Lamps Collection (page 10)

Street lighter
Lighting the lantern. Landskrona, 1956. Date: 1956

Night Fishing
Night fishing, carried out in May-June on the Italian coast, uses lamps to attract the fish from the depths of the sea. Date: 1939

Main Street at Night - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Date: circa 1908

ICE CAVERN
Ice cavern discovered by Shackletons Antarctic expedition : the size is indicated by the two hurricane lamps whose illumination made the photograph possible. Date: circa 1907

San Diego, California - 5th Street at nightime, USA. Date: 1915

Portable Light Bath
This portable Light Bath immerses the patient in light from carbon filament lamps. [This catalogue contains 2000 pages of medical apparatus] Date: 1930

Venetian Glass Galleries - Knightsbridge, London
The Venetian Glass Galleries - 81, Knightsbridge, London SW1 Date: circa 1915

Albert Embankment Lamps
Lovely Victorian lamp posts and benches on the terrace of County Hall, Albert Embankment, London. The Embankment was built 1866 - 1869 by Sir Joseph Bazalgette Date: early 1950s

Interior of the Ulu Mosque, Bursa, Turkey. Date: circa 1950s

Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip smiling and waving from the royal coach during the procession through London following their wedding. 20 November 1947

The Queens Dolls House - a section showing Electric Lighting and Water Systems Date: 1924

Aladdin New Lamps 1933
" New lamps for old" : the old merchant makes his way along the street. 1933

Cressets and Street Lamp
Paris streets illuminated by lamps of slowly-burning material placed in strategic locations : the nightwatchmen carry cressets using similar technology Date: 16th century

SUNBEAM 1907
Frederick Eastmead and friends in a 15/20 Sunbeam, a quality tourer fitted with fold-back hood, windscreen, lamps, horn and spare tyre. 1907

TRIPOD
Three-legged support for lamps, braziers &c

Miners & Lamps
A group of British coal miners clutching their lamps have a good chuckle at a letter. Date: 1930s

Thames / Embankment C1910
EMBANKMENT A view along the Embankment at night Date: circa 1910

Electricity Exhib. Paris
Electrical exhibition - this is Room 15, demonstrating the electrical systems of J.Jaspar of Liege. Date: 1881

Piazza Colonna / Rome
The column of Marcus Aurelius in the Piazza Colonna. Date: 1905

Advert for Lampe Mazda, 1923, Paris Date: 1923

Metropolitan Police investigation equipment, set out on the ground at the back of a green van

Man with early car, Crickhowell Castle, Powys, Mid Wales
An elderly country gentleman with a very early motor car (roof folded back) in front of the ruins of Crickhowell Castle, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales

Chauffeur with motor car, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A uniformed chauffeur at the wheel of a motor car, registration EU 613, in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. The tyres are early inflatable ones, manufactured by Goodyear

Banquet aboard H. M.s Wellington
Entertainment to Admiral Dundas, on board H.M.S Wellington of the Baltic Fleet

Driver with car, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Mr E Codd of Bland Motors, driving an open topped car, probably in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. J & G Bland (Motors) Ltd was established in 1875 and is still in existence today

Swansea Loop East Junction, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of the railway tracks at the Swansea Loop East Junction on the Great Western Railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, with details of lamps and points

Swansea main railway sidings, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Swanseas main railway sidings on the Great Western Railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, with a large number of trucks loaded with coal

Miners with colliery official, South Wales
Two miners with a colliery official at a mine in South Wales

Science classroom, South Wales coalfield
A Science classroom in a school connected to a South Wales coalfield. A schoolteacher supervises a group of well behaved boys who are taking part in various chemical experiments

Italy - Marsala, Sicily - Via Garbaldi

Brother and Sister with fine Go-cart
A small boy (driving) and his elder sister (standing) with their fantastic homemade Go-cart, seemingly constructed out of fruit boxes supported on the chassis of a former large upright pram

The Produce Exchange, Havana, Cuba
Euclid Beach Park - Cleveland, Ohio on the banks of Lake Erie. A traditional Family Tent one would have occupied for the summer at this popular American lakeside resort

Laying railway track
Gangs of railway labourers work on the laying of a new section of track running beneath a bridge. The lamps held by the navvies cast spectral traces of light across the gloomy atmospheric scene

Constantine, Algeria - The Bridge and suburb of El-Kantara

Moorish Woman reclining in her sitting room
A Moorish Woman reclining in a very Moorish Sitting Room, filled with elaborately patterned drapes and cushions. Fans and lanterns hang on the wall

Minieh, Egypt
A small town in Egypt - Minieh

Seam welding aluminium plates - arc lamp
Two welders seam weld aluminium plates onto the roof of a liquid methane tank at Canvey Island under the light of an arc lamp. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Beyoglu - Istanbul, Turkey
A street in Beyoglu, Istanbul

Schoolchildren at Cleopatras Needle, London
A class of London County Council schoolchildren on a trip to Cleopatras Needle on the Thames Embankment, Central London. Their teacher points with her umbrella and tells them all about it

Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill, Enfield, Middlesex
A uniformed porter at the gate of the Northern Hospital at Winchmore Hill, Enfield, Middlesex. Just inside are a horse and carriage and a horse and cart

Advertisement for a Peugeot
Peugeot Revue - a fine advertisement for a Peugeot car. A gentleman tries to hitch a ride with a pretty young lady!

Victorian interior - Hubert Congreve
The room in which Hubert Congreve shot himself. A young Edward Lear was infatuated with the young Congreve. A fine example of a Victorian interior, with heavily-stocked mantlepiece and fine fireplace

Kobe, Japan - Motomachi-dori

Osaka - Japan - Matsushima Street with a wonderful display of lanterns adorning the buildings

Izmir, Turkey - Restaurant
A remarkably ornate restaurant building in Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey, called (inc.1905) The Garden of Eden

Road, Rail and Sea - Charles Robinson
Cover illustration by Charles Robinson for the Childrens book Rad, Rail and Sea by Clare Jerrold. A (very young-looking!) couple drive an open car below the imposing buly of a railway bridge

The Gramme Electricity Machine and Light, 1878
Engraving showing a group of gentlemen viewing the Gramme electricity generator and several images showing the electric lamps used with the generator, 1878

Gideons Lanterns
Gideon, 5th Judge of Israel, equips his army with lamps covered with a pitcher, to frighten their Midianite opponents

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