1908 Collection (page 17)

Pennygreen Bridge on the River Severn at Llanidloes
Pennygreen footbridge over the River Severn at Llanidloes, Powys, Wales. Date: 1908

SOCIAL / CORDOBA STREET
Street scene, Cordoba Date: 1908

MY LAST LOUIS! 1908
My last Louis! A desperate gambler gives his last coin to the green devil (the gambling table). Date: 1908

GRANADA / SIERRA NEVADA
Granada: view of the Sierra Nevada from the Alhambra gardens Date: 1908

GRANADA / ALHAMBRA TOWER
Granada: Tower of Comares, the Alhambra Date: 1908

RACE RIOTS / SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco race riots: attacks on Asian shopkeepers Date: 1908

HAND IN HAND ACROSS ICE
Four girls in outdoor clothes and skates advance hand in hand across the ice Date: 1908

AEA Aerodrome No. 3 - June Bug
The Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) Aerodrome No.3 June Bug. The Aerial Experiment Association was formed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, with J. A. D. McCurdy (a Canadian), Lt

United States Army - Signal Corps Dirigible No. 1
United States Army - Signal Corps Dirigible No.1, designed and built by Thomas Scott Baldwin, for the US Army Signal Corps. Date: 1908

Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No. 1 Red Wing
Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No.1 - Red Wing, seen on skids at the time of its first flight a frozen lake. The first of a series of experimental powered aircraft designed

United States Navy - Atlantic Fleet in harbour, including the Illinois-class battleships USS Alabama and USS Illinois, distinctive for having side-by side funnels

Ruston Proctor General Purpose Engine 35501, The Muddler
Maker: Ruston Proctor Type: General Purpose Engine Number: 35501 Built: 1908 Registration: BE 7438 Class: SHS Cylinders: Single Nhp: 8 Name: The Muddler Date: 1970s-1980s

Fowler General Purpose Engine 11357
Maker: John Fowler & Co. of Leeds, Type: General Purpose Engine Number: 11357 Built: 1908 Registration: NM 219 ClassA4 Cylinders: Single Nhp: 6 Date: 1970s

Garrett Showmans Road Locomotive 27160, British Hero
Maker: Richard Garrett & Sons at Leiston Type: Showmans Road Locomotive Number: 27160 Built: 1908 Registration: AD 1891 (???)

Burrell Road Locomotive 3057, Lord Roberts
Maker: Charles Burrell & Sons of Thetford, Norfolk Type: Road Locomotive Number: 3057 Built: 1908 Registration: BE 7217 Cylinders: Compound Nhp: 7 Name: Lord Roberts Date: 1970s-1980s

Ruston and Proctor General Purpose Engine The Muddler
Ruston & Proctor SHS class General Purpose Engine, regn. BE 7438, number: 35501, The Muddler. Built in 1908, by Ruston, Proctor and Company of Lincoln, with a 8 Nhp single-cylinder engine. Date: 1970s

Foster General Purpose Engine CT 3896
Foster General Purpose Engine. Regn. CT 3896, number: 3682. Built in 1908 by William Foster & Co. in Lincoln, powered by a 7 Nhp single-cylinder steam engine. Date: 1970s

Ruston and Proctor General Purpose Engine Rusty AH 5654
Ruston & Proctor SH class General Purpose Engine, regn. AH 5654, number: 34987, Rusty. Built in 1908, by Ruston, Proctor and Company of Lincoln, with a 7 Nhp single-cylinder engine. Date: 1970s

Serbian women receive military training. Date: 1908

The garden at Harleyford Manor, Great Marlow. A central path, leading to an arch in a bridge, is banked with broad, colourful herbaceous borders Date: circa 1908

26 Ulster Place, Regents Park, London
1908

Jane Dirys - Beautiful Edwardian stage Actress
circa 1910s

Picturesque Swiss Alpine village of Blatten close to Zermatt
circa 1910s

The General Election - Intelligent Voters
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Intelligent Voters. A mild satire as a bunch of working class rural yokels of Mudford take great interest in the finest small print of a prospective

The General Election - The Candidates Vision
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - The Candidates Vision. The glorious reception given to Josh Binks M.P. 1908

The General Election - Village Politicians
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Village Politicians. A local candidate giving a speech to the assembled clientelle at the local rural boozer... 1908

The General Election - True Blue
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - True Blue. A Candidate takes a few local yokels out for a ride in his carriage to show solidarity with the common man voter... 1908

The General Election - Free Fooders
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Free Fooders. Candidates at a hustings face the warth of the electorate and also face a barrage of eggs and vegeatbles

The General Election - An Enthusiastic Supporter
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - An Enthusiastic Supporter rolling-in after a hearty session of seemingly liquid-based campaigning!! 1908

Helter Skelter at Luna Park, Coney Island, New York, USA. circa 1910s

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Aftermath of Earthquake and Fire at Messina, Sicily, Italy. The devastating earthquake and tsunami of 27-28th December 1908 measured 7.5 on the richter scale and claimed 100, 000-200

Hong Kong - Itinerant Chinese Barber in the Street - offering a variety of services including shaving the head, back massage and scraping the eyelids! 1908

Ballroom and Hungarian Village - Hungarian Exhibition, Earls Court, London Date: 1908

Palace of Music - Franco-British Exhibition, London - The Colonnade. Date: 1908

XI Deutsches Turnfest - Frankfurt, Germany
XI Deutsches Turnfest (11th German Gymnastics Festival) - Frankfurt, Germany - July 1908 - inset scenes of two brick throwers, The opera House

Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy - Turin Date: 1908

Prince Albert - his tutor Mr Hansell - Lord Desborough
Prince Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) (later King George VI) - his tutor Mr H. P. Hansell - William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (1855-1945)

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - Glamis Castle - Pet dog
Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002) (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - future wife of King George VI) - pictures with a pet dog at a garden party at Glamis Castle

Newsagents - Corner Vauxhall Bridge Road and Gillingham St
Oswald King - Tobacconist, Newsagent and General Stores at 47 Gillingham Street (on the corner of Vauxhall Bridge Road), Pimlico, London SW1V. Date: 1908

King & Queen of Spain and Party at Osborne, Isle of Wight King & Queen of Spain
Date: circa 1908

Turkish Cafe, Istanbul, Turkey. Date: 1908

Harry Brodribb Irving (1870 - 1919), British stage actor and actor-manager, photograph shows him in The Lyons Mail, which was such a great success, at the Shaftesbury. Date: 1908

Suffragette Votes for Women Ceramic Cat
A brown pottery cat, the pattern of its fur resembling that of a tabby. It is wearing a ribbon tied with a bow around its neck and has painted eyes and open mouth

Christabel Pankhurst. Christabel Pankhurst L.L.B (1880-1958) Date: circa 1908

Advert for Clarks grasshopper clippers 1908
Horse Clarks two-handed grasshopper clippers. Date: 1908

Margate Royal Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Date: 1908

Childrens Home Tailoring Shop
A tailoring class at a boys home. A sign on the wall extols the boys to gather up the fragments of cloth that remain so that nothing be lost. Date: Circa 1908

Allan Aynesworth
ALLAN AYNESWORTH (1864 - 1959), British actor of the late Victorian era. Caption: Tony Date: 1908

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