Benefit Collection

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

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

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

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. Image shows a red lamp, blasting light into a living room

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. Showing how the use of atomic explosives could be used on ambitious engineering works

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

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

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. After the almost disastrous first flight of the monoplane Texas wildcat

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

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

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

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. The Old Age Pension Act, introduced by David Lloyd George

Reading, Royal County of Berkshire - Queen Victoria Street viewed from Broad Street. On the right is a store of the Public Benefit Boots Company

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. The head waiter says: Our benefit comes off next week, Sir

Cartoon, Sir Michael Costa and Sir Julius Benedict
Cartoon -- Benefit Knights. They are (left) Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa (1808-1884), an Italian-born conductor and composer, and (right) Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885)

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. Joseph Miller (1684-1738) was an English actor who first played Sir Joseph Whittol in William Congreves

The Guest Who Fished An Alexandra On The Test by H M Bateman. For the benefit of those who are not fishermen, an Alexandra is a fly considered so alluring to trout, and consequently so deadly in use

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

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