Lengths Collection

Oxford V Cambridge 1958
An official souvenir from the Oxford versus Cambridge boat race from Putney to Mortlake on 5th April which was won by Cambridge by 3.5 lengths

Stage Effects - Fire
Victorian stage managers went to remarkable lengths to achieve realism on the stage - here, one tries to simulate the Great Fire of London

Councillor William Agar
View of Councillor Agars house in Somers Town, London 1830. William Agar (1767-1838) famously opposed the cutting of the Regents Canal through his land

Just an old-fashioned girl - skirt lengths go down in 1930
Cartoon commenting on the sudden change in hemlines in 1930, which went down to the floor once more. Suddenly, the modern flapper girl of the mid-1920s with her short skirts looks rather

Laying Pipe Date: 1948

Lace Dressing Room at a Nottingham Lace Factory 1843
The lace-dressing room at a Nottingham Lace Factory where the lengths of material are checked and finished. Date: 1843

Janesich Jewellery 1920
A woman models an array of jewellery including a tiara, drop earrings, pearl necklaces of various lengths, bracelets, bangles & armlets, a brooch & rings. Date: 1920

FABRIC CANOPY INTERIOR
J Isabeys exhibition rooms: Decorative carved panelling on the walls also forms a screen to divide the space. Lengths of cloth form a canopy. Earth colours are used on the walls. Date: 1820

DYEING CLOTH WITH INDIGO
Indigo in India. Lengths of cloth are dyed and dried in the sun. Date: 1878

Barnardos Emigrants in Canada - repairing a fence
Barnardos emigrants repairing a fence. A horse and wagon carries lengths of timber. Barnardos began sending children to Canada in 1872. Date: circa 1914

From Small Beginnings - the Wimbledon Leg by Fitz
The Girl Who Started It! Cartoon by Fitz charting the rise of the shorter skirts at Wimbledon. Date: 1927

The Shafts of Cupid by Adam
A Pleasing Phantasy by Adam. Cupid aims his bow at a young woman who lifts her skirt to reveal stockinged legs. Date: 1918

How wireless beacons guide ships in the fog
The Marconi invention can determine distance of the ship from the beacon to steer the vessel into a Harbour during foggy weather

How wireless waves guide aeroplanes during bad visibility
Method of directing the pilots of aircraft flying to and from Croydon has been revolutioned by the Marconi directional visual beacon station erected at croydon. WWII

Firefighters climbing wheeled escape ladders
Firefighters demonstrating various lengths of wheeled escape ladders. Date: circa 1900

Prohibition Stunt
During the Prohibition era in the U.S.A. drinkers had to go to great lengths to think of new and ingenious ways and places to hide their booze! Date: 1930s

Hiding Prohibition Booze
A young woman up a step ladder demonstrates the enormous lengths people went to to hide their bootleg booze during the Prohibition in the U.S.A.! Date: early 1930s

Curling Hair Extensions
Girls wetting lengths of hair to curl them into hair extensions or to made into wigs. Date: early 1930s

Head of a Saint : possibly a Fragment of a Nativity. Master of the Female Half-Lengths fl. 1520-1540

weavers family - Inle Lake
Weavers family - Inle Lake - Upstairs a wide balcony, one big dark room. Cordiality of the women of the house. We go downstairs to the weaving room under the house

Advert for Kolster-Brandes in expensive radios 1931
KB inexpensive radio, with three range of wave-lengths, short, medium and long. Comes in a walnut cabinet and stand. 1931

To the right hon able Lord Viscount Kingsborough, ... this plate representing a perspective view of a lapping room, with the measuring, crisping or folding the cloth in lengths

Activity at oil well; man on lengths of traveling block will be pulled up to the crown block at top of derrick, Kilgore, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

Bleaching Ground at Monteiths Dye Works, Glasgow
The bleaching ground at Monteiths Dye Works, Glasgow. Long lengths of cloth are being laid out on the ground. Date: 1843

Cigarette Accessories

The Preparation of Cinnamon in Ceylon
Series of illustrations in The Graphic showing the preparation of cinnamon in Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka). 1. Cutting cinnamon sticks. 2. Peeling the Sticks. 3. Stretching the Cinnamon Bark. 4

Jovial Judge, Winner of the 1926 Waterloo Cup
Photograph of the greyhound Jovial Judge, owned by Mr. J.L. Jarvis and trained by Mr. Denny Smith; the Winner of the 1926 Waterloo Cup

Skein-Winder - Hamon
The skein-winder A Mother and her daughter in Roman dress ball up lengths of wool in their villa

Chief Rivers of World
A comparative view of the chief rivers in the world with their respective lengths and the principal towns situated on them

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