1937 Collection (page 48)

Road Traffic Control
Traffic control from the air : the observer tells the police by radio-telephone the state of traffic, which can then be halted or diverted in case of accident or congestion

Battersea Power Machine
BATTERSEA POWER STATION, London Electricians at work on a stator for one of the 80, 000 kilowatt turbo-alternators, supplying power to London

Diamond Pattern Jumper
A short sleeved jumper in a fancy stitch with a diamond pattern worked in 3 colours. It opens to the welt & fastens with 3 buttons

Drinkwater / Cig Card
JOHN DRINKWATER English poet and playwright in 1936

Macdonald / Ramsay / Postcd
JAMES RAMSAY MACDONALD British politician (Labour party)

4 Blue Persian Kittens
Four blue persian cats lie comfortably

Edward Weds Wallis
Commemorative envelope issued in France on the occasion of Edward, duke of Windsors marriage to Mrs Wallis Warfield/Simpson at Monts

Easy Piano Pieces
Je joue pour maman (= I play for mama) - collection of very easy pieces : this is the valse

General Janin
PIERRE THIEBAULT JANIN French general, commander in chief of the Czechoslovak Army in World War One

Lionel Walter Rothschild
LIONEL WALTER ROTHSCHILD 2nd baron son of Nathan Mayer Statesman and zoologist

Ludwig Quidde / Nobel 1927
JOHN GALSWORTHY Author of The Forsyte Saga and other novels, and of Loyalties, The skin game and other plays

ROSALIE
Alleged spirit photograph of Rosalie the little girl whose materialisation at a seance in Brockley, south London, was attested to by Harry Price

Edith Wharton 1930
EDITH NEWBOLD WHARTON Nee Jones American novelist

Comic Card / Drinks in Sea
When you re on a good thing stick to it. But don t drink it all until I come down

William Gillette / Actor
William Gillette: American actor; best known for his dramatisation & portrayal of Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes, as seen here in the 1899 stage version

BORDEN (1854 - 1937)
SIR ROBERT LAIRD BORDEN Canadian lawyer and statesman

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

Automatic Bridge Playing machine
An Automatic Bridge Playing machine. The (human) player inserts a coin, is shown his own hand and the dummy s, and plays by inserting plugs in holes representing the cards

Serge Lifar performing in the ballet Icare
Serge Lifar performing in the one-act ballet Icare, in which he played the mythological character of Icarus, who fell to earth when his wings failed him

Ballet dancers rehearsing Rouet d Armor
Ballet dancers at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse rehearsing a new opera-ballet by Adolphe Piriou, Rouet d Armor (Wheel of Armour)

Ballet dancers waiting to rehearse
Ballet dancers at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse in their costumes, waiting to rehearse

RAVEL (1875 - 1937)
MAURICE RAVEL French musician

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