Sights Collection

The Tatler travel number front cover, 1953
Charming illustrated front cover of The Tatlers Travel number showing a number of well-known global landmarks with various intrepid travellers using a multitude of transport methods. Date: 1953

Imperial Stag Hunt
Imperial Stage Hunt in the Forest of Compiegne. Huntsmen and women, dressed in red and green follow the hounds who have a stag in their sights

Victorian Post Box
Rare original Victorian cast iron post box at the foot of Tower Bridge. Date: 2004

French Soldier Sniping
An infantryman gets a target in his sights during the Franco-Prussian war Date: 1870

Catalina Flying Boat Catalina Flying Boat
Catalina Flying Boat - American consolidated flying boat. Two 1, 200 H.P. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp Engines. Range 4, 000 miles. Depicted sighting the Bismarck. Date: circa 1940s

Berry Boss & Rudd Wine Merchants Berry Boss & Rudd Wine
Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd, Britains oldest wine and spirit merchants, trading from the original building which opened in 1698

Tatler front cover, Horse Guards, 1958
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a picture of the Queens horses on their daily march past Wellington Arch and down the Mall for the Changing of the Guard ceremony

Scenes in Lebanon - Herods Palace, Mount Tabor, Galilee
Scenes in Lebanon (then part of the wider Ottoman Empire) including the Cedars of Lebanon, the ruins of Herods Palace in Samaria, Mount Tabor

Very Well Meant by H. M. Bateman
A well-meaning tourist offers a carrot to the horse of a Guard standing in its traditional sentry post in Whitehall, London, much to the horses astonishment. Not the done thing

Old Baptist Church - Black and white lantern slide. Old church converted to petrol station.. Part of Box 399. Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

England / London / Tower
Visitors are shown some of the principal sights, including the lion in the menagerie which, after a regrettable episode, was transferred elsewhere for security reasons

Greetings Postcard - Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Date: circa 1908

Brylcreem Advertisement Photograph
This photograph was used for the advertisement of Brylcreem, a British brand of hair styling products for men. The image portrays a young man who uses the product

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - The North is strong and we have shot down 4000 planes! Date: 1973

Ellerman Lines Advertisement
Advertisement for Ellerman City Hall and Bucknall Lines. Promoting a Winter sunshine voyage round Africa to Bombay, returning via the Suez Canal

Scenes of Stapleton, Bristol
Sights and scenes from Stapleton, an area in the northeastern suburbs of the city of Bristol, England. Date: 1905

The Death of Nelson
Bronze plaque on the granite base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, depicting his death from a sniper's bullet at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 Date: 2011

Tutankhamun
Gold mask of Tutankhamum inlaid with lapis lazuli. Cairo Museum

Buck in his own dreams: "These sounds & sights of another world would make the hair to rise." Date: First published: 1903

Large Letter card - Greetings from Boston, Massachusetts
Large Letter postcard - Greetings from Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date: 1950

Chiefs from Arabia and the Gulf visiting the King, 1919
Seeing the sights of London: some of the chiefs from Central Arabia and the Gulf Littoral on a mission to King George V in 1919

British artillery covering the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
British artillery (25-pounders) firing over open sights, while French and British infantry use their machine guns, to cover the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France

London - Tower Bridge, Guildhall and the Tower of London
Early pictorial postcard - court card sizing - Scenes and sights of London - The Tower of London, Tower Bridge (opened three years earlier in 1894) and the Guildhall. Date: 1897

Channel Islands, Guernsey - Sights on the Island Date: 1906

Scenes of the Isle of Man - Laxey Wheel, Railway Station
Scenes of the Isle of Man - Laxey Wheel, Laxey Railway Station and the Snaefell Mountain Railway divided by the Manx coat of arms, which dates back to the 13th century

Monrovia - Liberia - Principal sights
Monrovia - Liberia - The principal sights: The Protestant Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Post Office, The Presidents Official Residence

Musket, Flintlock, . 75 In New Land Pattern
New Land Pattern. 75 in Light Infantry musket, 1810 (c). Utilising the same lock and general characteristics of the Infantry Musket this weapon has a shorter, 39 in barrel

Sangerfest - Rostock, Germany
Commemorative card produced for the Sangerfest (Song Festival) held at Rostock, Germany - in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Milan, Italy - Palace Hotel and other sights including the Arco del Sempione, Station and the Antico Palazzo della Borsa (Old Stock Exchange). Date: circa 1901

Glasgow, Scotland - Various sights of the city: Kelvin Hall and Kelvin Bridge, Kelvingrove Park, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (centre), the Great Western Road and the Botanic Gardens

Places of interest on Piccadilly Tube from South Kensington
Places of interest reached by Piccadilly Tube from South Kensington. Date: circa 1910s

Florence, Tuscany, Italy - Panorama of the City Date: circa 1920

Map of Sidcup and environs - Black and white (negative) lantern slide. Map of Sidcup and environs.. Part of Box 399. Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

Beefeater at The Tower of London
Beefeater at the Tower of London. Beefeater is the popular name for a Yeomen Warder of the Guard at the Tower of London Date: 2004

Hollywood Sign
The letters of the Hollywood Sign are 45 ft / 14 meteres tall and stretch over 350 ft of the Hollywood Hills, put up in 1923. The blackened appearance of the vegetation is the result of forest fires

St Pauls Cathedral in silhouette
One of the most recognisable of London landmarks, St. Pauls Cathedral, pictured in silhouette. Date: 1926

Turku (Abo) Lutheran Cathedral, Finland
Turku (Abo) Lutheran Cathedral is the Mother Church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and was consecrated in 1300. Date: circa 1920

R. C. A. Building, Rockefeller Center, New York City
Mini leporello picture in a Rockefeller Greeting envelope showing the R.C.A. Building of the Rockefeller Center, today known as Comcast Building. Date: early 1950

Graybar Building, New York City, USA
The Graybar Building at the 43rd Street in New York City, USA. It was named " Graybar" in honor of the companys founders, Elisha Gray and Enos Barton. Date: 1920

Entrance to Luna Park in Heliopolis, Cairo
Entrance to Luna Park in Heliopolis, a suburb north-east of central Cairo. The Cairo Luna Park was an amusement park opened to the public in 1911 and a popular tourist attraction

Old cottages - Black and white lantern slide. Row of small houses.. Part of Box 399. Boswell collection. Date: circa 1900

Helsinki Central railway station, Finland
The Helsinki Central railway station was designed by Eliel Saarinen and inaugurated in 1919. Date: circa 1935

Parliament House, Helsinki, Finland
Parliament House (Eduskuntatalo) is the seat of the Parliament of Finland. Date: circa 1930

Mikael Agricolan Church, Helsinki, Finland
Mikael Agricolan Church in Helsinki, Finland. The Lutheran church is named after Bishop Mikael Agricola, who created the basis for the literary Finnish language. Date: circa 1935

Lutheran Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Cathedral is a Finnish Evangelical Lutheran cathedral and a part of the Empire era centre of Helsinki. It is a neoclassical church, designed by architect, Carl Ludvig Engel, and planner

Panorama of the east Hudson riverfont and docks, New York
Panorama, showing the East River riverfront and docks of New York 1911

Panorama of the west Hudson riverfont and docks, New York
Panorama, shows the west Hudson riverfront and docks of New York. 1900

Madison Square in New York City, USA
Madison Square and Madison Square Garden, 1905 in New York City. Date: circa 1905

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