1931 Collection (page 5)

Oxford Street Congestion
Buses and cabs fill Oxford Street, London, as far as the eye can see : only one of the buses is an open-top kind

Flooded Market 1931
Marketing waist-deep in water, life at Hankow during the flood from the Yangtze river

Canned Foods Advert
Give your family these fine, fresh (sic !) Canned Foods everyday... (published by, you ve guessed it, the National Canners Association)

Chez Elle / Flowers for Ma
A mother is given a bunch of flowers by her four children who all want to hug her at the same time

Thomas Edison / La Nature
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Listening to the first phonogram sent to New York from England

Lady Milbanke at Mullaboden with her children
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929)

Judo as self-defence as demonstrated by Phyllis Boutell
Page showing Miss Phyllis Boutell and Mr Charles Cawkell demonstrating how judo, or ju-jitsu, can be an effective form of self-defence if attacked

Sketch cover, Miss Patricia Scott
Miss Patricia Katherine Montagu Douglas Scott, younger daughter of Lord Herbert Scott and niece of the Duke of Buccleuch, at the time of her engagement to Captain Walter Faulkner of the Irish Guards

Josephine Baker with her pet cheetah
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) - American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent - taking her pet cheetah for a walk. Date: 1931

Wedding of Princess Theodora of Greece (1906-69), sister of the current Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, to Prince Berthold, Margrave of Baden in 1931

Queens Park Institution - Blackburn, Lancashire
Queens Park Institution - Psychiatric Hospital - Blackburn, Lancashire. Queens Park Hospital was formerly the Blackburn Union Workhouse. Date: 1931

Savoia Marchetti S-55 Flying Boat Arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after a Trans-Atlantic Flight from Orbetello, Italy. General Balbo, Italian Air Minister

Art Deco girl with pink flowers
Giovanni Meschini (1888-1977) - Italian artist born in Rome. After World War One he set up the Ars Nova Studio that produced many designs of pochoir or stencil printed postcards. Date: 1931

Portrait of Spanish singer and dancer Conchita Montenegro, signed to MGM, 1931 Date: 1931

A portrait of the Epp Sisters appearing in
A portrait of the Epp Sisters (Inge and Lola) appearing in the Deutsches Theatre show Nur Mit Dir (only with You) in Munich, Germany, 1931 Date: 1929

Portraits of the British ballroom dancers Marjorie Moss and George Fontana, 1931 Date: 1931

Photograph of Hit or Miss PH, Gravesend, Kent. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

The seal of a royal Minoan signet ring found at Knossos in Crete. Date: 1931

Acme clothes wringer
From an advertisement for Acme clothes ringers from the 1930s Date: 1931

Joe Carstairs in racing boat Newg II
Marion Barbara Carstairs (1900 1993), known as Joe, but called Betty here by the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, in her racing motor boat Newg II

Mrs. Glen Kidston and Archie
Mrs Glen Kidston, formerly Nancy Soames, widow of Bentley Boy racing driver and aviator, pictured with her son Archie, shortly after her husbands death in an air crash

Oswald Mosley and family on the Riviera 1931
Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley with their children Vivien and Nicholas at Cap D Antibes in 1931. The Mosleys were frequent visitors to the French Riviera during this period. Date: 1931

Margaret Whigham at the British Porcelain Ball
Margaret Whigham (1912 - 1993), British society figure, debutante of the year in 1930. Later Mrs Charles Sweeny, after marrying the American golfer, and then Duchess of Argyll

Margaret Whigham with poodles Gabi & Suki by Madame Yevonde
Margaret Whigham (1912 - 1993), British society figure, debutante of the year in 1930. Later Mrs Charles Sweeny, after marrying the American golfer, and then Duchess of Argyll

Advert, William F Wholey Company, New York City, USA
Advert, The William F Wholey Company Inc, 11 East 36, New York City, USA -- office planning, interior architecture, decoration and furniture -- Created by Men who know Business. Date: 1931

