Benefit Collection

Locomotive Pacific, Southern Miniature Railway, Woking, En
Locomotive Pacific, Southern Miniature Railway, Woking, Surrey, England. Run for the Benefit of the Southern Railway Servants Orphanage. Date: 1920s

Lincoln Assass. / Playbill
The playbill found in President Abraham Lincolns box after his assassination by John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theatre

Woodmen of the World Building, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Woodmen of the World Building, Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. It housed a fraternal benefit society operating as an insurance company. Date: circa 1912

Thomas Hilder
THOMAS HILDER Puritan churchman, minister of Sandwich, Kent; he wrote a book on marriage for the benefit of his children Samuel, Mehetabel and Anne. Date: 1598 - 1651

Fairy Soap Advert
A lady takes a bath, using Fairy Soap which, whatever its merits as soap, has the extra benefit that it floats... Date: 1925

Ostend Bathing Machines
The bathing machines pulled out into the water for the benefit of the bathers who nearly all wear striped costumes

Lloyd Georges Maternity Insurance Benefit
In the early twentieth century a free National Health Service did not yet exist and the poor could not usually afford medical services

Set-to at Fives-Court for benefit of One of the Fancy
A Set-to at the Fives-Court for the benefit of One of the Fancy Date: 1823

Two butter tokens in a Butter Token Book, part of a social security benefit scheme, for half a pound of butter at a reduced price. (2 of 2) Date: 1975

Booklet cover, Butter Token Book, part of a social security benefit scheme, for half a pound of butter at a reduced price. (1 of 2) Date: 1975

Curtiss-Cox Model 22 racer
One of the two Curtiss-Cox Model 22 racers, assembled as a monoplane before being crated for shipment to France. In the spring of 1920, Texas oil millionaire S. E. J

Postcard - Benefit of Le Paquet de L'Orphelin - WW1
Postcard sold for the benefit of Le Paquet de L'Orphelin ('The Orphan's Package') - charitable Christmas gifts/presents for the war orphans of France. Date: circa 1918

RMS Titanic, collection of memorabilia, 2012 centenary
RMS TITANIC: Royal Mint Titanic Centenary 2012 Titanic Commemorating a Maritime Legend Cover and Silver Coin. A5 size Royal Mint postal cover and commemorative coin produced in 2012

Tsarevich of Russia sells daisies to aid TB patients
In Livadia, Crimea, young Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904-1918) sells daisies for the benefit of tuberculosis patients. Date: circa 1912

Poster, National Lottery, France, WW2
Poster, National Lottery, France - 10 November draw - support for hospitals during the Second World War Date: 1941

Joseph Grimaldi, actor and clown, at Farewell Benefit
Joseph Grimaldi, actor and clown, performing a final song at his Farewell Benefit at Drury Lane Theatre, London, sitting on a chair as he was too weak to stand Date: 1828

Poster - Protect the Environment to the benefit of All
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Protect the Environment to the benefit of All Date: circa mid-1970s

RMS Olympic - cast iron deck bench
RMS Olympic - rare original cast iron deck bench of the style seen on both Olympic and Titanic. The bench is in original condition with period skits and will benefit from restoration

Sybil Thorndike and Students
The actress Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976) with a group of students from Guy's Hospital in London. She had recently given a benefit performance for the hospital. Date: 1925

Australian General Electric Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Australian General Electric Co, with bases in Sydney and Melbourne

Advert for Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, Euston Rd, London
Multi-imaged ships and houses postcard carrying details of cover for funerals and sickness. It claims that it is the Largest Friendly Society in Existence'. The Secretary is given as Chas. W

12th Dynasty 1795 BC 1985 Ameny Ancient Age Ancient
12th, Dynasty, 1795, BC, 1985, Ameny, ancient, age, Ancient, Egypt, Art, benefit, British, Museum, carved, dead, deceased, egyptian, England, Eye, of, Horus, eyes, father, formula, funeral, funerary

Spanish Civil War. Advertising poster Loteria sevillana (Lottery in Seville). Local commitee for combatant's benefit.Printed in Jerez, around 1937. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

Harnessing the atom by G. H. Davis
The force which can move mountains: harnessing the atom to vast projects for the benefit of mankind

Robin Cook and Margaret Beckett, Labour politicians
Robin Cook (Robert Finlayson Cook, 1946-2005) and Margaret Beckett (Margaret Mary Beckett, nee Jackson, b 1943), both of them British Labour politicians and MPs

