Rack Collection (page 4)

Russia - Glazier Date: 1902

Lourdes, Frances - Funicular Railway - Viaduct du Pic du Jer Date: 1910s

Lourdes, Frances - Funicular Railway - Grand Jer Date: 1906

Cambodia - Water Buffalo and hanging elephants feet
Cambodia - A small settlement with Water Buffalo and a rack of hanging elephants feet - destined to become fashionable western furniture items - (see picture 10528268). Date: circa 1910s

A Russian Stagecoach Journey. Date: circa 1900s

A Single Horse Family Omnibus - January, 1905. Date: 1905

Ceylon Tea - withering the green leaf - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1920s

Vietnam - Chinese Butcher
Vietnam - A Chinese Butcher Date: circa 1910s

Rigi-Kulm, Switzerland
Rigi, Switzerland - visible is the rack railway running from Arth-Goldau and Vitznau, operated by the Rigi-Bahnen. The Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn started operation on May 21

Shop assistant
People You See. Shop assistant. From Teddy Bear (13 June 1970)

Scene on a country road, Wachau valley, Austria
Scene on a country road in the Wachau valley, Lower Austria. A car stops near a small herd of cattle, and some of the passengers get out to stretch their legs. Date: 1962

View of a cave at La Cave, Dordogne, France
A woman poses for her photograph outside a cave at La Cave, in the Dordogne, south west France. Date: circa 1951

Horse and foal in a car park, Ireland
A horse and its foal in a pub car park in Ireland. (1 of 3) Date: 1966

Camp site in Belgium
A busy camp site somewhere in Belgium with tents, a caravan, parked cars and a few people. Date: 1957

Pictorial card rack

Kitchen utensils hanging below a spice rack with mint, caraway, thyme, and sage jars. Photo shows 6 utensils including a small pan, meat fork, icing spatula, whole and slotted spoons

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with hot plate 1938
Heres something New! The main cooker is fitted with the " P.R" hot plate closet in lieu of usual plate rack, and thus provides an enclosed space in which food or plates

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with no stooping
Cooking without stooping. In kitchens where there is more than the usual space available, or where it is desirable to untilize an open-range setting setting the Maintop gas cooker provides a

Ski Poles. Gloves. Skis
Skiing gloves, poles and skis, but no skier? On the snow slopes above Zermatt, Switzerland, with the Rack Railway behind. Date: 1960s

Dainty Breakfast Set
Impress your friends and relatives with this dainty breakfast set, with lovely matching toast rack, tureen, coffee pot and tea pot, cruet set and egg cups etc. Date: 1930s

Air Travel 1960S
Back view of air passengers aboard a Boeing 727 (Lufthansa) aeroplane. Date: late 1960s

Air Steward 1960S
An Air Steward pushes a trolley down the aisle of a Lufthansa Boeing 727 aeroplane, offering passengers light refreshments. Date: late 1960s

Luzern-Stans-Engelberg-Bahn, Switzerland
The Luzern-Stans-Engelberg-Bahn (LSE) - a narrow gauge rack railway in Switzerland connecting Lucerne by Stans with a resort near Engelberg. A view toward the Titlis Mountain in the Urner Alps

Lysander Mercury and Perseus planes, with detachable bomb racks, used for army cooperation during the Second World War. Seen from four different angles. 1941

Blenkinsop Locomotive, 1812
BLENKINSOPs LOCOMOTIVE. Also known as the Salamanca, as it was built in the same year as Wellingtons victory at the Battle of Salamanca. Date: 1812

Swiss Rack Railway at Rigi Kulm, Switzerland. The line ascends Mount Rigi from Arth-Goldau and Vitznau and is operated by the Rigi-Bahnen

Bakers Double Rack Truck
A bakers double rack truck for transporting numerous loaves of bread made from hardwood and wrought iron. (as in the truck is made from hardwood and wrought iron, not the bread!). 1910

Blenkinsop Locomotive
BLENKINSOPs LOCOMOTIVE. Also known as the Salamanca, as it was built in the same year as Wellingtons victory at the Battle of Salamanca

Workshop of H. Trauffer - Davos, Switzerland
The carpentry workshop of carpenter H. Trauffer of Davos, Switzerland, pictures carving a fabulous life-size Saint Bernard dog. Date: circa 1920s

Bonang Players - Bali
The Bonang is a musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan (percussion orchestra). It is a collection of small gongs (sometimes called kettles or pots)

Science lesson, Northfield House School, Leicester
Two boys experimenting with test tubes at Northfield House Junior School, Leicester. Date: 1965

Metropolitan Police scientific investigator
A Metropolitan Police scientific investigator examining evidence from a crime scene

Man with fish for smoking
A man in overalls holding two racks containing fish, ready for smoking in a barn

Old women picking oakum in a Casual Ward
The womens casual ward (vagrants ward) of a workhouse, thought to be at Lambeth, south London. Three women in workhouse uniform sit on benches

Postcard Collectors
A fabulous French postcard depicting two postcard collectors

Fishing nets hanging on racks at Mudeford, Dorset. There is also a pile of lobster and crab pots stacked in the shade of the building on the right. Pencil study by by Raymond Sheppard

Hand Compositor receiving spacing materials
Reserve supplies of spacing material are brought to the hand compositor so that his time is not wasted in journeys to the store at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Compositor and ranks of Chinese Types
The Head Compositor and ranks of Chinese Types at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

A selection of kitchen sundries
A selection of kitchen equipment including kettles, flour sifters, towel airers, vegetable racks and meat safes

Turkish Butcher skinning a sheep
A Turkish butcher skinning a sheep in Constantinople

Rack and Pinion Railway
A Blenkinsop rack rail and spur. Rack and pinion is a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear motion. The circular pinion engages teeth on a flat bar - the rack

Chinese Percussion
A variety of Chinese percussive instruments, including a hanging rack of square bells, a tensioned drum and a percussion instrument in the shape of a tiger

Girls New Hat
An illustration from the late C19th depicting an earlier scene: a little girl in an ermine trimmed coat with cape & muff tries on a new bonnet

Cigarette smoking woman gets into a compartment
A cigarette-smoking woman (a New Woman) joins a cigar smoker and a pipe smoker in a smoking compartment of a railway train. For some reason the men are shocked

Science lesson, Northfield House, Leicester
Teacher helps pupil with his test tube experiment at Northfield House Junior School, Leicester

Glass Pedlar C15 France
A man sells glass bottles, ingeniously using a vertical tree branch as a bottle rack

C16th Hatters
Two hatters and an apprentice are involved in some of the various processes involved in hatmaking

Bathing Baby / Scannell
Baby in the bath

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