Masks Collection (page 8)

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

Refugees with gas mask boxes
Child refugees with gas mask boxes during World War II

London blackout, World War II
London shop windows blacked out with paper and posters advertising their wares and with gas mask propaganda on the home front in London during World War II

Stores Services Club
Women from the armed services in the Stores Services Club hang up their hats and gas masks during World War II

River Emergency Service, World War II. A patrol boat of the River Emergency Service returning from duty flies the gas signal GQH and a member of the crew signals for assistance be semaphore

Firefighters in gas masks
ARP Firefighters in gas masks during World War II during decontamination exercise

Gas Mask fitting
Mothers leave an Ilford school with their children after a gas mask fitting. All the schools in Ilford, Essex (London) were opened to enable residents to be fitted with gas masks under the Air Raid

Mobile decontamination unit
Demonstration by Hornsey Borough Council of a mobile cleansing unit for gas decontamination squads, invented by one of its workers. The unit folds up into a trailer that can be pulled by a car

Belgian refugees in London are fitted with gas masks at Fulham Borough Council during World War II

WWII safety precautions
A man with a white hat band on a steel lined crowned bowler hat and carrying a gas mask box during world war II

Gas Masks in London
Man sitting and sleeping in a London park carrying his gas mask box with him in September 1939

Gas Mask drill at school, 1939
Gas Mask drill at school. Teacher and pupils wearing gas masks, 1939

Gas Masks for children
Gas Masks and protection for children and nursing mothers during World War II in 1940-1941

Gas Masks, World War II
Group of men queuing to register, probably for the ARP, wearing gas masks during World War II

Children in gas masks
Children wearing gas masks at a kindergarten with their nurse, or teacher, during World War II

Gas Mask fitting, World War II
Woman giving a man a gas mask fitting during World War II

Family wearing gas masks
A family wearing gas masks on a quiet night in at home during World War II

ARPs World War II
ARPs in gas masks during World War II during decontamination exercise in London

Gas Masks
Students wearing gas masks while studying during World War II

Gas Masks for babies
A gas mask, or hood for babies being demonstrated at Holborn Town Hall, London. It took three years of development to perfect

Metalworkers welding a railway carriage
Three metalworkers wearing protective masks weld large metal boxes together to form the shell of a railway carriage. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Lewis gunners 1918
British Lewis gunners of the 12th Royal Scots wearing box respirators in action in a front line trench during a gas attack on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1918

Machine gunners 1916
British machine gunners using a Vickers Gun and wearing their gas masks, near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme

British Army Signallers 1916
Three members of the British Army Signal Service, wearing gas masks, in a trench on the Western Front, a typical forward Signal Post

Batgers Masks and Animals Luggage label
Rather odd scene featuring an adult in a sinister party mask trying to lasso a group of children in fancy dress masks and head dresses at a party

Batgers Crackers label
Children at a party wear rather elaborate animal head dresses as they jump around, pull crackers and generally have a spiffing time

Carnival in Barcelona
A carnival procession travels down the street with crowds gathering on their balconies to watch the musicians and entertainers go by

War workers in the Womens Procession in London
A photograph showing a procession by the Womens Social and Political Union. The group that can be seen wearing face masks are a party of female munition workers

Futurist Fiction by Bairnsfather
A prescient view of the future showing two lovers wearing gas masks through which they attempt a romantic kiss. Drawn at the end of World War I

British soldier in a new gas-mask
A British soldier wearing a new gas mask. Following the German use of poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd, 1915, it became a common feature of World War I warfare

Making Medieval Masks
Making masks in the middle ages - she is making the moulds, he is painting them

Native American Masks
Masks are worn by Native American medicine men in their religious and tribal ceremonies, in the belief that this enables them to acquire the forces of nature

Ancient Egyptian Masks
The masks worn by ancient Egyptian priests generally represented animals, symbolising their deities - birds, dogs, hippopotamus etc

Japanese Childrens Masks
Dressing in masks is a favourite game with Japanese children

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