British Navy to sell the effects of the who has died at sea
When a sailor dies at sea: A sympathetic auction of his effects, for the benefit of his widow. 1914

Comic postcard, Man pushing pram - maternity benefit Date: 20th century

Edmund Blunden Information Board, Vlamertinghe, Belgium
The board is outside the Chateau. Blunden was in the 11th Royal Sussex, camped just outside Vlamertinghe in the preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres

Advert, Gala for Benefit of Mr Simpson
Advert, Gala for the Benefit of Mr Simpson, Master of The Ceremonies of the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, London, taking place on Monday 19 August 1833. 1833

Cartoon - Going down to a watering place, for the benefit of Bathing. early 19th century

Curtiss-Cox Model 22 - Cactus Kitten
Curtiss-Cox Model 22 Cactus Kitten still crated at the Morane-Saulnier factory in France, being readied for shipment back to the US. In the spring of 1920, Texas oil millionaire S. E. J

Curtiss-Cox Model 22 - Texas Wildcat
Curtiss-Cox Model 22 Texas Wildcat at the Morane-Saulnier factory in France

DEAF / DUMB LANGUAGE
The sign language for the hands, devised by the Abbe lEpee for the benefit of the deaf and dumb. Date: circa 1770

BORELLOS SWIM DEVICE
Borellos device gives the swimmer the benefit of an airbag and webbed feet. Date: 1683

Cartoon, The New Years Gift (old age pensions)
Cartoon, The New Years Gift - 1909 brings in the Old Age Pension. Date: 1909

National Health Insurance Stamp - Take a bit of licking
This Stamp will take a bit of licking - the introduction of the National Health Insurance stamp under the 1911 National Insurance Act

Cartoon, Women also profiteer, WW1
Cartoon, Women also profiteer. Showing how women are also profiting from the war, either by socialising with servicemen or selling them expensive flowers, food and drink. Date: 1916

Postcard illustrating the merits of Free Trade - Larger Loaf
Postcard from 1906 issued as part of the campaign to elect the Liberal politician Sir Robert Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (18361928) to office

A gentleman drawing the first pension
A typical scene on January 1st 1909 showing a man drawing his first pension at the post office

Ashtabula, Ohio, USA - Elks Home. The Benefit and Protective Order of Elks - BPOE - is an American fraternal order founded by Joseph M

Cortlandt Street, New York - showing Singer Building - USA
Elks War Memorial, Chicago, USA. The Benefit and Protective Order of Elks - National Convention held at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The BPOE is an American fraternal order founded by Joseph M

Reading, Royal County of Berkshire - Queen Victoria Street viewed from Broad Street

Cartoon, C W Thompson -- This is the gentleman who has done so much for actors benefits. 1883

Cartoon, Edward, Prince of Wales outside a music hall
Cartoon, Our Genial Prince -- what it may come to! Edward, Prince of Wales outside a music hall

Cartoon, Sir Michael Costa and Sir Julius Benedict
Cartoon -- Benefit Knights

Benefit and Protective Order of Elks - Atlantic City, N. J
Benefit and Protective Order of Elks - National Convention held at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The BPOE is an American fraternal order founded by Joseph M

Old Batchelor benefit performance for Joe Miller
The Old Batchelor, benefit performance for Joe Miller at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London

The Guest Who Fished An Alexandra On The Test by H M Bateman

Australia - Bourke Street (Central) looking West, Melbourne - The Melba Theatre Date: 1910s

Adjustable Invalid Bed
A bed that can be adjusted to any angle for the benefit of invalids Date: 1930s

Gay Beggars Benefit
Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Lucy and Polly in Macheaths prison cell: a Covent Garden performance for the benefit of Mr Walker

Cartoon, In trouble, WW1
Cartoon, In trouble, showing a draper with a pile of cloth

Cartoon, Its very simple, WW1
Cartoon, Its very simple. A coal merchant tells a poor family that if they think his coal is too expensive, then they should do what he does, and burn wood instead. Date: 1916

The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement for Electric Cookers
The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement promoting the benefits of an Electric Cooker. Date: 1920s

Messerschmitt Bf 110C -used extensively in North Africa, where its greater range was a benefit

Folland Gnats RAF Red Arrows formation Edinburgh 1971
RAFAT RAF Red Arrows Folland Gnats in Leaders Benefit formation at Edinburgh in 1971 Date: 1971

