1937 Collection (page 46)

Broadcasting a violin recital with sound and vision. Two television cameras record the performer from different angles. The microphone is suspended to obtain the sound recording

The control room of the Baird apparatus, showing the vision
Scene in the heart of the control room of the Baird apparatus. Special tests of reception of the B.B.C from Alexandra Palace of synchronised television

Jean Harlow / Cig Card
JEAN HARLOW American film actress, seen here on the telephone

Boulton Paul Overstrand
Though it serves with the RAF from 1933 to 1937, this plane is already old-fashioned with its biplane format and fabric covered wings and fuselage, and is withdrawn

Racial / New York Subway
Some typical passengers on the New York subway

George VI Coronation / Ils
CORONATION Piccadilly Circus decorated to celebrate the Coronation

Children Costume 1937
Clothing styles available for little French boys and girls including coats, dresses and shorts

Labour Party
Photograph showing early members of Labour Party. The first Labour government was formed in January 1924 by J.Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937 and shown here in the front row, second from left)

Russia / 1937 / Regiment
A female army regiment is disbanded because of links with the out-of-favour OGPU leader Jagoda

Russia / 1937 / Purges
STALINIST PURGES Eidemann, Wortz, Kestinski and others are invited to a meeting at the Kremlin...and then arrested

Russia / 1937 / Baku Strike
Baku workers go on strike in protest at poor working conditions, but their demonstration is quickly dealt with by troops

Russia / 1937 / Jagoda
Jagoda, chief of the OGPU political police, is arrested at his desk

Jd Rockefeller / Harmswth
JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER American industrialist and philanthropist in later life

Autumn Fashions 1937
Paris Fashions for Autumn include a 3/4 length plum coloured coat with high mandarin collar, a short blue coat trimmed with astrakan fur, & fez-like hat with veil

Marconi / Full Face / 1930
GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italian inventor

Marconi and Apparatus
GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italian inventor, depicted with some of his apparatus

Broken Hearted Clown
The head of a laughing clown illustrates the song, Broken- Hearted Clown"

Pearl Lenore Curran
American housewife of St Louis, who under the name Patience Worth authored several writings of remarkable literary force, purporting to be dictated by a spirit Date: 1883 - 1937

Edward VIII Coronation
EDWARD VIII An artists impression of how Edwards coronation ceremony would have looked, had he not abdicated in December 1936

Edward VIII in Costume
EDWARD VIII In full regalia, as he would have appeared at his 1937 coronation, if he had not abdicated in December 1936

New York / Ship / Ils / Simont
Arriving in New York on the Normandie

Jm Barrie / Young Man
SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Scottish novelist and dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan

The Double Minds
THE DOUBLE MINDS (John W Campbell junior) The Earthpeople fight the shleath of Ganymede

THE MIND MAGNET (Paul Ernst) The duel between the two alien races

THE HOTHOUSE PLANET (Arthur K Barnes) Space travellers from Earth encounter the wildlife of Venus - and find that it is very wild indeed !

Austen Chamberlain 1928
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN and his wife at the Hotel Splendide in Lugano, Italy, where he was attending a summit meeting

Culottes on Cycles 1937
Two French ladies set off into the countryside on their tandem in appropriate clothes - tailored costume comprising a short jacquette and a jupe-culotte (divided skirt)

Cross at Sinaia, Romania
A large cross erected at Sinaia, Romania

Fruit and Fancy Cakes
Dundee cake of the first quality is available for 2/8, whilst an exceptionally rich fruit cake " of handsome proportions" is yours for just 11/. Date: 1937

SIMPSONs SUIT 1937
An elegant man in a double- breasted suit with easy drape and long lapel rolled to the bottom button worn with a carnation buttonhole, striped tie & trilby hat

Devilish Funny Ha Ha
In Vienna statuettes of the devil are sold on 1 December but when an artist makes a life-size one for a client, returning late one night, he jumps from the window

Esp / Zener Card / Cross
RHINE EXPERIMENTS - A Zener Card - cross

El at 6th Avenue / Simont
New York: Sixth Avenue and the Elevated, with shoppers in the street

Firewalking / Hussein
AHMED HUSSEIN before crossing the pit at Carshalton

MCVITIE & PRICEs 1937
McVitie & Prices Christmas Specialties in presentation boxes

Male Type / Forbes Actor
A typical late Victorian: Johnston Forbes-Robertson, actor-manager (1853-1937)

Void Wanderer, Thrilling Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
FLIGHT OF THE SILVER EAGLE by Arthur Leo Zagat. Three Spacemen encounter strange cycloptic alien beings armed with ray guns after landing on a distant planet

James Ramsay MacDonald, British statesman
Cartoon of (James) Ramsay MacDonald, British statesman

Lady and Mercedes-Benz
A lady standing beside a Mercedes-Benz Type 770 limousine, built from 1930 to 1937 and used by many European dignitaries of the period

Motoring in the Bois in style in 1900: Vis-a Vis style
This is a vis-a vis (face to face) style of seating for the motor car common to the little, slow, primitive cars of Victorian motoring

Floods, Cincinnati
Flooding at Cincinnati forces many to leave their homes, to which is added explosions of gas when mains are shattered

Scouts Jamboree 1937
French Scouts dance beside the bonfire at a camp

Jm Barrie / Elderly
SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Scottish novelist and dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan

Jm Barrie / Kensington Hse
SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Scottish novelist and dramatists home at Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, Kensington Park

Sir James Barrie / Sepia
SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Scottish novelist and dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan

BELA KUN Hungarian politician and revolutionary, founded Hungarian Communist Party in 1918

Von Ludendorff / Jugend
General Efw Von Ludendorff German General

NUREMBERG / 1937
Albert Speers Cathedral of Light at the Nuremberg Rally. Speer was later the Minister for Armament in the 1940s. Date: 1937

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