Crate Gallery

Army Chaplain in Great War Deeds, WW1

An Army Chaplain holding a night service on the battlefield, with a packing case as an altar and a tin mug as a chalice. Reproduction of a painting by A C Michael in Great War Deeds, a special panorama supplement produced by the Illustrated London News in 1915, featuring heroic actions of the First World War. Date: 1915

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Shepperton Flood 1929

Three men wading through the River Thames, towing a boat loaded with a crate containing a large sow, part of the animal farm belonging to Mrs. Brown of Shepperton, England

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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A line of people bringing boxes and crates to a porter

A line of people bringing boxes and crates to a porter. He says, Of course, with pleasure. He thinks, These animals take me for a conveyor belt! Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Swiss artist Jean Gabriel Scheffer from Petites Scenes du Monde, Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense, Gihaut Freres, Paris, 1829. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans