Crate Collection

Dewars White Label Whisky shipping ad
A crate containing Dewars White Label Scotch whisky " among the distinguished passengers" is lifted on board the Queen Elizabeth ship at quayside in this advertisement. Date: 1949

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

Poster design, Anisetta Evangelisti, dessert liqueur. Depicting a monkey drinking from a bottle. Date: 1925

Bookmaker - Turf Accountant - James Dowsett of 38 Duke Street, Brighton. circa 1950s

Shire horse drawn dray
Shire horse drawn brewery dray passes through a village, delivering beer to The Lamb and Flag pub. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Railway Sleeper - Crewe Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing railway porter at Crewe Station. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Turkish booby trap near Gaza, Palestine, WW1
A Turkish booby trap, made to look inviting by the presence of food and drink, near Gaza, Palestine during the First World War. Date: September 1917

Scene with lobster pots at Beesands, Start Bay, Devon
Scene with lobster pots and rowing boats at Beesands, Start Bay, Devon. circa 1970s

Soho, London - 26 Frith Street W1 - Oxford Express Dairy (Welsh Dairy). 1973

Boy collecting apples
A smiling, happy boy amongst the orchard trees, collecting the fallen shiny English apples in a wooden box. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Advert / Goblin Whisky
Goblin Scotch Whisky

27 Cases of Apples from just one tree - Victoria, Australia
27 Cases of Apples from just one tree - the State of Victoria, Australia Date: circa 1908

Busy Fleet Street
Two labourers lift a box crate onto the back of an open carriage parked on busy Fleet Street

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

Shellfish stall in Les Halles, Paris, France
Adults and children at a shellfish stall in Les Halles, in Paris, France

Thessaloniki, Greece - Street Porter Date: circa 1916

Fishmonger - Port of London
A fishmonger carrying boxes of fresh fish unloaded at the Port of London, close to Tower Bridge, visible in the distance

Covent Garden / Crates
Fresh fruit arrives on a Spring morning at Covent Garden market. A man carries a crate of oranges on his head

Shoot for Carlsberg - mid 1960s Date: circa mid-1960s

Woman and vegetable stall, East End of London
Woman selling vegetables from a stall in a market in Londons East End. The prices are in old currency, with D for penny. Date: circa 1950s

WW2 - Hall Barn, near Beaconsfield, which was re-purposed during wartime to the production of hospital supplies under its chatelaine the Honourable Mrs E F Lawson

Crate, Garden studio, Home of Renoir, Essoyes, Aube, France
Wooden crate used to transport paintings, with label, in the studio of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919, in the garden of his family home

Garden studio, Home of Renoir, Essoyes, Aube, France
Studio of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919, in the garden of his family home, restored and opened to the public in 2017, in Essoyes, in Champagne, Aube, Grand Est, France

Apples
A portrait pastel painting of a young girl with long, brown hair, wearing a simple black hat with a white bow, clutching a small crate of green apples to her chest. Date: circa 1919

Advert for James Buchanan Whisky
An advert for Black & White Scotch whisky from James Buchanan and Co. Date: 1932

Mr Measure the Milkman

Stalls with wooden partitions selling fresh fruit wholesale. Date: 1937

Fruit auctions at Covent Garden 1900
Interior of a busy auction at Covent Garden, London. Date: 1900

Transport by Ox Cart - Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1922

Comic postcard, People watching the Coronation - or trying to Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman providing sea breezes
Comic postcard, Scotsman providing his wife with sea breezes on the cheap Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man swearing in front of parrot Date: 20th century

Milkman and milk float, London
Milkman with his electric milk float making early morning delivery to Bloomfield Place, Westminster, London. Date: circa 1950s

France - Trade - Dates from the desert oasis
Dates in wooden crates as they arrive direct from the desert oasis to the French warehouse of Champagne Freres Ld. Date: circa 1910s

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

Women riding on cases of TNT, WW1
Women riding on cases of TNT, packed for despatch to a shell factory, First World War. 1914-1918

Publicity card, Always prefer fruit from Italy

Christmas card, Good Wishes
Black cats on a Good Wishes Christmas card

MacAlister tartan. circa 1846

Barber in action, Rouen, Normandy, Northern France
Barber in action, shaving a sailor on the quayside at Rouen, Normandy, Northern France. Date: 1922

Four kittens in a wooden crate on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Cat and two kittens on a greetings postcard
Cat and two kittens in a box filled with straw on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Scene near Billingsgate Fish Market, City of London. Date: circa 1930s

Handling Idris bottles wearing gauze masks
Women workers handling Idris bottles wearing gauze masks to protect their faces in case of breakage. circa 1900

Gonzalez Byass warehouse, Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain
Scene in the Gonzalez Byass warehouse, Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain -- general view of the bottling process, involving sealing, wrapping and packaging. Date: circa 1920s

Jumbo the elephant: his attempted removal
Jumbo the African elephant was purchased by the American showman P.T Barnum from the Zoological Society of London in 1882

Jumbo the elephant: on the way to Millwall docks
Jumbo the African elephant was purchased by the American showman P.T Barnum from at the Zoological Society of London in 1882

Street scene at Les Halles, Paris, France. Date: 1960s

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