Documents Collection (#17)

Court Martial document
Court Martial of four HMS Hampshire sailors, 8 June 1680 (earliest RN document) Date: 1860

Medical Journal
Frigate Success 1840 medical journal, diving operations by Col Pasley, RE on the wreck of HMS Royal George Date: 1840

Exposition du 1er au 30 octobre 1917... organisee par la Ligue Souvenez-Vous... documents, photographies, affiches, ... aux crimes allemands

Public Records Office
The Public Records Office, Chancery Lane, London, where many records and documents used to be kept. Date: 19th century

The Heathen and the Christian - Play
The Heathen and the Christian - promotional postcard for this play - performed at The Grand Theatre Southampton between 1908-1909

Archive service at Paris Peace Conference
Gendarme officers in the archive service of the Paris Peace Conference which followed the end of the First World War. It was their job to classify three tons of documents. Date: circa 1919

Esperanto Club Members
ESPERANTO : members of the Hamburg Esperanto Club pose for their group portrait, holding an Esperanto newspaper and other documents Date: circa 1900

Top secret paperwork. Labels in a filing cabinet, organising documents into top secret, confidential and secret categories

Medical records. Nurse carrying a pile of medical records. This could represent the burden of paperwork in hospitals

Overworked. Conceptual computer artwork of a man running from paperwork. This could represent a reaction to an overload of work

Alcohol content documentation. Book of tables documenting the alcohol content of alcoholic drinks such as the brandy in the glass

Paper shredder. This device is used in offices to destroy sensitive documents

Shredded paper

Papyrus scrolls, Ancient Rome
Papyrus scrolls in Ancient Rome. Papyrus is a wetland sedge found along the Nile in Egypt. Its pith was used as early as the 3rd millennium BC by the Ancient Egyptians

Passport in UV light. Close up photo of a biodata page from a UK passport. This page is printed with invisible inks that fluoresce strongly under ultraviolet (UV) light

SS Patrol searching Civilians, Warsaw, 1944
Illustration showing a German SS Patrol searching Polish civilians, for weapons and documents, in a Warsaw street, 1944. This drawing was made during the Second World War by Captain Bryan de Grineau

Poor Richard - 3
POOR RICHARDs ALMANAC Franklins Lessons in Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c, a typical item : If you would know the value of money, try to borrow some

Poor Richard - 1
POOR RICHARDs ALMANAC Franklins Lessons in Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c, a typical item : He that hath a trade, hath an estate

Poor Richard - 2
POOR RICHARDs ALMANAC Franklins Lessons in Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c, a typical item : Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee

Stamp Office 1809
Housed in Somerset House : at this time the government derived substantial duty from the stamping of documents of all kinds, including newspapers

Female Clerk in china factory
A female clerk at work in a china factory

Londoners Prepare Blitz
Londoners prepare for aerial attack, removing valuables and important documents, and sandbagging buildings against the bomb attacks which they expect

Using a Copying Device
A female employee uses Louis Jamins copying device which copies all documents to perfection, he assures us

Destroying Documents
Before the house search - Warned of an imminent visit from the police, a Russian subversive destroys incriminating letters and documents

Pichegrus Treachery
In 1804, while campaigning, he learns of Pichegrus defection to the enemy from documents found in the carriage of captured Austrian general Kinglin

Benedict Arnold and Major Andre
Benedict Arnold persuades Major Andre to conceal papers in his boot, causing him to be hanged as a spy when captured by the patriots

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