Firm Collection (#2)

Adolph Tuck of Raphael Tuck passing a card design
Adolph Tuck, Sir Adolph Tuck, 1st Baronet (1854-1926), fine art publisher and chairman of Raphael Tuck & Sons, pictured with his son passing a design for a Christmas card in 1903

Women WW1 Work
A group photograph of View Room Girls at Thornycrofts, the shipbuilding and engineering firm which was based at Woolston, Hampshire. The card is dated by the sender, 27th May 1917 and is marked K.A

USA - Eight Regiment Armoury. The Kingsbridge Armory - Eight Regiment Armoury. The Kingsbridge Armory, also known as the Eighth Regiment Armory

China - carrying young children in baskets hanging on a pole
China - carrying two young children in baskets hanging on the ends of a pole resting on the shoulder. Date: circa 1910s

Jakob Fugger (Jakob I)
JAKOB FUGGER (JAKOB I) German founder of the Fugger firm (financiers and merchants in Augsburg, Germany). Date: ? - 1469

Dusseldorf Exhibition 1902 was a major national exhibition on an area by the Rhine which covered over 130 acres and had vast numbers of exhibits to showcase German industry

Suffragette Ceramic Black Woman
A hand-painted suffragette ceramic figure of a black African woman, wearing a corset and short bloomers. In her right hand she holds a brown club, and in her left hand, a sign which reads

Pet Lion at Company in Aden, Yemen
Pet Lion at Messrs Cowasjee Dinshaw & Bros. Company at Aden, Yemen. " Mr Lion with some members of the staff of the firm"

A W Gamage Ltd. - Sports Outfitters of Holborn, London Date: circa 1905

Fleet of cars, Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
Fleet of cars at a company in Tocopilla, in the Antofagasta region, Chile, South America. Possibly company cars of a nitrate firm. Date: circa 1930

John Murray, publisher
Sir John Murray IV (18511928), publisher to Queen Victoria, fourth scion of the Londons oldest publishing firm. Date: 1899

Cartoon, William Tinsley, British publisher
Cartoon, William Tinsley (1831-1902), British publisher -- A Bill " Of the Play" (Not Shakespeare but Tinsley). Together with his brother Edward he he founded the firm of Tinsley Brothers

Huntley & Palmers Girls leaving work - Reading, Berkshire Date: 1906

WW1 poster, 4th Liberty Loan
Poster, Honor Emblem, 4th Liberty Loan. circa 1918

Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs - Paris - The Pavilion of the Firm " Aux Galeries Lafayette" Date: 1925

William Henry Smith PC - English bookseller and newsagent of the family firm W H Smith Elected a Member of Parliament in 1868

Barter between count Borrell and D Urgell Sal. la bishop. Par
Barter between count Borrell and D Urgell Sal.la bishop. Parchment. 988. Detail signatures. Archive of Seu d Urgell. Catalonia. Spain

Pedro Velarde y Santillan (1779-1808). Spanish captain. Sign
Pedro Velarde y Santillan (1779-1808). Spanish artillery captain famous for his death in the Dos de Mayo. Sign manual. Velarde Museum. Muriendas. Cantabria. Spain

Juan Ramon Jimenez. Portrait
Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958). Spanish writer. Portrait by Sanish painter Joaqui?n Sorolla (1863-1923). Santillana Foundation (Don Borja Tower). Santillana del Mar. Spain

Brokers working. Nineteen-century colored engraving

Georg Fugger / Banker
GEORG FUGGER German financier and merchant; son of the founder of the firm, Jakob Fugger I. Leased the Roman mint (1508-15). Date: 1453 - 1506

Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York, USA
Metropolitan Life InsuranceCompant Tower (Met Life Tower) (700ft high), New York, USA. Located on Madison Avenue near the intersection with East 23rd Street, across from Madison Square Park

Rudkin Bros, 4 Paddington Street, London W1
The shop window of Rudkin Bros, 4 Paddington Street, London W1 -- house repairs and decorations. Date: circa 1910

Mr Crane the tailor making a suit for Mr Mouse, watched by two rabbits. Date: circa 1933

