Package Collection

TV DINNER, 1954. Packaging for Swansons turkey TV dinner, 1954, designed to resemble a television set

Broadstairs 1950S
An incredibly crowded beach at Broadstairs in Kent, showing how popular British holiday resorts used to be in the days before package holidays. Date: 1950s

A messenger boy, London, 1911
3785140 A messenger boy, London, 1911; (add.info.: A messenger boy, London, 1911. Shows a boy delivering a message to a woman in person)

Banner for Wells Fargo & Co Express, 1915
WELLS FARGO EXPRESS, 1915. Banner for Wells Fargo & Co Express, 1915

Sunflower oil glass bottle color line icon Sunflower oil glass bottle color line icon. Natural, healthy vegetarian food. Pictogram for web page, mobile app, promo. UI UX GUI design element

Food label design. Chicken retro package, tag or sticker for poultry product, sketch meat banner for market. Craft butcher farm packaging. Hand drawn Food label design

Powder match heads macro, close-up

Costume of Etrepagny
5855751 Costume of Etrepagny; (add.info.: Costume of Etrepagny. The village is famous for its lace, and we have here a lace-maker. She wears a small bonnet, a very short jacket over a long dress)

Stylish Travels
Martina

German soldiers, seen here in a French village, recieve packages of food from home during World War One
3502752 German soldiers, seen here in a French village, recieve packages of food from home during World War One, from The Pageant of the Century, pub.1934; (add.info.: German soldiers)

The arrival of Elton John at Heathrow Airport carrying Christmas presents from a buying spree in Hong Kong. Pictured behind Elton John is his manager John Reid. 13th December 1979

Time for a beer, Majorca, Spain, August 1971

Exterior of Bar, Majorca, Spain, August 1971

The queue outside Lunn Poly travel Agent to snap up a £; 5 holiday to the South of France November 1985

Charabanc day trip run by R. Chisnell & Sons to Sydenham
Staff (and their families) on a Charabanc day trip run by R. Chisnell & Sons (trading as King Alfred Motor Services) of Winchester to visit the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, South London

Postage Scales
Peter Paterson

Isolation
Sweet toddler child, cute blond boy, hiding in cardboard box, looking out from a hole, smiling. Tatyana Tomsickova

Akasaka (numbered 37); "Fujikawa (numbered 38)" (image 3 of 4), c1802. Creator: Hokusai
Akasaka (numbered 37); "Fujikawa (numbered 38)" (image 3 of 4), c1802. From Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido(Tokaido gojusan tsugi)

Man with pack in a street, in or before 1910. Creator: Louwerse, H.C
Man with pack in a street, in or before 1910. Two figures with turbans in the foreground

Egg Packaging, 1915. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Egg Packaging, 1915. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Egg Packaging, 1915. Labels for sending eggs and empty egg boxes through the post. When Tag is attached from one end the string cancels address not in use; Place Forward Postage Here; Forward

Reception, by Messrs. Cuthbert, Paternoster-Row, of Lint, Etc. for the Wounded at Scutari, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Reception, by Messrs. Cuthbert, Paternoster-Row, of Lint, Etc. for the Wounded at Scutari, 1854. Warehouse for donations to the Nightingale Hospital in Turkey

Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Labels for sending eggs and empty egg boxes through the post. When Tag is attached from one end the string cancels address not in use; Place Forward Postage Here;

Seaweed, portable writing case, and plum branch, no. 5 from the series "The Rabbit's... 1819
Seaweed, portable writing case, and plum branch, no. 5 from the series "The Rabbit's Boastful Exploits (Usagi tegarabanashi)", 1819

Handbill of the Great Western Transportation Company, 1835 (litho)
PNP246640 Handbill of the Great Western Transportation Company, 1835 (litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Pack and man on a street in Belgrade Serbia Belgrade. Date of Photograph:1950-1960

White mail box in front of a house next to driveway with spring trees and green evergreen trees

Sardine Al Limone
Studio Mandariini

Postcard - Benefit of Le Paquet de L'Orphelin - WW1
Postcard sold for the benefit of Le Paquet de L'Orphelin ('The Orphan's Package') - charitable Christmas gifts/presents for the war orphans of France. Date: circa 1918

Advert for Wright's Coal Tar soap
Advert for Wrights coal tar soap. Created by William Valentine Wright in 1860,  Wright's Coal Tar Soap was a popular brand of antiseptic soap designed to thoroughly cleanse the skin

ICA-Brasov IS-28M-2 G-BROM (msn 04A), Romanian-built motor-glider parked outside a gliding club hangar. British Aerospace took on the agency for Romanian aircraft in the UK

Crosfield's soap works, Warrington 1886
Various scenes of the packing and distribution of Crosfield's Soap, Bank, Quarry, Warrington, Cheshire. Date: 1886

Mrs. Dorothy Bell and Miss Ida Hicks, employed at the American... New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell and Miss Ida Hicks, employed at the American Railway Express Company, earns thirty-three dollars and twnety-six cents per week, sorting, weighting

Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old... New Britain, Connecticut, 1943
New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighting them

Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight years old, employed... New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight years old, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighting them, etc

The Actor Sakata Hangoro III as the Groom Abumizuri no Iwazo in Koriyama, Actua... 1794 (Kansei 6)
The Actor Sakata Hangoro III as the Groom Abumizuri no Iwazo in Koriyama, Actually Kurisaka Taro Tomonori (SAndai-me Sakata Hangoro no Koriyama no Umakata Abumizuri no Iwazo)

Le Contrebandier (The Smuggler) (colour litho)
6032225 Le Contrebandier (The Smuggler) (colour litho) by Grenier, F. (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Le Contrebandier (The Smuggler)

Man boarding a tram car (chromolitho)
5207407 Man boarding a tram car (chromolitho) by Browne, Tom (1872-1910); Private Collection; (add.info.: Man boarding a tram car. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

A Tale of a Snake (engraving)
1047625 A Tale of a Snake (engraving) by Ralston, William (1848-1911) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Tale of a Snake)

The Animal that came out of the sea and ate up all the food that Suleiman-bin-Daoud had
STC405572 The Animal that came out of the sea and ate up all the food that Suleiman-bin-Daoud had made ready for all the animals in all the world

Morning Mist at Mishima, from the series 53 Stations on the Eastern Coast Road, 1833 (woodblock print)
FIT111461 Morning Mist at Mishima, from the series 53 Stations on the Eastern Coast Road, 1833 (woodblock print) by Hiroshige, Ando or Utagawa (1797-1858); 25.7x35.5 cm; Fitzwilliam Museum

The Present, 1890 (pastel)
BAL37926 The Present, 1890 (pastel) by Carrier-Belleuse, Pierre (1851-1933); 99x71.1 cm; Private Collection; Waterhouse & Dodd, London, UK; French, out of copyright

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, putting cocoa into packets
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, women putting cocoa into packets. 1893

Boats Docking at Hachikenya (Hachikenya chakusen no zu) (colour woodblock print)
5043614 Boats Docking at Hachikenya (Hachikenya chakusen no zu) (colour woodblock print) by Hiroshige, Ando or Utagawa (1797-1858); Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: Docking scene)

Mr Wickfield, c. 1920s (pen & ink with w / c on paper)
465562 Mr Wickfield, c.1920s (pen & ink with w/c on paper) by Clarke, Joseph Clayton (Kyd) (1856-1937); 28.5x22.5 cm; Free Library of Philadelphia; (add.info)

Aristocratic Couple holding package, New Year Card (chromolitho)
731212 Aristocratic Couple holding package, New Year Card (chromolitho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Aristocratic Couple holding package)

Hudson Bay Company, trading post in mid 19th century, late 19th century (engraving)
3470673 Hudson Bay Company, trading post in mid 19th century, late 19th century (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; Peter Newark Pictures; English, out of copyright

The Mother of John Paul Jones (colour litho)
3623256 The Mother of John Paul Jones (colour litho) by Wyeth, Newell Convers (1882-1945) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Mother of John Paul Jones)

Early Coaches, c. 1836 (engraving)
3709405 Early Coaches, c.1836 (engraving) by Cruikshank, George (1792-1878); Private Collection; (add.info.: Published in Charles Dickens Sketches by Boz)

A packed box of laundry from the Carolyn Laundry at 111 East 128th Street, East Harlem
MNY380813 A packed box of laundry from the Carolyn Laundry at 111 East 128th Street, East Harlem, New York, 1929 (silver gelatin print) by Byron Company (fl.1890-1942)

Womans Hand Chooses Between a Variety of Food Items, 1951 (screen print)
2630040 Womans Hand Chooses Between a Variety of Food Items, 1951 (screen print) by American School, (20th century); Private Collection; Photo eGraphicaArtis; American, out of copyright

Tin of Sweet Mild Snuff (chromolitho)
732779 Tin of Sweet Mild Snuff (chromolitho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Tin of Sweet Mild Snuff.); Look and Learn / Barbara Loe Collection

Torn in Transit, c. 1890-95 (oil on canvas)
712172 Torn in Transit, c.1890-95 (oil on canvas) by Haberle, John (1856-1933); 37x51 cm; Private Collection; American, out of copyright

United States Military Telegraph Wagon, from a book pub. 1896 (engraving)
STC394712 United States Military Telegraph Wagon, from a book pub. 1896 (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The U.S)

Buddhist manuscript, wrapped in waxed cloth for protection (paper, cloth & string)
LIT389925 Buddhist manuscript, wrapped in waxed cloth for protection (paper, cloth & string) by Thai School; Bangkok, Thailand; (add.info)

Duty Paid, 1896 (oil on canvas)
TW429406 Duty Paid, 1896 (oil on canvas) by Hedley, Ralph (1848-1913); 109x126.5 cm; Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear, UK; eSunderland Museums; English, out of copyright

Frontispiece of Le Parfait Negociant by Jacques Savary, Paris
CHT207799 Frontispiece of Le Parfait Negociant by Jacques Savary, Paris, 1665 (engraving) (b/w photo) by Landry, Pierre (c)

