Postwar Collection (page 7)

Postwar poster, The Victory Loan Flyers, Watch for the Airplane Special. 1919

Postwar poster, Red Cross
Postwar poster, Fourth Red Cross Roll Call, 11-25 November 1920. 1920

Officers desk, BAOR, Braunschweig, Germany
Officers desk in an office with charts and maps on the wall, British Army of the Rhine, near Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lower Saxony, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

Aerial view, Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany
Aerial view, Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lower Saxony, Germany, seen from the Reichspost Headquarters. Date: circa 1946

New police recruits bathing outdoors, Germany
New police recruits bathing outdoors, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

Two women in the Russian zone, Berlin, Germany
Two women in the Russian zone, Berlin, postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

Reichspost staff in Berlin, postwar Germany. The Reichspost (German Empire postal service) was taken over by the Allied Control Council with the Berlin Declaration of June 1945. Date: circa 1946

Secretary and soldier in an office, Braunschweig, Germany
German secretary and British soldier in an office run by the British Army of the Rhine near Braunschweig, Lower, Saxony, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

Two women in BAOR office, Braunschweig, Germany
Two German women in an office run by the British Army of the Rhine, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

Soviet War Memorial, Berlin, Germany, with the burnt-out ruins of the Reichstag building on the right. Date: circa 1946

Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa
Louis Botha (1862-1919), South African Prime Minister and former soldier, seen here at the time of the Versailles Peace Conference. Date: circa 1919

War rooms under Whitehall, London
Subterranean war rooms under Whitehall, Central London, used by Winston Churchill during the Second World War. Date: circa 1960s

Poster, London, Heart of the British Commonwealth, The Royal Courts of Justice, printed by Alf Cooke. Date: circa 1945

Music cover, Up in the Air Boys
Music cover, Wait Till You Get Them Up in the Air Boys, words by Lew Brown, music by Albert von Tilzer. 1919

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

Woman police officer at Pembridge Hall Section House
Woman police officer doing her hair in a mirror, sitting in her bedroom at Pembridge Hall Section House, Pembridge Square, Bayswater, London W2

Women police officers off duty in Section House
Women police officers off duty, relaxing in the Section House. Date: 1919

Group photo, male and female police officers, London
Group photo, male and female police officers on a Met Police CID training course for detective constables, taken on 13 March 1948

Women police officers on parade, London
Women police officers on their first parade in London, wearing the new Stanley Uniform, taking part in a postwar Thanksgiving Service. Date: 1919

Cartoon, Victim of food. A young French woman is being courted by a baron, but her mother has made her promise to flirt only with the dairymans son. Date: 1919

Cartoon, postwar benefits. Two elegant French ladies are pleased that winning the war has allowed them to get out their low-cut dresses again, to dance the foxtrot, to eat cakes and dragees

Cartoon, Trying to stop a taxi. A man tries to attract the attention of a cabbie in a Paris street. He comments that it was hard enough trying to stop the Boche for four years

Cartoon, The final shot. The armistice might have been signed, but there are still bills to pay. While he pays for their expensive meal, she nonchalantly powders her nose. Date: 1919

Cartoon, Gossiping in the background. The older ones watch the younger ones dance. One of the men is still in uniform, for the war is only recently over. The other man is in evening dress

Cartoon, The first outing. Europe goes dance-crazy in the immediate aftermath of the Armistice, after five years of fighting. A couple dance the foxtrot in a cocktail bar. Date: 1919

Third Man Music Sheet
Carol Reeds evocation of postwar Vienna, based on a Graham Greene story, makes brilliant use of the music of Anton Karas in the Harry Lime theme and Cafe Mozart Waltz. Date: 1949

Cartoon, Little Red Riding Hood in a wartime version in which a little French girl encounter a German officer (wolf) hiding behind a tree. Date: 1919

Cartoon, Georges Clemenceau post-WW1
Cartoon showing the French statesman Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) kissing and hugging his people, relieved that the war is over. Date: 1919

Music cover, Why Wasn t It Me? by Ramon Newton, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, featured and broadcast by Ramon Newton and the Savoy Havana Band. 1918

Music cover, Valse Mystique (Mystical Waltz), by Leon du Terrail, depicting the Egyptian Sphinx. 1919

Advertisement, Mars Bar -- compare the quality, compare the price. 1948

Page of a postwar leaflet about Germany
Page of a postwar reconstruction leaflet -- Germany under control, with three photographs of wheat harvesting for food, a classroom with teacher and children, and the reactivated coal industry

Two pages of a postwar leaflet about Germany
Two pages (front and back cover) of a postwar reconstruction leaflet -- Germany under control, with a map showing the British Zone, and statistics. Date: circa 1947

Berlin, Germany - postwar - French sector border post
Berlin, Germany - postwar - Sign alerting that you are leaving the French-controlled sector. Date: circa 1947

Berlin, Germany - postwar - American sector border post
Berlin, Germany - postwar - Sign warning that You are leaving the American Sector. Date: circa 1947

King George V and others at first Armistice anniversary
King George V and other royal mourners taking part in the first Armistice anniversary (first Remembrance Day), 11 November 1919. Date: 1919

Large group photo, Montecatini Spa, Italy
Large group photo of men and women at Montecatini Thermal Baths and Spa, Tuscany, Italy, on 17 August 1919. Date: 1919

RAF recruitment poster, Battle of Britain Show
Recruitment poster, Learn about life in the RAF at the Battle of Britain Show. Date: circa 1950s

Cover design, Laugh It Off Annual for 1945, bubbling with sparkling wit and humour. Showing a fun-loving young woman in a giant glass of champagne. Date: 1945

Two pages of a book, The Somme, Michelin
Two pages of a book, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Title page, The Somme, Michelin
Title page, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Book cover, The Somme, Michelin
Book cover, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Rebuilt Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium
The Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium, meticulously rebuilt after it was damaged during the First World War. Date: circa 1940s

Vickers 27 Vimy Mk II -one of the 112 Vimy built and which provided stalwart service in post-war years

Royal Aircraft Factory SE-5E -around 60 of the Americanised version wre built post-war by Eberhart

Heinkel He 162A -captured examples of the type were tested post-war by both America and Britain

Group photo, British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), including Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Ernest Fooks (1888-?), front row, third from right. Date: 1928

Cartoon, Boche, Wild Mammal, WW1
Cartoon, Boche, Wild Mammal, on display in a zoo, an imaginary scene looking forward to 1956. Date: 1915

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