Bystander Collection (page 8)

Helen McKie
Portrait of Helen McKie (1889-1957), artist and illustrator who worked for The Bystander and The Graphic magazines through the First World War and the 1920s

The Bystander in Occupation illustrated by H. L. Oakley
A page showing The Bystander magazines regular column in 1919 - The Bystander in Occupation - reporting on news from occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War One

Another Secret out - Old Bill in camouflage, Bystander cover
Front cover of The Bystander featuring Old Bill, the cartoon soldier character created by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, attired in a uniform of dazzle camouflage. The caption reads, Another secret out

My Hat! by Bruce Bairnsfather
How a tin hat feels before battle...and during. Humorous cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander. 1916

The Bystander being read in a British trench
A sentry keeps watch in a British trench while his comrade spends his turn off duty reading a copy of the Bystander, the latest issue of this journal

Mlle. Edmee Dormeuil in the Better Ole
Edmee Dormeuil, French actress and star of The Better Ole, the musical play based on the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

Bairnsfather on leave by Marcel Poncin
The Face at the Window. A humorous, and entirely imaginative, drawing of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, famous soldier cartoonist and creator of Fragments from France

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather
A snapshot by an American officer somewhere in France of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1888-1959), soldier cartoonist and creator of the Old Bill character

Kensitas cigarettes advert featuring Old Bill
World War One advertisement for Kensitas cigarettes featuring the character Old Bill, from the Bystander cartoons by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather

The Better Ole at the Oxford Theatre Arthur Bourchier
Arthur Bourchier (1863-1927), English actor, pictured in the role of Old Bill in The Better Ole, at the Oxford Theatre London in 1917

A Poet in Khaki - Edmund John
Private Edmund John (1883-1917), poet and soldier in the Artists Rifles during World War One. Photograph featured in The Bystander at the time his new book of poems

The Better Ole at the Oxford Theatre in 1917
Sketches taken from the musical The Better Ole by Bystander cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, staged at the Oxford Theatre (formerly the Oxford Musical Hall)

Stunts silhouetted by H. L. Oakley
A page of silhouettes by Captain H. L. Oakley published in The Bystander depicting the trials and tribulations of a billeting officer

Bruce Bairnsfather. Harry Thurston as Old Bill at the Palla
Harry Thurston in the role of Old Bill, the curmudgeonly World War One soldier created by artist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, drawing crowded houses at the Palladium in 1917

What to do with our War Posters
A humorous cartoon from The Bystander by Alick P. F Ritchie offering suggestions about what to do with discarded war posters

Lady Drogheda and son
Lady Drogheda and her son Viscount Moore, aged three years and five months, at the Knole Park wedding of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West

Bystander cover, a royal tennis player
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring Prince Albert, Duke of York -the future King George VI - as a tennis player

The Glances of English Girls by H. L. Oakley
Silhouette of a British Army officer receiving admiring glances. Illustration to accompany the Bystander magazines regular Bystander in Occupation column by Eric Ford

Bystander Summer Number front cover, 1919
Front cover of The Bystander magazines summer number for July 1919, featuring a back view of a couple in their bathing costumes, embracing as they gaze out to sea. Date: 1919

Bruce Bairnsfather in his workroom at Bishopton
Bruce Bairnsfather, soldier cartoonist, best known for his creation, Ole Bill, in The Bystander, pictured at work in his workroom at Bishopton, Avon during leave. Date: 1916

At the Base, WW1 silhouettes by H. L. Oakley
A curious mixture of English and French types at base in Northern France during World War One captured in silhouette by Captain H. L. Oakley whose work featured in The Bystander

Bairnsfather exhibition at the Graphic Galleries, 1916
A sketch from inside the Graphic Galleries at 190, Strand, London showing crowds gathered at the window, smiling and laughing at one of the Fragments from France

Advert for Bairnsfather Fragments from France exhibition, 19
An advertisement in The Bystander, sister magazine of The Graphic, promoting an exhibition of the humorous wartime cartoons, Fragments from France, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather

H. H. Princess Alexandra of Fife
Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (1891 - 1959), later Princess Arthur of Connaught pictured on the front cover of The Bystander magazine after being recently presented at Court. Date: 1909

