Firm Collection (#3)

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

Jakob Fugger (Jakob Ii)
JAKOB FUGGER (JAKOB II) German financier and merchant of Augsburg, Germany; known as " The Rich". Expanded the firm founded by his father Jakob Fugger I

Board Meeting
A boardroom meeting possibly of a firm of shipbuilders. The six members of the board sit around an oval table on top of which sits a ships model in a glass case

Photo, Fortune Cover
Photography symbolised

Making Jews Harps 1932
A woman and two children making Jews Harps, a primitive musical instrument, in the Steyr valley, Austria. They are bought by a Birmingham firm for export to Aborigines

Football / Charged Through
CHARGED THROUGH An attacking player gives the keeper a firm shoulder barge, sending him into his own net

Brighton Promenade
Bath-chairs for the old and infirm, basinettes for the young and not-yet-firm : youth and age pass on the Promenade at Brighton

C18 FIRE-ENGINES 1735
18th century fire-engines made by a firm which became Merryweathers. The engine on the left is from Windsor Castle

Small Manual Engine / 1870
A small manual fire engine constructed by the well-known firm of fire engineers, Messrs. Merryweather & Sons of Greenwich. Date: 1870

Finnish Parliament
The new Houses of Parliament at Helsinki, Finland, built by the firm Borg-Siren-Aberg 1926 - 1931 and officially inaugurated on 7 March 1931

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