Funds Collection

Group photo, Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, USA
Group photo of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. They were an African-American a cappella ensemble who toured

Riding, 1936 Olympics
Czech postcard, probably sold to raise funds for the Czech equestrian team in the Olympics

German poster campaign for injured soldiers
German poster to raise funds for war wounded soldiers, showing a soldier with a crutch in his left hand and tools in his right

WWI Poster, Belgian & Allies Aid League
Design by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956), Belgian & Allies Aid League, Will you help these sufferers from the war to start a new home. Help is better than sympathy

Waifs and Strays Society Advertisement
An appeal for funds by the Waifs and Strays Society featuring an illustration of two barefoot children in rags on a doorstep

Meeting at the Guildhall on Behalf of the Jews in Russia, 18
Engraving showing a meeting held at the Guidhall, London, in 1890 to raise funds on behalf of Russian Jews. The prominent figures shown are (from left to right)

The Tyneside Spitfire Song
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Tyneside Spitfire Song, words and music by His Majesty King George VI. profits from the sale of the song were donated to the Spitfire funds

RMS Titanic - compensation claim of Mrs Herman
RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Samuel Herman (1862-1912). Letter dated 7 May 1913 from the Public Trustee Office, Strand, London

Coloured portraits of the Kaiser & Emperor Franz Joseph
This is an official card produced to raise funds for the Red Cross. All sides used postcards to raise funds for a variety of Causes. WW1 Date: 1914

Cartoon, A Pretty Penny in the Slot -- Baldwin asks John Bull for national investment in mines. Following the mine-owners reduction of their workers wages

Cartoon, Swift on a Large Scale (Gladstone)
Cartoon, Swift on a Large Scale -- a comment on Gladstones assigning the surplus from Irish Church endowments (resulting from the disestablishment of the Irish Church) for humanitarian purposes

Cartoon portrait, Mr J H Stead
Cartoon portrait, James Hurst Stead (1828?-1886), comic singer, music hall performer. Disabled: Now is the time to give him a helping hand

1931 / STALIN / FRENCH LOAN
Stalin, seeking funds for the Five Year Plan, receives a loan from France. Date: 1931

Appeal for aid, for food and shelter required for every day for thousands of dogs and cats that are recused from the streets

WW1 - A group of young girls collecting for wounded soldiers
WW1 - A group of young girls dressed as nurses collecting for wounded soldiers in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France circa 1915

MONEY LENDER AND CLIENT
A money lender offers funds to a guilt-stricken client Date: 1852

Duchess of York and Sir James Barrie - Theatre Royal
Duchess of York and Sir James Barrie at a performance of " What Every Woman Knows" at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London in aid of the funds of TocH

Government bond, Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway, China
Government bond of the Chinese Republic, Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway, China, value 20. A 5% gold loan for 10M sterling. Date: 1913

German propaganda poster, War Bonds, WW1
German propaganda poster, encouraging people to buy war bonds to support the war effort and sink enemy ships. 1914-1918

A uniformed & armed Swiss soldier stands on guard
The image is of a strong figure dressed for winter warmth with a background of mountains and the Swiss flag. The card is an official one raising funds for the Red Cross. WW1 Date: 1915

H. H. Harris, 1940
H.H. Harris, a cartoonist and poster-maker of the time, sketches a serviceman on his tour of the Midlands. Harris toured the country in his caravan, pictured here

Share certificate and coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines
Share certificate and dividend coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines, in the Belgian Congo. Date: 1944

WWI Poster, National Fund for Welsh Troops
Design by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956), National Fund for Welsh Troops Appeal, lithograph published by the Fine Art Society. Date: circa 1915

William Doran, veteran of the Battle of Navarino, at St Geor
William Doran ( Old Navarino ), aged 96, was once a powder monkey on the Genoa at the Battle of Navarino. In his old age, he was discovered to have entered the St Georges Fulham Road workhouse

Prince of Wales Hospital Carnival, Tottenham, London
Watched by mounted police, three spectacularly dressed collectors pose for their photo during the annual Prince of Wales Hospital Carnival in the Tottenham area of North London

