In Formation Collection

Mushrooms Larousse 1913
A large number of mushroom varieties, with helpful information on which ones are edible, poisonous, or suspect

Recruitment poster for the Corps of Military Police - Second World War. circa 1940

Police Officer / Children
Police officer giving directions to three boys with a three person bicycle pointing in the opposite direction Transport

Dig for Victory poster - WWII
World War Two poster encouraging British civilians to dig for victory, featuring somebody doing just that

Carrier Pigeon poster
Poster warning people of the dangers of shooting carrier pigeons who may be carrying life or death messages. Carrier pigeons, we are told, are a vital part of RAF

Evacuation - World War Two - Children Safer in the Country
Evacuation - World War Two - Children are Safer in the Country.... leave them there. Governement advice recommending children stay away from the big cities and targets of the bombers. circa 1942

Careless Talk Costs Lives - WWII poster
Poster warning of the dangers of gossiping and inadvertently giving away national secrets to the enemy during World War Two

German Armoured Vehicles; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing a selection of German armoured vehicles used during the Battle for Normandy in 1944. The vehicles shown include Panther and Tiger tanks (left foreground)

World War Two information poster
A poster from the Second World War advisting the public to keep quiet to avoid inadvertently passing information to the enemy

Coughs & Sneezes Poster
Humorous poster issued by the Ministry of Health during the Second World War and featuring a woman sneezing without catching the germs in a handkerchief

Turn out more Scrap Metal - Turn out More Tanks poster
World War II poster encouraging civilians on the home front to donate more scrap metal which can be turned into tanks to help the war effort

Douglas Dakota picking up a glider, Normandy; Second World W
Illustration showing a Douglas Dakota, C-47 Skytrain, swooping down with a hook trailing to pick up a Waco glider, Normandy, France, 1944

Wilfrid Michael Voynich
WILFRID MICHAEL VOYNICH Lithuanian bookseller who 1912 discovered a coded manuscript, still undeciphered, supposed by some to contain information of great occult significance

Evacuation as a National Service - Poster
It Might by You! Caring for Evacuees is a National Service circa 1942

Air Raid Shelter Poster
Metropolitan Police poster with information on air raid shelters in Brentford, London, during World War I

Broker and Ticker-Tape
An American stockbroker receives market information on ticker-tape by the electric telegraph

Examing German Prisoner
Two British soldiers examine a German prisoner in a captured German trench hoping to gain information on further attacks

Metropolitan Police operations room, London
View of a Metropolitan Police operations room at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers and telephonists busy taking calls

Poster advertising the Daily Herald, with a large pointing finger

Mortar Calculations - Fort Wright - Fishers Island, New York
Directing the range of the Mortars - Fort Wright - Fishers Island - New York, USA. Military Cadets using complex higher mathematical formulae and telephone instructions to work out the exact aiming

Asking two Vaquero riders for the news, Argentina
A farmer in a remote part of Argentina, asks two Vaqueros (cowboys) for news. Date: circa 1910s

Alfred in Danes Camp
Alfred the Great disguises himself as a wandering musician and plays the harp in the camp of the Danes while gathering information about their military strength

Ministry of Health Poster - Evacuation
Shes in the Ranks too! Caring for Evacuees is a National Service circa 1942

Loose Lips Might Sink Ships - United States Office of War Information poster, reproduced on postcards by House of Seagram. Date: circa 1942

Save Water Poster Ww2
A poster urging the British population to save water This poster uses the example of a Sad Sack over-filling his bath

War Pay Poster
Information poster encouraging soldiers to save some of their pay during WWI in the form of savings certificates, earning a high rate of interest and free of income tax

Titanic letter
Letter from Ismay, Imrie & Co. to Marine Department, Whitehall, suggesting passengers saved from RMS Titanic by rescue ship, 15 April 1912 Date: 15th April 1912

Poster - Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme
Mothers - let them go - give them a chance of greater safety and health. Public Information poster issued by the Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme circa 1942

Royal Exchange at Harrods, Knightsbridge. Erected for the convenience of Harrods visitors, the Royal Exchange fills many wants

Careless Talk Costs Lives - World War II poster
A poster instructing civilians to " Keep it under your hat" and not to gossip, in case vital information is inadvertently passed to the enemy

Dig For Victory
British wartime poster encouraging the public to grow their own food

Sultan Abdul Hamid II of Turkey - Turkish Propaganda
Turkish propaganda card. Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842 - 1918) oversaw a period of decline in the power and extent of the Empire, ruling from 31 August 1876 until he was deposed on 27 April 1909

Dona Maria De Jesus
Dona Maria de Jesus, a patriotic heroine of the Peninsula War. We have found no further information about her, but she certainly looks jolly smart in her uniform

ICT 1900 COMPUTER
A man in a suit loads an Information and Communications Technology (I.T.C.) " 1900" magnetic tape computer in his " space age" minimalistic office

Glider invasions of Britain by G. H. Davis
Official warning about the possibility of glider invasions of Britain, an Air Ministry warning poster during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Passenger Traffic map
Plan of licensed stage coaches running between London and the East of England, c.1840 Date: c. 1840

Caring for Evacuated Mothers and babies
Public Information poster issued by the Ministry of Health relating to the caring of evacuated babies during the bombing of Britain

Save Power at Work - Help your Fuel Watcher
World War Two public information poster for the Ministry of Food & Power - Save Power at Work. " Hi! Don t leave that machine running idle! And turn off that Blue Pencil Light!" circa 1940s

Good Things to Know - Woolworths booklet
A booklet produced by high street retailer Woolworths, entitled Good Things to Know and including numerous tips on how to clean your house, save money and of course

Which? Soldier or mechanic - Enlist in the Engineers and be both For information apply at 808 Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware. Poster showing a man in overalls at work, and a soldier. Date 1919

US Marines Soldiers of the sea - For full information apply recruiting station. Poster showing two Marines signaling from shore to ships at sea, surrounded by photographs of Marine life. Date 1917

Children in an English bomb shelter. British Information Service. Date 1940 or 1941?

A corner in the mail room of the central information bureau for prisoners of war sponsored by the International Red Cross. Date 1940 Nov

Chief Censor, C. V. Usborne, 1939
Vice-Admiral C. V. Usborne who was in charge of the government department censoring press activities in Britain during World War II

Ministry of Information editorial conference, 1939
Members of the Ministry of Information at Senate House, University of London in 1939. Left to right are seen, Tom Clarke, Deputy Director of the News Division, Alan Sinclair

Leaflet Raid at London Theatre, 1939
A shower of leaflets descending upon the audience at the London Palladium which was staging its first wartime revue, The Little Dog Laughed

Censorship during World War II, 1939
Squadron-Leader Elsdon on the left, censoring photographs at Senate House, London University during the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939

Poster: Diphtheria is Deadly, Immunisation Protects. Showing a healthy, smiling child. 20th century

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