Invested Collection

Mania / Hudson Blamed
Railway financier George Hudson, formerly known as the Railway King, is depicted as The Railway Clown and blamed by those who invested in his stocks

Safety Invested in Stocks by A. W. Holden
A 17th century scene showing a Puritan and a Cavalier in some village stocks. A small girl, carrying a dead goose and a cabbage in a basket looks at them with disdain. Date: c.1880

The Duke and Duchess of York invested as bards - Eisteddfod
The Duke and Duchess of York invested as bards at the Welsh National Eisteddfog at Swansea in August, 1926. They were given the bardic names Albert o Efrog and Betsi o Efrog

Princess Elizabeth invested as a bard
Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, is invested as a bard at Mountain Ash on the 6th August 1946 at the Welsh Eisteddfod. Date: 1946

Investiture of the Prince of Wales 1911
Prince Edward of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor (1894-1972), then a youth of seventeen years of age, is photographed here wearing the robes in which he was invested as Prince of

Sir George Edwards invested as President of the RAeS
Sir George Edwards is invested as President of the Royal Aeronautical Society by the outgoing President, E.T. Jones, in 1957. Date: 1957

Rusco & Holland, sole proprietors and managers more money invested than any minstrel firm in the world : the progressive minstrel managers. Portraits of WA Rusco and Jno. J. Holland. Date c1899

Queen Elizabeth II at Kielder Water
HM Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, with the Chief Scout at Kielder Water, Northumberland, where the Queen had invested a stone monument. 26 May 1982

Investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1969
Investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle in 1969 with a good view of the perspex canopy specially designed for the event by Lord Snowdon. Date: 1969

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
The preparation for the anointing of Queen Elizabeth II. While the anthem Zadok the Priest is sung, the Queen is divested of her crimson robe and train

Edward Viii / Pow Invest
Edward VIII as Prince Edward invested as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon, with his parents George V and Mary Date: July 1911

Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) Knight of the Garter
The Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor) invested as Knight of the Garter. Seen here at the centre of the photograph, wearing a large plume of white feathers

Fighting at Rachow
Cossack cavalry attack the insurgents who have invested the town of Rachow : they will be beaten back by a rebel counter-attack with many casualties

Messina Occupied
Following a naval bombardment, the port of Messina is invested by the royalist forces of Ferdinando II, king of the Two Sicilies

Committee Public Safety
This committee is invested by the Convention with almost dictatorial power : made up of extremists such as Danton and Robespierre, it becomes an instrument of terror

Margrave of Nurnberg
Friedrich, Margraf von Nurnberg, is invested with the Mark of Brandenburg

Cross-Channel on Top
A French inventor proposes an amphibious train which rides over any water that flows in its way. Think, all that money invested in the Channel Tunnel could have been saved !

GEORGE HUDSON (1800-71)
GEORGE HUDSON English financier. Invested inheritance in railways and eventually controlled over 1000 miles of railroad. Lost fortune due to corruption

Edward / Black Prince / Cope
EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES known as the Black Prince eldest son of Edward III Invested as first Knight of the Garter

The Unfortunate Merchant
A merchant receives news that the ship in whose cargo he had invested all his capital is sunk, and with it all his hopes of making his fortune. Ah, the vanity of human wishes!

Mania / Fleeing
Rash speculators flee to France to escape the recriminations of those who invested in their projects

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