Meeting Collection (#30)

Business Meeting
Two businessmen at a meeting. Date: late 1960s

Society at Grand National Meeting at Aintree - 28th March, 1930. Mr Bailey, Lady Ursula Filmer and Lady Serena James at the meeting. Date: 1930

A meeting of the High Court
The President breaks the ceremonial cup by throwing it violently onto the floor whilst the members, right arm raised, say Amen. Date: 1890s

Conakry - French Guinea
French West Africa (Guinea) Conakry - Ballay Monument - in memorium of French Governor Noel Ballay (Governor between 1891-1900)

Morris Park Race Track - The Bronx, NYC, USA Date: 1903

The Carbonari at work
The Carbonari (literally meaning the charchoal burners) were groups of secret revolutionary soceities founded in Italy. Here Giuseppe Mazzini is shown communicating his project of creating Young

The motor car in society, 1911
Society meeting in Hyde Park, London in 1911, some on horseback, others in shiny new motorcars. Illustration to accompany a supplement in The Sphere reporting on the Olympia Motor Show. Date: 1911

Dunderpate and his friend Susan meet a blacksmith who explains what not letting the grass grow under your feet really means. Dunderpate is dismayed to learn that it means working hard. Date: 1938

Garden Party at Buckingham Palace - Princess Elizabeth
Prince Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and her fiance Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten chatting with guests at a garden party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace in July 1947

Queen Elizabeth II - British Columbia, 1971
Queen Elizabeth II meeting local Indian tribes during a royal tour of British Columbia in Canada as part of the centenary celebrations in June 1971. Date: 1971

Queen Elizabeth II with Richard Nixon, 1970
Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Mrs Pat Nixon, wife of the United States President, Richard Nixon who watches, along with British Prime Minister, Edward Heath

Ahmed Tevfik Pasha of Turkey and his German allies
Ahmed Tevfik Pasha, Grand Vizier (Prime Minister) of Turkey from November 1918 to March 1919, during a meeting with his German allies at Spa, Belgium, towards the end of the First World War

Lloyd George, Clemenceau and others during WW1
Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and others meeting for talks during the First World War. Date: 28 November 1917

Sir Douglas Haig meeting General Joffre, Montreuil
General Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) meeting General Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre (1852-1931) at his headquarters at Montreuil, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 17 June 1916

Field Marshal von Mackensen with wreath in Berlin
Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945), German army officer, about to lay a wreath at the foot of the statue of Frederick the Great in Berlin, Germany

Council of the South Arabian Boy Scouts Association
Members of the Council of the South Arabian Boy Scouts Association sitting in the audience at the Annual General Meeting in Aden, Yemen. 1965

Duke of Connaught and Marshal Foch, London
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942) meeting Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), General in the French Army, at Charing Cross Station, London, probably on the way to a conference at Chequers

Irish Scout leader at a conference
An Irish Scout leader stands by a window reading a programme at the Irish Scouters Conference. 1950s

A Brownie meeting the Chief Guide
A Brownie presents the Chief Guide (Lady Olave Baden-Powell) with an elephant model, while other officials and an audience watch. 1930s

Mr D. F. Morgan in Aden
Mr D.F. Morgan (Commonwealth Commissioner) in Aden talking to a Yemeni Scout with other scouts sitting on the floor watching. circa 1959

South Arabian Boy Scouts Association AGM
Officials standing to speak on the panel of the Annual General Meeting of the South Arabian Boy Scouts Association in Aden. Left to right are Rao Sahib Muthaua M.B.E

Swedish Scout Training Team Meeting. 1962

General Haig and General Joffre at Chantilly, France
General Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928), British army officer, and General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), French army officer. Seen here with others during a meeting at Chantilly, northern France

Yuan Chi Kai, Chinese President, with diplomatic corps
Yuan Chi Kai (or Shikai) (1859-1916), President of the Republic of China, with members of the diplomatic corps at Peking. Date: circa 1913

Lloyd George and others on a railway platform
David Lloyd George (1863-1945), British Prime Minister, together with a group of other men on a railway platform, with a Pullman train carriage behind them. Date: 20th century

Sir Douglas Haig meeting King Nikola I of Montenegro
General Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) meeting King Nikola I of Montenegro (1841-1921) at Beauquesne in northern France during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

Sir Douglas Haig at Cambrai for meeting of commanders
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) arriving at Cambrai, northern France, for a meeting of commanders during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Lord Kitchener in France during shell crisis, WW1
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) and others leaving a conference in France during the shell shortage crisis, First World War. Date: circa 1915

Sir Douglas Haig and Georges Clemenceau, France
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) and Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), French Prime Minister, meeting at Doullens Station, northern France

Sir Douglas Haig with President of Portugal, France
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) with the President of Portugal, Bernardino Machado (1851-1944) in northern France during the First World War. Seen here inspecting a guard of honour

Names of Scouts at Swedish Scout Training Team Meeting
The names of Scouts at Swedish Scout Training Team Meeting 1962

Sir Douglas Haig, Georges Clemenceau and others
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928), French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) and others, at a meeting during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

President Poincare and Aristide Briand, Beauvais, WW1
President Raymond Poincare (1860-1934) (centre) and Prime Minister Aristide Briand (1862-1932) (left), at Beauvais, northern France, for a meeting during the First World War. Date: 1917

Sir Douglas Haig meeting President of Portugal, France
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) meeting the President of Portugal, Bernardino Machado (1851-1944) in France during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1917

Dr Karl Renner, Austrian politician, St Germain Chateau
Dr Karl Renner (1870-1950), Austrian politician, at a Peace Conference in St Germain Chateau, France, seen here standing, with his back to the camera

Princess Elizabeth - Royal Tour of Canada
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) shakes hands with the train porters as she takes leave of the royal train and its crew at Charlottetown

Granpops Lodge of Instruction
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing his orang-utan character, Granpop together with a monkey and a pig attending a Freemasons meeting at a makeshift Lodge! 1934

Children meeting Santa Claus
Three children meeting Santa Claus. circa early 20th century

Yeoman cavalry competition for the Loyd Lindsay Cup
Manoeuvres of the squads of yeomanry cavalry engaged in the competition for the Loyd Lindsay prize at Wimbledon; they have to ride, four together, two of them dismount

HENRY HUNT Radical statesman, known as orator Hunt : he presided over the meeting which precipitated the Peterloo massacre. Date: 1773 - 1835

Band of Mercy 1879
Mr Brights Band of Mercy meeting at the seaside Date: 1879

French Election Meeting
An appreciative crowd clap and cheer a speaker standing in front of crossed tricolore flags at an election meeting in France Date: 1902

1872 / Farm Worker Meeting
During the period of agricultural unrest, farm labourers meet at the Eleanor Cross in Geddington, Northamptonshire Date: 1872

Cody Biplane 1909
Colonel Cody and his biplane at a French aviation meeting Date: 1909

Russians / Khiva 1873
A meeting between a Russian general and the Khan of Khiva to discuss peace terms. Khiva is in modern Uzbekistan. Date: 1873

Bleriot Monoplane
Simon, with his Bleriot at the Nantes Aviation meeting, 14-21 August 1910 Date: August 1910

Rotten Row Riders
Riders and their friends in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, the recognised meeting-place for fashionable society on a fine summers day 1871

London Republicans in 1872
London Republicans gather at The Hole in the Wall in Chancery Lane, London, England Date: 1872

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