Procession - Parade, Ely, Cambridgeshire
Procession/Parade, Ely, near Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England. Showing Parade of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society Date: 1910s

WWI Poster, Soldiers Separation Allowances
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Soldiers Separation Allowances, details of increased rates. Date: 1915

Duralium from either the Zeppelin L32 or L33
A piece of the Duralium from either the Zeppelin L32 or L33 brought down by air defences at Billericay on September 23rd-24th 1916

Poster, Britain Today, showing the benefits and freedoms available

Lady Hope, Philanthropy
LADY HOPE Philanthropist who believed, not unreasonably, that coffee rooms would benefit the indigent poor especially those addicted to gin. Date: CIRCA 1880

WW2 - Propaganda - parachuting safely back to his girl
WW2 - Propaganda - the benefits of being a member of the Italian Airforce! Relief on the girls face as her man parachutes safely from his stricken plane to join her back on the ground

To mary for love or for money?
A pretty young girl is undecided whether to marry for love or for money... (see 10803887) Date: 1895

Maternity Grant Poster
Maternity grant poster, 1973 Date: 1973

Party & barter - benefit Nassau art teachers scholarship fund Coca Cola Plant, Rockville Centre

Southside Parent Teachers Assn. presents Southside Varsity Band concert, high school auditorium, Rockville Centre Benefit students loan fund

Miss Greenfields concert at Stafford House
Grand concert given for the benefit of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the negro vocalist known as " the black swan"

Concert at Lyon, 1866
A band performs on stage at a benefit concert at Lyon. Date: 1866

Keep Fit / Side Stretch
A side stretch, performed in the open air for added health benefit. Date: 1930s

Rosie Dolly - Marion Davies benefit soiree
Left to right Rene Torres, Irving Netcher, Mrs Skeets Gallagher, Eddie Sutherland, unknown male and Rosie Dolly at Marion Davies benefit soiree, New York, June 1934 1934

BRT Band
Locker Room. Railroad Mens Building. - Members of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Employees Benefit Association Band in the locker room of the mens building

BRTEBA office
Secretarys Office B.R.T.E.B.A. Interior of the secretarys office of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Employees Benefit Association; two men are sated at desks, calendar for February 19

Election Results at the Carlton Club, London, 1892
Engraving showing the hall of the Carlton Club, with a large group of members watching the notice boards for news of the General Election of 1892

Riders in Yellowstone Park, 1888
Engraving showing a pair of cowboys on horseback, riding through a burnt forest, Yellowstone Park, USA, 1888

Golden Gate Road and Imperial Rock, Yellowstone Park, 1888
Engraving showing the mountainous landscape of Golden Gate Road and Imperial Rock, Yellowstone Park, USA, 1888

Mammoth Hot Springs, Gardiner River, Yellowstone, 1874
Engraving of the spectacular landscape of volcanic rocks and springs at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, with some tiny tourists in the foreground to emphasize the scale, 1874

Mammoth Hot Springs, Gardiners River, Yellowstone, 1874
Engraving, made from a photograph taken by Mr Serjeant Sleigh, of the Mammoth Hot Springs, Gardiners River, Yellowstone, 1874

Collecting the first pension cheque at the post office
Collecting the first weekly pension instalment at the post office. The Old Age Pension Act was introduced by David Lloyd George in 1908 with the first pensions available on the 1st of January 1909

Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone Park, 1888
Engraving showing a group of characters standing in the hall of the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone Park, USA, 1888. The visage of the visitors hints a number of different nationalities

Fire-Hole Basin, Yellowstone Park, 1888
Engraving showing the log cabins of Henderson and Klamers Hotel, Fire-Hole Basin, Yellowstone Park, USA, 1888

Hells Half Acre, Yellowstone Park, 1888
Engraving showing Hells Half Acre viewed from the North, Yellowstone Park, USA, 1888. A large amount of steam can be seen issuing from the hot springs that characterise this part of Yellowstone Park

Upper Fire-Hole, Yellowstone National Park, 1874
Engraving showing the Upper Fire-Hole, viewed from the direction of the Old Faithful geyser, Yellowstone National Park, 1874

Gibbon Canyon, Yellowstone Park, 1888
Engraving showing a wagon fording the river in Gibbon Canyon, Yellowstone Park, USA, 1888

A City on Saturn
The spider-like inhabitants of Saturn build their cities in volcanic craters, not only for protection but to benefit from the warm temperatures

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