1932 Collection (page 11)

Assembly of gear box. Annotated diagram for Miss England III.. Date: 1932

Bystander Christmas Number 1932
Inner front cover of The Bystander Christmas Number 1932 featuring a stylised illustration by Tom Gentleman of a coach and four galloping through the snow. Date: 1932

Middlesex Golf Club Secretaries by H. H. Harris
Secretaries of various golf clubs in the Middlesex area in 1932, caricatured by H. H. Harris. Those featured are Major E. A. Proute of Northwick, Captain W

Engagement of the Beaton sisters
An impression by society sketch portraitist Pat Charles of the two recently engaged sisters of Cecil Beaton with their fiancÚ│« Nancy Beaton is seen with Sir Hugh Smiley

Lady Sibell Lygon by Madame Yevonde
Lady Sibell Lygon (1907 - 2005), English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things. Daughter of the 7th Earl Beauchamp, she was the eldest of the four Lygon sisters

Margaret Watts by Gluck
Portrait of Margaret Watts, daughter of the illustrator Arthur Watts, by Gluck, which was exhibited in a Gluck show at the Fine Art Galleries. Date: 1932

Winter Ensembles, 1932 by Madame Yevonde
Two ensembles for winter, photographed by Madame Yevonde. Top is a short fitted coat of novelty woollen material check in black and white with white revers and lined in black

Road House at the Whitehall Theatre
Sketches of scenes in the play Road House at the Whitehall Theatre. Written by Gordon Harker, the play, a light-hearted murder mystery

Speed and the World Speeds with You
Photo montage in The Bystander reflecting the 1930s obsession with speed and transport, as exemplified by pictures of racing cars, aeroplanes and steam trains. Date: 1932

Nina Vanna in a white evening gown by Madame Yevonde
Nina Vanna (Nina Yasikova Kind Hakim Provatoroff, 1899-1953) by Madame Yevonde. She was a Russian-born British film and theatre actress

Margaret Whigham flower arranging in Selfridges window
Miss Margaret Whigham settling an argument how a florists window should look by very publicly dressing the window of Selfridges flower shop in October 1932

Lady Broughton by Madame Yevonde
Lady Broughton (1894 - 1968), first wife of Sir Jock Delves Broughton, photographed by Madame Yevonde in 1932. Previously Miss Vera Griffith-Boscawen

Behind the scenes at the London Hippodrome, Bow Bells
Behind the scenes in Bow Bells at the London Hippodrome, 1932. Robert Hale and his daughter Binnie are seen chatting in the wings with the production and stage director, Charles Henry. Date: 1932

Dog owners given free licences
Over 200 free licences were given to dog owners too poor to pay the 7s. 6d. tax. The licences were presented at the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch

The future Lady Warwick, Miss Margaret Whigham
Portrait of Margaret Whigham, later Mrs Charles Sweeny, and then the Duchess of Argyll, pictured in The Tatler at the time of her engagement to the Earl of Warwick

The Countess of Seafield by Madame Yevonde
Nina Caroline Ogilvie-Grant, 12th Countess of Seafield (1906 - 1969), by Madame Yevonde. Married Derek Herbert Ogilvie-Grant-Studley-Herbert in 1930, divorced 1957

Fay Compton in Dick Whittington at London Hippodrome
Fay Compton in the role of Dick Whittington for the pantomime Dick Whittington at the London Hippodrome in 1932-3. Date: 1932

Elsa Maxwell and her Moods painting
Feature in The Sketch showing party thrower, entertainer and social fixer Elsa Maxwell alongside a painting she did as part of an exhibition organised by her in Paris on the theme of Moods in which

A childs day & night
Illustration depicting a child with her books and toys in the daytime and in bed at night. From a greeting card. Artist: Isabel Saul Date: circa 1932

1932 Gee Bee Model R Racer Aircraft - in which Mr James Doolittle won the Thompson Trophy at a speed of 252.6 mph - built by Messrs

Norah Blaney and her fiance Basil Hughes, 1932
A famous stage favourite and her fiancÚ║áMiss Norah Blaney and Mr Basil Hughes. Date: 1932

