Financial Collection

National Savings Group wartime poster
Convoy your country to victory : save and lend through our National Savings Group. World War II poster illustrated by warship flying the Royal Navy ensign

Survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade, 1890
Photograph of survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War taken 36 years after the event. The photograph was taken for charitable purposes

Postcard for the Budget League chaired by Winston Churchill to promote the Peoples Budget introduced by David Lloyd George. Tax the Loafer - not the loaf!

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault at The New Britain Trust Co. Bank Vault

Gracie Fields Home and Orphanage, Peacehaven, Sussex
Children and staff stand in front of the orphanage and childrens home at Peacehaven in East Sussex. The home was opened in 1933 by the singing star Gracie Fields to care for the children of parents

World War One soldiers
On les a souscrivez a la London County and Westminster Bank (Paris) Ltd : poster illustrated by three World War One soldiers, Scots Guard, French and British infantrymen in battle

Share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields
A share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields Limited, representing 35 shares. Gold deposits were first discovered along the Yukon River in Canada in 1896, and this triggered off a gold rush

Two businessmen and different business models
The Old Way. The New Way. Two businessmen and different business models and their success or failure. Giving credit or paying cash. Date: 1870

The Savings Bank of Utica, New York
Diebold Safe and Lock Co. The Savings Bank of Utica. Exterior of the Savings Bank of Utica building, Utica N.Y

Bank of England / Dividend
Dividend Day at The Bank of England

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault in The Bank of Montreal, New York. Bank Vault

Poster, Back the Great Attack with War Savings, showing WW2 soldiers running across a beach. 1940s

Northern Trust Company Bank, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Northern Trust Company Bank, La Salle and Monroe Streets, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Lloyds Coffee House, London. 1798

A problem of income - couple trying to balance the books
A problem of income. Grenville and Sue Collins trying to balance the books as they await the Mary Evans Picture Library Royalty Statement...! Date: circa 1910s

Poster advertising Post Office Savings Bank
Poster advertising the Post Office Savings Bank -- money is power. Showing two tall smoking chimneys, possibly of Battersea Power Station. 20th century

Buy National Savings Certificates
Poster urging the reader to Buy National Savings Certificates: Lend to defend his right to be free featuring an angelic boy constructing something with meccano

Place de la Bourse, Boulevard Anspach, Brussels, Belgium
Place de la Bourse and Boulevard Anspach, Brussels, Belgium. Date: circa 1910

Dollar Savings Bank, Niles, Ohio, USA, marking the spot where President McKinley was born. Date: circa 1905

WW2 Christmas card, Lloyds Bank, showing the white cliffs of Dover. Date: 1944

John Dixon, Clarence Hatry, Edmund Daniels
Arrested on a charge of conspiracy with intent to defraud: from left to right, John Dixon, Clarence Hatry and Edmund Daniels. Date: 1929

Bank of England Beadle, City of London. 1899

WW1 poster, Red Cross recruitment
Poster, Red Cross recruitment -- Join! The Greatest Mother. circa 1918

50000000000 Mark note
The hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic 1921-1923. Front of a Banknote on 50 000 000 000 Mark edited iat Hamburg 1/11 1923. Date: 1921-1923

Wartime poster, More Ships -- come on! War Savings are Warships. Encouraging people to save money and help the war effort. Featuring a British bulldog wearing an HMS Victory naval cap. 1940s

Safety Deposit Vault
Merchantile Safe Deposit Co. 120 Broadway, c. 1904. Safety deposit vault with mosaic tile floor flanked by banks of safe deposit boxes

Post Office Savings Bank poster
Wherever you go there is a branch of the Post Office Savings Bank. The one depicted in the rural scene is in Wharfedale, Yorkshire

The Clearing House, Lombard Street, London, 1847
Engraving showing the interior of the Clearing House in Lombard Street, London, 1847. This was an important financial institution, located at the back of the Guardian Insurance Office

WW1 poster, Pour la Liberte du Monde (For the Freedom of the World), subscribe to the national war loan. Date: circa 1916

Founding of the Bank of England - proposed by William Paterson, the Bank of England was formed with Sir John Houblon as its first Governor, initially located in Mercers Hall. Date: 1694

Abraham Newland - 2
ABRAHAM NEWLAND financial whizz, chief cashier of the Bank of England. Date: 1730 - 1807

Lionel L. Cohen, Vanity Fair, Lib
LIONEL LOUIS COHEN (1832-1887) English financier, politician, and communal worker. Trustee and later manager of the London Stock Exchange. MP for Paddington North

London, Edinburgh & Glasgow Assurance Company Ltd. - advertorial flyer Date: 1882

Market Reports - Commodity Market
Market Reports - A Fall in Copper created some excitement! 1903

Poster advertising National Savings (the best British recipe for prosperity), with six recipes from one of the first television chefs, Philip Harben (1906-1970). circa 1940s

Dutch poster advertising a National Collection on behalf of the Fatherland (ie the German Reich), during the Second World War. May 1944

Wall Street, New York City
Trinity Church on Wall Street, New York City, America

The One Pound Look by Ricardo Brook
Front cover of The Bystander special issue focusing on the fall in the value of the pound during the first half of 1920. Here a rather aristocratic looking gentleman is fashioned out of a pound sign

Notebook and wig of Justice Hawkins
A notebook and wig once belonging to the English Judge, Justice Hawkins (Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton), given to Horatio William Bottomley, Liberal MP

Bright Soiree, Liverpool
BRIGHT AT LIVERPOOL Soiree given to Mr Bright in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, by the Financial Reform Association

Auctioneer on a Christmas and New Year card, with a lot of financial puns in the verse. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, The Macmillion (Andrew Carnegie)
Cartoon, The Macmillion -- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919), Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist

US Gold Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA. Date: circa 1940

Sun Buildings, Spooners Corner, Plymouth, showing Farrows Bank Ltd and other premises. circa 1910s

Proposed Hotel Commonwealth, New York
Artists impression of the proposed Hotel Commonwealth, New York, USA - occupying a whole block, Broadway, 55th Street, 56th Street and 7th Avenue. The project failed in the mid-1920s. Date: circa 1916

Advertising bookmark, November, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund (Mutual) Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Advertising bookmark, October, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Advertising bookmark, May, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund (Mutual) Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

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