Gas Collection

Hooded British Territorials charging the German Trenches at Loos, September 25th, 1915, 1916. British troops in gas masks charged German trenches at the Battle of Loos on the Western Front

Gas lighting apparatus at Royal Mint, London, 1819. Artist: Friedrich Accum
Gas lighting apparatus at Royal Mint, London. l: Retort. 2: Purifier. 3: Tar cistern. 4: Gas meter. From Frederick Accum Coal Gas, London, 1819. Aquatint

Fanning gas, 6 June 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Fanning gas, 6 June 1918 (date created or published later). American soldiers being trained to use Ayrton or trench fan to clear poisonous gases during World War I, Camp Kearny, California.

German women do men's work, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
German women do men's work, between c1915 and 1918. German women in the uniform of a gas utility, posing with a pipe threader and gas meter. During World War I women adopted traditional male jobs.

German Protection against gas bombs, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
German Protection against gas bombs, between c1910 and c1915. German soldier wearing a face mask to protect against gas attacks during World War I.

Grenade explosion at night, 1915. Creator: Scott, Georges Bertin (1873-1943)
Grenade explosion at night, 1915. Found in the Collection of the Musee de l'Armee, Paris.

The Thames Embankment Works, viewed from King's College, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The Thames Embankment Works, viewed from King's College, [London], 1864. '...when the embankment is finished, running as it will from Pimlico to Blackfriars-bridge, and beyond it

Les precautions contre les gaz; Tous les masques ajustes, aux betes comme aux gens, la colonne pour Creator: Unknown
Les precautions contre les gaz; Tous les masques ajustes, aux betes comme aux gens, la colonne poursuit sa route, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919

Les precautions contre les gaz; Les chevaux ont aussi leur appareil special, 1917. Creator: Unknown
Les precautions contre les gaz; Les chevaux ont aussi leur appareil special, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Les precautions contre les gaz; Arrete par un factionnaire muni d'un ecriteau: "Attention, nappe de gaz ", le chef d'une colonne portant des munitions aux batteries en ligne fait

The Large Gasholder at the Imperial Gas Company's Works, Bethnal-Green, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Large Gasholder at the Imperial Gas Company's Works, Bethnal-Green, 1858....the dimensions of gasholders have increased from a capacity of 40, 000 cubic feet to 2, 500

Le telephone a l'arriere du front; apres un bombardement, les sapeurs telephonistes... 1918. Creator: Unknown
Le telephone a l'arriere du front; apres un bombardement, les sapeurs telephonistes, munis de leur masque, posent une ligne dans un fond ou persist l, action des gaz, 1918

The Launch of Blanchard's Balloon at The Hague in 1785, 1785. Creator: G. Carbentus
The Launch of Blanchard's Balloon at The Hague in 1785, 1785. The air balloon of the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard in the palace garden at Noordeinde Palace in The Hague on July 12, 1785

New Music-Hall, Evan's Hotel, Covent-Garden, 1856. Creator: Unknown
New Music-Hall, Evan's Hotel, Covent-Garden, 1856. The new Hall has been built from the designs of Mr. William Finch Hill...Great brilliancy of effect is produced...by ten rich cut-glass

Detroit City Gas Company office, heater, Detroit, Mich. between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Unknown
Detroit City Gas Company office, heater, Detroit, Mich. between 1905 and 1915

Burning of Covent-Garden Theatre, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Burning of Covent-Garden Theatre, [London], 1856. Inquiry into the cause of the fire: John Drake Palmer, gasman, said he had the entire management of the gas-fittings of the theatre

Gas tank, Detroit City Gas Company, Detroit, Mich. between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Gas tank, Detroit City Gas Company, Detroit, Mich. between 1900 and 1905

Sur le front d'artois - Feuilles d'Album de Jean Lefort; Masques contre les gaz, 1915 (1916)
Sur le front d'artois - Feuilles d'Album de Jean Lefort; Masques contre les gaz : La cagoule anglaise/Le masque Tambute, 1915. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Interior Dept. - Bureau of Mines, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Interior Dept
Interior Dept. - Bureau of Mines, [Washington, DC], between 1910 and 1920. Scientist using a bunsen burner to heat a glass instrument

Senator Thompson & German war relics, c1914-1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Senator Thompson & German war relics, c1914-1920. American politician and colleagues with war trophies posing by The Rescue sculpture, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C

Senator Thompson & German war relics, c1914-1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Senator Thompson & German war relics, c1914-1920. American politician and colleagues with war trophies posing by The Rescue sculpture, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C

If Ye Break Faith, New Orleans, 1938. Creator: Unknown
If Ye Break Faith, New Orleans, 1938. St. Charles Theatre - Now Playing'. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S

Army, U.S. Army Medical School; Typhoid Vaccine, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Army, U.S
Army, U.S. Army Medical School; Typhoid Vaccine, 1917

