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Finance Collection (#51)

Background imageFinance Collection: Staatszeitung Building, Tryon Row, NYC

Staatszeitung Building, Tryon Row, NYC
Exterior of the Staatszeitung Building on Tryon Row, New York, New York, 1880s. Bischoffs Wechsel Bank and the Department of Taxes and Assessments are located in the building. (Photo by P. L)

Background imageFinance Collection: Ideal For Rationing

Ideal For Rationing
A sign painted on the back window of a car stating: 1952 Ford. Ideal For Petrol Rationing. Buy Today - Any Trial ?170 or ?85 Deposit

Background imageFinance Collection: Penny Bazaar

Penny Bazaar
10th September 1955: Marks and Spencers stall - the Original Penny Bazaar - in a covered market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7984 - Quality

Background imageFinance Collection: House For Sale

House For Sale
October 1955: A For Sale sign outside a row of houses in Bow, east London. Original Publication: Picture Post- 8061 - Bow Bells - unpub. (Photo by Alex Dellow/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageFinance Collection: Sherry Cellar

Sherry Cellar
27th February 1954: A glass of sherry and a candle next to cobwebbed barrels in a wine cellar at Jerez in Spain. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6734 - Sherry Comes From Spain - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Back Pack

Back Pack
24th February 1951: A Tibetan loads wool onto a mule, to sell in the Indian markets. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5210 - Tibet Dissolves - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Couple In Car

Couple In Car
5th August 1939: A couple driving through the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Original Publication: Picture Post - 181 - Town That Lives On Shakespeare - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Factories On Canal

Factories On Canal
February 1955: Industrial plants on the banks of Manchesters Ship Canal. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7538 - Manchesters Lifeline - pub. 1955 (Photo by Frank Horvat/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageFinance Collection: Ship Building Strike

Ship Building Strike
1st April 1957: A vessel under construction at the Burrow-in-Furness shipyard where work has stopped during a strike. Original Publication

Background imageFinance Collection: The White Continent

The White Continent
circa 1950: A scene from the Crown Film Unit production The White Continent, about life in the Antarctic with The Norsel ice-breaker trapped fast by pack ice

Background imageFinance Collection: View Of Venice

View Of Venice
9th February 1946: A silhouette of a gondola on the canal in Venice. Original Publication: Picture Post - 3067 - Venice Is Still Serene - pub. 1946 (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageFinance Collection: Which Way ?

Which Way ?
1949: Two of the competitors in the Monte Carlo Road Race check their maps en route for Monte Carlo. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4708 - Monte Carlo Road Race - unpub

Background imageFinance Collection: Safe Deposit

Safe Deposit
8th October 1938: A man leaving a safe deposit bank, before the grille descends and the shutters are brought across. Original Publication: Picture Post - 16 - Safe Deposit - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Asbestos Mines

Asbestos Mines
19th October 1946: Asbestos mines at Amiandos in the Troodos mountains in Cyprus. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4202 - Cyprus A Challenge To British Rule - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Searching Car

Searching Car
2nd September 1950: A customs officer searching the boot of a car at Calais. Original Publication: Picture Post - Through The French Customs - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Dangerous Waters

Dangerous Waters
1st May 1948: The mastheads of previous victims can been seen over the flooding tide that hides the treacherous Goodwin Sands on the Kentish coast

Background imageFinance Collection: Austin Engines

Austin Engines
3rd April 1948: Engines suspended from a monorail at the Austin Motor Companys Birmingham production plant which exports many cars to America

Background imageFinance Collection: Obsolete Machinery

Obsolete Machinery
28th March 1953: Machinery in a tinplateworks in South Wales factory which is due to close. This is because of the building of giant strip-mills which need fewer workers to run them

Background imageFinance Collection: Winter Ranch

Winter Ranch
15th December 1951: A cow and its calf being rounded up in the snow at a cattle ranch in Canada. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5616 - Round-Up In The Snow - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Sheep Rescue

Sheep Rescue
12th September 1953: Three crofters set out for home with an injured lamb in Strath Gairloch, on the north west coast of the Scottish Highlands

Background imageFinance Collection: Goods In Window

Goods In Window
1st October 1938: Clothing on display in a shop window in the village of Polperro in Cornwall. Original Publication: Picture Post - 3 - The Life Of A Village - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Onion Harvest

Onion Harvest
March 1953: An onion crop at a farm in Norwich, England. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6447 - Norwich Leads Britain - pub. 1953 (Photo by Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageFinance Collection: Cypriot Livestock

Cypriot Livestock
7th September 1946: Livestock on the plain of Messaoria, Cyprus, drink water that has laboriously been hand pulled from the well and carried to the water trough

Background imageFinance Collection: QE2 Liner

QE2 Liner
1952: Two men lean on the rails on deck of the Queen Elizabeth as the liner comes to dock at Southampton. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6344 -The Queen Elizabeth Comes In - unpub

