Measure Collection (page 2)

RMS Titanic - nail scissors recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - silver mounted steel nail scissors with rusted steel blades

Marine Sextant. Early 20th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Robin Steadman in dandyish 1960s jacket
Robin Steadman, hair stylist at The House of Leonard in Grosvenor Street, London wearing a tweed jacket that he had made to measure at John Stephen Custom Built Clothes in Carnaby Street

Man in Khaki WW1 sock knitting kit box and instructions
The Man in Khaki sock knitting kit, designed to make the knitting of socks for troops as simple and efficient as possible

Old man in shabby suit
An old man in a shabby suit leans (perhaps unwittingly) against an advertisement for Burton tailoring: Let Burton Dress You

Ancient Grain Measures and Calvary at Gruyeres, Switzerland
Ancient grain measures and the Calvary at Gruyeres, Switzerland. After the opening was closed, grain was poured into the receptacles under the watchful eye of the bailiff to ensure that the merchant

French Railway Alphabet - N for Nivellement (levelling, surveying). 19th century

French Railway Alphabet - J for Jalons (milestones or markers). 19th century

Susi - having her height measured - just over ten inches. 1950s

Music cover, I ve Never Seen a Straight Banana, words and music by Ted Waite 1926

Scene from Shakespeares Measure for Measure. circa early 19th century

Isabella, by Francis W Topham (from Measure for Measure). 1888

Measure for Measure - title page - Duke Vincentio disguised as Friar Lodowick. 1862

Fancy dress costumes at the Artists Fancy Dress ball
The Bystander magazine passes comment on the various fancy dress costumes seen at the Artists Fancy Dress ball at the Albert Hall in February 1911

Clergyman measuring the circumference of a star with a great compass. Capital letter. Miniature. Liber Derivationum. 13th century. Castle of Chantilly. France

Navigational instrument. 20th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Marine Sextant. 19th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Astronomicon. Engraving
Measuring the distance. Engraving in Astronomicon by Gaius Julius Hyginus. 1st century. Incunabula 283. Edition of 1485. Venice. Library of the University of Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). Measuring the air pressure. Colo
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. Measuring the air pressure. Colored engraving

Sundia. Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore. Ciudad Real. Cast
Sundial. Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore. Built in 1531. Ciudad Real. Castile-La Mancha. Spain

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Churn the Milkman. late 19th century

Cheery Families - Mr Trim the Tailor. 1890s

Policewomen recruits measured for height, London
Policewomen recruits in civilian clothes being measured for height by a woman police officer (possibly Inspector Alice B Clayden). Another woman police officer watches from behind a desk

German Dressmakers 1900
An upper class woman being measured for a new dress in a fashion house in the days when doorknocker hairstyles were in vogue. Date: circa 1900

Saint Susanna (? - 295) refused to marry the emperor Diocletians son in law Maximian, so he had her head cut off, and her fathers (he was a priest) for good measure

Cocktail Gown 1930S
Gown by Lucien Lelong in black & red jersey with a heavily textured (possibly knitted) jacket with contrasting revers & cuffs. Worn with a belt & chinese style cap. Date: 1930s

Girl at Dressmaker s
A unhappy & disgruntled little girl squirms while an elderly sempstress snips away while making adjustments to her new frock. Date: 1905

Anthropometric Measure
An anthropometric measurement is taken of a male suspect. Date: 1892

Advert for Jays smart knitwear for women 1937
Two models wearing made to measure very smart jersey fabric suits. Date: 1937

From khaki to civvies, end of WW1
A tailor measures a demobbed soldier for civilian clothes after his return from the Great War. Date: 1919

Fabric seller, early 19th century.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from Tradeswomen of Paris, Paris, 1823

Colossi of Memnon at Luxor and the Nilometer in Cairo.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Surveying equipment from the 19th century.. Surveying equipment from the 19th century: dendrometers and Mr. Broads machine for measuring timber

WW2 birthday card, WaF
WW2 birthday card, two girls in WaF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) uniform. A full measure of happiness on your birthday! Date: circa 1942

Milestone (2nd century BC). It comes from Santa Eulalia de Ron确 a (Barcelona). Roman art. Sculpture. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Taking a snow depth measurement - boreal forest after a heavy snowfall. Wildlife reserve Denezhkin Kamen - North Ural Mountains - Russia

Bonzo Suffers From Overwork by George Studdy
Bonzo Suffers From Overwork. He is fast asleep after a rummage through his mistresss sewing basket. Date: 1923

How your body measurements should be taken 1924
American clothing catalogue, showing where you should measure yourself, for a womans bust, waist and hip line, and also for length of skirt

Tailors Working Outdoors
Tailors working on a roof during a heat wave, cutting and sewing cloth for suits, Regent Street, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Canada - Transporting a load of fancy poulty, the size of which is certainly not paltry! Date: 1904

Ironic Conversation between two Cockney men in an East London Boozer. " Who was t bloke I see yer speakin to larst night?" " Wot sort o bloke

Damascus, Syria - Wheat Seller Date: circa 1910s

Fairey IIIF, J9165, with float struts designed to measure the resistance of the floats

Instruments for measuring size
Plate 55 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Instruments pour la Taille et la Greffe

Bushmen in Botswana
A Bushman child of Botswana being measured for height by an anthropologist: Tsare village, Kalhari. Photo by Dr A J Clement, 1957 Botswana

Shale
A specimen of shale containing small nodules of clay ironstone from the Lower Coal Measures, Brynamman, Carmarthenshire

Brewster Angle Meter
Placing a gem inside a Brewster Angle Meter. This instrument was introduced in 1999. This instrument can be used to find the refractive index (RI) of gems, which can help with identification

EGYPT. ASWAN. Aswan. Elephantinte Island. Nilometer, a flight of stairs used to measure the water level of Nile river

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