Bedford Lemere Collection (1860s-1944) Gallery

Comptometer Room, Stratford Cooperative Society 1914 BL22762

STRATFORD CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, Maryland Street, Stratford, Greater London. Interior view of the Comptometer Room at Stratford Co-operative Society, showing girls and boys working on model 'E' compometers, manual calculating machines. The comptometer, invented in 1887 by American, Dor Felt, was the first successful manual calculating machine. The children in the photograph could be employed in work, with the school leaving age only being raised to 14 in the Education Act of 1918. Photographed by Harry Bedford Lemere, 1st July 1914

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RMS Olympic BL24990_002

RMS OLYMPIC, White Star Line. First class companion, A deck. Interior view of the stairway to first class entrance on boat deck. The Olympic was the first of a class of luxurious express transatlantic ocean liners, and entered service with the White Star Line in 1911 as the largest cruise liner in the world. Sister ship of the RMS Titanic, she was the only one of the class to prove a success, serving until 1935. The clock from Olympic's grand staircase, probably made most famous through the RMS Titanic, is now on display at the Southampton Maritime Museum. Photographed by Bedford Lemere at Southampton, October 1921

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Tring Park Museum BL11794

THE WALTER ROTHSCHILD ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM, Tring Park, Buckinghamshire. Interior of the museum showing a shark, a swordfish, a skeleton and other exhibits. Photographed by Bedford Lemere for Lord Rothschild in September 1892. Constructed in 1889 as a private museum for Lord Rothschild's collection of mounted specimens, it opened to the public in 1892. It has been part of the Natural History Museum since 1937 and is still open to the public

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