Centre Collection (#24)

Mail Editorial Team / 1950
An editorial meeting at the Daily Mail, presided over by editor Guy Schofield (centre). Date: 1950s

Japan / Osaka 1935
Osaka: Nakanoshima, the civic and business centre Date: 1935

Spain / Valencia / Mignelete
Valencia: town centre, with the Mignelete Date: 1906

Sweden / Visby 1927
Visby: city centre Date: 1927

Metro Construction
Construction : building the great caisson which will then be sunk to carry trains beneath the Seine at the Place Saint- Michel, in the centre of the city Date: 1906

Brain / Business Centre
The brain, depicted as a business centre: a series of offices including the headquarters (cerebrum) and camera operators (the eye muscles) etc. Date: 1920s

Etruria / Wedgwood
Etruria, the village near Stoke-on-Trent built by Josiah Wedgwood to be the centre of his ceramics production. Date: Circa 1870 s

London Demo / 1906
A WSPU demonstration in London. The placards state We demand the vote this session. Mrs Frances Rowe is pictured in the centre. Date: 1906

Theebaw of Burma
THEEBAW (THIBAW) King Theebaw of Burma with his evil Queen Supayalat (centre) and her sister. Defeated in third Burmese War. Date: 1858 - 1916

Chemical Apparatus 2
Furnaces - distilling (centre), digesting (mid left), smelting (lower right) and other types Date: 18th century

John Keats / Whitney Bust
JOHN KEATS English poet: a portrait bust Date: 1795 - 1821

Anna Maria Hall / Maclise
ANNA MARIA HALL nee FIELDING Irish writer, wife of Samuel Carter Hall Date: 1800 - 1881

Jean Ingelow / Harpers
JEAN INGELOW English writer Date: 1820 - 1897

USA / New York / Park Row
The traditional centre for the citys leading newspapers - the New York World, the Tribune, and the Times Date: 1912

Aj Balfour / Anon
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 1st Earl of Balfour British politician, Conservative MP Date: circa 1890

Iraq / Babylon / Calmet s
The city of BABYLON, after the descriptions by Herodotus and Kircher; the hanging gardens are in the centre, the Tower on the right : the Euphrates runs round the city

Companion Chair
THE COMPANION CHAIR intended to six people, placed at the centre of a drawing room : exhibited at the Crystal Palace exhibition Date: 1851

India / Hardwar
The Ganges enters the plains near Hardwar, which is an important centre of Hindu pilgrimage Date: circa 1840

Actress / Cushman
CHARLOTTE SAUNDERS CUSHMAN American actress, with book and elaborate chair Date: 1816 - 1876

Monastery Destroyed
RELIGION PERSECUTED On the pretext of building a cultural centre, officials blow up the church of an ancient monastery Date: 1930

Congress of Vienna
The Allied leaders gather at Vienna : Metternich stands with raised arm, Castlereagh lounges at centre, Talleyrand sits with arm on table, Wellington watches far left Date: 1814 - 1815

France / D fuss Trial
The courtroom at Rennes (Dreyfus is seated facing left with white hair -centre of picture) Date: 7 August 1899

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Looking east on Liberty Avenue showing the Downtown Business Center. Date: 1937

Los Angeles, California - Civic Center - City Hall etc
Los Angeles, California - Civic Center, including the City Hall, State Building, Hall of Records and Hall of Justice. Date: 1940

Young lady entering Job Centre, West Ealing, London. Date: 1980s

Ptolemaeus system Date: 2nd century AD

Site of a Wartime Hospital - St. Michaels Cave, Gibraltar
Site of a Wartime Hospital and Now a Place of Interest to Visitors to Gibraltar: St. Michaels Cave, with Its Strange and Wonderful Stalactites and Stalagmites

The Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland - opened by King George V on 12th July 1927. Date: circa 1928

Mr Curnow judging at the Dog Centre Birthday Show
Mr Curnow judging a Pekinese (?) at the Dog Centre Birthday Rally exemption show on July 11th, 1971 Date: 1971

Lacy envelope with a birthday greeting
Lacy envelope decorated with flowers, with a birthday greeting at the centre. Date: circa 1890s

Cherub playing pipe on a floral greetings card
Cherub playing a pipe on a floral greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Cherub playing mandolin on a floral greetings card
Cherub playing a mandolin in a garden on a floral greetings card -- I ll ne er forget thee. Date: circa 1890s

Cherubs and roses on a greetings card, with a little boy at the centre holding a bunch of flowers in a garden. Date: circa 1890s

Coolsingel, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Coolsingel, the main shopping street in the centre of Rotterdam, Netherlands, with the City Hall and the Post Office. Date: circa 1920

White daisies on a cross-shaped Easter card
White daisies and a Biblical quotation on a cross-shaped Easter card. Date: circa 1890s

Patients & VAD staff, Quex Park
This is the same photograph as 1917 External Groups 009. Patients & VAD staff, Quex Parkin 1917. Hannah Powell-Cotton, Commandant, seated centre

VAD staff and domestic staff, Quex Park, Autumn 1917. Seated in the centre of the front row are (left to right) Major PHG Powell-Cotton, Mrs HB Powell-Cotton and Dr Worthington

VAD staff, Quex Park
VAD staff and domestic staff, Quex Park, Autumn 1917. Standing in the centre at the back is Major PHG Powell-Cotton. Standing at the back, second right is Jack Hedge, Hospital Masseur

Patients & Staff, Quex Park
Group of patients, VAD nurses and Quex House staff at the front of Quex House, Autumn 1917. Seated in the centre are (left to right) Major Powell-Cotton, Mrs HB Powell-Cotton and Dr Worthington

Interior view of a department store, USSR
Interior view of a department store in the USSR -- probably GUM in Moscow, with its famous glass roof. Date: circa 1950s

The Rainbow Room restaurant on the 65th floor of the Rockefe
A view of the interior of the lengendary Rainbow Room restaurant on the 65th floor of the Radio Building or Rockefeller Centre, New York, 1937 - showing art of the New York skyline Date: 1937

George Junior Republic, Freeville, New York State, USA
George Junior Republic, a charitable youth centre in Freeville, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1890s

House ofs F Smith, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
House ofs F Smith in Centre Street, Newton, Massachusetts, USA. Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895) was a Baptist minister, journalist and author, who wrote the lyrics to the song My Country

Bersaglieri, Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Features the marble fountain contruscted in 1277-1280 by Arnolfo di Cambio. The Bersaglieri are a corps of the Italian Army originally created by General Alessandro La Marmora in1836 to serve in

Cherub playing a pipe on a greetings card decorated with fruit and an ornate edging. Date: circa 1890s

Rockefeller Center outdoor restaurant, New York City, USA
Famous outdoor restaurant at the Rockefeller Center, Radio City, New York City, USA. circa 1940

Nurses & Patients, Front Verandah, Quex Park. The Verandah, which was outside A Ward, offered a sheltered, south-facing outdoor space

Seven VAD nurses at Quex Park
A group of seven VAD nurses standing at the front of the Winter Garden, Quex Park in February 1916. In the centre of the group is Nurse Fanny Watson; second from the right is `nurse Mildred Swinford

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