April Collection (page 5)

Titanic / Southampton 1912
A bad omen: as the Titanic leaves Southampton, the steamer New York accidentally breaks its moorings. Captain Smith stops Titanics engines and a collision is avoided

Events / Culloden / 1746
Charles Edward Stuart in action on the battlefield

First Car in Paris
The first automobile in the streets of Paris is Leon Serpollets Voiture Miracle, authorised by the police to drive in public

Fashion design by Eva Lutyens. 1936

April Love by Arthur Hughes, Pre-Raphaelite artist. 19th century

Drawing by Harold Auerbach, Olten, Switzerland
Pen and ink drawing by Harold Auerbach, Olten, Solothurn, Switzerland, April 1910. Date: 1910

Leaflet, London Sketch Club Smoker, April 1934
Leaflet advertising a London Sketch Club Smoker (smoking party), taking place on Friday 13 April 1934 at a venue in Marylebone Road, London NW1, with pictures from 6.30

De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide, 1st flight 17 April 3
De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide first flown 17 April 1934. Of wooden construction carried 8 passsengers, cruising at 132mph. 734 built, more than half as wartime trainers

Arsenal & Newcastle. Bateup ready to save for the Arsenal
Slide showing a photograph from a football match with the words: Arsenal & Newcastle. Bateup ready to save for the Arsenal. Edwin (Teddy) Bateup (16 May 1881 29 April 1939). Part of Box 366

Firefighting at Eccleston Place, Victoria, London SW1
Firefighting at the Scripture Gift Mission, Naval & Military Bible Society, Eccleston Place, Victoria, London, on 23 April 1956, where there had also been an explosion

LFB fire appliance on the road, London
An LFB fire appliance on the road, London, 16 April 1955. Date: 1955

Illustration from Paris Plaisirs number 46, April 1926
Illustration Heures de Paris from Paris Plaisirs number 46, April 1926 Date: 1926

Launch of Shamrock V
The Shamrock V yacht, commissioned by Sir Thomas Lipton to contest the Americas Cup, is launched at Gosport, Hampshire following the naming ceremony by Lady Shaftesbury Date: 14 April 1930

Mine! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a blue dress picks some flowers through a fence. Date: 1936

Cover design, International Exhibition, Brussels
Cover design, Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles (Universal and International Exhibition, Brussels), with international airship competitions

Gal toliet soap
Full page colour advertisement for Gal toilet soap from 1929

Derby County vs. Bury F. A. Cup Final, 1903
Illustration of a Derby County defender heading the ball clear, as Bury attack during the F.A. Cup Final, 18th April 1903

The world of tomorrow- some dreams of invention run riot; th
Illustration of an aerial mono rail (note date, 1st April 1905) as a vision of the future for railways. The caption states The scientific prophet looks forward to electric traction on this system

Front cover from The Bystander 1936
A colourful cover of an aeroplane flying over the coast. As aviation increased during the 1930s, the Bystander published a Flying Number each year

Sappers & Miners / Hill 60
Sappers and miners of the Royal Engineers drive a tunnel under Hill 60 at Ypres, obliterated by a mine fired by the British in April 1915

Chartist Procession
The Chartist demonstration : the procession at Blackfriars Bridge, London

Be Careful Baby, by Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo. First produced in England at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, March 1918, then the Apollo Theatre, London, April 1918

Liverpool - Birkenhead Park - The Lake - Lake with Buildings opposite surrounded by Trees. Part of Box 62 Boswell Collection - Liverpool

Edwardian couple at Lion Rock, Dovedale, Derbyshire
Finely dressed, on the left is Kate Nash and beside her is Edgar Battersby, brother of the photographer. Edgar volunteered as a Private for service in the Great War

Woman patient, St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London
LFB Special Services trying to help a woman patient at St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London, on 15 April 1959. She has climbed out of a ward window at fifth floor level

Roy Chadwick with the first, short-lived Avro 534 Baby prototype, April 1919

A Climbing Turn on the Bat Bantam. Original fine pencil drawing (27cm x 36cm) reproduced in Flight 7 April 1921. Roderic Hill drawing. Date: 1921

The Sopwith Tabloid seaplane at Monaco, 20 April 1914, when it won the Schneider Trophy contest flown by Howard Pixton. Date: 1914

Constantinople Fall - 3
The cannon of sultan Orban Date: April 1453

Anglo-Russian Festival
A Russian sailor watching part of the huge crowd waiting to get on board the Soviet ships during the Portsmouth Festival of Friendship. Date: April 1956

Columbia Space Shuttle
The Columbia Space Shuttle (Orbiter Vehicle Designation OV 102). On its first flight in April 1981, it orbited the earth 36 times. Its last flight was in 2003. Date: photo 1983

Russians Visit Oxford
Crowd control police on motorbikes during a visit of Soviet leaders to Oxford, England. Date: April 1956

Russian Bear Seeks Peace
CARTOON The Russian Bear in search of peace (during the provisional government after the April revolution) Date: April 1917

Britannia and Eve, April 1940
Front cover illustration featuring an attractive lady at the wheel of a car, although where the rest of the car is is anyones guess

Panorama of Richmond, Virginia after capture by Federals
Panorama of the city of Richmond, Virginia (the top engraving joins with the lower one, end to end) in April 1865 when it was entered by Federal troops after the Confederacy had evacuated the city

Poster advertising a collection for nurses
German poster advertising a collection for nurses, to thank them for their work during the First World War

Railway signal at night
Colour-light signalling, a modern innovation in the early 1960s, on an electrified railway line. Electrification of busy routes demanded a system of train control that was rapid

Daily Mirror poster, Titanic disaster hymn
The Daily Mirror news vendor poster for 20 April 1912, depicting the hymn which was played while the ship sank: Nearer My God To Thee

Iceberg that sank the Titanic
The iceberg that sank RMS Titanic. This photograph was taken by Captain Wood of the SS Etonian on 12 April -- the Titanic struck the iceberg two days later

RMS Carpathia officers
Officers of the RMS Carpathia, with signatures. This was the ship that rescued survivors of the Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912

The Fort at Chitral
The Chitral Expedition: the fort at Chitral as seen from the river

Chitral Combat 1895
The Chitral expedition - from a sketch by. Mr. A.D Greenhill Gardyne. Officers and men struggle against the enemy 100 yards from the point of the cliff at Chitral

Trafalgar Square Fountain, London, 1845
Engraving showing one of the fountains of Trafalgar Square, London, with (top left and right) a sectional view of the wells under the square, which were dug to supply the fountains

Scenes in Edmonton, London, 1883
Engraving showing a number of scenes in Edmonton, North London, 1883. The images show (clockwise from top left): Lambs Cottage; The Rose and Crown; Edmonton Church; Grave of Charles Lamb; Church Road

Wunstorf Airfield, near Hanover, 1948
Photograph showing Wunstorf Airfield, near Hanover, in the British controlled zone of Germany, with a large number of Dakota and York airplanes lined up for use during the Berlin Airlift, 1948

Rome Centenary
Patriotic Romans celebrate the 26th centenary of the founding of their city by Romulus and Remus

Gloria Swanson as Sunya
Close-up of Gloria Swanson (1897-1983), screen actress, in the United Artists film, The Love of Sunya

Sf Earthquake Photograph
The heart of the factory district, devastated by the earthquake and the flames

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