Covers Collection (page 5)

Front cover of Graphic - Christmas 1870
Front cover of The Graphic, supplement for Christmas 1870, showing five winged cherub angels looking in the centre of the page, at a star to signifie the birth of Jesus. 1870

London transport recruiting female bus conductors to replace men called up for national service. 1940

Sir Donald Currie (1825 - 1909), Scottish shipowner, politician and philanthropist, founded the Castle line in 1862, running clippers to India

Betrothal of Duke of York later King George VI and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (The Queen Mother) at Glamis Castle

The Shell Grotto - an ornate subterranean passageway shell grotto in Margate, Kent, England - The Dome. Date: circa 1910s

Easter Bunny Cake Date: 1935

Eileen Bennett Whittingstal (1907- 1979), female tennis player from the United Kingdom who won six Grand Slam doubles titles from 1927 to 1931. Date: 1928

Prince of Waless Tour of India 1875
Front cover supplement in The Illustrated London News, October 1875. Eldest son of Queen Victoria, Prince of Waless (later Edward VII), embarked on an extensive tour of the Indian subcontinent

Crowds outside Buckingham Palace, London 1902
Date: June 1902

Leviathan later named SS Great Eastern under construction
Front cover for The Illustrated Times, dated 7 November 1857. Christened Leviathan in the early stages, thereafter always known as SS Great Eastern, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

ELEGANT SHOOTING LADY
A bird of prey sets out knowing that she is immaculately dressed for the part. Date: 1931

Costume La Mode 1846
Pink dress: four scallop edged flounces, tight fitting sleeves with volans & worn with a net pelerine. Hair: covers the ears. Green dress: worn with a shawl & bonnet. Date: 1846

KING WENCESLAS
Good King Wenceslas

Fox hunting, the kill 1820
The Leicestershire covers, huntsmen arriving back from the hunt with thier prize. Date: 1820

Fox hunting, full cry 1820
The Leicestershire covers, huntsmen and hounds on the chase. Date: 1820

Fox hunting, the meet 1820
The Leicestershire covers, before the chase the huntsmen and hounds ready to go. Date: 1820

1920s women sitting on the bonnet of a car
Young lady sitting on the bonnet of a car. Date: 1927

EQUALITY / COLLEGE GIRL
American college woman or the Vassar girl of 1922 Date: 1922

Cover design, Amazing Stories. Machine Man of Ardathia (Francis Flagg) -- 35, 000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays. Date: 1927

Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars
An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars. Martians enjoy less gravity, but must withstand a thinner atmosphere with extreme temperatures. Civilisation could be highly developed. Date: 1939

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Pluto. In perpetual twilight, and fiercely cold compared to Earth, fur-covered bats would be the best equipped life form, dwelling underground. Date: 1940

Imaginary life forms on the planet Jupiter -- living with gravity more than twice that of Earth, with atmospheric conditions to match, imposes severe restrictions on them. Date: 1940

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Mercury must withstand colossal heat, and for this reason are likely to exist in the form of insects. Date: 1939

British factory exterior, Ironmonger Magazine cover
British factory exterior, as depicted on the cover of The Ironmonger magazine. Date: 1911

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Gertie at Nottingham
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats during this period - Gertie at Nottingham. Date: circa 1907

Past and Presnt Fashions - The difference
Past and Present Fashions: Past Fashion - Covered everything and touched nothing; Present Fashion - Touches everything and covers nothing ! Date: circa 1910

Catalogue illustration, embroidered covers and tobacco set. 1. Yellow silk embroidered cover donated by the Sultan. 2. Blue sofa cover embroidered in gold and silk thread, donated by the Sultan. 3

Card of the International Anti-Vivisection League - Cat Fur
Belgian card produced for the International Anti-Vivisection League - An outcry on the use of Cat Fur for fashionable overcoat linings and the covering of motor parts

Sketch cover - the Marchesa Malacrida
Marchesa Nadja Malacrida portrayed by Olive Snell on the front cover of The Sketch magazine. She was born Louisa Nadia Green, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Green and niece of Lord Cowdray

Clemenceau as a tiger, mauling Germany, an eagle
Cartoon on the cover of La Baionnette depicting the French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau, as a tiger and Germany, an eagle, as his prey

Tatler cover - West End Arcadians - 1959
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model wearing a coat of glove cape trimmed with white fox and a hat also of white fox from Bazaar on the Kings Road (Mary Quant)

Sphere front cover - Treasure Island at the Strand Theatre
Front cover of The Sphere featuring illustration by Fortunino Matania of a scene from the play, Treasure Island, performed at the Strand Theatre in 1922 with Arthur Bourchier in the role of Long John

The Graphic Christmas Number 1921 front cover
Striking front cover design for The Graphic Christmas number 1921 featuring a little girl in a red dress decorating an enormous Christmas tree and holding a Harlequin doll in the air. Date: 1921

Tatler cover - Lady Milbanke (Sheila Chisholm) by Yevonde
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929)

London life front cover - The Playgirl Club
Front cover of London Life magazine with portraits of six women who featured in that issues article about the capitals playgirls - a term used by the magazine to describe women who are very strictly

London Life cover featuring Sophia Loren, 1965
Sophia Loren (born 1934) Italian actress, pictured on the front cover of London Life magazine in November 1965 with her husband, Carlo Ponti

Amazing Stories scifi magazine cover - Machine Man of Ardathia
Cover design, Amazing Stories. Machine Man of Ardathia (Francis Flagg) -- 35, 000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays. Date: 1927

Daily Mail War Map, WW1
Front cover of a fold out war map issued by the Daily Mail in the early weeks of the First World War. On the cover, and inside

Lady Loughborough (Sheila Chisholm), WW1
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm, daughter of Harry Chisholm of Sydney, NSW, Australia married in 1915 Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough

Tatler cover - Gerald du Maurier
Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (1873-1934), English actor and manager. Father to writers Angela du Maurier and Daphne du Maurier, son of the Punch artist George du Maurier

Tatler front cover - Mrs Percy Wyndham widowed, WW1
The Hon. Mrs Percy Wyndham, formerly Diana Lister, daughter of Lord Ribblesdale. She married Percy Wyndham in 1913, the only son of the late George Wyndham and Countess Grosvenor

Pamela Digby (later Churchill, then Harriman)
Pamela Harriman Churchill (1920 - 1997), photographed here to announce her engagement to Randolph Churchill, child of Winston Churchill, socialite, political activist and diplomat. Date: 1939

St. Ambrews Well, Crantock, near Newquay, Cornwall, England. This iron door with a carving of a mans face on it, covers the 10th century well, dedicated to St. Ambrew. Date: 10th century

London Life front cover - Geraldine Chaplin at Tonya
Front cover of London Life magazine, 4th/10th December 1965 featuring the actress Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944), daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O Neill

First cover of London Life magazine
Very first cover of London Life magazine, published on 9th October 1965 with an eye-catching oversized date line and a photograph of sixties supermodel Celia Hammond photographed by Terence Donovan

Futuristic Human Cloning, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
THE 4-SIDED TRIANGLE, by William F Temple. A scientist clones the body of a young woman in his laboratory in this futuristic science fiction magazine cover

The Raid from Mars, Amazing Stories SciFi Magazine Cover
The Raid from Mars - Martians raid Earth in search of radium

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