1927 Collection (page 50)

Short Singapore
Flown by Cobham in 1927, this reliable flying boat is used throughout the thirties, and this model III is in service with the RAF at the outbreak of World War Two

Paris Music Hall / 1927
A scene in a Parisian night club

Sir Marcus Samuel
SIR MARCUS SAMUEL Viscount Bearset, petroleum entrepeneur. Lord Mayor of London from 1902-3

Deems Taylor / Spur 1927
JOSEPH DEEMS TAYLOR American composer and music critic

Lindbergh / Croydon
Thousands of people gather to welcome Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis to Croydon, London

Russia / 1927 / Anti-Church
Buildings are demolished and icons confiscated in the Soviet campaign against religious institutions

Lindbergh / Croydon Lands
Thousands swamp around the Spirit of St. Louis as the plane lands at Croydon, London

Edith Sitwell / Recording
EDITH SITWELL Writer, reading from her Rustic Elegies, being filmed while her voice is recorded in synch, in 1927

Trans-atlantic telephone service opening
The official opening of the radio telephone service between London and New York. Mr Walter S. Gifford, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, speaking to Sir Evelyn Murray

Sweden / Rattvik Sunday
Rattvik, Dalecarlia: people relaxing on a Sunday

Garden / Giverny 1927
A famous view in Monets garden, showing the lilypond and bridge

Mount Rushmore Carved Up
Supervised by Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is carved with the faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and T Roosevelt, 1927 - 1941

Revealing Costume
Actress Gloria Barrett wears a revealing costume on the New York stage in the name part of Katya the Dancer

Racial / Martinique 1927
A smiling woman selling bananas in Martinique

Dorbon Aine Bookshop
The celebrated bookshop of Dorbon Aine, in the boulevard Haussmann, Paris, offering previously-owned and antiquarian books

Girls on a Windy Street
Three girls in a Paris street on a windy day offer a fine show of leg to passers-by

Little Folks at the Zoo back cover
Bold patterned design on the back cover of a 1920s childrens book featuring elephants, palm trees, giraffes and other animals

Toddles put up his umbrella
A little boy sits in the rain sheltering himself, a lamb and a sheep underneath an umbrella

Little Folks at the Zoo
Bold, colour front cover design of a 1920s childrens book depicting a pattern of giraffes, elephants and other zoo animals

Animal Stories for Tiny Folk
Front cover jacket illustration showing two little girls with bobbed hair feeding a menagerie of animals in a farm yard

Animal Stories for Tiny Folk back cover
Back cover illustration showing a little girl preparing to milk a cow

Luke Fildes / Profile Eng
LUKE FILDES English artist

Luke Fildes / Downey
LUKE FILDES English artist

Victims of Petrification
Unfortunate victims of the petrifying spring at Clermont- Ferrand, France

QUARRYING / 1867
A view in the Carrara, the Ravaccione Quarries

Heurigen Party, Vienna
A heurigen party in the garden of a suburban inn, Vienna, where the new years wine is drunk by the litre

Woman / Cat / Budgerigar
Woman ponders her reflection, admiring her hat with two budgeriagars as decoration. The cat on her shoulder seems to be rather interested too!

Bright Coloured Parrot
Brightly coloured parrots

Wilhelm Wrchorzschy
Austrian Wilhelm Wrchorzschy, delegate, photographed at the Third International Congress of Psychical Research, held in Paris in 1927

Mayakovsky (Head On)
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY - Russian poet and supporter of the Communist party in Russia (this photograph is dated 1927)

Price and Winther
Harry Price with Danidh researcher Christian Winther at the International Congress of Psychical Research, Paris 1927

Beatrice Lillie / Nerman
BEATRICE LILLIE (Lady Peel) British revue actress with Peter Haddon and Gertrude Lawrence in 1927

Delegates Paris 1927
Delegates at the 3rd International Congress of psychical research at Paris, Rudolf Lambert from Stuttgart and count Perovsky-Petrovo- Solovovo

Richet and Driesch
Charles Richet, President, at the Third International Congress of Psychical Research, held in Paris in 1927, with Hans Driesch and an unknown woman

Richet at Paris 1927
Charles Richet, President, at the Third International Congress of Psychical Research, held in Paris in 1927, with a group of delegates

3rd International Paris
Richet (centre) and colleagues at the third International Congress of Psychical Research, held at Paris

London Night Scene / 1927
A bright and bustling London street at night

St Mary Woolnoth 1927
The Church of Saint Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street, by Nicholas Hawksmoor

Banqueting House 1927
BANQUETING PALACE by Inigo Jones

15 ST JAMES SQUARE
An fine example of Greek Revival or Neo-Classical architecture - No.15 St James Square by James " Athenian" Stuart

Mississippi Floods / 1927
Memphis inhabitants try to contain the Mississippi flood waters with a wall of sandbags

Flannel Suit with Shorts
Smart young lad in a grey flannel hat & suit of shorts & jacket with patch pockets & rounded front borders worn with knee-length socks & shoes & a striped tie

Commercial City Street
A commercial street in the city - the Haymarket at Aldgate, London

Rail in Zimbabwe / C. 1927
Steam train crossing the bridge over the Zambesi River at Victoria Falls

Dryden / Bugatti / 25
With roof or without, the Bugatti breathes an image of sportiness... expensive sportiness

Stearns-Knight 1927
The new Stearns-Knight - supreme by any test you care to make. e.g. try driving it off the Brooklyn Bridge, see if it keeps on going

Chevrolet Landau
The Chevrolet Landau is the most beautiful Chevrolet, and with its body by Fisher is a masterly example of the coachmakers art

Champs Elysees Breakdown
When a ladys car lets her down in the Champs Elysees, Paris (France) lots of willing hands materialise

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