Bruce Collection (page 4)

Disderi Portrait Mosaic of English Luminaries of the 1860s
Collage Mosaic photograph by Disderi reproduced on a carte de visite showing well-known English luminaries of the period (the 1860s)

Couple Make Lunch Date: 1950

Cartoon of Edgar Bruce, actor-manager
Cartoon of Edgar Bruce (1845?-1901), actor-manager. Date: 1881

Bystander front cover, Bairnsfather cartoon, German shells
Alas! My poor brother Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather on the front cover of The Bystander showing a stereotypical German munitions worker pouring glycerine into a shell case and opining, Alas

FALL / LABRADOR / 1937
IRISH CHAMPION GIMCRACK PETER. INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION GIMCRACK BRUCE. And GIMCRACK BLEACH. Owner: Hartman Date: 1937

BRUCE CASTLE / 1904
Bruce Castle, Tottenham Date: 1904

Bruce Castle, Tottenham, London - an Elizabethan manor house in Lordship Lane, associated with the Bruce family. Date: 1906

Delegates at the 1926 Imperial Conference
King George V with prime ministers at the 1926 Imperial Conference. Back row left to right: W. S. Monroe (Newfoundland), J. G. Coates (New Zealand), S. Bruce (Australia), J. B. M

Situation Shortly Vacant by Bairnsfather
Humours from the Front - No 32 Situation Shortly Vacant In an old-established house in France an opening will shortly occur for a young man

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

Those Medals! by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Sad, but true, and apparently unavoidable. A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather published in The Bystander commenting that while acts of bravery during war often went unrecognised

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

Coxs by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
When one feels rather in favour of floating a War Loan of ones own. A British officer visits his bank to find out hes rather overdrawn. Date: 1917

1922 British Mount Everest Expedition - the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making the first ascent of the worlds highest peak

Costelloe Lodge - Home to Bruce Ismay after Titanic Disaster
Costelloe Lodge in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland - the retreat that Joseph Bruce Ismay lived in after the Titanic disaster

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

Bruce Bairnsfather Ware by Grimwades
A selection of pottery manufactured by the firm Grimwades of Staffordshire, featuring the designs of Bruce Bairnsfather, the artist whose cartoons featured in The Bystander during World War I

The Water-wave! by G. E. Studdy
Illustration by G. E. Studdy showing a small dog being forced to have a bath, watched smugly by Ooloo the cat. Ooloo later gets a shock when the bath water spills all over him

This Weeks Studdy - As Master Sees Me! by G. E. Studdy
Studdy dog shortly after his complete evolution into Bonzo. The dog is turning away in disgust from his owners portrait of him, painted in the style of Picasso

Esther Bruce & Kathy Joyce in Brighton. Josephine Esther Bruce (1912-1994) working-class mixed race seamstress born in Fulham, London to a Guyanese father & an English mother

Esther Bruce in Fulham, London. Josephine Esther Bruce (1912-1994) working-class mixed race seamstress born in Fulham, London to a Guyanese father & an English mother

Esther Bruce & neighbour celebrating the Coronation
Esther Bruce & her neighbour Mrs Bennett celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Fulham, London. Josephine Esther Bruce (1912-1994) working-class mixed race seamstress born in Fulham

Bruce Road, Quetta, Balochistan, British India
View of Bruce Road, Quetta, Balochistan, British India (now in Pakistan). Date: circa 1910s

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

George VI and Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, Scapa Flow, WW2
King George VI with Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser (1888-1981) at Scapa Flow, WW2. 1943

Bruce Lacey, performance artist
Bruce Lacey (b.1927), eccentric performance artist, out shopping with one of his mechanical constructs, together with a toddler. Date: 1962

J Bruce Evans, Evangelical Preacher, California, USA
J Bruce Evans, Evangelical Preacher, South Pasadena, California, USA, shown in different poses. Date: circa 1910

Captain Loxley of the Formidable, WW1 bravery
Clear Off - Submarines About: Captain Loxley of the Royal Navy, his terrier Bruce by his side, pictured giving his last order to another ship, warning of the danger of torpedoes

Bruce Grove, Tottenham, London
Bruce Grove, Tottenham, near Wood Green, County of London, England. Showing The Wellington Inn and Trams Date: 1910s

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

Christmas Truce by Bruce Bairnsfather
A memory of Christmas, 1914: " Look at this blokes buttons, arry. I should reckon e as a maid to dress im." A picture by the famous wartime Bystander cartoonist and creator of Old Bill

Old Saws and New Meanings, by Bairnsfather
Old Saws and New Meanings There is certainly a lot of truth in that Napoleonic maxim, " An army moves on its stomach" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, in The Bystander 1916

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

More Entanglements by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Bathing at Casse Les Bains is going to be rotten again this year. Two stereotypically grouchy looking Germans in bathing costumes do their best to enjoy a seaside holiday despite the barbed wire

Camille Clifford (1885 - 1971), Belgian-born stage actress and the most famous model for the " Gibson Girl" illustrations, drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, who married the Hon

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

The Fatalist
THE FATALIST. I m sure they ll ear this damn thing squeakin.. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1St Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

If Only We Spoke the Truth by Bruce Bairnsfather
A disgruntled gentleman in evening dress thinks aloud, I wish you drank something cheaper, while glowering at his female companion who looks somewhat worse for wear due to all the champagne shes

Down at the Ration Dump by Bruce Bairnsfather
Down at the Ration Dump " Call me a Tank again, my lad, and I ll knock yer - - ead off!" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1917

The Glorious Fifth by Bruce Bairnsfather
" Ere, Guy Fawkes - buzz off!" A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather, a soldier is admonished by one of his fellows for carrying around enough explosives to Guy Fawkes jealous. Date: 1916

The Candid Friend by Bruce Bairnsfather
The Candid Friend " Well, yer know, I like the photo of you in your gas mask best" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916

The Communication Trench by Bruce Bairnsfather
The Communication Trench PROBLEM - Whether to walk along the top and risk it, or do another mile of this A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916

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

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