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Entrance to the Legation Quarter - Beijing, China. Date: circa 1907
British Legation - Beijing, ChinaRussian Legation - Beijing, China Date: circa 1910s
Paris, France - Spanish Diplomatic Wives outside the EmabssyParis, France - Spanish Diplomatic Wives outside the Embassy awaiting the official visit of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Date: 1905
Turkish houses and German and Italian Embassies, IstanbulTurkish houses crowd the hillside below the German and Italian Embassies - Constantinople, Turkey. Date: circa 1902
United States Embassy - St Petersburg, Russia Date: circa 1910s
Charles A LindberghCharles A. Lindbergh (centre) in the grounds of the American Embassy in London with A.B. Houghton, the American Ambassador and Col Joyce
Drawing of the British Embassy, Kathmandu, Nepal. Signed by
The dancing team of Harry Roye and Bille Maye, 1927The dancing team of Harry Roye and Bille Maye, who made a great success at the Embassy Club, London and in vaudeville and cabaret in New York, 1927 Date: 1927
Paraguay - Asuncion - French Embassy. Stamped with a famous Paraguayan bisect. When the Post Office ran out of stamps, they would cut a stamp of a higher value in half
Turkish Legation in Kabul, AfghanistanTurkish Legation (Embassy) in Kabul, Afghanistan Date: circa 1910s
American Embassy, LondonThe American Embassy buildings, Grosvenor Square, Westminster, London. Date: 1950s
The Constitutional Revolution in Iran (2 / 4)Irans constitutionalist uprising (1906-09) was the first great revolution of the 20th century - an expression of spontaneous rage against a corrupt and bankrupt monarchy
The Constitutional Revolution in Iran (4 / 4)Irans constitutionalist uprising (1906-09) was the first great revolution of the 20th century - an expression of spontaneous rage against a corrupt and bankrupt monarchy
The Constitutional Revolution in Iran (3 / 4)Irans constitutionalist uprising (1906-09) was the first great revolution of the 20th century - an expression of spontaneous rage against a corrupt and bankrupt monarchy
The Embassy Club, 1924The Embassy Club in London in 1924, owned by restaurateur Luigi with entertainment supplied by (Bert) Ambrose and the Embassy Club band
India - Foreign Office Personnel and staffGroup of British Foreign Office personnel in India and their house staff. Date: circa 1920s
George Earl Macartney 3GEORGE, first earl MACARTNEY Diplomat famous for his embassy to China Date: 1737 - 1806
George Earl Macartney 2GEORGE, first earl MACARTNEY Diplomat famous for his embassy to China Date: 1737 - 1806
International Scout Troop in Warsaw, all members are sons of foreign Embassies staff. circa 1960s
British Ambassador arriving in ChinaThe Arrival in China of the British Ambassador, Lord Macartney. Date: 1793
British Ambassador meeting Emperor Chien LungMeeting between Lord Macartney, British Ambassador, and the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung. Date: 14 September 1793
Sketch of the interior of the Embassy Club, 1926Sketch of the interior of the Embassy Club, London, 1926 Date: 1926
Japanese Embassy at WashingtonArrival of the Japanese Ambassadors to the United States at Washington on board the steamship Philadelphia. A box containing the treaty and treasure is brought ashore
Russian Summer Embassy - ConstantinopleThe Russian Summer Embassy at Buyukdere, Constantinople, Turkey on the Bosphorus beyond Tarabya. Standing at the North end of a large Bay - its Turkish name means Large Valley while in Byzantine
German officials in Packard carsVisitors or dignitaries and German officials in two (possibly Embassy) vehicles. Both cars are American Packards. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
German Embassy - Constantinople, urkeyThe German Embassy to Ottoman Empire at the time of World War One - Constantinople, Turkey
Crowd at a football match - Ankara, 1941Section of the crowd at a football match which took place in Ankara in December 1941 (during World War Two). Features British Embassy staff (front bottom right)
Serpentine Column and Theodosius ObeliskThe three intertwined bronze serpents were the base of a trophy which once stood in the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. Dedicated to the God Apollo by the 31 Greek cities who defeated the Persians at
Embassy Christmas CrackersColour illustration taken from a Christmas cracker box
1957 nuclear test: Student protest in JapanTokyo, Japan: a small group of Japanese students, entirely surrounded by police, demonstrating against the British nuclear tests
Prince George of Battenberg and his wife NadaThe wedding of Prince George of Battenberg (1892-1938), 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven and Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby, the daughter of an exiled Russian Grand Prince
Tsar Visits - 1Alexander II, tsar of Russia, visits France and welcomes Napoleon and Eugenie to a ball at the Russian embassy
Uprising at Ghent - 1The White hood uprising in Ghent : the burghers of Ghent send an embassy to the count of Flanders
French Embassy StaffFrench embassy staff prudently assemble in a railway carriage for greater security
Embassy to AustriaAnxious for an heir, Napoleon decides to dump Josephine, who can t oblige : he sends an embassy to Vienna suggesting marriage to Maria Luisa (Marie-Louise)
European Ambassadors in Constantinople, 1896Photograph of the ambassadors of the leading European powers, photographed in the garden of the Austrian Embassy, Constantinople (now Istanbul), 1896. Those pictured are (from left to right) P
Embassy at Great WallThe first British embassy to China, headed by George, earl Macartney, enters China via the Great Wall at Chogon Koton
China Macartney EmbasThe first British embassy to China, headed by George, earl Macartney, is greeted at (presumably) Beijing (Peking as was) by a military parade
Peking PalaceDutch embassy received at the Imperial Palace at Peking (now Beijing)
Glove as Symbol - 4Flinging a glove to the ground is a challenge - either to an individual, or as a declaration of war to a foreign embassy
Persian EmbassyWhen the Persian ambassador visits a Foreign State, he does it in style - twenty elephants, along with a troop of horsemen
British EmbassyAs the Communards deliberately fire official buildings, the British Embassy is under threat and shots are exchanged, but no extensive damage is done
Policeman on DutyPoliceman on duty outside the old American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London Metropolitan Police
Polish EmbassyA Polish embassy arrives in Rome, some of them in very fancy dress
Louis IX at Acre / CrusadeLouis IX at Acre receives embassy from the Old Man of the Mountain
Grosvenor Square 1746The United States don t yet exist, so theres no American Embassy to dominate this imposing square, part of Londons inexorable expansion westwards
Russian Embassy FrancePeter is determined to create and strengthen ties with western Europe : a Russian embassy arrives at the court of Louis XIV at Versailles
China / Great Wall 1752The Great Wall on the occasion of a Russian Embassy to China