1909 Collection (page 21)

Edwardian couple with baby
James Johnson Battersby, his wife Nancy and son James outside their house Dunluce, Stockport 1909. The pram is presumably a top-of-the-range for the period - note the umbrella holder! Date: 1909

Children in swimwear 1909
Five children at various ages, posing for the camera in St Malo in France. 1909

Suffragette W. S. P. U Badge
Circular tin badge, issued by the Womens Social and Political Union. Has the words, Votes for Women around the edge and W.S.P.U in centre against a background of green celtic knots

Suffragettes Swimming Hot Air Balloon Muriel Matters
A cartoon illustration by Alfred Chantrey Courbold (1852-1920) of suffragettes swimming towards a flotilla of toy boats. Behind them are large Votes for Women banners whilst pro-suffrage leaflets

Artists Suffrage League Poster
A poster designed by Joan Harvey Drew for the Artists Suffrage League, captioned, Won t you let me help you John? A woman in a bonnet, Womens Suffrage printed on her skirt

Suffragette Card Game PANKO
Suffragette card game entitled Panko The Great Card Game Suffragists V Anti-Suffragists. The cards were illustrated by E.T Reed, a cartoonist for Punch Magazine

Suffragette Trampling on Policeman Ceramic
A gloriously victorious suffragette stands with arms outstretched on the head of a prostrate policeman. She is dressed in the colours of the W.S.P.U - purple, white and green

Suffragette Votes for Women Inkwell
A Royal Doulton inkwell in the form of a bald, chubby-faced baby wearing a dress with wide pleated sleeves. Made in stoneware in Doulton browns and greens, with a decorative border round the base

Suffragettes Chaining to Railings Vera Holme. Shows Vera Holme (1881-1969) with two other suffragettes, probably preparing to chain themselves to the railings

Suffragette Play How the Vote was Won. A production of Cicely Hamiltons play How the Vote was Won was given at Cardiffs Royal Hotel on 12th November 1909

Elsie Howey Womens Exhibition Prison Cell. Elsie Howey (1884-1963) in a replica prison cell, dressed in mock prison uniform, at the Womens Exhibition, 13th-26th May 1909. Date: 1909

Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig. Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) and Edith Craig (1869-1947) portraits of Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig

Suffragette Sandwich Board Mustard. Two men watch a Suffragette (man dressed up) carrying a VFW sandwich board. One man remarks, There ain t much am in that sandwich arry

The Modern Shirley. Mr. Sympson (John Bull) asks, Are you a young lady? as he addresses a woman holding a flag emblazoned Political Power wearing a votes for women sash

Pro-Suffrage Propaganda Mrs Poyser. Mrs. Poyser holds a No Taxation without Representation banner and stands outside the Houses of Parliament. Date: circa 1909

Suffragette Voting Cake in Oven. Mrs. Jones (Who represents Every Woman) goes to vote but suddenly remembers she has left a cake in the oven. Typical empty headed woman. Date: circa 1909

Father Christmas by E. F. Skinner
Father Christmas dismounts from his sleigh, laden with toys for good children. Date: 1909

Harrods advert world map, c. 1909
A world map, advertising Harrods department store, touted here as the supply centre of the British Empire. Land belonging to the British Empire is marked in red

Louis Paulhan flying in Farman III 1909
Louis Paulhan, pioneering French aviator flying in Farman III biplane, in a competition in Blackpool, September 1909. Date: September 1909

Geronimo Hunting Buffalo
GERONIMO, Apache leader who led a sensational campaign against the whites (1885-6). Here holding a rifle, on horseback, during a buffalo hunt. Date: 1829 - 1909

Three young Somali Boys at Djibouti, East Africa
Three young Somali Boys (one with an injured and bandaged ankle) at Djibouti, East Africa. Date: 1909

The opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum - 1909
The official state opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) by His Majesty King Edward VII - June 26th, 1909. The Central Tower. Date: 1909

Aerial view of St Pauls and its neighbourhood - London
Aerial view of St Pauls and its neighbourhood with London Bridge in the distance, taken from a balloon at about 1, 500ft by Griffith Brewer on 22 May 1909

