American Collection (page 8)

American St Patricks Day Card Date: circa 1910

Exterior - Automat Dining Room, Times Square, New York, USA
The exterior of the Automat Dining Room - Times Square branch, New York, USA. Horn & Hardart was a food services company of the USA noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia

6a Avenida Y Parque Centenario, Guatemala City, Guatemala Date: circa 1950s

Pan American Airlines Flying Clipper, Lockheed Constellation
Pan American Airlines Flying Clipper - Lockheed Constellation. Date: circa 1947

Large Letter Card - Greetings from Louisville, Kentucky, USA Date: circa 1940

Large Letter Card - Greetings from Akron, Ohio, USA Date: circa 1940

Large Letter Card - Greetings from Sacramento, California Date: circa 1940

Hotel Buffalo, Buffalo, NY State, USA. To be found on the corner of Swan and Washington Streets. Renamed thus (from The Hotel Statler - built in 1907) in 1923, sadly in 1968 it was demolished

V for Victory. US World War Two propaganda postcard
V for Victory. World War Two propaganda postcard: United We Stand - featuring a backdrop of stripes from the American flag. The card also features the morse codes symbols for the letter v. Date: 1941

Air display at RAF Abingdon. Clockwise from bottom: de Havilland Sea Hornet, Hawker Sea Fury, de Havilland Rapide/Dominie, North American Harvard and Douglas Dakota

Falco sparverius, American kestrel
Plate 142 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

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

Remember the Alamo
Mexican army take the Alamo, San Antonio Date: March 1836

International baking powder. Manufactured by Queen City Chemical Co. Buffalo, N.Y. Advertisement for International brand baking powder, showing a cat awakened by bread rising. Date c1885

Ohio River in flood, Louisville, Kentucky. Date 1936 Mar

The Celebrated Yacht America

Great Pabst Brewery - Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The inset image is the brewery in 1844 - quite different from the main factory seen in 1909! Date: 1909

Drilling rigs - Churchyard - Kilgore, Texas, USA
" Oil be Damned!" Kilgore, Texas - drilling oilwells in a churchyard! Date: circa 1940

Poster against American capitalism, showing a man in a stranglehold, with a stars and stripes design on the aggressors sleeve. 1944

Chicago World Fair - Sky Ride
Chicago World Fair - The Sky Ride Date: 1933

The Dixieland Jazz Band, c. 1919 Date: c.1919

Chicago Board of Trade Building and Observatory, USA Date: circa 1940s

The Savings Bank of Utica, New York
Diebold Safe and Lock Co. The Savings Bank of Utica. Exterior of the Savings Bank of Utica building, Utica N.Y

Navin Park, Detroit
Navin Park Baseball Stadium, home of the Detroit Tigers in Detroit, Michigan, America. The Detroit American League Club Home was located on Trumbull and Michigan Avenue

Portuguese Dance - O-Vira
O-Vira - a traditional Potuguese dance (translates as The Turn ), also popular in former Portuguese territories in South America

Tuscon, Arizona - Indian Blanket Department
USA - Tuscon, Arizona - Indian blanket Department of R. Rasnessens Curio Store

Kennedy Family
The American Ambassador, Joseph P. Kennedy with his children at the International University Athletics match at White City Stadium between Oxford and Cambridge vs. Harvard and Yale

Florence Desmond (1905-1993) English actress with Liberace (1919-1987) American musician

Anna May Wong / Bystander
ANNA MAY WONG Chinese American actress, pictured on a suitably Orientally designed cover of The Bystander magazine, 1929

British Sentry keeping watch on Nijmegen Bridge; Second Worl
Photograph showing aan Irish Guardsman keeping watch on the Bridge at Nijmegen, September 1944. On 17th September 1944 Operation Market Garden was put into action; a bold plan devised by

The Greely Arctic Expedition at its farthest point North, 18
Engraving showing members of the American Meteorological Expedition of 1881-4 taking their position, with a sextant, at the farthest point North they reached. Led by Lt

American Indians. Sitting Bull addressing a meeting of brave
Sitting was an inspirational Sioux Chief, who together with Crazy Horse, defeated Custer and tried to prevent the American Indians being forced into reservations

American Indians. John Francis, chief of the Passamaquoddy I
Indian chief dressed in embroidered tunic and trousers from Lake Utopia, New Brunswick, Canada

Millay / Edna St Vincent
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY American poet

Mr Percy Holden Illingworth, MP, and Lord Murray
Mr Percy Holden Illingworth, the chief whip for the Liberal Party pictured with Lord Murray whose purchase of the American Marconi shares had been leaked, causing much scandal at the time

An army officer sits astride a Silent Grey Harley Davidson
A photograph of the latest 1916 model of motorcycle by American manufacturer Harley Davidson as tested by the military

Independence Declaration
The signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia

EZRA POUND American writer

Joan Crawford / Postcard
JOAN CRAWFORD American film actress looking haughty

ADELINA PATTI 1843-1919
ADELINA PATTI American operatic soprano born in Madrid of Italian parentage. Sang roles in operas of Bellini, Rossini and Gounod

Browning Machine Gun
BROWNING American inventor John Moses Browning with one of his machine guns

Thoreaus Pond
Walden Pond, where the American writer Thoreau spent two years studying nature and thinking deep thoughts. His cabin was built on land owned by Emerson near Concord

Veronica Lake / Paramount
VERONICA LAKE (Constance Ockleman) American film actress

Mina Crandon
American physical medium, whose authenticity was much questioned but never conclusively disproved

Ulyssess Grant / Johnson
ULYSSESs GRANT American Civil War General, and later President

Robert E Lee / Pyle / Spirit
ROBERT EDWARD LEE American Confederate general on his horse, Traveler

Clipper Antarctic
American clipper ship

Guns for American Boys
Guns for American boys

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