Background imageFinance Collection: Shopping By Bicycle

Shopping By Bicycle
2nd October 1948: For the tenth anniversary of Picture Post, the magazine has sought out the model who posed for their most popular cover, Jane Webb, who has been married three years to David

Background imageFinance Collection: Hog Wash

Hog Wash
5th May 1945: Pedigree Large White Gostrode pig Greenback XVth has a wash in preparation for the Crewe agricultural show in Cheshire

Background imageFinance Collection: Good Youngsters

Good Youngsters
20th June 1953: The Good quadruplets, five-year-old Jennifer, Bridget, Elizabeth and Frances with their big sister, seven-year-old Susan, standing on a cars running-board, ready to go to school

Background imageFinance Collection: Top Deck Ride

Top Deck Ride
13th May 1939: The Kings four orderly officers sightseeing on the top deck of a London bus. Every year four officers from the Indian Army are chosen to attend the King as his special bodyguard

Background imageFinance Collection: Night-Time Motoring

Night-Time Motoring
31st March 1945: Roadside trees illuminated by a motorists headlights. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1936 - The Magic Lantern Of A Cars Headlights - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Cattle Grazing

Cattle Grazing
11th August 1945: A herd of Highland cattle grazing in a valley in the Scottish Highlands. Kept mainly for their appearance

Background imageFinance Collection: Haystacks

Haystacks
4th September 1948: Stooks of wheat stand drying in a field at Stockbridge, Hampshire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4640 - Battle For The Harvest - pub.1948

Background imageFinance Collection: Rain Test For Car

Rain Test For Car
30th October 1948: A Morris Oxford being bombarded with 1500 jets of water from all angles, equivalent to 15 inches of rainfall an hour

Background imageFinance Collection: Belfast Ship Yard

Belfast Ship Yard
20th February 1954: The Harland and Wolff ship yard in Belfast where a liner is being built. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7029 - The Best And The Worst Of Some British Cities 5 - Belfast

Background imageFinance Collection: Winter Plough

Winter Plough
12th March 1955: A solitary horse stands beside an idle plough on the shores of Loch Lubnaig in Stirling, Scotland. Agricultural work has stopped for the winter

Background imageFinance Collection: Lighthouse

Lighthouse
30th April 1955: A lighthouse in Aberdeen. The harbour in Aberdeen was developed in the late eighteenth century and the city prospered as a fishing port from that time

Background imageFinance Collection: The Work Horse

The Work Horse
3rd April 1954: A horse walking past two works chimneys in the streets of Liverpool. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7105 - The Best and Worst of British Cities: Liverpool - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Dundee Ferry

Dundee Ferry
25th June 1955: A group of people walking to catch a ferry from a Dundee pier. Dundee, situated on the banks of the dSilvery Tayf, is linked to Fife and the south of Scotland by a road bridge

Background imageFinance Collection: Window Shopping

Window Shopping
25th June 1955: A well-dressed woman surveys the window of a jewellery shop in Dundee. Dundee, situated on the banks of the dSilvery Tayf

Background imageFinance Collection: Travelling Salesman

Travelling Salesman
12th September 1953: The lonely life of a travelling salesman, carrying his wares from shop to shop and from house to house in search of a customer

Background imageFinance Collection: Shorn Sheep

Shorn Sheep
9th July 1949: A sheep lying on its back at Maiden Castle Farm, Dorchester after a cursory shearing. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4826 - Where Are The Downland Sheep? - pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Directors Plane

Directors Plane
19th September 1953: A plane belonging to a director of brewery firm, Ind Coope in which he travels the country visiting the pubs belonging to the company

Background imageFinance Collection: Long-Woolled Sheep

Long-Woolled Sheep
Long-woolled sheep in field near Kielder, one of the many villages situated on the Tynes Bank, 21st October 1950. Original Publication

Background imageFinance Collection: Trapped Convoy

Trapped Convoy
A convoy trapped on the Suez Canal near Cantara during the Suez Crisis, 24th December 1956. Original Publication : Picture Post - 8760 - Suez: The Troops We Left Behind - Pub

Background imageFinance Collection: Dounreay

Dounreay
The bottom half of the worlds first electricity-producing fast breeder reactor at Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment in Scotland, 14th July 1956

Background imageFinance Collection: Old houses demolished to make way for new London Flats

Old houses demolished to make way for new London Flats
circa 1920: Old houses are demolished to make way for new London County Council flats in Kennington Road. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFinance Collection: Halls Fire and Burglar Proof Safe

Halls Fire and Burglar Proof Safe
View of a Halls Fire and Burglar Proof Safe, c. 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFinance Collection: Baltic Interior

Baltic Interior
The interior of the Baltic Exchange in London, 3rd May 1920. The exchange is the centre of shipbroking and chartering in the City of London. (Photo by A. R)



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