Elevators Collection

Fleet Air Arm - Grumman Martlet II - AM958
A Grumman Martlet II of the Fleet Air Arm. Ordered by the British Purchasing Commission as Grumman G-36Bs, the Martlet II was powered by a Pratt and Whitney R-1830-S3C4-G engine

The Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania - Passenger Elevators. Date: 1922

Salvation Army elevator
Men at work sorting waste paper in a Salvation Army Elevator. Elevators, which aimed to help the unskilled or unemployed, combined a factory space together with hostel accommodation for those working

Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada - CPR Yards, Grain Elevators
Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada - Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Yards, Grain Elevators. Date: circa 1907

Steep funicular railway, Valparaiso, Chile, South America
One of many steep funicular railways or elevators in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, South America, with a set of steep steps alongside. Date: 1922

One of Armours Elevators, Chicago, Illinois, USA
One of Armours Elevators (designed for the grain trade), Chicago, Illinois, USA. circa 1907

Keeler-Cornelius Fre-Wing X182W (msn PW-1). In the mid-1920s George Wilbur Cornelius started a program of experimentation on variable incidence wings, forming the Cornelius Aircraft Co

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Otis Elevators. The Otis elevator in the Eiffel Tower, built by the American Elevator Company

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Otis Elevator. Date: 1889

Suez Construction 3
Dredgers and elevators at work on a completed section of the canal

Canada - Country Grain Elevator - Train leaving. Date: circa 1920s

Westland Pterodactyl 2
Geoffrey Hills successful tailless aeroplane, controlled by moving the wing-tips which act as both elevators and ailerons. Date: 1926

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Roux Elevator. Date: 1889

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Lifts. Date: 1889

Zeppelin raids by G. H. Davis
The Zeppelin raids: some notes on the airships and their weapons. How a Zeppelin goes aloft when attacked -- the working of the elevators and the release of the water ballast. Date: 1915

Barnwell notebook for a 2-seater scout. Page 1: Size of tailplane and elevators 1. 17 January 1916. Date: 1916

Chicago River elevators. Date c1900

Bartlett & Greenes free and bonded warehouses and elevators. Print shows the E.B. Bartlett & Co. warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York. Date ca. 1880

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Grain Elevators & Dock No. 2
Beautiful fold-out postcard from Argentina showing the Grain Elevators at Dock No.2, Buenos Aires. Date: 1904

Paper sorting, Salvation Army Elevator
Men sorting paper at one of the Salvation Army Elevators. The Elevators provided the destitute with both short-term work and hostel-style accommodation

Salvation Army elevator dormitory
A dormitory in a Salvation Army Elevator. Elevators, which aimed to help the unskilled or unemployed, combined a factory space together with hostel accommodation for those working there

Grain elevators filling barges

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