Protective Collection

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, polar explorer
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874 - 1922), Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer. Seen here at the age of 40 in windproof garments

Protective Dress
Protective dress worn by French doctors attending plague victims in Marseille and elsewhere

Maintenance worker greasing pivots and slides
A Railway engineer, wearing no discernible protective clothing, greasing the pivots and slides with a grease gun. Photograph by Heinz Zinram. 1950s

The Apiarist - a bee keeper demonstrating the examination of frames of brood

Radiation Therapy / 1928
A group of young boys, wearing protective goggles are subjected to radiation therapy, using ultra violet light

Two women police officers in gas masks, London, WW2
Two women police officers in gas masks in London during the Second World War. One of them is Florence Bragg (joined November 1936). Date: 1940s

Queen Elizabeth II visit coal mine
Queen Elizabeth II dressed in protective white overalls to make her first descent into a coal-mine at Rothes Colliery, Fife, Scotland in 1958

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!

Naval personnel watch H-bomb test, Malden Island
British naval personnel in special protective clothing watch a thermonuclear H-bomb test over Malden Island in the central Pacific Ocean. Date: 1956

Italian soldier in white camouflage, WWI
Camouflage or protective colouring - an Italian soldier during the First World War in white dress rendering him difficult to spot in snowy conditions. 1918

Falconry : Showing Off
A proud falconer shows off his falcon, holding it up in the air on his protective gauntlet glove. Date: 1930s

Thatcher, Sidney Chun, splitting a spar - Marlborough
A thatcher, Sidney Chun (1903-1985), wears protective clothing, including a cricket shin pad, while splitting spars before thatching a roof at Marlborough - date: 1950s

Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmet
A Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmet, as used in wartime

Looking for Queen Bee
Bee keeping - a method of holding a Brood Frame, when looking for the Queen Bee

Womens shingle cap 1929
Shingle cap, made of crocheted silk, with a choice of colours. Date: 1929

Russian soldier in gas mask, eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldier in a rubber gas mask on the eastern front, Russia, during the First World War. The man breathes through a hole in the top of the tin which is filled with charcoal and chemicals

Painting Linoleum - Smartly dressed housewife applying a protective coating onto a linoleum-covered kitchen floor while her children look on. Date: 1923

Defensive Woman
A sketch study of a young woman standing with a defensive posture, as she shields her face with protective arms, her hands clenched. Date: circa 1901

History of Africa. The Congo. Indigenous armed for warfare
History of Africa. 19th century. Indigenous armed for warfare. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Lifebuoy Soap Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Lifebuoy soap, a cleansing safeguard against contagious diseases

Cunard Line, QE2 - celebration album in slip case cover
Cunard Line, Isle of Man Post Office QE2 Farewell Season Celebration. Limited edition 156 of 189 QE2 Farewell Season Celebration large 14.5 x 14 inches album in slip case cover

Jizo statues, Sai No Kawara Park, Hakone, Japan
Jizo statues at Sainokawara (Sai No Kawara) Park, Hakone, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Womens ARP Suit, designed by Harrods
Model wearing Womens Air Raid Precaution suit, designed by Harrods. Captioned, This natty and becoming A.R.P. suit designed by Harrods is zipped up the front

Timucua Indian tribe
History of the United States. 16th century French expedition. Florida. Timucua Indian tribe. Traditional architecture of the indigenous villages, with the installation of a defensive palisade

Italian Sallet. School of Missaglia. Ca. 1500
Italian Sallet. Venetian or Milanese (School of Missaglia). Ca.1500. Armoury. Grandmaster Palace. Valletta. Malta. Date: 2019

Anime armour. Hungarian type. Italian, ca. 1580. Back
Anime, articulated armour. Hungarian type. Italian, ca.1580. Back. Armoury. Grandmaster Palace. Valletta. Malta. Date: 2019

Cuirassier Armour. 17th century. Grandmaster Palace. Valletta. Malta. Date: 2019

Egyptian wooden sarcophagus
Inner wooden coffin of Henutmehyt, covered in gold leaf. Decorated with representations of different deities as a winged goddess Nut, the boat of the Sun god and other protective deities

Lady motorist wearing a quilted full length protective motor-coat against the bad weather designed by Dunhill. Date: 1907

Magic Flute Liebig Music Opera Mozart Die Zauberflote
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WOTAN ENCIRCLES ROCK
Act Three : Loge encircles the rock on which Brunnhilde is sleeping with a protective fire which only a true hero can penetrate (Siegfried will manage it, of course)

MR M, DEATH RAY INVENTOR
Grindell Matthews, the inventor of a death ray which will destroy aircraft or explode munitions depots at a distance Date: 1924

Advert, Surgical Hosiery Co Ltd, Nottingham
Advert, Surgical Hosiery Co Ltd, Russell Street, Nottingham - manufacturers of elastic knee caps, anklets (plain, felted or padded), jock straps, suspenders etc. for all athletes Date: 1933

Vintage 19th century photograph: Baptistery, Duomo and Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy

Vintage 19th century photograph - Gersau is a municipality and district in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland, sitting on the shores of Lake Lucerne

Vintage 19th century photograph - entrance to the St Gotthard tunnel, railway line, Switzerland

Decorating an office building, London
A team of decorators painting the outside of an office building in Central London, working from ladders with no protective head gear. Date: circa 1950s

Muffled against the deadly bacilli in Manchuria, a doctor fully masked and a sanitary official, wearing a lint mask soaked in carbolic acid. Date: 1911

Village scene - Nunnington in Yorkshire, wooden bridge
Village scene - Nunnington in Yorkshire with wooden pedestrian bridge over the river. Vintage 19th century photograph

Farm workers picking tea, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, Russia
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Russian Orthodox catholic church, Moscow, Russia. Vintage 19th century photograph

Adelaide Australia, c. 1900-1910 city centre King William St
Adelaide Australia, c.1900-1910 city centre King William St with trams

Street scene with mosque and minarets, Cairo. Vintage 19th century photograph

Two young women and a mosquito net. Vintage 19th century photograph

New protective water-spray 1903
The latest German novelty for protecting firemen from flames. Water is fed through a branch from a hose which the fireman carries for playing upon flames

Cartoon, John Bull Guards his Pudding -- expressing a combination of patriotism and Christmas-themed tradition, John Bull stands with his bulldog and rifle

Tally ho at the London Hippodrome, through the splash pane
The grand finale of Tally-ho, the latest water spectacle at the London Hippodrome as viewed by the audience through the splash pane - glass barriers, which rose up to encircle the arena

Boys playing American football. Date: circa 1970s

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