1925 Collection (#36)

1920s photograph album fabric
Floral fabric design from the 1920s, taken from a vintage photograph album. Date: c.1925

St Gregorys Home for Babies, Plymouth. The home was opened in 1925 by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: 1920s

Waifs and Strays Society Van
A new van for the Waifs and Strays Society. The vehicle carries promotional text for the Societys work. Date: Circa 1925

Government Inspectors Visit to Canadian Emigrant
A Canadian Government Inspector visits a young emigrant from Britain to Canada, placed there by the Waifs and Strays Society

Galloway Home, Whalley Range, Cheshire
Children stand in front of the Galloway Home at 34 Upper Chorlton Road, Whalley Range, near Manchester The home was established in 1875 by Miss Galloway who, for 35 years, ran it single-handed

Mary Ashley by Madame Yevonde
Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley (1906-?) by Madame Yevonde. She was the younger daughter of the Rt Hon Wilfrid William Ashley MP, and sister of Lady Louis Mountbatten

Little girl writing by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in pink and white leans on a table to write, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1925

Selfridges sweets advertisement by H. L. Oakley
Advertisement for London department store, Selfridge s, and in particular their confectionary department. The advert features a silhouette by H. L

Actor playing Elizabethan character in The Road to Yesterday
An unnamed actor playing the role of an Elizabethan character (Sir Johut?) in The Road to Yesterday, a fantasy play by Beulah Marie Dix, later adapted into a silent film

The Njoro Polo Team
Polo team of the Njoro ground, 7, 100 feet above sea level in British East Africa (Kenya). From left to right are Major W. A. Conduitt, Mr R. A. Pelham-Burn, Captain C. P

One For You? by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a wide-brimmed straw hat offers a daisy from a bunch of flowers. Date: Circa 1925

Kuznechny Market - Leningrad
The exterior of the Kuznechny Market in Leningrad, Russia (now St. Petersburg) during its construction. Date: 1925

A Leningrad Bakery - 1925
An early 20th century Leningrad Bakery, its shelves heavily laden with an intriguing assortment of breads including the usual the downright unusual. Date: 1925

Corner of a large tiled kitchen, showing a gas cooker (right) and a large stove with doors for the coal (in a scuttle at the side), and a flue. There are pots and pans on a tall stand (left)

Bathing huts on the beach at Newquay, Cornwall
Bathing huts with wheels on the beach at Newquay, Cornwall, with a few holidaymakers. Date: 1925

Russian Farmer with his Harvest
An elderly and substantially bearded Russian Farmer carrying a large sack over one shoulder. Date: 1925

Russian Peasants Experience Electricity
Russian Peasants experience the first Electricity in their village in 1925. Date: 1925

Samples of 1920s booklets
A picture of five different booklets printed in 1925, including three steamer brochures, a Housewives Almanack and a booklet entitled Shoes and Success Date: 1925

Hilger Interference Gauge Testing Engineers
The Hilger Interference Gauge Testing Outfit for Engineers intended for use when photographs of interference phenomena were required. Date: 1925

Miniature sports car, Douglas, Isle of Man
A miniature sports car (Malins, 147 CC) parked outside a building in Douglas on the Isle of Man. Date: 1925

Couple on a large motorbike
A couple on a large motorbike parked outside a house. Date: C.1925

Lord Cheylesmore, Vanity Fair, Spy
Major General HERBERT FRANCIS EATON, 3rd Baron CHEYLESMORE (1848 - 1925) British Army officer and peer. Caption: Brown Date: 1848 - 1925

The Maid and the Magician by William Heath Robinson
A real life film in three terrible reels! Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 13th May 1925

The revenge of Samson
A series of photographs showing a fashionable 1920s lady going from long hair to a bobbed style. The period saw a huge shift in hair styles with the majority of women choosing to bob or shingle their

Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)
Illustration of Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, the English traveller, pictured in Middle-Eastern garb smoking a pipe. In the early 19th century Lady Stanhope travelled in the Levant

Israel Tel Aviv
Rothschild Avenue, named in honour of the banking family who did much to further the establishing of a Jewish state in Palestine. Date: 1925

Josephine Baker (1906-1975)
Josephine Baker began her career as an entertainer dancing on Broadway. She travelled to Paris in 1925 to star in La Revue Negre. Her exotic dance style and costume made her an instant hit

Germans Expelled
Ethnic cleansing in Poland - Germans are expelled from the country. Date: 1925

Alexandras Bookcase
A lovely corner bookcase which belonged to Queen Alexandra (1844 - 1925) of England, richly decorated with bronze statuettes. Date: early 1900s

Obtaining Encyclopaedia Britannica books
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16 larger double volumes instead 32 single volumes. General knowledge books with some colour illustrations. Small monthly payments. Date: 1925

Deep-sea diving suit, for salvage work on HMS M1 subrine
German deep-sea diving suit brought from Kiel for examining the lost submarine M1. On 21 November 1925, while on an exercise in the English Channel

Ladies Wimbledon, action shot
Miss E. Colyer makes one of her famous leaps across the court. Date: 4th July 1925

Willett Sundial Memorial
WILLIAM WILLETT Willet, Petts Wood, Chislehurst, Kent, England. His campaign for daylight saving led to the Summer Time Act of 1925. Date: 1856 - 1915

Mangin Photo
CHARLES M E MANGIN French military commander, notably during World War One, photographed in 1918. Date: 1866 - 1925

Flammarion Photo
CAMILLE FLAMMARION French astronomer and prolific author of books of popular science, photographed in 1890. Date: 1842 - 1925

Advert for Aquascutum coats 1925
Womens coats for sports and travel wear. Available from Aquascutum, Regent Street, London. 1925

August Wassermann
AUGUST von WASSERMANN German physician, notable for the diagnostic blood-test for syphilis named after him. Date: 1866 - 1925

Hamo Thornycroft at Work
SIR HAMO THORNYCROFT sculptor, depicted at work on a statue of general Gordon. Date: 1850 - 1925

Therese Canonised
Crowds gather before St Peter s, Rome, for the canonisation of Therese de Lisieux. Date: 1925

Viscount Samuel
HERBERT LOUIS, first viscount SAMUEL Statesman, commissioner in Palestine 1925 Date: 1870 - 1963

John Singer Sargent
JOHN SINGER SARGENT American artist Date: 1856 - 1925

William Edward Norris
WILLIAM EDWARD NORRIS Prolific British novelist whose titles - such as Harry and Ursula - have not been read by me nor, I suspect, by you. Date: 1847 - 1925

Mae Murray & Ship 1930S
MAE MURRAY American star of many silent films, including The Merry Widow (1925), known as the girl with bee-stung lips, here with a model ship. Date: 1889 - 1965

Standing Nude c
Standing Nude (c1920 - 5). McEvoy, Ambrose 1878 - 1927. Date: 1920-1925 (circa)

Village in Italy (1925). Wood, Christopher 1901-1930. Date: 1925

Oakridge Farm, Late Summer (c1925). Rothenstein, Sir William 1872-1945. Date: 1925 (circa)

Elegant woman in black
An elegant woman pampering herself at her mirror by William Barribal circa 1925

V Beach Cemetery - near Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey
V Beach Cemetery in 1925 - a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey. The cemetery was brought into use shortly after the landing at Cape Helles at

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