Feb18 Collection

Main Street - Yorktown, Virginia, USA Date: circa 1901

Sculpture of a Polar Bear by Francois Pompon
The work " Ours blanc", also known as " the White Bear" by Francois Pompon (1855-1933) - probably his most famous work - exhibited at the Salon d Automne of 1922 when Pompon was

Rubans de Paris - Corner of Maddox Street / St George Street
Rubans de Paris (Milliner and Draper) - Corner of Maddox Street (39a) / St George Street, London. Date: 1930s

Jubilee Market, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1905

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh (1876 - 1948), daughter of Maharajah Duleep Singh and his first wife, Bamba Muller. She was a prominent suffragette and leader of the Womens Tax Resistance League

Nelson Drug Company Store, Dowagiac, Michigan, USA
Good Drug Men - Nelson Drug Company Store, Dowagiac, Michigan, USA. This store appears to sell absolutely everything, including postcards and postage stamps! Date: circa 1920s

High Bridge over Mississippi River, Clinton, Iowa, USA. Date: 1908

A flying hotel: passenger quarters in airship R101
A flying " hotel" : the remarkable passenger quarters in Britains new giant airship, R101. The worlds largest airship

Maeda Toshiie - Feudal Chieftain of Kaga, Noto and Etchu
Maeda Toshiie (1538-1599) - Feudal Chieftain of Kaga, Noto and Etchu Date: circa 1590s

A problem for India and Pakistan, Partition 1947
A problem for India and Pakistan: the terrified refugees of the Punjab. Page from the Illustrated London News, 6th September 1947 reporting on the Partition of India. Date: 1947

The perils of sitting on a freshly-painted park bench
A humorous postcard cataloguing in 6 frames, the perils of sitting on a freshly-painted park bench. A masher " the vacant seat

WW1 - Italian Propaganda postcard
" Our plan!" - WW1 - Italian Propaganda postcard, showing the personification of Italy (as a Bersaglieri Sharpshooter) punching Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary

Sir Philip Sassoons home, 25 Park Lane: the upper landing
The Park Lane home of British politician Sir Philip Sassoon(1888-1939), decorated in the French style. Pictured here is the upper landing

Sir Philip Sassoons home, 25 Park Lane: the boudoir
The Park Lane home of British politician Sir Philip Sassoon(1888-1939), decorated in the French style. Pictured here is the the Boudoir opening into the Dining Room, featuring a vista effect

Princess Margaret at Dior fashion show at Blenheim
A Dior mannequin curtsies before Princess Margaret in the Long Library at Blenheim Palace as she displays the highlight of the collection, a white satin off-the-shoulder evening dress named Blenheim

Christmas 1952 by Harold White
A 1950s family sit around the fire at Christmas time listening to a wireless broadcast Streamers and paper chains hang from the ceiling and a rather mean looking Christmas tree stands in the corner

Menu for Kettners restaurant
The 8s. 6d. Theatre Supper served at Kettners restaurant in 1930. Gourmet delights on offer include Saumon Fume, Filet de Sole Marguery and Glace a l Orange. Date: 1930

One of Mussolinis Blackshirts - Italy, 1923
A very interesting and important card showing a member of the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale commonly called the Blackshirts or squadristi (singular: squadrista)

A Cherry Blossom Branch by Ogata Kenzan (1663-1747) Date: circa 1810s

Traveller washing his horse at Hodogaya station by Hokusai
Japanese woodblock print - part of Hokusai Katsushika Tokaido series, a traveller washing his horse at Hodogaya station by Katsushika Hokusai (17601849). Date: 1804

Preston Mont, Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire
Preston Mont (Ethel Preston Monument - 1861-1911), Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire. Walter Preston was a manufacturing chemist. He married Ethel West in 1882. They had no children

Terraced Edwardian Property - Burnley Road - Neasden, London
Terraced Edwardian Property - Dudding Hill - Neasden, London - opposite Gladstone Park. 10 down and 10s 7d per week for 15 years will purchase one of these houses - lease 999 years. Ground Rent 6

Hoorn - The Netherlands - Hoofdtoren Tower
Hoorn is a town and a former Dutch East India Company base in the Dutch province of North Holland. It lies on the IJsselmeer, a lake north of Amsterdam

Tuareg Tribesmen - Sahara - West Africa - with spears
Tuareg Tribesmen - Sahara - West Africa - posing for this photograph with their spears. Two other Tuareg self-designations are Kel Tamasheq meaning " speakers of Tamasheq"

