Bureau Collection (#4)

Seismograph on display, Selfridges, Oxford Street, London
Seismograph on display in the Information Bureau, on the third floor of Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London, used for recording earthquakes. Date: circa 1932

Washington DC, USA - Bureau of Printing and Engraving at cherry blossom time Date: 1943

Mother and children on a jigsaw puzzle
Mother and children at a table on a jigsaw puzzle -- the pieces are square shaped. Date: circa 1890s

See India advert - Imperial Indian Mail train
See India advertisement from the Indian Railways Bureau. From Bombay to Calcutta the Imperial Indian Mail runs its weekly journey carrying first class passengers only with their servants. Date: 1935

The Right Hon F E Smith, War Censor in Chief, WW1
The Right Hon F E Smith MP, appointed War Censor in Chief, President of the newly formed Government Press Bureau, on the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

Thomas Cook Office, Cannes - still advertising tours and a bureau de change! Date: 1913

Knitted muffler American Red Cross booklet, WW1 knitting
Page from a page of The American Red Cross Womens Bureau leaflet of knitting instructions for producing comforts for soldiers

Women working at Prisoners of War Information Bureau, WW1
Women working at the offices of the Prisoners of War Information Bureau, located at 49 Wellington Street, Strand, where are record of all British soldiers who were prisoners of war in Germany were

Women wanted for War Work, WW1
Advertisement by the Motor Drivers Licensed Employment Bureau calling for women to train as engineers during the First World War. Full training in machinery and car repairs offered. Date: 1918

Popular Songs of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force)
Popular Songs of the A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Force). Compiled by Bureau of Libraries and Periodical, A.E.F. Y.M.C.A. Published by the Y.M.C.A. Paris, 1918

Ministry of Information War Photograph bureau
Customers inspecting picture albums at a new bureau for the sale of official war photographs opened by the Ministry of Information at Coventry Street by John Buchan in October 1918. Date: 1918

Buying games for the Tatler scheme, WW1
Cartoon showing a lady leaving her car after spending a day buying various games to contriubte to the Tatler magazines Games Bureau

Sir Stanley Buckmaster, Solicitor-General, WW1
Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (1861-1934), British lawyer and Liberal politician, seen here at the time he served as Solicitor-General under Asquith (1913-1915)

F E Smith MP in uniform, WW1
Frederick Edwin Smith (1872-1930), Conservative MP and lawyer, formerly Chief of the wartime Press Bureau, now in uniform

Lord Kitchener leaving the War Office
Lord Kitchener (1850-1916), in his first public appearance as Secretary for War, leaving the War Office to attend his first cabinet meeting

Miss N. G. Jones is at her desk on the Royal Aeronautical?
Miss N.G. Jones is at her desk on the Royal Aeronautical Society information bureau at the International Aero Exhibition at Olympia, 16-27 July 1929

Yokohama Pier, Yokohama, Japan - Customs Office
Yokohama Pier, Yokohama, Japan - The brick building in the back housed the Yokohama Customs Office Inspection Bureau - built in 1894 and designed by Japanese architect Yorinaka Tsumaki

Washington DC, USA - The Bureau of War Risk Insurance Building Date: 1920

Washington DC, USA - Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington DC, USA - New Bureau of Engraving and Printing Date: 1920

General Picquart - Satire - Dreyfus Affair
Marie-Georges Picquart disguises himself by strapping on a tight corset. This cartoon is a sature on Picquarts position as head of the counter-espionnage bureau during the Dreyfus Affair

SPAIN. Valladolid. Bureau. Museum Casa de Cervantes (Cervantes house)

Fight cancer - delay is dangerous Consult your doctor or health bureau. Poster promoting better health care through early treatment of cancer, showing a hand holding a sword

Nurse the baby Your protection against trouble : Inform yourself through the Health Bureau publications and consult your doctor

Les revendications des debbes. Bureau des enfants. Croix-Rouge americaine. Angry babies marching with placards, demanding their rights. Date 191-. Les revendications des debbes. Bureau des enfants

Lack of funds need not discourage from seeking competent medical care consult your health bureau. Poster promoting better health care. Date between 1936 and 1939

No creature in this world so ignorantly nurtured as the average baby Advice at your health bureau. Poster promoting proper health care for children, showing a girl with a fawn

Balanced diet for the expectant mother Inquire at the Health Bureau. Poster promoting proper diet and prenatal care for pregnant women, showing a bowl of fruit. Date between 1936 and 1939

Expecting? Get the right advice from the right sources, your doctor or health bureau. Poster promoting proper health care for pregnant women, showing a stork. Date between 1936 and 1938

Scenic places in Tokyo - Asakusa, telegraph bureau. Japanese print shows exterior view in the Asakusa section of Tokyo showing the telegraph bureau

M. Bureau de Pusy. Ne a Port sur Saone en 17... depute du Baille d Amont en fche cte e l assemblee nationale de 1789, nomme president le 2 fevrier 1790

Long-range view of the Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station and Weather Bureau Station. Date 1900

Left side view of the 1900 Wright glider before installation of forward horizontal control surface, flying as a kite, tipped forward; Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station

Left view of Wilbur gliding, Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station and Weather Bureau buildings in distance; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1902 Oct. 10

A corner in the mail room of the central information bureau for prisoners of war sponsored by the International Red Cross. Date 1940 Nov

Welcome - defense workers! Homes registration office : Defense rental listing bureau. Poster alerting defense workers to the availability of houses, apartments, and rooms

Stamp out syphilis Every baby is entitled to be born healthy : Blood test & examination should be made before marriage by your doctor or Bureau of Social Hygiene Clinic, 51 Stuyvesant Place

British Western Front in France - Red Cross Hospital ward

British Western Front in France - Base Hospital operating th
An official First World War Press Bureau picture from the British Western Front in France showing the operating theatre of an unidentified Base Hospital

British Western Front in France - Base Hospital ward
An official First World War Press Bureau picture from the British Western Front in France showing a ward in an unidentified Base Hospital. Medical staff attend male patients. Date: circa 1914

Censorship during World War II, 1939
Squadron-Leader Elsdon on the left, censoring photographs at Senate House, London University during the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939

O J Broch, Scientist
O J BROCH Norwegian scientist in France - director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Paris. Date: 1818 - 1889

French Money Changer
Bureau de Change - a French money changer in Paris France. Date: 1930s

Office Diner
A practical, modern, office diner, with a bureau and dining table. Date: 1930s

Lounge and Patio
A modern lounge, with doors which open to the garden patio and lead (of course) to the pool. Date: 1970s

Noyon - Occupying Germans Bureau de Change
Noyon, France - Bureau de Change installed by occupying German Forces. The town was occupied by the Germans during World War I and World War II and on both occasions suffered heavy damage

World Fair 1940
Street of shops at the American Bureau for Medical Aid China Pavilion at the New York World Fair 1940

Passport Bureau at Haydar Pasa
The rather extraordinary Passport Bureau at Haydar Pasa

Visit Egypt tourism advertisement
Colour advertisement for the Egypt Travel Bureau

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