1908 Collection (page 13)

Moscow University: exterior view. Date: 1908 ?

SWING BRIDGE, somewhere in America : a sailboat waits for it to swing open, a car waits for it to close again. Date: 1908

Watching from the gallery at the Folies Bergere in Paris. Date: 1908

Puerto Rico: a domestic courtyard with washing hanging out to dry. Date: 1908

Gertrude Lester
(THE MERRY WIDOW) Gertrude Lester as the widowed Sonia Date: 1908

Mochrum Old Castle, Galloway. Date: 1908

Loch Ken, Galloway, looking south. Date: 1908

A German custom where walnut shells are floated in a bowl of water, either the walnut comes together or drawn to the side, according to their movements it brings good luck or ill-luck. Date: 1908

Some of the prominent figures in a NUWSS London procession. Also shown are some of the 70 banners carried commemorating great women through the ages. Date: 13 June 1908

ASNIERES - JAPPY GRAVE
Dog cemetery at Asnieres, outside Paris, France Gravestone for Jappy Date: 1908

CARTOON The Shah over-throws the constitution granted in 1906. Date: 1908

JAPANESE FIREBALL
A fire-ball is seen from time to time on Lake Biwa, at Zeze, and is attributed to the spirit of a dead daimio (prince) Date: 1908

HAUNTED TEMPLE
Jogen approaches the haunted temple in Inaba province, where no one can pass a night. He survives the night but is found paralysed, and dies of shock from seeing the ghosts Date: 1908

Rounding-up cattle - a mad cow Date: 1908

Social clubs are even more of a menace to society than pubs - or so a working class wife is represented as telling Asquith when he introduces his licensing bill for pubs Date: 1908

FUNERALS/TZU-HSI +
The bodies of the dowager empress TZU-HSI and the emperor KUANG-HSU, murdered by her orders, lie in state in the Pavilion of Imperial Longevity at Peking Date: November 1908

CHINESE ROYALS IN STATE
The bodies of the dowager empress TZU-HSI and the emperor KUANG-HSU, murdered by her orders, lie in state in the Pavilion of Imperial Longevity at Peking Date: November 1908

AT COCK-CROW
The spirits of the dead return to their graves at cock-crow Date: 1908

A Suffragette publicises a protest meeting by chalking it onto a pavement. Date: 1908

A man out truffle hunting with a pig in Perigord, France. Date: 1908

Patriotic advert for Gossages Soap
Patriotic advertising postcard for Gossages soap depicting naval scenes King Edward VII and the Royal Family Date: circa 1908

Theatre and Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece Date: 1908

llustration by Harry Rountree to Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris Date: 1908

lllustration by Harry Rountree to Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris Date: 1908

Draycott, Cotswold village, Butler Saw Mills workmen with a steam traction engine in the background. Date: circa 1908

President of Ecuador
Vintage 19th century photograph: Mario Ignacio Francisco Tomas Antonio de Veintemilla y Villacis (July 31, 1828 - July 19, 1908) was President of Ecuador September 8, 1876 to January 10, 1883

Fifth Avenue Hotel, Manhattan, New York, c. 1890s
Vintage 19th century photograph: the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Manhattan, New York, c.1890s. The Fifth Avenue Hotel was a luxury hotel located at 200 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan

Butterflies, musical play from the Apollo Theatre, London, touring to the Princes Theatre, Bristol, starring Ada Reeve. Libretto by W J Locke, music by J A Robertson, lyrics by T H Read. Date: 1908

Shadows of a Great City by Joseph Jefferson and L R Sherwell. First produced in England, at the Princesss Theatre, 14 July 1887

Pochoir print, Aviation Grand Prix, Henri Farman completes 1000 metres in his aeroplane. Date: circa 1908

Bussang - Taye - France - Hotel des Sources Minerales. Date: 1908

Soldiers Cottage Homes, Burnley, Lancashire
The opening by Princess Louise of the Soldiers Cottage Homes, on Salus Street, Burnley. Date: 1908

Front cover of The Tatler featuring a portrait of Countess Poulett, formerly the actress Sylvia Storey, who married Lord Poulett in 1908

Woman with a Bale of Hay
Drawing of a woman carrying a bale of hay.(H H L)

Portrait of a Woman - From a lithograph by Albert Belleroche (1864-1944)

Xmas Choir of Girls
A choir of girls singing Christmas carols. Artist: Eugenie Richards

Flock of Geese
As evening falls, a flock of geese being driven back to the safety of the farm. Artist: Ernest Linzell

Great Demonstration in the Albert Hall 1908
Some ten thousand women gathered at the Embankment, then proceeded to march, in neat rows of either 4 or 6, to the Royal Albert Hall, London

Franco-British Exhibition, White City - Palace of Music
circa 1910s

Hilda Cowham
Why, thats my dolls pram, without the handles, said Winnie. Artist: Hilda Cowham Date: circa 1908

Thw Wimple Children
I say, whispered Willie, if I didn t know better, I should think we are walking across a large leaf. Artist: Hilda Cowham Date: circa 1908

WSPU leaders at Madame Tussaud s. From left to right, the wax figures are of Annie Kenny, Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Date: 1908

Page from The Tatler reporting on the new Plaza Hotel, a hotel for New York millionaires. Date: 1908

Front cover of Printers Pie, 1908, illustrated by John Hassall, featuring a shopkeeper in the doorway of Ye Pie Shop, the same that was featured on the cover of the previous years magazine

Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932), Scottish writer, most famous for Wind in the Willows. Date: 1908

Breakfast with Teddy. Artist: Jessie Willcox Smith Date: circa 1908

Boy and girl at Xmas
Boy and girl reaching for their stockings, brim full of presents on Xmas Day. Artist: Anon. Date: circa 1908

Young girl at Xmas
Young girl in a Santa robe holding a parcel and sprig of holly. Artist: Anon. Date: circa 1908

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