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The French Memorial - Lyle Hill, GreenockThe Free French Memorial - Lyle Hill, Greenock with Cardwell Bay and Gourock in background - Scotland. The war memorial (built in the shape of the Cross of Lorrain)
Malta - Valletta - a traditional Dghajsa boat. Date: circa 1908
Neville Chamberlain fishing by Ernest H. ThomasPrime Minister, The Right Hon. Neville Chamberlain engaged in his favourite pastime of fly fishing. The artist, Ernest H. Thomas
George Town, Penang, Malaysia - Campbell StreetPenang, Malaysia - Campbell Street, named after the Penang Inspector General (1866-1891) Sir George William Robert Campbell
Silema, Malta - View of the long promenadeSliema is a resort town on the east coast of the Mediterranean island of Malta. The waterfront features a long promenade (as shown here). Date: circa 1910s
Chamberlain Clock in BirminghamThe Chamberlain Clock, Birmingham, erected to commemorate Joseph Chamberlains tour of South Africa 1902-3 after the end of the Second Boer War
Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. Date: circa 1910s
French Leon Gambetta-class armoured cruiser Jules FerryFrench cruiser Jules Ferry was one of three Leon Gambetta-class armoured cruisers built for the French Navy during the first decade of the 20th century
Norfolk Island as a penal settlement, 1853Norfolk Island as a penal settlement: a drawing, made in 1853, showing the buildings as they appeared when the Pacific island was a penal colony. 1) Commissariat and magazine. 2) Military barracks
Rubber Plantation - Malaysia - Overseer and Coolies. Date: circa 1910s
Arthur Askey - English comedianArthur Askey (1900-1982) English comedian with the catchphrase - hello playmates Date: circa 1940
Nicholas Nickleby as an assistant to Wackford SqueersNicholas Nickelby (left) gets a low-paying job as an assistant to Wackford Squeers, who runs the school Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire
U. S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas - A Cha Cha FamilyU.S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas - A Cha Cha Family. A small population descended from 17th and 18th century French Huguenot immigrants who originally settled on St. Barts
Eleven British Public Schoolgirls in their PE Gymslips. Date: circa 1920s
Malta - Mtarfa - St. Davids British Military Barracks. Date: circa 1910s
The Sprays, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Date: circa 1905
1st Avenue - Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Canada1st Avenue - Nipawin - a town in north-east Saskatchewan, Canada, on the Saskatchewan River portion of Tobin Lake. Date: 1950s
Eleanor Boardman - American silent era Movie ActressEleanor Boardman (1898-1991) - American Movie Actress of the Silent Era. Married American Movie Director King Wallis Vidor (1926-1931)
Jewels of Empire Ball - Lady Diana CooperLady Diana Cooper (nee Manners), leader of the Diamond group at the Jewels of Empire Ball, held at the Park Lane Hotel in aid of Enham Village Centre for Disabled Ex-Service Men
Treaty of Versailles, 1919 by Fortunino MataniaThe Signing of the Peace Treaty with Germany at Versailles. Britains Prime Minister signing the peace treaty with Germany in the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles, June 28, 1919
Sunlight Soap - cut-out advertising trade card. A Young man gazes (somewhat glazed over) at a vast tract of text advertising Sunlight Soap which states (by dint of the headings)
Java, Indonesia - Batavia - A backstreet canal Date: circa 1930s
Kano Airport, Nigeria - Camel rider with horn (and spare camel...). Date: circa 1960s
Malta - Valletta - a fishing boat. Date: circa 1908
Comte Frederic de Merode - Place des Martyrs, BrusselsArt Nouveau memorial to Comte Frederic de Merode (hero of the Belgian Revolution who died at Mechelen in 1830) - Place des Martyrs, Brussels
The Venice Lido, Italy - Casino Municipale. Date: circa 1950s
British Empire Exhibition - Jack Hobbs modelled in butterBritish Empire Exhibition, Wembley - Jack Hobbs modeled in butter! Having seen the success of the Prince of Wales in butter in the Canadian Pavilion in the 1924 season of the British Empire
Volos, Greece - Kala Nera VillageKala Nera Village, near Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 330km north of Athens and 220km south of Thessaloniki
1st Rank French pre-dreadnought battleship the Republique. Date: circa 1917
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Stampede - Chuckwagon RaceCalgary, Alberta, Canada - Stampede - a big crash during a Chuckwagon Race. Chuckwagon racing is an equestrian rodeo sport in which drivers in a chuckwagon led by a team of Thoroughbred horses race
Entente Cordiale, Butter carving, Franco-British Exhibition, London - Canadian Pavilion. King Edward VII (1841-1910) (left) shaking hands with Emile Loubet (1838-1929), President of France. Date: 1908
Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Patriotic card. Date: 1913
U. S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas - Returning HomeU.S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas - Returning Home. Date: 1938
U. S. Virgin Islands - Government House, ChristianstedU.S. Virgin Islands - Government House, Christiansted, St. Croix. Date: 1938
U. S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas - Street SceneU.S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas - Street Scene. Date: circa 1938
Erewash Canal and Sawley Road, Long Eaton, Derbyshire. It is unclear if the gentleman in the foreground is going to receive a stern reprimand from the copper approaching from the background....!
