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Welsh women road builders, South Wales
A group of twenty Welsh women road builders in Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, holding their spades. They built the road to Hook in 1903-4 to facilitate transport to the colliery

Herne the Hunter
Herne the hunter hangs himself because his hunting skill has been taken in payment for the miraculous cure of a mortal wound. But every night he leads a spectral hunt

The parable of the laborers in the vineyard: The payment of the denarius. ca. 1500. Second Series cloth. Manufacturing in Brussels, possibly in the workshops of Pieter van Aelst

Advertisement for the Brinsmead grand piano
An advertisement for the Brinsmead grand piano, the best that British craftsmanship can produce, with a pure singing tone and beauty of finish. Payment by instalments can be arranged... Date: 1913

Official wording, Apprenticeship Indenture
Official wording of an Apprenticeship Indenture, between John Henry Watson of 3 Newland Street, Derby, and Messrs John Davis & Son (Derby) Limited

Comic postcard, two women chatting - alimony Date: 20th century

Kingsland Bridge toll booth, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Collecting tolls at the Kingsland Bridge, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The Kingsland Bridge is a privately owned toll bridge, spanning the River Severn

Cabinet. Antwerp (?). circa 1650. Detail. The paintings that decore the cabinet offers a Calvinist vision of concept of Love and Beauty, through a moralizing interpretation of Metamorphosis of Ovid

The Rent Day Date: early 19th century

RMS Titanic - compensation claim of Mrs Herman
RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Samuel Herman (1862-1912). Letter dated 7 May 1913 from the Public Trustee Office, Strand, London

A Farthing Dinner Please, the Soup Kitchen Date: 1907

A new law gave the tenant a right to a third of his freehold, seven years rent; twenty-one years rent being the average value of a freehold in Ireland

Horse Cab, Paris 1879
A customer pays the cab's driver in the rain in Paris. Date: 1879

Comic postcard, Man and seaside landlady Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man and boarding house landlady Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scene in a Glasgow pub, customer and barman - No Credit Date: 20th century

Greenwich Pensioners
Group of Greenwich Pensioners, the Naval equivalent of a Chelsea Pensioner. Although the initial concept of a Greenwich pensioner was that of someone living in the Royal Hospital Greenwich

Chelsea Hospital
King Charles II founded the Royal Hospital in 1682 as a retreat for veterans. The provision of a hostel rather than the payment of pensions was inspired by Les Invalides in Paris. Date: 1875

English lady riding sidesaddle in a fox hunt, 19th century. Lord Marchhare points out the fox and hounds to Rosa McDermott. Rosa and the Earl

Early struggles 1858
Interior scene of a city dwellings, in the harsh winter months with snow on the rooftops outside and few coal on the grate, a family have got behind in their rent and a broker has come round

African labourers lined up to receive their wages
African labourers on a farm or plantation lined up to receive their wages. Date: 1950s

Chinese money changer cutting silver ingots into different sizes for payment, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste

Poster, His Majestys Army, Rates of Pay for Soldiers, WW1
Poster, His Majestys Army, Weekly Rates of Pay for Private Soldiers in the Regular Army and Special Reserve, First World War. 1915

Compensation for the murder of Mr Richardson
Sketches in Japan: conveying the compensation money to HMS Pearl for the murder of Mr. Richardson, an English merchant in 1862. Date: 1863

Advert for Gamages kitchen cabinets 1929
A place for everything and everything in its place. Three stand alone units for the kitchen, made from wood, available with easy payment terms. 1929

The Tune we Dance to - Pacifism - Society of Friends
" The Money Goes Round and Around... And it comes out here!" Pay your income tax and it ends up being fired from a gun. Pacifist postcard published by the Society of Friends (Quakers)

A Corporal of the Scots Guards in Battle Order on a stepped white marble base of 2 - 5 cm high. Sold to James B - 12.11.10. Payment next year. 3950.00. Lady Kathleen Scott (1878-1947)

GERMAN POSTER 1926
Poster declaring that the German left wing opposes the payment of compensation to deposed princes. Date: 1926

STREET ARABS / MATCHES 19C
London street boys sell matches to bus passengers, passing them up - and receiving payment - on long poles. Date: 1866

Goose Club at Christmas 1853
Goose Clubs in London, sixpence every Saturday evening after wages received for ten or twelve weeks before Christmas for a goose or turkey and a bottle of spirit, to be carried home on Christmas eve

Custom House, London
Payment of the customs, the Long Room, Custom House. Date: 1841

Pre-Columbian Art. Aztec period. Mexico. Collecting taxes. Codex. National Museum of Anthropology. Mexico City

Danegeld
Following the Viking victory at the Battle of Maldon, in Essex, King Aethelred (the Unready) is advised to pay off the Vikings rather than continue the fight

Judas Iscariot. One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. Betrayal of Jesus to the hands of the chief Sanhedrin priests in exchange for a payment of thirty silver coins. Engraving by Bong

Cartoon, Waking up Germania, WW1
Cartoon, Waking up Germania. After the war, Madame Germania must pay the bill for all the damage she has done. The waiter is a macabre, thin man with a skull for his head. Date: 1918

WW2 Poster -- Come Back to the Army and the ATS
Come Back to the Army and the ATS while the Bounty Scheme still operates. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph, artist unknown, published by HMSO. Date: 1939

Irish drinker receives warning at Taproom door from Priest
" Ye re not goin into that Public House, are ye, Tim?" " Shure, oi am, Yer Riverance." " Then, do ye know the Divel in goin in wid ye." " Faith, thin

Stationery, Hadfields Ironmongers, Congleton, Cheshire
O-Cedar Mop and Polish advertisement on Hadfields Ironmongers printed stationery, used here as a receipt with handwritten details. circa 1920

The labourers in the vineyard - Matthew 20. circa 1688

Brochure page, Oldsmobile service, terms and accessories
Brochure page, Oldsmobile cars, giving details of service, payment terms and approved accessories. Date: 1930s

Music cover, Shell Out Waltz by Herman Darewski, danced by Cebalios Desmond. 1912

Cartoon, Butterfly Fever -- No Fees to French Authors. 1881

Caricature of Squire Bancroft and Edgar Bruce
Caricature of Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) and Edgar Bruce (1845?-1901), both actor-managers. Bancroft is portrayed as Shylock wanting his pound of flesh

Caricature of David James and James Albery
Caricature of David James (left, 1839-1893), English comic actor, and James Albery (right, 1838-1889), English dramatist. Two Roses at the Lyceum, a Little Cheque

George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo rides an elephant, who snatches away his bun in payment. Artwork for a story, Taking the bun, originally published in The New Bonzo Book (Partridge, London). Date: 1927

Advert for Bensons Edwardian jewellery 1906
Selection womens Edwardian diamond jewellery, a system of 20 monthly payments obtainable by The Times. Date: 1906

Gentleman paying a tradesman or servant, c1800
Gentleman paying a tradesman or servant, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Invoice from Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, to Mr Frank Blackley, for the supply of one hundred greetings cards, total cost ten shillings and ten pence. Date: circa 1891

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