Gordon Collection (page 2)

Autocar Poster -- Paris-Amsterdam race
Autocar Poster -- Charrons white Panhard fitted with wheel steering (instead of a tiller) for the first time in racing history, for the Paris-Amsterdam race. Date: 1898

Autocar Poster -- Gordon Bennett race
Autocar Poster -- Thery driving a Richard-Brasier car to win the Gordon Bennett race for France. Seen here after overtaking a Wolseley Beetle driven by Cs Rolls for the British team. Date: 1905

Tatler winter fashions, by Gordon Conway
Fashion illustration by Gordon Conway of a soft woollen suit worn with green kasha scarf and gloves. The second outfit, a red coat made of soft suede, worn with a matching scarf and waistcoat

ECCOSAIS 92nd Regiment d?Infanterie. Colour etching by an unknown artist, 1815 (c). The 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders served in Egypt, the Low Countries, Portugal, Spain and Waterloo

Scottish Types - Scottish Dancing, Clan Gordon. 19th century

Not a Word! Personalities at the Derby by The Tout
Not a Word! Everyone know this years Derby winner. What they may be doing just before the race on June 6. Caricatures of notable personalities of the turf drawn by The Tout for The Tatler magazine

Gordon Hall, Tientsin (Tianjin), China
Gordon Hall, the seat of British administration in the British concession in Tientsin (now Tianjin) in China; it was named after General Charles Gordon who laid out the plans for the British

The Battle of Majuba Hill
The Transvaal War: the Battle of Majuba Hill. Majuba Hill was the main battle of the First Boer War, and one which the British resoundingly lost

Fashion for the Moors by Gordon Conway
Suggestion for a slimline country tweed suit, perfect for striding stylishly over moorland on the Glorious Twelfth. Date: c.1930

Gordon Highlanders making kilts in the open air
A group of soldiers from the Gordon Highlanders, some smoking pipes, sit outdoors making kilts. One of them is using a sewing machine

Tatler fashions for July 1930
A fashion design by Gordon Conway, taken from a series of monthly supplements drawn by the artist. A summer dress in printed cotton voile, trimmed in cream coloured organdie

Gowns That Express Poetic Ideas
Purple and blue wigs to complete the colour-schemes of dresses: gowns that express poetic ideas. Costumes from the house of Madame Lucile

Skull, jaw and sclerotic bones of dodo
Back view of skull, upper and lower view of lower jaw, inner view of jaw, and circle of sclerotic bones in the dodo. Lithograph from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melvilles The Dodo

Upper and lower views of the skull of a dodo. Lithograph from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melvilles The Dodo and its Kindred, London, Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1848

Side view of the skull of a dodo. Lithograph from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melvilles The Dodo and its Kindred, London, Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1848

Gordon Highlanders dipping the colours to royalty on Constitution Hill. Date: circa 1908

Violet Gordon Charlesworth: the motor car
The motor car with broken windscreen from which Miss Violet Gordon Charlesworth(b.1884) was alleged to have been thrown into the sea following an accident at Penmaenbach near Llandudno

Violet Gordon Charlesworth: the slope down which she fell
The slope down which, according to the chaffeurs first statement, Miss Violet Gordon Charlesworth(b.1884) was alleged to have fallen and coming through the windscreen of her car at Penmaenbach

Violet Gordon Charlesworth: site of the crash
The spot at which the motor car of Miss Violet Gordon Charlesworth(b.1884) was alleged to have struck the wall, over which she was said to have been thrown into the sea below at Penmaenbach near

Caricature of Archdeacon Dunbar, Anglican clergyman
Caricature of Archdeacon Charles Gordon Cumming Dunbar (1844-1916), Anglican clergyman of St Andrews Church, Tavistock Place, London, who was involved in a divorce case in 1881 brought by his wife

Gordon Boys Home, Woking, Surrey
A group of uniformed boys, one on a bicycle, in front of the Gordon Boys Home at Woking

Gordon Boys Home, Woking - Engineers shop
Gordon Boys Home, Woking. Uniformed boys at work in the engineers shop. Date: circa 1909

Gordon Boys Home, Woking. A view of the buildings

Trainee Chefs 1930S
Two student chefs at the Gordon Fellowes School of Domestic Service. Date: early 1930s

