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Hokokusai Folding Screens - national treasure owned by the Hokoku Shrine, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. Seen here is part of a pair of folding screens
Japanese Hina Dolls - associated with an annual Dolls Festival on 3 March each year, a special day, especially for girls, who display their dolls and invite guests to a grand dinner'
Royal Cologne AdvertisementA photographed advertisement for Royal Eau de Cologne, which always appeals to the discriminating woman. The decorative bottles are made to be an attractive ornament upon a toilette table
Advertisement for The Stutz Motor CompanyAn advertisement for J. G. Howard & Co Ltd, finely illustrated with decoration, promoting a blue model made by the Stutz Motor Company, an American automotive production of distinction
Commonwealth Bank of Australia AdvertisementAn illustrated advertisement for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, highlighting the importance of security as one of their facilities, the image shows a very secure looking safe made by Chubbs
Royal Doulton AdvertisementAn advertisement illustration for Royal Doulton, showing a figurine made by Charles John Noke. A mortal on the knee of the Gods. Date: circa 1921
Euthymol AdvertisementThis illustrated advertisement promotes Euthymol tooth paste, made to keep your teeth sound, your mouth sweet and clean. The image shows a young lady, giving her best smile. Date: circa 1919
Richard Hunt & Co AdvertisementAn illustrated advertisement for Richard Hunt & Co, vice-regal shirt makers. Image shows a hanging design made of shirts, with two oval portraits of a man and woman wearing a Richard Hunt & Co shirt
KnavesboroughA pencil drawing of Knavesborough, a market town in north Yorkshire, with its 24.5 metre high gritstone viaduct. Upon nearing completion in 1848, the viaduct collapsed into the River Nidd
Flemington Race CourseAn architectural sketch showing some proposed improvements to be made to Flemington Racecourse, a major venue in Melbourne, Australia. Date: circa 1922
Abdulla Cigarettes AdvertisementAdvertisement for Abdulla cigarettes, Turkish, Egyptian, Virginian, made in England. The advert shows a smoking cigarette sat in an Abdulla advertising ashtray, beside a case and box. Date: circa 1922
Boyd Edkins Oldsmobile AdvertisementAn advertisement illustration for Boyd Edkins Ltd, promoting The New Oldsmobile 4, made in Canada. The picture shows the shiny blue model pulled up at a glamorous event with attendees gathered
Design for Business PremisesIllustration made for the campaign of Colour the Townscape'. Showing a Design for Francis Emerson Ltd business premises, in bright orange and yellow. Date: circa 1930
Poster Page, Oranges and Sugar CubesPoster page showing a lot of striking oranges, one of which has been neatly part pealed into quarters. There is also a blue bag of sugar cubes, satisfyingly spilling out across the picture
Wrought Iron gateA beautiful wrought iton gate made in Battle, Sussex. Date: circa 1929
Advertisement for Matita Ltd, British Made Sports Clothes'. Studio fashion portrait, showing model wearing striped jacket, skirt, gloves and matching hat. Date: 1933
Advertisement for Dunlop Magna tyres. Colour illustration, with curtains unveiling Dunlop Magna tyre. With crests of HM the King, Motor Car Manufacturers, and HRH the Prince of Wales
Advertisement for State Express Cigarettes, number 555, by Barribal. Showing elegant woman in blue jacket. Captioned, Unapproachable'
A drop shoulder cardigan in honeycomb stitch, published with instructions on how to create the garment at home. Date: 1954
Advert for Osram light bulbs, made by the General Electric Company. Date: 1954
Advert for Courtaulds, makers of rayon fabric. The gown depicted is made by Liberty's. In the background is a scene from Ranelagh Gardens in the 18th century. Date: 1954
Advert for Celanese, a chemical and speciality materials company whose products included acetate yarn and artificial silk. Date: 1943
Advert for North British Golf Balls (made in Edinburgh). Date: 1932
The Elizabeth Arden eye strap was made of soft rubber, and was intended to mitigate puffiness beneath the eyes. Date: circa 1932
Music cover, The Night Was Made for Love, by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach, from the musical The Cat and the Fiddle Date: 1931
Titanic pre-sinking silk postcardThis is a silk postcard probably made by Stevens. These were published before the sinking and offered for sale onboad. Date: circa 1912
Charlie Chaplin with members of the cast of The VagabondsThe Vagabonds was a 2 reeler film made for the Mutual Distribution Company in 1916. This postcard was an advertisement for a showing at the Picturedrome Birmingham. Date: 1917
Novelty line drawing of a lion's head faces the Union FlagThe head is made up from the names of the Colonies - Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand and African Colonies. WW1 Date: circa 1915
Agusta A. 109 AE-331 - ZE411Agusta A.109 AE-331 - ZE411 (msn 7138), ex Argintine Army, captured at RAF Stanley in 1982 and seen at Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton after repatriation to the UK
Snakes and Ladders game board Date: circa 1920s
Nord Aviation N 500 Cadet (msn 001), at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1967, with airshow serial 344'. In 1966 Nord (later part of Aerospatiale) built two Cadets
Types ofantique armourTypes of antique armour - 1. roundel (shield), 2. target, 3. lead mallet used by archers, 4. iron mace used by cavalry, 5. black bill in armoury of Canterbury Town Hall, 6
Advert, Tomlinson & Co's Butter Powder, churning made easy, good fresh butter all the year round. Date: 1869
HMS Boadicea - a Boadicea-Class scout cruiserRoyal Navy - HMS Boadicea, a Boadicea-Class scout cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century
Esther Bruce at the launch of Aunt Esther's Story. Josephine Esther Bruce (1912-1994) working-class mixed race seamstress born in Fulham, London to a Guyanese father & an English mother
?Capture & Death of the Shahzadaghs?, 1857. Coloured lithograph from The Campaign in India 1857-58 from drawings made during the eventful period of the Great Mutiny
Suffragette in Prison Cell. Cover illustration for Die Suffragettes by Kaethe Schirmacher (Alexander Duncker Verlag Weimar 1912) Based on a sketch made in Holloway Prison by Sylvia Pankhurst
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Poster of Hora de Espana, literary magazine. Made by Ramon Gaya (Valencia, 1937). SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Tank made in Sant Sadurni d'Anoia by the Commission of War Industries of Catalonia
Spain. Civil War. Por las milicias (For)Spain. Civil War. Por las milicias (For the militia). Postrer of the anarchist organization CNT-FAI made by Ricard Obiols. Painting. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Union! Disciplina! Por el Socialismo (Union! Discipline! For Socialism). Lower section of a poster made by Carles Fontsere for the POUM
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Farmer! Your enemies made you work from sunrise ti susnet to feed them. Now, when the land is yours, work from sunrise to sunset to annihilate them. Poster
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Evacuation of 4000 Basque children to England (May 1937), operation made with the cooperation of the British Catholic Church
"Dutifully yours " Silk luxury stockings. Date: 1940"Dutifully yours... " Silk luxury stockings. Date: 1940
Children at Manchester City Art Gallery learning 1925Children at Manchester City Art Gallery being taught about art. They are looking at a painting of Edward, Prince of Wales by John St
A position held by Carlist Requetes of the Nationalist army during the Spanish Civil War. One of the men can be seen firing a light automatic machine gun through a hole in the parapet
Two Nationalist soldiers firing their weapons from a bell tower, with a woman reloading their rifles, during the Spanish Civil War, 1937
Bridge Blown up in Bilbao; Spanish Civil War 1937One of the bridges of Bilbao, blown up by retreating Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War. In the background, one can see part of the dockside of the city