Occupation Collection (page 9)

Occupation - Costermonger
London characters: costermonger Date: circa 1870

LA GOULUE / PJOURNAL 1904
LA GOULUE (Louise Weber) French entertainer and her animal-tamer husband grapple with a puma in a cage Date: 1870 - 1929

WWI / BRUSSELS OCCUPIED
German officers enjoying their occupation of Brussels, the Belgian capital. Date: 1916

ITALIANS TAKE BERBERA
North Africa : the Italians triumphantly raise their tricolour as a sign of their occupation of Fort Berbera Date: November 1940

Flower Girl 1905
Fine window-plants! Wholl buy? shouted the man with the flower-laden donkey-cart; but it was his daughter who did most of the selling

Hat factory workers, Southwark, London 1841
Hat factory workers making beaver (or bever) hats at the Christy hat factory in Southwark, London. Men employed in wetting, rolling, pressing ruffling and blocking the hat bodies. Date: 1841

BRITISH SOLDIERS 1815
British soldiers during the occupation of France. Date: 1815

A fantasy swordsmith, dressed in a costume made up of the products he makes. Date: circa 1700

A fantasy buttermaker, wearing a costume made up of the tools of her trade, and with a table hanging round her waist. Date: circa 1700

A fantasy brushmaker, wearing a costume made up of the products she makes. Date: circa 1700

A fantasy farm labourer, dressed in a costume made up of the tools of his trade. Date: circa 1700

A fantasy miller, dressed in a windmill costume. Date: circa 1700

A fantasy goldsmith, wearing an elaborate costume made up of the trappings of his trade. Date: circa 1700

A fantasy baker, with his head inside a hopper, and a basket of bread in his hand. Date: circa 1700

Street trade - cherries
Woman in the streets of London selling cherries. Date: 1885

Street trade - white radish hard lettuce and onions
Woman holding her baskets, selling white radish lettuce, Date: 19th Century

SAI KZ-3 OY-DEB, at London Gatwick, in 1949
SAI KZ-3 OY-DEB, (SAI - Skandinavisk Aero Industri A-S, Denmark), at Gatwick airport in 1949. The SAI KZ III Laerke (Lark)

The Maquis (French Resistance) share in the liberation of France. Date: 1944

A new recruit joins the Maquis (French Resistance). Date: 1944

London Trades: Locksmiths - The City Farrier - Gold-Beaters
Traditional London trades: (top left) Locksmiths cutting key-barrels on a machine which is 140 years old at the works of the Bramah Lock Company (top right)

Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine - Saky / Saki - currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine (as of April 2018). Date: circa 1904

Vietnam - Landscape of the Interior
Southern Vietnam near Saigon (at this stage under French Colonial Occupation) - Landscape of the Interior. Date: circa 1901

Faustin Edmond Wirkus, King of La Gonave, Haiti
Faustin Edmond Wirkus (1896-1945), King of La Gonave, Haiti as Faustin II, ruling from 1926 to 1929. He had been a Polish-American US Marine stationed in Haiti during the US occupation

Somalian Warriors - Somalia (at this stage under Italian occupation). Date: circa 1930s

The Italo-Turkish War - Tripoli occupied by Italy
The Italo-Turkish War - A postcard celebrating Tripoli being captured by Italy in 1911. Date: circa 1912

Stalins propaganda poster. Second Soviet Occupation. Latvia
Propaganda poster: New voters!. Only Stalins Constitution has givin you the power to vote. Long live Stalins Constitution!. Second Soviet Occupation 1944-1991. Occupation Museum of Latvia. Riga

Newspaper Headline
The front page of La Victoire declares the imminent occupation of Paris Date: 13 June 1940

Europe. Middle Age. Construction of a gothic Cathedral. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

A Murmansk Murmur by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" Don t that make ye blinkin well wild, Bert?" Old Bill, the soldier character created by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, together with his old pal Bert

Palace of Justice, Damascus - Occupation by Sheriffian Army
Palace of Justice, Damascus - Occupation, after Damascus was captured from the Turks when Desert Mounted Corps and Prince Feisals (later King of Iraq) Sherifial Hejaz Army encircled the city

Japanese Five Dollar Banknote - Banana Money
Japanese government-issued five dollar banknote. The Japanese dollar was a currency issued by Imperial Japan during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak

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