15th century. Engraving by Huyot after of the plan published in Saintes Peregrinations de Hierusalem by Breydenbach, 1488

Bagging Salt, Aden, Yemen. Date: circa late 1940s

Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India - Chartered Bank. Date: circa 1905

A necklace Seller / Merchant / Trader - Egypt. Date: 1902

An Arab Shop - Morocco. Date: circa 1910s

The trades. The shoemaker, 16th century. Engraving
The trades. The shoemaker. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix

The spur maker The armourer, 16th century. Engraving
The trades. The spur maker. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix

The trades. The armourer, 16th century. Engraving
The trades. The armourer. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix

The trades. The swordmaker, 16th century. Engraving
The trades. The swordmaker. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix

The trades. The hatter, 16th century. Engraving
The trades. Hatter. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878

The trades. Clothworker, 16th century. Engraving
The trades. Clothworker. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix

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