Pile Collection (page 2)

Ottoman Empire. Turkish books. Engraving by Lemaitre. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840

Bovril On Top
This painting is a promotional image for Bovril, it portrays a young woman having been shopping, carrying a basket containing a plethora of goods, but standing out on top of the pile

Hampton and Sons Advertisement
An advertisement for Hampton & Sons Ltd, which promotes the sale of carpets and furnishing fabrics. The images show three examples of carpets

Dipping the ware in glaze, Alfred Meakin
Dipping the ware in glaze before re-firing in Glost oven Date: 1913

Graffitti with a message, Lambeth, South London
Graffitti with a social message, Lambeth, South London. Date: 1978

Wood for cremations, Benares (Varanasi), India
Wood piled up in preparation for cremations at Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1890s

Shepherds at North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, with horses and carts, two live sheep, and what appears to be a pile of four dead sheep

Two smartly dressed women pile into a London black taxi cab, after a spot of shopping on Oxford Street. Date: 1981

PILE OF SKULLS PHOTO
A pile of skulls, in an unidentified location. Date: 20th century

MEASURING ST BERNARD
A girl stands on a pile of books to measure the height of her Saint Bernard, who submits patiently to the ordeal. Date: late 19th century

Comic postcard, Cockerel and hens, egg production, WW2 Date: 1940s

Birthday postcard, Little girl carrying a stack of presents Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Cockerel scratching for a living Date: 20th century

Two women chat at second hand clothes stall, London
Two women chat at a second hand clothes market stall in Londons East End. Date: circa 1950s

Timber stacked at the docks awaiting transportation. Date: circa 1930s

Second hand clothes stall, street market, London
Women examine second hand clothes on a stall in a street market in Londons East End. Date: circa 1950s

Selling second hand clothes from a barrow, London
Man selling second hand clothes from a barrow on the street in Londons East End. Date: circa 1950s

Photographer and model
Photographer shooting model with building under construction, London. Date: circa 1950s

Family sorting shoes in Berwick Street Market, London
Family search for matching second hand shoes in Berwick Street Market, London. Date: 1950s

East End street market, London
Selling secondhand clothes in an East End street market, London. Date: circa 1950s

Comic postcard, Little boy at the seaside - burying uncle in the sand Date: 20th century

Front cover of The Bright Side of Xmas by Walter Emanuel designed by John Hassall. A Pickwickian style gentleman weighed down with a generous pile of Christmas gifts. Date: c.1930

WW1 - Attack on London - St. Batholomew the Great
circa 1910s

Chair-mender, News Boy, Flying Pieman and Blackfriar s
Chair-mender, News Boy, Flying Pieman and Blackfriars Bridge. Chair-mender repairing a chair seat with rushes in Punyer Alley 46

The Ruins, Windsor, a Gothic pile built by John Wyatt for the king. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by John Gendall from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1823

Pile game, cock and hen. Bred by Joseph Colgrove. Cockerel first prize at Crystal Palace and Birmingham 1886. Hen first prize at the Dairy Show 1885

Brown-breasted red game birds, Gallus gallus domesticus, bred by C. W. Brierley. The Statue, winner of the challenge cup at Birmingham 1886 and Little Queen, winner of the cup at Liverpool 1887

Hopstore CWGC Cemetery, Vlamertinghe, Belgium
The village, known as Vlam to the Tommies, was a pile of rubble by 1918 but the area of the Cemetery was just outside the range of the medium guns and the hop building, in the background here

Ceramics artist filling in outline print on china
Ceramics artist filling in outline print for enamelling china. 1953

Cartoon, The Dream of the Cigarette Card Collector
Cartoon, The Dream of Cigarette Card Collector. 1923

Cartoon, Henry Irvings return from America - The peoples idol is none the worse for his sojourn in America. Showing the famous actor-manager smoking a cigar and sitting on a pile of money. 1885

Pneumatic machine and batteries
Pneumatic machine 3, and batteries 1, 2. Physique: Pile a auge, pile a colonnes, machine pneumatique. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard

Electrical machine, Voltaic pile, Leyden jar
Electrical machine 1, Voltaic pile 2, Leyden jar 3, and electrical stool 4. Physique: machine electrique, pistolet de Volta, bouteille de Leyde, tabouret electrique

Pile-driving and drawing machinery
Charles Valoues pile-driving machine used at Westminster Bridge 1739 and Joseph Bramahs pile-drawing machine. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

People looking at bullet holes after Sidney Street Siege
People looking at bullet holes after the Sidney Street Siege, London. 1911

Gold bricks on display, Dawson City, Yukon, NW Canada
Gold bricks on display from the Klondike gold rush, Bank of British North America, Dawson City, Yukon, NW Canada. Date: late 1890s

Busts of the Period - O P Q Philander Smiff
Figaro Cartoon, Busts of the Period - O P Q Philander Smiff - the most unreliable historian

Bushels of oyster shells at Hampton, Virginia, USA
200, 000 bushels of oyster shells piled up at Hampton, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1915

Haitian Insurrection
Insurrection at Haiti, an insurgent camp at the suburb market of the town of Cap-Haitien during the various political struggles that occurred in Haiti at the time

Man with avocados, Santa Marta, Colombia, South America
Man with avocados for sale, Santa Marta, Colombia, South America. Date: 1922

Putting up flood barricades, Bermondsey, London
Putting up sandbags as flood barricades in Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey, London. 1928

Base Post Office near fighting lines, WW1
A Base Post Office on the Western Front near fighting lines, 31 October 1914, First World War. 1914

Woman saving paper during WW1
Woman saving paper during the First World War. 1914-1918

River Thames flooding at high tide, London
The River Thames in London, flooding at high tide, washing against sandbags two feet above road level

Pile of captured guns and other items, Paris, WW1
A pile of captured guns and other items in a Paris street, crowned by a triumphant French cockerel, towards the end of the First World War. circa 1918

The Road Sweeper. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

Postcard booklet, workers cutting sugar cane, USA
Postcard booklet, workers cutting, shocking and stocking in the sugar cane fields, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Postcard booklet, making syrup, Dixieland, USA
Postcard booklet, making syrup for hot cakes in the open air, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

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