Spectacles Collection (#15)

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

Arthur Rackham with initial I
Arthur Rackham self-portrait with initial I. 20th century

Arthur Rackham self-portrait. 20th century

L Wain. Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard -- a cat version. circa early 20th century

Portrait of a middle-aged man
Head and shoulders portrait of a middle-aged man

Auguste Piccard / Ochs
AUGUSTE PICCARD Swiss physicist Date: 1884 - 1962

Top Hat & Tie / Grant
An elegant, elderly gentleman wearing a bow-tie and top hat. Date: circa 1960

London Chess Club
Members of the City of London Chess Club playing a new game of chess, invented by Polish composer Ludomir Michal Rogowski. 81 (not 64) pieces and even a Dictator piece! Date: 3 October 1932

James Joyce / Sava Bronze
JAMES AUGUSTINE JOYCE Irish writer Date: 1882 - 1941

Girls Shows Sewing / G ma
A young girl shows her sewing to her grandmother who inspects it over the top of her spectacles. Date: 1880

Anti-suffragette cartoon featuring woman and phrenologist
A fearsome-looking woman, with a scroll labelled Votes (for) Women, is having the bumps on her head examined by a man. He concludes that if she lives for a thousand years

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Shortsighted young cricketer is bowled out
A shortsighted young cricketer is bowled out -- the bales are flying off the stumps

Metropolitan Police forensic investigators
Two Metropolitan Police forensic investigators gathering evidence at a crime scene

Old man working on the street
An old man (possibly Spanish) working on the street. He wears a scruffy overcoat, a beret, and his glasses on a string round his neck. He has a small wooden work bench and a box of materials

Old lady knitting
Portrait of an old lady sitting in her chair, knitting

Princess Anne visiting Penzance, Cornwall
Princess Anne (Princess Royal, b 1950), visiting the John Daniel Centre in Penzance, Cornwall. The John Daniel Centre provides day services for local adults with learning disabilities

Model fishing boat maker, Cornwall
A model fishing boat maker in his workshop, somewhere in Cornwall. He is in the process of constructing a new boat with two masts

Champion hen at the Royal Cornwall Show
A man with his champion hen at the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show, which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in North Cornwall

Man playing piano at Christmas
A man playing a piano with a decorated Christmas tree at his side. Three of the candles are lit. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Family group with dog
A happy family group with their dog

Tunisia - Perfume shop
The proprietor of a parfumerie peers above his reading glasses to observe the customer (or photographer!) approaching his shop

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

Two technicians check a computer printout
Two bespectacled computer technicians, both wearing suits, view a readout from the terminal of an IBM computer system. A promotional photograph taken for the company

Portrait of a Turkish man
A fine photographic portrait of a Turkish gentleman

Horse-drawn omnibus, London, 1945
Horse-drawn omnibus. Taken outside the Westminster Bank in the City. This is the Camberwell and Clapham service operated by The Star Omnibus Company

Prince Alfons of Bayern (1862 - 1933) - a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry

Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt
SIR CYRIL LODOWIC BURT English psychologist

Franklin / Martin / Welch
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN American statesman, scientist and philosopher

Lorentz / Hendrik / Nobel 02
HENDRIK ANTOON LORENTZ Dutch physicist

OLYMPICS / 1932 / MEN 800M
Thomas Hampson (Great Britain) wins the mens 800 metres

Clinton Joseph Davisson
CLINTON JOSEPH DAVISSON American physicist

Advertisement for spectacles
Negretti and Zambras spectacles

Fable / the Spectacles
THE SPECTACLES Jupiter makes a present to mankind of pairs of spectacles; Momus is sent to deliver them

Severe Edwardian Butler
The stern butler (Hugh Edgar) of the Edwardian Country House

Little Boy and Pet Dog
A rather sweet, bespectacled young boy dressed in a sailor suit, poses for a photograph with his pet Spitz dog

Old Age / Top Hat C1960
An elderly man wearing a top hat, spectacles and bow tie

Fashions / January 1851
Corsages with pagoda sleeves & engageantes; black lace edged pardessus; green pardessus with a double cape & scalloped edges. The girl carries an ermine muff

William Heath Robinson
WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON The well-known illustrator and cartoonist pictured wearing a trilby and working on his sketch book. Best known as the " gadget king"

Ebenezer Howard
EBENEZER HOWARD Reformer and originator of the concept of the garden city

Sj Perelman / Morgan
SIDNEY JOSEPH PERELMAN American writer: humorist, journalist and dramatist

Play / Burnett / Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy, written by Frances Eliza Burnett, peers through hand held spectacles & sits on the arm of a chair

Girl with Spectacles
A little girl wearing spectacles

Wizard of Oz / Guardian
The Guardian of the Gate puts spectacles on Dorothy and Toto to protect their eyes from the shining emerald buildings

Wizard of Oz / Toto
Toto wearing glasses and a big bow

Paterfamiliass Census
Paterfamilias filling up the census return. The head of a large Victorian family, consisting of several generations, fills in the census

Shops / Jeweller C1900
A jeweller holds up a fine gold necklace for a lady to examine

Joshua Reynols
JOSHUA REYNOLDS artist, depicted wearing spectacles and holding brush and palette with his autograph

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