Promotional Collection (#23)

Publican and customers outside pub, with a Bass Brewery car
Publican and customers outside a pub, some seated in a car sporting a model of a bottle of Bass Beer on the bonnet (likely a promotion car for the Brewery). Date: circa late 1900s

Boys of our Empire. West Indies
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. Sth Africa
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. India
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. Gt Britain
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. Canada
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. Australia
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Ships playroom. NYK (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) Line promotional postcard depicting facilities for children Date: 1939

Exhibit of Bessons musical instruments, 1885
An exhibit of F. Besson & Companys brass musical instruments, 1885. Date: 1885

Waifs and Strays Society Van
A new van for the Waifs and Strays Society. The vehicle carries promotional text for the Societys work. Date: Circa 1925

The Proms, 1912
A joy of the dog-days: the promenade concerts, which benefit the sandwich man as well as the music lover. Date: 1912

Dupanloup Photo
FELIX ANTOINE PHILIBERT DUPANLOUP French churchman, bishop of Orleans whose promotional efforts brought about the canonisation of Jeanne d Arc. Date: 1802 - 1878

Ascent of M. Delemarne in L Esperance
Poster advertising the ascent of M. Delemarne The Aerial Vessel Sailing Balloon! " L Esperance", Cremorne Gardens, August 7th 1865 Date: 1865

Hotel Carls-Rite, Toronto, Canada - the House of Comfort - advertising itself as the Worlds Premier Hotel for Business travellers. Date: circa 1920s

Tamao-Dayu - Famous Geisha, Japan & Komagata, Tokyo. Beautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan

Castle Nijo at Kyoto and The Nagoya Castle - Japan
Beautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan

Advertising postcard - Lloyds News - At the Top of the Tree
Advertising postcard for Lloyds News - At the Top of the Tree. Celebrating sales of nearly a million and a half copies. Lloyds Weekly Newspaper was an early Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom

Norwich - Carnival - Seven Women as Portland Vase - Wedgwood
Norwich, Norfolk - A Carnival - Seven Women dressed as the Portland Vase advertising Wedgwood

Advertising Card for Whiteleys Electric Shop, 84 John Street, New York, USA - featuring the smiling visage of a pretty model

Lisbon, Portugal - Antiquarian Bookseller Postcard - overprinte with a black band following the double Royal assassination of February 1908

Sloanes trade card for milk chocolate
Sir Hans Sloanes (1660-1753) collection formed the basis of the collection now held at the Natural History Museum, London

Thomas Barnardo and Children
A promotional picture showing Thomas Barnardo and some of the typical children helped by the homes he founded, beginning in 1870 at Stepney Causeway, London Date: Date unknown

Some Barnardos Emigrants
A promotional picture showing some of the children from Barnardos homes destined to emigrate to new lives overseas. In 1872, Thomas Barnardos childrens homes began sending children to Canada

Poster promoting Holland - Toymaker
A Dutch craftsman surrounded by the wooden toys he has been making - a design for a poster promoting tourism. circa 1960

Promotional Poster for Llandudno in North Wales
Promotional Poster for the Seaside Resort of Llandudno in North Wales. circa 1960s

Our Village in Silhouette by Worthington
The fold-out cover of a promotional brochure booklet of Worthington Silhouettes for the Worthington Brewery Company by H L Oakley Date: circa 1920s

Promotional image for Uralt Lavendel
German promotion of lavender water, traditionally a product for older ladies, to a younger audience, using Art deco imagery Date: 1933

German promotional poster
Poster for a national sporting day Date: 1934

Promotional lit. for newspaper Date: circa 1960

Visit Warsaw
A promotional postcard for Warsaw, Poland Date: circa 1920

The Heathen and the Christian - Play
The Heathen and the Christian - promotional postcard for this play - performed at The Grand Theatre Southampton between 1908-1909

Coming from Lipton s... Going to Lipton s
An ingenious advertisement designed by Sir Thomas Lipton to attract customers to his shop

Champion Romney Marsh Sheep
A fine Romney Marsh Sheep from New Zealand bought for 50, 000 pesetas by Spanish breeders at a London Stock Show! Date: circa 1910s

VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (3 / 3)
Promotional postcard for the VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (8th Swiss Agricultural Exhibition) at Lausanne, Switzerland (3/3) Date: 1910

VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (2 / 3)
Promotional postcard for the VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (8th Swiss Agricultural Exhibition) at Lausanne, Switzerland (2/3) Date: 1910

VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (1 / 3)
Promotional postcard for the VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (8th Swiss Agricultural Exhibition) at Lausanne, Switzerland (1/3) Date: 1910

Promotional brochure, National Institutions for Inebriates
Part of a promotional brochure produced by the National Institutions for Inebriates

Promotional card for Aegean Sea Cruise line
A promotional postcard for an Italian Aegean Sea Cruise Line. The liner is the Albano, under the command of Captain Persich

Arabian Merchant - promotional card
Promotional postcard for an Algerian merchant selling items from across North Africa and the Middle East. English Spoken !

Admiring the new windows
A Mother and her daughter admire their new glazing - a promotional photograph taking for a window glass company. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Refueling a British Road Services truck
A promotional photograph for British Road Services. Here a truck of the fleet is refueled at a trade pump. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

An Immense Cloth Finishing Dryer
A factory worker uses an immense cloth finishing dryer, in a promotional photograph for Dalglish. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Two technicians check a computer printout
Two bespectacled computer technicians, both wearing suits, view a readout from the terminal of an IBM computer system. A promotional photograph taken for the company

Danish card - Holding up the world
An old man holds up the world - a promotional postcard (in a similar style to William Blake) for a Danish Exhibition. A more modern take on the myth of the ancient God Atlas, who held up the world

Constantinople - View of the city across Golden Horn
A very attractive view of Constantinople across the Golden Horn in the late afternoon light

Tsarist Poster
Tsarist government poster for the " 5 1/2% military loan"

Play / Daddy Longlegs
DADDY LONGLEGS " A full of smiles play." A woman in a pink dress appears on the front of the promotional brochure

Glamorous Smoker 1942
American film star Joan Bennett smokes a cigarette from a holder as she poses seductively for a promotional photo for her latest picture. Note the star hair slides!

STEAMSHIPS / LIBERTE
French liner, formerly the German Europa but substantially refitted for the Atlantic crossing

Wine Waiters Tools
A set of implements or tools for Wine Waiters that makers of wines and spirits could have made with their names on to be given away to waiters as a form of advertising

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