Counter Collection (page 3)

Inside a Post Office, Ealing, West London Date: circa 1980s

Hickory House Restaurant, New York City, USA
Hickory House Restaurant, West 52nd Street, New York City, USA, also at Miami Beach, Florida. Famous for genuine hickory log broiled steaks and chops. Date: circa 1940

Patriotic poster Buy British - I want the kind my Daddy Made
" I want the kind my Daddy Made" - make Buy British the watchword of every family and create employment. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

Soldier in Sancho Villas Army 1914
A soldier in Sancho Villas army sits on the grass eating, holding a tortilla and a plate of food. He is wearing sandals, shirt and trousers, a hat

Leslie Thornton in the dock at a trial in Moscow, USSR
Leslie Thornton in the dock, at a trial in Moscow of employees of the Metropolitan Vickers Company, April 1933. They were charged with sabotage, espionage

Men on the Pit Counter at Le Mans, France
Early Motor Car Racing - men on the Pit Counter at Le Mans, France

Haberdashery counter
Mother and daughter buying ribbon at haberdashery counter. Illustration from the Ladies Home Journal September 1923. Artist anon. Date: 1923

Interior, Royal Pump Room, Harrogate, Yorkshire
Interior of the Royal Pump Room, Harrogate, Yorkshire. circa 1900

Montpelier Pump Room, Harrogate, Yorkshire. circa 1900

Casa Calvillo, hotel, bar and restaurant, Seville, Spain
Casa Calvillo, hotel, bar and restaurant, Calle Sierpes, Seville, Spain. Date: circa 1950s

Typical wine bar and cafe, Can Amer, Inca, Majorca, Spain. Date: circa 1910s

Chemist shop, Puerto de la Luz, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Chemist shop interior (Manager, Julian Pascual), Puerto de la Luz, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. circa 1910

Buying a wooden horse
Little girl standing at the counter about to pay the shopkeeper. Date: circa 1904

Eagle Hut dining saloon, YMCA, Aldwych, London, with letter designated tables. Date: circa 1919

Triumph motorcycle showroom, Pasadena, California, USA, with George and Hazel Butler behind the counter. Date: 1950s

Victorian Card - Little Tailors. 19th century

Shopping for mother - Young girl at the counter of the local general store. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: circa 1915

Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295
(United States Air Force - )Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295, on display at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio in Texas, in the USAF History and Traditions Museum collection

WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Allied counter torpedo boat. circa 1916

Putting Away Leftovers Date: 1948

Small Restaurant Date: 1948

Blue and White Kitchen Date: 1948

Flirtation with Patron Date: 1948

Small Grocery Store Date: 1948

Boy Sneaks Last of Pie Date: 1950

Railroad Mans Tools Date: 1949

Cutaway Office Building Date: 1950

Grocery Delivery Date: 1950

Mother, Son in Kitchen Date: 1950

Pharmacist Date: 1902

Saint-Gingolph, Haute-Savoie, France
A Souvenir shop (selling dolls and pearls) - Le Perle du Lac at Saint-Gingolph, a small town situated on the south bank of Lake Geneva (Lac Leman)

At the drapers shop 1887
Two women choosing some material to be made into the latest fashionable dress. Date: 1887

INDIAN MEAT MARKET
A rather unhygienic meat stall at a market in Lahore, India, showing the butcher weighing the meat for a customer. When he has sold out of meat, he will sleep on the counter! Date: 1930s

SCHMIDTS SHOP 1970S
The bakery counter at Schmidts famous store on Charlotte Street, London, full of fine foods and delicious- looking cakes and pastries a piece of Germany in London. Date: 1970s

SOCIAL / LONDON GIN SHOP
Tom and Jerry at a London Gin Shop, drinking Blue Ruin with a variety of fellow-customers. Date: 1820

WOMAN BUYS KNITTED TOP
A shop assistant behind a counter gives a customer some advice about buying knitted tops. Date: early 1960s

YOUNG CUSTOMERS SHOP
Two little girls, dressed in pink outfits, sit at the counter of a toy and sweet shop Date: 1875

CIGARETTE COUNTER / 1915
An advertisement for De Reszke cigarettes: a gentleman has his cigarette lit for him at the tobacconists counter Date: 1915

Villiage shop 1867
Long established shop with the shopkeeper starting as an apprentice and taking over the company many years later. Date: 1867

SHOPPING FOR BONNETS
Judging from Appearance, a canny shop assistant infers that a bonnet being tried on by the wife takes years off her age by mistaking her for her husbands daughter. Date: 1828

Medicine - 17th century Quack Doctor
Here you may be cured ! - a 17th century quack stands beside his counter, strewn with wonderful potions and elixirs to cure all ailments Date: circa 1670

IRONING TOP HAT 1860
A workman watches with astonishment while a hatter irons a top hat with a heated iron Date: 1860

17th century Butcher
A shop keeper - butcher or poulterer - brandishes a cleaver as he slices a joint into cutlets or whatever. Date: 17th century

de Havilland Mosquito NF Mk. XV high-altitude fighter. This is an example of the rare NF Mk. XV with the extended wing-span wings, pressurised cockpit, 70 series Merlin engines, nose AI Mk

The Girl behind the Counter, musical comedy, Portsmouth
The Girl behind the Counter, a musical comedy, at the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, starring Nora Brocklebank, previously at Wyndhams Theatre, London

Interior of a London West End Boutique, specialising in Gentlemans formal wear. Date: circa 1950s

Interior and Exterior, Phoenix Drug Store, Hamilton, Bermuda
Interior and Exterior of the Phoenix Drug Store, Hamilton, Bermuda. Note the sign in the lower section which proclaims the store as the Headquarters for Souvenir Postcards. Date: circa 1920s

The private bar at Havana Club Rum, Havana, Cuba, with two bartenders and two customers. Date: circa 1930s

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