Storage Collection (#8)

Fitted wardrobe advertisement, 1965
Advertisement for the Opus 22 fitted wardrobe system by the Stag Cabinet Company of Nottingham. Colour brochure available! Date: 1965

Entomology, W. Rothschild Zoological Museum
The Museum was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum following Rothschilds death in 1937, along with its unique collections of preserved animals

Naval stores at Savannah, Georgia, USA
Naval stores at the docks, Savannah, Georgia, USA, with tall ships in the distance. Date: 1910

Men at coastal storage hut
Men at a coastal storage hut with figureheads from ships on display. Date: circa 1930s

Avro 504 A3-4 H2174 RaF
Avro 504K A3-4 H2174 served with the Australian Air Force from 1921 until 1929 as a basic trainer. Stored and then displayed for many years. Now in storage in Australia. Date: 1971

Firefighters at Wansdown Place, London SW6
Firefighters in action with hosepipes at a storage and maintenance works in Wansdown Place, Fulham, London SW6, 31 March 1956. Date: 1956

Firefighters with fire engine and appliances, WW2
Firefighters (LFB and AFS) with a fire engine at HQ, showing how the various appliances and equipment are stored compactly, 16 July 1940. Date: 1940

LFB firefighter at back of enclosed pump vehicle
LFB firefighter at the back of an enclosed pump vehicle, putting stored hose into place

LFB Merryweather fire engine with stored hoses

Distorted rails after fire in Hackney, East London
Distorted rails after a fire at Wallis Road, Hackney, East London, 16 August 1955

Water tank for the British Army, WW1
One of a number of tanks, each holding 100, 000 gallons of water, made by a Birmingham firm and erected in England, France and Belgium to ensure supplies during the First World War. Date: 1916

Compactom Clothing cabinets advertisement
Advertisement for Compactom clothing cabinets, good furnishing for you and your clothes as fitted in every double room at the newly opened May Fair Hotel and providing ample storage for clothing

Wardrobe at the May Fair Hotel
A view of the generous wardrobe space available at the newly opened May Fair Hotel in Stratton Street, Mayfair, London. Most of the bedroom furniture was in Glasgow and Kirkcaldy in Scotland

Storage of shells, France, WW1
Storage of shells for use on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1917

Allied troops in Burma by G. H. Davis
How the Allied troops in Burma are kept fit: fresh meat and vegetables carried great distances in refrigerators

Storehouse at Canton (Guangzhou), China. Date: circa 1890

Business card design, woman with clothes
Business card design, depicting a young woman in a yellow underslip, wondering where to put all her clothes. Date: 20th century

James Sutton Removals
A removal van belonging to James Sutton Removals. Storage is also offered

Advert for Innovation Ingenuities wardrobe cabinets 1915
Mahogany or walnut wardrobe cabinets for men and women. 1915

New LFB recruit marking his gear
A new LFB recruit, having been kitted out with his uniform, is marking his gear with his name

Japanese Silk Industry - Storing the Cocoons Date: circa 1910

South Korea - Chosen - Storage Jars awaiting export Date: circa 1920s

Mexican Ollas Seller - An olla is a ceramic jar, often unglazed, used for cooking stews or soups, for the storage of water or dry foods, or for other purposes. Date: circa 1910s

General Herbarium, Darwin Centre
A photograph of the General Herbarium in the Darwin Centre, showing examples of specimens from the collection. Photographed by Kevin Webb, May 2011

Moving specimens to the Darwin Centre
Moving zoological specimens from the old Spirit Building to the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Darwin Centre storage room for specimens in spirit
Zoological specimens in one of the storage rooms in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

The Cryptogamic Herbarium
Part of the Department of Botany at the Natural History Museum, London

Entomology Department
Entomology department at the Natural History Museum, London. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Exhibition panel on display in the Darwin Centre
Exhibition panel with storage room behind in the public space in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Zoological specimens in the Spirit Building awaiting movement to the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Natural History Museum storeroom
A general interior wideangle view of the Natural History Museums storeroom containing a selection of stuffed fish and mammal specimens and skeletons

Teloschistes chrysopthalmus, lichen
Lichen shown in its herbarium packet from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Some lichens look virtually the same as dried specimens as in the field

Artiodactyla (order), artiodactyl
Photograph of various artiodactyls, or even-toed ungulate mammal skeletons, held in the Osteology storeroom at the Natural History Museum, London

Scientist working with tissue collection
Scientist working in the Entomology Department returning specimens of tissue and DNA samples to freezer storage

Scientist working with tissue collections
Scientist working in the Entomology Department returning specimens of tissue and DNA samples to freezer storage

Scientist working with specimens
Scientist checking the temperature of freezer store of specimens at The Natural History Museum, London

Zoological specimens
Specimen jars stored in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London. Assembled over hundreds of years, these specimens are still highly relevant to contemporary biological research

