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Bertha Collection

Background imageBertha Collection: Inspector Alice B Clayden and her brothers, London

Inspector Alice B Clayden and her brothers, London
Woman police officer, Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden, with her three brothers (together with Sergeant Henry Pegler) in the yard of Crawford Place Police Station, London W1 -- the brothers are

Background imageBertha Collection: First World War. Big Bertha M42

First World War. Big Bertha M42
WORLD WAR (1914-1918). BIG BERTHA M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km. away in 1918. Its gauge was 210 mm. and was 34 m. long

Background imageBertha Collection: Woman police officer, Inspector Alice B Clayden, London

Woman police officer, Inspector Alice B Clayden, London
Woman police officer, Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden, London. She also had three brothers in the police force. In 1922, during the period of the so-called Geddes Axe when the government of the day

Background imageBertha Collection: Inspector Alice B Clayden outside Buckingham Palace

Inspector Alice B Clayden outside Buckingham Palace
Woman police officer, Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden, outside Buckingham Palace on 2 January 1928. Her brother Sergeant Alfred William Clayden (second from left)

Background imageBertha Collection: Inspector Alice B Clayden outside Buckingham Palace

Inspector Alice B Clayden outside Buckingham Palace
Woman police officer, Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden (second from right), outside Buckingham Palace on 2 January 1928. Her brother Sergeant Alfred William Clayden (second from left)

Background imageBertha Collection: Big Bertha German gun during the First World War

Big Bertha German gun during the First World War

Background imageBertha Collection: White Star Line, RMS Olympic, with crane, on postcard (back)

White Star Line, RMS Olympic, with crane, on postcard (back)
White Star Line, RMS Olympic, rare original postcard by Walton of Belfast, either 1910 or 1911 - as seen here, it was posted from Northern Ireland much later, in 1939

Background imageBertha Collection: White Star Line, RMS Olympic, with crane, on a postcard

White Star Line, RMS Olympic, with crane, on a postcard
White Star Line, RMS Olympic, rare original postcard by Walton of Belfast, either 1910 or 1911 (posted from Northern Ireland much later)

Background imageBertha Collection: RMS Titanic - Harland and Wolff drawing of floating crane

RMS Titanic - Harland and Wolff drawing of floating crane
RMS Titanic - extremely rare Harland and Wolff linen backed scale drawing of the 150-200 ton 1- 80 scale floating crane, designed by Bertha Krupps and fabricated by Benrather Maschinenfabrik AG

Background imageBertha Collection: Jean Rousselot at work

Jean Rousselot at work at the Big Bertha research lab in Paris, he was a French phonetician and dialectologist. He himself signs his publications under the name of L'abbe Rousselot or L'abbe

Background imageBertha Collection: Slade Art School, women sculptors

Slade Art School, women sculptors
The Slade School Sculptors, illustration by Bertha Newcombe, of women sculptors in studio, modelling bust sculptures on stands, with life model in the background

Background imageBertha Collection: Women's Life-school, illustration of women artists in studio

Women's Life-school, illustration of women artists in studio
Women's Life-school, illustration by Bertha Newcombe, of women artists in studio, at easels, with life model in the background. From an article, The Slade School Revisited'

Background imageBertha Collection: Karl Marx and his wife, Jenny (nee von Westphalen)

Karl Marx and his wife, Jenny (nee von Westphalen)
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary

Background imageBertha Collection: Jenny Marx, nee von Westphalen, wife of Karl Marx

Jenny Marx, nee von Westphalen, wife of Karl Marx
Jenny Marx (Johanna Bertha Julie "Jenny" Freiin von Westphalen, 1814-1881), wife of Karl Marx. The couple married in 1843, in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. Date: circa 1840s

Background imageBertha Collection: Woman at the Freres Provencaux Restaurant, Paris, 1850

Woman at the Freres Provencaux Restaurant, Paris, 1850. She wears a lilac jacket over a flounced crinoline. The Trois Freres Provencaux in the Palais Royal was a fashionable bouillabaise specialty

Background imageBertha Collection: The Kleine Berta Mortar, Boezinge

The Kleine Berta Mortar, Boezinge
This Little Bertha mortar (named after Bertha, Gustav Krupps wife), sits on the top of an ivy-covered blockhouse in the centre of the village

Background imageBertha Collection: Camellia hybrid, Bertha Giglioli, Camellia japonica

Camellia hybrid, Bertha Giglioli, Camellia japonica. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant after an illustration by P. Stroobant from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1873

Background imageBertha Collection: BERTHA FELICE SOPHIE VON SUTTNER, nee Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau Austrian novelist

BERTHA FELICE SOPHIE VON SUTTNER, nee Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau Austrian novelist and pacifist Date: 1843 - 1914

Background imageBertha Collection: 10936908

10936908
Mme. Mallet as Bertha in le Billet de Marguerite, a comic opera in three acts, at the Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Background imageBertha Collection: 3 Evening Dresses 1843

3 Evening Dresses 1843
Two gowns with corsage en coeur, one with a fringed bertha. The pink gown trimmed with a column of rosettes, the white has a double skirt - the upper looped up in waves. Date: 1843

Background imageBertha Collection: Marasco Stigmata - 2

Marasco Stigmata - 2
BERTHA MRAZEK, also known as Georges Marasco Belgian dual personality subject who displayed remarkable stigmata picture 2 of 3 - the legs

Background imageBertha Collection: Marasco Stigmata - 1

Marasco Stigmata - 1
BERTHA MRAZEK, also known as Georges Marasco Belgian dual personality subject who displayed remarkable stigmata picture 1 of 3 - the hands

Background imageBertha Collection: Billie Dove - American Actress of the silent film era

