Bill Collection (page 7)

THUMB PLAY BILL
A theatrical announcement for the final European performance at Ryde Town Hall of General Tom Thumb (aged 14) before he returns to America

ROOSEVELT & RAILROAD BILL ROOSEVELT & RAILROAD BILL
Satirical cartoon on obstruction to the railroad rate bill Date: 1906

Cartoon, Mills Logic; or, Franchise for Females -- John Stuart Mill was trying to include women in the new Reform Act by replacing the word men with persons. Date: 1867

DRINKING SCENE / 17TH C
A man drinks in a tavern from a tall glass with his arm around a woman. Another woman keeps a tally of the bill on the wall. Date: 17th century

LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1792 - 1878), Presenting the new Reform Bill to the House of Commons during his second term as Prime Minister. Date: 1860

HOGARTH DISTRESSED POET
The Distressed Poet A poor poet wonders what to write, while his wife is unable to pay the milkmaids bill. Date: 1736/37

BUY A BILL OF THE PLAY
Buy a bill of the play ! a street trader offers programmes, fruit and nuts outside Drury Lane theatre, London Date: circa 1800

SELLING PLAYBILLS
Buy a bill of the play ! a street trader offers programmes, fruit and nuts outside Drury Lane theatre, London Date: circa 1800

Scene from Queen of the Redskins, by Emma Litchfield, showing Wahneetah, Queenie and Bronco Bill. circa 1910s

Flying Colours, Hippodrome Theatre, London
Flying Colours, a revue at the Hippodrome Theatre, London, an Albert de Courville production

Buffalo Bills Colonel W F Cody

Bill Gollans Hotel Grande, New South Wales, Australia
Bill Gollans Hotel Grande, Marine Parade, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. Bill Gollan was a politician and hotel owner. Date: circa 1930s

Civic Centre, San Francisco, USA - Exposition Auditorium
Civic Centre (now the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium), San Francisco, California, USA - Exposition Auditorium. The auditorium was designed by renowned Bay Area architects John Galen Howard

Sqn Ldr Bill Waterton alongside a Gloster Meteor

Hawker test pilots alongside a Hawker Tempest. From lef?
Hawker test pilots alongside a Hawker Tempest. From left: Capt Hubert Stanford Broad, Sqn Ldr Richard Vivian Muspratt, Bright and William ?Bill? Humble

Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Playhouse Square at Night Date: circa 1931

Leopold Godowsky performing at the Bechstein Halll, London
Leopold Godowsky (18701938) - Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer, and teacher - performing at the Bechstein Hall (now the Wigmore Hall), Wigmore Street

Anne Bill Printers Wife
ANNE BILL, wife of John Bill the Kings printer - a splendid tribute to the lady. Date: 1588 - 1621

Bill Lang v Bob Fitzsimmons in heavyweight boxing match
Bill Lang (1882-1952), Australian boxer, v Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917), British boxer, in a heavyweight match -- probably in December 1909 in Sydney, Australia, where Lang won with a knockout

Old Bill at Madame Cheerios, by Bairnsfather
Old Bill at Madame Cheerios " You are shortly going on a journey across a field; an ugly man with a square head will cross your path; you will then hear a loud noise

A Murmansk Murmur by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" Don t that make ye blinkin well wild, Bert?" Old Bill, the soldier character created by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, together with his old pal Bert

Can-Tankerous by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" Ere! Where the ell are ye comin with that Turkish bath o yours?" Old Bill, the cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander receives a frosty reception from soldiers

Old Bill car mascot. Produced by Louis Lejeune (Mascots) Ltd. c.1919, stamped copywright, on a black painted metal rounded plinth. Bairnsfather Ware

Old Bill car mascot on a metal plinth, WW1
Old Bill car mascot. Produced by Louis Lejeune (Mascots) Ltd, on a metal plinth. Copyright No. R2669204. Bairnsfather Ware. Date: circa 1919

de Havilland DH4A, G-EAJC, of Aircraft Transport and Tra?
de Havilland DH4A, G-EAJC, of Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd. On 25 August 1919 Lt E.H. (Bill) Lawford flew the first commercial passenger service in this aircraft

