Package Collection

Broadstairs 1950S
An incredibly crowded beach at Broadstairs in Kent, showing how popular British holiday resorts used to be in the days before package holidays. Date: 1950s

Charabanc day trip run by R. Chisnell & Sons to Sydenham
Staff (and their families) on a Charabanc day trip run by R. Chisnell & Sons (trading as King Alfred Motor Services) of Winchester to visit the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, South London

Postcard - Benefit of Le Paquet de L'Orphelin - WW1
Postcard sold for the benefit of Le Paquet de L'Orphelin ('The Orphan's Package') - charitable Christmas gifts/presents for the war orphans of France. Date: circa 1918

Advert for Wright's Coal Tar soap
Advert for Wrights coal tar soap. Created by William Valentine Wright in 1860,  Wright's Coal Tar Soap was a popular brand of antiseptic soap designed to thoroughly cleanse the skin

ICA-Brasov IS-28M-2 G-BROM (msn 04A), Romanian-built motor-glider parked outside a gliding club hangar. British Aerospace took on the agency for Romanian aircraft in the UK

Crosfield's soap works, Warrington 1886
Various scenes of the packing and distribution of Crosfield's Soap, Bank, Quarry, Warrington, Cheshire. Date: 1886

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, putting cocoa into packets
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, women putting cocoa into packets. 1893

Gent in Raincoat and young schoolboy (his son?) - London
Gent in Raincoat and young schoolboy (his son?) - strolling down a London street. Date: 1936

Crosfields soap works, Warrington 1886
Crosfields Soap Works, Warrington, Cheshire, England. Date: 1886

Advert for Rowlands Macassar Oil 1902
Preserves the hair, beautifies the hair, prevents baldness and scurf. 1902

Bikini Blondes on Hols
Two trendy blondes on holiday, walking off the hotel patio towards the sea at Juan les Pins, France. Date: 1960s

English dum-dum bullets found at Margival, France, WW1
English dum-dum bullets and part of their packaging found in a dugout at Margival, northern France, during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Blondes, Juan Les Pins
Two trendy blondes on holiday, one relaxing on a sunbed and the other looking out to sea, both having drinks on the hotel patio; Juan les Pins, France. Date: 1960s

Old Bill and Co. October 1940
" I ll let yet get away with it this time, but remember! I got a front door, h and a knocker!" Bruce Bairnsfather jokes that the damage inflicted on homes by German air raids has made it

Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Soneeta Hair Net
Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Soneeta double cap hair net in white - " A Perfect net of human hair". circa 1950s

Parcel delivered, c. 1800
Delivering a parcel to a man in the street, c. 1800. Date: C.1800

French Railway Alphabet - E for Enregistrement des colis (registration of packages). 19th century

The Postman by Charles Robinson
The Postman heavily laden with a sack on his back and holding a parcel as he arrives at a gate greeted by two young girls. Date: 1906

Package design, Snowfire Shampoo
Art deco style package design, Snowfire Shampoo. circa 1930s

Vintage Hair Net Packaging - C-No-Net Hair Net
C-No-Net Hair Net, made of sterilised human hair, medium brown, cap shape. circa 1950s

Vintage Hair Net Packaging - Elbee Nylon Hair Net with elastic, medium brown. circa 1950s

Vintage Hair Net Packaging - Elvetta Nylon Hair Net with elastic, woven of Dupont nylon in dark brown. The final touch of loveliness. circa 1950s

Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Composite montage of six diferent hair net packaging designs. circa 1950s

Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Solo Human Hair Net Style - regular size in blonde - made of silk - Invisible edge, sanitary and durable. circa 1960s

Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Elite Hair Net - double cap in dark brown - " Hand made of selected human hair". circa 1950s

Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Royalty Hair Net
Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Royalty Invisible Hair Net with elastic - woven of DuPont nylon - new Duroy processed - " Fit for a Queen" ! circa 1950s

Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Deluxe Jac-o-net Hair Net
Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Nylon Deluxe Jac-o-net Invisible Hair Net in grey - no elastic in front - no visible edge - " Fits perfectly like a human hairnet". circa 1960s

Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Duro Belle Nylon Hair Net
Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Duro Belle Invisible Nylon Hair Net with Elastic, made of DuPont mylon in blonde - Every net guaranteed - " Its all in the Duro-knots" ! circa 1950s

Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Tru-fit Nylon Net
Vintage Hairnet Packaging - Tru-fit Invisible Nylon Net with Superfine Mesh and Elastic Edge - made of DuPont nylon in Auburn - Guaranteed perfect ! circa 1950s

Christmas Greetings Postcard - two children and presents on a very windy day, threatening to carry them (and their umbrella) away! circa 1910s

French expedition opens way into the Nieniya mountains, Suda
Africa. French expedition opens way into the Nieniya mountains, Sudan (January, 1893). Engraving. Colored

Poster, Holidays Abroad with Frames Tours, Summer 1958, with a scene in Palma, Majorca. Date: 1958

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

Daddys Christmas Dinner by Samuel Begg, WW1
Illustration for the ILN 1916 Christmas number showing a mother and her children packing a special parcel to be sent to her husband at the front

Knitting humour, WW1
The Sentimentalist (who has received socks from England). " She loves me; she loves me not. A British soldier, on receiving a pair of badly made socks from a sweetheart in England proceeds to

Sending a new pipe and a heart of love to the front
France, WW1 - A pretty girl sends her beau a new pipe and a heart of love to the front, where her brave man is fighting. Date: circa 1916

Japan - Japanese woman carrying bunch of daikon and package
Japan - Japanese woman carrying bunch of daikon and a package wrapped in brown paper. Daikon (white radish), is a traditional Japanese staple vegetable used for takuan or bettarazuke dishes

A pin-up beauty providing a Package of Oomph
A scantily-clad striking ginger-haired beauty providing a Package of Oomph! Date: early 1940s

Postman and postwoman
People You See. Postman and postwoman. From Teddy Bear (14 December 1963)

Laundry delivery service

The Laundryman

The Post Man
People You See. From Teddy Bear (25 April 1964)

Allen & Ginter, Richmond, Virginia. 50 fish from American waters. You will catch one in each package of Virginia Bright, ... cigarettes

Training a police dog
A Police Dog and handler at Twickenham Rugby Stadium. The dog is being trained to sniff out suspicious packages that could have been planted under the seats in the South Stand (now re-developed)

Possible Bomb Threat
Police officer on Westminster Bridge by Big Ben on the walkie talkie radio checking out a suspect package in a briefcase - suspect bag Metropolitan Police, London

Girl Posts Parcel 1880S
A little girl in a huge fruit festooned bonnet, arms full with a doll, umbrella & muff, looks up at the high slot on the red pillar box & wonders how she will ever reach it

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