Named Collection (page 13)

Portrait of a French sailor wearing French naval cap with named cap band Le Vengeance. He is smoking a pipe. Julien T Felt (1874-1933)

WWI album of Lieutenant-Colonel P Syrcold
A First World War album containing 41 photographs dated between 1914 and 1916, belonging to Lieutenant-Colonel P. SYRCOLD of the 1st/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, 48th Division

Pickering Girls Home, Hull, Yorkshire
The Pickering Girls Home at Hull, opened in 1915 by the Waifs and Strays Society. The home was named after its benefactor Christopher Pickering. Date: Circa 1921

Thames at Charing X
The Thames, looking eastward from the Strand Bridge (which will be re-named Waterloo Bridge any day now) Date: 1816

Israel Tel Aviv
Rothschild Avenue, named in honour of the banking family who did much to further the establishing of a Jewish state in Palestine. Date: 1925

France Mont Blanc
Distant view of the aptly named mountain, seen from above Sallanche. Date: 1835

Bastille Demolition Plan
Five years before the Revolution, it is proposed to demolish the Bastille prison and replace it with a public square named for Louis XVI. It could have changed history ! Date: 1784

USA / Fairbanks
The city of Fairbanks, the Golden Heart of Alaska, U.S.A. so named because it is a rich gold mining district in the centre of the State. Date: 1930s

Athlete / Tavernari
The Italian runner TAVERNARI, who won another World Record at Budapest, Hungary, on 15 June, covering 500 metres in just 1 minute and 2/9ths of a second! Date: 1930s

Airship Battle
The Attila - the aptly-named flying machine of the evil- minded anarchist Hartmann - in battle over the ocean. Date: 1902

Attack on Balloon
The Attila - the aptly-named flying machine of the evil- minded anarchist Hartmann - attacks a balloon. Date: 1902

Hartmann Attacked
The Attila - the aptly-named flying machine of the evil- minded anarchist Hartmann - is attacked while on a bombing raid. Date: 1902

Anarchist Aircraft
The Attila - the aptly-named flying machine of the evil- minded anarchist Hartmann. Date: 1902

Davis Cup Players
The Davis Cup Tennis Tournament in Paris, France : (left to right) : John VAN RYN Wilmer ALLISON, Jean BOROTRA, and Henri COCHET. Date: late 1920s

FRANCE OO
The lac d Oo is one of the more picturesque sites in the Hautes Pyrenees, however it is probably not named from the gasps of admiration it evokes from sightseers. Date: 1836

France Ermenonville
The park is today named for Jean-Jacques Rousseau who lived here and who lies buried in the grounds. Date: 18th century

Armstrong Siddeley Car
An Armstrong Siddeley luxury (British) motor car. Date: 1930s

Pinders French Circus
The Big Top marquee of Pinders French circus. Date: 1930s

August Wassermann
AUGUST von WASSERMANN German physician, notable for the diagnostic blood-test for syphilis named after him. Date: 1866 - 1925

Felix Alfred Vulpian
EDME FELIX ALFRED VULPIAN French physician who achieved the distinction of having a muscular ailment named for him. Date: 1826 - 1887

Eugenio Prince Ruspoli
EUGENIO prince RUSPOLI Italian traveler and naturalist in Africa, has an exotic bird named after him but died in a one-sided encounter with an elephant. Date: 1866 - 1893

Philip Syng Physick
PHILIP SYNG PHYSICK American medical practitioner, aptly named ! Date: 1768 - 1837

Mendelssohns Wife
Cecile Charlotte Sophie Jeanrenaud, wife of Mendelssohn and mother of his five children. [Do not confuse with his sister Fanny, also named Cecile] Date: 1830s

Elizabeth Vs. Melbourne
ELIZABETH, viscountess MELBOURNE (nee Milbanke) wife of Peniston Lamb, first viscount, with their son, who coincidentally is also named Peniston Lamb. Date: 1752 - 1818

La Chavanne, Savoie department, RhAlpes region, France La Chavanne, Savoie department
La Chavanne, Savoie department, RhAlpes region, France - close to Montmelian. Date: circa 1908

Samuel Cody at Aldershot with his first Kite Operating Squad made up of Sappers of the RE. These men were the first Air Contingent of the British Army

