Famous Collection (page 5)

Three lady golfers, 1914
Famous female golfers who fought a strenuous battle for the Cheshire Ladies Championship at Wallasey in April 1914. From left to right, Miss Gladys Ravenscroft (American champion)

View of the main entrance to Waterloo Station, London
View of the famous main entrance to Waterloo Station, London. According to the clock, it is 11:10 in the morning, when most people are already at work. A row of taxis waits outside. Date: circa 1930s

Fireworks at Ryogoku by Utagawa Hiroshige (Edo series)
Fireworks at Ryogoku (Ryogoku Hanabi), No. 98 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) - (see: 10505423 for alternate version). Date: circa 1858

Library of Congress Mural - The Occupation of the Day
Washington DC, USA - Mural - The Occupation of the Day by Charles Sprague Pearce (1851-1914). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Religion. Worship before an altar of Fire

Virginia, USA - Mount Vernon - George Washingtons Mansion Date: 1920

The Needles, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Fine aerial view of The Needles Rocks and lighthouse, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England Date: circa 1920s

Pioneer Woman Sculpture
English born sculptor Bryant Baker (1881 - 1970), putting the finishing touches to his famous sculpture Pioneer Woman now at Ponca City Museum, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Date: 1930

Barbara Woodhouse & Dog
Famous dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse (1910 - 1988), seen here with Junia the Great Dane doggie film star, who must have her grey mouth hairs darkened with special make-up! Date: late 1960s

Kilburn White Horse
View near the village of Kilburn, Yorkshire, England, with the famous chalk carving of the White Horse of Kilburn in the distance. Date: 1950s

Herculaneum Ruins
The ruins of the town of Herculaneum, Italy, less famous than Pompeii, but destroyed in the same series of eruptions of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Date: 1930s

The American dancing and signing duo the Hengler Sisters
The American dancing and signing duo, famous on both sides of the Atlantic, the Hengler Sisters @ 1905 Date: 1920s

Three Mitford Sisters: Unity, Diana and Nancy
Three of the famous Mitford Sisters, daughters of Lord and Lady Redesdale, photographed in the street. From left to right are Unity (Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, 1914-1948)

The Arena in Verona, Italy
19th century vintage photograph - the Arena in Verona, Italy

Sir Richard Tangye, Birmingham engineering firm
Sir Richard Tangye, Head of the famous Birmingham engineering firm. late 19th century

Fred Clegg, Rugby player. 1890s

Jumbo the elephant giving a ride at the zoo
Jumbo the elephant giving children a ride at the zoo. 1891

James Hannan, Welsh international rugby player
James Jim Hannan (1864-1905), Welsh international rugby player who also played for Newport. 1890s

G O Smith, footballer and cricketer
Gilbert Oswald Smith (1872-1943), amateur footballer who played for Oxford University and the Corinthians, and was captain for England. He played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Surrey

H B Daft, English footballer and cricketer
Harry Butler Daft (1866-1945), English footballer with the Corinthians, Notts County, Nottingham Forest, Newark and England, also a first-class cricketer with Nottinghamshire. 1890s

Les Honneurs sous le feu. Georges Scott, (1873-1943). Scott Started His Career In The 1890S And Worked As War Correspondent For The News Magazine L Illustration During The Balkan Wars Of 1912-13

In front and behind the scenes at the Coliseum, London
A great stage and a great curtain: in front and behind the scenes at the Coliseum, London. Top centre: a diagrammatic view of the revolving stage

Hatton Garden
Though Hatton Garden is chiefly associated with the jewelry trade, it is also famous as the location of the warehouse of Rowlands Macassar Oil. Date: 1838

Washington DC, USA - Great Falls, Potomac River. How fortunate for the rainbow to have appeared just as the picture was taken.... Date: 1920

FERMAT, Pierre de (1601-1665). French lawyer, famous for his work in mathematics. Varia Opera Mathematica (1659). Title page. SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

Pantomime artist Will Evans with his children
Will Evans (1866 -1931) was an eccentric comedian who performed in pantomime from a young age, and appeared on the music halls in the 1890s

