Usage Collection

Justinian Digesta, Book XXXIII (Fragment)
Double folio, parchment, from Justinian's Digesta. Main body text in black ink written in two columns with contemporary marginal and interlineal gloss

The Lighter Side Poster
A Poster featuring in a magazine called The Lighter Side featuring four birds, of simple but effective design, with a bold usage of three colours, red, black and yellow. Date: circa 1926

Kola Dancers. India
Vintage 19th century photograph: Kola tribal dancers, Munda-speaking peoples, NE India

The Peak of Perfection, British Electricity 1948
The Peak of Perfection. The Switch Family Robinson. Advert for British Electricity in 1948 suggesting ways people can reduce their electricity usage, including turning off the electric fire

WW1 poster, Food, don t waste it
Poster, Food... don t waste it, US Food Administration. circa 1918

Napoleonic era idolator and sorcerer from Kamchatka
Illustration from Jean Baptiste Joseph Bretons La Russie: ou, moeurs, usage et costumes des habitans de toutes les provinces de cet empire- a work on the cosumes

Napleonic era Russian sorcerers with bone clubs
Illustration from Jean Baptiste Joseph Bretons La Russie: ou, moeurs, usage et costumes des habitans de toutes les provinces de cet empire- a work on the cosumes

Moldavian Prince and Princess in traditional costume
Illustration from Jean Baptiste Joseph Bretons La Russie: ou, moeurs, usage et costumes des habitans de toutes les provinces de cet empire- a work on the cosumes

Farming pre-war in 1944 - layout of fields and crops (2 / 2)
Abbey Farm - 1944. The standard farm layout during WW2 in Britain (from 1944) showing the layout of fields and crops, Arable balanced with Grass

Farming pre-war in 1939 - layout of fields and crops (1 / 2)
Abbey Farm - 1939. The standard farm layout pre-WW2 in Britain (from 1939) showing the layout of fields and crops, predominantly old pasture

Nogais and Tartar musicians Napoleonic era Russia
Illustration from Jean Baptiste Joseph Bretons La Russie: ou, moeurs, usage et costumes des habitans de toutes les provinces de cet empire- a work on the cosumes

GLC-LFB-Prototype of firemans working rig
A design of the firemens new working rig for general day to day usage. It was not introduced

Save Power at Work - Help your Fuel Watcher
World War Two public information poster for the Ministry of Food & Power - Save Power at Work. " Hi! Don t leave that machine running idle! And turn off that Blue Pencil Light!" circa 1940s

Glove as Symbol - 5
In military usage, the donning of gloves symbolised that a recruit accepted to volunteer his services

Professors Ayrton and Perrys new electric railway
A model of a electrical railway designed by Professors Ayrton and Perry. There were a number of dynamo-electric machines in the experimental stages

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