Queue Collection (page 6)

Crowd at Grotto at Lourdes, France
The crowd awaiting access to the Grotto at Lourdes, France

Funny Postcard - Urgency
A superb humourous postcard depicting a young man taking a long time over his telegram, which has a lot to do with the pretty young girl behind the counter

The Main Post Office, Istanbul. There are different counters for local/ interior post and for International post. A clock above the counter unusually shows the time in two different time zones

Gas Masks, World War II
Group of men queuing to register, probably for the ARP, wearing gas masks during World War II

Education, Schoolchildren, playground
A junior prefect lines up a group of infants in the school playground

How to Brighten Hotel Life: Preventing the Bathroom Boredom
Maid and shoe cleaner dancing to entertain the guests who are waiting to use the bathroom. One of a series specially drawn for The Sketch by Joyce Dennys

Senegal - West Africa - Dakar - The Theatre
The Theatre (French building) at Dakar, Senegal, West Africa

Last Presentations
Debutantes and their familes queue outside Buckingham Palace for the last court presentations to the Queen in March 1958

Night scene outside the gates of Buckingham Palace. Crowds w
Night scene outside the gates of Buckingham Palace during the illness of King George V, showing a queue of people waiting to read the latest bulletin

A Derby night
Illustration by S. Begg showing a long queue of men lining up to enlist. Lord Derby, Director General of Recruiting in 1916 introduced the Derby scheme which encouraged men from the same offices or

Theatre Queue 1930S
A huge crowd of theatre goers queueing outide the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, England, which opened in 1932

Tea for Queue
A kind tea lady hands out cups of hot tea to a crowd of people waiting outside No. 10 Downing Street, London, the official residence of the British Prime Minister of the day

Queueing in Playground
A group of young children queue to climb the ladder in the playground

London Zoo Llama Cart
A llama cart at London Zoo, Regents Park, London. A young Overseer stands in front of the cart and visitors queue to get on the elephant rides in the background

Homage to Louis
When 11-year old Louis returns to Paris, a splendid trosne is built for him at the Porte Saint-Antoine, where people queue to pay him homage. It will all go to his head

Slide Queue
A crush on the steps of a playground slide, as one little girl chickens out and decides to get off!

Russian Paper Sellers
Russian newspaper sellers line up to collect their consignments

Agricultural Commune
Food distribution in an agricultural commune: women and bare-footed children queue for milk

Food Queues in Tomsk
War and revolution combine to bring food shortages throughout Russia : residents of Tomsk, Siberia, queue for meat in the rain

Scene in a Supermarket
A scene in a Tesco supermarket. Many of the items are on special offer and there is quite a long queue at the checkout. There are several promotional signs for Green Shield Stamps

Peoples Militia / Russia
Volunteers sign up for the Peoples Militia in the Tauride Palace

London Soup Kitchen
A little barefoot girl is at the front of the queue at the soup kitchen in the Ratcliff Highway, in the east end of London

Boarding at Gatwick
Passengers boarding a British United Airways (BUA) aeroplane on one of the runways at London Gatwick Airport, Surrey, England

Miners Vote to Strike
Miners queue to vote yes to strike action

Syntax / Rowlandson / Party
Doctor Syntax: Quae Genus committed, with a riotous dancing Party, to the Watch-House

Germany / Soup Kitchen
The poor queue at a state soup kitchen - a symptom of inflation

British Depression Queue
Unemployed working class women queueing for the Dole during the Depression

British Unemployed Men
Unemployed working class men queueing for the Dole during the Depression

Dole Queue 1911
Unemployed workers queue for the dole - the statutory unemployment benefit

Wwii / Ats / Refreshment
A group of women of the A.T.S. along with members of the army, queue at a refreshment van and enjoy a cup of tea during a break from work

Wwii / Ats in Tea Queue
Members of the A.T.S. in overalls queue up for refreshments during a work break

Wwi / Belgian Refugees
Belgian refugees queue for food hand-outs

New Recruits / Derby Day
Following an appeal from Lord Derby, scores of men queue in London to enlist on one of the many Derby Days as they became known

Paris Theatre Queue
Queuing for the cheap seats at a popular theatre in the boulevard du Temple, Pariss theatre district

Daily Issue of Grog
Royal Naval ratings form an orderly queue to receive their daily allowance of GROG - a mixture of rum and water

Cloak Room 1913
Gentlemen in evening dress queue to collect their overcoats from the cloakroom

Food Shortage 1870
Even the animals from the Zoo must queue for their food just like the rest of us Parisians

Paris Bread Shortage
Paris housewives queue at the door of a boulangerie, during a bread shortage which causes fierce rioting and upsets the government Date: November 1794

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