Queues Collection

County Causeway connecting Miamai and Miami Beach, Florida
The County Causeway connecting Miamai and Miami Beach, Florida, USA Date: 1930s

Unceasing stream of pilgrims 1920
Two photographs showing the Unknown Warriors coffin which were the remains of a British service personnel who was killed in World War One, laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, London

Queueing due to reduced bus services, September 1939
Heavy queues in London due to reduced bus services to save fuel in times of spirit rationing, particularly in the mornings as people made their way to work

Paris, France - Debarcadere du Pont d Austerlitz
Very early pictorial postcard from Paris, France - Debarcadere du Pont d Austerlitz (Ferry jetty / Quay alongisde the Austerlitz Bridge)

Food queue during a shortage, London, WW1
Food queue outside a butchers shop in London during a shortage towards the end of the First World War. 1918

Queues at Smithfield Meat Market, London, WW1
Food shortage queues at Smithfield Meat Market, London, 1918, towards the end of the First World War. 1918

A long queue to buy railway tickets - and an opportunity for casual flirtation ! Date: 1872

VETS / ANIMAL DISPENSARY
Queues waiting for admission at the animal dispensary for the poor: Our Dumb Friends League at Victoria, London. (Later named The Blue Cross) Date: circa 1912

Visitors queue in Red Square, Moscow for Lenins Mausoleum. Date: circa 1950s

London by Lester Ralph
Superb caricature of London emphasising its expanding population, Central to the picture is St Pauls Cathedral wearing a police officers helmet over its dome while the surrounding landscape is filled

Strike / Enrolment / 1926
Volunteers queuing at a Foreign Office building to enrol for duties during the General Strike Date: 1926

Princes Theatre
Promotional postcard of Princes Theatre, now the Shaftesbury Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, the last of the eight pre-Great War theatres built in Shaftesbury Avenue. Date: circa 1911

Celebration of the journey of the last tram in Southampton, Hampshire

Effects of taking the waters
The rather adverse effect of taking the waters at Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg !!! Date: circa 1910s

Queues for Esperanto courses in Russia
A large group men and women queue next to a desk where they can enrol in courses to learn Esperanto. Date: Late 19th Century

Metallurgique Motors advertisement, 1911
Advertisement for Metallurgique Ltd of Manchester encouraging visitors to come to their stand at the Olympia Motor Show in 1911 where their cars bodywork would be attracting attention. Date: 1911

National Amusement - The Bus Kitchen 1918
If the ministry of food carries out its latest scheme, there should be plenty of excitement in getting ones dinner from the travelling food kichens

Shopping queue 1948
Lining up to get some fresh fruit, Malmo, Sweden 1948. Date: 1948

British Industries Exhibition, Olympia 1947
An orderly queue forms at the bus stop outside Olympia, in Kensington, Olympia where the 1947 British Industries Fair is being held. 1947

Dunkirk evacuation WWII
Photo shows British troops on a beach near Dunkirk forming into long winding queues ready to take their turn to board the small boats which took them to larger vessels

Tijuana, Mexico - The Mexico / US Border
Cars lined up in queues as people wait to cross between Mexico and the United States at the border crossing at Tijuana

French National Loan
Long queues form when the French government announces an Emprunt (loan) of 429 million francs

The Great Assembly Hall, Ellis Island, New York, 1911
Photograph showing the Great Assembly Hall of the immigration centre on Ellis Island, New York, with a large number of immigrants waiting in queues, 1911

A help yourself grocery - checkout
Photograph taken from a United States supermarket in 1948, where Britains queues and rations are unknown, showing a woman being served at the checkout

A help yourself grocery
Photograph taken from a United States supermarket in 1948, where Britains queues and rations are unknown. The concept of the supermarket where all manner of goods could be bought in one place

Food Shortage Queues
Food shortages are felt throughout Russia, thanks to the war and the revolution : there are long queues for basic foodstuffs

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

French Trailing Robes
L EMBARRAS DES QUEUES - the trailing robes of two fashionably dressed ladies amuse a pair of equally fashionable incroyables

German Dole Queues
Dole queues in Germany (Weimar Republic)

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