Departments Collection

Private Electric Motor Car on tracks - Panama Canal
Private Electric Motor Car operating on lines of track and used by Heads of the Engineering Divisions/Departments working on the Panama Canal. Date: 1913

Advert, Chas Baker & Co Stores Limited, London
Advert, Chas Baker & Co Stores Limited, High Holborn, Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road and Ludgate Hill, London, School Outfits, Gentlemen's & Boys Superior Clothing

Harrods advert, Hairdressing, Manicure and Chiropody
Harrods Stores advert, Hairdressing, Manicure and Chiropody Departments, Brompton Road, London SW. 1897

TREASURY, WHITEHALL
The Treasury, Whitehall Date: circa 1835

PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE
Office of the Privy Council, Whitehall, designed by Sir Charles Barry Date: 1846

WW1 - Cartoon - German gun Big Bertha
WW1 - A satirical cartoon illustrating the German gun personified as Big Bertha attacking the city of Paris. As the city is underattack

Selfridges Employee Beauty Competition 1927
Winners and runner-ups in a beauty competition held for the employees of Selfridges department store. First prize awarded to Miss Mulready from the model millinery department. Date: 1927

(The actual) Sublime Porte - Istanbul, Turkey
The Sublime Porte, also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte is a metonym for the central government of the Ottoman Empire

Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - Bakery, Laundry and Garden Boys
Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - representatives of boys occupied in the homes bakery, laundry and garden departments. Date: 1890s

WW2 poster, quality and quantity of goods
WW2 poster, the quality of our incoming goods is ok -- see that your checking of quantities is ok -- other departments depend on your ok... ok? Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Beckett House, once the modern office block premises of the Department of Environment, now demolished. Date: 1970s

Paris Sainte Chapelle
Surrounded by law courts and government departments, the Sainte-Chapelle is hard to see as an isolated building. Date: circa 1904

Female Office Worker
An office worker at her messy desk, surrounded by paperwork typewriters and telephones with wires which would make any Health and Safety departments hair stand on end! Date: 1960s

Somerset House Registry
The Registry of Wills office at Somerset House, London, to which it had moved in 1874 Date: 1875

Engine Five, Salem fire department, 76 Washington Street

Silber and Flemings Silver, Jewellery and Clock Departments
Engraving showing the interior of Silber and Flemings sterling silver plate, gold and silver jewellery and watch and clock departments in their Wood Street store, London, 1884

Commissioners are sent into the departments to revise the judgments of the mixed commissions (whatever that means)

The Central Post Office Telegraph Establishment
Series of sketches showing different departments of the Central Telegraph Establishment at the General Post Office in London

Privy Council Committee
A judicial committee of the Privy Council in session

Stamp Office 1809
Housed in Somerset House : at this time the government derived substantial duty from the stamping of documents of all kinds, including newspapers

Old Foreign Office
The Old Foreign Office, Downing Street

Her Majestys Ministry
HER MAJESTYs MINISTRY - I take it thats Gladstone standing on the right - prefer Huntley & Palmers biscuits while they debate the affairs of State

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