Lever Collection (page 5)

Cottage Homes on Bridge Street, Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, England Date: 1900s

Lux advertisement, 1923
Advertisement for Lux soap, manufactured by Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight. Ideal for dainty fabrics the illustration shows a mother and her children sorting through clothing from her drawers

Royal visit to Port Sunlight, April 1914
Double page spread from the Illustrated London News covering the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Port Sunlight, the famous model village

Port Sunlight - where work and pleasure go hand in hand
Double page spread from The Illustrated London News showing scenes at Port Sunlight, the model village built by William Lever (Lord Leverhulme) to house workers at his soap factory

Fire safety in the theatre -- a notice in a backstage area: Release for stage lantern, in case of fire pull down lever

WWI Military Hunter pocket watch
First World War Military Hunter pocket watch with enamel dial with seconds counter and key-wind, jewelled lever movement, by Rothermans, London

Advert for Gamages suggesting gifts for soldiers 1915
Advertisement by the famous Holborn store, Gamages, suggesting gifts for Britains " Blue" and " Khaki" Boys

Man at the wheel of a car
A man at the wheel of a rather smart-looking early car

Moldova - Old barn, well and storks
Moldova - a family of storks have nested on the top of a steep-roofed delapidated farm barn, next to a lever well. Date: circa 1920s

Trade catalogue for ice cream machines 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing ice cream making and freezing machines. 1911

Plantol Soap
Humorous advertisement for Plantol Soap, manufactured by Lever Brothers Limited of Port Sunlight, England, showing a rather startled customer who has been over-zealously lathered with shaving soap by

Charles Lever - 4
CHARLES LEVER Popular Irish author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer and a succession of other novels. with his autograph Date: 1806 - 1872

Charles Lever - 3
CHARLES LEVER Popular Irish author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer and a succession of other novels. Date: 1806 - 1872

Charles Lever - 2
CHARLES LEVER Popular Irish author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer and a succession of other novels. Date: 1806 - 1872

Russian Village and Villagers. The unusual tall structure to the right centre of the image is a well with a huge timber lever bucket-lifting apparatus. on a tall frame. Date: circa 1902

Watercolour fomr the Sir Ashton Lever Collection
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the Sir Ashton Lever Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London. NHML (3) 42

Bird display
A perspective view of the grand saloon and gallery from A Companion to the [British] Museum (1790) by Sir Ashton Lever. The Natural History Museum in South Kensington was not built until 1880s

Pithecia pithecia, white-faced saki
Fox-tailed Monkey, Simia pithecia. Plate facing p. 169 of Museum Leverianum; specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever, by George Shaw. Published by James Parkinson, proprietor, 1792-1796

Bradypus tridactylus, pale-throated three-toed sloth
Pale-throated three-toed sloths. Plate from a collection of original watercolour drawings, c. 1781-1785, by Sarah Stone, held at the Natural History Museum

Lambris chiragra, spider conch
Watercolour of a spider conch by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Fossilised naticid gastropods and leaves
Watercolour showing two views of a naticid gastropod and a fossilised leaf encased in a nodule by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Struthio camelus, ostrich
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Fossil Crinoid
Watercolour of a fossil crinoid by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Capra hircus, goat
Domestic Goat, Angora Breed. Plate from a collection of original watercolour drawings, c. 1781-1785, by Sarah Stone, held at the Natural History Museum

Hexaplex duplex, African murex
Watercolour of an African murex by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Spodylus americanus, thorny oyster
Watercolour of a thorny oyster on blue paper by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Phoenicopterus ruber ruber, greater flamingo
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Aix falericulata, mandarin duck
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Ramphastos tucanus, white-throated toucan
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Estonia - Agricultural Scene Date: circa 1910s

Village scenes, Romania
Village scenes in Romania including a wonderful well with huge timber lever bucket-lifting apparatus, an inset picture of a pretty Romanina woman in traditonal country costume and village houses

Romanian shepherd with his flock, standing close to a traditional lever-action well, where the bucket and rope are attached to a long wooden lever

Romanian Woman by the well
A Romanian woman standing by the village well. This is likely to be a lever-action well, where the bucket and rope are attached to a long wooden lever

Woman working in a Munitions Factory - WWII. Women took the place of 100, 000 men working in heavy industry during the war, many in highly skilled engineering roles. Date: circa 1944

War Memorial at Port Sunlight - engraved on the plinth are the names of Lever Brothers employees who lost their lives in the two world wars. Date: circa 1927

The Lever Memorial, outside the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, in memory of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and his wife. Date: 1851 - 1925

Crewe Railway Station electric signal box, Cheshire
View inside an electric signal box near Crewe Railway Station, Crewe, Cheshire

Filling with water / W H Robinson
Filling up ones car with water without stopping by means of a portable water resovoir, pipework and a lever for the driver

Flat Tyre / W H Robinson
When a flat occurs, simply lower the fifth wheel - merely a solid tyred castor at the end of a hinged lever. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Brother and sister in a toy vintage car
A young boy in a sailor suit at the wheel of his fantastic replica model car complete, with running boards, fenders, horn, lanterns and steering wheel

Port Sunlight - the Bridge Inn
The Bridge Inn, Port Sunlight. Port Sunlight is a garden village which was founded in 1888 by Lever to house his soap factory workers

Raising Cleopatras Needle
Cleopatras Needle, the Thames Embankment. The complicated structure that was used to lever the 180 ton obelisk into position

Automatic Milk Machine
A little girl demonstrates how easy it is to fill up a jug with milk from an automatic milk machine!

Net Fishing / Africa
Africans netting fish

England / Port Sunlight
The Lever Free Library

Futuristic farming
An example of futuristic farming, the automated way. The farmer sits on a chair and operates the controls, while machinery does the harvesting

Snowdon Station
Beddelgert/ Snowdon railway station

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