Nations Collection (page 2)

Hector Horeaus design for Crystal Palace interior 1851
An unrealised design for the Crystal Palace as presented to the Royal Commission by the French architect Hector Horeau, reproduced in the French publication L Illustration. Date: 1851

Postwar poster, SOS To All Nations, Disarm
Postwar poster, design by Batt, SOS To All Nations, Disarm, Join the League of Nations Union. circa 1920

A Pai-Loo and a Chinese Fortress - Manners & Customs of Nations. 1803

Men drinking in a pub
Book cover design: Mr. Silvertop seeks peace by Eric Keown, League of Nations Union, 1937 Date: 1937

Children of Nations - Children of the British nations in national costume and brandishing flags. From Cassells Childrens Annual. Artist: E Dorothy Rees Date: 1913

GERMANY UNITED W AUSTRIA
Germany and Austria at last together under a single Fuhrer who will lead the two united nations to victory, success, prosperity, military glory and domestic happiness... maybe Date: 1938

League of Nations satire
The League of Nations Incomplete : The Gap in the Bridge Date: December 1919

The annual England versus France rugby union match. Although well beaten, however, the French attacked fearlessly and the game was fast throughout. Score 37-0, winners England. Date: 28 January 1911

The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church of the Agony or the Basilica of the Agony, Mount of Olives, Garden of Gethsemane, Jerusalem, Israel. Date: built 1919 - 1924

Indigenous tribal family of North West Canada. circa 1908

Italia and Germania Date: 1828

Footwear of the Nations - Turkey (and Western)
Footwear of the Nations - Turkey (the turned-up toed slippers of a Turkish beauty and the Western black rubber-soled shoes of her male admirer)

Dreadnought Hospital ship at Greenwich 1870
In 1870 the patients were transferred ashore to the infirmary. which was renamed the Dreadnought Seamens Hospital. HMS Dreadnought herself remained in use as an isolation hospital until she was

MAP / GENTILE NATIONS
A map of the Gentile Nations, as mentioned in the Prophets and historical books of the Old Testament. Date: BC

MEETING OF LADIES 1850
Meeting of the Ladies Committee at Stafford House, Piccadilly, in aid of the Great Exhibition of Industry of All Nations, to be held in 1851. Date: 1850

CRYSTAL PALACE / OPENING
Victoria, Queen of Britain, opens the Great Exhibition of the industry of all nations. Date: 1 May 1851

LEAGUE OF NATIONS / 1929
The 10th meeting of the League of Nations at Geneva. Briand makes his pacifist speech. Date: 1929

French Warship 1794
A Kings Ship dressed with the Colours of Different Nations Date: 1794

BARTER POINT FOR TRADE
An enclosure situated on the border between Russia and China, by the Great Wall. The spot selected for barter between the two nations. Date: 1858

Native American costume: Blackfoot Medicine Man by Catlin
Native American medicine man from the Blackfoot tribe. Date: 1830

Mary Pickford - Canadian motion picture actress
Mary Pickford (1892-1979) - Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

British troops - United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR)
One of 15 colour photographs of groups of British troops on service with United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) Bosnia, and based in Vitez, Bosnia, 1994 (c). Date: circa 1994

Lord Baden Powell and Prince of Wales at World Jamboree
Lord Robert Baden Powell and Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) at the Third World Scout Jamboree, Arrowe Park, Upton, Merseyside

Mammari, Cyprus - Nicosia District, north of Kokkinotrimithia (currently in the UN buffer zone). Date: circa 1930s

UNESCO palace in Beirut (Beyrouth), Lebanon
Entrance to the main Conference Hall of the Palais de l UNESCO (UNESCO palace) in Beirut (Beyrouth) established to host the General Conference of the United Nations Educational

Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle (FV510).One of 63 colour photographs relating to British Forces in Bosnia, 1992-1994.Associated with United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR). Date: 1992

St. Georges School football Team - Jerusalem, Israel in 1910. The St. Georges team includes Izzat Tannous, a Protestant Palestinian who became a medical doctor

Bern, Switzerland - Universal Postal Union sculpture, designed by Rene de Saint-Marceaux (1909). Each of the five human figures represents a different continent. Date: circa 1910s

The Ultimatum
Japan: If you go on saying I m naughty, I shall leave the class. Cartoon showing the League Of Nations as a teacher with Lytton Report on the blackboard, and Japan as an insubordinate student

Engraving depicting The dissipated habits of Chares of Athen
Chares of Athens. 4th century BC. Athenian general. Engraving depicting The dissipated habits of Chares. History of the Nations. 19th century. Colored

Germany Reoccupiers Saar
The region of the Saar votes overwhelmingly in a plebiscite to return to Germany - it had been administered by the League of Nations since 1919, the french controlling mines. Date: 1935

Festival in Manaus, northern Brazil
Aerial view of a festival taking place in St Sebastian Square, in front of the opera house in the city of Manaus, northern Brazil

Tesselated pavement, Manaus, northern Brazil
A tesselated pavement in St Sebastian Square, in front of the opera house in the city of Manaus, northern Brazil. The monument, inaugurated in 1900

Austrias oldest scout at World Jamboree
Austrias oldest scout, Fieldmaster Josef Gradwohl of Vienna, aged 77, chatting with a young scout at the 1951 World Jamboree, near Bad Ischl

Warships of the six nations in the Mediterranean, WW1
The naval situation in the Mediterranean: the warships of the six nations (Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy and Austria). Shown looking eastwards from Gibraltar towards the Adriatic. Date: 1914

Patkul Accused
Patkul, a dissident Swedish noble, incites other nations, including Russia, to go to war with Sweden : Peter orders accusations against Patkul to be bonfired in the Kremlin. Date: 1702

Franco-British Exhibition - Marianne, England and Britannia
Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908 - Marianne, A personification of England (a Medieval Queen) and Britannia meet below their respective flags

Boy Scout - Nations Hope
The Boy Scout - The Nations Hope by Fred Roe. Date: 1914

Bowles universal display of the naval flags of all nations in the world

Indian encampment - Hop Picking Season - Washington State Date: 1909

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President, in Philadelphia, USA
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia

League of Nations / 1921
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, Geneva A general scene

ABD AL AZIZ / MOROCCO / 1903
ABD AL AZIZ or ABD AL AZIZ IV Sultan of Morocco (1894-1908): modern ideas and friendliness to other nations made him unpopular in his own country

New York Worlds Fair - Lagoon of Nations - Night scene with spotlights. Date: 1939

New York Worlds Fair - Foreign Exhibit Building - Lagoon of Nations. Date: 1939

Group photo, Argentinian delegates, Miami, USA
Group photo, Argentinian delegates at Miami, Florida, USA, 11 May 1945, posing in front of an aeroplane. They were on their way to San Francisco to attend a United Nations conference to discuss world

Moran?s War Map, coloured to show Britain and her Allies
Map: Moran?s War Map, coloured to show Britain and her Allies, Germany and Austria-Hungary, and the neutral nations at the outbreak of the First World War

Dame Rachel Crowdy (1884-1964) trained as a nurse and served as Principal Commandant for the VADS (Voluntary Aid Detachments) to the Territorial Army during the First World War

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