Containers Collection

Neyland Fish Market, Neyland, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
View inside the Fish Market in the coastal town of Neyland, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. The Ice Factory and Fish Market were opened on 16 November 1908

Freight poster
Poster advertising a French freight company for the transportation of containers by rail. A vast railway network ensures swift delivery

Millwall Docks, London
Taking aboard stores and special equipment for the commonwealth trans-antarctic expeditiion: the Canadian seal-catcher M.V

French Customs officers X-Ray for smuggled goods 1897

Pithos (plural - pithoi) - a large ancient Greek storage container. Some very fine examples excavated from within the Minoan palace at Knossos on Crete. Date: circa 1920s

WW2, R. A. F. Messenger Pigeons
An illustration which shows a man of the Royal Air Force tending the the messenger pigeons. Bomber and reconnaissance aircrafts would carry pigeons in watertight containers

Imperial Tobacco's Docks at Norfolk, Virginia, USA Date: 20th century

Lifebuoy Soap Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Lifebuoy soap, a cleansing safeguard against contagious diseases

The Cooperage
This etching shows a cooperage, the premises of a man, seen in the shadows, who specialises in the manufacture of wooden casks, barrels, buckets and other similar containers. Date: circa 1918

Middelburg Market
A lino cut of two women with baskets and containers of market goods, in Middelburg, a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. Date: circa 1931

Botot water laboratory, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Botot water laboratory, sold at the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Advert,s Moss, Druggist and Chemist, Cheltenham
Advert,s Moss, Druggist, Operative & Experimental Chemist, High Street, Cheltenham. Date: 1826

Gates Learjet 35A N15SC (msn 35-018), of Sea Containers (UK) Ltd. at Luton Airport, in June 1987. Date: 1987

Burial containers, Xieng Khouang, Laos
Burial containers in the Plain of Jars at Xieng Khouang, Phonsavan, Laos. Thousands of these stone jars lie scattered throughout the Xieng Khouang plain in the Lao Highlands -- archaeologists believe

Porter filling water containers, India, c. 1880 s
Porters filling water containers, India, c.1880 s

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

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

Mill Room in the Staffordshire Potteries
Mill Room where the ingredients are mixed, Staffordshire Potteries. 1843

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

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

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

The Galvanic Apparatus. Date: 1804

Electrical Apparatus - No. 1. Date: 1804

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

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

Finest Indian Ink in oriental-style containers. circa 1880s

Oil cars at shipping station, Bakersfield, Kern County, USA
Oil cars at Southern Pacific shipping station, Bakersfield, Kern County, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Aerial view of Fedala (Mohammedia), Morocco
Aerial view of Fedala (Fedhala, now Mohammedia), Morocco, centre of the Moroccan oil industry, showing Vacuum and Shell bonding warehouses and petroleum storage tanks. Date: circa 1930

German boy scouts enjoying a meal at camp

View of Kumasi, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa
View of Kumasi, including part of the railway station, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1915

London Trade Card - John Hunt, Nightman and Rubbish Carter
London Trade Card - John Hunt, successor to the late Mr Ino. Brook, Nightman and Rubbish Carter, near the Wagon and Horses in Goswell Street, near Mount Mill. 18th century

Church Furniture, Plate 166, showing candle holders, candlesticks, lecterns, boxes, vases and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Japanese sake barrels in Yoyogi Park, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan

Two soldiers with gas canisters, eastern front, Russia, WW1
Two Moujik (peasant) soldiers with a pile of gas canisters on the eastern front near Dvinsk, Russia, during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

German gunners preparing 25cm heavy trench mortar, WW1
German gunners in a gun emplacement, preparing a 25cm muzzle-loading heavy trench mortar for firing during the First World War

Arabs and others with oil barrels in an unidentified location. Date: circa 1920s

Portugal, Madeira, Funchal: peasant with milk containers Date: 2016

Treasure Trove diggings, North West Province, South Africa
Water station (mobile water supply) at Treasure Trove diamond diggings near Lichtenburg, North West Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1927

Streetside empty bottle and can seller - Kathmandu, Nepal
A remarkable card showing a streetside empty bottle and can seller - Kathmandu, Nepal. Date: circa 1950s

Villagers drawing water, Iraq. Date: circa 1930s

Dogs in containers on eight Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Sterling silver goods, Plate 207, showing bells, a trowel, bouquet holders, whistles, a dram flask, cutlery and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Art pottery, Latest Novelties, Plate 90, showing vases, jugs, jars and other items in a range of styles and patterns. Date: circa 1880s

Art pottery, Latest Novelties, Plate 89, showing vases, jugs, jars and other items in a range of styles and patterns. Date: circa 1880s

Art pottery, Plate 82, showing a range of styles and patterns, including human and animal figures, and ornate containers. Date: circa 1880s

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