Desk Collection (page 13)

Main lobby, Park Hotel, Warren, Ohio, USA
Main lobby of the Park Hotel, Warren, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1905

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Cracker the bull terrier
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- Cracker the bull terrier resting his chin on the desk and reminding his master that the book is about dogs, not monkeys. Date: 1927

Modern children of Japan - school classroom scene
Modern children of Japan - the little girl has just chalked her name in Katakana - the simplest form of Japanese writing (which reads downwards). Date: 1932

Collectors card, monk working on a manuscript
Collectors card, monk working on an illuminated manuscript. Date: early 20th century

Fashionable woman sitting at a desk in an office. Date: circa 1920s

Advert fo J. Foot & Son, convalescing in comfort 1915
WW1 - A product advertisment promoting The Burlington Rest-Chair, an adjustable recling chair. The product is advertised as the ideal chair for the sick and wounded

WW1 - Scene at a German HQ - Moving flags on a map Date: 1914

M Barlow at writing desk

WW2 Christmas card, Winston Churchill at the microphone, making a radio broadcast. Date: circa 1942

Red Cross quartermaster in his office, WW1
A Red Cross quartermaster in his office, used as a Christmas greetings card in 1918. Date: 1918

Cartoon, French classroom scene, WW1
Cartoon, French classroom scene, with girls knitting socks for soldiers at the Front during the First World War. Date: 1915

WW1 - The German Ambassador to France delivers ultimatum
Baron Wilhelm von Schoen, German ambassador in Paris at the beginning of World War I assuring interim for Foreign Affairs M

Boy scouts from the Philippines
A group of boy scouts from the Philippines. Date: 20th century

Camerlengo at his Desk. Biccherna cover. 1388. Renaissance art. Trecento. Tempera on wood. ITALY. TUSCANY. Siena. Archivio di Stato (Provincial Archives)

Orleans, Philip II, duc d (1674-1723). Regent of France (1715-1723). The Cabinet of the Grand Dauphin at the Versailles Palace. 1723. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. YVELINES. Versailles

RENAN, Ernest (1823-1892). French philosopher and historian. Best known for his historical works on early Christianity and his political theories concerning nationalism. Renan at his desk. Engraving

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, Saint (354-430). African bishop, Doctor and Father of the Church. St. Augustine in his desk near the eagle of St. John Evangelist. Illustration on Sermons of St

Barcelona. Gaudi House Museum. Studio of Gaud
GAUDI i CORNET, Antoni (1852-1926). Studio evoking Gaud� office from 1906 to 1925. Modernism. Furniture. SPAIN. Barcelona. Park G� SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona

French Occupations card series game 1890s
French card game - Yes or No - Occupations series. Illustration of a notary (lawyer, solicitor). Date: circa 1890s

Sphere cover - His Xmas letter from the trenches, Matania
Front cover of The Sphere featuring an illustration by Fortunino Matania of a British soldier writing a letter home to his family at Christmas

Spruce Log, Palmer Park, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Spruce Log at Palmer Park, Detroit, Michigan, USA. It was sent from Washington State. One end is hollowed out and contains a writing desk and benches. The other end is an animal cage. Date: circa 1910

Christabel Pankhurst Office W. S. P. U
Christabel Pankhurst Office W.S.P.U. Christabel Pankhurst seated at a desk with a colleague, probably at the W.S.P.U offices, 4, Clements Inn. Date: circa 1910

The Lady Land Leaguers at work, 1881
The Lady Land Leaguers at work: women of the Irish Land League pictured at their Dublin office in 1881. Whilst their male counterparts were imprisoned, the women continued the Land Leagues work

Three women staff officers, London HQ, WW2
Three women staff officers in AFS London uniform, 10 November 1941. They were appointed to London headquarters to work in the recruitment and employment of women in the National Fire Service

AFS men and others looking at a globe, WW2
AFS men and others looking at a globe, Second World War. Date: 1940s

LCC-London Fire Brigade. Kensington fire station
Located in Old Court Place near Kensington Church Street, Kensington fire station retained a horse drawn turntable ladder until 1921 when it was finally replaced by a motorised version

Die-cast desk ornament of white Laffly French armoured car
Die-cast desk ornament of a white Laffly French armoured car with a helmet as an inkwell.. Trench Art

Die-cast desk ornament of a French machine-gunner with two helmet inkwells. Trench Art

WW1 diecast desk ornament, Field Marshal Foch
WW1 diecast desk ornament, a model bust of Field Marshal Foch, together with a model of the railway carriage in which the Peace Treaty was signed at Compiegne. Commemorative Ware. Date: circa 1918

Desk ornament with Royal Field Artillery arm badge, WW1
Desk ornament with a Royal Field Artillery Other Ranks arm badge. Trench Art

White Laffly French Army Armoured Car, WW1
Die-cast desk ornament of a White Laffly French Army Armoured Car with an ink well. Trench Art

General Sarrail
General MAURICE SARRAIL (1856 - 1929) commander of the third army at the battle of the Marne (1914) then of French forces in Gallipoli and later Salonika (1915-17). Date: 1916

Frontispiece, Sketch magazines stars messages to soldiers
A rather beautifully drawn frontispiece to a special supplement of The Sketch magazine introducing several pages of photographs of leading stage stars whose photographs were published along with a

Boys and teacher in schoolroom, China
Boys and teacher in a schoolroom, China. Date: circa 1890

Book cover, Learning to Spell, by Irene Martyn. Showing a girl at a desk in front of a blackboard. Date: circa 1940s

Cartoon, One Who Might Have Helped, WW1
Cartoon, One Who Might Have Helped. Showing Lord Kitchener and General Pau, defenders of France at the start of the First World War, sitting at a desk with books and maps

Reception of the May Fair Hotel
The reception area of the newly opened May Fair Hotel in Stratton Street, Mayfair, London, featuring revolving doors and floral decoration on the walls. Date: 1927

Keble Howard aka John Keble Bell (1875 - 1928), author, novelist and playwright. The third son of the Rev. G. E. Bell, he joined The Sketch magazine as Assistant Editor in 1899

King George V broadcasting to the nation
King George V (1865 - 1936), pictured making notes at his desk, while waiting to make a wireless broadcast to the Empire. Date: 1935

Dame Edith Lyttelton, writer, campaigner and spiritualist
Dame Edith Sophy Lyttelton (nee Balfour, 1865-1948), writer, administrator, campaigner and spiritualist. She served as President of the Society for Psychical Research (1933-34)

Marie Francois Goron - French Detective
Marie Francois Goron behind his desk - Detective - renowned chief of the Paris S�, the citys investigative unit. Date: 1902

Cover design, Telephone Numbers book
Cover design for a Telephone Numbers book, depicting a woman writing at a desk with a telephone next to her

Young woman at desk writing letter
A young woman takes a moment to think about what next to write as she sits at her desk. Date: c. 1910

George V working in a tent
King George V (1865 - 1936), pictured during World War I working at a desk in a large tent erected on the lawns of Buckingham Palace. Date: 1918

Elysee Palace - Presidents study
The study of the President of France in the Elysee Palace, Paris. Date: 1913

Woman at desk holding a book
A smartly-dressed woman, wearing a full length dress with decorative collar and button detail, leans on her desk with book in hand. Date: c. 1910

Queues for Esperanto courses in Russia
A large group men and women queue next to a desk where they can enrol in courses to learn Esperanto. Date: Late 19th Century

Trinidad Airport
The Help Desk of a rather empty waiting lounge in the BOAC Building, Port of Spain Airport, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: late 1960s

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