Foreign Collection (page 13)

Northern Tartar Manchu woman, in a Chinese scolars studio. Calligraphy is on the wall, and she is standing in front of a desk, there is a vase with a landscape painting on it

Map of China, the route of the embassy is marked. From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China Date: 1655

Frontispiece Qing Emperor, Shunzhi
Frontispiece illustration featuring the Emperor of China (Qing Emperor, Shunzhi (1638-1661) and a globe surrounded by courtiers and prisoners

Dutch ships in stormy seas off the coast of China. From: Het gezandtschap der Ne견 andtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham

As the heathen see us - a meeting of the Chinese foreign mis

New Polish Cabinet in Paris, 1939
A new Polish Cabinet formed to lead and direct the Polish effort, despite the country being overrun by the German and Russian armies. The new Government was, second from left, M

Ministry of the Exterior - Bucharest, Romania
Ministry of the Exterior (Foreign Office/Ministry) - Bucharest, Romania Date: 1908

Moscow - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - one of the Seven Sisters Skyscrapers, built under in the Stalinist style in the late 1940s. Date: circa early 1950s

Iraq - French Foreign Legion cross Euphrates
Troops of the French foreign Legion cross the Euphrates River, Iraq in boats - January, 1926. Date: 1926

Tokyo Street Scene
An early view of one of Tokyos principal thorough- -fares, home to daimios (officials) : later it will house the Foreign Office and War Department. Date: early 19th century

Politician pelted with rotten eggs
A Politician (Juggins) is pelted with rotten eggs at a hustings. A clever play on words on this postcard from the Market Reports series

Kazimierz Pulaski
KAZIMIERZ PULASKI PONIATOWSKI - sometime lover of Catherine the Great, but her devious foreign policy led to his abdication and the destruction of his country. Date: 1748 - 1779

Stanislaw Poniatowski
STANISLAW II AUGUST PONIATOWSKI - sometime lover of Catherine the Great, but her devious foreign policy led to his abdication and the destruction of his country. Date: 1732 - 1798

India - Foreign Office Personnel and staff
Group of British Foreign Office personnel in India and their house staff. Date: circa 1920s

Ezra, Prophet
EZRA Jewish priest and scribe, a teacher of the Torah, advocate of strict observance of the law, particularly opposing the taking of foreign wives. Date: circa 459 BCE

Diplomats of the Central Powers
Gathering of foreign diplomats of the Central powers during World War one, indluding Count Lajos Szechenyi de Sarvar-Felsovidek

Balfour visiting Howitzer 1916
Arthur Balfour (central figure in flat cap), as Foreign Secretary in David Lloyd Georges wartime coalition government, viewing a 9.2-inch Howitzer during his visit to the front (location unknown)

Peshawar Fur Market - with bales loaded on carts all ready for foreign export. Date: 1910s

Touring Club Italiano chart, aeroplanes and airships
Touring Club Italiano chart of aeroplanes and airships, Italian and foreign (German, Austrian, French, British), for recognition purposes

Arthur Balfour in France

International Scout Troop in Warsaw, all members are sons of foreign Embassies staff. circa 1960s

Soviet Ambassador in London
The Soviet Ambassador in London, M. Zaroubin (hatless) and his wife, leave St. Margarets Church, Westminster, after the memorial service for the Czecho-Slovak Foreign Minister, Jan Mazaryk. 1947

Sir Edward Grey, British politician
Sir Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), British Liberal politician and ornithologist. He served as Foreign Secretary (1905-1916) under Campbell-Bannerman

Commodore Keyes with journalist on submarine, WW1
Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945), later Admiral of the Fleet, seen here (far right) as Commodore Keyes, showing a foreign journalist over HM Submarine E11 during the First World War

Count von Czernin and Richard von Kuhlmann, Brest Litovsk
Count Ottokar von Czernin (1872-1932), Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister (left) and Richard von Kuhlmann (1873-1948), German Foreign Secretary (right), arriving at Brest Litovsk, Russia (now Brest)

Ramsay MacDonald and others, Foreign Office conference
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), the first British Labour Prime Minister. Seen here with others, including the French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot (1872-1957)

Princess Elizabeth travelling to Parliament
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) glimpsed inside a royal car transporting her to the Houses of Parliament for a Commons debate on foreign affairs

Richard von Kuhlmann, German Foreign Secretary
Richard von Kuhlmann (1873-1948), German diplomat and industrialist. Seen here at his desk, probably at the time he served as German Foreign Secretary. Date: circa 1917-1918

Ernest Bevin returning from Economic Pact talks
British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, returning from Brussels after the Economic Pact talks in Brussels with Benelux Countries and France. 1948

Ignacy Paderewski, Polish delegate at Versailles, France
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), Polish pianist, composer and politician, seen here as a Polish delegate during the Versailles Peace Treaty negotiations

Coronation. Coverway alongside the abbey
Attendants and ushers wait under cover for early arrivals. Boys Scouts waiting to usher foreign representatives in The Abbey 1953

Coronation. Cars arrive with main congregation
Cars queue up in Victoria Street to deliver their passengers to the main entrance of the Abbey. These cars are delivering foreign representatives to the Abbey. 1953

Coronation. Coach arriving with VIP
A coach joins the queue of cars depositing foreign representatives. 1953

Audience / Tung Chih / 1873
Emperor Tung Chih grants an audience to representatives of foreign powers in China. Date: 29 June 1873

Pauline-Marie Jaricot
PAULINE-MARIE JARICOT French lady, miraculously healed by Saint Philomena, subsequently founded La Propagation de la Foi to support foreign missions Date: 1799 - 1862

Russells Reform Bill
Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell proposes his Reform Bill. The Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, did not support it and it failed to become law. Date: 1860

Workhouse inmate Mary Jane promoting charitable work
A postcard promoting the work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Its caption reads Mary Jane, who is a deaf and blind inmate of a Workhouse in Devonshire

Foreign Office War Declaration
A letter to Prince Lichnowsky, German ambassador, from Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey at the British Foreign Office informing him of the outbreak of World War One

Recognition of Czechoslovakia 1918
A letter from the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stephen Pichon, to the General Secretary of the Czech National Council, Edouard Benes, recognising Czechoslovakia as an indepenedent state

Boutros Pasha Ghali
Boutros Ghali (1846 - 1910), prime minister of Egypt who was assassinated on 20th February 1910 by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a nationalist student

Foreign Relations

Touring mountainous districts / W H Robinson
By fixing telescopic, self operating springs between his wheels and chassis, the motorist can keep his car at all times on an even keel

The In-a-Trice Karbedde / W H Robinson
An expanding bed, screwed to the rear of the car and fitted with a tasteful mahogany door knob. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Caravan interior / W H Robinson
Interior of the family caravan, including a library, a dining room and day nursery. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

The Trailerette for deserts / W H Robinson
The Trailerette, for touring deserts. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

The Anti-wet caravan / W H Robinson
For a typical British summer, this caravan is fitted with four stout telescopic legs enabling it to be raised bodily above high water marks

An Alpine Impasse / W H Robinson
A couple on holiday have trouble with their car and caravan over a particularly steep peak. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Driving on the right hand side / W H Robinson
A difficulty which confronts the British motorist abroad is driving on the right hand side of the road. To master this takes a little practice with mirrors

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