Olive Collection

Tallulah Bankhead (1902 - 1968), American actress, talk show host and bonne vivante

Eric Liddell celebrating his Olympic win at Edinburgh Univer
Eric Liddell, the 400m gold medallist at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, crowned and chaired at Edinburgh University where he had studied science

Olea sp. olive
Plate 75 from Botanicum Medicinale (1759) by Timothy Sheldrake. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Britannia (Dugdale s)
An imperious Britannia with her foot on the shield of Europe

Olive Borden applies lipstick in the mirror
Actress Olive Borden putting the finishing touches to her face in a scene from The Monkey Talks, a film adaptation of the stage play produced in London and New York. Date: 1927

Fantastic Wooden Screw Olive Press - Kabyle People, Algeria
Absolutely Fantastic Wooden Olive Screw Press - Kabyle People, Algeria

Sketch cover featuring Amelia Earhart by Olive Snell
Portrait of pioneering American aviator, Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937) by society portraitist Olive Snell on the front cover of The Sketch magazine. Date: 1928

Mrs Flash Kellett, wife of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Orlando Kellett and formerly Helen Myrtle Dorothy Atherley, drawn by Olive Snell

Olive Snell
Portrait of the artist Olive Snell, whose portraits in crayon and colour regularly appeared in The Tatler and The Bystander during the first half of the 20th century

Edward VII Memorial unveiling at Brighton and Hove
The unveiling of a Memorial to the late King Edward VII on the boundary dividing the boroughs of Brighton and Hove

The Lady Traveller: Olive MacLeod in Africa 1911
Olive MacLeod depicted outside her bivouac in " the heart of Africa"

Stemmed plants including coffee, blueberry, papaya, argan, achras, desert date, styrax, olive, rhododendron, kalmia, gardenia, etc

Nimes, view of the country south, France
" These veteran olives are gnarled, split and twisted trunks, throwing out arms that break into a hundred branches

A portrait of the American film star Olive Thomas, 1920s Date: 1920s

Lawyers books, brief and wig in a leather chair. Date: circa 1990s

Lilyan Tashman by Olive Snell
Lilyan Tashman (October 23, 1896 March 21, 1934) American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress

W. S. P. U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners
W.S.P.U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners. A menu for the Welcome Dinner in Honour of Released Prisoners, 16th February 1912. The prisoners including Mrs

Olive Malvery serving in a sweet shop
In the early 1900s, Olive Malvery, an established singer and reciter of verse, became known for her investigative reports of Londons poor, especially women

Gwen Farrar by Olive Snell
Miss Gwendoline Farrar, entertainer and musician pictured by society portraitist Olive Snell in 1918. Date: 1918

Sorbier des olseleurs
Plate 20 from Le Regne Vegetal Plantes agricoles, Vol 16, 1870

Shah of Persia
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar (1853 - 1907), was the fifth shah of Qajar Iran, reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907. Visiting England for Edward VII coronation. Date: 1902

Omar tableaux in aid of war charities, 1916
Page from The Tatler, 28th June 1916: Lighting a Little Hour or Two. Omar Tableax in Aid of War Charities. The Hon

Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 - 1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929)

Clifton's Pacific Seas Cafeteria, Los Angeles, California
The remarkable decorative facade of Clifton's Pay What You Wish Pacific Seas Cafeteria, 618 South Olive Street, Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Roman clay oil lamps. Portugal
Roman clay oil lamps. The ones on the left and right are decorated with a depiction of a Muse. The central one depicts Selene. National Archaeology Museum. Lisbon, Portugal

The oil maker, 16th century. Engraving
The oil maker. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878

Jerusalem. Garden of Olives. Engraving by Aubert

Jerusalem. General view from the Mount of Olives. Engraving by Emile Rouargue

Roman mills for olives and grain, with a cylindrical vase
Roman mills for olives and grain found in the city of Pompeii 1, 2, and cylindrical vase and receptacle, perhaps to keep water for domestic use 3

Images of lily, forget-me-not and olive from manuscripts and their applications in carved and painted ivory, lacquerware, enamel glassware, and decoration

