Hands Collection (page 12)

WW2 poster, Thanks for Your Help! Airman shaking hands with airfield workman, photographic poster printed for HMSO by Henry Hildesley. Date: circa 1942

The Queen and Colonel Frank Borman
Queen Elizabeth II meets Frank Frederick Borman, II (born March 14, 1928), United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut

New Year card, Victorian children with snowball
New Year card, three Victorian children dancing round large snowball. late 19th century

Caricature of Afred and Paul Martinetti, performers
Caricature of Alfred and Paul Martinetti, American pantomime performers. 1883

Woman police officer talking in a school classroom
Woman police officer (Helen Parnell) talking to a group of children in a school classroom. Date: circa 1980s

The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. " I am in your hands, Anna, said he." Date: 1904

Middle-aged man outside Gents toilet. Date: 1970s

Male Model 1930S
A male model wearing a fitted suede jacket with wide lapels, hands in pockets, slicked-back hair. Date: 1930s

English Costume Mid C14
Woman: cote-hardie with long tippets, kirtle buttoned over the hands, ornamental fillet, veil & plaits coiled over the ears. Men: mantle, fur hood, houppelande, girdle & pouch. Date: 1365 - 1376

John Stirling Ainsworth, 1st Baronet (1844 1923), English industrialist, banker and Liberal politician. Wearing formal day dress: top hat, black necktie, white double-breasted waistcoat

14th Marquess Winchester
Captain Matthew WEBB, who on 24 August 1875 was the first person to swim the English Channel Date: 1848 - 1883

Hieronymus Bosch / Galle
HIERONYMUS BOSCH Dutch painter Date: 1460 - 1518

William Gladstone as twins
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE (1809-1898) as both First Lord of theTreasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, ensuring a single- minded approach to finance

Getting ready for school - The Promotion of Health Poster
Idyllic domestic scene inside a family kitchen. Older children are getting ready for school and while one daughter of the house sits and has her hair brushed by mother

Victorian Scrap - Clown squatting. late 19th century

Madame Sherry adapted by Charles Hands and Adrian Ross
Promotional postcard for Madame Sherry adapted by Charles E. Hands & Adrian Ross from the operetta by Benno Jacobson; music Hugo Felix (Centraltheater, Berlin, 1st November 1902)

Magician with two white doves, Cornwall
Magician in a sparkly red costume and silver top hat with two white doves perched on her hands, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited
Christmas cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited, paying to all true friends 365 happy days, from Mr and Mrs Kittridge of Bridge Street, Cambridge. Date: circa 1920s

The Epic of Arnhem, WW2
The Epic of Arnhem, where the First Airborne Division saw action during the Second World War. Showing how the newcomers at Arnhem were welcomed as they landed by parachute. Date: 1944

German soldiers surrender at Thiepval, 1916
Victors and vanquished: British infantry advancing on Thiepval, Somme region, in September 1916 allow surrendering Germans to pass through their ranks unregarded

WW1 - German and Russian troops meet over the barbed wire - July 1917 Date: 1917

Norway - Mr. Hans Dahls Norske villa
Lantern slide of Mr Hans Dahls Norske Villa. Depicts a timber house surrounded by trees and a boathouse with a jetty. Doors of boathouse have painting of man and woman holding hands

Wooden fishing hook on palm of a Siberian shaman /
Wooden fishing hook on palm of a Siberian shaman/ sorcerer / wizard / healer / medicine man / foreteller. Polar Circle, Siberia, Russia. April

Sphere cover - Cessation of fighting on Russian Front, WW1
Front cover of The Sphere with illustration by Fortunino Matania showing the cessation of fighting on the Russian Front with Bolshevik leaders Trotsky

Sir Marc Noble and scouting leader, Gambia, West Africa
Sir Marc Noble (Commonwealth Commissioner of the Scout Association) and a scouting leader, Gambia, West Africa. Date: 1980

Prussian Unteroffizier, 12th Regiment of Infantry, WW1
A Prussian Unteroffizier of the 12th Regiment of Infantry, Wertheim

Pro Italia - Allies and Brothers-In-Arms for Justice. Drawn for an Italian Celebration on Italian Day, 7th October 1915, and disposed of in the streets in the form of a souvenir pocket handkerchief

Road safety poster, A Long Way Off? Drivers travel much faster than we do! Showing two children trying to cross a busy road, with two scenarios

Advert for J. C. Vickery luminous & grill-guard watches 1918
Active service wrist watches. Sterling silver high-grade lever wrist watch, with luminous hands and figures. Sterling silver very reliable luminous wrist watch with very detachable grill guard. 1918

Octogenarian Skye crofter, Scotland
Octogenarian Skye crofter outside his cottage, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

German poster, England is to blame, WW1
German propaganda poster, declaring that England is to blame for all the problems in Germany during the First World War, depicting a man in a Scottish cap with a bulldog at his feet

Boy and girl holding hands
A young brother and sister hold hands as they wander in the garden. Date: c. 1910

Advert for Beetham Larola skin care 1939
For face and hands - and a soft smooth skin. Icy winds and frequent changes of temperature are deadly enemies of the delicate skin tissues

Children from Sierra Leone
Two young children from Sierra Leone, West Africa Date: circa 1910s

Sowing by Hand
A farmer sowing seeds by hands in a freshly ploughed field on a farm in Great Britain. Date: 1930s

A Sun Worshipper
A young sun worshipper raises his hands to the sun as he sunbathes in the middle of a field. Date: early 1930s

Copan, Honduras - A Stone bust of the Maize God (3rd century AD). Date: 3rd century AD

Cockney Argument between a fat man and a thin man
Fat Party (after a War of words) - " If you come our court to-morrer and bring a bit o fat with yer, I ll bloomin well eat yer." !! Date: 1895

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902
An English Girl and a Japanese Girl stand in front of their national flags holding hands and lifting up flowers, symbolising the Anglo-Japanese Alliance

Girl and boy with flowers on a shaped Christmas card
Girl and boy with flowers on a horseshoe-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

LCC-LFB Brigade HQ Annual Review hook ladder drill
These coordinated hook ladders drills were a popular feature during the annual displays at Lambeth Headquarters. With one firefighter on each side of the drill tower and at every window

Woman police officer Marion Macmillan in Northern Ireland
Woman police officer Marion Macmillan, Head of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Women Police Branch in Northern Ireland, seen here shaking hands with a VIP at a womens parade

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Restaurateur in no hurry
WW2 - Comic Postcard - A Restaurateur is in no hurry to serve his new guests - a band of German prisoners! Date: circa 1944

William Foulke, Sheffield United footballer
William Foulke, goalkeeper, Sheffield United football team. 1890s

WW1 - Ireland and Britain united in the common cause. Date: circa 1915

The Dollar Princess by A. M. Willner and F. Gruenbaum
The Dollar Princess by A.M. Willner and F. Gruenbaum, with music by Leo Fall, (Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 2nd November 1907). English adaptation by Basil Hood

The Transvaal (Boer) Crisis
A Field Cornets messenger hands over commandos to Boer farmers to be ready for war Date: 1899

The Dandy Doctor by Edward Marris, music Dudley Powell
The Dandy Doctor by Edward Marris with music by Dudley Powell. First produced at the Avenue Theatre in Sunderland, 26th March 1900. The caption reads Take her, my boy, shes yours

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