Packing Collection (page 2)

Men and women skating on thin ice and falling into a freezing river. Cold Broth and Calamity. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

France - Trade - Dates from the desert oasis
Dates in wooden crates as they arrive direct from the desert oasis to the French warehouse of Champagne Freres Ld. Date: circa 1910s

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, packing chocolate
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, women packing chocolate. 1893

Poster, Herring Packing. circa 1928

Scene inside a blacking factory, Holborn, London
Scene inside the packing warehouse of the Day and Martin blacking factory, Holborn, London. Date: 1842

The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power, freelance journalist
The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman), freelance journalist. who earned notoriety as the author of the Great Kitchener Yarn - Power claimed to have brought

Stationery, Sid Jelks Furnishing and Removal
Stationery, Sid Jelks, House Furnisher and Removal Contractor, Seven Kings, Essex

Women packing cigarettes at Copes factory, Liverpool 1891
Women packing cigarettes at Copes factory, Liverpool. Date: 1891

Womens Auxiliary Army Corps, WW1
Members of the Womens Auxiliary Army Corps in a clothing store, packing uniforms into bales for recruits, First World War. 1914-1918

Bookseller WHSmith 1910
A glimpse of the department of the well know British bookseller and newsvendors W. H. Smith and Son. Photograph showing busy workers in the warehouse packing books. 1910

Packing bananas, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
People packing bananas for export in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Date: circa 1910

Advert for H. W Johns, asbestos materials for roofing 1875
Company based in New York, advertising asbestos roofing, used in roof coating, cement, paint, boiling felt and steam packing. 1875

Winter scene on the coast of Bergen, Norway, fishermen bringing in their catch of herring and men packing the them in barrels. Date: circa 1851

Roquefort - Cheese Manufacture - Aveyon - France - The Caves. Date: circa 1910s

Gilbeys wine store 1861
Gilbeys wine store in Titchfield Street, Oxford Street, London. Date: 1861

NEW YORK LODGINGS
Midnight in a two-cent doss, New York : five cents might get you a bed, but if youve only two to rub together, a chair, a barrel or a packing crate is all you get. Date: 1894

HASSALL FOOD PREPARED
Packing the Hassall Food at Messrs Goodall, Backhouse and Cos manufactory, no doubt located somewhere in Yorkshire Date: circa 1865

LITTLE WOMEN / MEG TRUNK
Meg goes to Vanity Fair; her sisters help her to pack her trunk. Date: First published: 1868

WW1 - New Zealand Anzac Troops loading ammunition, France. Date: circa 1916

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

The Chicago Tinned Meat Scandal
Delicacies weighed and packed in Armours Packing-House in Chicago, showing some dubious by-products of a Chicago meat processing factory used for making cheap sausages

Pack up your troubles! by Lawson Wood
A colour illustration by Lawson Wood showing a mother cat packing her kittens into a bag. Date: 12th November 1930

Advert for Revelation travel wardrobe 1938
Advertisement for the Rev-Robe travel wardrobe (ladies model), hardly larger than a hatbox from Revelation, the makers of the worlds most famous suitcase

Fig packing - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig packing at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Publishers office
Office of Howard Wilford Bell, publishers. Assembly or packing room of Howard Wilford Bell, Publisher of the Unit Books, at 5th Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets

Muscat, Oman - Packing dates for export
Muscat, Oman - Two women pack dates for export into small boxes

Gansevoort Market in New York City, USA
The Gansevoort Market is located in the Meatpacking District in New York City. For decades it was a market hosting farmers from miles around who came to sell their wares. Date: 1905

Cartoon, Henry Irving setting off on his American tour
Cartoon, Henry Irving, legendary actor-manager, setting off on his American tour -- Mr Irving is packing up. 1883

Waifs and Strays Society Caversham Home - Boys Packing for C
Boys at the Waifs and Strays Society Home at Caversham, near Reading - boys about to emigrate to Canada are packing their belongings. Date: 1911

Packing Eels for Shipment, Toome
Packing Eels forShipment, Toome - a view of a group of men packing eels into crates, in the background is the bridge at Toome. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

Counting and Packing Eggs in Crates for Shipment
Counting and Packing Eggs in Crates forShipment - a view of men with eggs packing them at Cookstown market. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Tyrone; Cookstown). Date: circa early 1900s

Packing Asparagus
Two women packing asparagus into bundles to be sold elsewhere, near Evesham in Worcestershire Date: 1930s

Wife Leaving 19C
A wife writes a note to her husband to tell him she is leaving, while a maid helps her with her packing Date: late 19th century

Steamer Rugs Advert
Who would think of taking an ocean voyage without packing a steamer rug - and of course it must be a designer rug from PeaceDale ! Date: 1913

Cartoon, A delivery mistake, WW1
Cartoon, a delivery mistake. A wooden crate supposedly containing 150 shells for the Western Front is found to contain a large, fashionable hat. Date: 1917

Cartoon, A great Christmas present, WW1
Cartoon, A great Christmas present. A soldier opens a wooden crate marked Very Fragile to find his godmother is inside it. Date: 1916

Mustard loaded aboard a Royal Navy ship - 18th century
Mustard for the Royal Navy being loaded aboard a ship setting out to broaden the scope of the British Empire during the reign of King George II in the mid 18th century. Date: circa 1750

Messrs Kynochs War Munition Factory
A page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News with pictures reporting on the work being done at Kynochs war munitions factory at Witton, Birmingham. Date: 1915

Mellody Farm, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA -- residence of J Ogden Armour, meat packing magnate. The estate had its own railway station. Date: circa 1910

Vase depicting men packing tea (1348-1644). Detail. Chinese art. Ming period. China / Porcelain. IRAN. Tehran. Golestan Palace

WWI - Red Cross packing parcels of food and comfort
Members of the Red Cross packing parcels of food and comforts for prisoners of war, probably in Wolverhampton; 1 of 3 photographs relating to Lt John Silvester Colbourne, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Boy scouts at camp, packing up, British Honduras
Boy scouts at Loyola Camp, packing up ready to leave, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America, 3 June 1951. Date: 1951

Comforts for the Royal Flying Corps, WW1
Ladies forming an aid committee, headed by Lady Henderson, the wife of the Commander of the Royal Flying Corps, packing comforts for flying men

Countess Zia and Nada Torby packing mittens for troops, WW1
Countess Zia Torby (later Lady Zia Wernher) and Countess Nada Torby (later Mountbatten), daughters of Grand Duke Michael and prominent figures in society organised this group of society ladies who

Lady Sclaters Hospital Supply Depot, WW1
Four photographs in the Sphere magazine reporting on the War Hospital Supply Dept opened in August 1915 by Lady Sclater, wife of Lieut.-General Sir H

Delivery of newspapers from the machine
Newspapers coming off the printing press and gathered and counted by two men while the man on the right removes the bundles of papers to take to the publishing department. Date: 1914

Sorting & packing newspapers overnight at W H Smith
Men working at long tables at W. H. Smith sorting and packing newspapers for distribution by rail throughout the country. Each of the long tables represented a main railway line

Parcel Packing for Queen Alexandras Field Force Fund, WW1
The Duchess of Portland pictured doing her bit for the war effort by helping to pack parcels for Queen Alexandras Field Force Fund, ready to be sent to the front. Date: 1915

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