Checkered Collection

Woman police officer attending an accident where a man appears to have fallen off a ladder. She is speaking into her hand-held radio. Date: circa 1970s

Woman police officer in new Surrey uniform
Woman police officer (Eileen Greenwood) in the new Surrey uniform introduced in 1973. The jacket was single-breasted with four buttons, and the hat was in black and white with a checked design

Knight of the mid 15th century in battle armor with weapons.. He wears a checkered tunic over stocking, with two angels above holding his coat of arms. The weapons include a war hammer A and sword E

Nashville 1933
Street scene in Nashville Tennessee, with double-decker buses checkered cabs and even a horse-drawn wagon

Two Suriname snakes: Green snake and checkered
Two Suriname snakes: Green snake (Malayan green whipsnake, Ahaetulla mycterizans?) and checkered garter snake, Thamnophis marcianus

Woman police officer in updated uniform, London
Woman police officer in the updated uniform introduced in 1977, with a range of mix and match options, and the checkered cravat replacing the bow tie

Pirelli Tyres Poster
An advertisement poster for Pirelli Tyres, showing a motor vehicle bombing along, upon a black and blue checkered background. Date: circa 1916

Girl In a Bedroom
This painting depicts a young girl, wearing a blue and white checkered dress, using a seat as a table, within a cosy bedroom. Date: circa 1916

Poster, Indianapolis 500 Time Trials, May 1975
Indianapolis 500 Time Trials, 10-11 May and 17-18 May 1975, promotional race poster. 14 x 22 inches. Date: 1975

Monastery of San Juan de la Pena. Pantheon of the Nobles. Detail of an relief depicting two angels raising the soul of the deceased in mandorla. At the bottom, Epiphany. Aragon. Spain

Puffer, globe and sunfish
Birdbeak burrfish, Cyclichthys orbicularis 1, sunfish, Mola mola 2, thornback trunkfish, Tetrosomus gibbosus 3, checkered puffer, Sphoeroides testudineus 4, and Fahaka pufferfish or globe fish

Inspector Sheila Ward, Met Police, London
Inspector Sheila Ward (b.c1937), Met Police, London, the first woman to hold the post of Station Inspector, at Kings Cross. Seen here speaking to a line of male police officers

Princess Margaret meeting Metropolitan Police officers during a visit to the Commissioners Mess. Among those present are Assistant Commissioner John Gerrard

Eight women police officers in new Surrey uniform
Eight women police officers posing in the new Surrey uniform introduced in 1973. The jacket was single-breasted with four buttons, trousers were introduced as an option

Male and female police officers on duty in London, walking along a pavement with traffic on the road in the background. The WPC (Siobhan Clark)

Two women police officers in updated uniform, London
Two women police officers posing in the updated uniform introduced in 1977, with a range of mix and match options. The checkered cravat replaced the bow tie, though here the cravat is not patterned

Illustration of the Genji Monogatari Emaki (The Tale of Genji) by Murasaki Sikibu. Japanese art. Momoyama period. Drawing. JAPAN. HONSHU. Kyoto. Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation

Joe Kings Rathskeller, New York City, USA
Joe Kings Rathskeller, 17th Street and 3rd Avenue, New York City, USA -- a retro-style restaurant serving old-fashioned German-American-Irish food. Date: circa 1950s

Five police officers, including Inspector Helen Hunt, who is wearing the Norman Hartnell style womens uniform introduced in 1968

Margaret Thatcher meeting Metropolitan Police officers
Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, nee Roberts, 1925-2013), who served as British Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990

Woman police officer with car and radio, Egham, Surrey
Woman police officer (mobile officer) on duty in Egham, Surrey, standing by a police car and speaking on a handheld radio

Woman police officer in uniform, London
Woman police officer in woollen V-neck jumper and trousers, together with the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa 1985

Woman police officer at work in communications room
Woman police officer at work in front of a computer screen in a Met Police communications room. Date: circa late 1970s

Group photo, male and female police officers, SN Centenary. Date: circa late 1970s

Two police officers on horseback, London
Two police officers, a man and a woman, on horseback in a London street. They are wearing protective helmets introduced in 1984. Women were appointed to the Mounted Branch in 1970. Date: circa 1984

Woman police dog handler with dog, London
Woman police officer and dog handler (Amanda Reed, nee Longden) with police dog Zircon, Met Police, London. (3 of 4) Date: circa 1978

Woman police officer in updated hat, London
Woman police officer in the new style hat which went with the updated uniform introduced in 1977, with a range of mix and match options

Woman police officers accessories: a whistle on a chain, a plastic-covered notebook, a wooden truncheon with leather strap, and the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa late 1980s

Woman police officer in updated uniform, London
Woman police officer (Nickie Benn) posing in the updated uniform introduced in 1977, with a range of mix and match options, including an overcoat with optional shoulder cape as seen here

Advert for Jays womens blouses 1933
Women wearing long and short sleeved blouses, with different style collars. 1933

Interior of a coffee in a city of Morocco. 20th c. Engraved color. Engraving

Three checkered dresses by Martial et Armand

Music at home, 1876
They struck up a part song of a wild, pathetic character, with a long drawn out refrain in a minor key." A group of senior people gather round the piano and sing a sad song. 1876

Magician performing the cup and balls trick in front of a se
Undated illustration of a magician performing the cup and balls trick in front of a seated audience, entitled " Champy dit Connus". HPG/8/2/1 (xxxi)"

The Tatler Front Cover, Xmas Number 1914
A colour illustration from the front cover of The Tatler, depicting a cartoon soldier holding a Union Jack flag, marching across a checkered background, hung with various national flags

White cat on a sofa
A stylised airbrush picture by Malcolm Greensmith, showing a white cat stretched out on a sofa with a purple landscape disappearinginto the distance through a pair of shutters

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