Supply Collection (page 9)

Soho, London - window display, salon hairdryers
Soho, London - window display, suppliers of salon hairdryers. 1973

WW2 poster, British Rail catering information, with a cartoon by Fougasse. Food was rationed for British Rail, as for everyone else, and Refreshment Baskets were discontinued. circa 1940s

Antalya, Southern Turkey - Aspendos - Aqueduct (pre-excavation). Date: circa 1930s

Antalya, Southern Turkey - Aspendos - conduit of aqueduct
Antalya, Southern Turkey - Aspendos - The pressure conduit of the Aspendos aqueduct. Date: circa 1930s

King Edward VII at new Birmingham Waterworks - Elan Valley, Powys, Wales. The reservoirs, which were built by the Birmingham Corporation Water Department

Bukhara, Uzbekistan - Lyab-i Hauz
Lyab-i Hauz ( by the pond ), or Lyab-i Khauz - the name of the area surrounding one of the few remaining hauz (ponds) that have survived in the city of Bukhara in Uzbekistan

Cartoon, French coal supply, WW1
Cartoon, French coal supply. A coal merchant and an old woman discuss the crisis. The board outside his shop shows the high price of coal, when its actually available. Date: 1917

The Istanbul Underground Cistern
The massive columned Cistern (known as the Basilica Cistern during the Roman Period). Thought to have been built during the reign of Justinian I, the age of Glory of Eastern Rome

Canakkale, Turkey - The Main Well Date: 1923

British and enemy civilian food supplies during WWI
Diagram showing the food rations and supplies in Britain compared with that in Germany and Austria during WW1. Date: 1918

American Superfortresses bombing Burma, WW2
American 20th US Bomber Command Superfortresses bombing a Japanese supply depot near Rangoon, Burma, in March 1945 during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Civil Defence Handbook, continued emergency equipment and supplies in the even of an attack. Such equipment consisted of food, water and a safeguard for the water supply

Submerged pump pistons. Supply cities. Engraved by Decreef. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1878

Arch of Drusus. Rome. Italy
Arch of Drusus. 3rd century. Part of an aqueduct built by Emperor Caracalla (211-217) to supply water to the baths. Rome. Italy

Travelling Oil Salesman - H. Jenks of Charlwood St, Pimlico - As Cheap as any. Date: circa 1905

WW2 poster, Healthy stock will breed good laying hens
WW2 information poster, Healthy stock will breed good laying hens, British Poultry and Egg Production No.3. For Victory. Date: circa 1940

WW2 poster, Quick -- you re gaining on him
WW2 poster by Fougasse, Quick -- you re gaining on him!! Date: 1940s

Maraval Reservoir, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: circa 1910

WW2 poster, Bits and Pieces Bulletin. Separate parts combined make an aeroplane. Printed for HMSO, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1940s

WW2 poster, They need spares to use their wings. HMSO Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1940s

WW2 poster, What! No Spares! He should be up in the air. HMSO Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1940s

Little Folk Misfitz - Jack and Jill. Date: circa 1910

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Water the Turncock. late 19th century

Book of Trades, The Water Carrier. 1841

Water Treatment Facility, Hongochi, Nagasaki City, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

A further selection of personal photographs
Members of the CCFF were able to take photographs as there appeared to be no issue regarding supply of film. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters

Personal snaps (poly-photos)
Personal photographs taken in England 5 snaps showing unexploded bomb, bus with gas supply for fuel and firemen at play. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters

Nine hospital patients in Winter Garden, Quex Park
Nine hospital patients sitting in the Winter Garden at Quex Park. The Winter Garden was a large conservatory which stood between the drawing room of Quex House

Gnome Water Feature
A novel fountain featuring a gnome under an umbrella, erected in one of the Paris suburbs. Date: 1930s

Water Tower, Hampshire
An ancient water tower in Hampshire, England. Date: circa 1770

Children Drinking Fount
Children swarm round a public drinking fountain. Date: 1891

Fountain of the Virgin
At Nazareth you can take water from the self-same fountain as Jesuss mother : hence its name the fountain of the Virgin, Date: 1866

Public Fountain Portugal
A public fountain in a Portuguese town. Date: 1909

Aswan Eclipsed
The Aswan Dam, on the river Nile in Egypt, photographed during an eclipse. This is the only photograph of a dam taken during an eclipse in our entire collection. Date: 11 November 1901

Parisian Water Carrier
A L EAU ! A Parisian water vendor carries two pails of water suspended from a shoulder- yoke. Date: circa 1815

Man at Drinking Fountain
Our gentleman, overcome with a sudden rush of patriotism, is drinking the health either of the old king George IV or the new king William IV, in water from the town pump. Date: 1830

French troop train in World War One at a station
A French military troop train stops at a rural station, somewhere in France, and takes on refreshments and supplies at the military station canteen. Date: 1917

Coaling by night at Singapore 1876
Coaling by night at Singapore; an important function of the worlds ports is to supply coal, and teams of workers are needed to carry out the operation basket by basket... Date: 1876

Street Pump
Working a street pump Date: circa 1840

Building Swimming Pool
Clifton Bathing Pool. Men at work under sea level working day and night to have a fresh supply of sea water for the baths over Easter. Date: 1932

Pittsburgh Conduit
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : placing reinforced steel for a conduit carrying filtered water to a reservoir for the city. Date: 1912

Lovers Well, Italy
This pretty well, with its ornate ironwork, is the aptly named Lovers Well, Italy. Date: early 1930s

Oaks Colliery / 1866
The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England. Date: December 1866

Nobile Rescue Vessel
Captain Tucci and his officers stand on the deck of the Citta di Milano, the supply ship supporting Nobiles ill-fated expedition Date: 1928

Aquaducts / Roman / 3 Design
The designs of three aquaducts - aqua claudia - campagna of Rome - Metz on the Moselle Date: circa 1650

Aqueduct / Donatos Rome
Detailed plans of Roman aqueducts. Date: circa 1650

East London Water / Punch
The water company`s turncock accused the local East London residents of wasting water by washing and watering their gardens. Date: 8 August 1896

Interior of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station, London, 1868
Engraving showing the interior of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station in West Ham, London, 1868. This pumping station was part of the Metropolitan Main Drainage works. Date: 15 August 1868

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