1919 Collection (page 23)

Powell-Cotton daughters and friend
The three daughters of Major & Mrs Powell-Cotton and a friend play in the garden of Quex Park in September 1916. The children are (left to right) Elizabeth Worthington (daughter of Dr Worthington)

Lady Lavery
Hazel, Lady Lavery (1886 - 1935), formerly Hazel Martyn and Mrs Hazel M. Trudeau of New York and second wife of the celebrated portrait Sir John Lavery who painted her portrait hundreds of times

The Hon. Lois Sturt paints Dacia
Society girl turned painter, the Hon. Lois Sturt shown in the studio painting the portrait of the well known dancer and beauty, Dacia, who had starred in Chu Chin Chow

Sir Walter and Lady de Frece (Vesta Tilley)
Sir Abraham Walter de Frece (7 October 1870 7 January 1935) British theatre impresario, and later Conservative Party politician

Sa Marraine by Leo Fontan
A fashionably dressed young woman with a floral bonnet style hat, white fox fur stole and large hat box pauses for a moment to read a letter or perhaps shopping receipt. Date: 1919

Evening wrap and evening dress, 1919
A straight, slim and elegant evening wrap on the left in emerald green velvet, and is trimmed with fur and brocade. Simplicity and originality combine in this evening dress of black satin

Winston Churchill inspecting troops, WW1
Winston Churchill, as Minister of Munitions, inspecting British troops in Germany after the end of the First World War. Date: C.1918

Letter from Buckingham Palace to artist Matania
A letter to the Italian-born artist, Fortunino Matania, dated 13 June 1919, written by Queen Marys lady-in-waiting. The Queen had bought a painting from the artist

Three books, The Somme, Lille, Amiens
Three books, The Somme, Lille and Amiens, published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Junkers D I German fighter plane photographed in a field in Belgium on 21 January 1919. Although left abandoned in the open for more than three months, it was still deemed to be basically airworthy

WW1 German Submarine - U-Boat U118, Hastings, Sussex
World War 1 German Submarine/U-Boat U118, Hastings, near Bexhill, Sussex, England. Date: 1919

London Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
London Road, Stoke-on-Trent, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Date: 1919

WW1 - What did you do in the Great War, Daddy?
Child: " And is the War really over, Daddy? Father: " Practically, My Boy." Child: " Then may I ask you a question about it which I couldn t ask till it WAS over

Bruce Bairnsfather in his Sunbeam with Old Bill mascot
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, famous for his cartoons of trench humour in The Bystander during the First World War seen at the wheel of his Sunbeam car with an aluminium car mascot in the shape of

RENOIR, Pierre Auguste. Little Girl Carrying
RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919). Little Girl Carrying Flowers or The Little Gleaner. 1888. Impressionism. Oil on canvas. BRAZIL. Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo Museum of Art

One Hundred War Cartoons from LONDON OPINION
Book entitled One Hundred War Cartoons from LONDON OPINION by Bert Thomas and Wilton Williams, in collaboration with Lincoln Springfield. Published by London Opinion Ltd

Chelson China cup and saucer - Britannia and Allied flags
Chelson China (New Chelsea Porcelain, Longton) cup and saucer. Transfers show Britannia and Allied flags and reads World War Peace - 1914-1919 - Liberty, Justice, Truth

Milton influenza advertisement, 1919
Advertisement for Milton disinfectant with advice to gargle with a diluted preparation thrice daily in order to ward off the influenza epidemic raging throughout post war Britain. Date: 1919

Old Bill car mascot - Bairnsfatherware
Old Bill car mascot. Produced by Louis Lejeune (Mascots) Ltd. c.1919, on a metal plinth, which is on a wooden socle. Copyright No. R2669204. Bairnsfather Ware

Les Rouges et Noirs army troupe at the Savoy, 1919
Les Rouges et Noirs, the concert troupe of the First Army pictured with the manager, Captain Makeham at the Savoy Theatre in 1919

Hint to the Ministry of Health by Heath Robinson
A new fresh air bedroom for the prevention of flu. An outdoor bedroom designed by the ever-inventive William Heath Robinson, built (or rather)

Abercorn / Spencer engagement, 1919
Family photograph showing the Duchess of Abercorn with her four children including (centre), Lady Cynthia Hamilton. Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Spencer (1897 - 1972)