Fleet 16B Finch II -Over 600 of these primary trainers were built for Canada by the Canadian subsidiary of the American firm Consolidated

Miss Nash in the garden of Battersbys house, Strathclyde, Offerton Lane, Stockport, where she was a frequent visitor as her father had business links with the Battersby hatmaking firm Date: 1913

Suffragette Votes for Women Hooks & Eyes
A tiny cardboard box, packaging for Votes for Women (Trademark!) hooks and eyes. Guaranteed rust proof. An absolute necessity for the dressmaker in keeping garments closed

Silver matchbook cover with the enamelled badge of the 9th Lancers, dated Christmas 1915. Manufactured by the firm of Percy Edwards & Company. Commemorative Ware

City of London recruits, Tower of London, WW1
Young men answering the call to enlist at the start of the First World War. All of them employees of City firms, they were joining the City of London Battalion, consisting of 1300 men

Exhibition of Aster, an Anglo-French Engineering Firm
Exhibition stand of Aster, a French Engineering Firm. The roots of the Aster Automobile Company can be traced to 1899 when Begbie Manufacturing of Wembley

Ragged British Family Carol Singing - Christmas - this card bears the title: " I still work for the same firm - Wife and four kids" !! Date: circa 1910s

Rusco & Holland, sole proprietors and managers more money invested than any minstrel firm in the world : the progressive minstrel managers. Portraits of WA Rusco and Jno. J. Holland. Date c1899

A German beauty
Calendar cover for German printing firm. Date: 1927

Japan - Traditional Provincial Hat Maker working at the roadside. Date: circa 1907

Chivers Jellies - recipe booklet
Chivers Jellies - the cover of a little recipe booklet entitled Firm Favourites - pictured is a strawberry meringue jelly in a glass pie dish Date: circa 1930s

Kingham, Oxfordshire - Breaking up Stubble
Martins Patent Cultivator breaking up the stubble at Kingham, Oxfordshire. These were sold by C. Lainchbury & Son, an engineering firm from Kingham. Date: 1910

French Cream room at a sweet factory, London
Women handle large wooden trays in the French Cream room at the sweet manufacturers Clarke, Nickolls and Coombs, at Hackney Wick, London. The firm made Clarincos chocolates

Liquorice room at a sweet factory, London
Women at work in the Liquorice room at the sweet manufacturers Clarke, Nickolls and Coombs, at Hackney Wick, London. The firm also made Clarincos chocolates

Winemaking equipment, Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal
An antique object used in the making of wine, in the showroom of Henriques & Henriques SA, Camara de Lobos, near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Old winepress, Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal
An old winepress on display at the firm of Henriques & Henriques SA, Camara de Lobos, near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

A Huddersfield Horse cab
A fine photograph of an equally fine horse-drawn cab, with an open soft top, driven by the proprietor of the firm, W Haigh. Mr Haigh specialised in furniture removals, cabs and as a Daily Carrier

Vertical Projector at a print works
A technician uses a vertical projector at Lund Humphries printing firm. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1950s

Prince Alfred and the Russian Royal family
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg (1844-1900) together with his new wife, Princess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, taken in May 1874 shortly after their marriage at St

Grand Street - Pera, Istanbul
Grand Street in Pera, Istanbul (European side of the Bosphorus). This picture shows the studios of probably the most famous firm of photographers in Turkish History - Sebah & Joaillier

Corradinis Descent on Horseback, 1898
Illustration showing (Frank) Corradinis horse-riding act, which he displayed in Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen in 1898. Corradini

Mr Siever leaving court
Mr Robert Siever, a well known racing man and editor of the Winning Post in court for the blackmail of Mr Jack Barnato Joel, a partner in the firm

Lassie Tramples Washing
It is the firm belief of postcard makers that the Scots are too canny to waste money on a washing machine - instead they trample the washing, the way the French do grapes

Train-Bands Militia
Lord Essex leads the London train-bands militia out of London to relieve the Siege of Gloucester. The 15, 000 strong force stood firm against Prince Ruperts cavalry

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