Chambers Collection (page 2)

John Thurlow (Chambers)
John Thurlow (1616 - 1668) Statesman, secretary to Oliver Cromwell

Sir Thomas Chambers / Vf
SIR THOMAS CHAMBERS Recorder of London Date: 1804 - 1891

The Tyranny of Tears by C Haddon Chambers
Promotional postcard for The Tyranny of Tears by C. Haddon Chambers. First produced at the Criterion Theatre, 6th April 1899. A comedy replete with delicious humour

Passers By by C Haddon Chambers
Promotional postcard for Passers-By by C. Haddon Chambers. First produced Wyndhams Theatre, 29th March 1911. Artist: Henry H. Piffard

York Street Chambers, York Street, London W1. Date: circa 1905

New Caisson for the East and West India Dock Company - intended to divide the East and West India Export Dock from the basin - built by Messrs

Pitta Iris, from the Gould Collection
Rainbow Pitta, Pitta Iris, specimen, collected by Captain Chambers in Australia between 1839 and 1841 Date: 1839

Xenus cinereus
Terek sandpiper, Xenus cinereus, specimen, collected by Captain William Chambers in the Cobourg Peninsula in Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia

Rasenia uralensi, ammonite
A fossil ammonite from the Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridge clay, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. An ammonite has a coiled, chambered shell and is an extinct mollusc

The Crinoline by Miss Haddon Chambers
Stylised illustration showing a woman dressed up in a Victorian crinoline, accompanied by a man in a Pierrot costume. Date: 1918

Cooking food for army in the field WWI
Various types of ovens and kitchens, from brick and clay ovens, parallel kitchen, broad arrow kitchen, aldershot ovens and internally heated oven burrowed into the side of a bank. Date: 1915

French mine crater WWI
View of French soldiers working at the mine face in the tunnel in darkness, and a diagram showing two branches stretching to the right and left where tons of explosive are to be placed. Date: 1916

Temple Library Etc
The new Library and Parliament Chambers. Date: 1829

Woodstock Town Hall
The solid little Town Hall at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, built in 1766 for the Duke of Marlborough by Sir William Chambers. Date: built 1766

Hue, Vietnam - Bellringer outside Palace Audience Chamber
Hue, the capital city of Thua ThienHue Province of Vietnam - The bellringer outside one of the Audience Chambers of the Royal Palace and possibly his (very) young apprentice! Date: circa 1910s

Hall of Records, New York City, USA
Hall of Records, Chambers Street, New York City, USA. Contains the offices of the Register, County Clerk, Surrogate, and Tax and Law Departments

West Street, Durban, South Africa Date: circa 1930s

Nautilus pompilius, nautilus
Specimen shell of the nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), which has been sectioned to show body chamber (largest section), septa (individual chambers) and siphuncle (tube canal)

Ammonite internal cast
Shown here is an internal cast of a Jurassic ammonite clearly depicting individually preserved chambers within the coiled shell

Gastrioceras, goniatite
Gastrioceras, a Carboniferous goniatite. Goniatites were highly mobile creatures similar to octopus and squid, but were protected by a coiled shell divided up into many chambers

Corridor of the Tsars chambers in the Terem Palace
Corridor to the Tsars chambers in the Terem Palace. The Kremlin, Moscow

LCC- MFB horse drawn escape cart at drill-Southwark
Southwark (Headquarters of the London Fire Brigade), slipping the escape ladder from the horse-drawn escape cart. The London County Council was created in 1889

The fatal card the powerful drama : by Haddon Chambers & BC Stephenson. Date c1895

Marcus Aurelius Gate
The Marcus Aurelius Gate, at Wilton House, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It was designed by Sir William Chambers. Date: 18th century

Miss Dorothea Douglass
Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878 - 1960), English tennis player and seven time winner of the ladies singles title at Wimbledon between 1903 and 1914

National Shoe and Leather Bank, New York
National Shoe and Leather Bank and Chambers Buildings, New York City, America

West Chamber, looking South, Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal

15 Buckingham Street, Strand, London - Charles Dickens had Chambers here about 1834 and the house was at one time occupied by Peter the Great during a visit to the capital

Chambers of the Counts of the Duchy of Nivernais
The rather wonderful gateway into the Chambers of the Counts of the Duchy of Nivernais, at Nevers, France. Nivernais became a Duchy in 1538

India, Jaipur - the Hawa Mahal
Hawa Mahal, a palace in Jaipur, India. It was built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, and designed by Lal Chand Usta in the form of the crown of Krishna, the Hindu god

Old Chambers in Middle Temple Lane, London, 1857
Engraving showing old chambers, of the London legal profession, in Middle Temple Lane, London, 1857

Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight
A discovery by Captain Thorpe of Yarbridge at Morton Farm, near Brading, Isle of Wight. The area was fully explored, exposing several chambers and decorative Roman tiles

The great gallery, tombs discovered in Sakkara
Tombs discovered in Sakkara, 1853 - the great gallery. Candles were used to light the chambers to enable viewing of the interior

Making Ether / 1747
The chemical processes used to make ether

George Iii / Parliament
King George III, seated on his throne in the House of Lords, opens Parliament, attended by members of both chambers

CHAMBERS (1802 - 1871)
ROBERT CHAMBERS Scottish publisher and writer

Syntax / Rowlandson / Party
Doctor Syntax: Quae Genus committed, with a riotous dancing Party, to the Watch-House

The Albany, London
The former Albany House, off Piccadilly, is converted into 69 chambers originally meant for bachelors : residents have included Aldous Huxley, Edith Evans and Graham Greene

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