Pictures Collection (page 6)

SPORTY LADY 1927
Cover for Die Dame featuring a sporty woman. The background is covered with hunting pictures, dogs, saddles &c. Taken from the printed page, the original no longer exists. Date: March 1927

The best attended private view: society and Sir John and Lady Laverys pictures. The show of pictures by Sir John and Lady Lavery at the Alpine Galleries was the smartest private view imaginable

Sir John and Lady Lavery at the exhibition of their pictures at the Alpine Club Galleries in 1921. Sir John is busy varnishing one of his canvases. Date: 1921

Lady Morvyth Bensen and Mr Valentine Whitaker dressed up as Ford Madox Browns painting, The Last of England, for the Empire Day Ball held at the May Fair Hotel on 24 May 1928. Date: 1928

Comic postcard, Art appreciation from a dog Date: 20th century

The Kings Service, Gale & Poldens Animated Pictures of Naval and Military Life Afloat and Ashore. Showing at the Pier Pavilion Theatre, Lytham, for three nights only. Date: circa 1900s

Visitors to the Guildhall Art Gallery
Visitors to the Loan Collection at the art gallery at the Guildhall. Date: 1894

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Every nice boy loves a sailor
The Caption reads Every nice boy loves a sailor - a take on the popular song. This lass has pictures of soldiers and airforce men on the wall behind her. Busy girl

"Never mind Bobbie. Mummy will buy you a beautiful box of Reeves British-made water
" Never mind Bobbie. Mummy will buy you a beautiful box of Reeves British-made water colours, like ours." Poor old Bobbie longs for the day he is old enough to qualify for some quality

The film star Rudolph Valentino, with Helen D Algy
The film star Rudolph Valentino (previously a famed cabaret dancer in New York), with Helen D Algy in the Paramount film A Sainted Devil doing a tango, 1924 Date: 1924

Three dancing scenes - one from a Universal Movie
Three dancing scenes from 1929 - top from the Universal Pictures film Broadway with Glen Tryon (Universals first talking picture with technicolour sequences)

Alice Adair - Centre - playing Aphrodite in
Alice Adair (Centre) playing Aphrodite in the First National film The Private Life of Helen of Troy (directed by Alexander Korda) with two Marion Morgan dancers, 1927 Date: 1927

Spotlight on five dancers and dance teams, 1928. Nancy Carroll (top left) signed to Paramount Pictures, Adele Smith (top right) appearing in George Whites Manhatten Mary, Ilya Raycelle (centre)

Four dance beauties from Hollywood, 1928. Nancy Carroll one of Paramounts players (top left), Clara Bow from Paramount (top right)

Advert for The G Sisters, 1930, German dancers, stars of the Paris music hall who made their film debut in the King of Jazz Date: 1930

Advert for Johm Murray Anderson who devised and directed King of Jazz, a Universal Picture, 1930 Date: 1930

Advert for Paul Whiteman in King of Jazz, a Universal Picture, 1930 Date: 1930

Two of the Pearl Eatons Radio Pictures girls Alice Jans and June Glory, 1930 who were last seen in The Cuckoos. Pearl Eaton was a dance director, formerly working on Broadway for Dillingham

Four snapshots from Hollywood, 1930 - top left Mildred Frizelle and Marnie Sawyer (Pearl Eaton girls) in he Cuckoos (RKO Pictures), top right Lila Lee (First National)

Advert for Max Factors makeup featuring the Sisters G, 1930. They had appeared in the Universal Pictures film King of Jazz Date: 1930

Dorothy Lee at RKO appearing in the film Half Shot, 1930
Dorothy Lee at RKO appearing in the film Half Shot at Sunrise, 1930 Date: 1930

Photogravure, Donald Mennie, The Grandeur of the Gorges
Photogravure from a photograph by Donald Mennie, from his book The Grandeur of the Gorges, published in China in 1926. He took the pictures during two trips on the upper Yangtze River in China

Vintage photograph WW II - Red Army photographer
Vintage photograph World War II - Red Army photographer taking pictures of the band of the Devonshire regiment presentation of the Order of the Bath to Zhukov and Rokossovsky 1945

Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832 - 1914), poet, poetry critic and friend of Algernon Swinburne, pictured at his desk at his home, The Pines, Putney (which he shared with Swinburne)

Ernest William Hornung (1866 - 1921), English writer, creator of Raffles, the gentleman burglar. Pictured seated at the desk in his study at his home in Pitt Street, London

Arthur George Morrison (1863 - 1945), English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in Londons East End, and for his detective stories

John Hassall painting The Morning of Agincourt
John Hassall (1868 - 1948), artist and illustrator known as The Poster King for his highly popular posters, pictured in his studio working on his watercolour painting

Main Street, Livingstone, Montana, USA. Date: circa 1920s

Tribute to Harry Patch, Carrefour, Langemarck
This was done by Moorslede artist Philip Cardoen and is part of a series of 60 pictures planned to form The Western Front Painting Tour. Date: 2016

Advert, When Romance Calls, Paramount Pictures. 1926

Music cover, The Birth of the Blues, words by B G De Sylva and Lew Brown, music by Ray Henderson. 1926

Conversazione of educational exhibition, St. Martins Hall
Prince Albert stopping by the Norway stand at the Educational Exhibition, held at St. Martins Hall in July 1854. 1854

Elsa Maxwell and her Moods painting
Feature in The Sketch showing party thrower, entertainer and social fixer Elsa Maxwell alongside a painting she did as part of an exhibition organised by her in Paris on the theme of Moods in which

Night watchman and bellman, London

The Garricks at breakfast, Southampton Street, London
David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria at breakfast in their home at Southampton Street, Strand, London. 18th century

Addisons circle at Buttons Coffee House, London
Joseph Addisons circle at Buttons Coffee House, Russell Street, Covent Garden, London - Richard Steeles arrival. 18th century

Scene in a London coffee house, where the main requirements are " a clean pipe, a dish of coffee, and the Supplement". 18th century

Jonathan Swift at Christening Supper, London
Jonathan Swift at the Christening Supper in the St Jamess Coffee House, London. He wrote in his Journal to Stella: " This evening I christened our coffee-man Elliots child; when the rogue had a

Johnson and Boswell in Bolt Court, London
Dr Samuel Johnson and his friend James Boswell in Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. 18th century

Footmen with torches, London
Footmen with torches, and a lady getting out of a sedan chair, London. 18th century

Don Salteros Coffee House, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
Don Salteros Coffee House and Curiosity Museum, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London. 18th century

Caledonian Coffee House, Great Russell Street, London

A Tavern Brawl, London

A Pretty Fellow, London Swell

A corner of Vauxhall Gardens, London. 18th century

Norwegian actress Greta Nissen
The famous Norwegian actress Greta Nissen, from the Columbia film The Circus Queen Murder (1933) - appearing in the stage show Why Not Tonight

Agnes Pinder-Davis
Artist and designer, Agnes Pinder Davis pictured with her amazing modern pictures made of sheets and shiny metals combined with oil

Coffee plant, Coffea arabica, with flowers, beans and seeds. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edouard Winklers Getreue Abbildung aller in der Pharmacopoea (True Pictures of Pharmacopeia)

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