Wire Collection

Putting wire wrapping around the suspension cables, Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, 1883
Putting wire wrapping around the suspension cables, Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York. Each cable was made up of more than 5, 000 separate strands

British wiring parties in rain, Sept 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
British wiring parties in rain, Sept 1916. British soldiers taking unbarbed concertina wire to the forward area, near Hamel, September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme in World War I.

Distant Fronts, In Palestine; For walking on sand, 1917. Creator: Unknown
Distant Fronts, In Palestine; For walking on sand, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Saved, 1889. Creator: Winslow Homer
Saved, 1889

The Last German Roads; Snow in Alsace. At Schnepfenried a network of half-buried... 1917. Creator: Unknown
The Last German Roads; Snow in Alsace. At Schnepfenried a network of half-buried iron wires, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Head of a Bodhisattva, Probably Avalokitésvara (Guanyin), the Bodhisattva... between c.1450-c.1550. Creator: Unknown
Head of a Bodhisattva, Probably Avalokitesvara (Guanyin), the Bodhisattva of Mercy, between c.1450 and c.1550

Manufacture of the Atlantic Submarine Cable, at Glass, Elliott, and Co.'s Works, East... 1857. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Atlantic Submarine Cable, at Glass, Elliott, and Co.'s Works, East Greenwich, [London], 1857. The firm has...undertaken to complete 1250 miles within a specified period...The

Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Crimean War. The appliances for laying out the wire over irregular ground, and through marshes and rivers

Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - the Waggon, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - the Waggon, 1854. Crimean War. The Electric Telegraph Company have lately supplied Government with a very complete

Spectacles, c. 1936. Creator: Frank Nelson
Spectacles, c. 1936

Large-scale pea fields, near San Juan Bautista, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near San Juan Bautista, California. Large-scale pea fields

The Doctor 1919. Artist: Kurt Schwitters
The Doctor 1919. From a private collection

Operator on the Mayfair Exchange, 1932, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Operator on the Mayfair Exchange, 1932, (1933). Telephone exchange operator in Mayfair, central London. From " The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]

Hooper's patent submarine telegraph cables, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Hooper's patent submarine telegraph cables, 1862. Mr. Hooper's cable is composed of the usual copper or other conductor insulated with indiarubber

Toaster, c. 1939. Creator: Alice Cosgrove
Toaster, c. 1939

The Arnold children and mother on their newly fenced... Michigan Hill, Thurston County, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Arnold children and mother on their newly fenced and newly cleared land. Note strawberry plants. Western Washington, Thurston County, Michigan Hill. See general caption number 36

Possibly: Hop yard, shows poles, wires, irrigation ditch and hop... Yakima Valley, Washington
[Untitled, possibly related to: Washington, Yakima Valley. Hop yard, shows poles, wires, irrigation ditch and hop vine, three weeks before picking time]

Hop yard, shows poles, wires, irrigation ditch and hop vine... Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Washington, Yakima Valley. Hop yard, shows poles, wires, irrigation ditch and hop vine, three weeks before picking time

The Graphic, Front Cover Saturday October 6. 1888, 1888. Creator: Unknown
The Graphic, Front Cover Saturday October 6. 1888, 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888

Shaffron, Turkey, 16th century. Creator: Unknown
Shaffron, Turkey, 16th century

Jug for Pancake Batter, 1935 / 1942. Creator: Jessica Price
Jug for Pancake Batter, 1935/1942

Toaster, c. 1940. Creator: Nicholas Amantea
Toaster, c. 1940

Rescue basket used during Hurricane Katrina, ca. 2005. Creator: Unknown
In August 2005, Atlantic Hurricane Katrina caused over 1, 800 deaths and $125 billion in damage, particularly in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas

Hair Ornament, One of a Pair, Iran, 12th-13th century. Creator: Unknown
Hair Ornament, One of a Pair, Iran, 12th-13th century

The Tub, c. 1889. Creator: Edgar Degas
The Tub, c. 1889

Disk Brooch, Frankish, 7th century or later. Creator: Unknown
Disk Brooch, Frankish, 7th century or later

Disk Brooch, Frankish, 8th century (?). Creator: Unknown
Disk Brooch, Frankish, 8th century (?)

Disk Brooch, Frankish, 6th century. Creator: Unknown
Disk Brooch, Frankish, 6th century

The Drawing Academy at the Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam, ca. 1800

Coiling the Cable in the Large Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich, 1865, 1865

The Reels of Gutta-percha Covered Conducting Wire Conveyed into Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, at Greenwich, 1865-66

Glorious Charge of the Fusiliers at St. Eloi, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Glorious Charge of the Fusiliers at St. Eloi, 1916. The Battle of St. Eloi was fought from 27 March to 16 April 1916 in a landscape pitted by mine explosions

Royal Ceremonial Costume and Accessories, late 1800s-early 1900s. Creator: Unknown
Royal Ceremonial Costume and Accessories, late 1800s-early 1900s

Telegraphists, Somme, northern France, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Germanys two mighty airships, the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg, 1936. The two airships were used for regular transatlantic flights in the 1930s. They were the largest flying machines ever built

Coils of steel wire, Tinsley Wire Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1972

An Abandoned Young Pilot Appropriating Somebody Elses Rations, c1918 (1919). Artist: W Heath Robinson
An Abandoned Young Pilot Appropriating Somebody Elses Rations, c1918 (1919).From The Wonder Book of Aircraft for Boys and Girls, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward. Lock & Co

A Hint to the Airman Home on Leave, c1918 (1919). Artist: W Heath Robinson
A Hint to the Airman Home on Leave, c1918 (1919). From The Wonder Book of Aircraft for Boys and Girls, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward. Lock & Co. Limited, London, Melbourne and Toronto, 1919]

Crossing the Ebro at Castijon; War in Spain, 1875. A print from The Illustrated London News, (13 March 1875)

Construction of the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York, USA, 1880. Top: laying cable - view of saddle and yoke at the top of one of the towers. Bottom: the bridge during construction

Die-stamping the channel and eye position on needle wires, Redditch, England, c1835. The operation used a foot-operated 13.6kg hammer

Needle-making, 1751-1780. Securing needles in polishing roll (1), polishing under a lead weight (5, 6), washing (2), drying (3), inspecting (4), and grinding points (7)

An idea of the world as it would be in 1953, 1883. A young lady paying calls by personal airship among maze of telegraph and telephone wires. From Le Vingtieme Siecle (the 20th Century) by A Robida

Testing the cables on Brooklyn Bridge, c1900. Brooklyn Bridge, New York, opened 1883: E.F. Farrington, master mechanic, testing the first span of wire cables. Wood engraving c1900

Wire Worker, 16th century. Artist: Jost Amman
Wire Worker, 16th century

Very High Farming, 1870. Artist: Joseph Swain
Very High Farming, 1870. Science stands in a field holding a telegraph pole, complete with wires. The representative of the countrys farmers, scratches his head in wonder

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