Jun16 Collection (page 2)

Bantony Cottage - residence of Maharajah of Sirmur (Nahan)
Bantony Cottage - residence of Maharajah of Sirmur (Raja Nahan) at Shimla, the capital and also the largest city of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, located in northern India

The Northampton Institute, London
The Northampton Institute was not in the town of Northampton but, in fact, a college in Clerkenwell, London, built in 1894 on land presented by the Marquess of Northampton

Edward, Prince of Wales (Later King Edward VIII)
The Prince of Wales, future King Edward VIII (1894-1972). Date: circa early 1920s

Lower Sloane Street, London - featuring The Rose & Crown Pub, the Chelsea Baptist Church (1816), later The Church of the Good Shepherd (bombed in WW2 and later demolished). Date: circa 1907

West End riots, 1886 - A friend of the working man
Unemployed men debating the issues of the moment, sketched at the demonstration at Trafalgar Square, London, at the time of the West End riots in 1886

Wedding couple, c. 1930
A newlywed couple pose for the camera. Date: c.1930

Wedding couple, 1945
A just married bride and groom standing outside a church. Back of photograph includes a message thanking a Mrs Williams for all her help at the wedding on 9th June 1945 from Ivy and Cyril

Clasped hands
illustration of two hands joined together. Date: 19th century

Go Greyhound Racing at White City, 1939
Advertorial for greyhound racing at White City showing a kennel man (wearing a Greyhound Racing Association jacket) with two fine looking dogs. Date: 1939

Page from catalogue of toilet requisites
Page of toilet requisites from Harrods catalogue (1911 - 1912), Brushes and Turnery Department. This page includes shaving brushes, nail brushes hand mirrors and bath mats. Date: 1911

Ukraine - Odessa - Fanconi Coffee House and Billiard Hall. Founded in 1872 and still (very much) in business (see Tripadvisor !!!). Date: 1903

Merv - Turkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at market
Turkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at market andria and Antiochia in Margiana - a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near todays Mary in Turkmenistan

Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
Kashgar - the westernmost city in China, located near the border with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Date: circa 1907

Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine - Street Cloth seller. Date: 1905

Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine - Pension Schultz. Date: circa 1908

USA - New York - The Rockefeller Center. Date: circa late 1930s

USA - Locomotive of the New York Central Railway. Date: circa 1910s

Greetings postcard - scenes of the Crimea, Ukraine - including the Gateway to the Alupka (Vorontsov) Palace, the Swallows Nest, the coast at Yalta and Gurzuf. Date: 1910

Central Avenue from 5th Street, Great Falls, Montana, USA Date: circa 1910s

Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, USA - an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos (Northern Tiwa) speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people Date: 1913

Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1932

USA - St. Patricks Cathedral, New York - Nightime Date: circa 1910s

Benefit and Protective Order of Elks - Atlantic City, N. J
Benefit and Protective Order of Elks - National Convention held at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The BPOE is an American fraternal order founded by Joseph M

Stockbridge, Massachusetts - The Railroad Station Date: circa 1903

Road to Moon Plains - Nuwara Eliya Lake, Ceylon, (Sri Lanka)
The Road to Moon Plains - Nuwara Eliya Lake, Ceylon, (Sri Lanka). Ignore the (completely incorrect and bogus WW1-related original caption at the top of the card!!!) Date: circa 1910s

USA - Early postcard - President Ulysses S. Grant
USA - Early small-format postcard - President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885). Date: circa 1891

USA - The Equitable Building, Manhattan, New York - completed in 1915. Date: circa 1920

The Post Office, Watervliet, Michigan, USA Date: 1913

USA - New York - Luna Park at Coney Island - Main Lagoon. Date: 1910

Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles, West Indies, Caribbean - Castries. Date: circa 1905

Odessa, Ukraine - The Cheap Dining Hall (Good Value Eating Establishment) Date: 1905

Ukrainian Rural Types share some tea and some tunes Date: 1903

Odessa, Ukraine - Ribas Road
Odessa, Ukraine - Deribasovskaya Street (formerly Josep de Ribas Road). Date: circa 1900

Kiev, Ukraine - Dnieper River, Khreshchatyk Street and sled
A very early illustrated souvenir postcard depicting places in Kiev, Ukraine - Khreshchatyk - the main street of the city

Khreshchatyk - the main street of Kiev, Ukraine. Date: circa 1910

Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine - Docks and Inkerman Monastery
A very early illustrated souvenir postcard depicting places in Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine - The Waterfront / Docks and the Cave Monastery of St Clement at Inkerman. Date: circa 1898

Gurzuf, Crimea, Ukraine - The Mosque
Crimea, Ukraine - The pretty Gurzuf Mosque (destroyed in the 1930s). Date: circa 1920s

Street Scene - Sukhum (Sukhumi), Abkhazia (Georgia)
General street scene - Sukhum (Sukhumi, Souchoum), Abkhazia (Georgia) a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. Date: circa 1908

Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine
Panoramic view over the rooftops of Alushta, a city of regional significance on the southern coast of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine claimed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea

Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine - View from the North
View from the North of Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamyanets-Podilsky or Kamenets-Podolsky) - a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine. Date: circa 1910s

Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine - Cathedral and Mosque
The Cathedral Church and Mosque - Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamyanets-Podilsky or Kamenets-Podolsky) - a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine. Date: circa 1910s

Odessa Passage, Ukraine - Ornate Covered Arcade
The official opening celebrations of the Odessa Passage - a covered shopping arcade and a hotel on Deribasivska Street in the centre of Odessa on 4 floors

Main Railway Station at Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
The Main Railway Station at Dnipropetrovsk (Dnepropetrovsk, Dnipro or Ekaterinoslav), Ukraine, built in the Russian revivalist style. As a little aside

The Bakhchisaray Palace, Crimea, Ukraine
The Khans Palace or Hansaray is located in the town of Bakhchysarai, Crimea. It was built in the 16th century and became home to a succession of Crimean Khans

Nakhimov Street - Sevastopol - Crimea, Ukraine. This street is named after Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov (18021855) Russian naval Admiral who annihilating the Ottoman fleet at Sinope in 1853

WW1 - Loading Trench-building materials - Krymne, Ukraine
WW1 - Austro-Hungarian troops loading trench-building materials onto railway wagons at Krymne Station, Krymne, Ukraine. Ukrainians could be found participating on both sides of the conflict during

Crimea, Ukraine - Livadia Palace
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea - Livadia Palace.The summer retreat of tsar Nicholas II built in Neo-Renaissance style by Nikolai Krasnov. The Yalta Conference of 1945 was held here

Chernivtsi - Ukraine - The Cathedral
Chernivtsi - Ukraine - The Holy Spirit Orthodox Cathedral. Date: 1907

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