Portable Collection (page 5)

An electric portable cleaner
Domestic vacuum cleaners began to appear in households from around 1907. This particular version seems ahead of its time

Police Motorcyclist
Metropolitan Police officer on his motorcyle talking on his portable radio

Soldiers tabloid first aid pack
Medical equipment in a handy portable case made for soldiers, war correspondents, airmen and explorers. The kit contains Kola compound that supresses hunger and thirst

Admiral McDonalds Folding Boat, 1878
Engraving of Admiral McDonalds Patent Folding Boat, as exhibited at the Crystal Palace, London, November 1878. This lightweight

Refrigerator Advert
Kelvinator refrigerator- freezer, with its roll-out freezer basket, breakfast bar, roll-out fruit basket and portable bottle basket

Industry / Ice / Refrigerate
A Refrigerator or portable Ice-house with sliding and perforated shelves for preserving wines, fruits and provisions

Advertisement for Corona Typewriter, DS Butler Ltd, Derby
Advertisement for Corona, The Queen of Portable Typewriters, Price Twelve Guineas, from sole local agent DS Butler Ltd, 37-39 London Road, Derby

Selling Hot Potatoes
A woman wearing a shawl cooks potatoes to sell them hot on the street; a man digs in his pocket for some coins while a boy warms his hands on the side of the portable stove

Portable Searchlight
A soldier equipped with a portable searchlight can detect an enemy at night - though in this instance, all he has detected is a poacher trapping a rabbit

Harpist and Organist
Two ladies, one playing the harp, the other a portable organ

Portable Microphone
Film-making with a portable microphone, in the early days of sound cinema : a scene during the making of Schloss Hubertus in Germany

Radiola Portable, 1924
The Portable (well, sort of) RADIOLA receiver, loud speaker and amplifier

Lighting / Electric Torch
ELECTRIC TORCH Advertisement by the Portable Electric Light Co. for a dry battery electric torch

Portable Radio Foreseen
The Walkman is foreseen as a city gent is absorbed by his portable wireless; strange how potent cheap music can be

Disinfecting a home - 2
DISINFECTING A HOME Infected bedlinen is fumigated in a horse-drawn portable Stove to destroy germs of tuberculosis or cholera

Portable Sun Dial
Combined PORTABLE SUN-DIAL, with a compass so that it can be correctly oriented : made by Butterfield, an Englishman working in Paris

Arquebusier 17th Century
An Arquebusier insert the powder into his Arquebus, a portable long-barrelled pre- cursor to the musket, which had a wheel or match-lock action and a hook-shaped butt

Mughal Emperor
A Mughal emperor of India, seated on his portable throne

Using a Good Companion
This lady is using an Imperial Good Companion Model portable, which cost her nineteen pounds and fifteen shillings, including the carrying case

Customs / May Day / Maypole
May-Day festival, with portable maypole, at Eastington, Gloucestershire

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