Foreign Collection (page 14)

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

Home from home caravan / W H Robinson
A caravan with all the comforts (and appearance) of home. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

A Laugh between friends - Iran
3 Friends sharing a joke at Bushehr (Bushire), Iran

The Tatler Summer Number 1957
Jolly front cover design for The Tatlers Summer Number showing two women in traditional, but unspecified Mediterranean or European dress carrying baskets of fruit and flowers

War Preparations in Berlin. Foreign attaches watch a mock air raid on 20th September 1937

Bible presented to King George V
Detail of the cover of a Bible presented to King George V by the British and Foreign Bible Society

British Army Officer in a sporty coupe

Turkish Christmas Card
Christmas card sent by Ferdinando de Paruta who was the Director of the International Couriers and Guides Office of Pera, Constantinople. Card produced by Sebah and Joaillier in Constantinople

Turkish Coin Card - small denominations
Turkish Coin Card, illustrating various small denominations of coin with their foreign exchange rates

Turkish Coin Card, illustrating various denominations of coin with their foreign exchange rates

Allied Fleet at Constantinople
The Allied fleet at Constantinople, Turkey, right at the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1923

Humourous postcard - Foreign Tourists
A funny cartoon, lampooning tourists to Egypt as Pigeons plucked by Egyptian Vultures

Foreign houses - Beijing, China
Foreign style house in Beijing, China. A camel caravan passes by

Edward Grey / Stamp
SIR EDWARD GREY British Liberal statesman who served as Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916

Colonel Ralph Ponsonby Watts (1892 - 1991) at Bushehr (Bushire), Iran. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Bushehr, Iran - An excursion drive
A small party of European Diplomatic staff taking a drive into the Iranian countryside close to Bushehr (Bushire), Iran. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Drinking at a picnic - possibly in Iran
A group of British diplomatic (or foreign service) personnel fool about during a picnic, possibly in Iran. Their attendant guard seems totally unfazed by the high jinks

Challemel-Lacour / Demare
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (1827-1896) French statesman, Republican, unsuccessful French ambassador at Bern and London, minister of foreign affairs in the Jules Ferry cabinet

Foreign and India Offices, 1866
The Foreign and India Offices in Whitehall, London, designed by the architect George Gilbert Scott. Construction was begun in 1861 and completed in 1868. The view seen here is of the Park Front

Tom Titt / Sir Edward Grey
SIR EDWARD GREY, Viscount of Fallodon, Statesman, Politician and Foreign Secretary during World War One

British delegation to NATO, 1953
The British delegation to the NATO council: Mr. Anthony Eden(centre), at this time Foreign Minister, with (left) Lord Alexander, Minister of Defence, and right Mr. Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply

K. R. and A. I. (Illustrated): Purchase of Foreign Literatur
Three sailors enjoying a copy the magazine, La Vie Parisienne during World War One; not the sort of literature recommended in the Kings Regulations and Admiralty Instructions booklets

The Foreign and India Offices, London, 1866
Engraving showing the park front exterior of the then newly built Foreign and India Offices, London, 1866

Design for The Foreign Office, London, 1857
Engraving showing the design for the British Governments Foreign Office, created by Coe and Hofland Architects, London, 1857

The Strangers Home, Limehouse, 1870
Engraving showing the interior of one of the rooms of the Strangers Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders in West India Dock Road, Limehouse, London, 1870

Count Berchold, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister

Japanese Emissaries at the Surrender of Japan, 1945
Photograph showing Foreign Minister Shigemitsu (on left) and General Yoshi Umezu (on right), the Japanese signatories of the formal surrender of the Japanese Empire, on board USS Missouri

Admiral Jellicoes farewell to Lord Kitchener
A photograph of Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe (1859-1935) bidding farewell to Field-Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) before his embarkation aboard the H.M.S

Josephine & Ambassadors
Josephine, wife of the First Consul, receives foreign ambassadors at the Tuileries Palace, France

Foreign Amusements or the British Lion on the Watch

Politics / John Bull / C1910
John Bull: " I say, this is getting serious." Cartoon on foreign imports to Britain

A Family of Jewish Immigrants, London, 1904
Engraving showing a family of Jewish immigrants, a grandmother, mother and three children in the East End of London, 1904

Joseph Chamberlain arriving in the House of Commons, 16th Ma
Illustration of Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary (centre with monocle), entering the House of Commons to loud applause from the Government benches, 16 March 1903

The Representatives at the Conference of Constantinople, 187
Engraving showing the four main representatives at the Conference of Constantinople, 1876 (clockwise from top left): Savfet Pasha, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs; General Ignatieff

Immigrants making cigarettes in their lodgings, London, 1904
Engraving showing three young women immigrants, sitting around a table rolling cigarettes, London, 1904. This engraving was part of an article in the Illustrated London News entitled The Alien in

Lunch in a Jewish shelter, London, 1904
Engraving showing a group of men, seated on benches around a table having soup for lunch, at the Jewish shelter in the East End of London, 1904

Immigrant arriving at the Jewish Shelter, London, 1904
Engraving showing the Principal of the Jewish shelter, in the East End of London, talking to a newly arrived immigrant, 1904

Immigrant Bootmakers at Work, London, 1904
Engraving showing young male immigrants hard at work making shoes; stitching, sewing and hammering at a work table, London, 1904

Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929)
Engraving of Archibald Philip Primrose, the 5th Earl of Rosebery, made in 1886 when he was serving as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Sellers at the Petticoat Lane Market, London, 1904
Engraving showing some of the sellers at the Petticoat Lane market; an old lady selling herbs and vegetables and a man and his son selling offcuts, London, 1904

An Immigrant arriving in London, 1904
Engraving showing a Jewish immigrant with his pack on his back, being greeted by a loved one, while an officer from the Jewish shelter looks on, London, 1904

Immigrants arriving at the Jewish Shelter, London, 1904
Engraving showing a group of immigrants, some families with small children, arriving at the Jewish night shelter in Leman Street, the East End of London, 1904

Passengers on a Trans-Atlantic Steamship, 1888
Portrait caricatures of three passengers on the trans-Atlantic steamship, Moselle, originally entitled Our Foreign Contingent

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