Postwar Collection (page 5)

Catalogue illustration, items in presentation boxes, etc
Catalogue illustration, items in presentation boxes, inkstand. 47. Ancient box in enamelled gold, donated by Mahmoud Efendi. 48

Catalogue illustration, vase, embroidery, statue, etc
Catalogue illustration, vase, embroidery, statue, pedestal, candlestick. 55. Porcelain vase made in the Imperial Factory at Yildiz, donated by the Sultan. 56

Catalogue illustration, vase, embroidery, carpet, costume. 65. Porcelain vase made in the Imperial Factory at Yildiz, donated by the Sultan. 66

Catalogue illustration, carpets, vases, desk. 69. Silk carpet made in Angora, donated by the Sultan. 70. Enamelled vase, made in the Imperial Porcelain Factory at Yildiz, donated by the Sultan. 71

Berlin, Germany - after WW2 - Sport Palace, Potsdamerstrasse Date: circa 1945

Dorothy Peto, first Woman Superintendent, Met Police
Dorothy Olivia Georgiana Peto (1886-1974), first Woman Superintendent in the London Metropolitan Police. She served from 1930 until 1946, receiving the OBE in 1920 and the Kings Police Medal in 1944

Road accident involving a bus, Elgin Avenue, London
Road accident involving a bus which has fallen down a large hole in Elgin Avenue, West London, on 5 May 1946. The advert on the side of the bus says: Look Your Best in Windsmoor. Date: 1946

The Four Winds of the Apocalypse, by Frederick Carter, WW1
The Four Winds of the Apocalypse, etching by Frederick Carter. 1925

Bismarck memorial, Muanza, Tanzania, East Africa
Captains Marsh and Marshall at the Bismarck memorial in Muanza (Mwanza), Tanzania, East Africa (formerly German East Africa). 1919

Group photo, BAOR, Braunschweig, Germany
Group photo of British soldiers with the British Army of the Rhine, near Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lower Saxony, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

Poster by Wlodzimierz Zakrzewski. Poland
Polish postwar communist propaganda poster showing soldier of communist Armia Ludowa resistance and soldier of Armia Krajowa. Made by Wlodzimierz Zakrzewski. Poland. Krakow. Gestapo Museum

Barbara Denis de Vitre, Assistant HMI, visiting Germany
Assistant HMI (His/Her Majestys Inspectorate of Constabulary) Barbara Denis de Vitre, on a postwar visit to Germany, where she was an expert consultant on the employment of women in the German police

Barbara Denis de Vitre, Assistant HMI, Stuttgart, Germany
Assistant HMI (His/Her Majestys Inspectorate of Constabulary) Barbara Denis de Vitre, on a postwar visit to Germany, where she was an expert consultant on the employment of women in the German police

Women police officers singing in choir, Met Police, London
Women police officers singing in the first womens choir, Met Police, London. The conductor is Sybil Hill. Date: circa 1948

Woman police officer in Bather uniform, London
Woman police officer posing in the Bather style uniform which was worn from 1946 to 1968 -- double-breasted overcoat (winter wear), white shirt and tie, peaked cap with badge, and duty armband

Women police officers at work, WEC, London. They are Sergeant Patricia May Atkinson (seated left, joined August 1946), and Constables Ada Sandy (joined July 1928)

Cartoon, Waking up Germania, WW1
Cartoon, Waking up Germania. After the war, Madame Germania must pay the bill for all the damage she has done. The waiter is a macabre, thin man with a skull for his head. Date: 1918

Original artwork, Illustrated London News, Christmas 1947 - Terence Cuneo. 1947

Winston Churchill inspecting troops, WW1
Winston Churchill, as Minister of Munitions, inspecting British troops in Germany after the end of the First World War. Date: C.1918

Cartoon, Laugh It Off Annual
Cartoon in the Laugh It Off Annual -- Demobbed! and glad to be back on the old job, sir! An employee returned from the war sits in his office with a young woman on each knee

Three books, The Somme, Lille, Amiens
Three books, The Somme, Lille and Amiens, published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Junkers D I German fighter plane photographed in a field in Belgium on 21 January 1919. Although left abandoned in the open for more than three months, it was still deemed to be basically airworthy

Hughes H4 Hercules in flight
Hughes H4 Hercules, American prototype heavy transport aircraft nicknamed the Spruce Goose, making its only flight on 2 November 1947. Only one aircraft was ever produced. Date: 1947

Dutch scouts marching, Exhibition Square, York
Dutch scouts marching with drums and flags through Exhibition Square, York, UK. with York Minster in the background. Date: 1948

French bank note, 50 Francs
French bank note, Banque de France, 50 Francs, issued on 19 May 1949. With a portrait of the French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (1811-1877) on the front

Return of the hot water bottles 1946
Production of the rubber synthetic hot water bottle in Streatham factory, London, post Second World War. During the War, rubber was reserved for making tires for military trucks

Community heating by G. H. Davis
Community heating: a system which keeps an entire town warm and abolishes household drudgery. A central power station provides a day

Fleet of warships, Bikini target, by G. H. Davis
The original Bikini Atoll target: the fleet of more than 70 warships at anchor in the lagoon awaiting their fate. The fleet included famous American and ex-enemy warships, most of which

Decline and fall in Royal Navy ships by G. H. Davis
The decline and fall in numbers of the Royal Navy: those scrapped or sold, and postwar construction for the fleet. Date: 1962

Rebuilding Elephant and Castle, 1957
Rebuilding Elephant and Castle, as reported in The Sphere on 9th November 1957. Date: 1957

Buckingham Palace Investiture Pass. 1918

Woman visiting the Western Front after the First World War, in September 1920. She is standing in a shallow trench just outside Bouchavesnes, Peronne, Somme, northern France

Victory arch and parade, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
Victory arch and postwar military parade, Main Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, 16 May 1919, with the 150th Machine Gun Battalion, 42nd Division. Date: 1919

Men at work on bomb-damaged house
Men at work on a bomb-damaged house, just after the end of the Second World War. circa 1946

Girl on a hillside -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Boy with a model aeroplane -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Dancer on a hilltop -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Cornish stone farmhouse and lane -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Mother and child on St Ives beach at sunset - one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Girl in the Cornish surf -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Mother and son doing handstand -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Woman and child on a rock -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Woman on St Ives beach with yacht sail -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Woman on beach with driftwood -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Medical Officers house, Nakuru, East Africa. 1919

Ships on the Suez Canal, Egypt, North Africa, in December 1919. 1919

Settler with cheetah cub, Nakuru, East Africa. 1919

Settler with tame waterbuck, East Africa. 1919

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