Container Collection (page 14)

Unloading illegal catch of fish, Boulogne, France
A fisherman unloading an illegal catch of fish at Boulogne, France. Date: circa 1970s

War trophies exhibition, WW1
Part of an exhibition of German war trophies captured by the Allies during the First World War. Showing two dummies wearing German uniform, shells and wickerwork shell containers, various weapons

Frozen Food Tester
A member of the Ministry of Food, Scientific Advisors Division, conducts a test on a railway container of quick frozen fish, etc. Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. Date: 1950s

Austro-Hungarian trench with gas bottles, WW1
Scene in an Austro-Hungarian trench during the First World War, with twenty steel chlorine gas bottles ready for use. Date: 1914-1918

Champagne Trolley
A three-wheeled trolley for transporting champagne, one of hundreds of different trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Sewing Machine Truck
A truck constructed specially to carry sewing machines, one of hundreds of varieties of trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Useful Box Truck
A useful box truck, one of hundreds of types of trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Sliding Cover Dust Truck
A sliding cover dust truck, presumably for a street cleaner, or for transporting rubble or industrial rubbish with a cover to prevent said dust blowing away in the wind

Gas canister after Battle of Neuve Chapelle, WW1
A German photograph claiming to be of an English gas canister after the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, north western France, during the First World War. Date: 1915

Bakers Double Rack Truck
A bakers double rack truck for transporting numerous loaves of bread made from hardwood and wrought iron. (as in the truck is made from hardwood and wrought iron, not the bread!). 1910

Railway Refreshment Truck
A rather elaborate railway refreshment truck with urns, a glass cabinet and small railings around each shelf to keep refreshments from falling out

Wallpaper truck
A wallpaper truck used for transporting numerous rolls of wallpaper. One of hundreds of varieties of trucks and trollies available to buy in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List, 1910. 1910

Two gipsy girls with a chicken, sitting on the ground at the side of their caravan. The older girl wears a knitted jumper and has plaited hair

Science classroom, South Wales coalfield
A Science classroom in a school connected to a South Wales coalfield. A schoolteacher supervises a group of well behaved boys who are taking part in various chemical experiments

Loading containers at Colombo, Sri Lanka
Loading containers at the busy port of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Gas-Driven Car
A rather unsafe looking gas- driven Calcott car with a huge Lyon-Spencer gas container on its roof drawfing the car itself. Owned by Lady Idina Wallace.Hope she didn t smoke

Mersin - Lemonade seller
A man sells lemonade from a container on his back in summer in Mersin, Turkey. A large city and a busy port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey and is the capital of the Mersin Province

Pigeon Container on a British Paratrooper, Second World War
Photograph showing a pigeon container strapped to the stomach of a British paratrooper, 1944. Pigeons are one of the oldest and most reliable forms of military communication

Folding Motorcycle in a Parachute Container; Second World Wa
Photograph showing a folding motorcycle, in its parachute container, used by the British Airborne forces, 1944. Equipment such as this was used in Operation Market Garden by the British First

Radio Set in a Parachute Container; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a Number 56 type radio set, packed in its parachute container, as used by the British Airborne Forces, 1944

Phillipss Toilet Aquarius
An advertisement from 1891 for Phillipss Toilet Aquarius, a new water container for wash stands where...no muscular effort required

Spanish couple
A Spanish couple

Mege-Mouries / Cig Card
HIPPOLYTE MEGE-MOURIES French inventor of margarine

ELISHA
He causes a widows oil to multiply until every container in the house is full, enabling her to sell it and pay off her debts, so her sons are not taken away as bondsmen

Daikoku, God of Wealth
The God of Wealth carries a bag of rice, representing wealth; his upraised hammer is a magic container from which he showers coins on those he favours

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