Japanese Five Dollar Banknote - Banana Money
Japanese government-issued five dollar banknote. The Japanese dollar was a currency issued by Imperial Japan during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Banknote 500000000000 Dinar
The Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 500000000000 Dinar, bearing the portrait of Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj (18331904) - Serbian poet. Date: circa 1990s

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 10000 Dinar
The Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 10000 Dinar, bearing the portrait of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (1787-1864), a Serbian philologist and linguist Date: circa 1990s

Floor of Fame at Graumans Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
The Floor of Fame at Graumans Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA Date: 1941

English Electric Canberra B(I)8 modified to carry Ferranti Laser Ranger and Marked Target Seeker. From left: Bill Roberts, flight test observer; Len Houston

Old Bill and Co by Bruce Bairnsfather
An ARP warden stands on a rooftop during a very lively air raid and looks down a chimney pot with his binoculars telling those hiding inside, I said, I reckon its time you went to the shelter. 1940

Republic of Ireland Act 1948
The severance of the last link with the British Crown: President O Kelly signing the Republic of Ireland Bill in Dublin on 21st December, 1948. This photograph shows Mr

Princess Mary and Prince Henry with Mrs Charlotte Bill
Princess Mary of York (later Princess Royal, Viscountess Lascelles) with her younger brother Prince Henry of York (later Duke of Gloucester) in a large pram

Reducing the Gas Bill
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing a Scottish man blowing into his gas supply in an attempt to reduce bills watched by his son in a tartan kilt

Bradford Bill Poster Victorian period

Florence Mills grave at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York USA. Photographer: Bill Egan. Florence Mills (1896-1927) singer and dancer who became a major star of vaudeville

Famous rugby players (Martin Johnson, JPR Williams, Brian Moore, Gareth Edwards, Willie John McBride, Gavin Hastings, Keith Wood, Bill Beaumont, Jonny Wilkinson, Will Carling) - Date: 1970-2000

Footman on a cutout Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Buffalo Bill magazine -- original stories of the Far West, Buffalo Bill and Dark Despard. 1925

H. H. Harris, 1940
H.H. Harris, a cartoonist and poster-maker of the time, sketches a serviceman on his tour of the Midlands. Harris toured the country in his caravan, pictured here

Old Bill and Co. October 1940
" I ll let yet get away with it this time, but remember! I got a front door, h and a knocker!" Bruce Bairnsfather jokes that the damage inflicted on homes by German air raids has made it

Bill Foyle, Essex farmer, surrounded by his collection of souvenirs, including a row of rifles, Native American Indian items, a buffalo head and various trophies. Date: 1964

Cartoon, Waking up Germania, WW1
Cartoon, Waking up Germania. After the war, Madame Germania must pay the bill for all the damage she has done. The waiter is a macabre, thin man with a skull for his head. Date: 1918

Alice in Wonderland, Bill the Lizard pops out of the chimney after a kick from Alice. Date: early 20th century

Bruce Bairnsfather in his Sunbeam with Old Bill mascot
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, famous for his cartoons of trench humour in The Bystander during the First World War seen at the wheel of his Sunbeam car with an aluminium car mascot in the shape of

Birds of Ill Omen, by Bairnsfather
Birds of Ill Omen " Theres evidently goin to be an offensive around ere, Bert" Sombre looking senior officers in a trench

Advertisement for Old Bill car mascot, 1920
Advertisement for the " Old Bill" car mascot, exclusively sold by Smith of Motor Accessories fame. Old Bill was the soldier character created by the cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in

The Spook Suspected by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Old Bill has always felt that there was something reminiscent of Bert about the way he got that nasty crack over the head from a tambourine at that little bit of a seance they had theother night

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