Feb17 Collection (page 2)

Brick tower (Dhamek Stupa) at Sarnath, nr Benares, India
Ancient brick tower (Dhamek Stupa) at Sarnath (Sarnat), near Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1910s

Schoolgirls practising gymnastics to music (provided by an upright piano). Date: circa 1920s

Chile - Santiago - Plaza Italia, also known as (Metro) Baquedano. This huge roundabout sits in the heart of the city - the equestrian statue shows General Manuel Baquedano (1823-1897)

The Bull and Bush, Hampstead, London. Date: circa 1906

Parsons Green, Fulham, West London Date: circa 1908

Lady Elcho (Lady Violet Manners)
Lady Elcho, formerly Lady Violet Manners (born 1888), wife of Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho and heir to the Earl of Weymss. She was sister to Lady Diana Manners

Cards? by H. M. Bateman
A rather naive gent is invited to join three more worldly looking chaps at a card table, only to find himself soon afterwards utterly at a loss. Date: 1920

The Vacuum - A Masterpiece by H. M. Bateman
Page 1 of 4. Brilliant sequential cartoon by H. M. Bateman depicting a man asking his maid to have a go at a vacuum cleaner, only to find he sucks up everything in his path. Date: 1920

The Tatler front cover - wedding of Harold Macmillan
Front cover of The Tatler featuring the wedding of Harold Macmillan, future Prime Minister, and Lady Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire. The newlyweds are pictured leaving St

Douglas Fairbanks, Clement Shorter and Charlie Chaplin
Clement Shorter, founder and editor of The Sphere magazine, pictured flanked by movie stars, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin during a visit to America in 1920. 1920

Dance card - programme
Dance card for the Annual Ball of the Metropolitan Police, Holborn Division, held at the Holborn Restaurant on 27th January 1913, listing the 24 dances

Lady Byng of Vimy by Percival Anderson
Lady Byng of Vimy, formerly Miss Marie Moreton. Wife of General Sir Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862 - 1935); commanded the British Third Army at the Battle of Cambrai in November to

Paula Gellibrand, wife of the 1st Marquis de Casa Maury (1898-1986), socialite, pictured in a very effective head-dress (according to The Tatler), designed for her by Elspeth Phelps. Date: 1920

James Frampton of Moreton (1769-1855), Commandant of the Dorset Yeomanry and anti-revolutionary. Date: 1795

Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire - Gent pushing his young baby boy, sitting up in a fine perambulator ( Redelsham ?) with his elder daughter in a pretty white summer dress, walking alongside

France - Loie Fuller - Dance of the Seven Veils (Salomes dance performed before King Herod Antipas). Date: circa 1905

Mammari, Cyprus - Nicosia District, north of Kokkinotrimithia (currently in the UN buffer zone). Date: circa 1930s

The New Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London. Built in 1806, and used till 1939. The Old Royal Military Academy also on site was in use from 1741 until the new academy opened. Date: 1914

Tite Street, Chelsea, London. Chelsea Lodge (left) and James McNeil Whistlers famous White House, designed by Edward William Godwin (right - demolished in 1968). Date: 1905

Royal Academy of Music, London
Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London - Part of the University of London. Date: circa 1920s

A beautifully decorated and decorative fan, with pink cherry blossom and gilded detaiing. Date: circa 1905

Alexandria, Egypt - Station Bacos. Date: circa 1907

Ethiopian Girls
Ethiopian (Abyssinian) Girls. Date: circa 1905

Hythe, Kent - The School of Musketry - Main Entrance Date: 1905

New York Worlds Fair - Home Furnishings Building. Date: 1939

New York Worlds Fair - Belgium Exhibits Building. Date: 1939

New York Worlds Fair - Lagoon of Nations - Night scene with spotlights. Date: 1939

New York Worlds Fair - USSR Exhibit Building. Date: 1939

New York Worlds Fair - Foreign Exhibit Building - Lagoon of Nations. Date: 1939

New York Worlds Fair - Communications Building. Date: 1939

New York Worlds Fair - Statue of George Washington. Date: 1939

Egyptian Mummy in British Museum, London - Horemheb
Mummy of Horemheb, an adult large-boned man. Ptolomaic Period (332 BC - 31 BC). Painted and gilded hollow-work cartonnage case. Date: circa 332 BC - 31 BC

Egyptian Mummy in British Museum, London - Adult man
Mummy of an adult man, name unknown. The preparation has been carried out with great care and skill by the embalmer, and the rounded

Egyptian Mummy in British Museum, London - Young adult man
Mummy of a young adult man with wooden portrait panel in tempera. Roman Period. Date: circa 140 - 180

Shanghai - China - A Grand European-style Office Building Date: circa 1930s

Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - La Grande Rue - Procession
A spectacular pin-sharp real photographic postcard of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - La Grande Rue - Procession. Date: circa 1930s

Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - The Harbour (at low tide). Date: circa 1930s

Earls Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland - The West Front Date: circa 1940s

Harry MacDonald - Woodcarvers Shop - Woolmer Green
Harry MacDonald at work in his Woodcarvers Shop - Woolmer Green, Knebworth, Hertfordshire. MacDonald (a Yorkshireman) came south and brought this cottage for 1, 000 in 1937

Rebuilding Elephant and Castle, 1957
Rebuilding Elephant and Castle, as reported in The Sphere on 9th November 1957. Date: 1957

The Illustrated London News steam printing machines
Engraving of the steam printing machines used by the weekly periodical, The Illustrated London News. There were two separate machines; one for printing one side of the paper

Monks Bar, York. The van of J. H Alderson(fat, hide and skin broker)can be seen driving towards the gatehouse in the city walls. c.1936

Procession in the grand vestibule, Exposition Universelle
Procession in the grand vestibule upon the opening of Exposition Universelle, 1867, at the Champ de Mars, Paris. Date: 1867

High Street, Wick, Scotland
An early 20th century street scene in Wick, Scotland, depicting the High Street

Ballantine stained glass window, 1862
Stained glass window by J. Ballantine and son, exhibited at the International Exhibition of 1862, South Kensington, London. Date: 1862

Reform Bill - Disraeli as friend of the working man
The new Friend of the Working Man or the Party who may bring in a Reform Bill next Session after all. Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer for the Conservative party caricatured as a

Cote d Azur, France - basket of fresh oranges. Date: 1910s

Gent in Raincoat and trilby hat strides along London street
Gent in Raincoat and trilby hat strides along a London street with a definite sense of purpose. Date: 1933

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