1946 Collection (#18)

Future Road
The road of tomorrow may be a kind of track, along which huge bubbles will run, containing accomodation - a kind of super-caravan

Colonel Francois de la Rocque, France, 1936
Photograph showing Colonel Francois de la Rocque (1885-1946), the leader of the French Nationalist group Croix de Feu, pictured in 1936

Dr. Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946)
Photograph of Dr. Joseph Herman Hertz, the British Zionist leader and writer, taken in 1913, when he had just become the new Chief Rabbi of the British Empire

Nicolai Polajenko-Dancer
Nicolai Polajenko - principal male ballet dancer

HMS Argus, 1918
Photograph of the aircraft carrier HMS Argus, which saw service in both World Wars, at a Royal review of the fleet 1918. HMS Argus was launched in 1918 and scrapped in 1946

Cricketer, Marchant
Francis (Frank) Marchant Cricketer - Kent

Cricketer, Lacey
F.E. Lacey Cricketer - Hampshire

Cricketer, Whiteside
J.P. Whiteside Cricketer - Lancashire and Leicestershire

Granville Bantock
SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK Musical composer, depicted at work in 1923

A Calculating machine
The control panel of the automatic sequence-controlled calculating machine at Manchester University; showing the monitor cathode-ray tube with Dr. T. Kilburn (left) and Professor F. C

Af Winnington-Ingram
Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram Bishop of London

Kalinin / Red Army / 1920
MIKHAIL IVANOVICH KALININ Russian politician presenting a banner to a Red Army regiment in 1920

Female Type / Net Hat 1946
Outlandish net hat decorated with flowers and straw worn by a very brave young woman!

Female Type / Blonde 1946
Attractive blonde models her knitted fairisle cap and gloves

Ufos / Scandinavian Rocket
Through 1946 numerous ghost rockets were reported flying over Norway and Sweden, and even crashing. This is one of the few photographs

Baby Boomers
Five young mothers comparing babies in their prams during the post World War Two Baby Boom, which lasted from approximately 1946-1964

Harley Granville-Barker, actor, writer, director, producer
Harley Granville-Barker, English actor, director, producer, critic and playwright

Vittorio Emanuele III
VITTORIO EMANUELE III King of Italy and Albania; Emperor of Ethiopia

Williams Hart / Lilywhite
WILLIAMs HART American silent film actor

Connie Gilchrist / Bowler
CONNIE GILCHRIST English actress in her riding clothes - she left the stage in the late 1880s to become Countess of Orkney

Connie Gilchrist / Girl
CONNIE GILCHRIST English actress as a young girl - she left the stage in the late 1880s to become Countess of Orkney

Maud Jeffries / Herod
MAUD JEFFRIES Actress in Herod

Queueing for Cinema 40S
A working-class crowd line up to see Gilda, a racy thriller starring Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth

Ernest Thompson Seton
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON English-born naturalist and writer in America whose life was not quite as adventurous as he claimed

Manuel De Falla -
MANUEL DE FALLA Spanish musician

Victory Day Fireworks
Scene on the Thames (Westminster) during the flood-lighting and firework display on Victory Night

Connie Gilchrist / Fancy
CONNIE GILCHRIST English actress as a young girl, posing in costume: she left the stage in the late 1880s to become Countess of Orkney

Butlins Skegness Camp
Billy Butlin revolutionises the holiday camp business with camps, like this at Skegness, which offer all kinds of on- the-spot family activities and entertainment facilities

Nikolai Burdenko
NIKOLAI BURDENKO Russian neurosurgeon, active in many fields of medicine, notably war trauma and shock

Moscow Boys School
Beginning of the term at School no 170, Sverdlov district, Moscow. The teacher looks at the work of one of her boy pupils

Alexander Karpinsky
ALEXANDER KARPINSKY Russian geologist whose work contributed greatly to the development of Soviet industry

Christopher Nevinson
CHRISTOPHER RICHARD WYNNE NEVINSON artist, war artist during World War One : son of the writer H W Nevinson

General Henri Gouraud
Henri Joseph Eugene Gouraud, French general and commander of the French Fourth Army at the end of World War One

Edward P Oppenheim
Edward Phillips Oppenheim English Writer

Graf Keyserling
GRAF HERMANN ALEXANDER KEYSERLING German spiritual teacher and social philosopher

Af Winnington-Ingram / Vf
Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram Bishop of London

Gerhart Hauptmann / Photo
GERHART HAUPTMANN German writer Contrived photograph of him holding his own book

FALLA ( 1876 - 1946 )
MANUEL DE FALLA - Spanish musician

Hg Wells / Cig Card
HERBERT GEORGE WELLS writer, historian

John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor, who invented the television

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