Mask Collection (page 2)

Two women preparing for show at Windmill Theatre 1939
Two women in tin helmets photographed as they prepare for a show at the Windmill Theatre. The Windmill Theatre, which today uses the motto " we never closed"

Woman in a ball gown with mask, 1788
Woman in a ball gown, with chapeau topped with a pouf decorated with ribbons and laurel leaves, fichu, corset in English taffeta, and blue taffeta petticoat

Victor G Ginn & Co, catalogue (front cover)
Victor G Ginn & Co, High Holborn, London, catalogue (front cover), Price List of Carnival Novelties. 1939

Corporate J. L. Dawson VC
Corporal James Lennox Dawson VC of the Royal Engineers (1891-1967) pictured performing the action for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross in October 1915

Venetians in a gondola wearing bauta masks, 18th century, Italy, from a painting by Canaletto.. Handcolored illustration by E. Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L. Flameng, F

Sheet music cover, Selection from The Yellow Mask
Sheet music cover, a Selection of music from The Yellow Mask, a musical play by Edgar Wallace, produced by Julian Wylie and Laddie Cliff at the Carlton Theatre, London

Two boys saluting, probably during the Second World War. The one on the right is wearing a tin helmet and a gas mask. The one on the left is wearing a Royal Artillery peaked cap

Chocolate box design, lady in carnival mask
Chocolate box design, featuring the head and shoulders of a smiling lady in a carnival mask. Date: 20th century

Passer domesticus, house sparrow
Plate 32 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Sula capensis, Cape Gannet
Plate 2 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Waitresses wearing gas masks, WWII
Waitresses in a popular London restaurant going about their duties during the early weeks of the Second World War, with gas masks in a tin container worn like a bustle at the back of their waistband

WW2 Christmas card, dog with gas mask
WW2 Christmas card, a black Scots terrier runs along with a gas mask in a box tied to his collar. Date: circa 1942

Sitta sp. nuthatch
Plate 40 from a bound volume called Indian Birds Colouredd. Artrist probably Sheikh Zayn al-Din, possibly compiled by Lady Impey

Britannia and Eve magazine, March 1940
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman wearing a red backless dress, red and white bangles and holding a white mask

Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmet
A Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmet, as used in wartime

Gas mask trials
A trial of gas masks, to test their effectiveness

Choose your Ideology
Choose whichever ideology suits you - church or conservative, scientist or communist, none is any better than the others

Looking for Queen Bee
Bee keeping - a method of holding a Brood Frame, when looking for the Queen Bee

Front cover of The Illustrated London News, 6 February 1926, featuring the gold mask of Egyptian pharoah, Tutankhamen. Date: 1926

The Russian Mountains, Les Montagnes Russes, Paris, 1812
Fashionable couple at the Russian Mountains rollercoaster, Les Montagnes Russes a Belleville, built in 1812. (The first switchback, Year VII, 1799). Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Lady riding side-saddle on a horse stuck in a fence during a fox hunt, 19th century. Mrs Lucy Somerville urges her horse Leotard out of the briars while Facey Romford and other huntsmen watch

View of the town of Quebec, Canada, circa 1800
View of the town of Quebec, Canada, on the Saint Lawrence River, circa 1800. Sailing ships in the bay, and a watermill in the foreground. Veduta di Quebec

Kukuruku tradition, Bendel State, Nigeria, West Africa
Kukuruku tribal tradition for a young mans coming of age ceremony, Bendel State, Nigeria, West Africa (then in the British Empire). Date: 1922

Advert for Madame P. Rowleys Toilet Mask 1895
Natural beautifier for bleaching and preserving the skin and removing complexional imperfections. Blemishes may be hidden imperfectly by cosmetics and powers

Sierra Leone - Gbangbama Devils (Native Jesters). Sierra Leone has a rich cultural history, with a strong presence of traditional local mascots, who (to this day) appear in the form of devils

Russian soldier in gas mask, eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldier in a rubber gas mask on the eastern front, Russia, during the First World War. The man breathes through a hole in the top of the tin which is filled with charcoal and chemicals

Gas drill in Australia, two people in gas masks, WW1
Two people wearing gas masks hug each other after a successful gas drill at a Military Training Camp in Australia during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Air raid warden in gas mask Date: early 1900s

Arriving after a gas attack, ARP training exercise during WW2

Removing clothing and burning it after a gas attack, ARP training exercise during WW2

Stretcher carrying technique, ARP training exercise during WW2

Giving treatment after a gas attack, ARP training exercise during WW2

Helping someone on fire, ARP training exercise during WW2

Applying artificial respiration, ARP training exercise during WW2

Using a stirrup pump, ARP training exercise during WW2

A Fire Party, ARP training exercise during WW2

Incendiary devices, ARP training exercise during WW2

Building an Anderson shelter, ARP training exercise during WW2

Removing an unexploded incendiary bomb, ARP training exercise during WW2

Helping to put on gas masks, ARP training exercise during WW2

WW1 - Battle of the Somme - machine gunners wearing gas helmets near Ovillers - July 1916

Belgian peasant and child wearing gas masks in their home near the trenches on the Flanders Front WW1

British Infantry advancing wearing gas helmets during WW1 Date: circa 1916

Woman with a Mask
An alluring woman posing with a black mask. Date: 1911

Tribal masks, Papua, Victorian period

Masquerade Ball at the Coliseo del Principe, circa 1771-1802
History of Spain. Masquerade Ball at the Coliseo del Principe, circa 1771-1802. By Juan Antonio Salvador Carmona (1740-1805). Etching and engraving on paper. History Museum. Madrid. Spain

R. A. F. Attire
This illustration shows an assortment of Royal Air Force attire. 1. R.A.F. Battledress. 2. Sidcot outer suit of windproof canvas. 3. Sidcot inner lining. 4. Irvingsuit lambskin leather jacket. 5

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