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Porters and others in a convoy. Painting by Ōishi Matora.
Matora, Ōishi, 1794-1833.Reference: 580020i
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Porters are standing around talking, leaning on baskets; one is asleep; others in the background are carrying items. Coloured lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 30552i- Books
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Porters' fares. This day is published, price 2s. The porters' fares for conveying parcels, brought by coaches or waggons, from all the inns within the cities of London, Westminster, and Borough of Southwark, as directed by act of Parliament, June 1799. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the act. Printed for H. D. Symonds, No. 20, Paternoster-Row; and sold also by the booksellers of London and Westminster.
Date: [1799]- Pictures
Middlesex County Mental Hospital, Porters Park, Shenley: water tower. Process print, 1926.
Date: 1926Reference: 552486iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Pictures
Middlesex County Mental Hospital, Porters Park, Shenley: the closed buildings. Process print, 1926.
Date: 1926Reference: 552487iPart of: Architecture illustrated.
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Middlesex County Mental Hospital, Porters Park, Shenley: main elevation to the nurses home. Process print, 1926.
Date: 1926Reference: 552485iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Pictures
Middlesex County Mental Hospital, Porters Park, Shenley: general plan, with a scale and detailed key. Process print, 1926.
Date: 1926Reference: 552484iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Books
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The Porters' fares for conveying parcels brought by coaches or waggons, from all the inns, &c. &c. Within the cities of London and Westminster; as directed by an act of Parliament which passed June 21, 1799. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the act.
Date: 1799- Books
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A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster, the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality. To which are added, Some proper cautions to the Merchants, Tradesmen, and Shop-Keepers; Journeymen, Apprentices, Porters, Errand Boys, Book-Keepers, and Inn-Keepers; also very necessary for every Person going to London either on Business or Pleasure. By Sir John Fielding, One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex, Essex, and Surry, and for the City and Liberty of Westminster.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The hint: or, a free thought, or two, offered to the consideration of all those magnanimous British-Heroes, who have boldly attack'd, routed, and overcome, the fear of an oath, or a curse. More Particularly, Coach-Men, Car-Men, Porters, Water-Men, &c. With a short hint at a new method of a general reform; humbly proposed to the consideration of the Legislature. By a Gregorian.
Gregorian.Date: [1740?]- Books
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A ramble through London: containing observations on men and things, viz. some account of the vast number of foreigners and their behaviour. Of the Scotch, Irish, and Welsh; the first, filling us with Quacks, Beggars and Pedlars; the next with Robbers, Bullies and Evidence and the last, with Footmen, Porters, and Draymen, instead of Gentlemen. A merry Description of the Court End of the Town, and of the City. A Conversation between a Sodomitical Baronet, a Bawd, and the Author, on a Bench in St. James's Park. The Resolutions and Schemes of the Affidavit Club, or Irish Society of Fortune-Hunters for the current Year. Female Conversation described, and the Band of Petticoat Pensioners in the City. The Management of Authors, Printers, and Publishers. The insufferable Behaviour of City 'prentices. Practices of Death-Hunters; the Humours of the Royal Exchange. Together with a small collection of the most refin'd jests from St. James's. And many other curious Particulars touching the Town. By a true-born Englishman.
True-born Englishman.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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With near five thousand alterations. Boyle's new fashionable court and country guide; and town visiting directory, for 1798. Containing an alphabetical arrangement of the names and places of abode, (in Town And Country) of all the ladies and gentlemen of fashion. To Which IS Prefixed, For the Use of Porters in the Halls, Servants, &c. a separate Register of all the Fashionable Streets; which are set down in a Numerical Manner, that the Reader may see at one View, and become acquainted in an Instant with the Names of the various Persons of Fashion according to the Numbers in each. With an index to the streets.
Boyle, P. (Patrick), -1808?.Date: [1798]- Books
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With additions and alterations. Boyle's new fashionable court and country guide, and town visiting directory, for 1799. Containing an alphabetical arrangement of the names and places of abode (in Town And Country) of all the ladies and gentlemen of fashion. To which is added, the Inns of Court, &c. And, For the Use of Porters in the Halls, Servants, &c. a separate Register of all the fashionable Streets is prefixed; which are set down in a numerical Manner, that the Reader may see at one View, and become acquainted in an Instant with the Names of the various Persons of Fashion, according to the Numbers in each.
Boyle, P. (Patrick), -1808?.Date: [1799]- Books
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The first edition ever published, of Boyle's new fashionable court and country guide; and town visiting directory, for the year 1796. Containing all alphabetical arrangement of the names and places of abode, (in Town And Country) of all the ladies and gentlemen of fashion. To Which IS Prefixed, For the Use of Porters in the Halls, Servants, &c. a separate Register of all the Fashionable Streets; which are set down in a Numerical Manner, that the Reader may see at One View, and become acquainted in an Instant with the Names of the various Persons of Fashion according to the Numbers in each. With an inde to the streets.
Boyle, P. (Patrick), -1808?.Date: [1796]- Archives and manuscripts
Nile natives as porters
Date: c.1894-1903Reference: RAMC/1242/6/18-19Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
James Martin with porters, Lake Albert
Date: c.1894-1903Reference: RAMC/1242/6/14Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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Acts of Common-Council, concerning the Tackle-house and ticket porters and publick beams.
City of London (England). Corporation. Court of Common Council.Date: 1712
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Charing Cross Hospital: portrait of the porters. Photograph, 1906.
Date: 1906Reference: 28936iPart of: Basil Hood. Photograph album.- Books
Of orderlies and men : hospital porters achieving wellness at work / Nigel Rapport.
Rapport, Nigel, 1956-Date: [2009]
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Mpara Hill (?), Tanzania: Tanzanian men (railway porters) washing their clothes in a muddy stream. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
Date: 1914-1918Reference: 563245i- Pictures
Beautiful women being carried across a river by porters. Colour woodcut by Kunikiyo I, 1857.
Kunikiyo, Utagawa Kunikiyo, I, fl. mid 19th century.Date: Month 10, 1857Reference: 37097i- Pictures
Guy's Hospital, Southwark: two porters carrying a patient on a stretcher in through the gates. Engraving.
Reference: 38976i- Pictures
A woman porter parodies porters who carried travellers across the shallow river at the station of Fuchū. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1830/1835.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: [1830/1835]Reference: 37052i
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Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across the Benue river in a British expedition to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan, 1894.
Morgan, sub-commandant of the Niger Company's Constabulary force.Date: 1894Reference: 578846i
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, the gate piers and porters' lodges: plans and elevations, with a scale of feet. Engraving by J. Basire after himself, 1752.
Date: July 1752Reference: 28198i