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Billy Rose show Lets Play Fair at Casa MananaProgramme cover for the Billy Rose cabaret show Lets Play Fair at Casa Manana, New York, 1939 (7th Ave at 50th Street) Date: 1939
La Revue du Bal Tabarin at the London CasinoProgramme cover for La Revue du Bal Tabarin at the London Casino, London, 1939, produced by Clifford Fischer Date: 1939
Illustration for cover of Gaietes de Montmartre, 1939Programme cover for Gaietes de Montmartre, staged at the Prince of Wales Theatre (described as Londons Folies Bergere), London, 1939. Art work probably by Louis Curti. Date: 1939
Programme cover for Gaietes de Montmartre, 1939Programme cover for Gaietes de Montmartre, staged at the Prince of Wales Theatre (described as Londons Folies Bergere), London, 1939. Art work by Louis Curti. Date: 1939
Fairey Battle, first flying testbed powered by a Sabre Series I engine Date: 1939
Britannia and Eve front coverFront cover illustration featuring a blonde woman applying make up while looking in a compact mirror
Alice Marble, 1939 Wimbledon championAlice Marble (1913-1990), American tennis player, who was the first woman to win both the US Open and Wimbledon singles titles in the same year, as well as the ladies doubles and mixed doubles
Air Travel with CooksCover illustration for Air Travel with Cooks, for the 1939 Summer Season, showing an aeroplane and a globe
Summer Holidays Abroad with CooksCover illustration for Summer Holidays Abroad with Cooks, showing an alpine spa scene with mountains, a swimming pool, and a young woman in Austrian traditional dress
The Humorist Summer Number 1939Bright and jolly front cover design for The Humorist magazine Summer Number by William Heath Robinson featuring a number of bathers paddling and playing about in the sea
New York World Fair 1939, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Building
Japanese Pavilion, World Fair 1939Japanese Pavilion at the New York World Fair 1939 showing the diplomatic room
Group of policemen, Battersea, LondonA group of policemen pose for their photograph at Battersea in south west London. They are all in uniform, some wearing helmets, others (the Special Constables) in peaked caps
Dog inside gas-proof kennelA dog inside a gas-proof kennel, part of an A.R.P. scheme for domestic animals at the outbreak of World War Two
Lady Iris Mountbatten by the sea at Eden RocIris Mountbatten, the daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Carisbrooke, sits by the sea at Eden Roc
Royal Tour to Canada and USA - May / June 1939Royal Tour by the British Royal Family to Canada and USA during May and June 1939. King George VI bids farewell to his cabinet Ministers at Waterloo Station, London
Spanish French border WWIITraffic on the Spanish French border in 1939
French artillery WWIIFrench obusier cannon in action on the front during World War II
French Italian tension WWIIFrench Senegalese troops leaving their barracks at Toulon for Marseille, where they will embark for Somaliland
Spanish refugees WWIIMexico-bound refugees sunbathing during voyage to Mexico during World War II. The photo was taken on the steamer Sinaia when she crossed the Atlantic carrying sixteen hundred Spanish refugees to Vera
Refugee babies born during flight WWIIBorn during the voyage, these infants will know of the terrors through which their parents lived for their principles, only by listening to stories to be told in the future of that tragic mass exodus
Railwayman with black-out lampThe green signal light of a guard on the railway is shaded with a hood in the wartime black-out as World War Two begins
War Office at Wormwood ScrubsA War Office filing clerk in his temporary office, a cell at the Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. The prison was requisitioned by the War Office at the outbreak of war in 1939
Gas Masks in LondonMan sitting and sleeping in a London park carrying his gas mask box with him in September 1939
Gas Mask drill at school, 1939Gas Mask drill at school. Teacher and pupils wearing gas masks, 1939
Gas Masks, World War IIGroup of men queuing to register, probably for the ARP, wearing gas masks during World War II
ARPs World War IIARPs in gas masks during World War II during decontamination exercise in London
Gas Masks for babiesA gas mask, or hood for babies being demonstrated at Holborn Town Hall, London. It took three years of development to perfect
Luftwaffe HQ 1939The Reichsluft Fahrt Ministerium (Luftwaffe HQ) in Berlin, Germany in 1939 at the start of World War II
Bulgarian Army Parade 1939Tanks of the Bulgarian Army parade before King Boris III on the Bulgarian National Holiday on 9th May 1939 in the square in front of the Bulgarian Parliament Building in Sofia, Bulgaria
Home Front World War IIA party of London Anti-aircraft gunners watching a dogfight on the Home Front in England during World War II
Poster advertising the 1939 Milan Fair, held from 12 to 27 April
Armstrong SiddeleyTwo ladies (one seated on the running board) next to a 1.7 Litre Armstrong Siddeley
King and Queen meeting widows of the Ajax and ExeterKing George VI together with Queen Elizabeth meeting widows and children of members of the crew of the Ajax and the Exeter
King George VI in 1939King George VI (1895 - 1952), picture in a Field Marshals service uniform in October 1939, shortly after the outbreak of war
Queen Elizabeth making a wartime radio broadcastQueen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002), pictured making a radio broadcast speech to the women of the Empire in November 1939
The Royal Family at Darmouth Naval CollegeProbably the first occasion upon which Queen Elizabeth II and her future husband, Prince Philip of Greece were photographed together, at Dartmouth Naval College on 22 July 1939
Recreation Hall, Horton War Hospital, Epsom, SurreyInterior of the recreation hall at the Horton War Hospital, Epsom, Surrey, opened in 1899 as Horton Asylum - Londons seventh county asylum
Horton Mental Hospital, Epsom, SurreyAerial view of the Horton Mental Hospital at Epsom, Surrey. The hospital opened in 1899 as Horton Asylum, Londons seventh county asylum
Administration Building, Horton War Hospital, EpsomThe administration block of the Horton War Hospital, Epsom, opened in 1899 as Horton Asylum - Londons seventh county asylum
Church interior, Horton War Hospital, Epsom, SurreyInterior of the church at the Horton War Hospital, Epsom, Surrey, opened in 1899 as Horton Asylum - Londons seventh county asylum
Sir Henri Deterding(1866-1939)Sir Henri Deterding(1866-February 4th 1939), oil magante and formerly managing director of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company
Scotland - Abbey Church - St Mary, Iona. Existing building founded in c.1203 by Benedictines near the site of St Columbas Church c.563
General Bulfin / StampLieutenant General SIR EDWARD STANISLAUS BULFIN (1862 - 1939) British general during World War I, most noted for his actions during the First Battle of Ypres
Mayor of Brussels / StampADOLPHE EUGENE JEAN HENRI MAX (1869 - 1939) Belgian liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death
Emerald Beach Club, BahamasAt the New Emerald Beach Club, Nassau, Bahamas. The people in this picture were said to be looking for the second coming of Columbus
Queen Farisa of EgyptSafinaz Zulficar (1921-1988) - Queen Farisa of Egypt. The first wife of King Farouk I, the pashas daughter was renamed Farida upon her marriage"
Farouk I of Egypt (1920 - 1965) - the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936
