Collection (page 68)

Ocelot Trim Coat 1938
A woollen & fur costume from the Hershelle Model Collection with military pocket effect, full circle skirt & trimmings in ocelot peluche (imitation or fake fur)

Highland Ornaments
A collection of ghastly ornaments with which the true Highlander would never desecrate his home but which the Sassenach tourist carries home enraptured

Lon Miss Soc Museum 2
Some acquisitive missionary brought back this stuffed giraffe from his travels - just one of the weird items in the Museums collection

Brit Mus Arched Room
The Arched Room is part of the Museums collection of books, not yet hidden in the stacks, less still transferred to the British Library

Bruce Castle, 1787
Bruce Castle in Middlesex, the seat of James Townsend. Later it will become a museum, and our Library will act as agent for its collection, notably of postal items

Paris Art Thieves
Paris art thieves make off with treasures from a private collection

Exaggerated Dogs Cartoon
Fashions in dogs in 1889 : a lady takes her strange collection of new breeds for a walk in the park

Ww2 Leaflets
In the early stages of the war, propaganda leaflets are dropped over Germany from an RAF Wellington bomber. (We also have a collection of actual propaganda ephemera.)

Dumping Rubbish 1940S
Men working at a rubbish dump, unloading a lorry of waste paper for Kingston-upon-Thames Health Department, Surrey, England

London Nightmen (Mayhew)
LONDON NIGHTMEN

French Assignats
Assignats - paper money of the French revolutionary era. (Note : we have some actual assignats in our collection.)

Suffragette Mocked
We only want what the men have got ! - Miss Ortobee Spankdfirst addresses the public - one of the crudest cards in our collection

Aesop - Woodcutter
The fable of The Woodcutter and the Axe, from a collection published in 1485

Easy Piano Pieces
Je joue pour maman (= I play for mama) - collection of very easy pieces : this is the valse

Pope Gregorius IX
POPE GREGORIUS IX (Ugolino dei Conti di Segni) approving the decretum (collection of papal decrees) collected by Gratian, 1140

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