The National Gallerys Wartime Canteen
Volunteers prepare food for their customers at The National Gallery canteen, established during the Second World War in order to raise money for the war effort. 1940

Scottish Womens Hospitals WW1
Two paper flags sold to raise funds for the Scottish Womens Hospitals at the front. The SWH was founded by Dr. Elsie Inglis, a member of the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies

Waifs and Strays Society Adverstisement
A 1930 advertisement appealing for funds to support the work of the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: 1930

National Childrens Home (NCH) Advertisement
A 1930 advertisement appealing for funds to support the work of the National Childrens Home. Date: 1930

Barnardos Advertisement
A 1930 advertisement appealing for funds to support the work of Dr Barnardos Homes. Date: 1930

Advertisement for Reedham Orphanage, Purley
A 1930 advertisement appealing for funds to support the work of Reedham Orphanage, Purley. Date: 1930

Caricature, William Booth, founder of Salvation Army
Caricature, General William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army. Let us know what you are going to do with all this money! 1882

American Bankers Association Travellers Cheques
Postcard promoting American Bankers Association Travellers Cheques - The safest, handiest, most satisfactory form of travel funds - the perfect international exchange. Date: circa 1902

National Childrens Home Appeal Leaflet
A Second World War leaflet appeals for funds for the National Childrens Home Date: 1940s

WW1 poster, The New War Loan
WW1 poster, If you buy the New War Loan your country gets funds to carry on and Win the War. Date: circa 1916

Two boys emptying a piggy bank onto a table. The coins seem to be mostly penny and threepenny pieces (pre-decimalisation). Date: circa 1960s

WW1 - Tank used in Trafagar Square to sell War Bonds
WW1 - Mk.1 Tank used in Trafagar Square to sell National War Bonds. The sign visible at rear details which British city had sold the most war bonds. Date: 1917

Womens Freedom League Fund-Raiser Play. Programme for a performance of A Midsummer Nights Dream at the Royal Botanic Gardens Regents Park, July 11th 1910()

Church Army Recreation Huts advertisement, 1918
Advertisement in The Tatler appealing for funds to provide more Church Army Recreation Huts. The Church Army providing hundreds of huts

The Prince of Wales Fund: a room in the head office
On 6th August 1914, the Prince of Wales announced the formation of a National Fund for the relief of the inevitable distress consequent on war

Bystander- Lady Diana Manner
A photograph of Lady Diana Manners (1892-1986), later known as Lady Diana Cooper, a prominent social figure who helped raise funds for the Red Cross and other war charities during WW1

Queen Alexandra with Jeannie Jackson
Queen Alexandra pictured with Miss Jeannie Jackson, the daughter of a Burnley miner who collected 1, 100 in coppers on the streets of Burnley in aid of war funds dressed in a miniature uniform

War Sites of the 1914-1918 Campaign
Booklet entitled War Sites of the 1914-1918 Campaign, Belgian Army, Booklet No. 2. Sold by the War Sites Department for the Disabled Soldiers and War Orphans Funds

Copy of German original medallion - sinking of the Lusitania
This is a British strike of the German original medallion made to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine on the 7th May 1915

Flag Day, WW1, little boy in miniature uniform
A small boy dressed up in a miniature British officers uniform sells a flag to an obliging police officer with the help of a lady, presumably his mother

St. Dunstans Bazaar at the Albert Hall, WW1
Ladies pose by the stall run by actress Miss Lily Elsie (Mrs Ian Bullough) at the Albert Hall in aid of the funds of St. Dunstans Hostel for blinded soldiers

Queen Alexandra with top fundraiser Jeannie Jackson, WW1
Queen Alexandra pictured with Miss Jeannie Jackson, the daughter of a Burnley miner who collected 1, 100 in coppers on the streets of Burnley in aid of war funds dressed in a miniature uniform

Empty metal tubes needed urgently 1942
Save me ! Give your empty metal tubes and help the Red Cross & St. John. Help to relieve the drain on the Nations reduced metal supplies. Hand all empty collapsible metal tubes to your retailer

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