French Fashions - hand drawn / painted postcardFrench Fashions - hand drawn/painted postcard. Date: circa 1920
Bridge over the River Axios is guarded by troops - Greece1st Balkan War - Bridge over the River Axios (Vardar), Greece is guarded. The First Balkan War, lasted from October 1912 to May 1913
Malta - Valletta - Scesa MarinaMalta - Valletta - Scesa (Strada) Marina. Date: circa 1910s
Valletta, Malta - View of Grand Harbour from Barrakka liftValletta, Malta - View of the Grand Harbour from the Barrakka lift (which links the Grand Harbour to the Upper Barrakka Gardens and Valletta city centre)
Malta - Panoramic View of Floriana (Borgo Vilhena). Date: circa 1910s
Malta - Mosta Church and Maltese Island Tour BusesThe Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, commonly known as the Rotunda of Mosta or Rotunda of St Marija Assunta (sometimes shortened to as The Mosta Dome) - a Roman Catholic church in Mosta, Malta
WW1 - Ypres - Hell Fire Corner, British Demarcation StoneWW1 - Ypres - Hell Fire Corner on the Menin Road, British Demarcation Stone - the inscription reads (in English): " Here the invader was brought to a standstill"
Stars & Stripes Flag - 48 Stars / StatesUSA - Stars & Stripes Flag - 48 Stars / States (showing this card was POST-1912, but PRE-1959!). Date: circa 1913
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Grain Exchange - 156-160 Princess Street. Winnipegs 2nd Grain Exchange building from 1898-1908
Post Office - Corner Wortley Road and Askin Street, OntarioPost Office - Corner Wortley Road and Askin Street, London South, Ontario, Canada Date: circa 1905
A busy day in Douglas, Arizona, USA. Date: circa 1908
Malta - Marsamuscetto Harbour Date: circa 1910s
Malta - Greetings Postcard, featuring inset pictures of (from left): The Royal Opera House at Valletta - The Custom House and Barracca Lift - The Fountain at the St Antonio Garden
WW1 - Scottish American War Memorial, Princes Street GardensWW1 - Scottish American War Memorial, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. Erected by Scottish Americans in memory of Scottish soldiers who fell in the Great War
US President Abraham Lincoln and Star & StripesPortrait of American President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1965) before the Star & Stripes flag of the united States of America - showing 36 stars
Cary Arms Hotel, Babbacombe, Torquay. Date: circa 1908
The Essence of Britain - A small Afternoon Tea Stall Date: circa 1909
Volos, Greece - Capital of Magnesia - Rue DemetriadosRue Demetriados, Volos - a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 330km north of Athens and 220km south of Thessaloniki
Volos, Greece - Capital of Magnesia - PortVolos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 330km north of Athens and 220km south of Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia regional unit
ILN cover - Golden head-dress of Queen Shub-adFront cover of The Illustrated London News showing a photograph of a reconstruction of a 5000 year-old head dress found at Ur, Iraq, in the royal Graves at Ur excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley. 1928
Banquet in the Painted Hall, GreenwichBanquet in the Painted Hall given by the Lords Commissioners of Admiralty in the presence of King George VI and the Duke of Kent
Chinese man losing pigtail by forceFreedom by force: Compelled to lose a badge of servitude. Chinese man unwilling to lose his pigtail or queue, considered a symbol of servitude by republicans, has it cut off by a soldier. Date: 1912
1930s countryside patternLovely pattern from a book cover symbolising a bucolic British landscape with gently rolling hills, signposts, villages and churches. Date: 1939
Music Sheet - Call Me MadamMusic sheet for the song, (I Wonder Why?) You re Just in Love from the 1953 film Call Me Madam by Irving Berlin starring Ethel Merman. Date: 1953
Music Sheet - Tutankhamen - Gwen Farrar and Norah BlaneyMusic sheet cover for the song, In the Day of Tut-ankh-amen written and composed by Reg Low and J. P. Long, and sung by Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar in the Andre Charlot revue, Rats