Madrid School. Auto-da-fe, 1656. Toledo, Spain. Detail
Madrid School. Auto-da-fe

Part of a Roman stone olive press known as trapetum
Part of a Roman stone olive press known as Trapetum (olive press). The device consisted of a large stone bowl (mortarium) into which the olives were poured and then crushed unter two concave stonees

Pedro Pons Pons, of Binirramet, near Mahon, Menorca, Spain
Pedro Pons Pons, in his workshop in Binirramet, near Mahon, Menorca, Spain

Constance Edith Vaughan (1904 - c. 1970), better known by her pseudonym Olive Moore - a
Constance Edith Vaughan (1904 - c.1970), better known by her pseudonym Olive Moore - a modernist English writer best known for three well-esteemed novels: Celestial Seraglio (1929), Spleen (1930)

The Eleusinian Mysteries, initiations for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis, Greece. The goddess Ceres sits on the Puteal on the Callirhoe well surrounded by dancing virgins

Miss Penelope Pike by Madame Yevonde
Front cover of The Sketch featuring a photograph of Miss Penelope Pike who had just announced her engagement to the elder son of the Marquess and Marchioness of Zetland

WW1 - President Wilson Woodrow and the Dove of Peace
WW1 - President Wilson Woodrow presenting to the Dove of Peace a large olive branch symbolising the League of Nations

Armstrong Whitworth Sea hawk FGA. 6 XE390
Royal Navy - Armstrong Whitworth Sea hawk FGA.6 XE390 (msn AW6334), with Olive Green upper surfaces with white undersides as an Admiral's Barge of F.O.F.T. (Flag Officer Flying Training)

CWS advert, White Olive Soap for Beauty and Health
CWS (Cooperative Wholesale Society) advert, White Olive Soap for Beauty and Health Date: 1920s

Garrett General Purpose Engine Olive AC 9326
Garrett General Purpose Engine, regn. AC 9326, number 29764, Olive'. Built in 1911 by Richard Garrett and Sons at Leiston in Suffolk, powered by a 6 Nhp single-cylinder steam engine

Scene from See Naples And Die
The cast of See Naples And Die, a play by Elmer Rice (1892-1967) staged at the Little Theatre. Date: 1932

Olive May, actress and Gaiety Girl (1886-1947), formal studio portrait on boudoir chair

Advert, Price's Olva Toilet Soap, made with palm fruit oil and olive fruit oil, sixpence per tablet. Date: 1926

Roman tombstone with Christian iconography. Representation w
Early Christian Art. Italy. Early Christians. Roman tombstone with Christian iconography

Early Christians. Roman tombstone with Christian iconography
Early Christian Art. Italy. Early Christians. Roman tombstone with Christian iconography. The deceased along with a dove and olive branch (symbol of the soul of the dead)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Per a una potent industria de guerra. Ier Congres Metal.lurgic de la UGT (For a powerful war industry. 1st Metallurgical Congress of the UGT)

Olive MacLeod, c. 1910
Olive MacLeod (b.1886) who travelled to West Africa in 1910 in order to find answers regarding the death of her fiance, Boyd Alexander. The insets show Mrs. P.A. Talbot (top left) and Mr. P.A

OLIVE MACLEOD IN AFRICA
When her fiance dies exploring Central Africa, she travels there, lays flowers on his grave, then she too explores, discovers the source of the Mao-Kabi river Date: 1911-1912

The Economy Steel Letter File - Filing Cabinet - produced by Hobart Cabinet Company, Troy, Ohio, USA (established in 1907). Strong, Neat and Serviceable for Office and Transfer use. Date: circa 1923

WW1 - Peace - We ve All Pulled Together. Date: circa 1918

Olive Elton, actress Date: 1890s

Olive Tulloch as Prince Arthur Date: 1890s

Draycott, Cotswold village, Manny Curril and Olive Dyer Date: 1910

Olio d Oliva, olive oil shop in Paris with a variety of domestic products on sale. Date: circa 1930s

