1911 Collection (page 6)

Ws GILBERT (1836-1911)
WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT English playwright. Began collaboration with Arthur Sullivan (Gilbert writing the librettos, Sullivan the music) on highly popular comic operas

Alexandra / Vfair 1911
QUEEN ALEXANDRA Widow of Edward VII

New dial operated telephone system
Series of three photographs showing a new automatic system of telephoning introduced in Britain in 1911. The movement of a dial operated electrical switches and magnets in the telephone exchange

Coronation of George V
Picture of Coronation

Mannekin Pis Postcard
IL PISSE TOUT LE TEMPS Some are moved to emulation, some look with mixed feelings

Strike at Covent Garden
Covent Garden market suffering from strike actions; a single cart leaving the market has to be protected by three policemen

Cat Hunts a Mouse
A ginger cat traps a mouse with its paw

COLIN IN SECRET GARDEN
Colin recovers his health

Coronation Exhibition
The Coronation Exhibition was held at White City, West London to celebrate the coronation of King George V

Nijinsky / Le Dieu Bleu
LE DIEU BLEU Costume design for Nijinsky in the role of Le Dieu Bleu

Cooking Crepes 1911
A French family watch mama toss crepes in a pan by the fire

Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter
The aviator Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter which he himself will transport by air to Windsor. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor

Gustav Hamel signing receipt for mail, Hendon
The aviator Gustav Hamel in the cockpit of his aeroplane, signing the official receipt for the mail, just before setting out from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor on the very first airmail flight

Berlin Motor Race Poster
A poster for a motor racing meeting on 12th and 22nd October at Berlin, Germany

Cambridge Eight 1911
The Cambridge Eight in Coronation Year

Pyotr Arkady Stolypin
PYOTR ARKADYEVICH STOLYPIN Russian prime minister from 1906 to 1911; he was assassinated

Scheherazade / Bal. Russes
SCHEHERAZADE Set design by Leon Bakst

Scott / Lunar Corona / 1911
Scotts last expedition - he was beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen. Scott did not make it back. Lunar corona over their camp

Queen Mary / Col Lith Down
QUEEN MARY Wife of George V in 1911

Corset Persephone, 1911
The veritable corset Persephone renders the sveltest Parisiennes even svelter

WOMENs DEPUTATION / 1911
Christabel Pankhurst & Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence on a deputation to Asquith & LLoyd George. Date: 17 November 1911

Shakespeare / Macbeth
Matheson Lang as Macbeth & Hilda Britton as Lady Macbeth

DRINKS AT MAXIMs 1911
The gentleman seems overwhelmed by the attentions of five - count them ! - five elegantly dressed cocottes who evidently use Maxims as their favourite watering hole

Actor in Role of Macbeth
Sir HERBERT DRAPER BEERBOHM TREE English actor-manager in the role of Macbeth

Alsace Festival, 1911
Happy vineyard workers dance through the fields during the fete de vendanges (vineyard festival) in Alsace, France

Social Scene Ascot 1911
A group of smartly dressed men and women enjoying a day out at Ascot

London Museum 1914
Starting life in 1911 in Kensington Palace, this Museum moves in 1914 to these premises at Lancaster House, St James, before going back to Kensington Palace after WW2

Samuel Montagu
SAMUEL MONTAGU (born Montagu Samuel) first baron Swaythling Jewish merchant banker in London, statesman (MP for Whitechapel) philanthropist, promoted metric system etc

Airborne Animals
Why should mankind hog the blessings of aviation ? You ll think you ve seen everything when you ve seen an elephant fly !

CATTLE / YAK 1911
Yak

Astronomy / Greenwich 1911
GREENWICH OBSERVATORY The Astronomer Royal, Mr Frank Dyson, taking a reading with an altazimuth (a theodolite for determining the altitudes and azimuths of the heavens)

Royal Anglers
The younger children of king George V & Mary, fishing at Balmoral (the one holding the rod is presumably the future George VI)

William Booth / Empire
GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH English religious leader and founder of Salvation Army Photographed circa 1911

Birdie Reads Thermometer
Birdie Bowers reads the thermometer on the ramp

Jacobus Henricus Van t Hoff
JACOBUS HENRICUS VAN T HOFF Dutch chemist

Mendel / Inheritance / Mice
Diagram using real mice to show Mendels inheritance in mice theory

British factory exterior, as depicted on the cover of The Ironmonger magazine

Ritual sword designed for Aleister Crowley to use in the Temple of the A. A
Ritual sword designed for Aleister Crowley to use in the Temple of the A.A. (Order of the Silver Star) his own magical association Date: 1911

Five of the children of King George V: (from left) Prince George, Prince Albert (later King George VI) Princess Mary, Prince Edward - Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), and Prince Henry

The Xinhai Revolution, also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Revolution of 1911, was a revolution that overthrew Chinas last imperial dynasty (the Qing dynasty)

Marcel G. Brindejonc Des Moulinais Taking-Off in a Mora?
Marcel G. Brindejonc Des Moulinais Taking-Off in a Morane-Soulnier Monoplane for the Tour de Europe 1911? Date: 1911?

King George V in his Coronation Robes
King George V (1865-1936) in his Coronation Robes - 22nd June 1911. Date: 1911

Edward, HRH Prince of Wales wearing the Robes of the Garter
Edward, HRH Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII 1894-1972) wearing the Robes of the Garter. Taken at Windsor Castle by David Knights Whittome on June 10th 1911 after the Investiture

Robert Falcon Scott and his Frys Cocoa and Chocolate supply
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), the English naval commander and explorer. A Captain in the Royal Navy, Scott led a number of expeditions to the Antarctic

Broadstairs, Kent - The Sands and Pier. Date: circa 1911

Edna Mayne music hall toe and sand dancer
Edna Mayne music hall toe dancer and sand dancer. The sand dance was an eccentric dance with exaggerated movements while dressed in an approximation of Egyptian dress. Date: circa 1911

Prince Edward and Princess Mary at the 1911 coronation
Edward, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, together with his sister, Princess Mary, later Viscountess Lascelles (1897-1965)

Varsity Cricket Match of 1911 - The Oxford University XI
The Varsity Cricket Match of 1911 - The Oxford University XI (1 player short!)

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