Masks Collection (page 5)

Gas Attack School
A school in Berlin, Germany, where pupils are taught how to protect themselves against asphixiating gas attacks and how to rescue and revive other people. Date: 1930s

Masquerade Beardsley
A man and a woman wearing masks, illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, on the cover for the first Yellow Book. Date: 1894

Gas Masks for Horses
Gas masks for horses in battle.. Date: 1925

Wwii / W a A F / Gas Masks
Members of the Womens Auxilary Air Force during an exercise in using their gas masks. Date: 1939 - 1945

Tibetan Devil Dancers
Priests, dressed as demons, process through a village Date: 1910

Gunners prepared to face the gas 1916
French gunners wearing masks and helmets against the asphyxiating gases sometimes released far from the battlefront. 1916

The Purple Mask adapted by Matheson Lang
Promotional postcard for The Purple Mask adapted by Matheson Lang from Le Chevalier du Masque by Paul Armont & Jean Manoussi (1913)

The Lure by James Sabben
Promotional postcard for The Lure by James Sabben. First performed at the Strand Theatre, 25th March 1923. The image shows a masked man on the balcony; one of several characters with different

Margaret Severn (1925)
Margaret Severn who first introduced Benda masks to the American public (1925) Date: 1925

China Town. Street party, Queens Jubilee Middlesbrough 1977 1977

The Strand Magazine - Christmas Crackers
Two pages from The Strand, part of an article about the manufacture of Christmas Crackers at Messrs Tom Smith and Co, of Wilson Street, Finsbury, London

The Christmas Mask by Reginald Higgins
A stylish woman in a fur-trimmed outfit tries out a Father Christmas mask. Date: 1920

WW1 - Well-prepared picnickers
WW1 - An illustration depicting people continuing their picnic and outdoor activities despite the potential zeppelin air raids

WW1 - Protection against gas attacks, Belgium, 1915
WW1 - A photograph showing three Belgian soldiers positioned in their trench, and their machine-gun ready to fire. They wear gas masks to protect themselves against the asphyxiating gas attack

Roman actors in masks.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages (1796)

British and French soldiers in gas masks, WW1
Cover design showing a British (right) and a French soldier (left) in their gas masks, to protect them against poison gas on the Western Front. Date: 1915

British Machine Gunners - World War One, . Showing Gunners Wearing Gas Masks Date: 1910s

WW2 Christmas card, Civil Defence, designed by Allan Burrows, produced by the Paddington Mobile Unit (ARP), with cartoons of typical activities (inside). Date: circa 1942

WW1 - Ad for repirators - threat of gas attack by Zeppelins
WW1 - Advertisement for Freers Repirators from Cooper & Son of King Street, Gravesend, to counter the threat of attack by poison gas bombs, dropped from Zeppelins during an air raid. Date: circa 1915

Cartoon, The bad cloud, WW1
Cartoon, The bad cloud, showing a cloud of gas billowing across the battlefield, just as the French soldiers are preparing to charge

Theater scene with two women consult a witch. The three characters wear masks. Mosaic of Dioscorides of Samos, 1st B.C. Proceeds from Villa del Cicerone. Roman art. Mosaic. ITALY. CAMPANIA. Naples

Gunners working through German gas attack by Matania
A storm of poison gas shells breaking over a British battery of 18 pounders, showing the gunners working to serve their guns while wearing gas masks. Date: 1918

British raid on German lines through poison gas
A British bombing party makes a raid on German lines through clouds of poison gas. Both sides are wearing their own versions of gas masks - the British version looking somewhat more primitive

Soldiers on Western Front with gas masks, WW1
Soldiers on the Western Front wearing gas masks. 1916

French scouts making masks at camp
French scouts (a boy and a girl) making masks at camp

Harlequin and Columbine, dancing under a moonlight sky
Front cover of Pan magazine, featuring a couple in costume, the man dressed as Harlequin and the woman as Columbine, dancing under a moonlight sky. Date: 1920

Finnish boy scouts trying on gas masks, WW2
A patrol of Finnish boy scouts trying on gas masks during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Suffragette, Votes for Women, Fancy Dress. A seated group of men and women, some in masks, men blacked up all in strange attire. Girl in front row holds Votes for Women placard. Date: circa 1909

Roman Theatre Masks and Theatre
Marble relief of Roman theatre masks and theatre

Roman Theatre Masks
Marble relief of Roman theatre masks

Anti-gas nosebag masks for horses, WW1
A mounted British patrol attacking a gas factory where gas was being released on enemy lines; the horses are wearing a type of gas mask in the form of a nosebag. Date: 1917

AFS women, gas mask drill, WW2
AFS women doing a gas mask drill during the Second World War

Its coming! Gas attack 1917
The alert has just been given, by means of a shell-going that a German gas wave has been let loose, and is approaching the trenches

Gas-masked horse and horseman at Aldershot
Owing to the increased of poison-gas in World War One, soldiers were trained in the usage of gas-masks in centres, in England, before being allowed to go to the front

Second wave of French troops in German trenches, WW1
A second wave of French troops in a German trench during an attack, amid gas, in Champagne. After an advance by a first wave of soldiers, a second wave would clear out any Germans remaining by

Actresses posing in gas masks, WW1
Four popular actresses posed in gas masks - to show what the results would be if the Germans did succeed in frightening London into the adoption of a respirator fashion

Illustration from Paris Plaisirs number 80, February 1929
Illustration Mascarade by de Lugo from Paris Plaisirs number 80, February 1929 Date: 1929

British military battlefield training 1917
Gas-mask route marching near London. Every imaginable detail of battlefield training forms part of the course of instruction through which reinforcing drafts

Protection against noxious vapour 1917
Britsih troops practice advancing through smoke and adjusting their masks. Date: 1917

Men wearing Venice Carnival Costumes, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Boy wearing Venice Carnival Costume, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Man wearing Venice Carnival Costume, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Venice Carnival Costume
Person wearing costume at the Venice Carnival, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Woman wearing Venice Carnival Costume and Gondolas
Person wearing costume with gondolas at the Venice Carnival, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Halloween
Three scary Halloween masks and a black cat. Date: circa 1912

French soldiers spraying disinfectant, WW1
French soldiers spraying disinfectant after a gas attack on the Western Front. Date: 1916

Post-War Utility of the Gas Helmet by Bernard Hugh
Some humorous ideas on how to make use of gas masks following the end of World War One. Date: 1918

British sailors at German naval surrender, 1918
British sailors, the crew of a gun-ship, with gas masks at the ready in case of need wait for the first sight of the surrendering German fleet going to their berths in a British harbour after

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