Olive May (nee Olive Mary Meatyard), Countess of Drogheda (1886 - 1947)
Olive May (ne Olive Mary Meatyard), Countess of Drogheda (1886 - 1947), Actress; former wife of Lord Victor Paget, and later wife of 10th Earl of Drogheda

Four dance beauties from Hollywood, 1928

Chicago Chic, fashion statements from 1929. Four girls from the Chicago Company of Follow Thru (top) with Dorothy Daw, Nayan Pearce, Lilian Bind and Olive Olsen

Photograph of Olive Branch Hotel, Brighton, Sussex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub

Photograph of Olive Branch PH, Lewisham, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1929

Solitary sandpiper, Tringa solitaria, male 1, female 2

Four-o clock or umbrellawort, Mirabilis viscosa. Calixhymenia viscosa, Oxybaphus viscosus, Ossibafo vischioso

European barracuda and perch
European barracuda, Sphyraena sphyraena 1, and perch, Perca fluviatilis 2. Sfirena spet, Scalino o Luccio di mare, Perso comune

Olive bushshrike, Chlorophoneus olivaceus (Large grey-headed bush shirke, Malaconutus olivaceus)

Head of the Guinea turaco, Tauraco persa buffoni. Senegal touraco, Corythaix senegalensis

Olive-naped weaver, Ploceus brachypterus
Olive-naped weaver or round-winged weaver, Ploceus brachypterus

African cuckoo-hawk, Aviceda cuculoides
African cuckoo-hawk or cuckoo falcon, Aviceda cuculoides

Three-humped prominent, olive moth and turnip moth
Three-humped prominent, Notodonta tritophus, olive moth, Prays oleae, and turnip moth, Agrotis segetum. Phalaena tritophus, oleagina, segetum

Muslin footman and oak eggar moths
Muslin footman, Nudaria mundana, male 1, female 2, and oak eggar moth, Lasiocampa quercifolia, female 3, larva, 4, 5, pupa 6, chrysalis 7

Lady Marguerite Strickland by Olive Snell
Lady Marguerite Strickland (1913 - 2002), only daughter of the Earl of Darnley, one of the loveliest of the young married women in society. Her marriage to Mr

Lady Lettice Lygon by Olive Snell
Lady Lettice Cotterell (nÚÑáLygon) (1906-1973), Wife of Sir Richard Charles Geers Cotterell, 5th Bt; daughter of 7th Earl Beauchamp. Lygon family possible inspiration for Waughs Brideshead Revisited

Viscountess Weymouth pictured on holiday (probably on the Riviera) by Olive Snell. She was formerly the Hon. Daphne Winifred Louise Vivian (1904-1997), and married Viscount Weymouth in 1927 Date: 1929

Teapots, cream jugs and sucrier
Large teapot in blue jasper with reliefs by Lady Templeton, pink jasper ewer with Venus (top L), basalt sucrier (bottom L)

Olive tree, Olea europea. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer

Widdow-wail and mezereon
Widdow-wail, or pepper of the mountain, Thymelaea sanamunda, and mezereon, Daphne mezereum

Mezereon mezereum or spurge laurel, Daphne mezereum

Agouti, Dasyprocta species. Aguti or olive cavy, Cavia aguti. Engraved by Griffith, Harriet or Edward

Scarlet ibis and olive ibis
Scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber, and olive ibis, Bostrychia olivacea. Handcoloured lithograph from Th. Lejeunes Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837

Crimson-throated barbet and unknown warbler
Crimson-throated barbet, Megalaima rubricapillus, and unknown warbler

Olive tree and cacao tree
Olive, Olea europaea 1, and cacao or cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao 2, with cacao fruit and beans

Olive tree, Olea europaea. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Olive, Olea europaea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Cocktail time at Cap d Antibes, Marquise de Casa Maury
Enjoying cocktails at Cap D Antibes - the Marquise de Casa Maury, formerly Miss Paula Gellibrand, seated at a beach side cafÚáÀith a friend

The Hon. Mrs Lionel Tennyson, formerly Felicite Tennant and daughter of Lord Glenconner

Woman driver 1907
Young actress Olive Quinton driving the Adams car, " only pedals to push!" Date: 1907

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