Metropolitan Collection (page 5)

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Notice, Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, Victoria House, Victoria Street, Westminster, London SW. Free supplies of water for man and beast in the streets of London. 1887

The Mills on the River Marne at Meaux, France
The Mills, built on wooden piles on the River Marne at Meaux in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Ile-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. Date: circa 1900

Panorama of Monreale, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Vintage 19th century photograph: panorama of Monreale, which is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, in Sicily, southern Italy. It is located on the slope of Monte Caputo

Map of London Underground railway, for Harrods
Map of the London Underground railway, How to Reach Harrods by Tube. Date: circa 1909

First underground train, Edgware Road to Kings Cross, London
First underground train, running from Edgware Road to Kings Cross, London. Building works on the Metropolitan Line began in 1853, and the first journey took place ten years later. Date: 1863

The Wonders of the World - some of the principal architectural gems of the world in 1913, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, The Washington Monument

Woman police officer in updated uniform, London
Woman police officer in the updated uniform introduced in 1977, with a range of mix and match options, and the checkered cravat replacing the bow tie

Lawrence Mervil Tibbett - American Opera Singer
Lawrence Mervil Tibbett (1896-1960) - American Opera Singer. Sang leading roles with the metropolitan Opera in New York - more than 600 times between 1923 and 1950! Date: circa 1930s

Police officers socialising at a Section House, London
Police officers, male and female, socialising in a sitting room at a Met Police Section House in London. By the fireplace on the left is WPC Doreen Lyess

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson, Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police - The Family Friend magazine Dec 1874 Date: 1874

An Exmouth boy, Training Ship Exmouth, early 1900s

Wireless training, Training Ship Exmouth, early 1900s

Going ashore, Training Ship Exmouth, early 1900s

Divisions at meals, Training Ship Exmouth, early 1900s

Boys drilling on deck, Training Ship Exmouth, early 1900s

London Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Victorian period

Metropolitan Opera House, New York, USA. Date: 1905

Queen Victoria Monument and Statue of John Laird, Birkenhead
The Queen Victoria Monument and Statue of John Laird, Birkenhead, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. Date: circa 1910s

The Queen Victoria Monument and Birkenhead Town Hall, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England Date: circa 1905

A Nash Metropolitan nose. The Nash Metropolitan was an American make-over of the Austin A40, which was in turn imported into the UK. Date: circa 1959

Clapham Common
This painting shows a vast number of well dressed figures at Clapham Common, a large park in south London, it was converted from common land to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons

The Metropolitan Railway Company Advertisement
An advertisement for the Metropolitan Railway Company, showing a quaint country cottage, perfectly situated nearby the main line stations with frequent train services. Date: circa 1919

Market Square Design
An architectural illustration of a market square designed by architect Ernest James Wedlock Hider, on old world lines in course of building at Wembley Park

United States. Baltimore Catholic Cathedral. Interior of the temple. It was built from 1806 to 1821 by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Colleges and universities in New York City, USA
Colleges and Universities in New York City, USA - University of New York, Normal College, Lenox Library, Columbia College, Metropolitan, Astor Library, Academy of Design. Date: 1883

Four buildings in New York City, USA - Metropolitan Opera House, Casino, Eden Museum, Vanderbilt Mansions Date: 1883

Manhattan - New York City - Madision Square Garden
Looking Northwest from the roof of the Home Office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. Madison Square Graden tower on the right. Date: circa 1909

Convair CV-440 Metropolitan
Convair CV-440-61 Metropolitan LN-KLK (msn 357), of the Norsk Metropolitan Club, at Sola, Norway. Date: circa 1990

Thornycroft Metropolitan Cammell demonstration bus. Date: circa 1940

Phoenician art. Cyprus. The Amathus sarcophagus with reliefs depicting a parade with chariots. Limestone. Archaic Period. 5th century B.C. It comes from a tomb at Amathus (Cyprus)

Egyptian Art. Sarcophagus of Wennefer. Late Period. Dynasty 30-2nd Persian Period. 380332 B.C. Memphite Region, Saqqara, Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Greek art. 8th century B. C. Terracotta funerary krater. Metr
Greek art. 8th century B.C. Terracotta funerary krater dated between 750 and 735 depicting the deceased lying and surrounded by his family. At the bottom, a procession of chariots and foot soldiers

Funeral of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, London
Funeral of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw (1828-1908), London -- carrying the coffin to the grave, 29 August 1908. He was Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (now London Fire Brigade)

Pullman Luxury Motor Bus 1908
Three new luxurious public omnibuses started to run from between Queen's Gate and Portland Place, London. Holding nine passengers with upholstered arm-chairs that turned. Date: 1908

Brentford public fountain for people and animals at Kew Bridge. Erected at the request of Mrs. Wheeler on memorial to her late husband, Samuel Wheeler at a cost of £1600. Date: 1877

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough 1895
Carriages stopping on their journey so that the horses can get a drink on a hot summers day. Date: 1895

Advert for Metropolitan Drinking Fountain 1878
Metropolitan drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, set up in London by Samuel Gurney, a Member of Parliament and philanthropist to supported by voluntary contributions

New marble gothic style drinking fountain in Hyde Park, London opened by Duke of Cambridge. Erected at the expense of the Maharajah of Vizianagaram

Proposed design published in The Illustrated London News for the cast-iron decorative street lamps that would align the River Thames on the Embankment, London. Date: 1870

Designs for the Electric Lamp on the Thames Embankment 1870
Proposed design by Timothy Butler of children climbing and an overflowing cornucopia. Published in ?The Illustrated London News

Cattle Trough
A large drinking fountain in metropolitan district, erected by the Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association in 1868, providing water to horses, oxen, sheep, dogs and humans. Date: 1868

POLICE OFFICER AND DOG
A Metropolitan Police officer dog handler and his Weimaraner dog discover the dead body of a missing person Date: June 1974

Blackwall Extension Railway Bridge over the Commercial-Road East. The new link in the metropolitan system of railways was to bring the Eastern Counties and other lines terminating at Shoreditch

Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral, Uruguay
Vintage 19th century photograph: Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral, Uruguay

Canton, Guanzhou, China. Heavenly Peace Street
Vintage 19th century photograph - street scene Canton, Guanzhou, China. Heavenly Peace Street

Fiesole, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Fiesole, a town and commune of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, Italy. Date: circa 1920s

MABYS Dance Card, Highgate. London
Dace card from a fund-raising dance, at Gate House, Highgate organised by MABYS (Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants). Date: 1914

Section of the Thames Embankment
A section of the Thames Embankment, taken by the Charing Cross railway bridge, showing; (1) the subway, designed to hold the gas pipes, the water pipes, perhaps the telegraph wires

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