Steel Collection (page 48)

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Niagara Falls from Steel Arch Bridge. Date c1900

Bessemer steel plant and rolling mills. Lake Superior Corpoation, Sault, Ontario, Canada

Steel bridge at Higashibori, Osaka. Japanese print shows people crossing a bridge on foot and on horseback. Date between 1850 and 1900

Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. Date 1942 Oct

Whirlpool Rapids and Lower Steel Arch Bridge, Niagara Falls, New York. Date c1898

The successful, romantic drama, A grip of steel. Date c1899

Shear and Tilt Hammers at Fitzalan Steel Works, Sheffield, Y

Cutting Ivory Handles with a Circular Saw at a Sheffield Ste
A man cuts ivory knife handles using a belt-driven circular saw at a Sheffield steel works. Two large tusks are at his side. Date: 1844

Forging Razor Blades at a Sheffield Steel Works, Yorkshire

A Freighter of the Great Lakes - Fort William, Canada
A Freighter of the Great Lakes - Fort William, Ontario, Canada. Lake freighters, or Lakers, are bulk carrier vessels that ply the Great Lakes. This Laker if the J P Morgan Jr

Sissons sinks advertisement, 1950s
Advertisement for Sissons stainless steel sinks, bringing gleaming glamour to your kitchen. c.1950

Framing and plating the hull of a ship, WW1
Framing and plating the middle portion of a ships hull during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Henry Steel Olcott - 4
HENRY STEEL OLCOTT American co-founder, with Blavatsky and Judge, of the Theosophical Society : occultist and psychical researcher. In 1906. Date: 1832 - 1907

Henry Steel Olcott - 3
HENRY STEEL OLCOTT American co-founder, with Blavatsky and Judge, of the Theosophical Society : occultist and psychical researcher. Photo 1891. Date: 1832 - 1907

Russian troops halted on Balkan Front, WW1
Russian troops halted on the road on the Balkan Front during the First World War. They have been issued with French pattern steel helmets. Date: September 1916

Advertisement for Oktis Corset Shields
An advertisement for Oktis corset shields, which prevent the snapping of a corset steel and double the life of your corset. Ideal holiday wear. How did we ever manage without them? Date: 1913

Russian Department Store
Inside G.U.M. department store, the largest in Moscow, Russia. It was built by Alexander Pomerantsev and boasts an elegant steel framed glass roof. Date: built 1890 - 1893

CAT SPLASH
A thirsty cat causes a splash when it sticks its paw under the tap over the kitchen sink! Date: 1960s

Steel Halberd
A steel halberd, used in all civic processions at Berwick- on-Tweed, Northumberland, England. Dated 1685, the right hand piece displays the town emblem, a bear and a witch elm Date: 1685

Locomotive Construction
A brand new giant locomotive under construction, suspended from a steel girder. When finished, it will grace the Canadian Pacific Railway. Date: 1930s

Steel Girders
Structural steelwork, a pattern study. Date: 1950s

Steel Mesh Pattern
A pattern of Steel Mesh. Date: 1950s

Austro-Hungarian trench with gas bottles, WW1
Scene in an Austro-Hungarian trench during the First World War, with twenty steel chlorine gas bottles ready for use. Date: 1914-1918

Electricity plyon erected, 1933
Erecting the last pylon: hauling up a section of the 26, 265th steel cable tower built by the central electricity board to carry current all over Great Britain

The Arch of Steel
Chevalier Kadosch being led through the arch of steel. Date: 1890s

Erecting the double bottom of a ship, WW1
Erecting the double bottom of a ship during the First World War. Date: 1917

Scout Patrol Leader Willie Chun signing autographs
Willie Chun, whos 12 years old and an American of Korean parentage, is a Patrol Leader of Boy Scout Troop 90 in Hollywood. Willie had a special showing of the new Robert L

Glass Tower at the Festival of Britain, South Bank, London
View of the Glass Tower by Waterloo Bridge, at the Festival of Britain exhibition on the South Bank, London. The tower was made of steel and glass, and contained a lift

Krupps Works
The Krupps Gussstahlfabrik (cast steel works) at Essen Date: 1911

Dapper young man in a garden, Mid Wales
A dapper young man sitting on a folding steel chair in a garden, Mid Wales. He is wearing a three-piece suit with a flower in his buttonhole, and a flat cap

Lynx caught in trap
A lynx is caught by the leg in a steel jaw trap

Soldier inspecting destroyed train, Iraq
A soldier inspecting the debris of a destroyed train, somewhere in Iraq

Nurse with equipment at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, with a nurse wheeling an oxygen cylinder

Banks of Filing - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Companys Home Office Building in New York City. A view of the filing section - then, the largest outfit of steel filing cases in the world!

Boys Eating, Training Ship, Exmouth, Grays, Essex
Boys eating buns on the Training Ship Exmouth, operated from 1876 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the Thames off Grays, Essex

Tempering a long metal bar in an industrial furnace. The bar was heated prior to hammering and shaping to make railway rails. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

WWII safety precautions
A man with a white hat band on a steel lined crowned bowler hat and carrying a gas mask box during world war II

Observation post 1918
A soldier in a canvas and steel observation post near Souchez on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

Allied troops 1916
Allied troops in France, possibly returning from duty on the front line

Canadian troops wearing steel helmets
Canadian troops on the front line wearing the recently introduced steel helmets

Observation Post
A steel tree used as an observation post by the Australian forces at the Battle of Messines, Western Front, Belgium during World War I in 1917

Steel Frame Building construction - London
The building of the Film House - 142 Wardour Street - an early photographic example of the technique of steel frame construction - still the favoured method of putting up a building seen everywhere

Egypt - Kettle Drum players riding on camels
Two kettle drum players - their drums mounted onto the flanks of camels. They are ceremonial players, providing music for traditional social or religious corteges, parades or processions

A Forecast of Spring Fashions by Gordon Conway
This charming afternoon gown is carried out in steel blue satin wtih circular bands and a full skirt lined with red. Specially designed and drawn for Britannia & Eve by Gordon Conway

Woman working in a rope works, 1916
Photograph showing a woman working in a munition, steel and rope works, Britain, 1916. This photograph shows her supervising the coiling of wire rope onto a large drum

Woman making a telephone call, West Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing a female citizen of West Berlin making a call from a public telephone box, August 1948. At that time, the fact that this telephone had a steel cable to secure the handset to

Checking the Bank Thief: Steel Pill-Boxes Guard Valuables
Illustration of precautions taken by a Chicago Bank against bank robbers : an armoured pill box containg an armed guard

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