Supports Collection

Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim, 1900
Queen Victoria, Empress of India, listening to a despatch describing the elation of the troops at the services they had rendered to the Queen. Her Indian servant, Munshi Abdul Karim, supports her

Childbirth in 1513
A midwife discreetly helps to deliver a child, while a friend supports the mother who is seated upright

Kyoto, Japan - Maruyama Park - Cherry Blossom
Japan - Cherry Blossoms in Maruyama Park, Kyoto. The parks star attraction is a weeping cherry tree (shidarezakura), supported by a multitude of props. Date: circa 1910s

M. C. C. Cricket tour in Australia
Fingleton batting for New South Wales, hit by a rising ball from Voce. Bradman supports him; the Nawab of Pataudi is picking up his bat, while Ames and Jardine are walking across

Team of Carpenters making a cart
Three carpenters make a cart under the watchful gaze of an elder craftsman or the intended recipent of the cart. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Travel Building. 1933

Launching of a Dhow - Aden Maalla Village, Yemen Date: 1910s

Fitting roof supports in a coal mine Date: circa 1900s

Coal Mining fitting roof supports early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

RMS Olympic cast iron table base
RMS OLYMPIC: Rare cast iron Second-Class table base, fluted central column with lion's head supports. 24ins

Modernist House, Hampstead
A photograph of a modernist house at Hampstead, designed in 1936 by architect Edwin Maxwell Fry, built in reinforced concrete frame and panel walls

The Saloon, Blenheim Palace
A painting which showcases the grand interior of the saloon in Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, and a gift to John Churchill

Ocean Liners - oak open arm dining chair. House flag on top rail, drop in seat. The whole on turned supports and stretchers. Date: early 20th century

An inside view of a covered slip, with overhead travelling cranes at the Germania yard at Kiel, Germany. The ship being built is Battleship L'. Date: 1902

Canterbury Cathedral Crypt supports, September 1939
Photograph of the 843-year-old crypt of Canterbury Cathedral in which the apex of the vaulting has been supported with a series of wooden beams as a precaution against potential air raid damage

The brainchild of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Lovell Radio Telescope is in Cheshire, England. Here are shown part of its supports and track. Date: 1960s

Bridge with Two Towers Date: 1880

Green Watering Can Date: 1880

H M Dockyard, Bermuda - A Floating Dock
H M Dockyard, Hamilton Bermuda - A Floating Dock, containing the HMS Psyche. Date: circa 1908

Cannings Oak, Cliveden, Bucks Date: 1980s

Ruins of Maharubi Palace, Zanzibar, East Africa - built outside Zanzibar Town in 1882 for Sultan Barghash to house his impressively large harem

Java, Indonesia - remarkable bridge. Date: circa 1930s

Blossom Tree with bamboo supports by Ogata Korin
Trained Blossom Tree with bamboo supports by Ogata Korin Date: circa late 17th century

Engineering survey using divers - The Trans-Baikal Railway
The Trans-Baikal Railway - a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chita and serving Zabaykalsky Krai and Amur Oblast

Lovamahapaya - City of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
Lovamahapaya - a building situated between Ruvanveliseya and Sri Mahabodiya in the ancient city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Advert for Acaric mens sock suspender 1898
For gentlemen the Acaric, sock suspender, preventing slipping down of socks! Date: 1898

Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina - Calle Cordoba - very impressive street lighting - arching out over the road on elegantly decorated supports. Date: circa 1904

Repairing pit props, Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner repairing pit props in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

The Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Scilly Isles, 1849
Engraving of the first Bishop Rock lighthouse, which was built in 1847 and destroyed by storms on 5th February 1850. The design, by Walker and Burges

Fairy Holds Grasses
A fairy supports herself on a stem by holding onto grasses

Early view of the world
Earth conceived as having roots reaching down into the Infinite; or as standing on it supported by columns

Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
The Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens, Greece Date: circa 1930s

Roadside Telegraph Poles along the road to Ottercops
Fabulous roadside Telegraph Poles along the road to Ottercops, Northumbria. Date: circa 1909

Findelen, a hillside village near Zermatt, Switzerland and view of the Rothhorn. Date: circa 1910s

Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Kiyomizu dera, officially Otowa-san Kiyomizu-dera - an independent Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto. Date: circa 1910s

Elegant Koraibashi Bridge, Osaka, Japan. In 1870, the original wooden bridge was replaced by an iron bridge built by Alt & Co.1

Wallensteins Camp
Wallenstein supports the emperor when Bohemians rebel. His camp at the Kahlenberg, near Vienna Date: circa 1620

Syria / Archaeology / Aryan
One of the monumental door supports, shaped in the form of a lion, found at the Tell site of Aryan in the Khabour river valley. Date: 1853

Candid seaside photograph - 3 women and child - under pier
Candid seaside photograph of three women (possibly Mother, Aunt and Grandmother) and a young toddler standing beneath a pier (possible Blackpool)

WW2 - National Savings Committee Flier - Wings for Victory - The Skys The Limit. Date: circa 1941

Glastonbury Thorn, Glastonbury, Somerset
The Glastonbury Thorn, a legendary tree at Glastonbury, Somerset. A flowering hawthorn, it is associated with Joseph of Arimathea and the arrival of Christianity in Britain

British soldiers with trench supports, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers carrying trench supports during construction work on the Western Front in France, World War One. Date: circa 1916

Launch of Cunarder, Aquitania, by G. H. Davis
The launch of the year. First drawings of the gigantic Cunarder, the Aquitania, in the process of being built on the Clyde. Above: a cross section

Damage to St Pauls Cathedral, London
The dangers which assail St Pauls Cathedral: vibration damage caused by nearby heavy traffic. Sectional view showing where the cracks in the building exist at the present time. Date: 1913

Smashed up German trench at Morval, Somme, WW1
A smashed up German trench at Morval on the Somme, Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Kyoto, Japan - Maruyama Park
Japan - Cherry Blossoms in Maruyama Park, Kyoto. The parks star attraction is a weeping cherry tree (shidarezakura), supported by a multitude of props - here shown out of season. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - A street in Tokyo and a street in Osaka - decorative
Japan - A street in Tokyo and a street in Osaka - two photographs set within a very decorative surround of bamboo water pipes, swallows and lilies. Date: circa 1910s

Building an Ocean Liner at Harland & Wolff, Belfast - In the Course of Construction. Date: circa 1903

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