Pictures Collection (page 37)

SPAIN. San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Royal Monastery

Parade organized by Louis XIV in the courtyard of Tuileries Palace. 5th June 1662. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles

CARREяDE MIRANDA, Juan (1614-1685). Don Fernando
CARREя DE MIRANDA, Juan (1614-1685). Don Fernando de Valenzuela, Marquis of Villasierra (named Duende de Palacio). c. 1660. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid

VALDɓLEAL, Juan de (1622-1690). Fray Alonso
VALDɓ LEAL, Juan de (1622-1690). Fray Alonso de Sotomayor y Caro. 1657. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. Private Collection

BRILL, Paul (1554-1626). View of a Port. ca. 1607. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. ITALY. Rome. Borghese Gallery and Museum

Heho Valley - Central Burma - Over strangely treeless moors, climbing up from the Shan Plateau, wide, wide view that seemed like pictures of the African Veldt. Date: 1952

bazaar stall holders - Moulmein
Bazaar stall holders - Moulmein - Bazaar First no one, then everyone, wants their pictures taken! Date: 1951

Blind spinning girl - Rangoon - Kemmendine School for the Blind I asked if the girls would let me take their pictures and the matron spread a mat under a tree

Princess Elizabeths life-story in pictures
To celebrate the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Philip, four colour photographs are published here showing Elizabeth as a young child, at the coronation of her father

Maori signature
Emblematic signature of E Gnogni, Maori chief of Mukou, lat. 38 deg. S. drawn by himself on the wood.. Book: Manners and customs of the New Zealanders Date: 1840

Fax / Belinograph 1908
Edouard Belins Belinograph, an early form of fax machine which transmitted pictures. Date: 1908

German lottery game
A German lottery game, Neues Bilder Lotterie Spiel. With eighty miniature pictograms depicting various technologies, including a balloon. circa early 19th century

Book cover, La Conquete de l Air

Humorous pictures showing Chinese military tactics. Date 1895

Humorous pictures showing Chinese religious practices (may include Raijin, the Japanese God of Thunder, seated in front in bottom cartoon). Date 1895

Pictures of otsu bursting forth. Print shows an artist in the foreground and figures of a characters in the background (a demon holding an anchor, a samurai with a falcon, a man with long pike)

Humorous pictures showing damaged Chinese battleships receiv

Humorous pictures showing various Chinese clothing and grooming habits. Date 1895

Humorous pictures depicting the Chinese. Date 1895

Lyman H. Howes high class moving pictures - new magic pictures. Print shows people watching motion picture in theater, includes insert of head-and-shoulders portrait of Lyman H. Howe

Lyman H. Howes new marvels in moving pictures. Print shows people watching a motion picture in a theater of an infantry attack during the Spanish-American War; includes insert of head-and-shoulders

A peep at Christies;- or - Tally-ho, & his nimeney-pimmeney
A peep at Christies; - or - Tally-ho, & his nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge. Miss Farren and Lord Derby walk together inspecting pictures

US official war pictures. Poster showing silhouette of a soldier operating a motion picture camera. Date 1917

Pictures of the Tannhauser story, Arbeitszimmer, Neuschwanstein Castle, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Pictures of people from foreign lands - Russian. Japanese print shows a man seated in a chair playing an accordian and a woman with a horn standing next to him. Date 1860

Pictures of Tristan story, bedroom, Neuschwanstein Castle, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Pictures of the Lohengrin story, drawing room, Neuschwanstein Castle, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

A picture of pictures. Date c1884 Mar. 6

Pictures of all the Roman Pontiff from Saint Peter to Pius the Ninth. Date c1878

Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783 to 1883. Date between 1890 and 1900

Right rear view of one of the successful glides made on October 21, 1903 with the 1902 glider (one of three pictures taken on this date); Kitty Hawk camp buildings in the distance. Date 1903 Oct. 21

H. L. Oakley cutting a portrait in his studio
Silhouette artist, Harry Lawrence Oakley, known as H. L. Oakley pictured cutting the portrait of a young woman in a cloche hat and fur stole in a studio

Grand Shakespearian festival the greatest works of the master mind presented in a most sumptuous manner : magnificent and realistic stage pictures of the greatest historical tragedies

Cinema projectors, Regal Cinema, Walton, Essex
Cinema projection equipment in the Regal Cinema, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. The projector on the left showed only still images from hand made glass slides which were overlaid onto the running film to

Titanic - Report and Timeline in the Sphere
Page from the Sphere with comments, reports and anecdotes relating to the sinking of the Titanic together with a timeline listing the events that eventually led the ship to sink

Schoolchildren in class, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Schoolchildren photographed during a lesson at a school in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Some of them are looking rather bored. circa 1946

Exhibition on board RSS Discovery
Exhibition about an Antarctic expedition on board the training ship RSS Discovery. circa 1951

Paris Quais
A fair number of the pictures in our files were purchased from the bouquinistes whose stalls form a permanent book and print market lining the quais of Paris. Date: 1930s

Canvas Worship by H. M. Bateman
Unusual silhouette cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a crowd at an art exhibition. Date: 1913

Art Nouveau scene with Handwalking greek girl
An Art Nouveau picture depicting a young handwalking greek girl along with an accompanying musician, playing a set of pipes

Hope Well Dressing
A Well Dressing at Hope, Derbyshire, England, which takes place on Acension Day. This ceremony is a relic of the old pagan custom of blessing wells for water. Date: 1950s

BONNET CART PARK
Dutch women driving to market in their horse-drawn bonnet carts, which have the same shape as their own bonnets! Our pictures shows the bonnet cart park! Date: 1930s

Paris Riot Church Raid
The church of Saint-Joseph in Paris is sacked by anarchist rioters: alters were smashed, pictures trampled under foot & a bonfire made of the chairs. Date: 1899

Sparrow chirping on Mrs Bobbitys window ledge
Jack Sparrow chirping on Mrs Bobbitys window ledge, wanting her to get up so that he can gather crumbs for his growing family

Harold Wilson and Eric Johnston
Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, and Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Pictures Association of America

Projecting advertisements from a moving train
Illuminated advertisements, projected from a moving train for the benefit of the passengers. A very innovative concept indeed

Story time for Beaver Scouts
A group of Irish Beaver Scouts sit on the floor looking up at their leader who shows them pictures from The Story of the Beaver book. 1970s

Tatler front cover, 3 February 1960
Front cover of The Tatler with a girl taking a photograph of a London policeman and Big Ben with a Leica camera. Date: 1960

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