Hymn Collection (page 2)

Underground town in England impervious to flying bombs
An underground town in southern England impervious to flying bombs. A town somewhere in southern England (not named by the Illustrated London News)

Stela fo Sensebek. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. Middle Kingdom
Stela fo Sensebek. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. About 1850 BC. Middle Kingdom. He is shown with his wife an offering table and the text to the left is an offering formul

Stela fo Sensebek. Detail. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. Middle K
Stela fo Sensebek. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. About 1850 BC. Middle Kingdom. Detail. Text on the right. Hymn to Wepwawet and Osiris. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Treasury of the Athenians. 5th century BC. Inscription. Delp
Treasury of the Athenians. Temple built around 5th century BC. Detail of a hymn to Delphi, in ancient Greek, engraved in a wall. Apollo also appears with the zither. Delphi. Greece

La Marseillaise. National anthem of France by Rouget de Lisle. 1792. Carnavalet Museum. Paris. France

Booklet cover, Shall We Gather At The River, the title of a popular American hymn written in 1864. Date: circa 1880s

Two angels with flowers on a greetings card
Two angels with flowers (pink roses) on a greetings card, with words from a hymn. Date: circa 1900s

Angel with birds and flowers on a greetings card
Angel with birds and flowers (doves and lilies) on a greetings card, with words from a hymn. Date: circa 1900s

H. I. M, Hymn of Hate, 1915
The hymn of hate, allegedly sketched at Wilhelmshaven by The Bystander Special Spy-Artist: a humorous depiction of Kaiser Wilhelm taking a choir practice of German soldiers. Date: 1915

Interior, Presbyterian Church, Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
Interior of the Presbyterian Church at Cheraw, South Carolina, USA. Date: circa 1908

Cubs singing at Scouts Own Service in Ghana, West Africa
African and European Wolf Cubs singing at a Scouts Own Service in Ghana, West Africa

Pity the Poor Bowler by A T Smith
Humorous cartoon showing a small boy in church with his mother, pointing out the hymn numbers on the wall, and mistaking them for cricket scores

Basil Woodd
BASIL WOODD churchman and hymn-writer Date: 1760 - 1831

Joseph Stennett
JOSEPH STENNETT Churchman, seventh-day baptist and hymn writer Date: 1663 - 1713

Andrew Reed - 2
ANDREW REED Nonconformist churchman, hymn writer and philanthropist, Date: 1787 - 1862

John Newton
JOHN NEWTON Churchman, rector of St Mary Woolnoth, London, hymn writer and friend of the poet William Cowper. Date: 1725-1807

Samuel Medley
SAMUEL MEDLEY English Baptist minister and hymn writer. Date: 1738 - 1799

William Freeman Lloyd
WILLIAM FREEMAN LLOYD Welsh hymn writer (we think thats who he is !) with his autograph Date: CIRCA 1840

Julia Ward Howe
JULIA WARD HOWE American unitarian church preacher, poet and suffrage pioneer, author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic ( the grapes of wrath ) Date: 1819 - 1910

Reginald Heber
REGINALD HEBER British churchman in India, bishop of Calcutta, author of hymn From Greenlands icy mountains etc. with his autograph Date: 1783 - 1826

La Espero (The Hope), hymn for the Esperanto Congress of Barcelona in 1909

Battle hymn a new play about John Brown of Harpers Ferry by Michael Blankfort and Michael Gold At the Experimental Theatre

Christmas design
From a magazine advertisement -- the opening bars of Silent Night. 1927

BONE-YARD MELODIES
Four puppies dressed as humans, singing Bone-yard Melodies together. Date: early 1930s

Phillips Brooks
PHILLIPS BROOKS American churchman and writer, best known for the hymn O Little Town of Bethlehem. with his autograph Date: 1835 - 1893

CHRISTIANS AWAKE MSS
The original manuscript of the popular English hymn Christians Awake composed by John Byrom as a Christmas present for his daughter, Dolly. Date: 1745

Tabernacle Choir, Organist and Conductor - Salt Lake City
The Mormon Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The inset portraits show Organist John Jasper J McClellan (1874-1925 - organist between 1900 and 1925)

Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh - Remembrance servi
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh singing during the remembrance service held at the Cenotaph in London annually. Date: 1952

Harry Secombe
Sir Harry Donald Secombe (1921-2001), Welsh entertainer and comedian with a fine tenor singing voice. Seen here singing in Newlyn Harbour, Cornwall, possibly for a TV programme

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Monument to Toil & Labour
Canto al Trabajo - A Hymn/Song/Homage to Toil and Labour (!) - the masterpiece sculpture (commissioned in 1907) by sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia (1879 - 1950) at Buenos Aires, Argentina

Titanic news reports, magazines, sheet music
A selection of news reports, magazines and sheet music relating to the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912. It includes a copy of The Times newspaper, a twelve-page supplement of The Sphere

Titanic news report and sheet music
A Daily Sketch item dated 20 April 1912, with a full page photograph of Captain Smith, who went down with his ship when the Titanic sank on 15 April 1912

Selection of Titanic cards and postcards
A selection of four Titanic cards and postcards: 1. A Bookpost postcard of the cruise liner at the Harland and Woolf yard. 2. An In Memoriam card. 3

An Ottoman National Anthem, which replaced the previous version in 1909

Lloyd George / 1920
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE British Prime Minister in America in 1920, singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Somerset Scenery
The start of Burrington Combe, Somerset, showing the Rock of Ages where a curate, Augustus Toplady, composed the famous hymn of the same name, whilst sheltering from a thunderstorm

Hymns Round Piano
Mama accompanies her children and their father in hymn- singing at the piano

Congregation Singing
A Church of England congregation stand up to sing a hymn

Henry Francis Lyte
HENRY FRANCIS LYTE Irish divine, author of the hymn Abide with me

Children Sing in Church
Thirteen children sing in a church pew : they don t seem to be a formal choir, but they are all in their best clothes, and most are singing heartily

Alexander Gerasimov
ALEXANDER GERASIMOV Russian artist of the Soviet era, noted for portraits of VIPS and patriotic scenes ( A hymn to October and so forth)

Children / Boys / Photograph
Choirboy

Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
SIR CECIL SPRING-RICE British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, he also wrote the text to the hymn I Vow to Thee My Country

Titanic / Music Sheet (Fr)
Nearer My God To Thee (" Plus Pre De Toi Mon Dieu" ) French music sheet of the hymn played by the band on the deck of the Titanic as the ship sank

Mrs Alexander
MRS ALEXANDER Hymn writer, writer of " All Things Bright and Beautiful" etc

Religious service being held on a beach
An outdoor religious service being held on a beach, with accordion accompaniment for the singing, and the words displayed on an easel

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