Zoological specimens in the Darwin Centre
Specimens in spirit jars stored in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Specimen jars containing crustaceans
Shelves of specimen jars containg crustaceans

Lizard specimen held in the Darwin Centre
Lizard specimen in a spirit jar held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Storage jars for spirit collection
Storage jars come in a huge variety of designs, reflecting changing styles over the years, as well as cost and availability

Visitors in the Tank Room in the Darwin Centre
Scientist showing visitors zoological specimens held in the Tank Room in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Lacquer commode
A lady, wearing an evening gown by Worth, stands by an elegant lacquer commode. Date: 1914

LCC-LFB aftermath of a fire, Vauxhall Bridge Road
Fire crews damping down following a major blaze in Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico, involving a large single storey corrugated storage facility

LCC-LFB hose laying lorry (HLL) at Lambeth HQ
Lee Greens (C49) hose laying lorry on display in Lambeth headquarters station drill yard

London Salvage Corps sheeting a warehouse wall
Following a serious fire the London Salvage Corps have protected an external face of the affected warehouse by placing a series of salvage sheets down the side of the building

Mutual Film Company, New York
Mutual Film Company, 1600 Broadway, New York. Film storage room at the Mutual Film Co. with poster of Charlie Chaplin. Date: 1918

View of the Arsenal, Constantinople, with HMS Caesar
View of the Arsenal at Constantinople, Turkey, with HMS Caesar in the background. Date: circa 1919

Storage Shed - Corner Brook - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1920s

Sudan - Jur Tribesman making a Grain Bin at Bahr-el-Ghazal Date: circa 1910s

Large Minoan Strage Jar - Pithoi
The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos revealed a remarkable set of large Minoan storage jars, or pithoi. The compartments in the floor were for grain and produce

Cold Storage Warehouse, New York
Building, Cold Storage Warehouse, 13th Avenue. View from opposite corner of a large cold storage warehouse at 13th Avenue, New York; decorative ironwork and shuttered arched window

Greece - Palace of King Minos at Knossos
The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos revealed a remarkable set of large Minoan storage jars, or pithoi. The compartments in the floor were for grain and produce

Water filtration at Gallipoli WWI
All water is carefully filtered and put into covered cans. Even petrol cans are cleaned and used for this purpose

Storage house, Khanty Mansiysk museum, Russia
A storage house of the Khanty tribe on display at the open air Okrug Ethnographic Museum (Torum Maa) in Khanty Mansiysk, Western Siberia, Russia

Refugee storage WWII
There are a few storage rooms in each camp where people keep their belongings during World War II. Thus the transfer from summer to winter equipment becomes quite an affair, performed in shifts

Computer Systems - Tape Storage
Three men examine a tape storgae device for a large industrial computer system. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Charcoal works - Quay de Grenelle, Paris
Piles of wood at a charcoal works, Paris

Charcoal production - wood storage, France
Charcoal works at Quay de Grenelle, Paris. A horse-drawn wagon is loaded up

Train Storage Yard
A good example of perspective in a large train storage yard. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Model of a computer room layout
A planned layout of a computer room, including terminals and long banks of tape storage devices.Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Meat in storage, World War I
Meat in storage in the London docks on the runway from the ship during World War I

Sailing Dinghy and some Hulks, Britain, c. 1877
Illustration showing three people in a small sailing dinghy crossing the bows of an old hulk, Britain, c.1877

Paris Warehouse
Les bains de Julien, Paris, used as a warehouse by a wine merchant : workmen are cleaning and repairing wine barrels

A Calculating machine
The control panel of the automatic sequence-controlled calculating machine at Manchester University; showing the monitor cathode-ray tube with Dr. T. Kilburn (left) and Professor F. C

Plante Accumulator
The accumulator (a secondary or storage battery) invented by French physicist Gaston Plante

Tarxien Temple / Large Pot
A large storage pot discovered at the site of the Tarxien Temples - dated to circa 2500 BC - at Paola, Malta

Cannon Street Station
Opened 1 September 1866. Designed by Sir John Hawkshaw. The glass roof was removed prior to World War Two, but was damaged in storage and was replaced

Scandinavian chest of drawers
The Swedes call this a bureau, but its really a rather handsome, if somewhat ponderous, chest of drawers

Ours is a Hopi Home
The homes of the Hopi people of Arizona (built and owned by the women) are on three levels : access to the upper floors (used for storage and such) is by ladder

Cabinet for Victoria
Visitors to the Crystal Palace admire the craftsmanship of this large and somewhat obtrusive cabinet made by Messrs Holland for Queen Victoria

Converted Cheffonier
A bookcase made from a cheffonier, now that cheffoniers are no longer a la mode

Warship / Ist Draught
First Draught of a Ship of the First Rate. A profile cross- section of a warship showing the structure, framework, layout of decks, canons & how provisions are stowed

Art Deco Cupboards
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