Counter Collection (page 8)

Canteen, Marylebone Police Station, London
The police canteen at Marylebone Police Station, London, showing food, refreshments and remedies lined up on lace-edged shelves. (2 of 2) Date: 1920s

Advertisement for Selfridges wedding presents
A lucky pair -- advertisement for Selfridges wedding presents, silver, etc, featuring a silhouette of people at a shop counter, with another group in the background

Dry Cleaning
A young woman leaves a garment with a helpful shop assistant with a bouffant hairdo, behind the counter of a dry cleaning shop. Date: 1960s

Interior of Allied canteen at Abbeville, France, WW1
Interior of an Allied (Expeditionary Force) canteen at Abbeville, northern France, during the First World War, with men relaxing at tables and at the counter. Date: June 1916

Clothes shopping, 1935
A group of ladies inspect the contents of a shop window during the January sales. Date: 1935

People in a cafe, sitting at tables and serving behind the counter. The lighting comes from bare, unshaded lightbulbs. circa 1940s

MODERN POST OFFICE
The ultra-modern post office at Eastbourne, Sussex, England, where a sign reads: To save you time, every counter clerk now deals with every kind of business. Date: 1960s

Soviet Counter Attack
Soviet counter-attack by hiding among cattle - as did Odysseus... Date: October 1941

Charles Bois-Hardy
CHARLES BOIS-HARDY French naval officer who resigned when the Revolution came, took part in royalist counter-plots and was shot in an attack on his home. Date: ? - 1795

Two Gents Drinking C1860
Two smart-looking gents at a London bar counter, one with a short, the other with a stout and bitter; if they get peckish, there are sandwiches under a glass dome. Date: circa 1860

Bowery Savings Bank. Main banking room at the Bowery Savings Bank, on the Bowery

Returning medicine bottle at the Grocers Shop
An elderly gentleman Mr W. Hitchman delivers his bottle of medicine for collection and replacement at his local Grocers Shop

Ark kitchen, Salvation Army, Southwark, London
The kitchen of The Ark, a Salvation Army night shelter for men, opened in 1891 on Southwark Street in south London. A large urn stands on the counter at the left

Fish market, Mercado dos Lavradores, Funchal, Madeira
Fishmongers in the fish market at the Mercado dos Lavradores (Workers Market) in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira

Fishmonger, Mercado dos Lavradores, Funchal, Madeira
A fishmonger chops up a piece of fish at the Mercado dos Lavradores (Workers Market) in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira

Tunisia - Perfume shop
The proprietor of a parfumerie peers above his reading glasses to observe the customer (or photographer!) approaching his shop

Funny Postcard - Urgency
A superb humourous postcard depicting a young man taking a long time over his telegram, which has a lot to do with the pretty young girl behind the counter

The Main Post Office, Istanbul. There are different counters for local/ interior post and for International post. A clock above the counter unusually shows the time in two different time zones

Tunisian grocer
A Tunisian Grocer standing in his open-fronted shop with jars of olives, bowls of houmous, dried peppers and a fine set of metal scales hanging over the counter

Photograph of electrical counter-poise table for taking automatic photographs, 8 March 1932. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into the mediumistic

Sailing ships at Burgas, Bulgaria
Burgas Harbour, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The bow and the stern of Black Sea ships are raised to counter the under-sea turbulence in the water

The House Agent s. An Estate Agent looks through a large ledger detailing House to Let

The Corn Merchant s
The Corn Merchants - two girls talk to the Corn Merchant standing behind his counter

The Bakers Shop. A young girl with her shopping basket selects a loaf at the Bakers

The Haberdasher and Hosier. A young boy in cap and jacket looks at a new tie

The Stationers Shop. A Stationer looks sternly down at a young boy who has approached the counter

V1 bomb counter measures committee, 1944
The chairmen of the war cabinet committee on operational counter measures against the " flying bomb" or V1: Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P(centre), with leaders who directed the battle

Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) - Attacking with fixed bayonets
Italian troops counter-attacking with fixed bayonets. The Italo Turkish War was launched by Italy against Turkey, with the aim of gaining Libya

RAF Typhoons attack German tanks, France; Second World War
Illustration showing Royal Air Force Typhoons, fighter-bombers equipped with rockets, attacking a column of German armour, near Mortain, 1944

El Escorial, Spain
A 17th century bird s-eye view of the palace/monastery of San Lorenzo de l Escorial, built by Felipe II as a monument symbolising the counter- reformation

Fighting at Rachow
Cossack cavalry attack the insurgents who have invested the town of Rachow : they will be beaten back by a rebel counter-attack with many casualties

Kiev under the Poles
Kiev is occupied by a Polish force opposing the Bolsheviks. But the Red Army will counter- attack and drive them out again before they can start to enjoy their victory

Travel Agency
A young man in an American travel agency is advised by the girl behind the counter

The Currency Exchange on Ellis Island, New York, 1911
Photograph of immigrants queueing up at a counter to exchange their native currency for American dollars, Ellis Island, New York, 1911

American Indians. In the western states of America. Barterin
Interior scne of a store hung with animal hides, an Indian behind the counter and a European with three rifles in front

Listening for sounds of counter-mining
British soldier using a microphone to listen for evidence of enemy counter-mining underground. Underground mines became a major feature of warfare on the Western Front during World War I with miners

General Ducrots Forces crossing the Marne; Franco-Prussian
Illustration showing French troops, under the command of General Ducrot, crossing the Marne River to launch a counter attack against the Prussians, 29th November 1870

Household Shopping Without Tears
The coffee counter of an American supermarket, untroubled by rationing in 1948. The concept of the supermarket where all manner of goods could be bought in one place

Grocers shop by Percy Macquoid
Engraving to accompany a story in the Graphic ( Madame Leroux ), showing a typical interior of a grocers shop during the late 19th century

Housewife Shopping 1950S
A shop assistant wraps up a loaf of bread as a pretty young woman in a fetching hat points out which type of sausages she wants at the counter of a delicatessen

Camp at Jales
The counter-revolutionary movement in south France is also opposed to protestantism - the camp at Jales, organised by Saillans, is its focus, but is attacked and destroyed

Errand Boy Praised 1881
" Well, my boy, you certainly do errands quicker than I should think possible" ; a grocer praises his errand boys work

Leningrad Dept. Store
Customers examine goods over the counter in the military goods section of a Leningrad department store

Soviet Protected
A field gun is placed before the Moscow Soviet building in Tverskaya Street, to deter anyone who might be thinking of staging a counter-attack

AT THE GROCERs 1880
A woman purchases half-a-pound of soap at the grocer s

Village Shop Post Office
Customers are served by a young woman at the village store

Fabric Shop Assistant
A shop assistant behind a counter folds a length of flower patterned fabric she has just cut from a roll of cloth

Bank / Osborn St / Living L
A gentleman being served at the counter of a high street bank in Osborn Street, Whitechapel, London

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