Crescent Collection (page 7)

Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus, crescent honeyeater
Plate 27, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol. 4 (1840-1848)

Columba jouyi, Ryukyu pigeon
Photograph of Columba jouyi specimen. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2009. This species is now extinct

Dardanelles Cartoon / 1915
A German view of the Britsh Dardanelles expedition. 1915

Firefighters working at fire on building site
Firefighters working at a fire on a building site in Calypso Crescent, Peckham, London SE15

Satirical images of an Air Balloon
Set of 12 satirical images with captions of an Air Balloon, showing filling, flying, reaching the moon, coming back to earth, and bursting. 1784

Crescent moon in the footfall. Print shows a folded kimono in a box and a ball on top of another box, with a couple accessories. Date between 1815 and 1825

Crescent Steamer - Boat Trip de Luxe - San Diego, California
Crescent Steamer (of the Star & Crescent Boat Company) - Boat Trip de Luxe - San Diego, California. Date: circa 1937

Sketch from Royal Crescent, Ramsgate, Kent
Sketch from a window in Royal Crescent, Ramsgate, Kent, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. Showing people on the promenade and ships out at sea. 1856

Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Mustafa III (House of Osman), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (reigned 1757-1774). Date: 1717 - 1774

D those Raiders
Damn those Raiders! The searchlight from a German Zeppelin flying over the English coast spoils a tender clifftop moment between a soldier and his sweetheart. circa 1917

Eastern scene - Egyptian Mosque in moonlight
Two eastern types, standing by a Mosque in Egypt, bathed in moonlight Date: circa 1930s

Donkey and owl at night
A donkey and owl alone together in the night, the crescent moon and stars shining down on them in this tranquil scene. 1925

Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton
The Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton - an " unrivalled situation for health and quietude" ! Date: 1910

The Waning Moon I m going down-hill fast, My bones are cold, its raining, My money spent, my chances past, I m waning, waning, waning! Date: circa 1910s

Egyptian and Ottoman Flag
Egyptain coat of arms, crown and Ottoman Empire flag above (also the Egyptian flag confusingly...). Date: circa 1908

Advertisement for the Crescent Hotel, Buxton
An advertisement for the Crescent Hotel, Buxton, North Derbyshire: a first-class hotel with electric light in all rooms, and a new electric passenger lift. Date: 1913

Turkish field artillery in action, WW1
Turkish field artillery in action during the First World War. Men of the Red Crescent (left) are carrying a wounded man on a stretcher. Date: 1914-1918

Waltham Abbey Altar
The original Nave of Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. On the right is the Norman south doorway and the door, with its curious crescent-shaped hinges. Date: 11th century

Jewel of the night
Front cover showing a ladies earring as the moon crescent. Date: 1930

Regent Street Traffic
Taxis and traffic on Regent Street, central London. Date: late 1960s

Georgian Terrace
A delightful terrace of Georgian town houses, with shuttered windows, at Barnefield Crescent in the heart of the city of Exeter, Devon, England. Date: circa 1800

Serbian Red Crescent troops resting, Serbia, WW1
Serbian Red Crescent troops resting in Serbia on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1915-1917

Festival of Britain and Fun Fair, with Danish royal visitors
Views of the Festival of Britain (South Bank) and Fun Fair (Battersea). Top left is the boating pond with a cardboard set suggesting English village buildings

Mother Goose, riding through the air. 20th century

Opening of the Sultan Hamidie Hospital, Pera, Istanbul - final touches are being made to the decorations. Date: circa 1910s

LADY OF 1420
A lady of the reign of Henry V sits on the bank of a stream, strumming her dulcimer. She wears a fashionable crescent head=dress and a long gown. Date: 1420

Fantasy Postcard on Turkish Empire
Fantasy postcard by Raphael Tuck featuring aspects of Turkish art, script and produce Date: circa 1906

The Flag of Morocco

Veiled Egyptian Lady
A fine portrait of an Egyptian woman, wearing a very elaborate veil and a small tassled round hat, decorated with crescent moons. She holds an interestingly shaped ceramic vessel in her lap

Turkish Woman wearing the Turkish flag
Turkish woman draped in the National flag leaning on a plant stand

Ottoman Empire Flag

German soldiers at Eskisehir
German troops pose with Turkish officials at Eskisehir, Turkey. In Latin it was known as Dorylaeum. Founded by the Phrygians in c.1000 BC

Group of Mevlevi Dervishes - Istanbul - with children
Group of Mevlevi Dervishes - Istanbul (Constantinople) - with childrenThe Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

Imperial Gates - Constantinople, Turkey
Imperial gates on the European side of the Bosphorus. A lady of the Harem sits astride the crescent moon of Turkey in an unusual addition to this fine card

Arab Woman with fine earrings - Egypt
Arab Woman with fine crescent moon-shaped earrings - Egypt

Egypt - Cairo - Kasr-el-Nil Bridge
Egypt - Cairo - the Pont de Ghazirah (a bridge over the Nile) and a street scene in the city

Egyptian scenes
A very early Egyptian postcard with scenes from the country including dhows and feluccas on the River Nile (set within a crescent motif) and a water carrier loading up a donkey

Turkish Red Crescent Medical Orderly
Turkish Red Crescent Military Medical Orderly during World War One

Christian propaganda postcard
A postcard depicting the Ayasofya Mosque with a fascinating inset picture showing the Turkish crescent shoe stamping on the Christian cross and on the reverse of the card the caption reads

An Ottoman National Anthem, which replaced the previous version in 1909

Postcard from a serving girl
A postcard message sent to Miss Elsie Underwood, Bournemouth from Lil, recently employed as one of ten servants working at No.2 Wilton Crescent, London S.W

Proclamation of the new Constitution - Salonica
The proclamation of the new Constitution - Salonica (now part of Greece), on 24th July 1908 - revolutionary military group from Resna, South West Macedonia under the commmand of Melek Bey

Ottoman Flags
Collection of Ottoman Flags

Ataturk Primary School
Pupils at the Ataturk Primary School -

Photo / Stripe Dress 1880S
Tight fitting, high-necked bodice, buttoning diagonally from shoulder to waist, kilted under-skirt, draped tunic caught up at the rear. Watch & crescent brooch

Fashionable flappers
Two young women, dressed in up-to-the-minute knee length dresses pose on a verandha or balcony under the light of a crescent moon

Park Crescent, London
Park Crescent, west London. Situated at the northern end of Portland Place, the imposing colonnaded front is by the architect John Nash, and was built in 1812

Disraeli and Asia Minor
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli repairs Asia Minor, claiming this improving of the noble Turk is his proudest work in this satire on early British Colonialism

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