Call Collection (page 4)

Syria. Damascus. Ottoman architecture. The Tekkiye Mosque. Built on the orders of Suleiman the Magnificent and designed by the architect Mimar Sinan between 1554 and 1560

WW2 Poster -- Auxiliary Territorial Service
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the new womens service, recruitment poster. Colour photolithograph, artist unknown, published by HMSO. Showing a woman in uniform blowing a bugle. Date: 1940

Indian army roll-call before starting for the Front
A commissioned officer of an Indian infantry battalion under orders to go to the front in Mesopotamia is seen calling the roll of his men

Chippy Norton - Late Victorian era Bookmaker
Mathew Dawson (18201898) - a British racehorse trainer based at Newmarket. In a career which lasted from 1840 until his death in 1898, he trained the winners of twenty-eight British Classic Races

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)

York railway station with H. L. Oakley silhouette posters
York railway station in the north east of England, with H. L. Oakley silhouette recruitment posters on display outside, probably during the early stages of the First World War. circa 1914-1915

Poster, More Men and Still More until the Enemy is Crushed -- a quotation from Lord Kitchener. Showing a soldier blowing a bugle. circa 1914-1915

Witches Wrecking Ship
Three witches, with their familiar, call up a storm to wreck a ship Date: 1931

Black & White Costume
Redfern dress & coat in black & white for the theatre: wrap- over V -neck dress with fur- trimmed hem & train, kimono style coat with deep fur collar & cuffs

Theatre Coat 1913
Fur-trimmed kimono style evening manteau / coat in an oriental floral (peonies) fabric. Worn with a V -necked gown with a high-waisted cord belt & a toque with a feather

Grotesque Fish Merchants - Algeria
Grotesque Fish Merchants, shouting their wares up to the houses - Algeria. Date: circa 1903

Women WW1 Work Our Womanhood
A tribute to the women who have filled jobs previously undertaken by men who have gone off to fight. The verse celebrates the way that women have responded to the call

Nursery Rhymes - (I call on Mr Doberton ) Mr Dobberton
(I call on Mr Doberton ) Mr Dobberton - various men, some in Uniform holding a meeting. Part of Box 52 Boswell collection. Nursery Rhymes. Date: circa 1890s

Poster, Come on the Telephone, designed by E McKnight Kauffer. 1934

Fantastic Adventures - The house that hate build
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1953, featuring the story The house that hate build by Peter Dakin. A huge weird looking face appeared in the distance watching how two men trying to rescue

World War I. Poster for recruitment and war bonds. Deutsches
World War I. Poster for recruitment and war bonds. I want you for Usa Army 1917 by James Montgomery Flagg. Sure! We ll finish the job. 1918 by Gerrit Albertus Beneker. For home and country

Snap Playing Card - Coals, coalman with his delivery cart. circa 1900s

Snap Playing Card - All a Growing, flower seller. circa 1900s

Beautiful small minaret from Eastern Turkey
A superb real photographic postcard depicting a beautiful small minaret from Eastern Turkey (exact location unknown) with a Muezzin heading up the ladder to announce The Adhan

Telegram mobilising VAD 1914
This telegram, sent to Birchington late in the day on 14 October 1914, was the call to mobilise the local Voluntary Aid Detachments to set up their hospitals

Going Downstairs
An Edwardian Ladys Maid rushes downstairs at her mistresss beck and call. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Cheetah Hunt
A cheetah is carried to to the place where game are to be hunted. The huntsmen follow and call back the animal when it has caught the prey Date: 1930s

Chinese Embroidery 1913
A narrow fitting dress with bateau (boat) neckline made from an oriental (Chinese) fabric depicting cranes & flowers. She wears 2 long strings of beads. 1913

Tennyson Sambourne
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) the Poet Laureate as Alfred the Great: " What we call our Bards our Best, and may his Poetry never be Werse!" Date: 1882

Pompeii Daily Life
Everyday scenes in Pompeii : two friends embrace each other when meeting, two other men call for wine in a tavern Date: before 63

Shoot out in the Street
A shoot out in the street - understand, boys, that you`re to fire when I call three. Date: circa 1880

Military Bugler C1860
A bugler of the British Army sounds a call Date: circa 1860

Grizzly bear
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos ssp), a large subspecies of brown bear inhabiting North America. Scientists generally do not use the name grizzly bear but call it the North American brown bear

Bell on an envelope with a message -- Will you ring me? For I can tell that you are longing for a [bell]. Date: circa 1890s

Two boy scout buglers at camp. Date: 20th century

The Wrong Theatre, by Bairnsfather
The Wrong Theatre Whenever that German searchlight is turned on our trench, we have a lot of trouble with Private Harold Montgomery (the ex-famous actor)

Suffragette A Call to Women W. S. P. U
Suffragette A Call to Women W.S.P.U. Mrs. Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence appeals to women to join the movement for the freedom and welfare of all Date: circa 1908

Boy scouts with trumpets, Denmark
Two Danish boy scouts, blowing ancient Danish trumpets

Dial 999 display in an LFB exhibition
A Dial 999 display in a London Fire Brigade exhibition with details on either side of the services available

Blitz in London scene in a fire station control room, WW2
Blitz in London -- scene at night in a fire station control room, 19 September 1940. Date: 1940

Display of exhibits about the London Fire Brigade, March 1955, with photographs, helmets and a model firefighting appliance. Date: 1955

Browns fire alarm head (closed) with instructions
Browns fire alarm head (closed), with instructions in English and Hebrew

Street telephone fire alarm, out of order
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with an out of order notice on it

Two men on switchboard at LFB HQ
Two men taking calls on the switchboard at LFB HQ. Date: 1925

Two women in control room, WW2
Two women taking messages in a fire station control room during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

London firefighters sliding down a pole. Date: 1960s

Belgian boy scout in phone box
A Belgian boy scout (or cub) in a phone box

Thousands have Answered the Nations Call, but you May be the One to Turn the Scale at a Critical Moment. do you Realize this. Poster

Advertising print for Cavanders Army Club cigarettes. She : Tell me, what do you boys call a washout He : A place where one can t get Army Club cigarettes. Dated March 1918, on reverse. Will Owen

Womens Royal Air Force -- Roll Call
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a group of women during Roll Call. Date: 1919-1920

Wake-up call
An early morning wake up call at a naval college. A trumpet sounds and two big drums are banged in order to get the recruits out of their sleeping hammocks. Date: 1885

Elizabeth Thompson
ELIZABETH THOMPSON (lady Butler) artist famed for her military scenes such as The Roll Call (Crimea War) and Scotland for ever (Waterloo). Date: 1846 - 1933

Scottish American War Memorial, West Princes Street Gardens
Scottish American War Memorial (1927), West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh - The Spirit of 1914. The Sculptor was Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938). Date: circa 1940

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