Glad Collection

Street fighting in Stalingrad
Photograph: Street fighting in Stalingrad. A picture from Axis sources shows German soldiers, glad of the shelter of a crater in a Stalingrad street

Christmas postcard image of The Mayflower under full sail crossing the Atlantic in 1620. The card bears a Christmas message of goodwill quoting May the right glad Christmastide come to ye laden with

Kodak Advert 1913
A lady stands on a dune by the sea, tremendously glad that she remembered to bring her Kodak with her today

Pepys / Kits Cotty / Visit
SAMUEL PEPYS Statesman and diarist, visiting Kits Cotty near Maidstone, Kent, on 24 March 1669: " I was mightily glad to see it." Date: 1633 - 1703

Danish Postman
A Danish postman is glad to be offered refreshment as he stops for a moment on his rounds

De Reszke Advertisement Miss America Arrives
An illustrated advertisement poster design for De Reszke American Cigarettes, titled Miss America Arrives, as she is welcomed by the boys

American Line, St Paul, St Louis - postcard
American Line, St Paul, St Louis US Mail Steamers - postcard, postally used 6 September 1912: Am glad to say the Olympic arrived at New York on September 4th at 4.30pm'. Date: 1912

RMS Titanic - letter to Carl Asplund, victim
RMS Titanic - Lillian Asplund Collection - a letter written in Swedish, dated Worcester, 28 February 1912, to Carl Asplund. I have received your letter today

The Zulu war. The entrenched position at Rorke's Drift
The scene as reinforcements arrive at Rorke's Drift, successfully defended by the British from 3, 000 Zulus. Extended caption

Cartoon, Welcome! Britannia: Come in, ladies and gentlemen! Glad to give you a decent roof over your heads at last!'. A comment on the opening of the National Portrait Gallery on Saturday 4 April

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Takes all sorts to make a world
The caption says It takes all sorts to make a world and I m glad that you re one of the sorts! The postcard was sent one month before war was declared. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1939

Cartoon, Wilson Barrett and G R Sims, Called Back
Cartoon, Called Back. Wilson Barrett (left), actor, manager and playwright - Glad to have you back, Mr Sims. George Robert Sims (right), English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist

Christmas card, Girl talking to snowman
Christmas card, Girl with sledge talking to a snowman -- How Glad I am to wish you a Very Jolly Christmas. 20th century

Heaven give you many happy days - As after the dark night comes the glad day. So after sorrows reign doth joy hold sway. Heaven give you many happy days. From Shakespeare

Stonemason
Christmas card. Glad be thy Christmas, Happy thy New Year. Portrait of a classical stone mason at work. A prize design for The Recorder 1882. Artist: (Possibly) Frederic Leighton. Date: 1882

Lady in historical costume on a swing on a greetings card
Lady in historical costume sitting on a swing on a greetings card - Glad Greetings. Date: circa 1900s

Saint Benedict of Norcia
SAINT BENEDICT of Norcia, hermit, depicted being tempted by a demon disguised as a beautiful woman : you will be glad to learn that Benedict successfully resisted Date: 480? - 547

Cartoon, Laugh It Off Annual
Cartoon in the Laugh It Off Annual -- Demobbed! and glad to be back on the old job, sir! An employee returned from the war sits in his office with a young woman on each knee

Agnes Richardson, How glad we ll be to see you
Agnes Richardson, Darling, How glad we ll be to see you. 20th century

Angel with trumpet on a Christmas card -- Behold I bring you Glad Tidings. Date: circa 1890s

Brighton Postcards
Sending postcards is part of the holiday ritual : this display is at Brighton. Is this one too saucy for Auntie Glad ? Date: 1962

Austrian New Year Custom
EIN SYLVESTERSABEND An Austrian youth goes from house to house, blowing his trumpet and bringing the glad tidings of the New Year Date: circa 1870

The Glad Eye by Jose G Levy
Promotional postcard for The Glad Eye by Jose G. Levy from Le Zebre by Armont and Nancy. First produced at the Pier Theatre, Brighton on 4th September 1911 and the Globe Theatre

Christmas card, angel and shepherds, Glad Tidings
An angel points three shepherds towards the star over the stable at Bethlehem: Glad Tidings. circa 1900s

Angel with Glad Tidings on a Christmas card: Peace be within thy walls. Date: circa 1900s

WW1 - Cartoon - Army of occupation
WW1 - A cartoon illustrating two British officers joking about " getting the glad eye" from a heavy-set woman. Walking with her heavy-set husband they glare back at the officers

Suffragette, To My Valentine. Petrified young man recoils from the advances of his erst while girlfriend with the rhyme, You were always glad to see me, in the days when I courted as a boy

Cartoon, The Glad Hand, WW1
Cartoon, The Glad Hand -- Brother Jonathan (representing the USA) tells Kaiser Wilhelm to wash his hand first, before shaking it

Fruit Label -- Mr Glad Brand, from Valencia, Spain. Depicting a man who looks very much like Stan Laurel. Date: 20th century

Good Wives - 8
Jo in Beths sick-room. (She gets better, you ll be glad to know.) Date: first published 1869

Welcome to Durban
Cover of a Welcome to Durban - Khaki and Blue we welcome you leaflet compiled and published by the Durban Publicity Association for British service men

Happy Days / W H Robinson
A series of happy folk, dancing, playing music, roller skating in their new world. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture

Triton's spear - Crane - Kniphofia
That, reddening on the Triton's spear, foretells the waning of the year. (The flower resembles Kniphofia or Red-hot Poker')

Fraternisation
In Seville, army officers fraternise with the insurgents - whatever their political views, almost all are glad to see Isabela go

The Thundering Herd
THE THUNDERING HERD by Zane Grey, the Master Writer of the West. (All ends happily, you ll be glad to know.)

Girl with Muff C1880
A girl is glad of her muff as the snowflakes fall around her (one of a series)

Cheers for Lous Philippe
At the Hotel de Ville, Louis- Philippe is acclaimed by the populace who will be only too glad to see the back of him eighteen years later

Ww1 Armenian Soldiers
Armenian soldiers, glad to have a chance to fight the Turks during World War One

Girl Glad to be Alone
A little girl, alone but not lonely

City Men at the Races
Jones I say, Brown, things are deuced bad in the city Brown Then I m deuced glad I m at Epsom!"

Animals Disembark
NOAHs ARK - The animals are glad to on terra firma once more

Girls under Brolly
Two girls in a snowfall are glad they brought their umbrella

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