Lord and Lady Desborough at the London aerodrome dedicating a Ble

The final Handley Page Halifax I L9608
The final Handley Page Halifax I, L9608, was named by the Viscountess Halifax on 12 September 1941. Date: 1941

Lady Mary Heath 1896-1939 christens the aircraft
Lady Mary Heath, 1896-1939, christens the aircraft named after her. Date: 1939

The actress Dorothy Ward with Jim Mollison after whom the Bellanca Flash 28-70, The Dorothy, was named. They were leaving Croydon to return to Edinburgh where Miss Ward was appearing in a matinee

The Mercury-Redstone rocket that carried Virgil Grissom on the second US manned sub-orbital spaceflight. The Mercury capsule was named Liberty Bell 7

Altar Frontal Named Witches Tapestry. 12th c. Lower detail, of worked silk. Hispano-Moresque art. Almoravid art.; Hispano-Moresque art. Taifas Kingdoms period. Tapestry. SPAIN. Vic

VALLE-INCLAN, Ram󮠍ar�del Valle y Pe񡬠named
" VALLE-INCLAN, Ram󮠍 aric del Valle y Pe񡬠 named (1866-1936). Cover of the 11st volume of Valle Inclᮧs " Opera Omnia"

SODERMARK, Johan Olaf (1790-1848). Marie-Henri Beyle, named Stendhal. 1840. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles

AGUSTINA de ARAGON, Agustina Saragossa y Dom讥ch
AGUSTINA de ARAGON, Agustina Saragossa y Dom讥 ch, named (1790-1858). Spanish heroine during the Peninsular War, defendor of the Portillo in Zaragoza. Portrait by Lucio Rivas. Oil on canvas

Gregory Of Nazianzus, Saint (330-c. 389). Father
" Gregory Of Nazianzus, Saint (330-c.389). Father of the eastern church, named the Theologian, metropolitan archbishop of Constantinople. Fol. 440 of the " Homilies

Ecuador. Guayaquil. The city and the port, near
" Ecuador. Guayaquil. The city and the port, near to the mountain named La Polverera. Litography. ITALY. Milan. Civica Raccolta delle Stampe " Achille Bertarelli"

France. Lorraine. Meurthe-Et-Moselle. Nancy
FRANCE. LORRAINE. MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLE. Nancy. Place Stanislas, named after the Polish king Stanislaw Leszczynski. Baroque fountain (18th c.) with sculptures by Barth鬥 my Guibal. Sculpture

Mehmed Aga (1553-1625). Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Blue Mosque. 1603-1617. TURKEY. THRACE. Istanbul. Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque)

Book On the Properties of Things (15th c. ). Translation
Book On the Properties of Things (15th c.). Translation by Jean Cordichon of the encyclopedic work by the Franciscan Bartholomaeus Anglicus

L PEZ TARSO, Ignacio (1925);VALLE-INCLAN, Ramn Marѡdel V
L.PEZ TARSO, Ignacio (1925); VALLE-INCLAN, Ramn MarС del Valle y Pea, named (1866-1936). Mexican theatre actor. Scene of Tirano

ESPERT, Noria (1933);VALLE-INCLAN, Ramn Marѡdel Valle y
ESPERT, Noria (1933); VALLE-INCLAN, Ramn MarС del Valle y Pea, named (1866-1936). Spanish actress. Scene from the theatre

VALLE-INCLAN, Ramn Marѡdel Valle y Pea, named (1866-1936
VALLE-INCLAN, Ramn MarС del Valle y Pea, named (1866-1936). Cover of the 19th volume of Valle-Incl n s

CARREяDE MIRANDA, Juan (1614-1685). Don Fernando
CARREя DE MIRANDA, Juan (1614-1685). Don Fernando de Valenzuela, Marquis of Villasierra (named Duende de Palacio). c. 1660. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid

Bangkok Wat Arun - Thailand - Wat Arun Temple of Dawn named after the Indian god of dawn Aruna Date: 1952

Lewis Carroll cot at Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital
The Lewis Carroll cot at Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital, London. The cot was one of many sponsored by charitable benefactors

First Edition of L ILLUSTRATION 1843
L Illustration was one of the first to follow in the footsteps of the Illustrated London News, following its page size and format for nearly one hundred years. Date: 4 March 1843

Ford Edsel Advert
The Edsel was much hyped before its launch, but was a complete failure with the public Date: 1957

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