Billie Dove - American Actress of the silent film era
Billie Dove (1903-1997) - one of the most popular American actresses of the 1920s. Date: circa 1925

Background imageBertha Collection: Bertha Krupp / Graph 1916

Bertha Krupp / Graph 1916
BERTHA KRUPP Daughter of Friedrich Alfred, who in 1902 inherited control of the Krupp industrial empire 1886-1957

Background imageBertha Collection: WW1 - Cartoon - German gun Big Bertha in action

WW1 - Cartoon - German gun Big Bertha in action
WW1 - A cartoon big lady personifying the German gun known as Big Bertha, firing from Calais at Dover. Date: 1918

Background imageBertha Collection: Madame Bertha Trost

Madame Bertha Trost, an unusual figure in the undercurrents of London society, who went about dressed in Victorian clothes and riding in a carriage

Background imageBertha Collection: Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years

Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years old, all shuck regularly. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina. Date 1911 February

Background imageBertha Collection: Evening Dresses C. 1875

Evening Dresses C. 1875
Pale blue gown with a princess line bodice, white lace bertha & tunic adorned with garlands of roses. Rear view of a blue gown shows the drapery & train

Background imageBertha Collection: Marasco Stigmata - 3

Marasco Stigmata - 3
BERTHA MRAZEK, also known as Georges Marasco Belgian dual personality subject who displayed remarkable stigmata picture 3 of 3 - on the body

Background imageBertha Collection: Big Bertha Cannon 1914

Big Bertha Cannon 1914
Giant cannon known affectionately as Big Bertha

Background imageBertha Collection: Women WW1 Womens Land Army

Women WW1 Womens Land Army
Front cover of The Land Girls Love Story by Bertha Ruck. The Land Girl shares a kiss with a man in Khaki, among the haystacks. Date: circa 1918

Background imageBertha Collection: Two women police officers, Bow Street, London

Two women police officers, Bow Street, London
Two women police officers outside Bow Street Police Station, London. They are WPC Ivy Ellis (left) and Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden (right)

Background imageBertha Collection: Bertha, daughter of King Lothair II and his

Bertha, daughter of King Lothair II and his concubine Waldrada.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez

Background imageBertha Collection: Pink hybrid camellia, Bertha Giglioli, Thea japonica

Pink hybrid camellia, Bertha Giglioli, Thea japonica.. Illustration by P. Stroobant, lithographed by L. Stroobant of Ghent, from Jean Lindens L Illustration Horticole, 1873

Background imageBertha Collection: Marin Sais - Movie star of the silent film era

Marin Sais - Movie star of the silent film era
Marin Sais (1890-1971) - Movie star of the silent film era - starred as The Girl Detective in The Closed Door for Kalem in 1915

Background imageBertha Collection: Queen Berthes Staircase, Chartres, France

Queen Berthes Staircase, Chartres, France
Queen Berthes Staircase, Chartres, Eure-et Loir Department, France Date: circa 1930s

Background imageBertha Collection: Bombardment of Paris in the First World War

Bombardment of Paris in the First World War
Bombardment of Paris by the German long range Paris gun " Big Bertha". 1918

Background imageBertha Collection: Bertha Kalich

Bertha Kalich. Date c1905

Background imageBertha Collection: Why open the door, coal miners child uses the cat hole. Ber

Why open the door, coal miners child uses the cat hole. Bertha Hill, West Virginia (Note pipe in one hand, gun in other). Date 1938 Sept. Why open the door, coal miners child uses the cat hole

Background imageBertha Collection: King Ethelbert Converted

King Ethelbert Converted
Ethelbert, the Saxon King of Kent, is converted to Christianity by Augustine, who had been sent to England by Pope Gregory

Background imageBertha Collection: St Augustine before Ethelbert

St Augustine before Ethelbert
King Ethelbert and his consort Bertha, Saxon rulers of Kent, are addressed by Augustine, sent by Pope Gregory on a Christian mission to England. Date: 597 A.D

Background imageBertha Collection: German 42cm Big Bertha howitzer, Western Front, WW1

German 42cm Big Bertha howitzer, Western Front, WW1
A German 42cm Big Bertha howitzer in action on the Western Front during the First World War. It was manufactured by Krupp. Seen here with gunners, preparing to fire. Date: 1914-1918

Background imageBertha Collection: St Augustine and the English

St Augustine and the English
St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory as a missionary to England. He went first to King Ethelbert (because his French wife Bertha was already a Christian). Date: Circa 600 AD

Background imageBertha Collection: Fashions for April 1851

Fashions for April 1851
Evening corsages including a lace bertha & bows (echelles); fringed green pardessus; black lace edged mantle with collar; purple morning dress: jacket corsage with tabbed basque

Background imageBertha Collection: Ethelbert &^ Augustine

Ethelbert &^ Augustine
Augustine preaches Christianity to Ethelbert, King of Kent, and Queen Bertha

Background imageBertha Collection: Evening Dress 1839

Evening Dress 1839
Man: black pantaloons, cut- away tail coat, top hat & green waistcoat. Woman: dress with lace bertha & basques, over-skirt caught up at the front with large bows

Background imageBertha Collection: Evening Dress 1860S

Evening Dress 1860S
Coloured skirt & bodice; corsage off the shoulder, pointed waist back & front & a doule skirt. White bertha & overskirt caught up at the sides & trimmed with roses

Background imageBertha Collection: Augustine preaching to King Ethelbert and Queen Bertha

Augustine preaching to King Ethelbert and Queen Bertha
Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury (from 598). He was a Benedictine prior at a monastery in Rome, and Christian missionary to the English



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