Spring fashion from The Tatler, by Gordon Conway
A fashion illustration by Gordon Conway of an elegant black and white woollen suit worn with a silk shirt

Gordon Hospital for Fistula etc. Pimlico
Gordon Hospital for Fistula etc. - Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico, London

A dress show at Luciles fashion house
A fashion show at Ladys Duff Gordons fashion house at Hanover Square, London

Gordon Craig / Sepia Photo
GORDON CRAIG Stage designer in 1890

Two portraits of Beatrice Selfridge, the daughter of Gordon Selfridge, 1925, the hostess of Lansdowne House Date: 1925

Facsimile of a picture of a dodo by Roelandt Savery in the Royal Gallery, Berlin. Handcoloured lithograph by CDM from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melvilles The Dodo and its Kindred

Roman Catholic Church, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa
Roman Catholic Church, Gordon Road, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1920

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, English poet
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), Lord Byron, English poet, aristocrat and politician. Date: early 19th century

Madame de Bolotoff (Rosalie Selfridge)
Madame de Bolotoff, formerly Rosalie Dorothea Selfridge (1893-1977), daughter of retail visionary, Harry Gordon Selfridge, who married the aviator, Serge De Bolotoff

Sir Gordon Carter, Clerk of Ascot Racecourse, racing fixtures Date: 1930

Lady Ancaster, the former Miss Eloise Breese, seen with Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox, brother of the Duke of Richmond when out with the Cottesmore Hunt in Burley Woods, near Oakham. Date: 1913

A group at Murrays including Lady Idina Gordon
A group at Murrays River Club in Maidenhead, Jack Mays outpost of his Beak Street club in Londons Soho. From left, Jack Gordon, the Countess of Munster, Miss Olga Lynn (famous singing teacher)

Tibia and metatarsus of the extinct Rodrigues solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria, in the Parisian Collection and Andersonian Collection

Cranium and sternum of the extinct Rodrigues
Cranium 1-4 and part of sternum 5, 6 of the extinct Rodrigues solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria, in the Parisian Collection. Lithograph by Joseph Dinkel after Werner from Hugh Edwin Strickland

Metatarsus and toes of the dodo and various pigeons
Metatarsus and toes of the dodo, Raphus cucullatus 1-5, foot of the yellow-footed green pigeon, Treron chlorigaster 6, stock dove, Columba oenas 7 and partridge pigeon, Geophaps smithii 8

Metatarsus bones of the dodo, crowned pigeon
Metatarsus bones of the dodo, Raphus cucullatus 1-10, crowned pigeon, Goura coronata 12-17, tooth-billed pigeon, Didunculus strigirostris 18, 19 and other birds

First published illustration of a dodo by van Neck, 1601
Facsimile of plate 2 of Jacob Cornelis van Necks Voyage, 1601, showing Dutch sailors fishing on Mauritius, dodo bird (2) and extinct giant tortoise, Cylindras inepta (1)

TV Celebrity Chefs
Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Antony Worrall Thompson, Gary Rhodes, Fanny Craddock, Delia Smith, Ainsley Harriott, Gordon Ramsey, Keith Floyd, Rick Stein - TV Celebrity Chefs

Prime Ministers of Great Britain
Winston Churchill, James Callaghan, John Major, Harold Macmillan, Tony Blair, Harold Wilson, Alec Douglas Hume, Gordon Brown, Ted Heath, Margaret Thatcher - Prime Ministers of Great Britain

Ohm & Stoppelbein Special N6H, race no 15, midget racer. Designed and built by Richard Ohm and Gordon Stoppelbein at McLean VA, the Special was powered by an 85hp Continental C85. Date: circa 1950

Marjorie Vereker and Adelaide Cleaver - Heston Aerodrome
Mrs Marjorie Rosamond Seton Dower Vereker (nee Mulliner) (1902-1992) and Adelaide Franklin Cleaver (nee Pollock) (1885-1939)

Miss Violet Selfridge & Vicomte Jacques de Sibour
Miss Violet (Violette) Selfridge, daughter of retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge, pictured at the time of her engagement to Vicomte Jacques de Sibour of whom there is an inset photograph

General Gordon of Khartoum Victorian period

Gordon Setter

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