Foreign Collection (page 15)

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

Rizzio Plays Lute
DAVID RIZZIO Italian musician. Favourite & foreign secretary of Mary Queen of Scots. He arranged her marriage with Darnley

The Spanish Foreign Legion moving through Andalucia; Spanish
Photograph showing lorries full of the Nationalist Spanish Foreign Legion passing through a town in Andalucia, Southern Spain, on the way to the Madrid front, 1936

THE KNOWLEDGE
A London taxi driver (note the for hire sign) gives directions to a lost gentleman, perhaps a foreign tourist. Drivers armband reads Je parle Francais

Glove as Symbol - 4
Flinging a glove to the ground is a challenge - either to an individual, or as a declaration of war to a foreign embassy

Persian Embassy
When the Persian ambassador visits a Foreign State, he does it in style - twenty elephants, along with a troop of horsemen

Napoleon III Guyed
English satire on Napoleons foreign policy - depicting him as a serenader wooing Germany and other potential allies

Napoleon and Peace
English satire on Napoleons foreign policy - depicting him making up to Peace, with his international exhibition as proof of his good intentions

Coastguard Galley
Eight stalwart tars row a coastguard galley, protecting Englands shores from invasion by foreign powers

Afghan Boy Sells Cigs
An Afghan boy sells foreign cigarettes

Duma Reception
Reception at the Duma, Petrograd, for representatives of foreign military missions, to discuss the progress and continuation of the war on the Russian front

Flying on a Horse
The prince returns secretly by night to carry away the daughter of a foreign king; they flee on a magical flying horse

Sharing Chinese Cake / 189
The European powers share the Chinese cake. France backs Russia

Taking Car Abroad 1931
Taking your car on a foreign holiday was a much more complicated matter in 1931 ! Loading an ocean-going liner

French Colonial Troops
French Colonial forces from Senegal, India, Algeria, Annam (Vietnam), Madagascar - and the Foreign Legion

Advert / Visit Cuba 20C
Visit Cuba - so near and yet so foreign !

Agence De Desertion / 1909
Legion Etrangere : a deserter at an Agence de Desertion in Algeria

Anne-Louise De Stael
ANNE-LOUISE DE STAEL, French writer and talker - one of the most singular-looking foreign monsters that I ever beheld

Punch and Footman
Punch and the foreign footman

Count Von Aehrenthal
COUNT ALOIS LEXA VON AEHRENTHAL Austro-Hungarian statesman; foreign minister 1906-1912

Ex-Soldiers Demo
Demonstration outside the Foreign Office, Munich, by war invalids and ex-soldiers who demand work and pensions

Bible Society Meeting
Meeting of the British & Foreign Bible Society in Freemasons Hall. Date: circa 1819

Crystal Palace / Lodgings
Satire on the lack of lodging facilities during the Great Exhibition; " This is all I have ma m - I have just let the last tent on the tiles to a Foreign Nobleman"

Legionnaire / 1918
The Regiment de Marche of the Legion Etrangere is honoured for gallantary in World War One

Jean Gabin / Cine Miroir
JEAN GABIN French actor in Gueule d Amour

Peace Talks Notables
Notables at the talks: (l-r) Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Arthur Balfour and Baron Sonnino (Italian Foreign Minister)

Delcasse Caricatured
THEOPHILE DELCASSE French statesman, chiefly occupied with foreign affairs, notably the Entente Cordiale - here, working for agreement with Russia, 1907

Imported Cattle at Docks
Foreign cattle are landed at the British and foreign wharf, near the London docks

Sailor in Landing Order
A naval rating in landing order, ready to land on some foreign shore and claim it in Her Majestys name

French in Vietnam
FRENCH IN TONKIN The Foreign Legion, with Algerian and friendly Chinese troops, valiantly defend Tuyen-Quan against the Chinese besiegers

Stevenson / Poems / Foreign
Foreign Lands: " Up into the cherry tree Who should climb but little me? I held the trunk with both my hands, & looked abroad in foreign lands."

Foreign Children: " Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanese, Don t you wish that you were me?"

Duc De Choiseul
ETIENNE FRANCOIS, DUC DE CHOISEUL French statesman, minister of foreign affairs for Louis XV

Events / Syria / Diplomacy
The French mission to Syria, on behalf of the persecuted Maronite Christians, meet Fuad Pasha, Turkish foreign minister, appointed to deal with the matter, at Damascus

Old Foreign Office
The Old Foreign Office, Downing Street

George, Lord Aberdeen
GEORGE GORDON HAMILTON, 4th earl of ABERDEEN statesman, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

With Italian Priests
During his victorious Italian campaign, 1796-1797, he is sympathetic to Italian priests who had feared the worst from a foreign invasion

Food / Unconventional
THE HORRORS OF FOREIGN FOOD " Water I do declare - with worms in it." (soup with vermicelli)

French Colonial Soldier
A mounted soldier of the French Colonial Cavalry (forerunner of the French Foreign Legion)

Collegio della Propaganda, Rome, Italy
The Collegio della Propaganda (or Collegio di Propaganda Fide) in Rome, Italy, headquarters of the department of the Roman Catholic Church responsible for foreign missions

Chinese Drawn Paddleboat
Native drawing of an English warship

Queen Victoria and the Bible
Victoria recommends the Bible to a foreign ambassador. This is the secret of Englands greatness

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