Hampers Collection

Fortnum & Masons Christmas Box for soldiers, WW1
Advertisement for quintessential London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in particular their Thirty Shilling Xmas Box of selected provisions which could be sent to the front for lucky soldiers

Coach at Red Lion 1868
A coach laden with hampers and hares, geese and other game halts at the Red Lion pub at Christmas time - and a white Christmas, too !

Goose Club at Christmas 1853
Goose Clubs in London, sixpence every Saturday evening after wages received for ten or twelve weeks before Christmas for a goose or turkey and a bottle of spirit, to be carried home on Christmas eve

Christmas card in the shape of a wickerwork food hamper. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Selfridges advertisement by H. L. Oakley
Advertisement for London department store, Selfridge s, in particular its goods catering for the open air life, including hampers, flasks, luncheon baskets and camp equipment. The silhouette by H. L

Lady Mayoress and Lord Mayor of London
The Lady Mayoress watched by the Lord Mayor of London handing a Way Bill to one of the carmen who took hampers arranged by Sir William Treloar to the homes of disabled children

Sir William Treloar distributing Christmas gifts
Sir William Purdie Treloar (1843-1923) distributing Christmas gifts to the poor. He began his annual charitable activities in the East End of London by the distribution of Christmas hampers to poor

Funerary equipment of Queen Isa-em-Kheb: a wig and hamper
A little chest of papyrus and the wig of the 21st Dynasty Princess Isa-em-Kheb, as discovered by Professor Maspero at Thebes in Upper Egypt, during his investigation in April 1881

Easter Excursion Van
Easter Monday : London holidaymakers board an excursion van headed for the country - street traders offer them oranges to add to their picnic hampers

Crinoline Hampers Walk
Kitty & Adolphus attempt a country walk but her fashionable silhouette creates yet another barrier between them & happiness. Fido, her dog makes a break for freedom

Geese in Hampers
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... a gaggle of geese in two hampers

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