Horace Short, Orville Wright, Oswald Short, Wilbur Wright
From left: Horace Short, Orville Wright, Oswald Short, Wilbur Wright and Griffith Brewer at Shellbeach, 4 May 1909. Date: 1909

LCC-LFB Merryweather Hatfield pump at Southwark HQ
A chain-driven Hatfield type pump at LFB Southwark headquarters. Note the connected hard suction hose to the rear mounted pump

Scarborough Harbour
The harbour from the old town Date: circa 1909

Bassenthwaite lake and Skiddaw Date: circa 1909

Alexander Izvolsky
Count Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky or Iswolsky (1856 - 1919) Russian diplomat and at the time of this photograph, Russian Foreign Minister

Kaiser Wilhelm II with King Haakon of Norway
King Haakon of Norway (1872 - 1957), formerly Prince Carl of Denmark pictured talking with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and the Norwegian Prime Minister, Michelsen in 1909

DIPTERA
A variety of DIPTERA. Date: 1909-1910

Burnham on Crouch / Bruhl
Burnham on Crouch, Essex Date: 1909

Beetles - Assorted
Various species of RHYNCHOTA Date: 1909-1910

Lola Lee / Snake / T&c 1909
LOLA LEE Exotic dancer, partnered by a live boa constrictor Date: early 20th century

Llwynypia Homes, Rhondda, South Wales
The Llwynypia Homes, Rhondda, South Wales, were opened in 1903 as a subsidiary workhouse for the Pontypridd Poor Law Union

Testing the Bascule Bridge, Carmarthen, South Wales
Testing the Carmarthen Bascule Bridge at Carmarthen, Dyfed, South Wales. The bridge was built to carry the Great Western Railway over the River Towy

A Woman from Sicily
A pretty young girl from Sicily in traditional costume, her hair worh up and wearing gold hooped earrings and a patterned headscarf. She stands in front of a tall grape vine

Sultan Abdul Hamid II of Turkey - Turkish Propaganda
Turkish propaganda card. Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842 - 1918) oversaw a period of decline in the power and extent of the Empire, ruling from 31 August 1876 until he was deposed on 27 April 1909

Quit Rents ceremony, Royal Courts of Justice, London
The ancient ceremony of Quit Rents taking place in the Royal Courts of Justice, London. The paying of quit rents by the Corporation of the City of London to the King (or Queen)

Wedding of Viscount Bury and Myee Carrington
Scene after the wedding of Viscount Bury (Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle, 1882-1979) and Lady Judith Sydney Myee Wynn Carrington, at St Margarets Church, Westminster

Three bedeswomen of Castle Rising, Norfolk
Three bedeswomen of Castle Rising, near Sandringham in Norfolk. When these elderly women enter the almshouses (known collectively as Trinity Hospital) they are required to wear an old Welsh costume

His Borrowed Plumes
HIS BORROWED PLUMES The cast, with author Mrs George Cornwallis-West (Lady Randolph Churchill), seated in the centre

Ray Gunter (1909-1977) English Labour politician shortly after he became MP for Southwark in 1964

King George V beside a portrait of the Czar, 1909
Photograph showing King George V (1865-1936) when Prince of Wales, standing beside a portrait of Czar Nicholas II of Russia (1894-1917) in 1909

Zenobia perfumes
Zenobia laboratories advertisement for their Lily of the Valley and Sweet Pea Blossom perfumes from 1909

David Lloyd-George in Parliament, 1909
Illustration of David Lloyd-George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Welsh Liberal statesman; showing the then Chancellor of the Exchequer presenting his Budget to the House of Commons, 1909

A gentleman drawing the first pension
A typical scene on January 1st 1909 showing a man drawing his first pension at the post office. The Old Age Pension Act, introduced by David Lloyd George

Kathleen Bruce and Peter Markham Scott, 1913
Photograph of Kathleen Bruce, wife of Robert Falcon Scott, and their son, Peter Markham Scott, in Kathleens studio, 1913. Peter Scott (1909-1989) was later better known as an artist and ornithologist

Robert Falcon Scott and Peter Markham Scott, c. 1909
Photograph of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the English naval commander and explorer, and his son, Peter Markham Scott, taken in late 1909 or early 1910

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