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Queen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase, HMS MedinaQueen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase - The Royal Yacht, HMS Medina, 1911-1912 Coronation Expedition to India for the Durbar. Designed and made for Her Majesty by Waring and Gillow
Captain Edward J. Smith on board RMS OlympicEdward J. Smith, future Titanic captain - original photograph of Captain Smith taken on board RMS Olympic. This is a famous image
LOUIS XV AT STRASBOURGAt the death of Fleury, Louis declares that he will hereafter govern France personally : though war is raging, he pays a state visit to Strasbourg. Date: 1744
Captain Woodward, 1st Australian Tunneling CompanyCaptain Oliver Woodward was one of the heroes of the underground war at Hill 60. He had trained as a mining engineer and during his military career won the MC and two bars
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN At the battle of LODI, Napoleon personally aims a cannon Date: 10 May 1796
BATTLE OF TORGAU Friedrich der Grosse personally leads his Prussians to attack the Austrian rear; though repulsed, Ziethen later turns defeat into victory Date: 3 November 1760
Field Marshal Douglas Haig personally thanking troops 1918Field Marshal Douglas Haig is photographed here, personally thanking Canadian troops who took part in the northern part of the Allied great offensive. Date: 1918
Indian PostmanAn Indian postman delivers mail personally to a high- ranking recipient, attended by a servant with a fly-swat. Date: circa 1900
Clovis and SyagriusClovis I, king of the Franks, personally splits the head of the soldier who broke the vase of Soissons. 486
Advert for Asprey dressing case 1935Lightweight cases by Asprey. Obtainable in a variety of coverings and with a wide range of high quailty fittings, made from chinese lacquer. Also supplied unfitted. Special design to order. Date: 1935
French at ValenciennesThe French take Valenciennes after a prolonged siege : Alauxs picture gives the impression that Louis was personally engaged in the thick of the fighting. Date: 16 March 1677
Advert for J. Roussel lingerie with elastic lace belt 1936Roussel creates for you a belt in elastic lace... so light... so dainty... yet so firm in its moulding action. Roussel has created amasterpiece in this luxuriously feminine belt - woven for each
Thomas Clark DurantTHOMAS CLARK DURANT American railwayman, who personally pushed Union Pacific Railroad to completion but 2 weeks later was expelled from the board of directors. Date: 1820 - 1885
Looting in PolandThe wife of Von Hindenburg personally supervises the looting of a Polish castle. (True, or merely propaganda ? It doesn t seem probable !)
Peter as HairdresserDetermined to westernise his country, Peter forbids the wearing of beards at court and taxes those who retain them : he personally shaves some of his boyar entourage
Wagner / Moonshine / HornRICHARD WAGNER German composer with a large hunting horn, which featured prominently in his operas, but which he personally did not play
Interrogating AustrianHe personally interrogates a captured Austrian major
Missionaries / AmericaJuan de los Barrios personally sets about the rebuilding of the cathedral at Bogota, Colombia