Bathers at the rooftop pool of the Piccadilly Hotel
A group of bathers, having taken advantage of the bathing-pool at the Piccadilly Hotel, taking a cooling drink during the heat wave in London in August 1932. Date: 1932

Boiling a kettle by will power 1932
Major Raymond Phillips with the apparatus, by which he claimed to cause an electrical gramophone or kettle to operate. The human body acted, he said, as an earth

International Vegetarian Congress in Berlin, 1932
Delegates at the International Vegetarian Congress in Berlin, 1932, whose tonsorial abundance leads The Sphere magazine to ask, " Does Vegetarianism increase the growth of hair?" Date: 1932

Tommy Green with 24 trophies, 1932 Olympics
Tommy Green (1894-1975), British racewalker and 50, 000 metres gold medallist in the 1932 Summer Olympics (held in Los Angeles, USA), photographed with 24 trophies. Date: circa 1932

HMS Dauntless leaving Miraflores locks, Panama Canal
HMS Dauntless, British Danae class light cruiser, leaving Miraflores locks, Panama Canal, South America. Date: 1932

Heatwave floods London 1932
Various areas of London caught a cloudburst, among them was London Road, Norbury, which was flooded to a depth of 3 ft. July 1932

Bath time
Squabbling children. Brother and sister arguing at bathtime. Date: circa 1932

Happy faces
Keep smiling. A note of optimism during a difficult period in our history. Date: circa 1932

Jack Hulbert, British comedy film, Jacks the Boy
Jack Hulbert in the British comedy film, Jacks the Boy. 1932

Children, christmas
Four girls enjoying a Christmas party. Date: circa 1932

River pollution and its problems, ILN January 1932
Page from the Illustrated London News, 23rd January 1932, on The World of Science, River Pollution and its Problems, by W P Pycraft

Playtime by Peggy Earnshaw. 1932

Carol Singing by Muriel Dawson
Carol Singing. 1932

Lectures pour tous - Winter Sports
Front cover of Lectures pour Tous magazine featuring illustration of a woman skiing in the French Alps. Date: 1932

Scene by the Fossdyke Canal, Lincoln
Scene by the Fossdyke Canal, Brayford Way, Lincoln. 1932

British Industries Fair, Olympia, London 1932. 1932

Telephone operator, Mayfair Exchange, London
Telephone operator surrounded by wires at the Mayfair Exchange, London, Ocober 1932. 1932

Completion of Canadian War Memorial sculptures
Completion of the sculptures for the National War Memorial, designed by Vernon March. When March died in 1930, six of his siblings (pictured here) completed the bronze statues

Mrs Pawley, later kidnapped by Chinese bandits
Mrs Pawley, who was later kidnapped by Chinese bandits, seen here on horseback at the racecourse in Newchang (Newchwang, now Yingkou), China

Disastrous fire, Coney Island Amusement Park, USA
Disastrous fire at Coney Island Amusement Park, USA, when 100, 000 bathers were cut off by the flames in July 1932. 1932

Mr and Mrs George Hutchinson and two daughters - a family flying from New York to Edinburgh who had to be rescued off Greenland, September 1932. 1932

M. and Mme. Dubonnet at the Miramar beach, Biarritz
Madame Paul Dubonnet, formerly Mrs Jean Nash, regularly declared the best-dressed woman in Europe, on the beach at Biarritz while her husband, of the drinks dynasty, sunbathes nearby. 1932

Mrs Gerard D Erlanger at Biarritz
Mrs Gerard D Erlanger, formerly the pianist Egythe Baker, pictured underneath a parasol at Biarritz. Date: 1932

Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, USA -- July 1932, when 17 Air Corps biplanes of 33 Pursuit Squadron from Langley Field flew under the command of Captain H H George to

Envelope with stamps sent from Addis Ababa to Paris
Envelope with stamps from the Royal Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to an address in Paris, France. Date: 1932

The Lucifer Golf Society at Walton Heath
James Braid, the professional at Walton Heath Golf Club acting as starter for the Lucifer Golf Society meeting 1932

Golf Clubs and Golfers - No III, Walton Heath - James Braid
Golf Clubs and Golfers - colour caricature of James Braid, the club professional at Walton Heath and five-times winner of the Open Championship 1932

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