Hamburg Collection (page 8)

SS Berengaria leaving Southampton for Jarrow, 1938
Photograph of the Cunard Liner Berengaria heading out of Southampton, with tugs, to head to Jarrow to be broken up, December 1938

Cholera in Hamburg
Linen being left with customs officers for disinfection. Many precautions were taken in preventing the spread of cholera. Travel played a large part in the spread of disease

German Strawberries
A countrywoman from the Hamburg region dressed in her picturesque costume carries two heavy baskets of erdbeeren - strawberries - suspended from a yoke on her shoulders

German Veggie Seller
A barefoot girl from Bardewick, near Hamburg, carries a heavy load of carrots and other vegetables

Unrest in Hamburg / 1918
Unrest in Hamburg leading to political demonstrations

Hamburg Flowerseller
A flower-seller of Hamburg invites you to buy a bunch

The Alsterdammhof in Hamburg designed by the architecht G.Peine

Elephants at Hamburg
Six elephants from a menagerie in transit escape from Hamburg railway station and have to be pursued through the streets of the city, much to the consternation of Hamburgers

STEAMSHIP LEVIATHAN
Atlantic liner of the United States Lines, formerly the Hamburg-Amerika liner Vaterland, made over as war reparations and reconditioned for 2 million (1924 value !"

Steamship Albert Ballin
Atlantic liner of the Hamburg-Amerika Line

Hamburg / Panorama C17
Hamburg: panoramic view with boats and church spires

Hamburg / Mouth of Docks
Hamburg: mouth of the docks

Hamburg Street Scene
Trams dominate this busy scene in the centre of the city : a young girl and her father wait for a chance to cross the street between the many horse drawn vehicles

German Fishwomen
Fish traders, Hamburg

Electricity Guericke
At Hamburg, Otto von Guericke, burgomaster of Magdeburg, demonstrates an electrical machine - the first of its kind, based on a rotating sphere generating force

HANCKWITZ ? -1756
AMBROSE GODFREY HANCKWITZ An apothecary from Hamburg who came to England to assist Robert Boyle and manufacture chemicals, including the first phosphorous

Johann Hubner
JOHANN HUBNER German historian from Hamburg

Mennonite Meeting
A meeting of Mennonites - followers of Dutch anabaptist Simon Menno - in Hamburg. The scene depicted is the benediction following a baptism

Herne & Williams
Witchcraft in 1871 an exciting seance held by Frank Herne and Charles Williams at Katherfelto Row, Hamburg Square, London; they were later exposed

Germany / Hamburg Late 19C
The canal at Hamburg

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