1921 Collection (#40)

STEAMSHIPS / PARIS
The largest French atlantic liner of her day, carrying 563 first class passengers, 480 second and 1092 third class, plus 1118 more in the steerage, and 664 crew

STEAMSHIP CALIFORNIA
Anchor Line passenger ship sailing between Glasgow and New York

Halsbury (Full Length)
Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st earl of HALSBURY lawyer, Lord Chancellor

Germany / Soup Kitchen
The poor queue at a state soup kitchen - a symptom of inflation

Christine Nilsson / Cig
CHRISTINA NILSSON Swedish opera singer

John Hare / Ellis Photo
Sir JOHN HARE English actor-manager

Caruso / Downey Postcard
ENRICO CARUSO Italian opera singer

Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen
SIR FREDERIC HYMEN COWEN English composer and conductor

Lady Bancroft / Marie
Marie Effie (nee Wilton), LADY BANCROFT Actress and Theatre Manager; married Sir Squire Bancroft, seen here in a flowery hat holding a bunch of flowers

Einstein & Reporters
ALBERT EINSTEIN German born physicist. Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921. Photographed surrounded by reporters

Cooking Oil Advert
Wesson Oil, made from vegetable fat, for salads and cooking

Balfour of Burleigh
LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH statesman, circa 1896

Nikola I / Montenegro
NIKOLA I Ruler of Montenegro (Yugoslavia) with his family

Nikola I / Montenegro 1903
NIKOLA I Ruler of Montenegro (Yugoslavia)

Augusta Viktoria / 1915
AUGUSTA VIKTORIA of Schleswig-Holstein - German Empress, wife of Wilhelm II, with a bouquet of yellow roses

Augusta Viktoria
AUGUSTA VIKTORIA of Schleswig-Holstein - German Empress, wife of Wilhelm II in an elegant blue dress

Augusta Viktoria / 1901
AUGUSTA VIKTORIA of Schleswig-Holstein - German Empress, wife of Wilhelm II in an elegant yellow dress

Augusta Viktoria / Sandau
AUGUSTA VIKTORIA Wife of Wilhelm II with her daughter Viktoria Luise

Yves Montand / Carlet
YVES MONTAND (Ivo Levi) French film actor

Poster : Force of Arms
we have Smashed the Enemy by Force of Arms !

Poster; the Assembly
THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY The enemies of the Revolution, but their ship is only a shoe and the sails are tattered

Aldeburgh / Moot Hall 1921
Aldeburgh, Suffolk: the old moot hall

Wwi / Serbian King Peter
Serbias elderly King Peter (1844-1921) in the trenches as the Serbian army is forced to retreat through Albania, and from there to Corfu. He returned to rule again in 1918

Mascagni / Marat / Liebig 5
Act three : the Prince, disguised as a revolutionary, with Mariella, who knows his identity and resolves to flee Paris with him

Mascagni / Marat / Liebig 4
Act two : the Prince, disguised as a revolutionary, recognises his mother at the Revolutionary Tribunal

Mascagni / Marat / Liebig 3
Act one : the prince (in disguise) embraces his mother, imprisoned by the Revolutionaries, through the bars of the prison

Mascagni / Marat / Liebig 2
Act one : the prince (in disguise) joins the Marats, the revolutionary guard, hoping he will be able to rescue his imprisoned mother, la Princesse de Fleury

British Carrier 1921
An improvised carrier - the Royal Navys aeroplane carrier is unmistakeably the result of erecting a landing deck over a conventional ship

Vandyck Steamship
Passenger liner of the Lamport and Holt company

British M. 1 Submarine
With its enormous forward gun and a sizeable one aft, the M.1 seems better suited to surface combat than to underwater operations

Gloster Bamel Racer
The Gloster Racer, also known as the Bamel is the winner of the 1923 Aerial Derby. It is specially designed for racing and sporting activities

Petrocsy Helicopter
Austrian lieutenant Stefan Petrocsy proposes a remarkable helicopter design in which the cockpit is above the rotating blades : note, too, the balls serving as undercarriage

Marie Curie in 1921
MARIE CURIE in her laboratory

Dinner Dress / Worth 1921
Pink dress by Worth with cap sleeves, deep V -neck, slightly low waisted & with a skirt composed of sections of tiers of fringing creating an uneven hemline

Vauxhall-Kington 25 1921
The Vauxhall-Kington 25, selling for 1450 pounds, is designed for sporty touring

Male Type / John Hare 1890
A typical late Victorian: John Hare, actor-manager (1844-1921)

Passport 1921
Joint passport for husband and wife, issued to Mr and Mrs Digby Lander (parents of Mary Evans who founded this Library)

Blackpool Charabanc
This is how we re enjoying ourselves here at Blackpool - three saucy couples necking in the back seat of a charabanc

Social / 14 July Dancing
Parisians and Parisiennes dance in the streets to celebrate the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution

Social / Baby Crosses 1921
A mother wheels her baby across a rainy street with the help of a policeman

Hatfield Trailer Pump
Merryweathers Hatfield trailer motor fire-pump, able to negotiate narrow lanes and therefore suitable for country districts

Tailored Suit by Worth
Tailored suit by Worth in salmon pink & black: sac-like jacket with half-length sleeves, pockets & high loose fitting collar & a barrel-line skirt or 2-piece dress

Nikolai Zhukovsky
NIKOLAI ZHUKOVSKY Russian engineer, known as the father of Russian aviation. His The soaring of birds proved that looping the loop would be possible

DANILO I
DANILO PETROVIC-NJEGOS King Danilo I, who abdicated in 1921 in favour of his nephew (KIng Michael I), only one week after succeeding his father, Nicholas I

Devonshire Hse Demolish
The demolition of William Kents house, built in the 1730s for the 3rd duke of Devonshire : replacing it is a big block including the Mayfair Hotel

Arms from America
ARMS FOR SINN FEIN Submarines smuggle weapons and explosives into Ireland for Sinn Fein, sent by sympathisers in the United States

Peter I, King of Serbia
PETER I, KING OF SERBIA King of Serbia (1903-21); proclaimed king of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes (1918-21)

Fire, Paris Store
Fire rages in the Printemps department store, boulevard Haussmann, Paris

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