Smash Collection

Labour Party election posters and television speakers
Labour Party election posters and speakers for Labours series of five short television programmes in the run-up to the General Election of 8th October 1959 (which the Conservatives won)

Dramatic Rail Accident at Gare Montparnasse, France
At the Montparnasse terminus of the Chemin de Fer de l Ouest, the Granville train crashes through the buffers and into the street (Rue de Rennes)

Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. Davis
Noises played for films: wonders of the cinema organ. Thunder, shots and tom-toms controlled by an organist: a film-theatre organ that creates sound effects. Date: 1929

Wwi / British Tank / Cambrai
At Cambrai, British tanks smash through the Hindenburg Line, a success that the limited mobile reserves were unable to exploit

Tennis-playing brunette beauty prepares to smash
Striking! A tennis-playing brunette beauty prepares to hit a net-side smash shot. It looks like game, set and match for her handsome male companion. Date: early 1940s

George Lansbury Pamphlet, Smash Up the Workhouse
The cover of George Lansburys 1909 pamphlet Smash Up the Workhouse. Lansbury (1859-1940) was a socialist politician and campaigner for social justice

The Barter Theatre of Virginia, Abingdon, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1949

All went well till the wheels came off. Cartoon strip from the Bonzo Annual, 1935 Date: 1935

Tram Car Smash - Church Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1907

Luddites smash weaving machinery in a Nottingham textile factory. The Luddites were a movement of radical group of English textile workers

Aveling and Porter Road Roller number 6343 Smash, reg. BE 7814, at Carr Park on 30 May 1971. Date: 1971

The Case Of The Man On Leave
An illustrated front cover for The Case Of The Man On Leave, written by Gilbert Chester, no. 743 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

English gentleman being shown into a drawing room for a musical night, 19th century. Facey Romford in tweeds playing the flute, Cassandra Cleoptra holding a music score. Mr

Cartoon, The Rising Generation -- In Parliament. A satirical comment on conflicts within the Conservative Party over Sir Robert Peels repeal of the Corn Laws

Birthday card, Hope your birthdays a Smash Hit! 20th century

Damaged building and van, Bridge Inn, near Redruth, Cornwall, with people posing alongside. circa 1920s

Cromer Express railway train wreck, Witham, Essex, 1 September 1905. Date: 1905

Young Spanish socialist with gun and flag
Spanish Young Socialists Defence campaign broadsheet Smash Franco cover illustration - circa 1970. Date: circa 1970

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - First Publication
The Martian Fighting- Machines wreck the railways. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Stone-breaking cell in a workhouse
Illustration showing a workhouse stone-breaking cell. Tramps and vagrants broke stones in return for a nights accommodation Date: circa 1909

WW2 Poster -- Smash Japanese Aggression
Smash Japanese Aggression. Propaganda poster, colour lithograph, showing the Gloucester Regiment in action. Date: 1945

Veritas Mantles 1929
Advertisement for Veritas Mantles...for strength and brilliancy. A clumsy man (possibly a lamp lighter) accidentally breaks the glass of a street lamp with his ladder as he passes...Not broken

Peter Samson, the Strongman, 1898
Photograph of Peter Samson, the strongman of P.T. Barnums travelling circus in 1898, who could reportedly smash stones with his bare fist

Tennis - Then and Now
This cartoon from 1928 remembers fondly the days when tennis was an amateur pursuit. 1928

Powdered Mashed Potatoes
Fluffy mashed potatoes made from a powder mix. Date: 1960s

Mid Pleasures and Palaces by C Watson Mill
Image from a promotional letterhead for Mid Pleasures and Palaces by C. Watson Mill. First produced at the Grand Theatre, Mansfield, 23rd September 1912

Boonville railway train wreck, New York State, USA
Boonville railway train wreck, on the New York Central Railroad, New York State, USA, 4 July 1908, in which five people died. Date: 1908

Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal
Steel Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal Date: circa 1920s

Hundred Years War. Battle of Roosebeke of November 27, 1382. The French army of Charles VI and the Duke of Burgundy Philip II the Bold, commanded by Olivier Clisson

Sunlight Yarn Knitting book - vintage tennis fashion
Front cover of a Sunlight Yarn Knitting book featuring a young woman in a fine knitted jumper readying herself to take a smash during a tennis match. Date: 1914-1918

Suffragette, Mary Had a Little Hammer. Smiling suffragette brandishes her hammer, plate glass litters the pavement. Mary had a little hammer for a suffragette was she

Suffragette Breaks Window Militant. Militant suffragette wields hammer, the caption reads, The suffragettes get wilder daily & smash shop windows oh so gaily. Date: circa 1912

Suffragette, Child Breaks Mirror. Delighted mother, on seeing her toddler smash a mirror with a hammer, exclaims, Oh the Darling! The little pet is going to be a suffragette. Date: circa 1912

Crashed coach, Old Kent Road, SE London
Special Services at the site of a crashed coach in the Old Kent Road, SE London, 28 January 1955. The coach had crashed into the end wall of a fried fish shop. There were no serious injuries

The Player Who Realised He Had Made a Mistake
Humorous illustration by Fitz, visualising that awful feeling - waiting for it as a tennis player regrets his ill-judged lob against his opponent who leaps up to smash the ball and win a point

Uncle Podger playing cricket
Uncle Podger shows the children how to play cricket, with disasterous results! Date: circa 1907

Smash Japanese Aggression poster
Smash Japanese Aggression !, The storming of Shwegyin by Indian Troops Date: circa 1942

The warriors husband Julian Thompsons satirical smash hit Positively last week!. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of The Warriors Husband at the Alcazar, 260 O Farrell Street

Swing parade 1937 musical smash hit positively last week! Sw
Swing parade 1937 musical smash hit positively last week!. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Swing Parade at the Alcazar theater, showing a man and woman dancing. Date 1937

How to Keep Fit - Breakdown
Humourous postcard entitled: " How to Keep Fit" - " If a breakdown results from overwork, a long rest in the country is imperative." A motorist who has crashed faces quite a wait

The Novice: Anyhow, now I know which is reverse 1927
Young lady reverses her car into the back of a shop window. Date: 1927

Two cyclists crash to the ground
The two cyclists (errand boys) swerve to miss the dog, and crash to the ground in the middle of the road. Date: 1937

Soviet Russian political cartoon
A Soviet Russian political cartoon containing a satirical image of the late Tsar Nicholas II (top right) and the anti-Bolshevik general Pyotr Wrangel (middle right)

Helen Wills and Edith Cross in action
Miss Helen Wills Moody and Miss Edith Cross, American tennis doubles partners pictured in action on court at Wimbledon in 1929

Policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup
A policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup of three cars

Metropolitan Police car with smashed bonnet
A Metropolitan Police car with a smashed bonnet and its door falling off

The Culprits by Muriel Dawson
An accident in the garden. A sweet little girl in a pink pinafore and blue bonnet looks at a bird who perhaps she is going to blame for smashing a plant pot holding a red geranium

Lenglen, Borotra and Lacoste playing doubles
Two pictures showing French pairs playing doubles at Wimbledon in 1925. On the left is a sartorial duo; Suzanne Lenglen in her bandeau stretching for a smash, while her partner Jean Borotra

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