Exchange Collection (page 11)

Telephone Operators
Men and women working as telephone operators. Trelleborg

The Exchange Railway Station - Liverpool Date: circa 1907

Recruitment poster, Train to Win, featuring a woman in nurses uniform. Apply to the Employment Exchange, government training schemes with paid allowances. Aimed specifically at women. 1940s

Stock Exchange Notes - Bear Party Checked
Stock Exchange Notes - " The Bear Party received a sudden check!" A Bear market is a period of the stock market when prices are falling

Soldiers on leave at a railway station, WW1
Soldiers with their kit, on leave at a railway station (possibly a London terminus), during the First World War. There is a sign for exchanging French money into English currency for officers

Soldiers on leave changing their money, WW1
Soldiers on 14 days leave changing their French money into English currency at the change box on a railway station platform during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Signal exchange beneath Fricourt Chateau, France, WW1
Royal Engineers at work in a signal exchange in a captured German dugout beneath Fricourt Chateau, Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Poster seeking women for the ATS and WaF
Poster seeking women to join the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) and WaF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) -- full information at the nearest recruiting centre or your employment exchange

Copenhagen Phone Exchang
Telefonselskabets Centralbureau - the central telephone exchange, Copenhagen - note the operator with the long plaits ! Date: 1888

Aladdin New Lamps 1933
" New lamps for old" : the old merchant makes his way along the street. 1933

Scottish Inn Scene C1800
A merry scene inside a Scottish tavern. Two drunken fellows exchange pleasantries whilst another man chats with the serving maid, who unawares spills drink from her jug. Date: circa 1800

NY Phone Exchange 1910
Section of a typical New York City telephone exchange : working here is evidently an exclusively female preserve Date: 1910

Blood Exchange / 1924
Dr. Jaworskis blood exchange rejuvenation treatment Date: 1924

Telephone exchange Date: 19th century

Manchester Stk Exchange
A crowd of gentlemen at the Manchester Stock Exchange Date: 1955

Royal Exchange / Chromo
A view of the exterior of The Royal Exchange showing people and horses and carts in the surrounding roads. Date: circa 1890

Liverpool / Exchange Synta
Liverpool: the Exchange, visited by Dr Syntax Date: 1813

30 Broad Street, New York
Building, 30 Broad Street. Exchange Place looking upwards toward the Continental Bank Building at 30 Broad Street; pedestrians and automobiles visible

Gossip central! A telephone exchange in Columbus, Ohio, America

Gladstone and the Midlothian Campaign - Meeting in Corn Exch
View of the Ladies Gallery in the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh during a meeting in which four-times Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone undertook his tour of Midlothian during a US-style campaign

Consolidated Stock Exchange, New York City, America

Two policewomen registering for war work
Two Met Police women registering for war work at a labour exchange in London

The Royal Exchange, Glasgow

German communications WWI
German telephone exchange in Schwiedeckelager on the Western Front during World War I

Admiralty Islands - decorated gourds
Decorated gourds from the Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. Pen & Ink with watercolour wash drawings by Raymond Sheppard

Saint Malo, France - Le Pont Roulant
Le Pont Roulant at Saint Malo - a remarkable track-mounted ferry bridge, enabling the crossing at high tide between the hold of the Exchange, Saint Malo to Naye of Saint-Servan

Yokohama, Japan - Raw Silk Exchange
Raw Silk Exchange and Inspection House. Note the complete lack of cars even at this date

A Worker at an Exchange
A worker adjusts the wiring connections at a telecommunications exchange. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Stock Exchange cadets, World War II
New camping kit evolved by the Stock Exchange cadets an worn by one of the boys on the Home Front in England during World War II

Two Men at Work
Two men working at a telephone switchboard desk in a factory. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Cartoon on Stock Exchange Settlement Terms
Until Big Bang in the City of London (1986), there was a settlement day (every fortnight) for the payment of stocks and shares - this period was known as The Account

Turkish Coin Card - small denominations
Turkish Coin Card, illustrating various small denominations of coin with their foreign exchange rates

Turkish Coin Card, illustrating various denominations of coin with their foreign exchange rates

How John Bull Felt
After surviving the hundred pages of cartoons and skits showered upon him in our recent Special " Falling Pound" Number

A Sovereign Remedy
John Bull holds the hand of a rather unhealthy looking pound note in a satirical illustration which alludes to the falling value of sterling against the dollar in 1920

Will it Come to This
A possible scenario due to the falling value of the pound against the dollar in 1920. A brashly dressed cigar-smoking American changes a dollar at a bank and when asked how he would like it, replies

Nero
A rather drunk looking man smoking a pipe and playing an accordian sits ignoring the British pound note beside him going up in flames

A Gentle Reminder
The Dollar: Say, you two guys are looking a bit chippy; whats happened? The Sovereign & the Franc: Oh, just a bit of a scrap in France, old son: had you forgotten

Golden Grain
A satirical picture of an American reaper with a huge scythe representing the rate of exchange being sharpened with a lathe representing sterling currency

Measuring the current of a large electronic device
A man measures the current running through a large electronic device, possibly an early computer or exchange. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Belgian Congo - Market at Kabinda
A native Central African market at Kabinda, Congo

Leicester market place and exchange

The General Strike - travelling by trailer
Londoners travelling by a steam-wagon and trailer combination past the Royal Exchange in the City of London during the General Strike

The Exchange (Bourse) at Alexandria, Egypt, with wonderful sunshade awnings and a fine colonade front

The Corps of Commissioners, London, 1880
Engraving showing a number of scenes relevant to the Corps of Commissioners, London, 1880. The images show (clockwise from top left): Mrs

Bastingstoke Exchange
The Corn Exchange at Basingstoke, Hampshire

A Happy London Coal Exchange Trader, 1890
Illustration showing a London Coal Exchange trader, happily reflecting on a good days business, 1890

Construction of the Royal Exchange, London, 1842
Engraving showing the Royal Exchange, London, under construction in 1842

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