Papers Collection (page 2)

The Lawyers
A coloured sketch portraying a trio of lawyers, the central figure is busy leafing through some papers, with his colleague looking on, the man at the back has his palm to his face in exasperation

Newspaper Boy
This illustration shows a cheeky newspaper boy hollering, with a large bundle of papers tucked under his arm, a pair of policemen are in close pursuit. Date: circa 1901

RMS Lusitania - postcard, George Marks and wife, WW1
RMS Lusitania - postcard dated 5 May 1915 to a Miss Powell in Southampton. The card refers to a George Marks and his wife

QSS Lusitania - souvenir of launch, commemorative 18 carat gold handled scissors, with stainless steel blades, the crossover engraved with John Brown and Co

New Paper the Daily Mirror 1903
A scene at 3 a.m. outside the Daily Mirror office. Where proprietors of the Daily Mail issued the first penny paper for gentlewomen for which the demand was unprecedented. Date: November 1903

NUS President Charles Clarke and three colleagues
NUS President Charles Clarke (standing, b.1950, later a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister)) with NUS executive colleagues, from left to right, Alastair Stewart (b)

NUS President Charles Clarke with two students
NUS (National Union of Students) President Charles Clarke (b.1950, later a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister) with two students, Clare Weber and Paul Butler

Daily Worker staff examining building alteration plans following the acquisition of new premises at 75 Farringdon Road, London. Date: circa 1945

Communist Party members voting
Communist Party delegates (including Janey Glen from Yorkshire, centre) voting in London against American bases in Britain for Cruise missiles. Date: 1982

Photograph taken by the corner of the Strand and the Aldwych. Showing Inveresk House, (on the left), formerly known as Borthwick House when it held the offices of the Morning Post, became, in 1928

Spain. Civil War. Republican check point. Inspection of the papers of a driver

Peter Shore, Labour politician and government minister
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney (1924-2001), Labour politician and government minister. Seen here raising his hand at a meeting. Date: circa 1980s

Secombe Harry Sir 1921 2001 Welsh Entertainer
secombe, harry, sir, 1921, 2001, welsh, entertainer, entertainment, tenor, singer, role, costume, waistcoat, buttons, hat, monocle, mr, pickwick, west, end, musical, show, charles, dickens, georgian

Keith Vaz and Bill Morris at a meeting
Keith Vaz (Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, b 1956), British Labour Party politician (left) and Bill Morris (William Manuel Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, b 1938), leader of the TGWU

James Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), British Labour politician, Prime Minister in 1924, and again 1929-1935. Seen here with Stanley Baldwin (1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, 1867-1947)

Winston Churchill Cabinet Room 10 Downing Street
winston, churchill, cabinet, room, 10, downing, street, london, ve, victory, europe, day, radio, broadcast, speech, official, officially, announcement, announced, end, war, peace, germany, may, 1945

Tony Blair and Brenda Dean at a conference table
Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, b 1953), Labour politician, Prime Minister 1997-2007. Seen here at a conference table alongside Brenda Dean (Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, b 1943)

Tony Benn, Labour politician, sitting at his desk
Tony Benn (Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, 1925-2014), Labour politician, former Cabinet Minister and currently President of the Stop the War Coalition

Neville Chamberlain, British politician, at his desk
Neville Chamberlain (Arthur Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940), British Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1931 to 1937 and Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940

Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, at his desk
Neville Chamberlain (Arthur Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940), British Conservative politician, and Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940. Seen here sitting at his desk. Date: circa 1930s

Exterior of the publishing office of The Illustrated London News, at 198 Strand on the corner with Milford Lane London. When it was first established the weekly news magazine was publishing every

Rising at four o'clock in the morning everyday, the lone worker goes to the newspaper office to procure a few of the first morning papers allotted to him, at extra charges

VITTORIO EMANUELE DIES
Newsboys do a roaring trade in papers announcing the death of Vittorio Amenuele II, first ruler of United Italy. Date: 1878

A French barber puts his male client's hair into curling papers Date: 1840

Comic postcard, Man relaxing on the beach, happy to be having a week away from the office Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple doing the football pools Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Gloomy businessman - Ups and Downs Date: 20th century

Women picnic on route of royal wedding
Two women picnic amongst litter on the route of the royal wedding of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones. Date: 1960

Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956), writer and dramatist, pictured in his study at home in 1905, part of a series of photographs in The Tatler showing literary figures in their homes. Date: 1905

On the Paris Ramparts during the war of 1870. Soldier, gentleman and fashionable women on the snow-covered ramparts during the Siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

St Dunstans Church, Postman, Letter Carrier and Knife-Grinder. Clock with figures striking bells at St Dunstans Church in Fleet Street 42

Distributing the Pekin Gazette
Scenes in China. Distributing the Pekin Gazette. 1873

Mr Micawber
Artists impression of Mr Micawber from The Pickwick Papers. Date: circa 1905

Mr Bumble
Artists impression of Mr Bumble from The Pickwick Papers. Date: circa 1905

Mr Pickwick
Artists impression of Mr Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers. Date: circa 1905

Caricature, General Louis Botha, Prime Minister, South Afric
Caricature of General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa. 1910

Newsboy
Young newspaper seller selling papers on New Years Day. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: 1907

Houdini & Daily MIrror Challenge
Houdinis great lock-picking feat at the London Hippodrome. Harry Houdini shown on stage at the London Hippodrome, having specially made cuffs locked to his wrists in the presence of representatives

Cartoon, Felix Morris as Scottish professor in On Change
Cartoon, Mr Felix Morris as Seneca Pickering Peck, the Scottish professor, in a Strand Theatre production entitled On Change. 1885

Toby Weller, Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens Characters by Frank Reynolds for Buchanans Whisky - Toby Weller, Pickwick Papers. 1912

Samuel Weller, Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens Characters by Frank Reynolds for Buchanans Whisky - Samuel Weller, Pickwick Papers. 1912

Little Women - Jo writing her novel in special costume
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Jo writing her novel in a special costume which she calls her scribbling suit. 1880

Cameo rings, gold bauble and writing tools
Cameo rings with Pan and archer, golden bauble from a figure of a young Nero in the Villa Lante 2, cylindrical box to store papyri in a library 3, and a waxed tablet and stylus

Portrait of the Chinese-Tartar Emperor Qianlong, and a literary mandarin of his court. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Henry Vernon Esmond, British actor and playwright
Henry Vernon Esmond (1869-1922), British actor and playwright, at his desk. circa 1900

Citizens producing identity papers in Berlin, Germany. 1923

Lord Halifax and Neville Chamberlain, WW2
Lord Halifax (left) and Neville Chamberlain (right), during the Second World War

The Authoress. early 19th century

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