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Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Photograph showing slums in Leicester taken by an unknown photographer for John Bull, 1939. Gelatin silver print.

Slums in Leicester

Photographs

1939
Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom, 1939

Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939)
Silver gelatin print signed on front in ink by Marcus Adams. Image shows the British royal family - King George VI, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret at Buckingham Palace. Focal Press editorial markup on verso.

King George VI with Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth, and Princess Margaret

Photographs

1939
A photograph entitled 'Ladies' snooker match, Soho, London', taken in April 1939 by George W Roper for the Daily Herald.

A ladies' snooker match, Soho, London

Photographs

1939-04-04
b. 1939, jewellery designer, British

Ramshaw, Wendy

1939
Photograph entitled' Spitfire fighters in course of construction' taken by an unknown photographer for Fox Photos, 5 October 1939. Gelatin silver print.

Spitfire fighters in course of construction

Photographs

1939-10-05
Saurer bus type CRD, 1940. Chassis no. 20312/16, engine no. 81939.

Bus

Road Transport

1940
Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin wound with green thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin partially wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin wound with pink thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin belonging to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion (no thread), 1939. Bobbin belonging to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion (no thread), 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin partially wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Armband, London & North Eastern Railway Local Defence Volunteers. Canvas armband marked L.D.V. in black stencil letters and stamped 'Goods Department LNER Bishop Auckland', 1939. Signed in pencil 'J K Taylor' in top right corner. Overall: 114 mm x 403 mm.

LNER Local Defence Volunteers armband

Railway Uniform & Costume

1939
Meat flat, silver plated, Great Western Railway - Hotels, made by Walker & Hall, Sheffield; oval, GWR roundel on rim with "HOTELS" banner below, 1939. Overall: 20 mm x 204 mm x 136 mm, 0.3kg.

Silver plated meat flat, Great Western Railway - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1939
Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom, 1939

Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939)
Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom, 1939

Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939)
Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom, 1939

Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939)
Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom, 1939

Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939)
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Family of Migrant Packing House Workers in their Quarters, Homestead, Florida, Feb. 1939", taken by Marion Post-Walcott, in February 1939. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Migrant Packing House Workers in their Quarters

Photographs

1939-02
`Redta' 002 reducing Tachymeter by Carl Zeiss of Jena, serial no.137435, cased, c.1940 with another, similar, serial no.129583, with instruction booklet

`Redta' 002 reducing Tachymeter by Carl Zeiss of J

Surveying

1940
Private midwife's dress, worn during second world war, by Boyd Cooper, 12 Bruton Street, London, W1, England, 1940.

Private midwife's dress, worn during Second World War

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1940
Vintage silver gelatin print by Kurt Hutton. Image of Winston Churchill, photographed in 1939. Editorial commentary/markup on verso. Published in Hutton's book "Speaking Likeness" (London and New York: Focal Press, 1947). pp. 25.

Winston Churchill

Photographs

1939
Model of fire float "James Braidwood"

Fire boat, 1939.

Firefighting

1939
A photograph of a woman washing in a basin, taken by Photographic Advertising Limited, c. 1940.

Woman washing clothes

Photographs

c. 1940
A photograph of a woman sneezing taken by Photographic Advertising Limited, c. 1950. Photographic Advertising took many photographs in a similar style, showing women or men smiling, frowning or crying.

Woman sneezing

Photographs

c. 1940
Nether millstone from Cuxham Mill, Watlington, Oxon. The mill was one of 3 Cuxham mills mentioned in Domesday, 1086, and was given to the Prior of Wallingford before Merton College, Oxford, acquired the manor in 1268-71.

Nether millstone from Cuxham Mill

Nutrition & Food Technology

before 1939
Engine speed indicator Mk 1A. Used for test flying.

Engine speed indicator Mk 1A. Used for test flying

Farnborough

1939
Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

Hand and Machine Tools

3000-1900 BCE
Film still showing actors Clark Gable and Norma Shearer in "Idiot's Delight" (Clarence Brown, 1939).

Scene from the film 'Idiot's Delight'

Photographs

1939
1940-present(2016); photographer; UK

Peel, Michael

1940
b 1939, fine art photographer, American

Witkin, Joel-Peter

1939
b 1940, artist and photographer, Japanese

Araki, Nobuyoshi

1940
Documents and Plans related to the Hargrave Automatic Navigator, 1940.

Documents and Plans related to the Hargrave Automatic Navigator

Aeronautics

1940
Book: Keep the Peace through Air Power (1944) by Allan A. Michie.

Keep the Peace through Air Power

Printed Books

1940
Bobbin belonging to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion (no thread), 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin partially wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin partially wound with green thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
Bobbin wound with green thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939
AEC trolleybus, double decker, 1939. Ex - Brighton, Hove & District; ex - BRB vehicle. Registration no. CPM 61.

Trolley bus

Road Transport

1939
Christmas card of funnel of S.S. Maid of Kent, Hospital Carrier Ship, with note of presentation as a memento by Eric Coplans, capt. RAMC, member of the medical staff, to Chairman of the Southern Railway. 1939.

S.S. Maid of Kent

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1939
A photograph of the desk of playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), taken by James Jarché for 'Illustrated' magazine 8 June 1939. GBS' glasses lie on a pad of notes in shorthand.

George Bernard Shaw's work table

Photographs

1939-06-08
Projector for 2 x 2 inch slides. Kodak Projektionsanastigmat lens fitted f/3.5 F: 7.5cm. No. 1390376. Gravity fed slide gate. Triple condenser. Rotating lens mouth with glass reflector. 240v 100w lamp. Two pin connector not original. Cylindrical lamphouse. elevating front screws on base. Kodak AG. 1939,

Retina projector

Photographic Technology

1939
Light industrial sewing machine, manufactured by Bellow Machine Co., Leeds, about 1940.

Light industrial sewing machine

Textile Industry

1940
Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom, 1939

Metal component belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939)
Metal component with wooden handle belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom, 1939

Metal component with wooden handle belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939