Camera Collection (#16)

Three autumn outfits by Beer, Redfern and Jean Patou
Three elegant young ladies in the latest autumn outfits. On the left, a blue and black coat with black fur trimming, by Beer

Camera used for air reconnaissance, WW1
A camera used for air reconnaissance during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Coronation. BBC camera opposite Abbey entrance
The BBC camera on a dais in front of the Coloniual Office in Queen Victoria Street. 1953

Members of the royal family at Badminton Horse Trials
The Queen, Queen Mother, Princess Royal and Princess Margaret in a grandstand made from a farm wagon at the Badminton Three-day Horse Trials

Filming of Blanche Fury
Scene during the filming of the movie Blanche Fury directed by Marc Allegret and adapted from the novel by Joseph Shearing

Flying pigeon
A flying pigeon photographed with a high-speed camera, resulting in an interesting flying saucer shape. circa 1940s

Captain Wilkins, photographer, near Roussoy, France, WW1
Captain George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958), Australian official war photographer, setting up his camera and tripod on top of a tank near Roussoy, northern France

Tatler front cover, 3 February 1960
Front cover of The Tatler with a girl taking a photograph of a London policeman and Big Ben with a Leica camera. Date: 1960

Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent with her children
The widowed Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent poses with her daughter, Princess Alexandra, for an informal photograph taken by her eldest son, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent at Bailiffscourt, Climping

Kodak Camera 1930S
Smart cameras have striped fronts this year. At the Kodak works at Wealdstone, England, where these cameras are made, each is tested by a scientist to ensure a needle-sharp focus Date: 1930s

Trade / Store Catalogue
Kodak cameras from the photographic department. Date: 1909

Photographer taking a photo of a little boy
Mother trying to encourage her little boy to sit still for the Photographer. Date: circa 1890

Muybridge Work Place
His open-air studio at the Palo Alto stock farm, California : camera shed on right, background wall left, four cameras on stands at corners of the track area Date: 1878

Berlin Showgirls / 1927
A line of showgirls pose for the camera in front of a large poster of a scantily clad girl playing the saxophone Date: 1927

Knife-Thrower & Camera
A knife-thrower is photographed in action by an intrepid photographer Date: 1939

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

A piglet gazes into the camera

Metropolitan Police investigation equipment, set out on the ground at the back of a green van

Photographic party, Slebech, Pembrokeshire, West Wales
A photographic party on the bridge at Slebech, Pembrokeshire, West Wales. Blackpool Bridge, crossing the River Cleddau, is a Grade II listed, single span bridge

Two Edwardian bikers, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Two Edwardian men on their motor cycles in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. The man on the right, on a Triumph Imperial, is a member of the Philipps family of Picton Castle

Cooks Continental Coach Tours
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks Continental Coach Tours -- see it all so easily! A roll of camera film shows colourful pictures of holiday resorts, and a coach travelling along a road

GATSO speed camera
A GATSO speed camera with two Metropolitan Police officers

Postcard Collectors
A fabulous French postcard depicting two postcard collectors

Scene in a photographers studio. Several men, who appear to be photographers themselves, watch a photographer photographing a little boy, who seems to be enjoying the experience

Operating a Vertical Projector
The Head of the offset-deep process Department at the Lund Humphries Printing works, operating a vertical projector. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Photographic Studio scene
A fantastic example of a photographic studio from the early 20th century with the decoration and dressing of the studio, the immense plate camera and the photographer himself

Chanakkale - Prayers being said near a well, with Imams, civilians and individuals in military uniform. One gentleman with a bandaged head holds a camera

Smile
A woman with a camera adopts a photographers pose for - another photographer

Dog poses for the camera
Lovely scene showing a biddable terrier adopting the " beg" position and posing beautifully for his owner who holds a rather nice looking camera

Baby poses for the camera
A baby sits on a wicker chair and is centre of attention as a group of children encourage it to smile for its photograph, taken with a Eastman Kodak Hawk-Eye camera

Vertical Projector at a print works
A technician uses a vertical projector at Lund Humphries printing firm. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1950s

Photographer c. 1910
Man taking photograph with a vintage camera c. 1910

A Night to Remember, film studio scene
An artists colour sketch of a film studio scene for the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, based on the Titanic disaster of 1912

Setting up a camera shot, Kashgar, western China
Local men stand watching as a western man sets up his camera to take a shot, on a trip through Kashgar, western China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Kinora camera advertisement
Advertisement for the Kinora, which, without lantern or screen shows " living" pictures taken with a hand camera and, according to the ad

Etienne Carjat / Gill
Etienne Carjat (1828-1906): famous cartoonist, journalist, poet and photographer

Apprehensive Sitters
Posed in front of a painted backdrop, a girl and a dog watch the camera apprehensively

A 1930s British film studio by Alfred Bestall
An impression by Alfred Bestall of the making of a close-up in a British film studio in the 1930s. A host of lighting and camera men are focused on a single actress

Confirmation of Princess Margaret of Connaught
The confirmation of Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882-1920), elder daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught in the private chapel at Windsor in March 1898

Prince & Princess of Wales visit Glasgow
The Prince and Princess of Wales, captured on camera during a visit to Glasgow in the 1890s. Civic visits, openings, loyal addresses and dedications helped to increase the popularity

Communist Commanders
A group of communist military commanders, including Voroshilov Klim, take time off from the war to pose for the camera

Photographer holding a Sky-scraper camera on the roof of a
Exaggerated view through a Sky-scraper camera. An invention by the famous New York photographers, the Byron Company, the camera was designed to capture tall buildings at close range

An evening at the camera club
A practical demonstration of the developments in photography. An illustration of an evening at the camera club. (undated)

Camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. The soldiers are pictured here ready to fire the rocket from its framework

Miming a gesture, the method of registering sunshine, posed
Human speech the result of a variety of movements made by the muscles which control the lungs. A typical deaf-mute gesture, the sign language for sunshine

War photography - two soldiers with camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. Two soldiers are pictured here about to load the rocket into its framework before it is positioned ready to fire

An advertisement for the Verascope
The Verascope, a stereoscopic pocket camera

Photo-Micrographiccamera
Tylers photo-micrographic camera, for photographing microscopic subjects

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