Export Collection (page 2)

Port of Shanghai, China. At the time it had recently opened to international commerce by a British treaty. Date: 1843

Advert, The Union Transit Co, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Advert, John Gray & Co Ltd, Marmalade and Jam, Glasgow
Advert for John Gray & Co Ltd, Marmalade and Jam makers, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Andrew Melrose, Tea Merchants, Edinburgh, Scotland
Advert for Andrew Melrose & Company, Tea Merchants, George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1905

Adverts, Walter Mitchell & Sons, The Falkirk Iron Company
Adverts for Walter Mitchell & Sons, food exporters and importers, Ayr, and The Falkirk Iron Company, Falkirk, Scotland. 1905

Adverts, Gray, Dunn & Co, John Gray & Co Ltd, Scotland
Adverts for Gray, Dunn & Co, Biscuit Manufacturers, Glasgow, and John Gray & Co Ltd, Confectioners, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Design, Port Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Map, Tom Manns Dock Scheme, London. 1892

Advert, Brownlee & Co, Timber Merchants, Glasgow
Advert for Brownlee & Co, Timber Merchants and Saw Millers, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Port of London Authority, West India Docks, East London
Port of London Authority, West India Docks (Import Dock), East London, fitted with 70 Kinnear rolling metal shutters in total. Date: circa 1930s

Leith Dock Commission, Edinburgh Dock, Scotland
Leith Dock Commission, Edinburgh Dock (Sheds 4 and 5), Scotland, fitted with nearly 100 Kinnear rolling metal shutters in total. Date: circa 1930s

Frieze, Loading tea onto a Chinese junk

Aerial view of the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Admiralty Office, Dock Yard, Storehouse, Amsterdam
Admiralty Office, Dock Yard and Storehouse, Amsterdam, Netherlands. circa 1788

Wool ships at Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia
Wool ships alongside the docks at Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia. 1890s

Ornately decorated trading junk, China, East Asia. Date: 1922

Men in Customs and Excise Training Centre
Men at work in the Customs and Excise Training Centre. 1946

View of the port of Foo Choo Foo (Fuzhou), China
Foo Choo Foo (Fuzhou), one of the five ports opened to British trade by the Treaty of Nanking of 1842, after the First Opium War. 1847

Rice Plant - sifting the husks and grinding the rice
Chinese sifting from the husks and grinding the rice, some of the end product being bought back to England for rice-flour and added to wheat to make bread. Date: 1833

Packing bananas, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
People packing bananas for export in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Date: circa 1910

Santa Catalina, Puerto de la Luz, Las Palmas, Canary Islands
Santa Catalina dock, Puerto de la Luz, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, with ships, people and cargo. Date: circa 1906

Landing quay, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, with ships, people and cargo. circa 1900s

Poster, Beachcomber Cruises to the Caribbean, American Export, Isbrandtsen Lines. circa 1950s

Boat Shed - Astove Island, Cosmoledo Group
Boat Shed - Astove Island, part of the Cosmoledo Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1, 000 kilometres (620 miles) from Mahe Island

Gang of Labourers - Astove Island, Cosmoledo Group
Gang of Labourers - Astove Island, part of the Cosmoledo Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1

Loading of Mangrove Bark - Menai Island, Cosmoledo Group
Loading of Mangrove Bark - Menai Island, part of the Cosmoledo Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1

Entire wool clip from Australia bound for Britain 1939
The whole of the wool clip of Australia, destined for Britain in the first few months of World War Two. As well as wool, Australian Prime Minister

Jamaican export of bananas 1901
Revival of trade with Jamaica, shipping bananas. As the bananas were brought on board, one of the ships hands seated beside the gangway

Jamaican export of bananas 1890s
Loading unripe bananas on a ship for there long journey. Date: circa 1890s

CHINESE ORNAMENTS
Ornaments exported from China displayed in a British auction house. They will be sold just in time for Christmas presents Date: 1930s

LOADING VAN WITH POTTERY
Pottery and china being loaded into a van, packed in wicker baskets, ready for export. Date: 1950s

Miles M. 14A Hawk Trainer 3 G-AKRV
Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer 3 G-AKRV, at White Waltham, before export to Tanganyika, (Previously Magister T9896 with the Royal Air Force)

Cessna 175 G-ARML (msn 175-56995) at Luton Airport, outside the former D. Napier & Sons Ltd. Flight-test hangar. G-ARML was registered as N8295T before export to the UK. Date: 1963

Santa Pola, Spain - Stone loading dock
Santa Pola in the comarca of Baix Vinalopo in the Valencian Community, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea - Stone loading dock Date: circa 1920s

Hartleys Jam Works, Aintree, Merseyside - Box-making Dept
Hartleys Jam Works, Aintree, Merseyside - The Box-making Department, capable of making 3000 boxes daily! The boxes being manufactured here are for exporting to America where they term the jars as

San Francisco, California, USA - Street Scene in Chinatown Date: 1928

Easter Lily Field in Bloom, Bermuda. Commercial production of bulbs initially started in Bermuda in 1853 and as late as the 1890s, Bermuda controlled 90% of the lily market in the United States

Porthmadog from Belle Vue, Gwynedd, North Wales
Porthmadog (Portmadoc) as seen from Belle Vue, Gwynedd, North Wales, at a time when it was used for the export of slate. 19th century

Port au Prince, Haiti - Commercial HQ of A. de Matteis & Co
Port au Prince, Haiti - The Commercial Headquarters of A. de Matteis & Co. Date: circa 1910s

Alfred Lohmann, German merchant and U-boat developer
Frederik Alfred Lohmann (1870-1919), German merchant based in Bremen. During the First World War he took part in the development of merchant submarines (U-boats), including the Deutschland

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