Masks Collection (page 7)

Soldiers in gas masks, Western Front, WW1
Soldiers in gas masks on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Auxiliary Fire Service gas mask training, WW2
Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service undergoing gas mask training during the Second World War. Date: 1940

The Bonus Army Camp Destroyed: Use of Tear Gas
Use of tear gas bombs by United States troops against war veterans in the clearnance of the Bonus Army encampment at Washington

Street parade with people in costume
A street parade with people in costume, including big heads

Decontamination Drill, World War II
Decontamination Drill at the Savoy Hotel in London during World War II. Percy Rommey demonstrates the correct method of undressing a man exposed to gas

Gas Alarm at Loos / Wwi
British troops don their gas masks in the face of a gas attack at the Battle of Loos in autumn of 1915. Date: 1915

Gas masks of 1915
Photograph showing two gas masks in 1915, (above); a cotton-wool pad of April 1915 and (below); Hypo Helmet gas-mask of November

Javanese Dancing Masks
Native dancing girls in traditional masks and elaborate dress, Java, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Gas Attack Drill
Men wearing gas masks and gas tanks, taking part in a gas attack drill in Germany before the outbreak of World War Two. Date: 1930s

Holy Week Procession
An Easter Holy Week procession in Seville, Spain, showing the participants dressed in the weird white costumes with masks and pointed hats. Date: early 1930s

Eastern Russia - Transbaikalia - Tsam ceremony
Eastern Russia - Transbaikalia - Buddhist Tsam ceremony amongst the Buryat People to exorcise evil which consisted of a series of masked dances and often had a narrative content

Native Dancers, Mexico - wearing elaborate costumes which are a real mish-mash of Roman Catholic and traditional styles. Date: circa 1920s

Russo-Japanese War - Howitzers disguised by Wooden Screens
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Howitzers disguised by Wooden Camouflaged Screens. Date: 1905

Tibetan Dancers in Darjeeling, India. Date: circa 1910s

Lamas perform Divinity Dance, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Tibetan Buddhist Lamas perform a Divinity Dance, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India Date: circa 1910s

Palace entertainers - Hue, Vietnam
Palace entertainers and dancers in demonic costume at Hue, the capital city of Thua ThienHue Province of Vietnam. Date: 1907

African Tourist Gifts / Crafts for sale at a local market. Date: circa 1930s

Statue of the Coquelin Brothers - Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Statue of the Coquelin Brothers (French Comics) at (their birthplace)Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. Benoit-Constant Coquelin (18411909)

Jugend front cover, naked woman with long hair and masks
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting a naked woman with long hair, holding two theatrical masks, one for comedy and one for tragedy. Date: 1898

LCC-LFB - Self-contained smoke helmets (BA sets)
Self-contained smoke helmets (BA sets) were introduced for use in an atmosphere dense with smoke and dangerous fumes. A special motor appliance fitted for smoke helmet work was based at Southwark HQ

GLC LFB Breathing apparatus communications set
Battery operated communications equipment for use with compressed air breathing apparatus sets. Microphones are fitted into the specially adapted full face masks

A young flapper girl in a Christmas theme dress
Front Cover of " The Sketch Book & Winters Pie" by Elsie Harding. A young flapper girl in a Christmas theme dress holding flags, balloons and masks. Date: 1928- 1929

Parade Float for Harknetts Menagerie
A fantatsic postcard photograph depicting a Parade Float for Harknetts Menagerie, with lots of willing circus employees dressed up as a variety of wild animals!! Date: circa 1910s

The Scarlet Pastorale by Aubrey Beardsley. A masked harlequinned pierrot on a stage with other masked characters behind. Date: 1890s

American troops near Beuvardes, France, WW1
American troops advancing through gas, and French cavalry going in the other direction, on a country road near Beuvardes, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 24 July 1918

A Venetian Ball - Costumes
Le Bal Venetian A woman in a black and red dress having her hand kissed by a male companion as she walks beneath a red arch. Date: 1923

Portuguese prisoners handing over gas masks, WW1
Portuguese soldiers taken prisoner in the Battle of Armentieres (Battle of the Lys) handing over their gas masks at a collecting point, Flanders, First World War. Date: April 1918

Benguella, Congo - Carnival - Dance of the Chinas
Benguella, Congo - A Carnival, the traditional Dance of the " Chinas" Date: 1911

Cycling with gas masks in WWII
Two French women cycle to work in Paris with gas masks slung over their shoulders in canisters. Date: 1939

Queen Elizabeth in 1939
Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, leaving the British Red Cross Society on 5th September 1939, carrying a gas mask in a canvas bag over her shoulder. Date: 5th September 1939

Industrial Gas Masks
Industrial gas masks, used to protect workers from noxious fumes. Date: 1930s

Theatre Masks
Theatrical masks. Date: 1930s

Masks of Lucifer Ballet
A striking scene from The Masks of Lucifer, portraying Satan as Intrigue, Hate and Fear, performed by Madame Bosenweisers Ballet, Austria. Date: 1930

Two British machine gunners, Battle of the Somme, WW1
Two British machine gunners near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, northern France, during the First World War. They are using a Vickers Gun and wearing their gas helmets. Date: July 1916

Preparing for Masquerade
Preparing for a Masquerade: people in traditional costumes including Harlequin, Mr Punch, Pierrot, a nun and a monk Date: circa 1825

Gebrauchsgraphik front cover 1930
Simple, striking front cover of Gebrauchsgraphik, the journal of international advertising art, featuring a stylised image of a woman wearing a party mask

Policemen with gas masks
A group of London policemen kitted up with gas masks and respirators (in canvas bags), prior to the outbreak of World War Two

War Reserve policemen, London
A group of War Reserve policemen in London pose for their photograph during the Second World War. They are wearing tin helmets and striped armbands

Policemen in gas masks on their motor cycles
Two long lines of Metropolitan Police officers on their motor cycles, one with a sidecar. They are all wearing masks in case of a gas attack. Sandbags are piled up outside the building on the right

German infantry in gas masks WWI
German troops in gas masks penetrating Ploegsteert Wood between Montdidier and Noyon during World War I

German transport WWI
German transport drivers and horses wearing gas masks during the advance on Soissons at the Third Battle of the Aisne during World War I

Soldiers in trench WWI
Men of the 4th Company, 27th Regiment wearing the first gas masks during World War I

Surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Three surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall

Masks from the Ivory Coast, one representing an Antelope. African masks such as these were to prove a fertile source of artistic influence to abstract artists (such as Picasso)

Stick Practice, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Boys in protective masks, taking part in stick practice on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland

Gas attack rehearsal 1938
Gas attack rehearsal in Nottingham in 1938. A man with bell and rattle gives a warning of a gas attack in a simulated practice which was filmed to give instruction to other people in the UK

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