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Advertisement for Everitt trouser presses complete with new comfort screws, greatly improved appearance, and an all steel black finish. Splendid for ensuring razor sharp creases in your trousers
A portrait of Walter Winchell, the Boswell of Broadway, 1930 Date: 1930
An old printer sits in an armchair contemplating the fact that modernisation has made him redundant. An appropriate illustration for Printers Pie which was a charitable magazine published by The
The Lamplighter, Watchman and Link-boy. London lamplighter with ladder and fuse lighting streetlamps 55, watchman in great coat with lantern and rattle 56
The Custom House, the Press Gang and the Tower of London. The New Custom House opened in 1817 on Lower Thames Street 10, Press Gang men armed with swords
The Bellman, a London Wharf and Coal-ship and bargeThe Bellman, a London Wharf and Coal-ship and coal barge. London Bellman or Town Crier reading a notice about missing child Tommy Dallow 7, London Wharf at the East India Docks 8
Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19
A young woman called Beatie, in a fancy dress costume as the Newcastle Daily Journal newspaper. Date: 1908
Cartoon, Mumbo Jumbo (Napoleon III)Cartoon, Mumbo Jumbo. The Pope threatens Napoleon III, the French Emperor, with excommunication. An accompanying poem begins: Mumbo Jumbo was a Guy, Frightened people formerly
Cover design, The Cococub News, 1939Cover design, The Cococub News, issued by Cadbury Bros Ltd, Bournville. 1939
Cartoon, Mrs Gamp Taking the Little Party... Back to SchoolCartoon, Mrs Gamp Taking the Little Party She Looks After Back to School. A satirical comment on the Morning Herald newspaper (represented here as the Dickens character Mrs Gamp)
Houdini & Daily MIrror ChallengeHoudinis great lock-picking feat at the London Hippodrome. Harry Houdini shown on stage at the London Hippodrome, having specially made cuffs locked to his wrists in the presence of representatives
William Luson Thomas, founder of newspapersWilliam Luson Thomas (1830-1900), British wood engraver and founder of various newspapers, including The Graphic. circa 1880s
Herbert Ingram, British journalist and politicianHerbert Ingram (1811-1860), British journalist and Liberal politician, founder of The Illustrated London News. circa 1850s
Front cover, Fortune magazine, June 1931 -- a bull with a ring through its nose. Date: 1931
Advert, Waterlows Patent Autographic PressAdvert, Waterlows Patent Improved Autographic Press or Portable Printing Machine for the counting house, office or library, by means of which every person may become his own printer. 1854
Advert, Waterlow & Sons, Patent Letter Copying Presses, mahogany stands, stationery cases, etc. 1854
William Thomas Stead, author and journalistWilliam Thomas Stead (1849-1912), author and journalist, Editor of The Pall Mall Gazette. circa 1900s
Cartoon portrait, Catling Mavourneen - All at Lloyds. Thomas Catling was an editor of Lloyds Illustrated London Newspaper (the pun is on Kathleen Mavourneen, a popular Irish song). 1880s
Patent letter-copying presses. 1854
Scene in a London coffee house, where the main requirements are " a clean pipe, a dish of coffee, and the Supplement". 18th century
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, hydraulic presses for extracting cocoa butter. 1893
Underground railway, Bank Station, London 1903Underground railway, Bank Station, London, showing passengers waiting for the lifts. Date: 1903
London photographer equipped for wartime, September 1939A London photographer, captured as he looks into his camera, wearing a helmet and carrying his gas mask in addition to his usual attire. Date: 1939
Women working at the Victoria Press 1861Women and girls working as compositors under the supervision of a man at the Victoria Press printing office in Great Coram Street, London
Cartoon, Drury Lane Theatre, London, with balloonCartoon, No more pictorial posters for Drury Lane; the newspapers and a balloon will do the necessary advertising! 1885
Cartoon, Mr John Corlett, Sporting Times editorCartoon, Mr John Corlett - Yea, more than a prophet. John Corlett (1841-1915) was the founder, proprietor and editor of The Sporting Times. 1885
Cartoon, Two Obadiahs, the morals of the stageCartoon, Two Obadiahs. " Why don t you write an article on the morals of the stage? You ought to know something."
William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat and writerWilliam Caxton (c1422 - 1491), English merchant, diplomat, writer, printer and bookseller, thought to be the first person to introduce the printing press to England, in 1476
First HQ in France for journalists covering the invasionThe Press had established themselves in Bernieres by 1030 hours on D-Day in the Hotel de Grave, now a private house, No 288, Rue du Regiment de la Chaudiere
Rachel Beer, British newspaper editorRachel Beer (nee Sassoon, 1858-1927), British newspaper editor, editor-in-chief of The Sunday Times and The Observer. 1897
Florence Fenwick Miller, English journalist and authorFlorence Fenwick Miller (1854-1935), English journalist, author and social reformer, editor and proprietor of The Womans Signal, an influential feminist journal. 1897
Ethel Comyns Lewer, editor of The Feathered WorldEthel Harriet Comyns Lewer (1861-1946), periodical proprietor and editor of The Feathered World. and author of Poultry Keeping (1914). 1897
Gillian Debenham, editor of Judy magazineGillian Debenham, editor of Judy, the comic magazine. 1897
Editors of The Throne magazine, June 1906. 1906
Cover design, Home Notes, September 1945. 1945
Cover design, The Queen magazine, August 1889. 1889
Contributors to The Throne magazine - portraits. 1906
Lemon press, port basket, cork holder, etc. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896
Costumes of the Inuit (Eskimo) wearing sealskin clothes with hoods and long boots. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francesco Lavagnoli Veronese from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient
Machinery for making cutlery, 18th centuryMachinery for making cutlery: troughs of a grinding mill, tongs for pressing knife handles, pressing vice and spring drill
Fly press machinery. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees
Plate coinage equipment and copying machines. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature
A worker using mechanical power to press paper in a mill. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818
Title page, The Penny Magazine of the SDUK, 1842Title page, The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1842. Date: 1842
German Press advertisementsMontage of German Press advertisements
Front cover, The Ladies Field, Coronation Number 1902Front cover, The Ladies Field, Coronation Number (King Edward VII), 14 June 1902. 1902
Advertising poster, The Ladys Realm, 1896Advertising poster, The Ladys Realm, new magazine, 1896. 1896