Present Collection (page 2)

Girl asleep in bed on a Christmas card with Santa Claus appearing at the window. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Shoot for Woman's Own - Father's Day
Shoot for Woman's Own Special Advertisement Feature - Father's Day - circa late 1950s Date: circa late 1950s

Man and woman of China, 1818. Man with tobacco pipe, holding hands with a woman. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal

Handley Page HP. 80 Victor 1st prototype WB771
Handley Page HP.80 Victor 1st prototype WB771 lined up for take-of, at the SBAC 1953 Farnborough Air Show. Visible in the right background are the Short SB.5 WG768, Short Seamew AS.1 XA209

HMS Glorious, aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Glorious, aircraft carrier, at anchor, steaming up. HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War

Comic postcard, Woman at seaside with stick of rock
Comic postcard, Woman at the seaside with a large stick of rock (in English and French) Date: 20th century

Khoikhoi man and woman, South Africa, 1818. They wear animal skins and woven skirts and stand in front of huts covered in animal hides

Man and woman of Cochin China (Vietnam) 1818. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton

Fashion looks ahead, Dream of Fair Women ball
Fashion looks years ahead - and at present and past: frocks of the future for the " Dream of Fair Women" ball tonight (i.e)

A Present from Caesar by Fortunino Matania
A Present from Caesar, a Vision of Imperial Rome. Painting by Fortunino Matania, exhibited at the R. I. Galleries, 1926. Date: 1926

Thorp T-11 Sky Scooter NX91312. Designed in the US by John Thorp in 1945, the T-11 was intended to be home-built. NX91312 was one of eight prototypes built by Thorp in 1946

Father Christmas distributing gifts - children rail station
Father Christmas distributing gifts - children on a railway station. Date: 1902

Thank you letter from Winston Churchill, Prime Minister
Thank you letter from Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, headed 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, SW1 -- many of these were reproduced to look like an original handwritten letter

Princess Victoria of Hesse with her great-grandson
Princess Victoria of Hesse, later the Marchioness of Milford Haven (1863-1950) with her great grandson, Ludwig Ernst Andreas of Hesse

HMS Glorious 77
Royal Navy - HMS Glorius, aircraft carrier, at anchor in Grand Harbour Valetta.. HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First

Advert, Hoover Electric Washing Machine
Advert for Hoover Electric Washing Machine Date: 1949

WW2 Christmas Card, The Best Present!
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration portraying a jolly British soldier popping out of a gift box with a thumbs up! Date: circa 1940s

HMS Courageous
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous (pennant number 50'), in August 1938. HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, Harland and Wolff employee
White Star Line, RMS Titanic, rare bookpost real photo postcard of Titanic in Belfast written by a Harland and Wolff employee

RMS Titanic, table of English composer Archibald Joyce
An important piece of musical and Titanic history, a late 19th/early 20th century oak barley twist gateleg table on which the composer and ?English Waltz King? Archibald Joyce (1873)

Diddums with bouquet of flowers, by Mabel Lucie Attwell
Diddums carrying a huge bouquet of flowers, by Mabel Lucie Attwell - These ain't nuffink to what I'd likes to give you! Date: 1936

Advert, Triang Toys for Christmas presents Date: 1923

In the present tense, The Modern Style Lady
A portrait illustration of a young lady sat on an ornate golden settee, wearing a slender pink dress, she is reading a red book, beside a decorative green side table. Date: circa 1901

Title page, A Merry Christmas Everybody
A Merry Christmas Everybody - title page, Mabel Lucie Attwell Annual 1923 Date: 1923

Emperor Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann
Napoleon III handing over the decree of annexation of the suburbs of Paris to Baron Haussmann, for urban development (16 February 1859)

Lipton's Tea Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lipton Ltd, promoting Lipton's Tea, If you want the best tea, go to the firm that grows it

The Empire, Leicester Square
This artwork shows The Empire, a variety theatre house in Leicester Square, London. The building was originally built in 1884 for theatre until 1927

Titanic postcard from passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - postcard written by Third-Class passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo-Martino from Queenstown, Ireland, on 11 April 1912

Canadian Pacific Railway - Minton ceramic dinner plate, believed to be from the RMS Empress of Ireland. The present owner fully restored the plate, removing the corrosion built up when in the water

Titanic Hero Memorial notice, Belfast
RMS Titanic - notice relating to the Belfast Titanic Hero Memorial'. It reads The Lady Mayoress having desired the opportunity of putting before our employes a suggestion that they should be

White Star Line - silver plate cruet, wedding present
White Star Line - silver plate cruet engraved D.F. Isaac from his colleagues in the White Star Line on the occasion of his marriage. Date: early 20th century

Charter (Fragments)
Charter recording a mortgage for a house, cut into two pieces for use as book binding material. On parchment. Text in dark brown-black ink in a gothic cursive hand

Stanislaw Oswiecim at the body of Anna Oswiecim, 1888
Stanislaw Wojciech Bergman (1862-1930). Polish painter. Stanislaw Oswiecim at the body of Anna Oswiecim, 1888. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland

Sydney in 1812
Taken from the East side of Sydney Cove. The building on the water??s edge on extreme right is Isaac Nichol??s warehouse, The windmill is on the site of Grosvenor Hotel. To the left is old St

The Motor Picture Book, Fire Engines Past and Present Date: 1930

Grandfather's Dream of Christmas Date: 1858

Beating the Bounds, Bloomsbury, London Date: 19th century

Clock given by King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn in 1532 Date: 1532

HMS Courageous, aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous, an aircraft carrier, (formerly a battle-cruiser). HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World

HMS Courageous - Fleet aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous, a Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by First Sea Lord John Fisher

HMS Boadicea - a Boadicea-Class scout cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Boadicea, a Boadicea-Class scout cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century

Santa Claus with a doll on a Christmas card
Santa Claus with a doll and a rope ladder on a Christmas card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Boat with flowers on a German greetings card. (2 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Wedding gift for Duke of York from East Yorkshire Regiment
Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) (later King George VI) receives a wedding present from Major General Inglefield on behalf of the East Yorkshire Regiment at Lichfield

Sir Richard Douglas Powell (1842 - 1925), British physician, M.D. medical adviser to the Royal family and present at the death of both Queen Victoria in 1901 and Edward VII in 1910

Dr. St. Clair Thomson (1859 - 1943), nose and throat specialist and one of the doctors present at the death of Edward VII on May 6th 1910. 1910

Announcement of the king's death
Announcement on Buckingham Palace headed paper of the death of Edward VII on May 6th, 1910, signed by the four doctors present at the time. Date: 1910

A small group at Smithfield's Market looking at beef cattle. Meat had been traded on the site of Smithfield's for over 800 years, but the present building was opened in 1868

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