The Innocent Abroad, by Bairnsfather
The Innocent Abroad Out Since Mons: " Well, what sort of night ave yer ad?" Novice (but persistent optimist): " Oh, alright

Front cover from the Bystander - Jubilee Number
Decorative front cover of The Bystander for the Silver Jubilee of George V and Queen Mary. Date: 1935

William Heath Robinson with a character created by him
Photograph of William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), from a piece in the Bystander of 1924 which also included some of his illustrative contemporaries, such as H. M. Bateman and A. K. Macdonald

The Bystander Winter Sports Number 1934
Front cover illustration showing a group of skiiers. Date: 20th November 1934

The School of Applied Art by H. H. Harris
Colour illustration from the front cover of The Bystander showing a young fashionable woman sitting at an easel applying her make-up. Date: 23rd May 1928

The Faster Train, by H. M. Bateman
Illustration by H. M. Bateman showing terrified passengers enduring a white knuckle ride on the direct train. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch

Bystander masthead 1928, social gathering
Illustration on the front cover of The Bystander showing, young 1920s men and women sitting down relaxing. Date: 1928

A. D. Nineteen Fifty
Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, originally published in The Bystander magazine on 29 September 1915 and subsequently issued as part of his Fragments from France, and, as here

Eight poster holder advertising
Kelvies eight poster holder, 1910 Date: 1910

Bystander masthead design, 1927 - Guards in Whitehall
Illustration for the masthead of The Bystander magazine featuring a chic 1920s woman visiting the mounted Guards at their sentry post in Whitehall, a popular London tourist sight. Date: 1927

Bystander masthead design, 1927 - Evening entertainment
Illustration on the front cover of The Bystander showing a scene in a restaurant, hotel or nightclub with a band playing, people in evening dress at tables and couples on the dancefloor. Date: 1927

Chorus Gentlemen by Howard K. Elcock
A lady in evening dress plays a grand piano, while a gentleman in white tie contemplates a group of framed portraits on the mantlepiece. Note the copy of The Bystander on the grand piano. Date: 1927

Bystander masthead design, 1927 - Fishing
Illustration on the front cover of The Bystander featuring a woman fishing, probably somewhere in the North of England or Scotland

Mothers Little Darling by Chloe Preston
Illustration by Chloe Preston showing a small boy in a seated in a compartment of a train carriage wearing a suit and bowler hat

Bystander front cover with King George V
King George V painted specially for The Bystander by Cecil Cutler dressed for Royal Ascot, one of the key events in societys Season. Date: 1927

Bystander readers around the world
Page from the Bystander showing people around the world reading the magazine which ran from 1903 to 1940. Date: 1927

Ladies Mounted Sports at Ranelagh - Lady Alice Scott
Page from the Bystander featuring photographs of the female contenders in the Ladies Mounted Sports at Ranelagh. Top left is Miss Joan Hamilton

Bystander front cover - Lawn tennis number - Helen Wills Moo
Helen Wills Moody (1905 - 1998), American tennis player and eight times winner of the Ladies Singles at Wimbledon, pictured in 1927, where she was tipped to win - and she did

Girl reading The Bystander magazine, WWI
Studio photographic portrait of a young girl dressed in a white dress holding a copy of The Bystander magazine. The Bystander magazine

Bystander front cover - Prince of Wales as a polo player
Edward, Prince of Wales (1895 - 1972), later King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor, pictured on the front cover of The Bystander, in polo clothing

Britiannia Bides Her Time
" Britiannia Bides Her Time.", Alick P. F. ritchie, The Bystander front cover, 19th August 1914. In 1914, Britannia really did rule the waves

Bystander masthead design, 1927 - Glorious Twelfth
Illustrated masthead design for the outer cover of the Bystander magazine featuring a woman on the grouse moors enjoying some shooting on the Glorious Twelfth. Date: 1927

Bystander masthead design, 1927 - Beach scene
Illustration for the Bystander masthead showing a 1920s woman reclining on a beach while her friends enjoy splashing about in the sea. Date: 1927

Royal Wedding 1923 - Duke of York
Prince Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952), later King George VI. An inset photograph within a drawing inspired by Shakespeares Richard III

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