Punched Collection

Pink Court Shoes 1948
A pink high heeled court shoe with peep toes, punched hole decoration and winged heel detail - hence the name Pegasus

John Logie Baird - demonstrates the first Television. Date: 1925

RMS Titanic - cigar case recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - a silver cigar case of rectangular outline with rounded corners

Woman wearing felt homburg hat. Date: 1940

Scotch Carpet Loom, Glasgow 1843
A weaver sits at a hand-operated Scotch carpet loom at a Glasgow carpet factory. The pattern is created using Jacquard punched cards which travel across the top of the loom. Date: 1843

Jacquard Apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham 1843
Jacquard punched coded card apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham. The arrangement of the holes in successive cards determined the pattern produced in the lace-making machine to which

Joseph-Marie Jacquard
JOSEPH-MARIE JACQUARD French inventor of loom, using punched cards Date: 1752 - 1834

Various Shoes / Shaw / 1350
A selection of Piked shoes with long uppers and buckled ankle straps possibly ornamented with embroidery or punched outs designs

Torah crown inlaid with semiprecious stones. Poland, ca. 1729. Silver, repousse?, cast, punched, engraved, and partly gilt, semiprecious stones. Inscribed in Hebrew with words from Proverbs

MORSE, Samuel (1791-1872). North American painter and physicist, telegraphs inventor. Morse telegraph receiving station using punched tape Movilleron, early 20th c

Sensations of the Times We Live In by George Studdy
What it feels like to read that another ship has been sunk. A metaphorical view of bad news received on the home front during the early months of the First World War

Satire on Irish Home Rule - Husband punched by wife (who in Green symbolises one side of the Irish struggle). The Irish Home Rule Movement came to an end at the outset of World War One

Census tabulation in former Lambeth workhouse
Data from the 1931 census being transferred to punched cards in the former Lambeth workhouse - presumably the one on Princes Road (now Black Prince Road), Lambeth, south London

A Kimball Punched Card Machine
The punched cards manufactured by a Kimball machine were attached to merchandise and were used to provide machine-readable sales data. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Patent Pump Shoes
Shiny black patent pump shoe with punched brogue vamp and chunky heel

SHOES
Leather court shoe banded with calf, calf sandal finely stripped with white, calf shoe with buckled slingback, town shoe in calf and suede at Charles Jourdan, and punched

Census counting machine
Counting and tabulating machines used in the 1911 census. Punched cards, where different combinations of holes represented a different fact on the census sheet were then fed into the counting

Shoes by Lotus 1938
Hand-fashioned Spring shoes for women by Lotus: a high heeled suede court shoe, a shoe with punched out designs & two styles of heeled lace- up

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