1909 Collection (page 2)

The Fairy of Flight by William Barribal
A Spirit of the Age - The Fairy of Flight. Gorgeous illustration of a fairy with huge yellow wings. Date: 1909

LCC-LFB Merryweather self-propelled Hatfield pump
Merryweather Hatfield pump, with crew. This was one of the first motorised fire engines used by the London Fire Brigade, capable of 30 mph

Phoenix Club, Oxford University - Denys Finch-Hatton
Members of the Phoenix Club including, front row, second from right, the Hon. Denys Finch-Hatton, (1887 - 1931), later a big game hunter and lover of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

The Tempest, Ariel
Act I, Scene II Ariel guides the ship to safety Date: 1909

Bhupinder Singh, Maharajah of Patiala playing cricket
Maharajah Bhupinder Singh of Patiala (1891 - 1938) playing cricket. Perhaps best known for his extravagance, the Maharajah nevertheless worked for the betterment of social conditions within his

Assassination of Sir Curzon Wyllie
The assassination of Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie (1848-1909), an official of the British Indian government, at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London

Doggetts Coat and Badge Race, River Thames, London
Watermen on duty at the end of Doggetts Coat and Badge Race on the River Thames. They are wearing the livery of the Fishmongers Company

Fitzwilliam Bewicke-Copley wedding
Scene at the wedding of Lord Fitzwilliam (Major Hubert Francis Fitzwilliam Brabazon Foljambe) to the Hon Gladys Bewicke-Copley, with an archway of swords provided by the Royal Horse Guards

Sir Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (1857-1934), English composer. He composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies, instrumental concertos, and songs

Lt. Shackleton, Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson, Antarctica, 19
Photograph showing Lt. Shackleton, Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson, ready for their dash towards the South Pole, during the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04

Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), British explorer, dressed for Antarctic conditions. Shackleton made four expeditions to the South Pole during his career

Clouded Leopard
A clouded leopard on a tree. (neofelis nebulosa)

Cooks Nile Steamer
The Egypt, one of the paddle steamers operated by Thomas Cook for excursions on the Nile

Knaresborough / Palmer
Knaresborough, Yorkshire

Benfleet / Essex / 1909
Benfleet, Essex

Claridges Hotel Menu
A dinner menu from the Claridges Hotel, London

Gay Men / Elegant 1909
Two gay men getting ready to go out on the town

Male Chimney Sweep 1909

Brockley Court Ghost
THE BROCKLEY COURT GHOST [near Clevedon, Somerset] Student Spencer-Palmer photographed by his brother as a ghostly monk - photo often taken to be genuine !

Garden of the Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London
The Garden of the Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London. Date: 1909

James Horlick / Vfair 1909
JAMES HORLICK Malted milk manufacturer Date: 1844 - 1921

Albion Colliery, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Albion Colliery, Pontypridd, near Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. Date: 1909

Horace Shorts notebook - sketches of Wright Flyer at Pau
A page from Horace Shorts notebook containing his detailed sketches of the Wright Flyer made at Pau, France, in February 1909. Date: 1909

Liberal Election Campaign Card, 1909
A Liberal Party campaign card for the 1909 General Election. A grim image of an elderly couple heading for the workhouse is contrasted with the partys vision of sunlit fields of waving corn

Braemar Gathering, tossing the caber
Scene at the annual Braemar Gathering, showing McIntosh of Partick tossing the caber. Braemar in Scotland holds an annual Highland Games Gathering on the first Saturday in September

Hemingford Abbots / 1909
Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), on the River Ouse

Isadora Duncan / Ils 1909
ISADORA DUNCAN American dancer, seen here with some of her pupils

Skelwith Force Waterfall
Skelwith Force waterfall near Ambleside, Westmoreland in the Lake District

Pensions Introduced
The scene at an English Post Office, when old age pensioners call in for the first time to receive their government pension

Lily Elsie (1886 - 1962), Popular actress and singer wearing a jewelled costume in Lehars The Merry Widow Date: 1909

Penguins & Gramophone
Penguins listening to the gramophone, during the summer. Date: 1908-1909

1909 Lozier
Autos, Old Styles. 1909 Lozier touring car parked outside on a road

London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage, Woking
General view of the main building of the London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage at Woking, Surrey. The orphanage was founded in 1885 in Clapham, south west London

Tsar Nicholas II with Kaiser Wilhelm II
Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II on board the German imperial yacht, Hohenzollern, on 4 June 1909. Nicholas had sailed on a barge fromm Shtandart to the Hohenzollern, stayed half and hour

Pigeon racing at Crystal Palace, London
15, 000 birds from all parts of England and Scotland are released from Crystal Palace, south London, at the start of a championship pigeon race

Countess of Warwick at sons wedding
The Countess of Warwick, Frances Evelyn Maynard, Lady Brooke, leaving St Margarets Church, Westminster, after the marriage of her son Lord Brooke (Leopold Guy Francis Maynard Greville)

Opening of the Colchester Oyster Fishery
Ceremonial scene at the opening of the annual Colchester Oyster Fishery. On the first Friday of September the Mayor of Colchester, the Town Clerk

Essendon F. C
Essendon F.C. Australian rules football club team of 1909

Swans in a punt at Henley
A punt load of swans, and two cygnets, about to be transported higher up the River Thames for their safety, in preparation for the annual Henley Regatta in early July

Errol Flynn / Robin Hood
Errol Flynn is at his swash- buckling best in Michael Curtizs saga which also offers Olivia de Havilland as Marian, Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone as the nasties

Tristan & Isolde
TRISTAN & ISOLDE The lovers rapture

Lombroso / Cesare / Postcard
CESARE LOMBROSO Italian physician and criminologist

Zeppelin over Cologne
Excited spectators watching a Zeppelin Z111 fly over Cologne Cathedral, Germany

Wimbledon Tea Interval
The tea interval : the spectators turn their attention to strawberries and cream

Suffragette to Prison
Go home and wash the kid ! is the advice kindly given to a suffragist as she is led to prison by two policemen

Mrs Henry J. Wood
MRS HENRY J. WOOD - Princess Olga Ourousoff, the first wife of Sir Henry Joseph Wood, the English conductor, forever associated with the Proms Concerts

Boat Race Crews Training
The Oxford and Cambridge crews in training: a birds eye view from Putney Bridge

Hammersmith Bridge, London - designed by the noted civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Date: 1909

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