Bystander masthead featuring Old Bill
Masthead design for a post-war edition of the Bystander magazine featuring one of its main stars the cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather

Bystander Entente Peace number front cover, 1919
Superb front cover of The Bystander magazine from 1919 celebrating peace in Europe following the end of World War One, though the Treaty of Versailles would not be signed until the following month

Renoir Photo
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR French impressionist artist, noted for Le dejeuner des canotiers and lots of pink girls, photographed in 1917. Date: 1841 - 1919

Theodore Roosevelt
THEODORE ROOSEVELT American statesman in military uniform. Date: 1858 - 1919

Sir William Osler
SIR WILLIAM OSLER Canadian medical known for clinical innovations and favouring warmer relations between staff and patients. Date: 1849 - 1919

Anton Arco-Valley, German political activist
Anton von Padua Alfred Emil Hubert Georg Graf von Arco auf Valley (18971945), commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, German political activist - best remembered as the assassin of Kurt Eisner

Aline Charigot. Renoirs wife
RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919). Aline Charigot. Renoirs wife. Polychrome plaster sculpture. Impressionism. Sculpture

LCC-LFB Tilling-Stevens petrol-electric turntable ladder
One of two similar turntable ladders (TL) which the London Fire Brigade had in service at this time

LCC-LFB first emergency tender crew, Clerkenwell
It was more a dedicated breathing apparatus fire engine but is deemed to be the forerunner of the emergency tenders. This fire engine also had a petrol engine generator to supply the electric

Royal Wedding 1919 -- Princess Patricia of Connaught
Princess Patricia of Connaughts wedding dress (left), and the dresses of the elder and younger bridesmaids. She married Commander Alexander Ramsay RN on 27 February 1919

Royal Wedding 1919 - leaving Westminster Abbey
Princess Patricia of Connaught and her new husband, Captain Alexander Ramsay depart Westminster Abbey after their marriage in an open top carriage and wave to a vast cheering crowd. Date: 1919

Communist demonstration in Vienna, Austria
The security forces try to prevent a group of communist demonstrators advancing in the direction of Kolingasse and Horlgasse in the Schottenkreuzung area, Vienna, Austria. Date: 15 June 1919

Damsel in distress Date: 1919

Brigadier General Macarthur and Major Wolf in Germany
Brigadier General Douglas Macarthur (1880-1964), American army officer of the 84th Brigade, 42nd Division, and his Chief of Staff, Major Walter B Wolf, at Sinzig in Rhenish Prussia, Germany

General Maurice Janin, French Army officer
Pierre-Thiebaut-Charles-Maurice Janin (1862-1946), French Army general, commander in chief of the Czechoslovak Army in Siberia during the First World War. Date: circa 1919

General Jan Smuts and General Louis Botha
General Louis Botha (1862-1919) -the first Prime Minister of South Africa who was a military hero due to his service in the second Boer War

Brigadier General R E H Dyer, British Indian Army officer
Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer (1864-1927), British Indian Army officer. He was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (13 April 1919) in Amritsar

A Mexican girl carrying her younger brother
A delightful photographic postcard of a young Mexican Indian girl carrying her even younger brother in a shawl sling on her back. She is wearing sandals and chews on a piece of white cord or string

Albanian Woman
A woman from Shkodra, Albania

Pinewood Sanatorium, Wokingham, Berkshire
Aerial view of the Pinewood Sanatorium at Bagshot Sands, near Wokingham, Berkshire, which was originally opened in 1898 as the London Open Air Sanatorium by the National Association for

Painting of the R34 Airship
Painting of the R34 British airship, first to cross the Atlantic from the UK to the USA in 1919

Khyber Pass - Afghanistan / Pakistan - Jamrud Fort
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Princess Elizabeth (right) and Princess Margaret Rose at the last of the Duke of Yorks Camps, at Balmoral in August 1939. In 1919, the Princesses father, then Duke of York

Prince Carol and Princess Helen of Romania
Crown Prince Carol of Romania, later King Carol II, with his fiancee Princess Helen of Greece in 1921. When they married, Carol already had a chequered past

Charlotte and Feodora of Prussia
Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860-1919), daughter of Vicky (Princess Royal), Crown Princess of Prussia, with her daughter Feodora (1879-1945) in 1880

Lenin / Trotsky Celebrate
Lenin and Trotsky at the second anniversary revolution celebrations in Red Square, Moscow

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