Bill Collection (page 8)

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

Old Billisation by Bruce Bairnsfather
Old Bill got very severely checked the other day for anticipating demobilisation by wearing some mufti that he had sent out to him from home

Suffragette Black Friday 1910. Outside the Houses of Parliament on 18th November, a deputation led by Mrs. Pankhurst and Members of the W.S.P.U tried to force their way into the House

Carlton China figure of Yours to a Cinder - Old Bill. Includes transfer of Coat of Arms of Rothsea. Wiltshaw & Robinson, Stoke on Trent. Commemorative Ware

Old Bill car mascot - Bairnsfatherware
Old Bill car mascot. Produced by Louis Lejeune (Mascots) Ltd. c.1919, on a metal plinth, which is on a wooden socle. Copyright No. R2669204. Bairnsfather Ware

Bruce Bairnsfather Old Bill mascot doll. Registered No. 662457. Commemorative Ware

Old Bill Pink glazed money box in the form of a WW1 tank
An Old Bill Pink glazed money box in the form a WW1 tank, inscribed Wheres that blinkin Kaiser. Bairnsfather Ware

Bystander masthead featuring Old Bill
Masthead design for a post-war edition of the Bystander magazine featuring one of its main stars the cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather at work
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1888-1959), British soldier, artist and cartoonist, famous for his curmudgeonly creation, Ole Bill - a typical British Tommy - during the First World War for The Bystander

Three cartoons at the start of the First World War: at the top, a comment on needing another war to collect the debts for this one

His Christmas Goose by Bruce Bairnsfather
Illustration by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather showing a soldier on sentry duty looking hungrily at a goose, with the caption, You wait till I comes off dooty

Louis Wain Postcard - The Seaside Bill
Father cat is horrified at the scaleof his hotel bill as the cat family head home from their summer vacation to Catterick (or Purfleet, Mousehole, Shrewsbury etc.) Date: 1904

Bill Pegg Bristol test pilot left and Cyril Uwins
Bill Pegg, Bristol test pilot, left, and Cyril Uwins, chief test pilot, Bristol Aeroplane Company, in front of the first production Bristol Blenheim

Anthracoceros albirostris convexus, Oriental pied hornbill
Plate 39, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Gracula religiosa, hill myna
Plate 71, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Plesiosaurus, Telesaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Pentacrinites, Ammo
Sheet 1 of a series of posters called Extinct Animals by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862. This collection of marine reptiles lived during the Jurassic period between 200 and 145 million years ago

Grus japonensis, red-crowned crane
Plate 61, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Threskiornis aethiopicus, sacred ibis skeleton
Plate 52 from a paper published by Georges Cuvier in 1804

Pyrrhula pyrrhula, Eurasian bullfinch
A male Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) in flight, U.K. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Ensifera ensifera, sword-billed hummingbird
Plate 233, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould

Serinus canaria, island canary
Specimen of an island canary (Serinus canaria)

Eriocnemis vestita, glowing puffleg
Plate 275, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould

Anastomus lamelligerus, African open-bill
Watercolour and pencil by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies (1918). This species is a member of the stork family and mainly hunts in marshes and wetlands

Milk delivery men and carts, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Ws Baker & Son Victoria Dairy milk delivery men pictured with their carts at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Milkman Bill Whittle (left)

William McAdam Bill 1861
William McAdam, potter and bottle maker, of Glasgow

Bill Sykes and Dog
Bill Sykes, an unlovely character in Dickenss Oliver Twist, with his dawg

Reform Bill - Disraeli as friend of the working man
The new Friend of the Working Man or the Party who may bring in a Reform Bill next Session after all. Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer for the Conservative party caricatured as a

Buffalo Bills Wild West Show - Mexican Cavalry - Paris
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show - The Mexican Cavalry - passing The Galerie des machines (officially Palais des machines ) was a pavilion built for the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris

A Memento of the Great Public Question of Reform
Reform Bill - A Memento of the Great Public Question of Reform - showing King William IV, the Duke of Sussex, Lord John Russell, Lord Grey (Prime Minister), Lord Althorpe, Lord Brougham

Reform and Anti-Reform
Reform Bill - Reform and Anti-Reform - depiction of a naval battle between two ships, with the Reform ship winning. " The Portraits of the King, Lords Brougham, Russell, Grey

Old Bill and Co. July 1940
Old Bill prepares a shield wall of defences to protect the English coast from German invasion: " Thats enough about ow Arold did it at Astings. I m doing it now!" 1940

Old Bill and Co
As Old Bill looks ready to fend off a German invasion, an officious old woman asks, " Shouldn t a great, grown, hulking man like you be doing something towards the defence of his country

Bill Webb. Cpl Brown. Tpr Blumenson
Photograph: Bill Webb. Cpl Brown. Tpr Blumenson. Shows three men sitting in the back of a truck, one of the men is holding a mounted Bren gun. Truck has a rhino logo on the back left hand side

Old Bill and Co. September 1940
" No, you were wrong, Bill! That wasn t another warnin you eard." Bruce Bairnsfathers cartoon makes light of the repeated air-raid warnings civilians were subjected to during the Battle of

The Bill by Douglas Mackenzie
" The Bill" : An old comedy in one act. Covent Garden Ball Supper. Time: 2 A.M. Naughty Old Gentleman (between his teeth): Dear me

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