Descent Gallery

Royal Wedding 1923 - Strathmore family tree

Page from The Sphere showing the joint descent of Prince Albert, Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon who married at Westminster Abbey on 26 April 1923. Pictures of the bride's family show Earl and Countess Strathmore, her mother and father, her brother, Lord Glamis, and her sister-in-law, Lady Glamis, her twin niece and nephew, Timothy and Nancy and her two sisters, Lady Rose Leveson-Gower and Lady Elphinstone. Date: 1923

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Poster, Indias First Aerial Pageant

Poster, Captain C. D. Barnard presents India's First Aerial Pageant, with passenger flights in the famous monoplane Spider, parachute descents, daring acrobatics by famous pilots, and bombing displays. Showing three aircraft and a parachute above an airfield, with a circular photograph of Barnard in the cockpit.
20th century

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans

Piccard's Feat - recovery on landing

Aftermath of the ascent by Professor Picard of Brussels University on August 18 1932, by balloon to around 10 1/2 miles, the greatest height achieved by a man at that point. Photograph shows Progressor Picard and Dr Max Cosyns lying full length in the shade of the gondola, due to be overcome by the extreme change of temperature from freezing cold to sweltering heat. Date: 1932

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans