Lanterns Collection

Victorian Greeting Card - Owls with Lantern
Two owls standing with a lantern. Date: circa 1890

Soho, London - 29 Romilly Street W1 - Kettners Restaurant (opened 1867, closed January 2016). Photographed at night. 1973

Stagecoach and horses on an oval Christmas card
Stagecoach and horses travelling through the snow at night on an oval Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

The Dandy Doctor by Edward Marris with music by Dudley Powell. First produced at the Avenue Theatre in Sunderland, 26 March 1900. Touring to the Palace Theatre, Newcastle, 22 June for six nights

The Lantern Spectre by Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) - The Lantern Spectre. A burning paper lamp takes on the aspect of a spectral face - one of a set of Ghosts and Goblins. Date: circa 1810

Holloway Road, Islington, North London, with a large public house on the corner. Date: circa 1905

King George IV pub, Montpelier Square, Knightsbridge, London. circa 1910

Musicians in the snow on a Christmas card, about to have something poured on them from a jug. circa 1890s

Wellington Inn and The Shambles, Manchester Date: circa 1906

At the Skating Carnival - Pretty lady reveller with a broom
At the Skating Carnival - Pretty lady reveller wearing a very stylish black dress with red floral pattern with a broom. Date: 1905

Tea House, Nanking Road, Shanghai, China
Tea House in Nanking Road, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1908

Aladdin, Kennington Theatre, South London, 24 December 1904. Powerful Company, Beautiful Scenery, Charming Ballets, Augmented Orchestra, Ballet & Chorus of 100. 1904

Christmas Cracker box label
Label from a box of musical toy crackers featuring a cello playing pixie flanked by two smaller pixies holding Chinese paper lanterns against starry sky

18th Century Oil Lights
Ladies going home in sedan chairs after an evening out enter streets with oil lanterns

Feast of The Lanterns, China

Japanese Lanterns
Young Japanese in kimonos waving lanterns. Artist: Alice Cook Date: circa 1920

Fantasia
A colourful tempera painting depicting a jolly festival of clowns and dancers during the night, bright lanterns are hanging all around. Date: circa 1918

Japan - Lantern Painting
Lantern Painting, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Bamboo Ornament Shop
Bamboo Ornament Shop, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Tomb of Kusunoki Masashige - Minatogawa Shrine, Kobe
The Tomb of Kusunoki Masashige (Nanko) - Minatogawa Shrine - a Shinto shrine in Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, roughly on the site of the Battle of Minatogawa. Date: circa 1910s

Francis Aldis search and signalling light, lanterns, anchors
Vintage Royal Navy Francis Aldis search and signalling light, pair of period starboard lanterns and two ship's anchors

I Danced with a Beggar Date: 1925

Music cover, While We Danced at the Mardi Gras, words by John Mercer, music by Alfred Opler. Date: 1931

Woman in traditional dress lighting Japanese lanterns. Date: 1899

Kawasaki Z 1000 Z1-R and KH 400 motorbikes, outside the Green Lanterns Eating House, at The Barbican in Plymouth. Date: 1970s

Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, showing Kaiser Wilhelm being carried along on a float, with various figures around him, including Death, a spy, a sorceress

This illustration shows a fashionable woman in front of a collection of chinese lanterns. Date: 1926

Horse Cab, Paris 1879
A customer pays the cab's driver in the rain in Paris. Date: 1879

Kobe Bund, Japan
Decorated to celebrate the fall of Port Arthur (Lushan) in the Russo-Japanese War

Victoria Railway Station, London Date: circa 1890s

Children with Lanterns
Three children with coloured paper lanterns

c. 1880s Japan - street with lanterns Yokohama
c.1880s Japan - street with lanterns Yokohama

Festival paper lanterns Bentrndori Yokohama, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Historical views of China. View of the Great Wall of China 25, street scene in a Chinese town with shopkeepers and customers 26, and workers gathering leaves from the tea plant, Camellia sinensis 27

The Nature of Light - Sir William Braggs experiments
The Universe of Light: Factors in " A Fascinating Problem". The Nature of Light - The famous physicist Sir William Braggs experiments at his opening lecture at the Royal Institution - aimed

Examples of 18th century street lamps: A 1735, B 1709, C/D late 18th century. 18th century

Night watchman and bellman, London

Baker Street underground station, London
A train arrives at Baker Street underground station, London, on the Metropolitan Line: the high roof is needed because the first trains are pulled by steam locomotives. Date: 1881

He saw Yum-Yum enter the garden - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

Japanese warriors in red and black armour
A troupe of Japanese warriors in red and black armour - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

Lady with lanterns
Remembrance. Art Deco illustration of lady with lanterns. Artist: Pearl Forbes MacEwen. Date: circa 1930

Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush, West London
The Goldhawk Hotel (public house), Goldhawk Road (corner of Devonport Road), Shepherds Bush, West London. Date: circa 1910

Variety Revue, Paris, France. circa 1900

Silhouette, Chinese parade with lanterns

Music cover, Last Night on the Back Porch (I Loved Her Best of All) by Len Brown and Carl Schraubstader

Cutout birthday card, age 5, with two children hanging up paper lanterns. Date: circa 1920s

Victor G Ginn catalogue, Lights and Lanterns. 1939

Victor G Ginn & Co, catalogue (back cover)
Victor G Ginn & Co, High Holborn, London, catalogue (back cover). Advertising the most unique ballroom novelty yet introduced - an electric lantern, for lantern dances. 1939

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