Allan Collection

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, W. R. E. N. Salute
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a British Royal Navy admiral taking a salute from a servicewomen of the Women's Royal Naval Service

Edgar Allan Poe (Cole)
EDGAR ALLAN POE American writer

Edinburgh Hibernian FC football team c 1922-1923
Edinburgh Hiberian FC football team c 1922-1923. Back row: Allan, Shaw, Harper, Strang, Miller, Dorman. Middle row: Ritchie, Paterson, Bryce, Templeton, Young, Duncan, McGinnigle. Rhodes

Henderson Street West, Bridge of Allan, Scotland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Allan Line to Canada poster
Poster advertising the Royal Mail Allan Line passenger service to and from Canada. Passage can be booked through Sercombe and Hayes, emigration and passenger agents based in Dorchester

Allan Line to Canada poster
Poster advertising the weekly express service to and from Canada with the Allan Line Company. The ships also appear to deliver Royal Mail aswell

Virginia Poe
VIRGINIA POE wife of Edgar Allan Poe, died of tuberculosis at age 23, thus hastening her husbands insanity

POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). American writer. Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Tales). Spanish edition

Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand. Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. Date 1862 October 3

The Field of Prestonpans. Coloured lithograph by Mouilleron after Sir William Allan, printed by Lemercier, published by E Gambert and Company, 25 Berners Street, London, 1 Sep 1852

The Deck of the SS Gallia, 1879
Engraving showing the deck, funnel and masts of the Cunard Companys Steamship Gallia at sea, 1879. Launched earlier that year

Cartoon, Signor Foli, Irish bass opera singer
Cartoon, Signor Foli (Allan James Foley, 1837-1899), Irish bass opera singer -- He has studied Bradshaw (probably a reference to his travels and tours). 1884

Allan Robertson and Tom Morris playing golf. 1889

The Bridge - Bridge of Allan, Scotland
The Bridge - Bridge of Allan - a town in the Stirling council area in Scotland, just north of the city of Stirling. The town lies on the Allan Water, a northern tributary of the River Forth

The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
Promotional postcard for The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde. First produced at the St. Jamess Theatre, on 14th February 1895. For the St. James revival, 25th November 1909

London Life front cover 1966 - This Swinging City
Front cover of London Life magazine, the short-lived but impossibly hip magazine that encapsulated swinging sixties London. Cover heralds a feature inside on the swinging capital by Allan Sherman

ALLAN KARDEC
Allan Kardec - real name Hyppolyte Leon Denizard Rivail French medium and occult theorist, father of modern spiritism

Street scene in Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland
A street scene in the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland, showing people outside the shop of Allan Ramsay (not to be confused with his house, which is on Castle Hill)

Maud Allan Salome
Maud Allan dancing during a performance at the Varietes, Paris

Play / Wilde / Salome
The dancers reward: the head on a platter. Maud Allan holds the head of Johannen. Date: 1907

Maud Allan entertains French Sailors at the Palace Theatre
The dancer Maud Allan entertaining French bluejackets at the Palace Theatre during the visit of President Fallieres to London in May 1908. 1908

Edgar Allan Poe / Eleonora
ELEONORA Eleonora & her cousin in the Valley of the Many Coloured Grass. Date: First published: 1850

Allan Line Timetable
Schedule of Atlantic crossings by the Allan Line

Maud Allan, The Vision of Salome, Palace Theatre, London
Maud Allan in The Vision of Salome, Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. 1908

WW1 - Scottish American War Memorial, Princes Street Gardens
WW1 - Scottish American War Memorial, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. Erected by Scottish Americans in memory of Scottish soldiers who fell in the Great War

Bridge of Allan, Scotland - Victorian period

Bridge of Allan, Scotland

RMS Victorian, Allan Shipping Line

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, Miss Purl And Plain
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. Miss Purl and Plain don't look the same but they should both be crowned with fame, long hours they knit for the boys out there

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, W. V. S. Restaurant
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a a family walking into a Women's Voluntary Service run restaurant. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, Bus Conductress
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a cheery and comforting wartime bus conductress welcoming her passenger. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, Post Girl
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image portrays a happy postwoman delivering mail. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, Porteress
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a railway porteress waving to the happy troops in the carriage. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, Careless Talk
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. Hush Hush! Said the typist, I work on a secret Government task. Unseen and unheard these office girls show by keeping it dark

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, M. T. C
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a despatch rider of the Mechanised Transport Corps. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, Ambulance Girls
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows two happy wartime ambulance drivers. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, The Land Girl
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a smiling land girl trailing her plough horses. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, N. A. A. F. I
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a Naffy, a woman who works at a canteen aimed to provide food for armed forces servicemen. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, Munitions
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a smiling munitions girl handling a large shell in the factory. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, W. A. A. F
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a Women's Auxiliary Air Force servicewoman knelt beside a R.A.F. pilot. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, A. T. S. Exercise
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image depicts a group of Auxiliary Territorial Service girls following a physical exercise routine. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - The Girls Of Today
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's book, The Girls Of Today, written and illustrated by Allan Burrows. Date: circa 1940s

Three exhibition dancing teams in the public eye, December 1923: Santos Casani and Jose Leonard; Freda and Allan Selby (appearing at Dickens and Jones restaurant)

V - The Symbol of Victory - poem of Victory by Allan Junior
V - The Symbol of Victory and poem of Victory by Allan Junior. Date: 1945

Sir Henry Irving, actor, after a rehearsal of Ravenswood
Sir Henry Irving, actor manager, after a rehearsal of Ravenswood, a play by Herman Merivale, based on the story of the Bride of Lammermoor - he played the lead role of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood

John Seymour Lucas, artist, portrait by John Singer Sargent Date: 1905

John Seymour Lucas, artist, in suit of armour
John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923), artist, in one of his suits of armour Date: late 19th century

Julius Harrison
A portrait drawing of English composer and conductor, Julius Allan Greenway Harrison, 1885-1963. Known for his interpretation of operatic works, he also wrote books on music

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