Future Collection (page 12)

Liners of Time
LINERS OF TIME (John Russell Fearn) The Atom-and-Time Dissembler will transport you whither- -soever you will, beaming you up, down or sideways. Date: 1935

Boat Invention / Lincoln
An improved system for buoying vessels, patented by Abraham Lincoln, future President of the United States. A model of the invention and facsimile drawings are shown here Date: 1849

Reconnaisance Airship
An airship of the future carries out a reconnaisance flight, using powerful searchlights to reveal the enemys defences. Date: 1907

Edward VIIs wedding day

Edward VII & Alexandra
EDWARD VII, BRITISH ROYALTY when Prince of Wales. Pictured with his wife and future Queen Alexandra, eldest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark. House of Saxe-Coburg Date: 1841 - 1910

New York of the future
New York City of the future, America

Families helped to emigrate by the Salvation Army
A group of families on the platform of a large railway station, about to emigrate to Canada with the assistance of the Salvation Army. An Army band accompanies their departure

Year 19-- George still sketching! by George Ranstead
A humorous self-portrait of the artist showing him still sketching somewhere on the Western Front many years in the future

Investiture of the Prince of Wales
The investiture of Edward (the future King Edward VIII) as Prince of Wales, flanked by his parents, King George V and Queen Mary at Queen Eleanors Gateway, Caernarvon Castle on 13th July 1911

New Worker - Fisher & Ludlows, Tipton
A photograph taken for an advertisement for the Daily Mirror of the type of New Worker the paper was trying to attract into its readership

The Future Mrs Winston Churchill
Clementine Churchill while still Miss Clementine Hozier, featured in The Sketch magazine in the week prior to her marriage to Winston Churchilll on 12th September 1908

Letter to Thomas Henry Ismay
A letter to Thomas Henry Ismay from twenty of his colleagues and employees on White Star Works headed paper, dated Bootle, 6 February 1899

Letter from Captain EJ Smith
A two-page letter from EJ Smith, future Captain of the ill-fated SS Titanic, to My dear Alvin Taylor. It is written on RMS Baltic White Star Line headed paper

Children of Rama VI of Siam
Three children of King Rama VI of Siam (modern Thailand). On the right is Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Prajadhipok Phra Pok Klao Chao Yu Hua (1893 - 1941), the future King Rama VII

Crowded out
A potato coster laments the progress in motorised traffic and predicts the future obsolesence of horse drawn vehicles. The caption reads - Stage Struck coster (to his dark coloured donkey)

The Latest / W Heath Robinson
The latest in motoring. Illustration by William Heath Robinson. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Prince Albert playing tennis
Prince Albert, Duke of York, the future King George VI (1895-1952), was a keen tennis player in the 1920s; in July 1920 with his partner Louis Greig he won the RAF doubles competition

The future Edward VIII and King George V
Edward, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, pictured at the Royal Naval College at Osborne on the Isle of Wight with his father, King George V

The Wales children with their tutor
Prince Albert of Wales (the future King George VI), standing behind, Prince George of Wales, later Duke of Kent (in kilt)and Prince Henry of Wales (later Duke of Gloucester)

Prince Leopolds engagement
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1855-1884) and his future wife, Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont in 1881. The fourth son and eight child of Queen Victoria

Princess Elizabeth of York on front cover of The Illustrated
Princess Elizabeth of York (the future Queen Elizabeth II) at the age of two years old. The sketch was adapted from a photograph by Marcus Adams

Heads Up- Tails Down by Howard K. Elcock
An impression of the famous Roulette Room in the Casino at Monte Carlo. Although baccarat and other games of chance are played

Princess Elizabeth of York in 1926, the year of her birth
Photograph of Princess Elizabeth of York (the future Queen Elizabeth II) in 1926 when a few months old

Princess Elizabeth of York with her dolls pram
Photograph of Princess Elizabeth of York (the future Queen Elizabeth II) taken in 1933 outside her dolls house

Queen Victoria and her great grandchildren
Royal group at Osborne House, Isle of Wight in 1899 showing Queen Victoria with her heirs. From left: sitting on cushion, Albert George - later George VI, Princess Mary, later Princess Royal

Man Power in the Recruitment Office
A perfectly impartial way of dealing with doubtful cases at the recruitment office. Bemused individuals are placed upon a roulette wheel in order to decide their future in Britains army

Russian soldiers seeking to know the future: A Gispys parakeet telling the mens fortunes at the front

Futurist Fiction by Bairnsfather
A prescient view of the future showing two lovers wearing gas masks through which they attempt a romantic kiss. Drawn at the end of World War I

Etienne Marcel 3
Marcel, seeking reform and hostile to Jean II and his son, the future Charles V, prepares to open the Paris gates to the king of Navarre but is murdered by Maillart

Napoleon and Son
NAPOLEON III contemplates his son and wonders what their future will be : he has good reason to be pessimistic - four years from now, they will both be in exile in England

Duc De Brabant Weds
Le duc de Brabant, son of Leopold I and the future Leopold II, weds Marie- Henriette, archduchess of Austria

Etienne Marcel
Marcel, seeking reform and hostile to Jean II and his son, the future Charles V, prepares to open the Paris gates to the king of Navarre but is murdered by Maillart

Duc De Brabant Senator
Le duc de Brabant, son of Leopold I and the future Leopold II, takes his seat as a senator

Conference at Warsaw
Representatives of the great powers meet at Warsaw to discuss the future of Poland

Death of Charles VI
The Dauphin, the future Charles VII, learns of the death of his father, Charles VI le Fou

Henri IV before Paris
Henri of Navarre (the future Henri IV) unable to take Paris because hes a Protestant, decides that Paris is worth a mass and accepts the Catholic faith to gain support

Albert Robida
ALBERT ROBIDA French illustrator, notably of life in the future

Reconnaissance Airships
Airships will be used for reconnoitring enemy positions and movements

German Invasion - 2
With the railways in their hands, it will be easy for the Germans to seize control of a strategic town such as Colchester as headquarters (scene 2 of 4)

SS Ophir and the Royal Yacht Alberta at Portsmouth, Marc
Photograph of the Royal Yacht Alberta, with King Edward VII on board, leading SS Ophir, with the Duke of Cornwall and York, out of Portsmouth harbour, March 1901

Jet Propelled Rail
A jet-propelled monorail seems likely to be the technology of the high-speed railway of tomorrow

Cable Railway Future
Overhead railways, in the form of cable lines, would avoid the problems of surface transport in todays congested environment

Future Road
The road of tomorrow may be a kind of track, along which huge bubbles will run, containing accomodation - a kind of super-caravan

Future City 1942
The city of the 21st century will be a city of science, of atomic power, of space travel, and of high culture

LOOK AHEAD
Tom sees a group of fortune- tellers and prophesiers coming towards him but refuses to be tempted to look at the future

General Franco and his daughter, 1938
Photograph showing General Francisco Franco (1892-1975) and his daughter, Carmencita, with her dog, Dick, 1938. By 1938 Franco had become Leader of Nationalist Spain and his future

AIR TRAVEL
A lady flies over a city with her dog on her lap, and suddenly she drops her bag!

William Hodges, Artist
WILLIAM HODGES Landscape painter to the Prince of Wales (the future George IV)

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