Directors Collection

Directors of Chelsea Football Club 1938
The Directors of Chelsea F.C. gathered in the Boardroom. At the back, from the left, Mr J.H.Mears, vice-chairman; Mr Jack Budd; Mr Leslie Knighton, the Secretary-Manager; Mr H.Palmer

Arthur Lasenby Liberty and co-directors in trial studio
Sir Arthur Lasenby Liberty and co-directors in the trial studio. He was the founder of Liberty & Co in London. circa 1900

WW2 Christmas Card Illustration
A WW2 Christmas greetings card illustration issued by the directors and staff of dairy companies including Dried Milk Products Limited, Cow & Gate Limited and Home Counties Dairies Limited

Stanley Lupino (1893-1942) came from a celebrated theatrical family. His career embraced acting, dancing, writing and directing. Date: circa 1932

Miniature Film Sets
Danish art director and costume designer Max Ree (1889-1953) works out possible camera angles with the help of miniature film sets

Italian film director and screenwriter Mario Camerini (1895-1981), seen here on the set of his film "Ulysses" which was released in 1954. Date: circa 1953

Trial of the Glasgow Bank Directors - Sketches in court. Date: 1879

Directors of Bertram Mills Circus - Lord Burghley (Hon President), Cyril B Mills, Bernard N Mills, and the late Bertram Mills (Founder). 1949

Letterhead, Smarts Brick Works, Harborne, Birmingham
Letterhead, Smarts Brick Works Limited, California, Quinton, Harborne, Birmingham 32, West Midlands. circa 1910s

Regimental Band - Bermuda
Large Regimental Band - Bermuda Date: 1910

The Aerial Steam Carriage, or Ariel. An artists imaginary representation of a propeller-driven flying machine with wings. By Permission of the Patentees, this Engraving of The First Carriage

Frank Capra takes his first shot of England
American film director, Frank Capra, along with his wife, Lucille Warner, arrives in Egnland on the ocean liner Normandie

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Dartington Glass Ltd
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a group photo with the directors of SN Management at Dartington Glass Ltd. Date: circa 1980s

Charles & William Ingram
CHARLES AND WILLIAM INGRAM Publishers, sons of Herbert Ingram, managing directors of the Illustrated London News. Date: 1892

A monkey perches on a film-makers camera
A monkey in the jungle of northern Thailand steals focus by climbing on top of this film-makers camera. 1927

Cartoon, The Directors Box at the Alhambra Theatre, London, with Edward, Prince of Wales on the right. 1881

Max Reinhardt / Setzer Pho
MAX REINHARDT Austrian theatre, opera and film director; worked in the USA from the 1930s Date: 1873 - 1943

How Prevent Accidents
Comment on ideal way to insure against railway accidents - tie directors of railway companies to their engines! Date: 1853

Edmund Du Cane / Downey
EDMUND FREDERICK DU CANE Military, and prison reformer; inspector-general of military prisons and chairman of directors of convict prisons Date: 1830 - 1903

San SebastiᮮFestival 2009. The Shock Doctrine
SPAIN. Donostia. British film directors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross take part in a photocall at Kursaal Palace, after the screening of their film The Shock Doctrine

Action for Libel, Lyons v Lipton, WW1
Notice of an Action for Libel in the High Court of Justice, J Lyons & Co Limited being the plaintiffs, and Lipton Limited as defendants, during the early stages of the First World War

Filming of Blanche Fury
Scene during the filming of the movie Blanche Fury directed by Marc Allegret and adapted from the novel by Joseph Shearing

Thomas Clark Durant
THOMAS CLARK DURANT American railwayman, who personally pushed Union Pacific Railroad to completion but 2 weeks later was expelled from the board of directors. Date: 1820 - 1885

Soldiers guarding Willesden tunnel during rail strike
Two soldiers guarding Willesden railway tunnel in north west London during the first national railway strike, which took place in August 1911 over the issue of union recognition

The Postal Team at a regional depot
Royal Mail employees, from the directors to postmen, pose for a group photograph at a regional post depot, alongside a post box and a fleet of postal vans. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Bosses visit the factory floor
Four clearly rather important men (company directors?) visit, or possibly inspect, a printing works. The job at hand at the time of this photograph was the production of wrappers for Penguin

Increase in rail fares
The New Dragonades Or, How to squeeze money out of the working-man. Dedicated to Liberal" -minded Directors." Two steam trains with dragons heads crush working men beneath their wheels

View up Putney High Street, London
A photograph taken from the top of the tower of Putney Church (on the south bank of the Thames, London) looking up Putney High Street

Cartoon Depicting the Problems of Professionalism in Footbal
Cartoon showing the perceived problems of professionalism in football. In the main series of images, two football club directors haggle over the value of a player who performs a number of feats in

Grand Dinner to General Sir Charles J. Napier, at the London
Banquet held by the directors of the East India Company at the London Tavern in honour of Sir Charles Napiers appointment as commander of the British army in the East Indies

Aristocratic Directors
The fox and the guinea-pigs - aristocratic directors lend their names to dubious companies in return for suitable emoluments

Cecil B. De Mille
CECIL B. DE MILLE American film director - working on The Sign Of The Cross, 1932

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