Desk Collection (page 14)

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

International Departures
Passengers checking in at the International Departures desk in the Europa Building, London (now London Heathrow) Airport. Date: mid 1960s

Female Air Traffic Clerk
Patricia Page-Taven, the smart Air Traffic Clerk and Courier for B.O.A, C. India, Far East and Australia, seen here answering the telephone at her desk with colleague. Date: 1940s

Secretary Taking Notes
A secretary takes notes as a man at a desk talks on the phone. Date: late 1960s

Doctor and Nurse
A doctor sits at his desk taking an appointment over the phone with a nurse looking at it over his shoulder. Date: late 1960s

Giov. Batt. Niccolini 3
GIOVANNI BATTISTA NICCOLINI Italian writer, at his writing desk. Date: 1785 - 1861

George Leigh
GEORGE LEIGH auctioneer, depicted at his desk, pen in hand. Date: 1743 - 1816

Henry Labouchere Photo
HENRI DU PRE LABOUCHERE Journalist and editor at his writing-desk. Date: 1831 - 1912

Justus Jonas Writing
JUSTUS JONAS German protestant churchman, depicted writing at his desk. with his autograph Date: 1493 - 1555

George Kennan
GEORGE KENNAN American journalist, at his desk. Date: 1845 - 1924

Tom Hood (Younger) 4
TOM (Thomas) HOOD Junior (the younger) son of Thomas Hood the elder : writer, editor of Fun, also illustrator, depicted at his writing desk. Date: 1835 - 1874

Ludovic Halevy
LUDOVIC HALEVY French writer, who shared his writing desk with a black cat. Date: 1834 - 1908

Miss N. G. Jones is at her desk on the Royal Aeronautical?
Miss N.G. Jones is at her desk on the Royal Aeronautical Society information bureau at the International Aero Exhibition at Olympia, 16-27 July 1929

China - Xianxian - French Jesuit Mission - Childrens Choir
China - Xianxian - French Jesuit Mission - Young children having a lesson outside. Date: circa 1905

A wealthy Chinese lady writing in the traditional style with brush and ink. Date: circa 1910

US President Roosevelt signs the Lease-and-Lend Bill
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lease-and-Lend Bill onMarch 11th 1941. Lend-Lease was the programme under which the USA aided the Allied nations with material between 1941 and 1945

Paleo keepers room
Meeting room within the Paleontology department of the Natural History Museum

Tommaso Salvadori (1835-1923)
Count Adelaro Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti was one of ten eminent ornithologists who assisted Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Head of the Bird Section. Image shows Tommaso working on flamingoes, c. 1890

George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937) with spirit jars, 1920s
Belgian born British naturalist, George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937), was first-class assistant in the Zoology Department in the Natural History section of the British Museum, 1882-1920

Woman sitting at desk
A woman wears her reading glasses as she reads a book at her desk. c. 1910

TERENCE, Publius Terentius Afer (190-154 BC). Cover of an edition of his comedies printed in Paris

Filippo Buonaccorsi
FILIPPO CALLIMACO BUONACCORSI Italian historian, depicted at his writing desk, scissors, inkwell and all - a delightful glimpse of a 15th century writer at work. Date: CIRCA 1437 - 1496

Lewis Carroll / Pic Book
LEWIS CARROLL alias CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON English mathematician, clergyman and writer - creator of Alice Date: 1832 - 1898

Fire dog working at scene of school fire, Dagenham, East London. Fire dogs are used in search and rescue after fires and incidents

NFS radio operator at Ealing HQ (34 D), WW2
NFS radio operator at the radio desk, Fire Force Area 34, Ealing HQ (34 D). On the board in front of her is the listing for the London Regional Area call signs

Home Office NFS Coordination Control Room, WW2
The resources of the various Regions were recorded at the central deployment control room of the Home Office, the government department responsible for the NFS

Officer from the First Troop, Philadelphia, seated by a tent in which a writing desk is visible. A soldier marches with a rifle nearby. Date 1839

Plum branches beside bookshelves and desk. Date between 1815 and 1820

Theodore Roosevelt seated at desk, facing front. Date c1902 May 17

Emersons study showing shelves of books, fireplace and desk. Date c1888

African American, standing at desk, with one hand resting on papers and one hand raised. Date c1892

President Woodrow Wilson, seated at desk with his wife, Edith Bolling Galt, standing at his side. Date 1920 June

Mary Pickford writing at a desk. Date c1918 Mar. 23

Mary Pickford, wearing a kimono, writing at a desk. Date c1918 Feb. 27

Library in Llandaff House, Glamorgan, Wales
Colour sketch of the Library in Llandaff House, Glamorgan, Wales, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. circa 1840s

European Gentleman in Public Office attended by the Crannies, or Native Clerks. (Plate 3 of 20) Date: 1813

Schoolchildren in class, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Schoolchildren photographed during a lesson at a school in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Some of them are looking rather bored. circa 1946

European Gentleman in Private Office attended by his Duftoree, of Native Office-keeper. (plate 2 of 20) Date: 1813

Gabrielle R骡ne, French actress
Gabrielle R骡 ne, French actress

Royal Wedding - Lady Louise Mountbatten
Lady Louise Mountbatten (1889 - 1965), later Queen Consort of King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, pictured on the front cover of the Illustrated London News shortly before her marriage to the widower

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