Import Collection

Fremantle Harbour from the Air, c1947. Creator: Unknown
Fremantle Harbour from the Air, c1947. From " Perth - City of Sunshine". [Australia House Bookshop, London, c1947]

The International Exhibition: the Brazilian Court..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: the Brazilian Court - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862. 'The collection comprised diamonds, emeralds, topazes, amethysts, jasper

The Paris Wine Market: the Brandy Quarter, Rues de Languedoc and de la Côte d'Or, the Cellars, 1860
The Paris Wine Market: the Brandy Quarter, Rues de Languedoc and de la Cote d'Or, the Cellars, 1860. Engraving after a sketch by M. Lancelot

Unloading a banana steamer, Baltimore, Md. c1905. Creator: Unknown
Unloading a banana steamer, Baltimore, Md. c1905

Unloading bananas, Mobile, Ala. c1906. Creator: Unknown
Unloading bananas, Mobile, Ala. c1906

Baltimore, Maryland, unloading banana steamer, between 1890 and 1906. Creator: Unknown
Baltimore, Maryland, unloading banana steamer, between 1890 and 1906

Port of London Authority - Map, 1937. Creator: Unknown
Port of London Authority - Map, 1937. The River Thames at Tilbury, showing the docks, railway station, passenger landing stage, cargo jetty, lock and basin

View of a Port. Creator: Unknown
View of a Port

Spanish Vessel arriving with Christmas Fruit, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Spanish Vessel arriving with Christmas Fruit, 1854. Sailing ship on the Thames, bringing produce for the London markets....The melons come from Spain, Portugal, and Holland

Port of London Authority - Map, 1937. Creator: Unknown
Port of London Authority - Map, 1937. The River Thames in London, showing Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, St Katharine Docks, Western and Eastern Docks, West India Docks, Blackwall Basin

Esquisse pour la salle d'audience du tribunal de commerce de Paris : Les Nautes parisiens a l'epoque gallo-romaine, c.1890

Launch of the "Vittorio Emanuele" Iron Screw Steamer, at Blackwall, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Launch of the "Vittorio Emanuele" Iron Screw Steamer, at Blackwall, 1854. Steamship on the Thames in London. The Vittorio Emanuele has been constructed under the superintendence of Messrs

Price's Patent Candle Company - the Bromborough Pool Candle-Works - interior view... 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Bromborough Pool Candle-Works - interior view under three spans of roof - from a photograph, 1854. Candle factory on Merseyside

Tonning, on the Eyder, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Tonning, on the Eyder, 1854. Opening of the British-built Royal Danish Railway by Frederick VII, King of Denmark. In this commodious and finely-situated coast terminus of the Railway

The Ganges Canal, at Roorkee [in India], 1854 Creator: Unknown
The Ganges Canal, at Roorkee [in India], 1854. This stupendous work is hailed by the people of India as one of the grandest improvements yet effected by European civilisation and enterprise...Mr

The "Azorian", Orange Schooner, 1850. Creator: Unknown. The "Azorian", Orange Schooner, 1850
The "Azorian", Orange Schooner, 1850. Sailing ship which...measures about 105 tons, N.M. and brings about 730 chests of oranges...The Azores and Spain are known to afford the best oranges

Curio Shop (Karamono ten no zu), from the series "Pictures of Goods for Sale at...", 1860
Curio Shop (Karamono ten no zu), from the series "Pictures of Goods for Sale at Yokohama (Yokohama urimono zue)", 1860

Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage brought into the US, Glendale, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage brought into the United States by plane from Mexico. Glendale, California

Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage, Glendale, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage brought into the United States by plane from Mexico. Glendale California

Unloading baggage for inspection...plane from Mexico, Glendale Airport, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Unloading baggage for inspection after arrival of plane from Mexico. Glendale Airport, California

Plant quarantine inspectors examining baggage from Mexico, Glendale Airport, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plant quarantine inspectors examining baggage from Mexico for injurious insects. Glendale Airport, California

Plant quarantine inspectors examining plane at the Glendale Airport, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plant quarantine inspectors examining plane at the Glendale Airport, California

Department of Agriculture plant quarantine inspectors, Glendale Airport, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Department of Agriculture plant quarantine inspectors examining Pan American Airways plane from Mexico on its arrival at the Glendale Airport, California

The International Exhibition: British Columbia and Prince Edward Island Courts... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: British Columbia and Prince Edward Island Courts, 1862. The collection from British Columbia [in the colonial department]...consisted mainly of natural productions

The musk deer, 1862. Creator: Pearson
The musk deer, 1862. The true musk perfume has been brought to Europe for many years, but the animal which yields it has never yet been seen alive in this hemisphere...Musk is contained in an

The International Exhibition: the Japanese Court... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: the Japanese Court - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862. Display of...articles from a hitherto unexporting country

Advertisement for Naraindas & Company, suppliers of motor cars, 1936. Creator: Unknown
Advertisement for Naraindas & Company, suppliers of motor cars, 1936. Naraindas, based in Lahore and Karachi (at that time part of British India)

Tiger in a Cage, 7th month, 1860. Creator: Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo
Tiger in a Cage, 7th month, 1860

Recently Imported Big Elephant, 1863 (3rd month). Creator: Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo
Recently Imported Big Elephant, 1863 (3rd month)

Picture of an Elephant Born in Maruka in Central India, 2nd month, 1863. Creator: Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo
Picture of an Elephant Born in Maruka in Central India, 2nd month, 1863

Print, ca. 1863. Creator: Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo
Print, ca. 1863

Newly Imported Great Elephant, 2nd month, 1863. 2nd month, 1863. Creator: Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo
Newly Imported Great Elephant, 2nd month, 1863

The Corn-Laws, 1845. Creator: Unknown
The Corn-Laws, 1845. Descriptive History of the Laws relative to the Importation and Exportation of Corn. Article discussing the the Corn Laws

Sale of West India Pine Apples, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Sale of West India Pine Apples, 1844. Scene in a London warehouse during the...sale of upwards of 2700 West Indian Pine-Apples, by Messrs

South St. from Maiden Lane, 1834. Creator: William James Bennett
South St. from Maiden Lane, 1834

South Street from Maiden Lane, New York, in 1828, 1834. Creator: William James Bennett
South Street from Maiden Lane, New York, in 1828, 1834

The Harbor of Copenhagen, Metropolis of Denmark, c1930s. Creator: Unknown
The Harbor of Copenhagen, Metropolis of Denmark, c1930s. Danish port on the Baltic Sea. From " Tour of the World". [Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa. New York, Chicago, London]

Poplar Dock, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Poplar Dock, 1872. Poplar Dock on the Isle of Dogs, originally a series of reservoirs built by the West India Company, in 1828 was converted to a railway dock used mainly to import coal from

Queen Street, Melbourne, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Queen Street, Melbourne, 1901. Laid out in 1837, Queen Street forms part of the original Hoddle Grid, Gordon & Gotch established a five-storey bookbinding and printing factory here in 1887

French Milk Being Landed at Southampton, 1902. Creator: Unknown
French Milk Being Landed at Southampton, 1902. From " The Windsor Magazine Vol. XVI - June to November 1902". [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London, 1902]

Waithmans Shop, (1897). Creator: Unknown
Waithmans Shop, (1897). Waithman & Bristow, linen drapers shop in Fleet Street, London, as it might have looked in the 18th century. The sign says Importers of Irish Linens Calico Prints

Plan of the Exchange in 1837, (1897). Creator: Unknown
Plan of the Exchange in 1837, (1897). Plan of the Royal Exchange in the City of London. The names of the Walks reflect the origins of goods coming into London

Ebano bitumen stored at Elizabeth Wharf, Limehouse, London, c1900
Barrels of Ebano bitumen stored at Elizabeth Wharf, Limehouse, London, c1900. The Ebano Oil Company imported bitumen from Mexico

Cargo being loaded or unloaded from a ship, Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London, c1930. The dock was built between 1850 and 1855 on an area of Plaistow Marshes

Unloading a barrel from a ship down a gangway, London, c1905

Unloading rolls of paper from a ship, London, c1905

The imports of Great Britain from France, 1757. Artist: LP Boitard
The imports of Great Britain from France, 1757. The landing of passengers and cargo from France at the Custom House. A satire on the importation of French goods

Bacon delivery from Denmark, Kilnhurst, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist: Michael Walters
Bacon delivery from Denmark, Kilnhurst, South Yorkshire, 1964. A Danish Bacon Company warehouseman checks in a lorry delivering imported bacon to their South Yorkshire depot

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