Corners Collection

Machine Gun Corps Poster
Travel all over the world with the Machine Gun Corps. A persuasive military recruitment poster, promising the potential for travel to far corners of the globe

Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Quattro Cantoni & Via Macqueda
Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Quattro Cantoni ( Four corners ) with Via Macqueda Date: circa 1904

Give and Take on Road
Drive as you would wish others to drive... always anticipate danger and be on the alert... on corners keep as far to the left as possible

Bailiff and Writ
TAPPING - a bailiff corners a young man in the street and serves a writ on him, perhaps a tailors bill he has forgotten to pay, perhaps something more serious

Gothic Chimneypiece Design
A lithographic plate produced by Day and Sons, showing a design for a chimneypiece in the gothic style, with a segmented flower border and shield symbols in the top corners. Date: circa 1855

RMS Titanic - cigar case recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - a silver cigar case of rectangular outline with rounded corners

Pink and blue flowers on a German greetings card, with white and gold ornate border. circa 1890s

Vintage 19th century photograph: Wellington Arch, also known as Constitution Arch or as the Green Park Arch, is a Grade I-listed triumphal arch by Decimus Burton that forms a centrepiece of Hyde Park

The game of Four Corners, 18th century
The game of Four Corners, a variant of tag, 18th century, after a painting by Nicolas Lancret. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

Merveilleuses playing the four corners game of tag
The four corners game of tag. Five merveilleuses in muslin dresses play the game of four corners, a version of tag. Illustration by Dominique Bosio

Ludgate Circus, with advertising on sides of public transport and buildings

Four Corners, looking North, Rochester, NY State, USA Date: circa 1910s

Corner of Kasr El-Nil and Sherif Pasha Street in Cairo
Car traffic and pedestrians at the corner of Kasr El-Nil (Qasr el-Nil Street) and Madabegh Street (later Sherif Pasha Street) in Cairo, Egypt

London Police Box
Police boxes used to adorn the East and West corners of Trafalgar Square and were the smallest police stations in London. The lamps at the top came from HMS " Victory"

The Towers Hotel, Brooklyn, New York. The building is a Romanesque Revival style structure with Venetian influenced towers punctuating the buildings corners. Date: circa 1940

Barbers Shop in the street in Egypt
Customer at a barbers shop in a street corner in Egypt. Date: circa 1910s

New Year card in the shape of a leather briefcase -- Bag your game in the New Year. Date: circa 1890s

Spain and Portugal - Monument collumn - Barcelona - column with lions at 4 corners and figure on top. Part of Box 149 Boswell collection - Portugal and Spain

Music cover, Trab Trab Trab, One Day While Gently Riding, sung by Mademoiselle Henrietta (Jetty) Treffz (1818-1878). circa 1850s

Little child in a vase on a square Christmas card
Little child inside an ornate vase on a square Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Envelope, adhesive photo wafers
Envelope containing a quantity of adhesive photo wafers, price sixpence, for use in Gilbert photograph albums. Date: circa 1920s

Envelope, Johnsons invisible photo corners
Envelope containing 400 Johnsons invisible photo corners for use in photograph albums, price sixpence. Date: circa 1920s

Corner design, SMB wallpaper sample book
Corner design in an SMB wallpaper sample book. Date: 1934

Savoy China Jug - WWI
Savoy China Jug, inscribed and showing a Private of the Grenadier Guards with the Kings Colour and Union Flag. On reverse, Shakespeare prose - This England never do

Map with clocks at Baden Powell House, London
A modern map with clocks showing the time in different parts of the globe at Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London. Above it are the words: From All Corners of the Earth You Have Journeyed

The Corner Grab Crane by Heath Robinson
The Corner Grab Crane for working round corners - a valuable suggestion by Mr W. Heath Robinson now under consideration by Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd

Embroidered Postcard - Can Can Dancer - A Kiss from France
WW1 - Fantastic Embroidered Postcard depicting a French Can Can Dancer - A Kiss from France. Our lady holds aloft the corners of her skirt to reveal their decoration - the flags of the allies

View of Whitehall, rounded corners

The Four Corners Games or The Five Brothers, representation of Napole󮠂 onaparte and his brothers Joseph, Jerome, Louis and Lucien. Etching. SPAIN. Madrid. Museo de Historia

Shwedagon Pagoda -propitiating Gnats - Rangoon

Advert for Handbags at The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company
A seletion of clutch bags made of a variety of materials, polished crocodile, pebble grain and polished morocco all on sale at The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company. Date: 1931

General view of the Great Exhibition of 1851
The Great Exhibition of All Nations in Hyde Park - a general view of the Crystal Palace, with a contributing nation at each corner. Date: 1851

Doggy Guitarist
Two amazed men watching a talented German Shepherd dog playing a guitar on a chair in one of the corners of the Dogs Club Cocktail Bar! Date: early 1930s

Owen Jones Medieval 73
Ornaments from illuminated manuscripts of the 15th century Date: 1868

Muybridge Work Place
His open-air studio at the Palo Alto stock farm, California : camera shed on right, background wall left, four cameras on stands at corners of the track area Date: 1878

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