Drawer Collection

Entomology Specimens
A specimen tray from the Natural History Museums Entomology Department showing the diversity of insects in terms of shape, size and colours

White Star Line pipe rack with drawers
A wooden item, possibly a pipe rack, with two drawers, from the White Star Line cruise liner company

Dewey Decimal System
Card index showing use of the Dewey Decimal Classification system, the most widely used library classification system, devised by Melvil Dewey in the 1870s

Jeweller at his bench with leather covers. His tools include files, drills, hammer, pliers, wire drawer and crucible. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

Ratner wooden safe stands - box, frame, drawer and cupboard. Date: circa 1920s

Queen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase, HMS Medina
Queen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase - The Royal Yacht, HMS Medina, 1911-1912 Coronation Expedition to India for the Durbar. Designed and made for Her Majesty by Waring and Gillow

Small Bonzo dog having fun with ladies underwear
Bonzo Dog is in an open drawer of a cabinet Date: circa 1920

Dining room at teatime with open window Date: 1943

The Economy Steel Letter File - Filing Cabinet - produced by Hobart Cabinet Company, Troy, Ohio, USA (established in 1907). Strong, Neat and Serviceable for Office and Transfer use. Date: circa 1923

Comic postcard, Engaged couple chatting Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man and woman in office Date: 20th century

Harris Sewing Machine stand. 1920s

Geologists studying fossil examples stored 40 to 50 per drawer in a cabinet of curiosities. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte

A metal worker using a wire-drawing machine to make thin wire. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Roanoid bakelite drawer knobs in marbled brown. Date: 1930s

Walnut Caddy Lid Box, containing paints, inks, etc. circa 1880s

Mahogany Caddy Lid Box containing paints, inks and other items. circa 1880s

Advert for Gamages kitchen cabinets 1929
A place for everything and everything in its place. Three stand alone units for the kitchen, made from wood, available with easy payment terms. 1929

LADY AND HER LINEN / 1929
A woman selects a clean handerchief from her drawer. Date: 1929

Beetle specimens from the Wallace collection
Specimens collected by Alfred Russel Wallace now held in the Natural History Museum London

Young woman in nylon nightie
A young woman in a nylon nightie sits at her bedroom dressing table and combs her hair. Date: late 1970s

Find the Fault card No. 21 -- office desk. circa 1930s

Find the Fault card No. 1 -- pastry on kitchen table. circa 1930s

Singer Sewing Machine - one-drawer drop-leaf table. 1932

Dentist - The Tooth Drawer. circa 19th century

Entomology Specimens
Section of a specimen tray from the Natural History Museums Entomology Department showing the diversity of insects in terms of shape, size and colours

Butterfly specimen tray
A selection of butterflies showing diversity in colour size and shape. From the collections of the Natural History Museums Entomology Department

Ornithoptera croesus, Wallaces golden birdwing butterfly
Specimen drawer of golden birdwing butterflys, collected by Alfred Russel Wallace

Kitchen cabinets with Pilkington glass
Kitchen Cabinets with Pilkington glass (Armourplate). circa 1937

Dentists cabinet, Claudius Ash, Sons & Co Ltd. 1921

Model of the New General Hospital - Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Model of the New General Hospital at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, designed by Cecil Burns, a local architect, opened in 1934. Later to be known as The Kent and Sussex Hospital

Tomas Padro Peret (1840-1877). Spanish artist. Portrait. Engraving by A. Carretero, 1877. Colored

Advert for Asprey walnut cutlery cabinet & breakfast heater
Fine walnut canteen table with drawers, fitted with 98 piece cutlery set. Also breakfast heater with plate oven. 1934

Find the Fault card No. 16 -- kitchen cupboard. circa 1930s

A Wire-Drawer
A wire drawer reducing rods and threads of wire to smaller sizes for use in manufacture Date: 1827

Hotel Foyer Fashions
Well-heeled people in evening dress mingle in an hotel foyer. Some sit at tables possibly waiting for drinks ordered from the cocktail waiter at the hotel bar. Date: 1930s

Entomological Specimens from the Wallace Collection
Display showing differences in colouring between male and female butterflies of the same species. Wallace believed that males fight to compete for females but that female choice was not a factor

White bulldog puppy looking for chocolates
A white bulldog puppy looking for chocolates in an actresss dressing room, but only finding theatrical makeup. Date: 1905

Ink-stand with inkwell - Badge of the Royal Engineers
A commercially made ink-stand with inkwell and nib drawer by RB Limited. The lid to the inkwell shows the badge of the Royal Engineers. Trench Art

Young woman washing, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Business card design, woman with clothes
Business card design, depicting a young woman in a yellow underslip, wondering where to put all her clothes. Date: 20th century

Cukoo and host eggs
From the collection of ornithologist Edgar Percival Chance (1881 - 1955)

Drawer from Insect Collection of Sir Joseph Banks (1743 - 18
A collection of more than 4, 000 insects, including butterflies, flies, bugs and moths

Mineralogy corridor
The mineralogy department within the Natural History Museum

Drawer of botanical specimens from the Sir Hans Sloane collection. Held in the botany department at the Natural History Museum, London

Theatre des Merveilles de la Nature
Plate VII from Theatre des Merveilles de la Nature, by Levinus Vincent, 1719

Various beetles and arachnids
Drawer of a selection of various entomological specimens from the Sloane Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Entomology Department
Entomology department at the Natural History Museum, London. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

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