Protective Collection (page 3)

Assyria / Warrior Costume
ANCIENT ASSYRIA Protective clothing and weaponry of Ancient Assyrian Warriors

Beekeeping 1960S
A beekeeper wearing protective gloves, jacket, hat and veil removes the Queen Excluder grid from the Brood Box

Eye of Shiva
THE EYE OF SHIVA a magical protective sign of the Indians

Welder in action at J & F Pool Ltd, Hayle, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Anti-nuclear power demonstration, Cornwall
Anti-nuclear power protest in Cornwall, with one protester wearing a gas mask and white protective suit. Date: 1970s

Advert for J. B Jacquemin Bros eye protectors
Jacquemins patent eye protectors, lightweight material that clips on the bridge of your nose, and can be worn as well as ordinary glasses

Benefit and Protective Order of Elks - Atlantic City, N. J
Benefit and Protective Order of Elks - National Convention held at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The BPOE is an American fraternal order founded by Joseph M

Communist China - shipbuilding yard workers and technicians with plan, working together to raise standards during the Cultural Revolution era. circa 1960s

Protective colouring for black outs, WWII - hi vis dog
A night time shot illustrating the use of white accessories to ensure visibility during black outs, making pedestrians visible to motorists during the early weeks of the Second World War. Date: 1939

Protective colouring for black outs, WWII
Protective, reflective clothing adopted by civilians to ensure visibility during black outs in the early days of the Second World War. A couple prepared for the hours of darkness to come

Dental moulding room, Claudius Ash, Sons & Co Ltd, Kentish Town, NW London. 1921

Childcare - Incubators for Newborn and Premature babies
Advertising postcard for a French company producing Incubators for newborn and prematurely born infants - exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900

Roman art. Turkey. Military helmet and greaves. Relief. Ephe
Roman art. Turkey. Military helmet and greaves to protect the legs of the soldiers. Relief. Ephesus

Iron armours. 16th century. Holy Roman Empire. German Historical Museum. Berlin. Germany

Turkish cavalry armour. 1550. Iron and leather. Turban helmet neck protector (iron, gold, silver and damascene). 1450-1475. From Iran. Saber from Persia, 1600. German Historical Museum. Berlin

Apulo-Corinthian helmet. 400-350 BC
Apulo-Corinthian helmet. Bronze. 400-350 BC. From Ruvo, Apulia. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Relief depicting a eagle-headed protective spirit. Nimrud
Relief depicting a Eagle-headed protective spirit. 865-860 BC. From Northwest Palace. Nimrud. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Vulture Nekhbet opening their protective wings. Temple of Ha
Vulture Nekhbet opening their protective wings. Polychrome relief in one of the walls of the Temple of Hatshepsut. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt

Hieroglyph on the walls of the Temple of Hatshepsut. At the top is a vulture Nekhbet, opening its protective wings.18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt

Temple of Hatshepsut. Door with polychrome reliefs representing the pharaoh Hatshepsut with masculine attributes. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahri. Egypt

Astronaut equipment, 1969
Illustration indicating the different pieces of clothing and equipment worn by American astronauts Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin for their lunar landing in July 1969. Date: 1969

Two police officers on horseback, London
Two police officers, a man and a woman, on horseback in a London street. They are wearing protective helmets introduced in 1984. Women were appointed to the Mounted Branch in 1970. Date: circa 1984

Woman police officer helmet, Stanley uniform, London
Aerial view of an early Metropolitan Police female officers helmet, part of the Stanley Uniform introduced in 1919. The helmet was made of cork and hard felt, with a large badge on the front

Group photo, munitions factory workers, Hereford, WW1
Group photo of women munitions factory workers in Hereford, together with two early women police officers, including Lilian Maud Newell (back row, towards the right)

RETINNING POTS & PANS
These two young men, wearing protective gloves, are retinning old pots and pans, putting them through a chemical process to remove verdigris (fats and grease) &c Date: 1930s

Gas Attack School
A school in Berlin, Germany, where pupils are taught how to protect themselves against asphixiating gas attacks and how to rescue and revive other people. Date: 1930s

Costume / Asia Minor
ANCIENT ASIA MINOR Protective clothing and weaponry of Warriors and the elaborately patterned clothing of man and a woman of rank. Date: B.C

ARMOUR / 1555
A knight in armour Date: 1555

The Motor Burberry advertisement, 1919
The Motor Burberry, universally recognised as the most perfect safeguard for motoring as it embodies in its design every feature that contributes to health, comfort and protection. Date: 1919

American barb trousers, WW1 cartoon, Heath Robinson
American barb trousers. For enabling troops to extricate themselves from wire entanglements. Another ingenious idea from the imagination of William Heath Robinson Date: 1918

AEG G III German three-man bomber which made its prototype debut in December 1916, and was delivered to KG I in spring 1917

British and French soldiers in gas masks, WW1
Cover design showing a British (right) and a French soldier (left) in their gas masks, to protect them against poison gas on the Western Front. Date: 1915

Men on New Stoughton Wagon, Iowa, USA
Two men on a New Stoughton Wagon with spades in their hands. Photograph by Charles Clinton Stevens of Williams, Iowa, USA. The covering on the horse is probably designed to protect it from flies

Elks Monument, Juneau Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The elk represents the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Milwaukee Lodge 46. The brick base displays advertisements for the lodge

Engraving of firefighter in protective clothing
Engraving of a firefighter in protective clothing, holding a water hose

Two firemen modelling waterproof leggings
Two jovial firemen modelling waterproof leggings

Fire uniform heat tests at Lambeth HQ
Demonstration of the Teled Noflam Protective Suit at Brigade HQ, 29 November 1965. The firefighter is retrieving a motor cycle tyre from a burning oil tray, in crouch position

Attractive Chinese girl with a protective pet dragon ogled by an older man. Date: circa 1902

America in the Field by Heath Robinson, WW1
War Inventions - Not Needed Now! William Heath Robinson imagines America in the field! 2. Barb-pants - to enable infantry to get out of barbed wire. Date: 1918

Waiting for Daddy by Lawson Wood, WW1 postcard
Waiting for daddy. I must take care of mummy now. Illustration on a postcard showing a patriotic little boy wearing a pith helmet

British soldier sitting at roadside, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier sitting on wickerwork shell containers at the side of a road on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

German ammunition left behind, Morval, France, WW1
German ammunition left behind following abandonment of Morval, France, on the Western Front during World War One. The shells can be seen inside their wickerwork protective covering. Date: circa 1916

Harrods advertisement, Leather Cuirass, WWI
Harrods advertisement from 1915, specifically for the O.W. Leather Cuirass, a sort of protective jerkin - waterproof, windproof and when fastened up completely, fully protects ALL the vital organs

Helmet with visor and rosette, WW1
A helmet with a protective visor, and rosette in German colours, used during the First World War. Seen here on display, probably in a museum. Date: 1914-1918

Helmet with protective panel at back, WW1
A helmet with a protective panel at the back, used during the First World War. Seen here on display, probably in a museum. Date: 1914-1918

British soldiers helmet with chainmail, WW1
A British soldiers helmet with protective chainmail, used during the First World War. Seen here on display, probably in a museum. Date: 1914-1918

Firefighter in protective fire gear, WW2
National Fire Service fireman in protective fire gear. Date: 1940s

Decontamination Drill, World War II
Decontamination Drill at the Savoy Hotel in London during World War II. Percy Rommey demonstrates the correct method of undressing a man exposed to gas

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