Chief Seattles Grave
The grave of Chief Seattle (Si ahl), (circa 1780-1866) - a DkhwDuwAbsh (Duwamish) chief, also known as Sealth, Seathle, Seathl, or See-ahth. He followed a course of accommodation to white settlers

Etruria Factories
General industrial view of Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, England. It was here that Josiah Wedgwood opened his famous pottery factory in 1769, which closed in 1950 Date: 1960s

Gold Mining Statue
The famous Gold Mining Statue, Johannesburg, South Africa, depicting 3 men - 2 black and 1 white, drilling a rock face, a bronze sculpture by David McGregor, 1960. Date: 1960

Thames at Pangbourne
A famous stretch of the River Thames at Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. Date: 1950s

Ickwell Maypoleds
The famous maypole at Ickwell, Bedfordshire, England. Date: 1930s

Graf Zeppelin - LZ 127 - at anchor. The inset portrait shows Dr. Hugo Eckener (1868-1954), the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years

1920S Jazz Band
Experienced players in a West End (of London) workshop, who daily repair instruments belonging to famous bandsmen, have formed a band, thoroughly testing all the instruments! Date: 1920s

Vassilka, pet dog of Queen Mary of Teck
Vassilka, favourite Russian borzoi of Mary, wife of George V, poses with her keeper at the kennels at Sandringham, Norfolk. Date: circa 1930

Pitmans School, Southampton Row, London - School Building of the famous Secretarial School, teaching secretarial skills such as shorthand and typing

Alcock and Brown - Aviators
British aviators John Alcock (1892 - 1919) and Arthur Whitten Brown (1886 1948) made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919.[1] They flew a modified World War I Vickers Vimy bomber

The Famous Dolma Maker, Constantinople
A Famous Dolma maker. Dolma is a family of stuffed vegetable dishes in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions. The stuffing may or may not include meat

Poster advertising Budh Gaya, India
Poster advertising India and the Budh Gaya, or Bodh Gaya, a famous place of Buddhist pilgrimage

Sliven, Bulgaria - The Sinite Kamani rocks
Sliven, Bulgaris. The famous rocky massif Sinite Kamani ( The Blue Rocks ) and the associated national park, the fresh air and the mineral springs offer diverse opportunities for leisure and tourism

The Retreat from Mons by W. B. Wollen
With the British regulars during the famous retreat from Mons in the opening weeks of World War I. In the narrow streets of Landrecies, soldiers of the Grenadier

Clark Gable (1901-1960) American actor whose most famous film was probably Gone with the Wind

Daphne Du Maurier Cover
DAPHNE DU MAURIER English writer and novelist. Author of " Rebecca" and " Jamaica Inn" and famous resident of Cornwall

Gilbert Jessop (1874-1955)
Photograph of Gilbert Jessop, the Gloucestershire and England batsman, who was famous for his feats of quick-scoring - he once scored a century in only 40 minutes

Bell and Mackerel Pub
The Bell and Mackerel public house, Mile End Road, east London, at one time a famous museum and noted for its coaching proprietor. Sadly, demolished in about 1910

England / Chester / Eastgate
The famous Eastgate at Chester, erected in 1769 at the expense of Lord Grosvenor, replacing a former gate. The clock commemorates Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee

Ocyrrhoe - Mare
The daughter of the centaur Chiron tells Aesculapius that he will be a famous physician, but she is turned into a mare for her presumption

Festival Clock 1951
The colourful Guinness Clock at Battersea Pleasure Gardens, one of the famous attractions of the Festival of Britain, London, England

BARRY STATUE, PARIS
Memorial statue to Barry, a St Bernard dog who rescued 42 people in the Alps, but was killed by the 43rd who thought the dog was attacking him, Asnieres cemetery, Paris

Advertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean cafe, Derby
Advertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean, The Wardwick, Derbys Supreme Cafe, where you need not be ashamed to meet your friends, and where you can hear the famous electric gramophone

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