Front Collection (page 8)

Bystander front cover featuring Gracie Fields, 1930
Front cover of The Bystander featuring a colour photograph specially taken for The Bystander by Raphael of Gracie Fields (1898 - 1979), British singer and actress

Britannia and Eve Christmas cover 1933
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman holding a westie dog with green tartan ribbon around its neck

Britannia and Eve magazine, November 1936
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman wearing a white feathery stole, with bright red lipstick and heavy eye shadow

Britannia and Eve magazine, November 1939
Front cover illustration featuring a 1930s lady decked out in the finest equestrian attire, complete with top hat, tails and whip

Ruins of Ypres
Ruins of the cloth hall in Ypres, Belgium on the Western Front during World War I

The Hiker & Camper 1934
Stylised front cover of The Hiker and Camper magazine featuring an advertisement for Stormgard rain capes, leggings sou westers & rucksacks, all necessary for keen hikers

Fame Visits the Heroic Unknown Dead
Fame hovers over a makeshift grave on the former Western Front choosing an unknown soldier to be buried in Westminster Abbey in the tomb of the unknown warrior

Natural History Museum
A view of the front of the Natural History Museum, London

Hurdlers / Nos Loisirs
Two men jump a hurdle

Phrenolgical Head
De Villes Phrenological Head seen from front, side and back

German Air Spotters Book
A handbook issued to German forces, enabling them to distinguish aircraft types so, if possible, not to shoot down their own aircraft

Chemists Shop / Paris
The exterior of a chemists shop, most probably in Paris

Wwi / German Troops / Train
German troops are transported to the front by train

Lady Throws Javelin 1922
A female athlete throws the javelin

Dickens / Pickwick Papers
Front cover of the first issue with illustrations by Seymour, edited by Boz

Mrs Beeton Front Cover
Front Cover of Mrs Beetons Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping

German Uses Binoculars
German soldier on observation duty using binoculars

WW2 poster, Wings for Victory, Lets Go, National Savings. Date: circa 1944

The DRG Class SVT 877 Hamburg Flyer sometimes also Flying Hamburger or in German Fliegender Hamburger was Germanys first fast diesel train

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, by Dr. Stephen Ward, 1961
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as drawn from life at Buckingham Palace by Doctor Stephen Ward, at a sitting specially granted to the Illustrated London News in 1961

Tatler cover - The Hon. Lady Mosley, Diana Mitford
The Hon. Lady Mosley, formerly Mrs Bryan Guinness and before that, Diana Freeman Mitford (1910-2003), one of the notorious Mitford sisters

Tatler cover - wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe
Front cover of The Tatler featuring the Duke of Roxburgh and his new bride, the former Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes, daughter of the Marquess

WW2 - Home Front - Make-do and Mend Poster
The iconic WWII home front public information poster from the Ministry of Informations Make Do And Mend campaign. Date: 1940

David Niven and Primula Rollo
Hollywood actor David Niven, now Captain David Niven of the Rifle Brigade, and Primula Rollo, a wartime W.A.A.F. officer, pictured in The Bystander after being recently married. 1940

Fantastic Adventures - The Secret of Elenas Tomb
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1947, featuring the story The Secret of Elenas Tomb by Karl Tanzler von Cosel. A young woman in long white dress stands on a tomb with the inscription Elena

The Daily Courant
Front page of The Daily Courant, the first daily paper. The paper began in 1702 and was at first a single sheet printed on one side only. This copy three years later is printed on both sides

Queen Elizabeth I Riding a Horse in Winter
This picture shows Queen Elizabeth I riding a horse in a snowy winter scene with a male companion. She is being waved to by a young boy and there is a dog following her

Illustrated London News Silver Jubilee Number 1935
Front cover of The Illustrated London News conjuring up the pomp and pageantry of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of King George V with a parade of liveried riders

A Concert behind the Lines by Fortunino Matania
Somewhere in France - a concert behind the lines. A concert troupe or divisional entertainment company often made up of a mix of professional and amateur actors

Jugend front cover, naked woman with dragon
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting a naked woman with a large red dragon. Date: 1898

Ahmed Madrali, Turkish wrestler known as the Terrible Turk, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler in 1904 after losing a match for the world wrestling championship at Olympia against the Russian

Mrs Bryan Guinness (Diana Freeman Mitford) as Venus
Front cover photograph from The Sketch of the Hon. Mrs. Bryan Guinness, formerly the Hon. Diana Mitford, cast as the role of Venus at the Olympian Party

Rolls Royce Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Rolls Royce Limited, The Best Car In The World, the image showcases a yellow model of the car, from the front, pulling up to the entrance of a grand venue

Advert for M. Wale, Clothes Shop, George Street, Bath Date: 1902

William Heath Robinson drawing showing soldiers unaware of the camouflaged famous Stonehenge moving around in Wiltshire. Date: 1941

WW2 poster, Britains Sea Power, Destroyers in line ahead, maintain it with your savings. Date: circa 1940

Tatler cover, Countess of Rosse
The Countess of Rosse, formerly Anne Messel, sister of designer Oliver Messel. She was married to Ronald Armstrong-Jones in 1925, with whom she had a daughter and a son

The poet and novelist Katharine Tynan (1861 - 1931), pictured at home with her husband, the writer and barrister, Henry Hinkson, her three children and dog

WW1 - Trench map from a soldiers war diary showing the Somme Battlefield with information gleaned from captured German Prisoners

Fancy dress
Leachs Fancy Dress for Children front cover. Artist: M Banuval Date: 1920s

Publication on the death of Queen Victoria 1901
Front cover reporting on the death of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in The Queen, The Ladys Newspaper & Court Chronicle, dated 26 January 1901, four days after her death

Daily Chronicle, Never more confident of victory, WW1
Daily Chronicle, original news stand poster, " Never more confident of victory" -- Mr Asquith, 29 July 1915, First World War. 1915

Photographs showing Borley Rectory
Borley Rectory: After the Fire. Photographs showing Borley Rectory in the aftermath of the fire of 27 February 1939. Photographs taken on 28 March 1939.. View of front of Borley Rectory. Date: 1939

Le Treport, France - WW1 - Ambulance drivers, nurses, staff
WW1 - A group of VAD (The Voluntary Aid Detachment) Ambulance drivers and mechanics with a British Red Cross St Johns Ambulance at Lady Murray hospital, Le Treport on the Channel Coast in France

The Landing Stage at Ahvaz, Iran - WWI Xmas card
A rather unusual Christmas Greetings postcard, featuring a World War One era soldier (serving on the Mesopotamian front) in patriotic pose before an inset view of the Landing Stage at Ahvaz - a city

The Gaiety music hall Chatham
Showing the front of the Gaiety, Chatham. Large posters for Florrie Forde and Nellie Colman with Florrie Forde?s name on billboard

The Humorist - Easter Number front cover, Heath Robinson
Spring Handicaps. Front cover of The Humorist magazine featuring a glorious cartoon by William Heath Robinson showing the chaos created on the roads by spring romances. Date: 1937

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