1926 Collection (page 2)

Advert / Travel French Alp
Poster inviting you to go winter-sporting at Mont- Revard, in the French Alps

Tarot Card 10 - La Roue de Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune)

John Logie Bairds experiment, showing how television transm
Sending pictures through the air. Bairds system of television transmits its wireless pictures. John Logie Baird transmitted a moving image by wireless, showing gradations of light and shade

Indian Summer
A group of bathing ladies enjoy the good weather

Advertisement for Singer cars from 1926, proclaiming everybody should have a car with character

General Strike 1926
A struggle between police and demonstrators during the General Strike as a policeman tries to take a flag out of a protestors hands

Star and Stargazer 1926
THE STAR AND THE STAR-GAZER An actress in her dressing room receives a friendly visit from a lover of the theatre

Paris / Eiffel Tower 1926
French aviator Lieutenant Collot successfully flies his biplane beneath the Tour Eiffel, but in a moment he will hit a cable and crash fatally

Bathing / In Bathroom / 1926
A woman drying herself in front of the bathroom mirror

Tarot Card 9 - L Ermite (The Hermit)

Torpoint Ferry, Plymouth Harbour, Devon
Passengers disembark from the Torpoint Ferry in Plymouth Harbour, Devon

Trafalgar Square 1926
Trafalgar Square, London 1926, at night - street lighting, car headlights, Nelsons Column through the gloom. Date: 1926

Happy Land
Young girl and her dolls paddling in the sea, painted in Art Deco style. Artist: Phyllis Cooper Date: 1926

Programme cover for the Palace Theatre, Paris 1926-1931. Artwork by Edouard Halouze 1926

Astoria Column, overlooking the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, USA. The tower was built in 1926 with financing by the Great Northern Railroad and Vincent Astor

Her latest dance frock? By Gordon Conway
A flame-haired flapper with a feathered fan strides into the frame wearing a revealing off-the-shoulder black striped dress

Newton Abbot - 1926
Great Western Railway Station Newton Abbot Devon

Stream of Charabancs
The popular pleasure of the charabanc ! - four in a row make their way through the Cheddar Gorge, Somerset - and there may be more to follow

Elizabeth Ii / Philip 1947
ELIZABETH II with her fiance, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, in 1947

Tarot Card 6 - L'Amoureux (The Lover or Lovers). Date: 20th century

Advert for Soiree perfume as used by Lilan Davies, the opera singer, 1926 Date: 1926

Advert, Overland Whippet Car, designed especially for women. 1926

Advertisement for Meccano, Barley & Son, Bath
Advertisement for Meccano and Hornby Trains, sold at Barley & Son, Centre of Corridor, Bath. Date: 1926

The couple who caught their last train 1926
Couple arriving late to the theatre, much to the annoyance of the seated audience. Date: 1926

New Pavilion Saltair and bathers, Salt Lake City, USA
The New Pavilion Saltair (built in 1926) and bathers on Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The first Saltair, completed in 1893

Foundling Hospital Schools, Berkhamsted
The Foundling Hospital Schools, Berkhamsted. The Hospital was founded in 1739 by Captain Thomas Coram and in 1741 began construction of premises at Bloomsbury Fields, London

The Marine Drive, Cape Peninsula, South Africa
The South African Corniche : a motoring paradise - the Marine Drive, Cape Peninsula, South Africa

The Silent Pool, Newlands Corner, Surrey, 1926
Photograph showing the Silent Pool at Newlands Corner, Surrey, during 1926. The Police dragged the pool, that year, in their search for Agatha Christie, the novelist and playwright

Camillo Golgi / Nobel 1906
CAMILLO GOLGI Italian physician

SANDSEND - 1926
East Row, Sandsend, North Yorkshire

Leaning Tower Bologna
Leaning towers of Bologna, Italy - La Garidenda and Torre degli Asinelli

Death personified on a Tarot card
Death personified as a skeleton with a scythe on a Tarot card

Clovelly / Devon 1926
Clovelly, North Devon: the High Street

Advert / Fisk Tyres 1926
Fisk Tyres - time to re-tire

Turandot Liebig 2
Ping, Pang and Pong, three courtiers

EMILE COUE French doctor who advised his patients to repeat daily, Every day - in every way - I am getting better and better!

Mocking Bird (Card)
(Mimus polyglottus) An American bird renowned for its vocal powers

Bell Picnics in Iraq
GERTRUDE M L BELL English traveller picnicking with King Faisal of Iraq, (seated, second right) in 1922

Tarot Card 11 - La Force (Strength)

Canoeist about to Canoe
Girl in her one-piece swimming costume & bathing cap with checker board trim going off for a paddle

Tarot Card 21 - Le Monde (The World). Date: 20th century

Racial / Spanish Flamenco
A haughty Spanish lady in traditional dress

Carnarvon Castle Liner
Passenger liner of the Union Castle Line

SON OF THE SHEIK
Valentinos last film, and one of his best, matches him with dancing girl Vilma Banky in George Fitzmaurices sequel to The Sheik, a classic of Hollywood exotica

Mr R. H. Gillespie, Managing Director, London Hippodrome
R. H. Gillespie, managing director of the London Hippodrome from 1919 and director of Moss Empires Ltd, caricatured by Nerman in The Tatler. Date: 1926

Rudolph Valentino / Mail
RUDOLPH VALENTINO Italian-American romantic film idol with his fan mail Date: 1895 - 1926

Fidel Castro at Desk
FIDEL CASTRO Cuban statesman at his desk Date: 1926 -

Happy Land
Children out on a windy day; one taking a pick-a-back ride, painted in Art Deco style. Artist: Phyllis Cooper Date: 1926

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