Miss Modern magazine fortune teller
Front cover of Miss Modern magazine for November 1931, featuring a young gipsy fortune teller with a crystal ball (and the free gipsy ring, found FREE inside the magazine!). Date: 1931

Anna May Wong on the cover of the British film magazine Picturegoer. Anna May Wong (1905-1961) was the most famous Chinese-American star of the golden age of cinema

1931 British General Election, women MPs
1931 British General Election, twelve women MPs elected. From left to right: Mrs Helen Shaw, Lady Gwendolen Iveagh, Miss Irene Ward, Miss Thelma Cazalet, Mrs Mavis Tate, Mrs Ida Copeland

United States Navy - Goodyear ZSG-3 airship K-120 (BuAer number 33512), based at Oakland Naval Air Station in California, being used as a recruitment billboard for the US Naval Reserve

Aerial View of Richmond, Indiana, USA
circa 1910s

Fowler Road Roller GS2538
Fowler Road Roller, regn, GS 2538, number 18882, No.1. Built in 1931 by John Fowler & Co. in 1931 in Leeds, powered by a compound steam engine. Date: 1970s-1980s

Brown 1931 Southdown Skysailer towed back to launch point
The Brown 1931 Southdown Skysailer being towed back to the launch point at Ditchling Beacon, by a 1929 REO flying Cloud, imported from the United States

Hanworth Air Park - 1932 - Graf Zeppelin D-LZ127
The German airship Graf Zeppelin D-LZ127 at Hanworth Air Park conducting sight-seeing flights over London. On 18 August 1931, the German airship Graf Zeppelin (D-LZ127) visited Hanworth

Beatrice Lillie in the comedy film Are You There? - appearing as an acrobat in Bagdad Daddies: the lady detective in a wonderful disguise. Date: 1931

Cordy Mobilopter Unusual Design by Harry Cordy Date: 1931

Zeppelin LZ-127 GRAF Zeppelin Landing at Hanworth, London with a Media Camera Man Filming with a Movie Camera Date: 1931

New York Times Building - Times Square, NYC, USA. Note the Charlie Chaplin Film City LIghts showing at the cinema on the left. Date: 1931

Duke of Yorks Camp for Boys - Southwold, Suffolk - here, Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) is returning from a bathe. He spent the night under canvas and attended a concert

Duke, Duchess of York, Princess Elizabeth - Royal Tournament
Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952), Elizabeth, Duchess of York (1900-2002) and Princess Elizabeth arrive for the Royal Tournament at Olympia, London

Duchess of York pins a star on breast of Prebendary Carlise
Elizabeth, Duchess of York (1900-2002) pins a star (his seventh, each signifying seven years of service) on breast of Prebendary Carlile (1947-1942)

Miss Margaret Whigham and her parents
Miss Margaret Whigham, later Mrs Charles Sweeny and then Duchess of Argyll, pictured with her parents Mr and Mrs George Hay Whigham at a a ball they held at their house, Queens Hill

Wedding of Theodora of Greece & Berthold of Baden
Wedding of Princess Theodora of Greece (1906-69), sister of the current Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, to Prince Berthold, Margrave of Baden in 1931

Art deco advert for Viyella knitting yarn, a silhouette of a lady's hands knitting. Date: 1931

Illustration of a lady in her bedroom admiring her embroidered petticoat in crepe-de-chine Date: 1931

Reflections on Loch Mealt, Isle of Skye, Scotland - Valentine's real photo postcard 1931 Date: 1931

HMS Crusader (H60) - a Royal Navy C-class destroyer
HMS Crusader (H60) - a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in 1931. She saw service in the Home and Mediterranean Fleets

Ballroom Dancing
Illustration in Art Deco style of of ballroom dancers. Artist: Marcel Jacques Hemjic. Date: circa 1925

Samuel Johnson & George III
In February 1767 Samuel Johnson was honoured by a private conversation with his Majesty George III in the library at the Queen's House. Date: 1931

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