Steel Collection (page 49)

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

Column of Russian soldiers marching to the Balkan front
A large number of Russian infantry, equipped with only recently introduced steel helmets, are shown marching towards the Balkan front

Steel Bell Casting, Casting the Great Steel Bell for San Fra
The bell was the largest steel casting in Britain and was ordered by Conroy and O Connor of San Francisco to be used as a fire alarm bell

French infantry creeping forward on the Western Front
French infantry in the front line on hands and knees creeping forward to within charging distance. Two soldiers are seen in the foreground wearing steel helmets

Mulberry Caisson under construction; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a steel and concrete Mulberry caisson under construction on the South Coast of Britain during 1944. When the Allied Armies invaded Normandy in June 1944

New French steel helmet
Photograph of the new French steel helmet, designed to protect from shrapnel bullets

Construction of Blackfriars Bridge, 1868
Engraving of the construction of Blackfriars Bridge, London, viewed from the south bank of the river looking towards St. Pauls Cathedral

America, Steel bell casting. Great steel bell to be used as
The bell was the largest casting in steel up until that time. The bell weighed 2tons 12 cwt or 5, 824 lb, height 5 feet 3 inches, diameter at the mouth 6 feet 2 inches

ARMOUR OF 1190 & 1295
On the right: armour of 1190, with chain hauberk and hose, steel helmet and battle-axe. On the left: armour of 1295- 1312 with steel plates on shoulders & arms

Alfred Krupp
ALFRED KRUPP German industrialist, whose iron and steel works diversified into shipbuilding and armaments

Women at work in a naval ship-building yard
Women workers handling long steel bars in a naval ship-building yard in 1916. World War I saw women taking on traditionally male jobs for the first time

A flying roundabout; Sir Hiram Maxims latest invention
Illustration of Sir Hiram Maxims latest invention, which may be described as a roundabout in which the revolving bodies are suspended in the air in cars that are attached by steel wire ropes

Large clouds of smoke from the spreading fires. The aftermat
Fires spreading through San Francisco, completing the ruin of the city. The business distract was completely devastated, with only the steel structures of modern buildings still standing

Steel Plate Rolling
Steel plate rolling

USA / Atlantic City 1907
The steel pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Conway Bridge / Wales
The Conway ( Conwy ) Castle Bridge a steel suspension bridge built by Thomas Telford (1757- 1834) between 1822 and 1826

Stoking the Retorts
A man with a long, heavy steel pole, stokes the retorts at a gasworks

American Factories
The Cumbria Iron and Steel Works at Johnstown, proudly pollutes the Pennsylvanian skies

Servants at Table
Servants at table - a manservant, dining with the cook, reprimands the page for bringing him a steel fork (as opposed to silver)

JP MORGAN / MUNSEYs 1906
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN American banker and financier who played the foremost part in organising the United States Steel Corporation

Speed-King Steel Scooter
Speed-King all-steel scooter, offered for only $1.29 to any Boy or Girl who collects forty bottle tops from drinks manufactured by the Lansford Bottling Works

Examining Leaning Tower
A visitor examines one of the cracked pillars of the Leaning Tower of Pisa which has been bound with steel

US / IRONWORKS / 1876
USA Cambria Iron & Steel works, Johnston, PA

Hadrians Wall / Steel Rigg
Hadrians Wall running along the edge of the limestone crags at Steel Rigg near Hexham, west of Housesteads Fort and Crag Lough

Rolling Ingots / France
FRANCE Rolling the ingots at Longwy Steelworks

French Steel Works / 1930
FRANCE Longwy Steelworks: the rolling mill, with workers in the foreground

Rolling Steel
Rolling steel in a British steelworks

Kitty Spies a Crinoline
Fashion conscious Kitty spies the new cage crinoline (skeleton skirt, steel slips or the Ladies expander ) which will jeopardize her courtship with the attentive Adolphus

Over Niagara in Sphere
Jean Albert Lussier goes over Niagara enclosed in a steel sphere and comes out smiling, despite hitting a rock

Steel Ignots / 1926
Crystal Palace; Floor plan

Steel Caisson
A steel caisson, a cylindrical case employed to keep out water during construction underwater, used in building a bridge support

Steelworks, Shefield, 1920
Steelworks of John Brown & Co. Sheffield: the hollow rolling mill

Homestead Steel Strike
HOMESTEAD STEEL STRIKE Workers at the Carnegie Steel Company mills at Homestead, Pennsylvania, in armed battle against the Pinkerton men hired to protect the plant

Electric Welding
A welder uses an electric arc- welding tool to join the metal parts of a steel structure. The parts are heated to white heat and metal added to make the join

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