Lili Alvarez - Spanish Tennis Champion at Wimbledon in 1926
Elia Maria Gonzalez-Alvarez y Lopez-Chicheria, also known as Lili Alvarez (19051998) - a Spanish multi-sport competitor, an international tennis champion, an author, feminist and a journalist

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach silhouette from Divine Youth series
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach silhouette from the Divine Youth series - a weightlifter. Date: 1911

The Room in which Shakespeare was born, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Date: circa 1908

Communal violence at its worst, Partition 1947
Communal violence at its worst: massacres in a divided Punjab. Page from the Illustrated London News, 6th September 1947 reporting on the Partition of India. Date: 1947

Interior of the Great Industrial Exhibition 1851
Interior of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park. Date: 1851

Irish Literary Society
Celebration of the 21st anniversary of the Irish Literary Society, London, and the National Literary Society of Ireland at Dublin, 1913. Left to right, front row, includes Agnes O Farrell, A.P

The Great Industrial Exhibition in Hyde Park 1851
Temporary glass structure of The Great Industrial Exhibition in Hyde Park taking place between from 1 May to 15 October 1851, referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition. 1851

Great Industrial Exhibition in Hyde Park, plans 1851
Temporary glass structure of The Great Industrial Exhibition in Hyde Park taking place between from 1 May to 15 October 1851, showing the interior plans of the two floors of the galleries. Date: 1851

Patriotic fancy dress, c. 1910
A man dressed up as a woman pushing a pram festooned with streamers and flags and containing three children in bonnets and bedecked straw hats

Little girl dressed up as a milk delivery person
A little girl dressed up as a milkman (or milk woman), complete with her miniature milk float. The photograph of King George VI

Sir Philip Sassoons home, 25 Park Lane: the library
The Park Lane home of British politician Sir Philip Sassoon(1888-1939), decorated in the French style. Pictured here is the library

A Calendar of Birds by Pauline Baynes
Birds of the month in the UK pictured by Pauline Baynes. 1954

The Sphere Christmas number cover by Pauline Baynes
Uninvited spectators at the Christmas revels. An early Victorian party scene specially painted for The Sphere by Pauline Baynes, better known as the illustrator of C.S. Lewiss Chronicles of Narnia

Jamaican immigrants arriving in Britain in the 1950s. Date: 1954

Princess Margaret with Christian Dior at Blenheim fashion sh
Princess Margaret talking to Christian Dior after a show of his winter collection at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. Margaret was a great fan of the French designer and wore many of his clothes

Princess Margaret visits Christian Dior salon in Paris
Princess Margaret making a special visit to the salon of dress designer Christian Dior during a visit to Paris in 1951. Date: 1951

The Queen & Princess Margaret attending Guys and Dolls
The Queen and Princess Margaret attending a performance of Guys and Dolls at the London Coliseum in July 1953. Margaret is wearing a pink silk and black lace dress by Christian Dior. Date: 1953

Queen Mother at the English Speaking Union Dinner, New York
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel during a visit to New York in 1954 for a dinner of the English Speaking Union. On the left is William V

On the threshold of nationhood, Partition 1947
On the threshold of nationhood: communal rioting in the Punjab. Page from the Illustrated London News, 22nd March 1947 reporting on the Partition of India. Date: 1947

Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London
Promotion postcard for The Pigalle, Piccadilly, London - Souvenir of the Wedding of Princess Margaret (1930-2002) to Anthony Armstrong-Jones (1930-2017) on 6th May 1960. Date: 1960

Princess Margaret and Princess Royal at Ascot, 1952
Princess Margaret and her aunt, the Princess Royal (Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood) arriving in the Royal Procession at Royal Ascot, 1952

Princess Margarets Choice of Colours for Coronation Year
Page from The Illustrated London News picturing Princess Margaret, who, as patron of the British Colour Council had sponsored five special colours for the Coronation Year of 1953

Combined fleet in China, 1860
The combined British and French fleet in China - transports in Kowloon (Cowloong) Bay, Hong Kong, preparing to get under way for the north. Part of the Second Opium War. Date: 1860

Piccadilly roadworks 1927 Roadworks in Piccadilly, London 1927
Labourers making a trail in the pavement, for some kind of maintenance, watched by a crowd of people. 1927

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