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Background imageInstant Collection: Advert for Cadburys cup chocolate

Advert for Cadburys cup chocolate
Hot Chololate instantly by simply shaking the soft flakes into a cup of boiling hot milk. 1930

Background imageInstant Collection: Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
I have not an instant to lose says Elizabeth Bennet to Mr Darcy

Background imageInstant Collection: Titanic Hero Memorial notice, Belfast

Titanic Hero Memorial notice, Belfast
RMS Titanic - notice relating to the Belfast Titanic Hero Memorial'. It reads The Lady Mayoress having desired the opportunity of putting before our employes a suggestion that they should be

Background imageInstant Collection: Maconochie s, WW1 advertisement

Maconochie s, WW1 advertisement
Advertisement for Maconochies " rich and delicious stew...a sustaining and economical meal for a family." 1917

Background imageInstant Collection: Advert for Ewarts Geyser hot water 1928

Advert for Ewarts Geyser hot water 1928
Hot water instantly night or day, maid bringing clean towels to her mistress, who is sitting at the edge of the bath. Date: 1928

Background imageInstant Collection: MAGIC YOUTHFULNESS

MAGIC YOUTHFULNESS
This is what happens when magic youthfulness is suddenly taken away : instant old age ensues, and it can be very disconcerting

Background imageInstant Collection: The first Illustrated London News

The first Illustrated London News
Front cover of the very first copy of the Illustrated London News, published May 14th, 1842. Founded by Herbert Ingram, who anticipated demand for a newspaper containing illustrations

Background imageInstant Collection: INSTANT POTATO MIX

INSTANT POTATO MIX
Pouring powdered potato mix into a plastic bowl with a plastic spoon in it, ready to make instant mashed potatoes. Date: 1960s

Background imageInstant Collection: Bathroom Water Heater

Bathroom Water Heater
A new gas heater that provides instant hot water to bath and handbasin. A hot bath in approximately five minutes in summer or slightly longer during winter months - wow! Date: 1960s

Background imageInstant Collection: The Tempest

The Tempest
Illustration of scene from The Tempest, Act III, Scene I. Ferdinand: The very instant that I saw you did my heart fly to your service.Date: circa 1904

Background imageInstant Collection: Advert for Ewarts Geysers 1923

Advert for Ewarts Geysers 1923
Hot water instantly night and day Ewarts Geysers. 1923

Background imageInstant Collection: Freemans Glass Lemon drink advertisement, WW1

Freemans Glass Lemon drink advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Freeman Glass Lemon, an instant lemonade drink to be diluted with water and which, if the advertisement is to be believed

Background imageInstant Collection: Gong Soups advertisement, WW1

Gong Soups advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Gong soups, the instant packet soup variety of choice during the First World War, both on the home front and in the trenches

Background imageInstant Collection: Advert for Ewarts Califont hot water 1926

Advert for Ewarts Califont hot water 1926
Hot water instantly night or day. Hot water upstairs or downstairs. 1926

Background imageInstant Collection: Advert for Ewarts Lightning Geyser 1926

Advert for Ewarts Lightning Geyser 1926
Hot water instantly night and day. 1926

Background imageInstant Collection: Advert for Freemans Turtlekon soup 1919

Advert for Freemans Turtlekon soup 1919
Turtlekon delicious real turtle soup. A cup of hot Turtlekon is a feast for an epicure - each little cube - ample for one person - provides in a highly concentrated form all the rich nourishment

Background imageInstant Collection: French Magician / Robert Houdin Performing

French Magician / Robert Houdin Performing
French conjuror Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) performing a magic trick using a Impression instantanee (instant printing) machine in the mid 19th century. Date: circa 1840

Background imageInstant Collection: Josephine Baker (1906-1975)

Josephine Baker (1906-1975)
Josephine Baker began her career as an entertainer dancing on Broadway. She travelled to Paris in 1925 to star in La Revue Negre. Her exotic dance style and costume made her an instant hit

Background imageInstant Collection: View of the instant sinking of the ships in the great sea ba

View of the instant sinking of the ships in the great sea battle at Lushun Bay. Print shows Japanese battleships bombarding Russian battleships in a surprise naval assault on the Russian fleet at

Background imageInstant Collection: Attendez un instant. ca chauffe! Les Foyers du soldat

Attendez un instant. ca chauffe! Les Foyers du soldat. A soldier stoking a mobile heater. Date 1916. Attendez un instant. ca chauffe! Les Foyers du soldat. A soldier stoking a mobile heater. Date 1916

Background imageInstant Collection: Granulated 7 o clock breakfast coffee

Granulated 7 o clock breakfast coffee. Date c1876 Oct. 16

Background imageInstant Collection: Dried Foods

Dried Foods
Instant, dried and powder foods, such as mashed potatoes, soup and stuffing. Date: early 1980s

Background imageInstant Collection: Lyons coffee advertisement

Lyons coffee advertisement
Advertisement for Lyons instant coffee granules showing an immaculate 1950s housewife giving a demonstration of how to make the perfect cup of coffee. 1950s

Background imageInstant Collection: Love at first sight / W H Robinson

Love at first sight / W H Robinson
The motorists natural reaction, on being struck by cupids dart, is to wrench convulsively at the wheel, and run into something

Background imageInstant Collection: Metal sign advertising motor insurance

Metal sign advertising motor insurance
A metal sign, rusting in places, advertising the Empire motor insurance policy from Eagle Star and British Dominions, with instant repairs and free towing

Background imageInstant Collection: Recruiting Village Lads

Recruiting Village Lads
A Recruiting Sergeant and village lads. The instant he becomes the Sergeants care, his pupil and his torment, and his jest

Background imageInstant Collection: Elizabeth Butler Photo

Elizabeth Butler Photo
LADY ELIZABETH BUTLER (nee Thompson) artist who won instant fame with The roll call, a military subject which made Ruskin realise women, too, could paint


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