Media Collection (page 10)

Silhouette heading, Financial Frills and Thrills, by H.L. Oakley, for The Bystander magazine. Showing two men in top hats, sitting in their respective armchairs, reading their newspapers. Date: 1920

Lord Northcliffe
ALFRED HARMSWORTH, later Lord NORTHCLIFFE (1865 - 1922) newspaper proprietor pictured in the library at his Isle of Thanet seat, Elmwood St. Peters in 1920. Date: 1920

Percival Phillips (1877-1937), American born journalist and war correspondent, working for the Daily Express during the First World War

Sphere during WW1, advertisement, 1916
Advertisement IN The Sphere magazine FOR The Sphere magazine, declaring it had the finest war artists in Signor (Fortunino) Matania and Christopher Clark

Gibraltar scouts on The Scout magazine cover
A group of Gibraltar scouts on The Scout magazine cover for 14 March 1959. Date: 1959

Scouts in Bathurst, Gambia, West Africa
Group photo of scouts in Bathurst, Gambia, West Africa, taking part in the ZD3D Radio Jamboree. Date: 1968

Maccabees Building, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Maccabees Building, home of the WXYZ Radio Station, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Date: 1943

Reporters writing up their stories at the Daily Chronicle
Reporters just back from public functions, meetings, fires, accidents and so forth are seen transcribing their copy for press at the offices of the Daily Chronicle

Interior of a sorting car on a newspaper express train
London newspapers being sorted and packed in transit on board an express train in specially constructed cars, during the night journey

Receiving late news on the tape telegraph at Daily Chronicle
A late news item received on the tape telegraph and telephoned at once down to the machine room at The Daily Chronicle to guarantee inclusion in that days edition. Date: 1914

Delivery of newspapers from the machine
Newspapers coming off the printing press and gathered and counted by two men while the man on the right removes the bundles of papers to take to the publishing department. Date: 1914

Head Office of W. H. Smith
Early morning scene outside the head office of W. H. Smith at 186, Strand, London showing carts and vans being loaded up with newspapers for London and the provinces

Sorting & packing newspapers overnight at W H Smith
Men working at long tables at W. H. Smith sorting and packing newspapers for distribution by rail throughout the country. Each of the long tables represented a main railway line

Cartoon of the newspaper press, 1829
A print by H. Heath representing symbolically the fearless and trenchant attitude of the Press in early nineteenth century

Touching up a photograph for use in a newspaper
A specially-trained expert retouching photographs before reproduction in The Daily Chronicle newspaper - done by hand in the days long before Photoshop was available. Date: 1914

Edward VII and Alexandra silver wedding anniversary 1888
Front cover of Christian Herald and Signs of our Times, showing portraits of Edward VII and Alexandra, on their silver wedding anniversary, with their five children

Young Prince William infront of Media
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (1982-present), pictured here as a young child aged between three and four, next to his father Prince Charles (1949-present) infront of media Date: 1985

W H Smith book stall at Cannon Street Station, 1915
The book stall of W. H. Smith at Cannon Street station, London showing in particular, the display of Printers Pie magazine, a twice-yearly charitable publication produced by Hugh Spottiswoode

Bonzo finds the bedtime story too much for him
Bonzo finds the bedtime story on the radio too much for him, and he bursts out crying. Date: 1923

British war correspondents in trench, Western Front, WW1
British war correspondents in a trench, watching an aerial combat, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Canadian journalists visit France, Western Front, WW1
Canadian journalists visiting the Western Front in France during World War One. Seen here with Lord Lovat at a Canadian sawmill. Date: circa 1916

Magazine page, fire brigade sports news
A magazine page reporting fire brigade sports news from Birmingham, Manchester and London. Prizes shown in the photographs are for swimming (London)

King Alfonso photographed talking to a woman
Who Would Be King? Photograph of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, captured by snapshotters during a trip to San Sebastien, talking to an unidentified young woman

