Screens Collection

Big-Screen Broadcasting
News, political broadcasts and public announcements will be made on massive television screens located at strategic points, where huge crowds will be able to see perfectly

Watching Election Result
Londoners watch the election results as they are shown on giant screens erected in Trafalgar Square

Woolwich Town Hall, SE London - Committee Suite
Woolwich Town Hall, SE London - Central Committee Room - Architect: A Brumwell Thomas Date: circa 1908

St. Mark's Church, North Audley Street Stalls
A photograph of some oak stalls and screens inside St. Mark's Church at North Audley Street, London. The church was designed by architect John Peter Gandy

Frank partridge Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Frank Partridge, promoting a choice selection of old English furniture, including a couple of mahogany pole screens with banners in fine petit point needlework

Large Traditional Japanese Hotel room with tatami mats. Date: circa 1920s

Weaving Sik on a traditional foot-powered loom, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Hokokusai Folding Screens - national treasure owned by the Hokoku Shrine, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. Seen here is part of a pair of folding screens

Kittens - young woman looking over a screen. 1893

Samarkand Persian Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Elegant interior, Samarkand Persian Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, USA. circa 1920

A very early Gloster Meteor with long-span wings and gun ports removed, as per High-speed Flight aircraft. It also has very unusual intake screens, very rarely seen on Meteors

A very early Gloster Meteor with long-span wings and gun ports removed, as per High-speed Flight aircraft. It also has very unusual intake screens, very rarely seen on Meteors

Fire screens
One of a pair of firescreens with a brass and rosewood stand and an embroidered decorative panel depicting a hen pheasant with white plumage, made in England c.1840-50. Date: 1840-50

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

Yumei Hotel, Nagasaki, Japan - traditional Japanese interior Date: circa 1920s

Russo-Japanese War - Captain Wang - Man sitting, painted screens behind, flower to right. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

New Year card in the shape of a folding screen, depicting an artist with a palette and a set of verses. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

B Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in one of the galleries of the Powell-Cotton Museum (currently Gallery 2 (2014)

Staff & patients in C Ward of Quex Park VAD Hospital. The patients are all wearing hospital blues with the exception of one man who is a Belgian solder (holding a tray with glasses)

India - Marble screen in Miss Jehangirs Tomb, Delhi
Black and white. Large tomb with intricately carved panels and screens.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection. Slide number 3 and 30. Date: circa 1890s

India - Palace in Fort Ba and Tracery Screens
Black and white. Building with decorated arches.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection. Slide number 155 and 25. Date: circa 1890s

Troyes, France - Rood Screen of the Eglise de la Madeleine Date: 1855

Defeat of the Graf Spee by G. H. Davis
The fight with the Admiral Graf Spee: factors in a classic example of naval battle tactics pictorially explained. Elements that played a part in the defeat of the ship by three British cruisers

Inside a colourful girls bedroom. Complete with cusions, makeup mirror and cabinet, and changing screen

Air Pageant 1930S
Planes apparently laying colour screens (unfortunately, since this is a black and white photograph!) at an air show. Date: early 1930s

Japan - Three Geisha Girls outside traditional Japanese home Date: circa 1916

Japan - A Girls Festival Date: circa 1910s

Russo-Japanese War - Howitzers disguised by Wooden Screens
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Howitzers disguised by Wooden Camouflaged Screens. Date: 1905

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese marching behind screens
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese marching behind artificial screens to hide their movements. Date: circa 1905

Pink Dress & Screen 1912
Directoire (Empire line) revival gown: high-waist, asymmetrical tunic or over- skirt, train, bows at the waist front & back, coat with fur trim, bandeau & aigrette. Date: 1912

Rani Sipris Mosque - Ahmedabad. built in 1514 AD by Rani Sipri, wife of Mehmud Begada. A small mosque with a height of 50ft and 54ft in length

Kashmir Walnut & Copper Carving, India
A highly-skilled craftsman producing carvings in copper and walnut wood - Kashmir, India. Date: 1910s

Tunisia - Plaster Carving
The carving of fantastically decorative plaster screens in a Tunisian workshop

Factory worker operating control box
A worker, standing at a control device, signals for a part of the production process to proceed. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

I. Calculator Esq: The Celebrated Conjuror
Copy of illustration, " I. Calculator Esq: The Celebrated Conjuror" by A.B. 30 August 1776. HPG/8/2/1 (v)"

Arab Carpentry Shop, Cairo, Egypt, making screens, furniture, bookstands and Mother-of-pearl inlay

French at Padova
The French, invading Italy yet again, besiege Padova : this is a fine view of contemporary siege methods including the use of screens to conceal the siege artillery. Date: 1509

Japanese Style Screen
A screen in a London home, reflecting the Japanese influence which is making such an impression in the late 19th century. Note the fan and the Japanese doll, too

Defending a Coast
As a hostile fleet approaches the coast, the defences are manned - chiefly crossbows behind protective screens

Dame Marjorie book, title page design
Title page design, based around a large pre-Victorian fireplace

Screen in Posh Home
A fashionable reception: The Duchess of Do-Goods Screen; an attractive subject to Tom, Logic & Jerry

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