The Nobels Extradynamit
6281729 The Nobels Extradynamit by Swedish School, (19th century); Nobelmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden; Photo eFine Art Images; Swedish, out of copyright

Portefaix A Salonique (colour photo)
2817313 Portefaix A Salonique (colour photo) by European Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Portefaix A Salonique)

It was worth a trip a mile to see this paper package marked TEDDY - G (colour litho)
2776754 It was worth a trip a mile to see this paper package marked TEDDY - G (colour litho) by Campbell, Floyd V. (d.1906); Private Collection; (add.info)

Rescued from the Sky (Colour Litho)
2783456 Rescued from the Sky (Colour Litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Rescued from the sky)

Princess Elizabeth and her Sister Out Shopping (b / w photo)
STC360979 Princess Elizabeth and her Sister Out Shopping (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: from George V and Edward VIII: A Royal Souvenir, by F. G)

Packaging of Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable Tonic, c. 1940 (b / w photo)
SLS249165 Packaging of Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable Tonic, c.1940 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

The Ice Cart, 1840-48 (w / c on paper)
NYH149732 The Ice Cart, 1840-48 (w/c on paper) by Calyo, Nicolino (1799-1884); 26.3x37.4 cm; Collection of the New-York Historical Society, USA; eNew York Historical Society; Italian, out of copyright

The Game of Agriculture and Commerce, late 18th century (coloured engraving)
CHT179937 The Game of Agriculture and Commerce, late 18th century (coloured engraving) by French School, (18th century); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Camel Caravan. Creator: Unknown
Camel Caravan

The Dark Side of the Financial Crisis
Christophe Kiciak

Bus please! (from the series "Manly")
Dieter Matthes

Fishka
Golubeva Nataly

Don't open till Christmas
Christmas surprise concept, a gift box with dence steam and a reaching hand on a dark background with decorations and stars. New year present vivid still life with action.. Dina Belenko

Unicorn Bag
Craft bag in a unicorn shape with clouds on a pink background, creative concept, recycling, sustainability flat lay. Dina Belenko

Women on the Crunchie packing line at the Frys Chocolate factory, Keynsham. 1st March 1967

Princess Diana meets and greets the staff of Remploy in Coventry, West Midlands, England on one of her many walkabouts. Picture taken 16th October 1985

Majorca, Spain, August 1971

Coach trip to Majorca, Spain, August 1971

Looking for bargains, souvenir shopping, Majorca, Spain, August 1971

A night out in Majorca, Spain, August 1971. Flamenco

A night out in Majorca, Spain, August 1971

Eating Out, Majorca, Spain, August 1971. Pigs being roasted on spit

Corporal Peter Symmonds at a Nicosia airfield with hampers packed with good things, they are gift from the Daily Mirror - on behalf of its millions of readers - to the British Servicemen on duty in

Two year old Gregory Curtis with his mother Jill on holiday in Majorca pushing his dad into the pool. June 1969

Newly weds Pearl and Arthur Griffiths from St. Helens, who were married yesterday were two of the first to take advantage of the new cheap long weekends to Majorca

Holiday posters in shop window March 1968

Fiesta Tours row - July 1964 Mrs Simpson, Yvonne and dad, Gordon Simpson after being told there was No plane for their holiday

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"Unveiling the Evolution of Packaging: From TV Dinners to Stylish Travels" Step into a time machine and travel back to 1954, where Swansons turkey TV dinner took the world by storm with its innovative packaging designed to resemble a television set. This iconic package revolutionized convenience meals forever. Fast forward to Broadstairs in the 1950s, where packages were not limited to just food. The town embraced modernity as it showcased banners for Wells Fargo & Co Express, transporting people's dreams and aspirations across vast distances. Meanwhile, holiday still life scenes captured colorful bows adorning meticulously wrapped packages that brought joy and excitement during festive seasons. These vibrant ribbons symbolized anticipation and delight as they adorned carefully chosen gifts. In another era, stylish travels became synonymous with elegant suitcases and chic bags that exuded sophistication. These packages were more than just containers; they represented adventure, luxury, and timeless fashion. Venturing further into culinary delights, Sardine Al Limone tantalized taste buds with its exquisite flavors packaged in delicate tins. This package held within it a burst of Mediterranean zest that transported diners straight to Italy's coastal shores. During World War I, even postcards played their part in packaging - promoting "Le Paquet de L'Orphelin, " an initiative aimed at providing support for orphaned children affected by war. These postcards carried messages of hope packaged within heartfelt words from caring individuals around the globe. Beyond charity efforts lay advertisements showcasing Wright's Coal Tar soap - a trusted brand since ages past. Its distinctive package promised cleanliness and purity while leaving behind an invigorating scent that lingered on one's skin long after use. Traveling back even further in time reveals Crosfield's soap works in Warrington during 1886 – an industrial marvel producing soaps packaged neatly for households across England. Their packages brought cleanliness into homes while simultaneously fueling the industrial revolution.