Desk Collection (#15)

Mary Pickford writing at a desk. Date c1918 Mar. 23

Mary Pickford, wearing a kimono, writing at a desk. Date c1918 Feb. 27

Library in Llandaff House, Glamorgan, Wales
Colour sketch of the Library in Llandaff House, Glamorgan, Wales, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. circa 1840s

European Gentleman in Public Office attended by the Crannies, or Native Clerks. (Plate 3 of 20) Date: 1813

Schoolchildren in class, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Schoolchildren photographed during a lesson at a school in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Some of them are looking rather bored. circa 1946

European Gentleman in Private Office attended by his Duftoree, of Native Office-keeper. (plate 2 of 20) Date: 1813

Gabrielle R骡ne, French actress
Gabrielle R骡 ne, French actress

Royal Wedding - Lady Louise Mountbatten
Lady Louise Mountbatten (1889 - 1965), later Queen Consort of King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, pictured on the front cover of the Illustrated London News shortly before her marriage to the widower

Dunderpate gives everyone a holiday from school
Dunderpate changes places with the teacher and immediately gives everyone a holiday from school. The boys run around shouting Hooray! Date: 1938

Bedroom Furniture
A modern desk brings this Victorian garret bedroom up to date! Date: 1930s

Dunderpate in various poses, working at school and at home. Date: 1938

A wireless operator
An illustration of an wireless operator sat at his desk receiving a message. Date: 4th May 1912

She only wants to write a letter
A toddler sits at his Fathers desk with pen and ink scribbling in a sketchbook. Date: 1882

Birthday card with calendar and red roses
To Greet Your Birthday Date -- birthday card with a desk calendar, red roses and blue forget-me-nots. Date: 1950s

Tour of Dr Syntax 1813
Dr Syntax sits at his desk, planning his next trip. Date: 1813

Italian Patriotic Card - Bank Loans / Savings
Italian Patriotic Card - Bank Loans/Savings encouraged during World War One. The text mentions connecting savers to the national effort, which " you help underwrite". Date: circa 1910s

Girls school
A girls school, Trelleborg, Sweden 1940. Date: 1940

Boy Writing
A rather wide-eyed little boy, writing at a desk, a bottle of ink and a selection of pens to hand. Date: 1930s

Office Worker 1975
A female office worker, sitting at her desk, surrounded by box files and in trays, her typewriter beside her. Date: 1975

Two young clerks in an office pose for their photograph. Date: circa 1930s

Georges Clemenceau Photo
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU French statesman, photographed at his desk in 1925. Date: 1841 - 1929

Bedroom Window Desk
A modern desk and waste paper bin have certainly cheered up this rather large Edwardian bay window and made a small bedroom office area. Date: 1930s

John Brown (Kay)
JOHN BROWN Medical, founder of the Brunonian medical system, an important innovator. Seated at his desk. Date: 1735 - 1788

A Nice Cup of Tea
A man sits back from his desk to enjoy a cup of tea. Date: late 1960s

Schoolgirls in Class
Schoolgirls try to hide behind their desks at COUGHTON COPE JUNIOR SCHOOL Date: 1973

Dunderpate and his schoolmaster. The teacher says hes never known such a lazy, stupid fellow, and believes he hasn t enough sense to go in when it rains. Date: 1938

Cartoon, President Wilson reading Germans Reply
Cartoon entitled Standing By, showing the American President Woodrow Wilson at his desk in the White House, with Uncle Sam standing behind him with a worried face

Georges Clemenceau - French President
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841-1929) a French statesman, physician and journalist - Prime Minister between 1906-1909 and a leading figure at the end of World War One

Oberleutnant Steurer, German army Chief of Staff, WW1
Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant) Steurer, Generalstabschef (Chief of Staff) of a division of the German army, seen here at his desk studying papers during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

General Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal
General Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928), Italian Field Marshal, chief of staff of the Italian army during the first part of the First World War. Seen here working at his desk. Date: circa 1916

General Hubert Lyautey, French army officer, WW1
General Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854-1934), French army officer, seen here at his desk as the newly appointed Minister of War during the First World War. Date: 1916

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President, signing oath of faith
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia

General Joffre at his desk, WW1
General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), Commander of the French Army during the first half of the First World War, seen here sitting at his desk at headquarters. Date: circa 1916

Richard von Kuhlmann, German Foreign Secretary
Richard von Kuhlmann (1873-1948), German diplomat and industrialist. Seen here at his desk, probably at the time he served as German Foreign Secretary. Date: circa 1917-1918

Crown Prince Wilhelm seated at his desk, WW1
Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst (1882-1951), the last Crown Prince of Germany and Prussia. Seen here seated at his desk with a map in front of him during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, German army officer, WW1
Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964), general in the Imperial German Army and commander of the German East Africa Campaign during the First World War. circa 1914-1918

General Rucquoy, Chief of Staff, Belgian Army, WW1
General Rucquoy, Chief of Staff of the Belgian Army, seen here at his desk during the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1918

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt(1892-1973), inventor of radar. Date: 1941

Queen Elizabeth II - first televised Christmas broadcast
Queen Elizabeth II sitting at her desk in the Long Library at Sandringham to make the traditional Christmas Day speech. As television cameras were being used for the first time

Classroom scene with Cinderella picture
Classroom scene, showing children in a geography lesson. A picture of Cinderellas coach (a pumpkin pulled by mice) is on the wall at the back. 1923

Female Office Worker
An office worker at her messy desk, surrounded by paperwork typewriters and telephones with wires which would make any Health and Safety departments hair stand on end! Date: 1960s

Georges D amboise 2
GEORGES D AMBOISE cardinal-archbishop of Rouen and minister of Louis XII, depicted seated at his desk. Date: 1460 - 1510

Advert for Swan pens
Swan pens with " fyne poynt" and a pencil both presented in a case, also desk stand with onyx base. 1929

Scholar at his Desk
A scholar at his studies. Date: 16th century

English Study 1911
A study with bookcase and grandfather clock. Date: 1911

Class Scene / Coughton
Coughton Cope Junior School A teacher sits on the edge of her desk in front of the class Date: 1973

Man Writing at Desk 18Th
A French gentleman writing at his desk with a quill-pen in the appropriate position : the elbow laying on the table and the light coming from the left-hand side. Date: Circa 1760

Classroom scene, Avenue de Villiers, Paris
A senior class at the Institution Jeanne d Arc, a girls school in the avenue de Villiers, Paris, France. Date: circa 1912

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