Sheets Collection

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Whistle and I ll Come 2
Oh, whistle, and I ll come to you ! The thing in Parkinss hotel room

Mother Shipton Soap
An advertisement for Mother Shipton Soap showing a Wise Woman sitting with her basket of sparkling white linen - almost as white as her pet cat!

Advert for Redcliffe Crown Galvanized Iron 1888
Advertisement in a trade book for 1888, Redcliffe Crown, galvanized corrugated iron sheets for roofs. 1888

London Salvage Corps at work with salvage sheets
The London Salvage Corps were financed by the Insurance Companies and were not part of the London Fire Brigade. However they operated in concert with the Brigade

Drunk Stockbroker - confused by toilet roll
Drunk Stockbroker - confused by a toilet roll, which he takes to be the ticker tape! (which would have provided him with the latest market prices). Date: circa 1910s

Illustration, Peter, the fox terrier, discovers a fox (White-Ear) has been hiding in the bed. Date: 1912

Public laundry of St. Brigida, Genoa, Italy Date: circa 1890

Paul Kruger, State President of Transvaal as an Ogre
O!. Stephanus Johannes Paulus ( Paul ) Kruger, State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal) (1825-1905) - as an Ogre causing nightmares for various British Politicians of the day

Lingering music sheet cover
Music sheet for Lingering, performed at The Palais de Danse, London. The music was written by T. W. Thurban and the words by John P. Harrington

Cunard Line, Queen Mary table lighter and stationery
CUNARD LINE: RMS Queen Mary Art Deco Rolstar table lighter and several blank sheets of Queen Mary on board stationery

Laundresses, The Return Of The Washhouse
An illustration of some laundresses carrying heavy bundles of sheets and clothing to the wash house. Date: circa 1901

Price's Buttermilk Soap Advertisement
An advertisement poster for Price's promoting their buttermilk soap, the image portrays a woman admiring her sheets having been washed with the product. Date: circa 1921

Omo Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for R. S. Hudson Limited, promoting Omo, a bleacher, cleanser and purifier for household fabrics

The Linen Hall Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Robinson and Cleaver Ltd, promoting exquisite Irish linen and the Linen Hall. The image shows a woman laying in bed, with a tea tray

Japan - Dyeing Factory
Dyeing Factory, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - bed covers
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - pair of bed covers, 82 x 62 inches

Noyes Bros Advertisement
An advertisement for Noyes Bros Ltd, providers of interior panelling, specifically promoting Gypsboard fibrous plaster sheets. The photo shows a fully furnished interior of a home. Date: circa 1924

Two schoolboys in a dormitory at Atlantic College (United World College of the Atlantic), St Donat's Castle, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, South Wales. Date: 1969

Egyptian wooden sarcophagus
Inner wooden coffin of Henutmehyt, covered in gold leaf. Decorated with representations of different deities as a winged goddess Nut, the boat of the Sun god and other protective deities

Rolling the steel for pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

Exterior of the publishing office of The Illustrated London News, at 198 Strand on the corner with Milford Lane London. When it was first established the weekly news magazine was publishing every

Advertisement for Parozone showing a mother, in a pristine white dress, saying goodnight to her little boy, who is in a bed with pristine white sheets

Field gun and soldier statues, Plugstreet Experience
The gun and the statues, which are cut-outs made from steel sheets, are in the grounds of the Plugstreet 14-18 Experience (Interpretation Centre)

Wandsworth Prison Laundry
Inmates at work in the laundry at Wandsworth Prison, London. Some are irong and folding large sheets. Date: circa 1945

The Illustrated London News - publishing office 1843
Saturday scene at The Illustrated London News publishing office. 1843

Play on words
Three sheets in the wind. Postcard illustration of woman in a red dress pegging clothes on a line on a windy day. CW Faulkner postcard series 154. Date: 1902

Shower partitions at public baths, Moston, Manchester
Shower partitions at public baths, Moston Baths, Manchester, constructed in double-sided galvanised steel Plymax with sealed edges. Date: 1936

Plymax cross-section, plywood board from Venesta Limited
Photograph of a Plymax cross-section, a plywood board trademarked by Venesta Limited. The boards are covered on one side or both sides with metal sheets

Dressing cubicles at public baths, Sittingbourne, Kent
Dressing cubicles at public swimming baths, Sittingbourne, Kent, constructed in double-sided galvanised steel Plymax. Date: 1936

Music Sheet - Call Me Madam
Music sheet for the song, (I Wonder Why?) You re Just in Love from the 1953 film Call Me Madam by Irving Berlin starring Ethel Merman. Date: 1953

Music Sheet - Tutankhamen - Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney
Music sheet cover for the song, In the Day of Tut-ankh-amen written and composed by Reg Low and J. P. Long, and sung by Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar in the Andre Charlot revue, Rats

Cover design, Girl and Cupid by Herbert Pizer
Cover design, Pan magazine, Girl and Cupid by Herbert Pizer. 1920

The Bloomer Valse and the Bloomer Redowa
Promotional music sheet for The Bloomer Valse and The Bloomer Redowa dedicated to Mrs Colonel Bloomer. 1855. A valse is the French term for waltz

The Army Lancers, by H L D Arcy Jaxone
Promotional music sheet for The Army Lancers by H. L. DArcy Jaxone. Arranged on melodies of celebrated Barrack Room Ballads, which were published in 1892

Advert for Viyella Sheets in Colours
Advertisement for Viyella Sheets in Colours, modern sheets with warmth -- Summer Colour with Winter Comfort. Date: 1930

Sebastian Cabot Leaves Labrador
Sebastian Cabot, a Venetian explorer, sets sail from Labrador in Northern Canada. Sailing through sheets of ice, various sailors on board fish over the side of the boat

Three cats playing the piano on a greetings postcard
Three cats playing the piano and turning the pages on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Fourteen colour plates are used to make the engraving for the special supplements, here you can see the different print machines used for each colour that is done separately. Date: 1881

Printing the original weekly newspaper The Graphic. Date: 1881

Wooden Twin Bed Date: 1880

Home delivery room demonstration
A room as it should be prepared for a maternity case by a Queens (district) nurse. Features a bed with a large pillow and sheets turned back, newspaper and bucket on floor and cot to one side

16th century Bookbinders
Stages in the binding of a books : stitching the gatherings, flattening the sheets for insertion. Date: 16th century

SPRATTS PET SHOP WINDOW
Ss Kresge & Co pet shop window advertising gold fish, Spratts dog cakes, popular music sheets and the Pet Department in the basement. Date: 1930s

Madrid, Spain - Segovia Bridge over the Manzanares River
Madrid, Spain - El Puente de Segovia over the Rio Manzanares. Designed by Juan de Herrera under commission of King Philip II of Spain, it was built from 1582 to 1584 with a total of nine spans

Girl and doll in bed on a New Year card with white and gold ornate border. Date: circa 1890s

Princes Dock - Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay) - commissioned in 1880. Date: circa 1910s

Return of the hot water bottles 1946
Production of the rubber synthetic hot water bottle in Streatham factory, London, post Second World War. During the War, rubber was reserved for making tires for military trucks

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