1945 Collection (page 29)

Mascagni / Pietro / Postcard
PIETRO MASCAGNI Italian composer in later life

Mascagni / Pietro / Eichhorn
PIETRO MASCAGNI Italian composer

Maurice Baring - Writer
MAURICE BARING British journalist and author. Wrote novels Cats Cradle and Daphne Adeane

VICTOIRE The Allies celebrate in France, with Saint Joan as their guardian angel leading them into victory

Lloyd George & Workers
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE accompanied by Flora Drummond and Phyllis Ayrton, greets women munitions workers towards the end of World War One

Woman Reads Crystal Ball
A woman concentrates on her crystal ball which she is reading for a younger woman who is wearing a black hat with a veil

Barbara Ayrton Gould
BARBARA AYRTON GOULD Suffragette. WSPU organiser & founder of the United Suffragists. MP for North Hendon 1945 - 50. Shown here dressed as a mill girl

Fd Roosevelt / Closeup
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT 32nd President of the USA

Duff / Maud / Postcard
MAUD DUFF Younger daughter of Princess Louise Victoria and Alexander, Duke of Fife - she later married Lord Carnegie

Duff / Alexandra / 1904
ALEXANDRA DUFF daughter of Princess Louise Victoria and the Duke of Fife, with her sister Maud (1893- 1945) and their grandfather, King Edward VII

Friedrich Franz Iv / Wife
FRIEDRICH FRANZ IV Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- Schwerin, and his wife ALEXANDRA

Americans Land / Japan
Americans triumphant, land on Japanese soil near Tokyo

Eleanor Smith / Cig Card
LADY ELEANOR SMITH nee FURNEAUX Writer of supernatural fiction

Lady Shops, Man Carries
An elegant lady holds a bouquet and walks the dog whilst her man crumples under the weight of her shopping

Barrage Balloon for Xmas
Who says that the war spoiled the British Christmas? Here, an innovative table decoration features a barrage balloon with presents attached as sand-bags

Wwii / Ats / Refreshment
A group of women of the A.T.S. along with members of the army, queue at a refreshment van and enjoy a cup of tea during a break from work

Wwii / Ats in Tea Queue
Members of the A.T.S. in overalls queue up for refreshments during a work break

Wwii / Aircraft Assembly
Three women assemble aircraft gun turrets

Wedding Cake
A two tier wedding cake decorated with hearts and roses. A couple waltz on the top tier beneath a floral arch and wedding bells

Airship over New York
A large passenger-carrying airship pictured over New York

Crowd / New York Peace
New Yorkers celebrate in the streets when the war with Japan ends

Japan Surrenders 1945
Japan surrenders : on board the American battleship Missouri the delegates sign the act of capitulation. Lieut.gen. Derevyanko signs on behalf of the USSR

Alexei Tolstoy, Photo
ALEXEI TOLSTOY Russian author, a distant relative of Leo T. After 1917, a White Russian emigre in Paris, returned to USSR and became an honoured writer

RATION BOOK 1953 - 1954
A Ministry of Food Ration Book, proving that rationing lasted in Britain for several years after World War Two ended in 1945

Margot Asquith / The King
MARGOT ASQUITH Emma Alice Margaret, nee Tennant, second wife of H H Asquith, married 1894

Foo Fighters, Europe
This photo is said to show a foo-fighter observed by a German pilot in May 1945, near Karnten, Germany : there are grounds for suspecting a fake, however

Foo Fighters, Pacific
This photo is said to show two foo-fighters accompanying a flight of Japanese Takikawa- Kawasaki 98 fighters over the Suzuka Mountains, Central Japan

Mascagni Portrait
PIETRO MASCAGNI Italian composer

Vice-Admiral Roger Keyes
Admiral Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes. British admiral, commander of the Dover Patrol in World War One

Fd Roosevelt / Anon Eng
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT 32nd President of the USA

Lloyd George / Postcard
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE British politician

Lloyd George / The World
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE British politician

Lord Desborough
William Henry Grenfell, Lord Desborough Sportsman

Francis William Aston Physicist

Sport / Rugby / Team Photo
Team photograph - Royal Technical College 1st XV

FISCHER ( 1881 - 1945 )
HANS FISCHER - German chemist

Gerald William Balfour
GERALD WILLIAM BALFOUR Statesman and psychical researcher

Buses in Trafalgar Square, London
A view of Trafalgar Square, London, from the roof of South Africa House. The road is full of buses, and the National Gallery can be seen on the right

Maurice Donnay / P Contemp
Maurice Donnay French writer

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