Funds Collection

Group photo, Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, USA
Group photo of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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 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)

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

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

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

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

Turkey - Sanilurfa (Urfa) - A Street in the Old Citadel - card published by the German Mission to Armenia to raise funds for the Mission-run Armenian Orphanages. Date: circa 1901

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

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

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

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

Church Army Recreation Huts advertisement, 1918
Advertisement in The Tatler appealing for funds to provide more Church Army Recreation 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

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

Concert in aid of Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital
Drawing done by Phil May to be used to publicise a Flower Concert to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital Date: circa 1890s

Abbey Gatehouse, Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
The 12th century (1130) Abbey Gatehouse, Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. The sign requests funds to aid the continued support to local builders employed to maintain and restore the Abbey Gatehouse

Sir John Denton French - WWI - Belgian Relief Funds
Sir John Denton French (1852-1925) - British Military General during WWI. Pictured on a postcard requesting contributions for the Charitable Belgian Relief Funds in 1915. Date: 1915

La Journee du Pas-de-Calais Charity card - WWI
A postcard relating to a charity drive in the Pas de Calais region in France, calling on to the generosity of the public

Advert for money for the Y. M. C. A 1942
This advert from The National Service Fund, is asking people to send a cheque to the Y.M.C.A, to help provide mobile canteens, so that when the fighting-forces return from their hazardous trips

Woodman, spare that tree, touch not a single bough. Funds would be scarce if we should run amuck - just now

1778-1783 America owes France the most unalterable gratitude. 1917-... French comrade, your children shall be as our children. American Ouvroir Funds

Lack of funds need not discourage from seeking competent medical care consult your health bureau. Poster promoting better health care. Date between 1936 and 1939

The Prince of Wales Hospital Carnival, North London

Police guard for Slate Club Money, Old Street, London
In what was then the largest Slate Club in England, 15, 000 in cash was distributed to the 13, 000 members of the New Tabernacle Church, Old Street, London

Fruiterers Sports Day, Crystal Palace, London

Princess Marie Joses Bk
Front cover of Princess Marie Jose of Belgiums Childrens Book published to raise funds for the Vestiaire Marie-Jose during World War I. Date: c.1915

Waifs and Strays Society appeal advertisement
An appeal for funds by the Waifs and Strays Society featuring a picture of four-year-old Violet, one of a family of eight motherless children

Collecting charitable donations and votes
A biddable dog collects money for charity surrounding by a group of little boys in Croydon during the elections of 1909. He is a supporter of Robert Hermon Hodge, MP for Parliament

Harry Lauder at hospital matinee
The Scottish entertainer Harry Lauder (Sir Henry Lauder, 1870-1950) at the Playhouse Theatre, where he appeared in a special matinee to raise funds for the Miller General Hospital in Greenwich

Prince of Wales on Alexandra Rose Day
Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, good-humouredly catching a bouquet as he drives in a carriage during Alexandra Rose Day, 1922

Exchanging gold wedding-rings for iron
Photograph showing German men and women in Berlin exchanging their gold wedding rings for iron in a bid to raise war funds. Date: October 10th 1914

R. M. S. Queen Mary, Clydebank, December 1931
Photograph of the R.M.S. Queen Mary at the John Brown shipyard, December 1931. Work on the ship, then known as Cunard No. 534, had been suspended on 13th December as Cunard had run out of funds

Treasury Carriage 2
Terrorists use a bomb to halt and rob a landau carrying treasury funds : they seize the equivalent of 60, 000 English pounds. The carriage after tha attack

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