Courcelles gas plant, 1884. Creator: Ernest Jean Delahaye
Courcelles gas plant, 1884

Army, U.S. Army Medical School; Typhoid Vaccine, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Army, U.S
Army, U.S. Army Medical School; Typhoid Vaccine, 1917

The London Gas Supply; Sketches showing Method of Manufacture; Interior of Retort House, 1891. Creator: Unknown
'The London Gas Supply; Sketches showing Method of Manufacture; Interior of the Retort House showing the Drawing and Charging Machines, 1891. From "The Graphic

'The London Gas Supply; Sketches showing Method of Manufacture; The Condensers, 1891. Creator: Unknown
'The London Gas Supply; Sketches showing Method of Manufacture; The Condensers, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Les enfants d'une des ecoles primaires de Reims, avec leurs masques contre les gaz... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les enfants d'une des ecoles primaires de Reims, avec leurs masques contre les gaz asphyxiants, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Les Gaz Allemands; Photographie publiee par les journaux illustres anglais avec une breve... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les Gaz Allemands; Photographie publiee par les journaux illustres anglais avec une breve legande disant simplement que le cliche aurait ete pris par un aviateur russe au debut attaque allemande

Un petit ecolier de Reims; comment, dans une ville ouverte, il faut proteger les enfants... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Un petit ecolier de Reims; comment, dans une ville ouverte, il faut proteger les enfants contre les projectiles asphyxiants que les Allemands font alterner avec les obus incendiaires, 1916

Les Gaz Allemands; une autre cloche, trouvee dans les decombres d'une eglise de village... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les Gaz Allemands; une autre cloche, trouvee dans les decombres d'une eglise de village, installee un peu a l'arriere, et don't le son propage l'alarme au loin dans tout un secteur

Les Gaz Allemands; Cloche installee pres d'un abri de guetteur pour lui... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les Gaz Allemands; Cloche installee pres d'un abri de guetteur pour lui permettre de signaler l'arrivee d'une nappe gazeuse ; des qu'elle sonne

Victoria-Street, Westminster, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Victoria-Street, Westminster, 1854. New housing in London:..to enable families of all sizes to have apartments suited to their number

The Luminous Fountain, at the Panopticon, Leicester-Square, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Luminous Fountain, at the Panopticon, Leicester-Square, 1854. Thousands of sight-seers have already seen the magnificent Fountain at the Royal Panopticon

The London Gas Supply; Sketches showing Method of Manufacture; The Coke Ground, 1891. Creator: Unknown
'The London Gas Supply; Sketches showing Method of Manufacture; The Coke Ground, with Gas Holders in the rear, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44

Her Majesty's Visit to Hull - the Procession in the Market-Place, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Her Majesty's Visit to Hull - the Procession in the Market-Place, 1854. Queen Victoria visits Yorkshire. The inhabitants testified their loyal devotion by an illumination so general, that

Gaselier in St. George's Hall, Liverpool, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Gaselier in St. George's Hall, Liverpool, 1854....specimen of one of the elaborate brass Gaseliers [sic], by Messenger, of Birmingham

Roasting the Baron of Beef by Gas, in the Castle-Yard, Exeter, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Roasting the Baron of Beef by Gas, in the Castle-Yard, Exeter, [Devon], 1850. Event during the annual meeting and exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society

Main street of town showing irrigation ditch, Escalante, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Main street of town. Shows irrigation ditch. Escalante, Utah

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty families, build their own shacks, pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent which includes water

Migrant agricultural workers home, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural workers home. California. [Makeshift shelter built behind an advertising hoarding: Cyanogas - The Real Hopper Control']

Pumping plant for irrigation powered by a natural gas engine, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates at about half the cost of electricity. Tulare County, California

Mayoralty Chain for the Corporation of Carlisle, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Mayoralty Chain for the Corporation of Carlisle, [in Cumbria], 1850. The Gas-works of the Carlisle Gas-light and Coke Company have just been transferred to the Corporation of that city;

The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders, 1850. View of...the large crane, by which the cast-iron girders are unloaded from the waggon - one of Pickford's in the present

Mrs. Graham's Balloon on Fire, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Mrs. Graham's Balloon on Fire, 1850. In 1826, Margaret Graham became the first British woman to make a solo balloon flight

City Gas Light Bracket, c. 1936. Creator: Lucien Verbeke
City Gas Light Bracket, c. 1936

Volunteer Drill-shed at Birkenhead for the 1st Cheshire Volunteer Engineers, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Volunteer Drill-shed at Birkenhead for the 1st Cheshire Volunteer Engineers, 1862. The idea of the building is taken from a shed designed by Captain Fowke, R.E

Solar eruption, 10 June 10 1973. Creator: NASA
Solar eruption, 10 June 10 1973. Spectroheliogram obtained by Skylab 2. Solar flares are giant explosions on the Sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space

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