Container Collection (page 2)

Dredging barge on the River Nile, Egypt, c. 1890 s
19th century vintage photograph - steam driven dredger, dredging barge on the River Nile, Egypt, c.1890 s

Weighing tea, plantation, Ceylon, Sri Lanka
Vintage 19th century photograph: weighing tea on a tea plantation, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Harbour at Messina, Sicily, Italy
Vintage 19th century photograph - harbour at Messina, Sicily, Italy

Japanese rice wine seller
Vintage 19th century photograph - Japanese rice wine seller

Article in The Illustrated London News showing a variety of chic bags and containers for transporting ones gas masks in the early months of the Second World War. Date: 1939

Advert, Dubarry Talcum Powder. 1936

Flower Brothers hopping machine, The Brewery, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury. 1891

Polish national Mr Hutton offering gas mask cases 1939
Mr Hutton, originally from Poland, photographed handing gas mask containers to Members of Parliament. The Sphere describes how Mr Hutton provided individually named gas mask containers for each

Scene in a Bronze Age foundry, showing men pouring molten metal into a container, and various weapons on display. BCE

Women and children, Rome, Italy. Date: early 19th century

Scene inside a blacking factory, Holborn, London
Scene inside the packing warehouse of the Day and Martin blacking factory, Holborn, London. Date: 1842

Scene inside a vinegar and wine factory, South London
Scene inside the sending out warehouse of the Beaufoy vinegar and British wine factory, Lambeth, South London. Date: 1842

The game of tonneau or barrel
The game of tonneau (a throwing game where players try to throw pellets into a barrel with small holes in the top). Handcoloured lithograph after Decamps from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports

The game of tonneau, 19th century
The game of tonneau, a throwing game where players try to throw pellets into a box with small holes in the top, 19th century

Tools and utensils of the Botocudo people, Brazil. Kindle stick 2, bag 3, codpiece 4, necklace 5, knife 6, bone dagger to pierce coconuts 7, wooden water container 8

View inside a copper and lead factory, London
View inside the Pontifex and Wood copper and lead factory, Shoe Lane, London. Date: 1842

Magna Carta being opened by tin-opener on return to Lincoln
The Magna Carta being opened by a tin-opener (from its hermetically-sealed container) on its return to Lincoln Cathedral from America where it had been on loan since 1939

Advert, James Mellis & Co, Prestonpans, Scotland
Advert for James Mellis & Co, Soap Manufacturers, Prestonpans, Scotland. 1905

Cailletets apparatus for the liquefaction of oxygen
Louis Paul Cailletets apparatus for the liquefaction of oxygen. Date: 1885

Cries of Paris - milk seller

Cries of Paris - water seller

The Galvanic Apparatus. Date: 1804

Electrical Apparatus - No. 1. Date: 1804

Miniature bakery and brewery found during excavation, Egypt
Miniature bakery and brewery, with workers, discovered in a pyramid during excavations, Egypt. Their purpose was to minister to the needs of the buried dignitary. Date: 1922

Malay man collecting wine from tree, South East Asia
Malay man collecting sweet wine from a toddy palm tree, Malay States, South East Asia (then part of the British Empire, now Malaysia). Date: 1922

Gold box and verse on a greetings card with an initial D. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of an ornate golden box with an oval cameo with initial B. circa 1890s

Holly and mistletoe on a Christmas postcard
Holly and mistletoe in an oval container on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of three decanters -- Many a Merry Christmas. Date: circa 1890s

G Sheridan Knowles, Christmas Pennies

New Year card in the shape of an ornate box, open to reveal essential information on the Language of Flowers. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of an ornate golden box with an oval cameo. (1 of 2) circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a sewing box, open to reveal items inside and a greeting under the lid. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in the shape of a jar. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a gift box -- to Elsie. Date: circa 1890s

Porcelain manufacturers 1843
Workers carefully place seggars or saggars for firing in the biscuit kiln at the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester. 1843

Miners at Schemnitz, Slovakia
Miners at Schemnitz (Banska Stiavnica), Slovakia. 1832

Mexican water-carrier 1835
Mexican water-carrier. Date: 1835

Japanned Tin Box of Oil Colours. circa 1880s

NFS (London Region) Boy trapped in a milk churn
Boy trapped in a milk churn is set free at Brigade HQ on 4 July 1947. The milkman had brought him to the fire station in his milk float. Date: 1947

Woman with wet washing on her head, Italy
Woman with a plastic container of wet washing on her head, Italy. Date: circa 1960s

Street scene during riot, Brixton, Lambeth, South London
A street scene in Brixton, Lambeth, South London, during a period of rioting. The air is full of black smoke, something (possibly a car) is on fire on the left

An Indian grass cutter with ingenious grass container Date: circa 1810

Pulled-Sugar Creations Date: 1935

Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Master Churn Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Master
Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Master Churn the Dairymans son. Date: 1928

MAN AFTER 35 000 YEARS
MACHINE MAN OF ARDATHIA (Francis Flagg) 35, 000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays Date: 1927

17th century Water Carriers
Two water carriers carry their water in a heavy container suspended from a yoke. Date: 17th century

Cover design, Amazing Stories. Machine Man of Ardathia (Francis Flagg) -- 35, 000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays. Date: 1927

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