Shelves Collection

Dachshund on a bookshelf
Unusual Friends - Dachshund on a bookshelf. 1950s

Teenage barmaid, Halfway House, Rame, Cornwall
Teenage barmaid at the Halfway House, Rame, Cornwall. circa 1980s

Kellys Cellar, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Scene inside Kellys Cellar, a public house in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

St Bartholomews Hospital, London - The Museum
A view of the medical museum at St Bartholomews Hospital in the City of London. The room is packed with shelves and display cases containing medical specimens, most of them in glass jars

Gallis restaurant, Ignacio, Marin County, California, USA
Gallis bar and restaurant, Ignacio, Marin County, California, USA -- offering excellent food and wine. Date: circa 1950s

Victorian style domestic interior with fireplace
A Victorian style domestic interior with fireplace, and different patterns everywhere you look

Thomas Hearne / R Grave
THOMAS HEARNE English historian and antiquarian Date: 1678 - 1735

Scene in the International Stores, Crediton, Devon, with two middle-aged women chatting in an aisle. The photograph dates from before decimalisation of the currency -- tins of peaches are priced at

General Store at Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir
The general store at the Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. Jars of sweets feature prominently on its shelves

18th Century Laboratory
Though the enlightenment is revolutionising science, this lab resembles an alchemists workplace : books by Paracel- -sus and Boerhaave are on the shelves. The shop is beyond

Unusual Bed Cupboard
A sleeping cupboard with seven shelves for seven people, plus the essential ladder!

Shop interior, Egypt Date: circa 1900s

British Museum - new reading-room 1857
Interior of the new reading-room in the British Museum, London. Date: 1857

French Happy Families - Bistro
French Happy Families - La Famille Lavinasse, Father, Bistro. early 20th century

Edwardian fireplace with ornaments. circa 1908

Aztec Statuettes - Idols - In the National Museum of Mexico, Mexico City. Date: 1910s

Cover design, Do it yourself, January 1966 - wall units you can make Date: 1966

Les Rendez-vous De Madame De Z. Part VI
Part VI of a series of sketches which shows a man standing by four tiers of shelves laden with pears, with his mouth agape. Date: circa 1901

Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctic
Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition - important archive of 52 negatives taken by Lt. Henry Birdie Bowers during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition that claimed the lives of Scott

Making vegetable dishes etc by hand, Alfred Meakin
Making vegetable dishes etc by hand Date: 1913

Making tea cups by machinery, Alfred Meakin
Making tea cups by machinery Date: 1913

Finishing pottery previous to firing, Alfred Meakin
Finishing pottery previous to firing in Bisque oven Date: 1913

Swayne's apparatus for rearing silk worms, and a silk loom Date: 19th century

Queen Anne Red Lacquer Cabinet
An illustration of a A Queen Anne Red Lecquer Cabinet. In the possession of Anthony Horderns Fine Art Gallery. The cabinet is decorated in relief in the Chinese manner

Elegant Edwardian reception room with polished wooden table, chaise longue, large family photographic portrait over the mantelpiece and neat shelves of leather-bound volumes. Date: 1912

Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author -- a large book open at a page of architectural illustrations in the study of his home, Plas Penrhyn, Wales

Tony Benn, Labour politician, sitting at his desk
Tony Benn (Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, 1925-2014), Labour politician, former Cabinet Minister and currently President of the Stop the War Coalition

Comic postcard, Woman at a lending library Date: 20th century

Advert, Atwater Kent Model 20 Radio. 1926

Drying tea indoors, China. Date: 1851

Bonzo toys on sale in a London shop, Christmas 1924
Plush toys of Bonzo, the cartoon dog created by George Studdy in The Sketch magazine, lined up for sale in a London store, . Christmas 1924

Roanoid bakelite shelf and brackets in marbled cream. Date: 1930s

The Jam Cupboard
Line drawing of a cupboard, shelves groaning with an assortment of jars containing homemade jam. Date: c. 1930

Hat makers at work. circa 1800

Ladies reading books in a library. early 19th century

Gourmet kitchen. early 19th century

Placing jam jar on a shelf
Cook placing jars of jam and preserves on kitchen shelves. Illustration from the Womans Home Companion July 1923. Artist anon. Date: 1923

Typical kitchen, Valdepenas, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, with bottles of wine and sherry lining the walls. Date: circa 1940

Chemist shop, Puerto de la Luz, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Chemist shop interior (Manager, Julian Pascual), Puerto de la Luz, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. circa 1910

John Tussaud in studio 1905 John Tussaud in his studio 1905
John Tussaud at work in his modelling studio. Date: 1905

Interior of the reading room at the London Library, in St. Jamess Square. Date: 1900

Kings Library, Buckingham House 1775
Interior of Kings Library, Buckingham House. Date: 1775

New sorting-room at General Post Office 1846
New Inland department of the General Post Office in St. Martins-le-Grand in London. Date: 1846

STOCK ROOM SHELVES
The store manager selects a cardboard box from a shelf, one of many identical boxes in this typical stockroom or factory store. Date: 1960s

PUPPETS & DOLLS PUPPETS & DOLLS
Rather spooky dolls and puppets, staring out from the shelves at Welsch & Co toy shop, probably in Germany. Date: 1920s

SOCIAL / LONDON GIN SHOP
Tom and Jerry at a London Gin Shop, drinking Blue Ruin with a variety of fellow-customers. Date: 1820

INTERIOR OF MOBILE SHOP
Interior of mobile grocer shop van with shelves stacked with tins, packets and jars Date: 1950s

Villiage shop 1867
Long established shop with the shopkeeper starting as an apprentice and taking over the company many years later. Date: 1867

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