Desk Collection (page 8)

Find the Fault card No. 21 -- office desk. circa 1930s

Two police officers working in a station, London
Two police officers working in a London police station. The WPC is Maureen (Mo) Dennison. Date: circa 1950s

Two women police officers working in a station, London
Two women police officers working in a London police station, looking in a book. One of them is Maureen (Mo) Dennison (right). Date: circa 1950s

CS Winifred Barker and Superintendent Shirley Becke
Winifred Theodora Barker (c1909-1995), third commander of the Met Police A4 (Women s) Branch, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent in 1960

Woman police officer on the phone in a police station
Woman police officer (Maggie Coombs) on the telephone in a police station. Date: circa late 1970s

Chief Superintendent Winifred Barker in her office
Winifred Theodora Barker (c1909-1995), third commander of the Met Police A4 (Women s) Branch, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent in 1960

Woman police officer talking in a school classroom
Woman police officer (Helen Parnell) talking to a group of children in a school classroom. Date: circa 1980s

Women police officers at work, WEC, London. They are Sergeant Patricia May Atkinson (seated left, joined August 1946), and Constables Ada Sandy (joined July 1928)

Frog at a writing desk on a New Year card
Frog standing at a writing desk on a New Year card, with seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Charles Hadden Spurgeon (at desk)
Charles Hadden Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) English Baptist minister and noted preacher seated at his desk

Man in an office with an Exidy Sorcerer computer and word processor. Date: circa late 1970s

Piece of paper on a desk with a large number 4
A piece of paper on a desk with a large printed number 4

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Micky and Cracker, an Irish Wolfhound and a Bull Terrier. Seen here behind his desk, growing bored by the story about the monkey. Date: 1927

WWI German commemorative desk ornament
First World War German commemorative desk ornament, dated 1914-1918 and engraved Unseren Helden/Deutsche Treue (Our Heroes and Loyalty to Germany).. Trench Art

Foucault Pendulum, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, USA
Foucault Pendulum, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California, USA, designed by Jean Foucault in 1851 to demonstrate the earths rotation. Date: 20th century

Johann Hartung
JOHANN HARTUNG German philologist at Freiburg - his spectacles are on his desk along with his writing implements. Date: 1505 - 1579

Mehmet Munir Ertegun - Turkish Ambassador to the US
Mehmet Munir Ertegun (1883-1944) - Turkish Ambassador to the US at his desk in Washington DC. The Father of the Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President, in Philadelphia, USA
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia

Richard von Kuhlmann and Count von Czernin, Brest Litovsk
Richard von Kuhlmann (1873-1948), German Foreign Secretary, signing the peace treaty of Brest Litovsk, Russia (now Brest, Belarus)

Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz at her desk
Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887-1947), second wife of the deposed Kaiser Wilhelm II. Seen here working at her desk in Doorn Castle (Huis Doorn), Netherlands. Date: circa 1930s

Queen Elizabeth II at her desk, 1959
Queen Elizabeth II at work at her desk at Buckingham Palace. The Queen opens her dispatch box of State papers. Behind the box on the desk are a number of family photographs

Boy on 80S Computer
A boy sits at a desk typing on his Commodore 64 keyboard. A printer, joystick and lamp sit on the desk. Two televisions and a strange model of a mushroom are in the background

Botany Room, Brondesbury and Kilburn High School
A classroom scene, showing girls at work in the Botany Room at Brondesbury and Kilburn High School in north west London. Botanical pictures decorate the wall at the back

A-G Citroen / Fantasio 22
ANDRE-GUSTAVE CITROEN French car manufacturer

Adjustable Armchair
Adjustable armchair by J Foot & Son of New Bond Street, London, with built-in lamp, drinks stand, book rest, writing desk and foot-rest

W Churchill / Pcard / 1933
WINSTON CHURCHILL British statesman and author Reading correspondence at his desk in 1933

Susi - with books and papers at a desk. 1950s

Susi - on a writing desk
Susi - with papers on a writing desk. 1950s

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American author of Uncle Toms Cabin. circa 1850s

George Mogridge, English writer
George Mogridge (1787-1854), prolific English writer, poet and childrens author, also known as Old Humphrey. circa 1850s

French Railway Alphabet - I for Ingenieurs (engineers). 19th century

Mr Whitestone, teacher, Ealing, West London
Mr Whitestone, teacher at Durston House School, Ealing, West London, seen here at his desk in a classroom. Date: circa 1900s

Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927), popular English writer, author of Three Men in a Boat, pictured at a writing desk in his home at Goulds Grove, Wallingford. Date: 1903

The Bells, by Leopold Lewis, starring H B Irving
The Bells, by Leopold Lewis, first produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, November 1871. Pictured here is Harry Brodribb Irving (1870-1919) in the role of Mathias

Christmas card with desk, window and robin -- A wish sincere I here indite, Your Yule be gay, your New Year bright. circa 1905

Cartoon portrait of Henry James Byron
Cartoon portrait, Henry James Byron (1835-1884), English dramatist, editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor. 1884

Booklet cover, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Are We Heading For War? published by the Labour Party in 1934. Date: circa 1933

Pensive Victorian man at his desk
Pensive Victorian man seated at his desk. circa 1895

Soldier in an office, British Army of the Rhine, Germany
Soldier in an office with charts and maps on the wall behind him, British Army of the Rhine, near Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lower Saxony, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

German secretary, British Army of the Rhine, Germany
German secretary at her typewriter, in an office run by the British Army of the Rhine, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

Christopher Hibbert, writer, historian and biographer
Christopher Hibbert (1924-2008), English writer, historian and biographer, seen here at his desk in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. 1960s

Queen Victoria in old age. 1897

Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Mrs Feedus the Grocers wife. 1928

Naval Headquarters, Chateau d Hennement, France, WW2
British Naval Headquarters, Chateau d Hennement, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. 1940s

Bailleul, France - Pharmacy. Date: circa 1910s

Christian Evangelist Missionary - Mexico. Date: 1902

Officers desk, BAOR, Braunschweig, Germany
Officers desk in an office with charts and maps on the wall, British Army of the Rhine, near Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lower Saxony, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

Secretary and soldier in an office, Braunschweig, Germany
German secretary and British soldier in an office run by the British Army of the Rhine near Braunschweig, Lower, Saxony, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

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