Saving Collection (page 9)

Safe deposit vault
National City Bank, New York City. Safe deposit vault interior at the National City Bank, Canal Street and Broadway, New York

Mevagissey coastguard
The uniformed coastguard at Mevagissey, Cornwall, England, sits in his office and takes a phone call, perhaps an emergency call

Noahs Ark - Animals and the Ark

Bones Make Explosives - World War II poster
World War Two poster encouraging civilians on the Home Front to save all bones for salvage as they can be made into bombs for the war effort

Hand knitteds conserve coupons
Instructions on how to make a ribbed sweater with peep bo front, and a green jerkin with full pink sleeves and detachable dicky-collar

Bones Wanted for Salvage - World War II poster
Ministry of Information poster during World War Two encouraging people to save bones for salvage

Temples of Philae, being moved to prevent submersion, the Tutunkhamun Exhibition in London part-financed this operation. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Animal rescue squad WWII
Women of the Animal Rescue Squad saving a cat from the rubble during World War II

Aberdyfi (Aberdovey), Wales - Motor Launch
The Motor Launch The Pride of the Midlands, bound for Aberdovey (now Aberdyfi). The three portraits above the photograph of the boat are of the Skipper, the Mate and the ships Engineer

Post Office Savings Bank
A coal carter opening an account with Her Majesty at the Post Office Savings Bank. In 1861 the Palmerston government set up the Post Office Savings Bank

Remarkable Life-saving Body Suit
A rather remarkable and very unusual life-saving body suit, comprising of flexible leg and domed upper section, complete with breathing tube and flotation ring

Los Angeles firemen in new lifesaving suits
Los Angeles Harbour sea-going firemen of the LA City No.2 testing out new lifesaving suits in the water

Saving the processional cross - The Blitz
Saving the processional cross from a church demolished by a night raiders bomb in a London suburb on 5th September, 194"

Appledore lifeboat, Devon
View of the local lifeboat and crewmen sailing offshore at Appledore, on the North Devon coast

Victoria Cross, The New Order of Valour
Special colour supplement from the ILN, June 1857 to commemorate the introduction of the Victoria Cross, a new order of valour first bestowed by Queen Victoria upon Crimean War veterans

River bed gold sifting on the Turon, Australia
River bed sifting on the Turon river, a sketch from the Turon gold fields, New South Wales. The pump is lowered 12 feet from the surface of the river

George William Manby
GEORGE WILLIAM MANBY Inventor of equipment for saving life at sea

Saving Guns at Maiwand
BATTLE OF MAIWAND Saving the guns : though the British force was defeated by the Afghans, they were able to retreat to Kandahar in relatively good order

Lifeboat on Roadside
Shiver my timbers! What a strange roadside sight! Once the pride of Falmouth, Cornwall, this old lifeboat lay for many years in quiet country lane in Surrey

Girl Saved from Water
A little girl is rescued from an early and watery grave by a brave and kindly lifeboatman

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