Baird Collection

Alexandra Palace, the home of the B. B. C. The large transmitt
Alexandra Palace as the home of the B.B.C television service in 1936 showing the mast and transmitting aerials for vision and sound

John Logie Bairds experiment, showing how television transm
Sending pictures through the air. Bairds system of television transmits its wireless pictures. John Logie Baird transmitted a moving image by wireless, showing gradations of light and shade

Cocktails by Baird
A wonderful, stylised illustration showing a fashionable flapper girl not only drinking a cocktail but hallucinating about them also

Indoor filming
Televising a Spanish scene at the Crystal Palace, filmed on cine-film at the studios of the Baird Television Company. On the 2nd February 1935 the Baird system transmitted indoor

John Logie Baird - demonstrates the first Television. Date: 1925

Six portraits of dancers, October 1922: Anne Bult a pupil of Madame Vandyck; pupils of the Edith Baird School of dancing in a pirates dance; Mary Poulton a pupil of Mlle Anita; Doreen Adams a pupil

Music cover, Trilby Waltz, by Theo Bonheur, dedicated to Dorothea Baird Date: 1895

The Plough Team
A watercolour painting which shows the strength of a team of three workhorses pulling along a plough, with a farmer standing just behind as they crest the hill. Date: circa 1923

George Husband Baird, Principal, University of Edinburgh
George Husband Baird, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, Scottish Minister, educational reformer and linguist. Date: circa 1830s

This illustration shows a fashionable woman in front of a collection of chinese lanterns. Date: 1926

Bairds Ultra-Short Wave Radio Transmitter
Bairds Ultra-Short Wave 10KW Radio Transmitter at his Experimental Station used for sending out television to Greater London and the Home Counties Date: 1937

Home receiver for television, giving a black and white picture 12 inches by 9 inches, which is so bright that it can be clearly seen even when the room lights are

High definition television, preparing for a boxing match at Baird Experimental Studios, prior to televising by the Intermediate-Film System

High definition television, a Spanish scene enacted in one of the Baird Experimental Studios, televising by the Intermediate-Film System Date: 1937

Baird Electron Scanner System of Television, showing the Electron Scanner when used for the televising of talking films. This can be employed for a definition of 100-500 lines

Record Newmarket Sales - Flair sold for 15, 000 guineas
Thoroughbred racehorses for Newmarket recently bought and sold by various enthusiasts. Most came from the stable of the late Sir Daniel Cooper, with Flair, bought by Sir Frederick Stern. 1909

Miss Billie Lawford, daughter of Lady Gertrude Lawford, pictured in The Bystander at the time of her engagement to Kenneth Baird. Date: 1924

Trifles Light as Air by Baird
A toy and balloon seller in a fancy costume. Date: 1929

Street in Boulder City, Kalgoorlie, Australia. Date: circa 1930s

Leicester Fosse FC Team
Leicester Fosse Leicester City FC Team: Lee, Baird, Atherton, Thompson, Strachan, Lord, Walker, Bailey, Newton, Hogan, Manson, Thraves, Davies, Pickard, Gallocher, Henrys, McArthur, Trainer, Skea

John Logie Baird (1888 - 946), Scottish inventor, Invented the television. Date: 1926

H B Irving and Dorothea Baird as Charles I and his Queen
H B Irving and Dorothea Baird as Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, in Charles I, Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham. circa 1910s

Baird barracks, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Baird barracks, Cubbon Road, Bangalore (Bengaluru), Karnataka, India. circa 1910

Sir Robert Baird, KBE, DL 1855 - 1934 (1928). Macklin, Thomas Eyre 1867-1943. Date: 1928

John Logie Baird watching Stereoscopic Television, 1942
Photograph showing John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer, watching stereoscopic television at his home in Sydenham Hill, London, June 1942

John Logie Baird experimenting at home, 1942
Photograph showing John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer, conducting a television experiment at his home in Sydenham Hill, London, 1942

John Logie Baird, with ventriloquists dummy head
John Logie Bairds experiment with transatlantic television. He is pictured here with a ventriloquists dummy head whose image was transmitted from London to New York by wireless

British beer versus American cocktails, 1929
British beer versus American cocktails at Olivia Wyndhams hospitable bar. Miss Jean Baird and Miss Gwen Farrar support beer

Dorothea Baird as Queen Henrietta Maria in Charles I
Dorothea Baird pictured here as Charles Is Queen, Henrietta Maria. Dororthea was married to H. B. Irving who played the part of Charles 1st, and they toured together

Photograph of Dorothea Baird as Queen Henrietta in Charles I
Postcard of Dorothea Baird pictured here as Queen Henrietta Maria in Charles I. The photograph (one of a set of five) was taken by Foulsham and Banfield, London. 1907. Date: 1907

Dorothea Baird (1875 - 1933), English stage and film actress. She first appeared on stage in 1894 as Iris in Oxford University Dramatic Societys production of The Tempest

The Feather Boa by Baird
Stylised illustration of a glamorous 1920s woman in evening dress, encased in an oversized feather boa. Date: 1932

Spencer Fullerton Baird
SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD American naturalist and museum director associated with the Smithsonian Institution. Date: circa 1855

Spencer Fullerton Baird2
SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD American naturalist and museum director associated with the Smithsonian Institution. Date: 1885

Battle of Blaauwberg
BATTLE OF BLaUWBERG Dutch general Janssens is defeated by Bairds English force, who advance to take Cape Town Date: 5 January 1806

John Logie Baird (1888-1946) SCOTTISH INVENTOR With Noctovisor Date: circa. 1910s

Powdering Pierrot by Baird - 1920s
Stylised illustration showing a woman in a fancy dress style costume, surrounded by balloons, powdering the face of her Pierrot doll

Golfers at North Berwick. Clockwise from top left: Miss Norma Cree, The Hon. V. Erskine, Miss Gathorne-Hardy and the Hon. D

Aristocrats golfing at the North Berwick links course. Clockwise from top left: Lord Hollenden; Miss Saunderson and Mrs Wild; Mrs Burkinshaw and Lady Reid; Mrs Jamieson and her daughter

J L Baird / IMechE

Bairds Noctovisor
John Logie Baird demonstrates his Noctovisor. The military were very interested in developing this technology for their own purposes. Date: circa 1929

Trilby on the English stage
George Du Mauriers novel dramatised by Paul M. Potter in New York, was then transferred to the English stage. This production has Mr Beerbohm Tree as Svengali and Miss Dorothea Baird as Trilby

George Husband Baird
GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD Scottish churchman and scholar Date: 1761 - 1840

Television equipment
The television system developed by the (John Logie) Baird Television Co Ltd, which, along with the Marconi-E.M.I. Television Company system, was tested by the B.B.C

Colour illustration by Baird
A colour illustration showing a glamorous lady admiring her new dress

Goodbye 1926 by Baird
Colourful, celebratory illustration by Baird showing a woman enjoying New Years Eve

A Fan Fan-tasy. by Baird
An illustration of a model posed with a large decorative fan

Aston Villa Football Club, 1891
Photograph of the Aston Villa Football Club during the 1891-1892 season. The image shows: Back row, left to right: G. Campbell (left half-back), an unknown bearded man, W

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