Rack Collection

The Kino Cinema, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Kino Cinema in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. This was the towns first cinema. Cycle racks for the use of patrons were a feature. circa 1935

White Star Line pipe rack with drawers
A wooden item, possibly a pipe rack, with two drawers, from the White Star Line cruise liner company

Swiss Mountain Railway
The Swiss have more mountains than most people - and more railways to carry you up them. This is the electric rack- railway of Gernergrat, starting at Zermatt

Typesetter at work
A compositor at a the Lund Humphries print works places a small type glyph on a forme rack, finishing a page of imposing surface text prior to inking and printing. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Blacksmith shoeing a Metropolitan Police horse
A blacksmith shoeing a Metropolitan Police horse. There are discarded horseshoes on the floor, and more hanging from a rack on the wall. Date: circa 1960s

Carnaby Street Girl
A " hip chick" in sunglasses chooses a red mini dress from a rack of colourful outfits

Advert for Terrys exerciser for men 1939
Christmas gift ideas from Herbert Terry exercisers, including steelstrand expander, golfer pocket wrist exerciser, spring grip dumbbells

Seaside shops at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Seaside shops at The Albion corner in Walton-on-the-Naze, on the north Essex coast. 1970

Honeymoon taxi / W H Robinson
The best man need no longer grovel under back axles to attach boots and horseshoes etc. The Honeymoon taxi comes pre-prepared

Food Served on a Flight
An Airline Steward and Air Hostess serve a roast meal to flight passengers

Interior of ticket office at London Bridge railway station
The interior of the ticket booking office at London Bridge railway station. The clerks serve customers through windows at the right

Victoria College, Alexandria - Chemistry Laboratory
Part of the Chemistry Laboratory at the Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt

Fishermen on the River Volga at Samara
Fishermen relaxing after a hard days work on the River Volga at Samara, Russia

Poe / Purloined Letter
THE PURLOINED LETTER " Dupin stepped to the card rack & took the letter."

Toast rack, egg dish, sardine box, caviar box, pickle frame, etc. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Carnaby Street Scene
CARNABY STREET Selecting postcards from a rack outside the " Lord Kitcheners" boutique

PIANO-TYPE FIRE ENGINE
Piano type manual fire-engine, named after a resemblance of the shape of the bodywork to that instrument. Nozzles and branch-pipes were carried on brackets on the main frame

Zermatt Mountain Rly
The Brig-Visp-Zermatt mountain railway operates on the rack and pinion system of Roman Abt

Contrasting Bathroom

WW2 - Home Front - children from the Buckingham Gate Central School, evacuated to Handcross, West Sussex, lay out herbs in Drying shed (a converted boiler house) at Nyman s, Handcross

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - Mt Adams Inclined Railway
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - The Mount Adams Incline was a funicular, or inclined railway, located in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Mount Adams

White Star Line, First Class six division toast rack. 4ins. x 5ins

White Star Line, First Class, six division silver plated toa
White Star Line, First Class six division silver plated toast rack. 6ins

Skiers and the Matterhorn (Mont Cervin), Switzerland - near Riffelberg, a railway station on the Gornergrat railway, a rack railway which links the resort of Zermatt with the summit of

Imperial Airways Scylla Air Liner Saloon - flirst flight in 1934, retired in 1940. A British four-engined 39-seat biplane airliner designed and built by Short Brothers Date: circa 1935

White Star Line, First Class silver plated toast rack
White Star Line, First Class six division silver plated toast rack. 6ins

White Star Line - assorted metal souvenirs
White Star Line - metal souvenirs from RMS Homeric, Majestic, Doric and Britannic. Ashtray with five ridges for cigarettes. Ashtray with four ridges for cigarettes

The Pilatus Railway - Approach to the Eselwand tunnel
The Pilatus Railway (Pilatusbahn, PB) - a mountain railway in Switzerland, the steepest rack railway in the world. Approach to the Eselwand tunnel. Date: 1902

A range of DIY ideas for the home, including a vacuum cleaner storage rack, an office area in the kitchen, and a "husband's corner" in a converted larder. Date: 1954

North American SNJ-5B Texan N3259G - 43736
North American SNJ-5B Texan N3259G / 43736 (msn 88-15677) Modified with two 30mm machine guns and a bomb rack mounted below as an SNJ-5B. Date: circa 2000

African orphan behind weapons
A Mozambiquan orphan boy stands behind a rack of g-3 machine pistols belonging to Portuguese colonial soldiers who murdered his parents in the midst of the Portuguese Colonial War (19611974)

Man International Newspapers Display Soho London
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Newsagents
A typical small high street newsagents, displaying adverts for tobacco, cigarettes, and the News of the World sunday newspaper Date: 1970s

Khyber Pass - Dead Afghan Frontier Raider
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

A lady kitted out for a cycling trip in warm coat and long socks standing alongside a magnificent bicycle made for two, which is heavily laden with tent and belongings. Date: circa 1920s

Revellers in costume at a masked ball in a large theater. Partygoers dressed as a monk, Falstaff, harlequin, Turk, violinist, etc

Model of John Blenkinsops rack-rail engine. Being a steam locomotive propelled by a toothed wheel engaging in a rack on one of the rails

Model of Matthew Murrays steam locomotive propelled by a toothed wheel engaging in a rack on one of the rails, used 1812-1835. Date: circa 1900

Musket racks, laboratory tent and officers tents
18th century military tents: horse or rack to support firelocks 1, 2, 3, muskets on the rack 4, laboratory tents belonging to the artillery 5, field officers tent or marquis 6

Young woman cooking in a kitchen Date: circa 1990s

Pioneer Lobby, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, USA
Pioneer Lobby, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- the pioneer west in modern splendour. Date: circa 1940s

Albatros L. 72c Albis D-1140
Albatros L.72c Albis D-1140 (msn 10108) of the Hamburger Fremdenblatt newspaper. The L.72 was most likely studied as a bomber during the early secret German rearmament programs

Lugano, Switzerland - Monte San Salvatore funicular
circa 1910s

Woman Broils Steak Date: 1954

AIR TRAVEL 1960S
Happy passengers aboard a Boeing 727 (Lufthansa) aeroplane. Date: late 1960s

HOME MADE CLOTHES RACK
A home-made drying rack, made from coat hangers and light rods, an ingenious way of drying underwear etc. in the days before tumbledryers. Date: 1930s

Porter (Petherick)
London characters: in these days of hatboxes, parasols, dressing cases and all, the STATION PORTER takes them from cab to train and puts them in the luggage rack for you. Date: circa 1870

Open Top Tram (Toast Rack), Thought to be at Fleetwood, Blackpool, Lancashire. Date: 1910s

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