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Early Collection (page 6)

Background imageEarly Collection: Putting on Ice Skates

Putting on Ice Skates
Three young women, sitting down to put on their ice skates at Wimbledon Common, London. One girl is accidentally showing off her bloomers!

Background imageEarly Collection: Kitten Trumpeter

Kitten Trumpeter
A mischievous black and white kitten playing a trumpet!

Background imageEarly Collection: Homeward at Sunset Aldin

Homeward at Sunset Aldin
Homeward : three white horses pull a covered wagon and an elderly man and woman follow on foot as the sun sets over the hills

Background imageEarly Collection: Swedish Peasant Interior

Swedish Peasant Interior
Swedish peasant interior, with tapestries, ornamental crockery, decorated chests, a loom, a grandfather clock and a cat

Background imageEarly Collection: Mormon Temple

Mormon Temple
The Mormon Temple, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah built 1893 at a cost of nearly $4 million !!!

Background imageEarly Collection: Druids

Druids lunar ceremony

Background imageEarly Collection: England / Milton Abbas

England / Milton Abbas
The distinctive charm of the village street of Milton Abbas, Dorset. Built in the 1780s by Sir William Chambers at the request of Lord Milton; an early English model village Date: 1950s

Background imageEarly Collection: Covent Garden Market

Covent Garden Market
COVENT GARDEN A view of the market setting up early in the morning with piles of crates and sacks lying around. Date: Spring, circa 1930

Background imageEarly Collection: Aircraft poster

Aircraft poster
French poster depicting a variety of aeroplanes and airships

Background imageEarly Collection: A Trinity House Lightship, early 20th century

A Trinity House Lightship, early 20th century
Illustration of a Trinity House lightship, from The Sphere, 24th November 1913

Background imageEarly Collection: Ella Shields / Pyke 1927

Ella Shields / Pyke 1927
ELLA SHIELDS Music hall entertainer: Burlington Bertie from Bow

Background imageEarly Collection: Playing with Cake Mix

Playing with Cake Mix
A little girl plays with the cake mix with a wooden spoon

Background imageEarly Collection: Champion Basket Carrier

Champion Basket Carrier
A champion basket carrier steals the show at Covent Garden Market, London

Background imageEarly Collection: Bank of England / Dividend

Bank of England / Dividend
Dividend Day at The Bank of England

Background imageEarly Collection: Underground Straphangers

Underground Straphangers
STRAP-HANGERS : So popular is Londons underground that often there are not enough seats : for the convenience of those standing, straps are thoughtfully provided

Background imageEarly Collection: Customs / Horn Dance

Customs / Horn Dance
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

Background imageEarly Collection: Travelling Hairdresser

Travelling Hairdresser
Roadside Beauty Service. A travelling hairdresser gives a girl a fashionable haircut. Date: early 1930s

Background imageEarly Collection: Girl Show Jumper

Girl Show Jumper
A happy girl Show Jumping with her horse over a hurdle. Date: early 1950s

Background imageEarly Collection: Old Church Music 1500

Old Church Music 1500
Specimen page of church music, with notation for singing, hand written on vellum

Background imageEarly Collection: Enos Cockerel

Enos Cockerel
Enos Fruit Salts, a popular cure for digestive ailments throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries

Background imageEarly Collection: An Early lesson of Marching

An Early lesson of Marching

Background imageEarly Collection: Bathing a Dog

Bathing a Dog
A lucky dog getting a shower in a roll-top bath!

Background imageEarly Collection: Piccadilly Circus 1930S

Piccadilly Circus 1930S
The Statue of Eros, Piccadilly Circus, London, England

Background imageEarly Collection: Tower Bridge 1930S

Tower Bridge 1930S
A view of Tower Bridge, a bascule bridge, open to allow ships to sail down the Thames. Industrial view from beneath massive cranes

Background imageEarly Collection: Dymchurch Light Railway

Dymchurch Light Railway
A locomotive on the The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway (a miniature railway), Kent, England, pulling out of a station

Background imageEarly Collection: Advert / Calverts Carboli

Advert / Calverts Carboli
CALVERTs CARBOLIC SOAP for floors

Background imageEarly Collection: Tower Bridge 1930S

Tower Bridge 1930S
A close-up photograph of Tower Bridge, a bascule bridge and a famous London landmark, closing after a steamship has passed through it

Background imageEarly Collection: Sorting Post 1930S

Sorting Post 1930S
A postal worker at the General Post Office (GPO), at Mount Pleasant, north London, sorts out parcels on a conveyor belt in the warehouse

Background imageEarly Collection: Russia / Nizhny Novgorod

Russia / Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod: Convent of the Annunciation

Background imageEarly Collection: Romanian Oilfield

Romanian Oilfield
Birds eye view of the oilfield of the Creditu Minier Moreni-Prahova

Background imageEarly Collection: Covent Garden Market

Covent Garden Market
COVENT GARDEN Early morning; a 21 year-old chap (Alfred John Lewis) in a flat cap, stands surrounded by baskets and crates of apples, fruit and vegetables

Background imageEarly Collection: Pisces (Rossum)

Pisces (Rossum)
PISCES the Fish 19 February - 20 March

Background imageEarly Collection: Racial / Japan / 2 Geisha

Racial / Japan / 2 Geisha
Two Japanese Geisha girls

Background imageEarly Collection: Racial / Striker / Apache

Racial / Striker / Apache
Striker: Chief of the Apache tribe

Background imageEarly Collection: Washington / White House

Washington / White House
Washington DC: the White House

Background imageEarly Collection: Switzerland / Vitznau C20

Switzerland / Vitznau C20
Vitznau and the Vierwaldstattersee, with the Rigibahn railway

Background imageEarly Collection: Nuremberg Rooftops 20C

Nuremberg Rooftops 20C
The citadel of the city seen over the rooftops

Background imageEarly Collection: Boy Repairs Boots / 1930

Boy Repairs Boots / 1930
A boy is taught to mend his own boots in classes at a London School

Background imageEarly Collection: Salmon Catch

Salmon Catch
What a whopper! A Victorian gentleman stands proudly next to the salmon he has caught

Background imageEarly Collection: Nail Polish Remover

Nail Polish Remover
A beautiful art nouveau label for Wlandres Venus nail polish remover, distributed by Wadanola Beauty Supply of Syracuse, New York

Background imageEarly Collection: Blackheath Park in Snow

Blackheath Park in Snow
A view of Blackheath Park after heavy snowfall

Background imageEarly Collection: Largest Wireless Valve

Largest Wireless Valve
The worlds largest wireless valve, being made in a factory in Germany

Background imageEarly Collection: Examining Roman Relics

Examining Roman Relics
An archaeologist examining Roman relics found at Verulamium (St. Albans) by Sir Mortimer Wheelers team

Background imageEarly Collection: Exercise Machine

Exercise Machine
Two young women, toning up and staying slim with the aid of their new fangled rowing exercise machines!

Background imageEarly Collection: St. Jamess Park Birds

St. Jamess Park Birds
Gulls around the bridge over the lake at St. Jamess Park, central London

Background imageEarly Collection: Lady Plays Lute at Knole

Lady Plays Lute at Knole
An aristocratic lady plays her lute in a room at Knole, Kent

Background imageEarly Collection: World Map c. 50AD

World Map c. 50AD
World Map as known to Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer

Background imageEarly Collection: Japanese samurai with armour and swords, Japan, c. 1880 s

Japanese samurai with armour and swords, Japan, c. 1880 s
Japanese samurai with armour and swords, Japan, c.1880 s



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