Reading Collection (page 16)

Space Memorabilia - Apollo XI lapel pin
Space Memorabilia - Apollo XI (11) mission space flown lapel pin. An incredible piece of Apollo 11 flown history, Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the moon

Space Memorabilia - the three Apollo 11 astronauts
Space Memorabilia - Apollo 11 photograph from the collection of Joan Aldrin. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. Date: 1969

RMS Titanic in the stocks, Harland & Wolff, Belfast
RMS Titanic - rare cabinet style photograph of the Titanic in the stocks at Harland and Wolff, Belfast. In the foreground a sign reading White Star Royal Mail Steamer can clearly be read

Baroness Goldschmidt Rothschild and daughter
Baroness Goldschmidt Rothschild (1902-1982), previously Marion Schuster, with one of her daughters, enjoying a previous edition of The Tatler'. Date: 1939

Cover design, Christmas cards, A Bag of Birds
Cover design by Robert Dudley, Christmas cards, A Bag of Birds. Date: circa 1890s

Children receiving cards from Father Christmas. Date: circa 1890s

Lady in a garden on a romantic greetings card with verse and ornate border. Date: circa 1890s

Susi - with boy reading Mickey Mouse book
Susi - with boy reading a Mickey Mouse book. 1950s

On the Cliff by Harold Harvey (1874-1941) one of the Newlyn School of Painters, well known for painting Cornish landscapes and social scenes from the area. Date: 1919

The Hon. Mrs Charles BAillie-Hamilton by Madame Yevonde
The Hon. Mrs Charles Baillie-Hamilton, formerly Miss Wanda Holden pictured by Madame Yevonde. 1929

Old man reading the newspaper. 1827

Advertisement, Horners Penny Stories
Advertisement for Horners Penny Stories -- Have You Read Them? circa 1900

Poster, Atlas Lamps and Tubes, all the better to see with. 20th century

Fish Delivery boy distracted by Tit-Bits
Fish Delivery boy distracted by the latest addition Tit-Bits - this promotional card is advertising life insurance (via the magazine) to insure ones life for 1000. Date: circa 1906

Brown bear reading newspaper on a German postcard
Brown bear reading a newspaper, Der Bund, on a German postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Three frogs learning how to swim on a greetings postcard -- two of them are reading the instruction manual while another one teaches them. Date: circa 1890s

A girl at a window reading
Illustration of a girl reading from The Modern Grammar. Date: circa 1905

Find the Fault card No. 12 -- man reading. circa 1930s

Bourgeoisie. Social gathering. Ladies. Engraving. 19th century. Colored

School of Talmudists, 1887, by Samuel Hirszenberg (1865-1908
Samuel Hirszenberg (1865-1908). Polish painter. School of Talmudists, 1887. National Museum. Krakow. Poland

Jose Maria Alvarez de Toledo, Marques of Villafranca de Bierzo, Grandee of Spain (1756-1796). Portrait by Francisco Goya (1746-1828), 1795. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

United States. American War of Independence (1775-1783). Declaration of Independence: General Washingtons army in New York on July 9, 1776. Engraving by Howard Pyle, 1892. Coloured

Birthday card, Woman in a garden
Birthday Card, Woman in a garden. mid-20th century

Police officers relaxing, Met Police, London
A group of male and female police officers, some of them sergeants, relaxing in a rest room, some reading newspapers or books, others chatting. Among them, on the right, is WPS Beatrice Bygrave

Norman Costume C11Th
Normans: embroidered super- tunic with wide sleeves, kirtles, mantle tied with cord, veil or phrygian cap, tunic, super-tunic, mantle & phyrgian bonnet. Date: 11th century

Skirts too Short 1912
Mistress to maid : Julie, you shouldn t wear such tight skirts, you are showing far too much leg... Date: 1912

Mrs John D. Rockefeller
MRS JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER (nee Laura Celestia Spelman) Wife of the millionaire industrialist & philanthropist Date: 1839 - 1915

Andrew Carnegie / Le Rire
ANDREW CARNEGIE American industrialist and humanitarian Date: 1835 - 1919

France / Nice 1930S
A fashionable couple reading newspapers under the shade of umbrellas in the harbour, Nice, France. Date: 1930s

Abbe Suger / Lassalle
SUGER, ABBOT French divine, historian, abbot of Saint-Denis Date: 1081 - 1151

Girl Faints in Mans Arm
Girl faints into gentlemans arms after reading the fatal telegram Date: circa 1890

Advert for Foots library lounge chair 1906
Just a finger touch of the occupant will instantly change the back to any inclination from upright to flat. Date: 1906

Woman reading with cat
A woman in aesthetic dress sits on a sofa reading while her cat looks over her shoulder. Date: 1904

Tatler front cover - Winston and Clementine Churchill
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a portrait of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine (nee Hozier) by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1924

Sa Marraine by Leo Fontan
A fashionably dressed young woman with a floral bonnet style hat, white fox fur stole and large hat box pauses for a moment to read a letter or perhaps shopping receipt. Date: 1919

Cartoon, Enigma, WW1
Cartoon, Enigma. A French soldier says he doesn t understand it -- hes drunk nothing but Pinard (cheap wine or plonk) since the war started, and now hes got water on the knee! Date: 1916

River & St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Goring-on-Thames, Reading, near Woodcote, Oxfordshire, England. Date: 1910s

WW1 - Russian Troops blessed by Priest before offensive
WW1 - Russian Troops blessed by Russian Orthodox Priest before offensive - June 1917 Date: 1917

Page of adverts from The Illustrated London News, 1912
Page of advertisements from The Illustrated London News, dated November 1912.Carters reading chair, Calverts tooth powder and Sanitas disinfectant are promoted, as well a Blo, an electric hair dryer

Index et catalogus librorum prohibitorum (Index and catalog of Prohibited Books). List of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church to protect the faith

N. U. W. S.s Demonstration Kendal Keswick
N.U.W.S.S Demonstration Kendal Keswick. N.U.W.S.S demonstration with banners of societies from Cumberland, Kendal, Ambleside, Carslisle, Keswick and North Western Federation

Suffragette Black Friday 1910. Outside the Houses of Parliament on 18th November, a deputation led by Mrs. Pankhurst and Members of the W.S.P.U tried to force their way into the House

When Women Vote A Proposal. When Women Vote, they will propose to the men. Lady down on one knee asks, Percy Darling, will you marry me? Man replies coyly, Really, you had better ask Mamma Miss

Pencil sketch of little girl lying down reading
Pencil sketch of a little girl in a sun bonnet, lying down reading with her feet up in the air. Date: 1920s

Pencil sketch of girl and boy reading
Pencil sketch of a girl and a boy reading. Date: 1920s

Gone With the Wind actors
Three of the lead actors chosen to star in the much-anticipated film version of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, shown reading through the script - Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O Hara

Pug Peter -- girl and mouse reading a book
Pug Peter -- Nowhere-in-Particular. A girl and a large mouse reading a book under a tree. Date: 1905

British officers relaxing, Western Front, WW1
Four British army officers relaxing behind the lines on the Western Front during World War One. Their chairs are made from ration boxes. Date: circa 1916

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