Bookshelves Collection

Dachshund on a bookshelf
Unusual Friends - Dachshund on a bookshelf. 1950s

Widener Library at Harvard University, USA
Widener Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Date: 1915

Christ Church Library
The interior of Christ Church Library, Oxford showing ceiling to floor bookshelves. A student is shown working. Two ladies are being given a tour in the background

Munrospun advertisement featuring librarians, 1964
An advertisement for Munrospun knitwear of Edinburgh featuring two glamorous librarians, wearing skirts and sweaters in softest Lambswool. Date: 1964

Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher and author. Seen here in front of bookshelves

Judge Bacon at his desk. Possibly the Judge Bacon, ie Sir James Bacon (1798-1895)

Elegant Edwardian reception room with polished wooden table, chaise longue, large family photographic portrait over the mantelpiece and neat shelves of leather-bound volumes. Date: 1912

Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author -- a large book open at a page of architectural illustrations in the study of his home, Plas Penrhyn, Wales

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Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel
Shimon Peres (Szymon Perski, b 1923), President of the State of Israel, previously Israeli Prime Minister. Date: circa 1990s

Graham Greene, English writer, in old age
Graham Greene (Henry Graham Greene, 1904-1991), English author, playwright and literary critic, best known for his novels focusing around Roman Catholicism and morality: Brighton Rock

Interior of the smoking-room in Carlton Club, London, was the headquarters of the Conservative Party, from time to time deliberations took place

Sir Max Pemberton (1863 - 1950), popular British novelist, mainly of adventure and mystery stories. Pictured at a desk in the study of him at Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead

BBC Broadcasting House, Studio 3D for Talks
BBC Broadcasting House, May 1935, Studio 3D for Talks. 1935

Interior Squared Date: 1948

Nuremberg, Germany - interior of Albrecht Durers house
Nuremberg, Germany - the library room of Albrecht Durers house, a timber frame (fachwerkhaus) building located in the Altstadt (old town) section of Nuremberg

Police officers relaxing, Met Police, London
A group of male and female police officers, some of them sergeants, relaxing in a rest room, some reading newspapers or books, others chatting. Among them, on the right, is WPS Beatrice Bygrave

Italy - Interior Design of the period - 1930s. Date: 1930s

The Bookworm, by Carl Spitzweg
A monochrome reproduction of Carl Spitzwegs The Bookroom which shows an elderly bookworm emersed in research. Date: 1850

Richard von Kuhlmann and Count von Czernin, Brest Litovsk
Richard von Kuhlmann (1873-1948), German Foreign Secretary, signing the peace treaty of Brest Litovsk, Russia (now Brest, Belarus)

Young woman working at a computer in a solicitors office. circa 1990

Tabby kitten asleep on a bookshelf
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten asleep on a bookshelf. 1950s

Tabby kitten on a bookshelf
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten on a bookshelf. 1950s

Tabby kitten reading a book
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten reading a book. 1950s

Library with wooden ceiling at Oron Castle, Switzerland
The Library with beautiful wooden ceiling at Oron Castle in the municipality of Oron-le-Chatel in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. circa 1910s

Ukraine. Feodosiya. Alexander Grin House-Museum
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Feodosiya. Alexander Grin (1880-1932). Russian writer. House-Museum. Interior

The Reichstag Library, which escaped the fire which gutted the building in February 1933. Date: early 1930s

Library in Park Abbey, Heverlee, Belgium
Library in Park Abbey, Heverlee, near Leuven, Belgium, dating back to the 17th century. Date: circa 1910

Corpus Christi College Library, Oxford
The interior of Corpus Christi College library, Oxford. Contrary to the information printed on this postcard, the college was founded in 1517

Reading a score in a music library. Date: 1940s

Plum branches beside bookshelves and desk. Date between 1815 and 1820

Library in Llandaff House, Glamorgan, Wales
Colour sketch of the Library in Llandaff House, Glamorgan, Wales, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. circa 1840s

Drawing room and school room, Bedford
Colour sketch of a drawing room, with a school room visible through a doorway, in a house in Bedford. Present are Mr Ruddicks children

Pupils in Tonbridge Independent Library
Pupils studying in Tonbridge Independent Library. Date: 1966

Kingsdale School library, Dulwich, South London
Scene in the library of Kingsdale School, a mixed comprehensive in Dulwich, South London, which opened in the 1950s. Date: 1950s

Lighting in John Lennons study
Remarkable tall and thin coloured lighting in John Lennons study. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Czech vaudeville telepath Fred Marion
Photograph of the Czechoslovak vaudeville telepath Fred Marion (a.k.a. Josef Kraus), 1933. Kraus is making a " trial" of a tin box as to whether it contains a hidden object

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