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Kuwait: the single oilfield whose yield now exceeds Persias highest production. Page from the Illustrated London News, 22nd December 1951. Date: 1951
The Fabulously Rich Oilfield of Kuwait: aspects new and old of the tiny state. Page from the Illustrated London News, 22nd December 1951. Date: 1951
Monitoring radio stations for news to rush to editors Date: 1941
Broadcasting soon after an air raid, WW2Broadcasting soon after an air raid, with bombed buildings in the background, during WW2 Date: 1941
Captain Hope Johnstone bringing news of the capture of Lucknow, Indian Mutiny Date: 1858
Comic postcard, Men chatting in train compartment Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Little girl with letter on the beach (in English and French) Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Little girl with letter on the beach Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Little boy with letter on the beach Date: 20th century
Page from the Illustrated London News, 14th June 1845, featuring Ascot prizes the Royal Hunt Cup, the Emperors Cup, and the Queens Vase
Cinema showing Barbary Coast, West End of LondonA West End of London cinema at night with passing taxi, and news vendor. The film is Barbary Coast, starring Miriam Hopkins and Edward G Robinson. Date: 1935
News vendor, Central LondonLondon news vendor with intriguing banner, by bus stop in Central London. Date: circa 1930s
News vendor in Regent Street, London. Date: circa 1960s
News stand in Central LondonA news stand in Central London, with a wide variety of magazines and newspapers. Date: circa 1960
Newsagents window, North LondonNewsagents window proclaims Time magazine still on sale after claims of gross contempt against it by Stephen Wards defence. (Profumo Affair). Date: 1963
Evening News and Star headlines warn of train delays due to snow. Date: circa 1960s
Couple on Waterloo Bridge, LondonCouple stand on the old Waterloo Bridge, London, looking across the River Thames towards the South Bank, flanked by newspaper hoardings. Date: circa 1930s
Newspaper, L Action Francaise - to understand events Date: 1938
Comic postcard, Little girl with dog - Cook at the North Pole Date: 20th century
Muffled against the deadly bacilli in Manchuria, a doctor fully masked and a sanitary official, wearing a lint mask soaked in carbolic acid. Date: 1911
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Looking for news of youThe Caption is Looking for news of you. The card is from a young girl to her parents and was sent under cover with gifts. One of the presents was shaving cream for her father of which she says The
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Now News Aagin - Still hopingThe Caption is No news again? - still hoping. With the war near its end everyone back home was waiting for the return of their soldier boys. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1945
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Here is the NewsThe Caption is Here is the News, and this is yours truly reading it. With radio being the most direct source of News, the broadcasts were avidly listened to
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Food FlashThe caption on the postcard is Food Flash. The girls are talking about the latest rationing news. In 1942 even sweets were rationed. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1944
WW2 - During the evening of May 7th, all over Paris, Special editions are printed announcing the German surrender. Date: 1945
The worlds largest single oilfield: Kuwait and its fabulously rich ruler, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah. The discovery of oil has brought immense wealth to Kuwait
Gathering it in: the camera in the far south. Page from The Illustrated London News, 26th August 1922, with a photograph by Herbert Ponting of the Castle Iceberg lit by artificial light in the depths
Birthplace of the Hittite EmpireA page from the Illustrated London News, 18th December 1948: A birthplace of the Hittite Empire: the Karum of Kanes, an ancient Anatolian trade centre by Tahsim (sic)
The dancer Dolores Farris and the dancing teamThe dancer Dolores Farris (late of the Silver Slipper cabaret in New York and now appearing in the Easterm company of Good News) and the dancing team of La Mae and Josine popular in Boston
New York to Hollywood - a trio of dancers who transferred to Hollywood from Broadway, 1930 - Inez Courtney to appear in First Nationals version of Spring (top left)
A portrait of Bessie Love at MGM, 1930 - who appeared in Broadway Melody and will be in Good News Date: 1930
At the Cheltenham Chases, 1932. Society news from the racecourse. Mrs Pease (left, wearing fetching eyepatch), Lady Blanche Douglas
Society News, Tatler 1928In the Society News of the Passing Hour! Lady Mary Scott and Lord Burghley (who are engaged), and the Duchess of Buccleuch at Langholm Lodge; Mr
A British soldier wearing a new gas mask on the front cover of The Illustrated London News, 11th December 1915. Following the German use of poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd, 1915
Ruins of tower of St. Issey Church, CornwallRuins of the tower of St. Issey Church, near Padstow in Cornwall
Whole page from The Illustrated London News, July 5, 1856. Notes of the Week, Obituaries of Eminent Persons and Metropolitan News. Date: 1856
A page from the Illustrated London News, 12th February 1853, with illustrations of Her Majestys sloop Rattlesnake fitted for the new Arctic expedition; Digby Seymour
Prince of Wales laying foundation stone of Indian InstituteThe Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), as Grand Master of Freemasons, laying the foundation stone for the Indian Institute in Oxford. Date: 1883
Chair-mender, News Boy, Flying Pieman and Blackfriar sChair-mender, News Boy, Flying Pieman and Blackfriars Bridge. Chair-mender repairing a chair seat with rushes in Punyer Alley 46
St Dunstans Church, Postman, Letter Carrier and Knife-Grinder. Clock with figures striking bells at St Dunstans Church in Fleet Street 42
Royal Naval officers riding pigs in saddles through the market in Gibraltar. They knock over market stalls and sellers. Moors, Spanish and Jewish, scattering goods and wares. Market day - Gibraltar
Paladin, the horse owned by Mr. R. Holbech featured on the front cover of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News in December 1940. Date: 1940
Distributing the Pekin GazetteScenes in China. Distributing the Pekin Gazette. 1873
Sketch by Bryan de Grineau showing the great dining-hall at Fettes College, Edinburgh. A master and two prefects are dining near the large stone fireplace carved with the Fettes College arms
Sketches by Bryan de Grineau of Fettes College, Edinburgh. The top picture shows the study rooms in Kimmerghame House leading off from a central common room with armchairs, piano and billiard table
Sketches in Siam from The Illustrated London News. Date: 1855
Cover design, The Cococub News, 1939Cover design, The Cococub News, issued by Cadbury Bros Ltd, Bournville. 1939
ILN cover - Bren-carriers being entrainedOpen rail trucks being loaded with Bren-gun carriers by their crews in June 1940, when all munitions production in Britain was ramped up in the face of a threat of German invasion. Date: 1940