Department Collection

Selfridges Toy Department. Child in bed with her dolls. Date: circa 1912

British Military Recruitment Poster, WW1
Recruitment poster, It is Far Better to Face the Bullets than to be Killed at Home by a Bomb, Join the Army at once & help to stop an air raid, 1915 (c)

Operating a Vertical Projector
The Head of the offset-deep process Department at the Lund Humphries Printing works, operating a vertical projector. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s

To The Rescue
A Fireman climbs a ladder to gain access to a building seeimgly totally ungulfed by flame. He has an axe attached to his belt and wears a shiny gold helmet. Date: circa 1908

Surface Plate being developed
A surface plate being developed in the Replika Department of the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s

Furniture advertisement for Gamages, Holborn, London
Furniture advertisement for Gamages department store in Holborn, London, showing a three-piece bedroom suite in walnut, an oak wardrobe and a kitchen cabinet, with cash and monthly instalment prices

Ballroom dancing couple, Harrods Tea Dance, London
Ballroom dancing couple performing at a tea dance in Harrods department store, London. October 2005

The Selfridge family at Highcliffe Castle, 1921

The imposing entrance to Highcliffe Castle, Gordon Selfridges country estate in Hampshire, 1921

Selfridges Roof Terrace
A gardener mowing the lawn on Selfridges (department store) roof terrace, London. Date: early 1930s

Golf at Selfridge s
Two women and a man playing golf on the roof terrace of Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London, England. Date: early 1930s

RMS Carpathia medal, chain, certificate, photos
1. The RMS Carpathia medal and Discharge Certificate of Joseph Blakely, a steward on the ship that rescued survivors from the Titanic disaster. 2. Gold watch chain. 3

Advert for Whiteleys famous fine furniture, featuring a bedroom suite. circa 1930s

Colonel Ralph Ponsonby Watts (1892 - 1991) at Bushehr (Bushire), Iran. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: 1920

Polish Department Store
Shoppers browse the goods on offer in a department store in Wroclaw, Poland, suggesting that supply (though perhaps not prices) was not always low under Communism. Date: 1959

Underwear Department

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