Mar19 Collection (page 2)

The Essence of Britain - A small Afternoon Tea Stall Date: circa 1909

Volos, Greece - Capital of Magnesia - Port
Volos 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-ad
Front 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, Greenwich
Banquet 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 force
Freedom 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 pattern
Lovely pattern from a book cover symbolising a bucolic British landscape with gently rolling hills, signposts, villages and churches. Date: 1939

Music Sheet - Call Me Madam
Music 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 Blaney
Music 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. Rebstock
Chloromycetin 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, 1932
Scenes 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 London
Large 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 Maidment
Charles " Charlie" Maidment (1844 - 1926), British jockey prominent during the 1870s. 1874

Shah of Persia visit to London Hippodrome 1902
Shaw 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 1938
Fashionably dressed race goers on the way back to the Royal Enclosure after lunch at Royal Ascot. Date: 1938

The Mayflower II mid-Atlantic
The 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, 1936
At 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 1915
Fashionably-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 pyjamas
Young lady wearing pink crepe-de-Chine pyjamas during the First World War period. Date: 1915

Eves fashion in 1914
Eve 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 Siam
A 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 1899
Advertisement 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, 1939
A 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 Youth
Putting back the clock, some Voronoff possibilities of the future. Satirical cartoon by Will Owen lampooning the claims of transplant pioneer Dr

Treaty of Versailles, 1919 by Fortunino Matania
The 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

Learie Constantine and George Headley - test cricket 1939
Learie 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, 1957
A 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 train
A 1920s British Bride with veil, bouquet and train Date: circa 1920s

Istanbul, Turkey, Ottoman Empire - Golden Horn
Panoramic 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

Lady in elaborate costume with three Borzois
Lady in an elaborate costume (with a vaguely circus feel) with three Borzois (Russian Wolfhounds). Date: 1950s

Attleboro Massacussetts - WW1 War Chest. Community Chests grew in popularity in the United States and Canada during World War I

W. M. Turners Ladies Choir - Winners of 46 prizes
W. M. Turners Ladies Choir, Nottingham - Winners of 46 prizes Date: 1926

Paul de Longpre at home in Hollywood, California, USA
Paul de Longpre (1855-1911) (French painter of flowers, who worked mainly in the United States) at home in Hollywood, California, USA. Date: circa 1909

Istanbul, Turkey, Ottoman Empire - Galata Tower
The Genoese-built Galata Tower, Istanbul, Turkey Date: circa 1905

Istanbul, Turkey, Ottoman Empire - Entrance to Ayasofya
Istanbul, Turkey, Ottoman Empire - One of the entrances to the Ayasofya. Date: circa 1905

WW2 - Getting ready for the Troops - Somewhere in France. Date: circa 1939

Malaga - The beach at Torremolinos
Malaga, Costa del Sol, Andalusia, Spain - The beach at Torremolinos - it looks slightly different today...! Date: circa 1940s

Marcilhac-sur-Cele - The Kings House - France
Marcilhac-sur-Cele - a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. It has many historic buildings, including the Maison de Roi (Kings House)

Madame Clara Butt and her children
Madame Clara Butt (1872-1936) - Contralto concert Singer - and her children Date: 1905

The Hospital, Tampico, Mexico Date: circa 1910s

British Seaside - Water Slide fun. Date: circa 1920s

British Empire Exhibition - Jack Hobbs modelled in butter
British 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 - Capital of Magnesia - The Poor Asylum
The Poor Asylum at Volos, a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 330km north of Athens and 220km south of Thessaloniki

One, Two, Three... JUMP! Four Dutch Bathers dive in... Date: circa 1910s

Volos, Greece - Kala Nera Village
Kala 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

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