Black Out Collection

First World War - Blackout cartoon postcard
Hoping to see more of you - mindful of the blackout enforced in London during World War one, this couple look forward to getting a better view of each other when their paths next cross

The Black-Out Stroll
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Black-Out Stroll, words and music by Tommie Connor. Introduced by Joe Loss, who can be seen in the portrait photograph. Date: circa 1940s

They Can't Black-Out The Moon
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for They Can't Black-Out The Moon, by Art Strauss, Bob Dale and Sonny Miller. Featured by Ambrose and his orchestra, seen pictured in the portrait photograph

WW2 Blackout Birthday Card
A WW2 birthday greetings card, It's impossible to black-out my greetings. The image shows a smiling moon looking down at a snow covered countryside home. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Birthday Card, Blackout The Blues
A WW2 birthday greetings card, with imagery symbolic of good fortune including the presence of black cats and a horseshoe

WW2 Birthday Card, Who Said Blackout?
A WW2 birthday greetings card, Who said black-out? The image shows two cats wearing colourful clothes and soldier tin hats. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Greetings Card, Blackout
An illustrated WW2 greetings card, Black-out that light please. The image shows the silhouetted forms of a mouse and children amongst mushroom houses under a night sky, during a blackout

WW2 - Black-out - Couple driving, with only their dipped headlight beams. Date: circa 1941

Road painters carrying broken white line stencil, Sept 1939
Road painters carrying the " blackout stencil" which enabled workmen to paint broken white lines down the centre of roads with ease, in order to reduce accidents when driving in blackouts

War Bonds Wwi Poster
World War One poster encouraging the public to invest in war bonds to help buy guns and " bring them down" (presumably Zeppelins)

Blackout means black. Poster reminding citizens of complete blackouts as a civil defense procedure. Date between 1941 and 1943

Guide to available moonlight during 1939
A diagram prepared for readers of The Sphere in order that they may know, at a glance, how much moonlight they will get on any particular evening of the period

Dutch poster about blackout precautions during the Second World War. circa 1942

Paris blackout WWII
Paris blackout rehearsal for air raids. The top photo shows Paris before being blacked out seen from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower whereas the bottom is after the lights have been switched off

Broadcasting House and All Souls Church, Langham Place, London, England. The BBC building is painted with camouflage paint and the windows have blackout during World War II

London blackout, World War II
London shop windows blacked out with paper and posters advertising their wares and with gas mask propaganda on the home front in London during World War II

Wwi / Paris Blackout
The blackout in Paris, romantic to some, but also the cause of accidents - as an officer and his lady look on, a man stumbles into a lamppost

Wwi / Zeppelin Danger
BRITISH MEANS PLUCK London schoolchildren are taught about the dangers of zeppelins : If the zeppelins come, keep indoors, put lights out and keep quiet

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