Lights Collection (page 17)

I is the Invalid
Advertising for Mars Night-lights. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Street lighting decorations for the celebration of the centenary of the Revolution in 1810. Date: 1910

Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games 1948

Girl and a Christmas tree

Plaza Mayo - Buenos Aires, Argentina
A fesitival to celebrate the centenary of the Revolution 1810-1910 - Impressive illuminations in and around the Plaza Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Date: 1910

Titanic - Need for Searchlights on Ocean Racers
Page from The Sphere demonstrating how searchlights on fast ocean passenger liners might have avoided the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

M stands for Mars
Advertising for Mars Night Lights. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

Titanic - Should liners carry headlights, motor fashion?
A cross-channel steamers searchlight reveals a full-rigged ship passing a little close for comfort, a safety precaution which could, perhaps, have prevented the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

How the Titanic went down
Impression of the White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic sinking with the bow going first and lights on the ship blazing into its last moments, while survivors in lifeboats watch in horror

The Third Annual Electrical Show, Chicago, USA - held at The Coliseum between January 13th and 25th, 1908. Date: 1908

A fashionable woman wearing pearls and smoking
A 1920s fashionable flapper woman wearing pearls and smoking a cigarette. The caption reads: " Dazzle lights". Date: 1928- 1929

Hanover Square Rooms
A man lights the chandeliers with a long taper at the Philharmonic Societys Rooms at Hanover Square, London. Date: c.1840s

Programme cover for Night Lights at the Trocadero
Programme cover for Charles B. Cochrans Night Lights at the Trocadero Grill Room, London, 1937 1937

Dress by Elizabeth Henry in Copenhagen
Photographed outside the Danish pleasure gardens of Tivoli, from the balcony of the Nimb restaurant, a model wears an enchanting white embroidered evening dress in chiffon with a very full skirt by

Street lighter
Lighting the lantern. Landskrona, 1956. Date: 1956

Blackpool - Illuminated Gondola
Blackpool, Lancashire - an illuminated Gondola Date: circa 1930s

Torquay, Devon - Illuminations (2 / 3)
Torquay, Devon - Illuminations - Pavilion and Gardens Date: circa 1930

Main Street at Night - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Date: circa 1908

Torquay, Devon - Illuminations (1 / 3)
Torquay, Devon - Illuminations (1/3) - The Pier and arbour Date: circa 1930

Montjuic Fountains, Barcelona, Spain - built for the 1929 Internation Exposition (World Fair). The Fountains lead up the Montjuic Hill toward the Palau Nacional. Date: 1929

Lamp and Lantern Shop, Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1910s

Trafalgar Square Tree
The Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, the traditional gift of the people of Norway to the people of England after World War Two. Date: 1960s

San Diego, California - 5th Street at nightime, USA. Date: 1915

Three young ladies in evening outfits by Worth
Three fashionable young ladies in evening outfits by Worth. On the left, a casino dress in bright pink satin crepe with black fur border and jet black belt

Aurora Australis
Ponies excited by the Southern Lights. Date: circa 1907

London / St. Giles Circus
Traffic lights in the St. Giles Circus area, near Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, central London. Date: mid 1960s

Viennese Nightlife
The bright lights of the Stephansdom (St. Stephens Cathedral) area of Vienna, Austria, on a wet night. Neon signs point to Cafe Carlton and the Kaiser Bar. Date: 1930s

London / Farringdon Road
London/Farringdon Road

Piccadilly Circus Lights
Neon signs and all the bright lights of the city at night, a familiar sight at Piccadilly Circus, central London. Date: 1950s

Phantom on the Line
A ghostly female figure stands on the track in the path of an oncoming train with her arms outstretched. The lights of the train surround her in a ghastly glow. Date: circa 1910

Christmas Lights
Christmas lights on a department store in Regent Street, central London. Date: 1978

Female Tour Cyclist
Study of a female touring cyclist, in the days when groups of young people used to tour Britain on their bicycles. Date: 1930s

RMS Queen Mary, floodlit at night
RMS Queen Mary, the new giant Cunard White Star Liner, floodlit at night, before her maiden voyage. Date: early 1936

Court of Fountains - Coney Island
Court of Fountains, Luna Park - Coney Island, New York Date: circa 1910s

1940 Golden Gate International Exhibition
Court of the Seven Seas - 1940 Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, USA - the Expotition was held on an artificial island Treasure Island, in the San Francisco Bay. Date: 1940

The Mall at night decorated for the Coronation, 1953
Floodlit lions and unicorns stand guard over the illuminated coronets twinkling and floating in the night air. The Mall after dark decorated for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953

The Little Match Seller, a story by Hans Christian Andersen. 20th century

Congress Hall, Coronation Exhibition, London
View by night of the Congress Hall at the Coronation Exhibition, held at White City, West London, to celebrate the coronation of King George V. Date: 1911

Olympics opens, last of the touch bearers lights the beacon
At Wembley Stadium, London, John Mark British Athlete, the last of the touch bearers who had carried the living flame 2000 miles from Greece, lights the Olympic beacon

Aerial view near Leicester Square, London
Aerial view of a street near Leicester Square, London, with the Monseigneur News Theatre on the left, and Bravingtons jewellers further along. circa 1940s

Chicago World Fair - The Lagoon at night Date: 1933

John Mark lights the Olympic bowl, opening ceremony, 1948
The athlete and Surbiton medical student John Mark, a former Cambridge blue and quarter-miler, lights the bowl on the peristyle, on the east terrace of Wembley Stadium

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp by Jeffryes
Stylised illustration by Jeffryes showing a man in evening attire rather bemused by a huge, bending street lamp. Date: 1930

Lily Hanbury. Actress. Her extensive repertory included, Countess Wintersen in The Stranger; Hetty Preene in GR Sims Lights o London; and Petra in Ibsens Enemy the People

Torquay, Devon - Illuminations (3 / 3)
Torquay, Devon - Illuminations - Vane Hill and the Harbour Date: circa 1930

Herald Square, Broadway and 6th Avenue - NYC - by night. Date: circa late 1920s

Broadway looking north from 38th Street by night, New York City, USA. Date: circa late 1920s

Potsdamer Platz, Berlin - at night Date: circa 1920s

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