Light Collection (page 15)

Comic postcard, woman and ARP man in blackout, WW2. Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, couple and policeman in blackout, WW2. Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, woman takes wrong turning in blackout, WW2 - Gents toilet! Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, woman and policeman in blackout, WW2 - how to identify the man who kissed her? Date: circa 1940s

Advertisement for Mazda electric lamps (made in Rugby) showing people in a rather opulent domestic interior seated on a sofa lit by a lamp which would fetch thousands on ebay today! Date: c.1924

The Bourse (Stock Exchange) at Alexandria, Egypt, illuminated to celebrate the anniversary of Fuad Is ascension as Sultan Of Egypt in 1917. Date: 1918

Gathering it in: the camera in the far south. Page from The Illustrated London News, 26th August 1922, with a photograph by Herbert Ponting of the Castle Iceberg lit by artificial light in the depths

Pool of London - Tower Bridge - River Thames
circa 1910s

Brighouse, West Yorkshire - Mazdaznan - Harvest Festival
circa 1910s

Three Spring Parisian frocks for the Riviera, 1925. On left is a dress of blue and white foulard from Lucien Lelong, centre is a dress of blue and white crepe de Chine

Two frocks from Lanvin, Paris, 1925 - left for Suzy Prim in Tilly and a black and white jumper frock and the other for Regina Camier and made of beige light voile Date: 1925

World War II fires burning Pforzheim, Germany
World War II vintage photograph - fires burning and bombs exploding over Pforzheim, Germany

Street scene - Munkegata, Trondheim, Norway. Vintage 19th century photograph

Young Japanese woman in winter costume with umbrella. Vintage 19th century photograph

Cloth store Grand Bazaar, Constantinople, Istanbul, Turkey
Vintage 19th century photograph: Cloth store drapery in the Grand Bazaar, Constantinople, Istanbul, Turkey

Two young women and a mosquito net. Vintage 19th century photograph

WW2 - Surfaced Enemy Submarine sees a Corvette on her track
WW2 - The Terror of the u-boat: by the white glare of a star shell and tracer bullets firing through a dark night, a surfaced enemy submarine sees a Corvette on her track 1942

Link extinguishers
In Victorian times well-to-do householders would hire a link boy - a boy or young man who carried a flaming torch called a link to light the way for the traveller

Electric Lighting in Library of William Armstrong
Electric Lighting in the Library of the residence (Cragside) of Industrialist William Armstrong (Swan Lighting). 1881

Electric Lighting in Home of Industrialist William Armstrong
Electric Lighting in the rsidece (Cragside) of Industrialist William Armstrong (Swan Lighting). 1881

Bristly crab, light-blue soldier crab and pea crab
Bristly crab, Pilumnus hirtellus 1, light-blue soldier crab, Mictyris longicarpus 2, pea crab, Pinnotheres pisum 3. Pilunno irto, Mittire longicarpo, Pinnotere pisello

Fossils of extinct sea snails. Proto maraschinii, Turritella, Potamides fragilis, Nerina tuberculosa. Proto del Maraschiini, Proto turritella, Potamide fragile, Nerina turbercolosa

Knight in robes of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Knight in ceremonial robes of the Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece and crosses and emblems of high chivalric orders. Toison d oro ed altri ordini cavallereschi

Lancers or Uhlan light cavalry in the Imperial Army
Lancers or Uhlan light cavalry in the (German) Imperial Army, 19th century. Ulani. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Heavy cavalry of the Imperial Army, 19th century
Cuirassiers, hussars and dragoons or heavy cavalry of the (German or Holy Roman Empire) Imperial Army, 19th century.. Corrazzieri, Ussari, Cavalleggieri e Dragoni

Light crimson underwing moth, Catocala promissa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Dark crimson underwing, Catocala sponsa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786

Maple prominent and heart moth
Maple prominent, Ptilodon cucullina 1 and heart moth, Dicycla oo 2-5. Phalaena Bombyx cuculla. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die

Light emerald and scalloped hook-tip
Light emerald, Campaea margaritaria 1, 2, scalloped hook-tip, Falcaria lacertinaria 3-6. Bombyx falcatae, sesquistiataria, lacertula

Santa Claus playing the organ - Christmas Postcard
Christmas Wishes postcard - Santa Claus knocking out a few carols on the organ, accomponied by a (heavenly) host of child choristers bathed in light from a floating Christmas Tree! Date: circa 1910s

Headstone of Private Richard le Page, 26 March 1918
Le Page, who was 42 years old, was in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. He is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery. The Regiment was formed at the end of 1916 from the Guernsey Militia

A bunker at the northern corner of Shrewsbury Forest
The forest was named by the 2nd Kings Shropshire Light Infantry in March 1915. It had been taken by the Germans in October 1914 but they were driven out on the 31st. Date: 2016

Memorial to Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, Hooge Date: 2016

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

Medieval Yorkshire night beacon

Harris Sewing Machine adapted to electric motor. 1920s

Morecambe
The Charge of the Light Brigade at Morecambe. Children riding donkeys on the beach. Date: 1908

Fairyland illumination devices and electric signs, from Verity Electrical Supplies, Aston, Birmingham. 1903

Cresset bearer

Charles Robinson
Painting. So Light of Foot, So Light of Spirit. Artist: Charles Robinson Date: circa 1905

Examination of underground railway tunnel after explosion
Examination by government officials of the underground railway tunnel between Charing Cross and Westminster after the explosion of a bomb in the tunnel on 30 October 1883. Date: October 1883

The West End in blackout, September 1939
Photograph of the West End in blackout, shortly after the outbreak of war in September 1939. The Sphere describes the sight as " extraordinarily eerie". 1939

Cartoon, Miss Harriet Laurie, The Electric Star
Cartoon, Miss Harriet Laurie (singer and dancer), The Electric Star. 1885

Five Type D Cable Reel Trailers in actual service. Date: early 1920s

Terrific Apparition - Londons First Traffic Light 1869
Terrific Apparition - Seen during the recent fog at Westminster. A satire on Londons First Traffic Light. Invented by J P Knight, a railway signalling engineer

Photograph of Trees in light
Lantern slide of trees in the light Date: circa 1910

High Light and tram, Lowestoft, Suffolk
High Light (lighthouse) and tram, Lowestoft, Suffolk. Date: circa 1905

Rear Admiral Sir Hubert George Brand, British naval officer
Rear Admiral Sir Hubert George Brand (1870-1955), British naval officer. At the time of the photograph he was in charge of the First Light Cruiser Squadron, HMS Delhi flagship. Date: circa 1922

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