Sir Stanley Buckmaster, Solicitor-General, WW1
Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (1861-1934), British lawyer and Liberal politician, seen here at the time he served as Solicitor-General under Asquith (1913-1915)

Cartoon, Men from The Moon, WW1
Cartoon, Men from The Moon, commenting on three neutral powers in the early weeks of the First World War (Holland, America and Italy), and how they are regarded by the German government

Woman reads the news of a great British victory, WW1
A woman reads the news of what is described by the newspaper as a great British victory in the early days of the First World War

Cartoon, Russias Thorn in the Flesh, showing a scene in a typical Warsaw cafe on receipt of war news. Date: August 1914

Daily Mail newspaper artists office
Photograph of the art department of the Daily Mail, with illustrators working on pictures at large tables in the days when illustration was still as important as photography in newspapers

Cover design, German newspaper industry
Cover design for Das Plakat, an illustrated survey of German poster art, depicting men at work printing a newspaper. Date: March 1915

Bonzo persuades a friend to throw a stone by George Studdy
Bonzo persuades a friend to throw a stone. The stone lands on a man lying on the beach, reading a newspaper, which means that Bonzo and the Bonzolines run right across him

Bruce Ingram
Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877 - 1963), journalist and newspaper editor. The grandson of the papers founder, Herbert Ingram, he edited the Illustrated London News from 1900 to 1963

Georgina Weldon, campaigner, litigant and amateur singer
Georgina Weldon 1837-1914), campaigner against the lunacy laws, litigant and amateur singer. Her interest in spiritualism led her husband to try to prove that she was insane; she resisted being taken

Wartime news satire, WW1
A page which at first glance appears to be full of wartime news, but which on more detailed examination turns out to be a satire on press censorship during the First World War

Cartoon, Studies in Leakage, or how the great secret of the Conference was given away. Showing how news of a Buckingham Palace Conference on Irish Home Rule was leaked to the press. Date: July 1914

Illustrated London News advertisement, 1913
Advertisement for weekly illustrated paper, The Illustrated London News in its sister publication The Sketch, using the metaphor of a spiders web to convey the wide spectrum of subjects covered in

Queen of Greece reading The Sketch
The Queen of Greece, formerly Princess Sophie of Prussia, hides herself from a photographer on the beach at Eastbourne with a copy of The Sketch magazine

Cover of Home Chat Magazine, showing a young woman putting up lanterns for some New Year entertaining. She is wearing a red and blue patterned party dress

Horse reading over boys shoulder
A boy stands reading his Boys Own magazine, while a white horse appears to be reading over his shoulder

Cinematography trophies on display
Various trophies on display. The notice reads: Modern Bee Breeding, but the large trophy at the centre is for Amateur Cinematography

Garnerins descent by parachute
Newspaper report with colour illustrations of Garnerins descent by parachute, London. Date: 21 September 1802

Victor Bulla, special correspondent
Victor Bulla of St. Petersburg, one of the special correspondents of The Sphere and The Tatler, who gained permission to accompany the invading Russian forces en route to Manchuria during

Dormition of the Virgin. Russian Icon, Russian School 18th century

The Old Testament Trinity : Abraham Entertaining the Angels. Russian Icon, Moscow School, late 17th century

Saint Nicholas. Russian Icon, Russian School, 17th - 18th century

Table Top. Unknown

American Red Cross, Rainbow Corner. A weekly feature broadcast link between American servicemen based in the UK and their familes back at home in the States - organised by the BBC. Date: circa 1941

Livingston, Maxim, Gates, Grahame-White - Olympia Aero Exhib
Hendon, Londons first aerodrome, had been largely developed from 1910 by Claude Grahame-White, against the views of the newspaper media who had derided his earlier efforts to develop the airfield

PORTUGAL. Lisbon. A photographer takes photos on a TV set at the NATO International Media Centre on November 19, 2010 in Lisbon

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