ILN cover - Dr. Mildred C. RebstockChloromycetin synthesised for the first time by Dr. Mildred C. Rebstock. Chloromycetin was discovered to be a powerful means of fighting typhus and typhoid. On March 27th 1949, Parke, Davis and Co
Contract Bridge Contest, 1932Scenes at the Anglo-Dutch-German contract bridge contest played at Grosvenor House in January 1932. Crockfords Club, one of the best-known bridge centres in London
Dunvilles whisky wagons in LondonLarge number of wagons, heavily laden with cases of Dunvilles world-famed V.R. whisky, travelling from St. Katherines Dock to Dunvilles London headquarters in Shaftesbury Avenue
Charles MaidmentCharles " Charlie" Maidment (1844 - 1926), British jockey prominent during the 1870s. 1874
Shah of Persia visit to London Hippodrome 1902Shaw of Persia visit to the London Hippodrome, witnessing the catastrophe in The Bandits. A prettily-arranged box draped with white, had been constructed facing the stage
Royal Ascot 1938Fashionably dressed race goers on the way back to the Royal Enclosure after lunch at Royal Ascot. Date: 1938
The Mayflower II mid-AtlanticThe Mayflower II sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in 1957. The ship was designed by American naval architect William Baker and was a painstakingly researched
Through the Heart by Raphael Kirchner (1876-1917). Cupids arrow pierces a young woman through the heart. 1915
Singapore Golf Club, 1936At the 19th! Members on the terrace of the Singapore Golf Club in 1936, the citys principal club with an active membership of 800
Eves figure for 1915 - svelte and supple. The loose bodice fashions of 1914 covered a multitude of figure deficiencies which the future fashions will accentuate
Fashion for spring 1915Fashionably-dressed woman in 1915 during the First World War. " Theres a lot of talk, of course, about the wickedness of changing the fashions in the middle of the war...all the same
Young lady in pink crepe-de-Chine pyjamasYoung lady wearing pink crepe-de-Chine pyjamas during the First World War period. Date: 1915
Eves fashion in 1914Eve hates thinking of clothes at the present moment, but she knows the best she can do for her country is to buy what she can to prevent poor people from being thrown out of work
The Queen of SiamA Queen in Trousers: the official dress of Her Majesty of Siam. The Queen of Siam, who was travelling on the Continent incognito while her husband, the King of Siam visited London in June 1907
Advert for Hampton & Sons furniture 1899Advertisement for Hampton & Sons furniture. Featured are an Old Normandy oak dresser, a new-shaped easy chair, a genuine Old Queen Anne oak settle, and an example of a Sheraton bedroom. 1899
Norfolk Island garden with whale bones, 1939A feature of many gardens on Norfolk Island in the Pacific which recalls the time when whales were caught off the coast: a porch formed of whales jaw-bones over a garden gate. 1939
When All the World is Young - The Elixir of YouthPutting back the clock, some Voronoff possibilities of the future. Satirical cartoon by Will Owen lampooning the claims of transplant pioneer Dr
Learie Constantine and George Headley - test cricket 1939Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, MBE (1901-1971), and George Headley of the West Indies head out to bat after tea at Lords during the 1939 test match between England
Production of The Trojans by Berlioz, 1957A scene from the Covent Garden production of Berliozs opera Les Troyens (The Trojans) in 1957. Dido (Blanche Thebom) addresses her people in the second half: The Trojans at Carthage
A British Bride with veil, bouquet and trainA 1920s British Bride with veil, bouquet and train Date: circa 1920s
Istanbul, Turkey, Ottoman Empire - Golden HornPanoramic mid-19th century view of Istanbul, Turkey, Ottoman Empire - Golden Horn with Galata Bridge and Tower and the Yeni Camii (New Mosque). Date: circa 1830
Java, Indonesia - Ploughing with a team of oxen. Date: circa 1930s
Java, Indonesia - Small shelters on the riverbank Date: circa 1930s
