Reputation Collection

The Stuka Advertised
Junkers JU-87 Stuka dive- bombers featured in an advertisement exploiting their sinister shape and fearsome reputation Date: February 1941

Maidenhead bridge & Skindles hotel
The riverside town of Maidenhead in Berkshire showing the seven-arched bridge constructed in 1772 and the famous Skindles hotel, known in former days as the Orkney Arms

Marie Loftus music hall dancer and singer 1857-1940
Marie Loftus music hall dancer and singer, pantomime star. Reputation for singing risqu songs. Mother of Cissie Loftus, music hall mimic. In costume holding rose

Bermuda Triangle / Map
The area already had a sinister reputation even before the triangle was invented - wrecks were thought to end up in the Sargasso Sea

Peary and Cook dispute over the North Pole
Robert Peary and Frederick Cook dispute over who reached the North Pole first -- but the real question is whether either of them got there at all

Bessie Bellwood music hall singer 1856-1896
Bessie Bellwood (Catherine Mahoney) music hall singer who engaged with her audience and had a reputation for putting down the toughest of hecklers. Carte de visite advertising Taunus table water

Daisy Jerome music hall mimic, comic singer and dancer
Daisy Jerome music hall mimic, toe dancer and wooden shoe dancer. A comic singer with a reputation for sauciness. Here depicted in a toe dancing pose wearing ballet shoes

Marie Lloyd music hall singer and comedienne 1870-1922
Marie Lloyd (Matilda Alice Wood) music hall singer and comedienne with a reputation for sauciness. In suggestive pose, hands on hips and showing petticoats

SUSANNA EXONERATED
Falsely accused of adultery, her reputation and her life, are saved when 12-year old Daniel (the future prophet) forces a re- trial ; her accusers are stoned to death

Cartoon, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Byron -- Byron's reputation is besmirched by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her biography : England rises to the defence of its beloved poet. Date: 1869

Vernons Pools, Liverpool, publicity leaflet

Jacobs Island
View of Folly ditch, Jacobs Island. Jacobs Island was a notorious slum in Bermondsey, London, in the 19th century, located on the south bank of the River Thames

Men reading documents
Advertisement for long-established printers Konig & Ebhardt of Hanover. It was for a long time a printing technology leader that contributed significantly to the cityss reputation as a printing

Cartoon portrait, Justice Henry Hawkins
Cartoon portrait of Justice Henry Hawkins. Don t hang us for caricaturing you, please, Mr Justice Hawkins! Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton (1817-1907)

Lady Idina Sackville, at the time of her engagement to Mr David Euan Wallace, her first husband, whom she divorced in 1919

Claudia Quinta dragging a ship into Rome
The Roman matron Claudia Quinta clears her name by dragging a ship bearing a statue of the Cult of the Great Mother (Magna Mater, Cult of Cybele) into Rome, after first praying to the gods for help

Caricature of Henry Hawkins, English judge
Caricature of Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton (1817-1907), English judge in the High Court of Justice between 1876 and 1898, and gained a reputation as a hanging judge. 1880

Cartoon, Mrs Weldon painting a bust of Gounod
Cartoon, The gentle Mrs Weldon, putting black paint on a portrait bust of the French composer, Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

William Cumming, Banker
WILLIAM CUMMING Scottish banker in Edinburgh with a reputation for eccentricity. Date: ? - 1790

Francois De Coster
FRANCOIS )or Franz) de COSTER (known as Costerus) Belgian Jesuit churchman, theologian with a reputation as the Hammer of Heretics. Date: 1531 - 1619

Popular Healer
Madeleine, born in 1827, employed in a French chateau near Amiens, acquires a wide reputation for her healing skills based on old wives tales and traditions Date: circa 1880

Victor Hugo / Plaque
VICTOR HUGO Commemorative plaque to the French novelist, placed on the wall of his birthplace in Besancon, December 1880 Date: 1802 - 1885

Martin B-26G -despite its early poor reputation, the Marauder went on to forge an enviable combat record

VILANOVA, Arnau de (1238-1311). Alchemist, astrologer and physician of Catalan origin who had a great reputation in the medieval world

San SebastiᮮFestival 2012. John Travolta
Travolta, John. American actor. Signs autographs after arriving to present his film Savages during the 60th San Sebastian International Film Festival, on September 22, 2012. SPAIN. Donostia

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- A Resolution
Recruitment poster, printed by A Thom and Company, Dublin. A Resolution passed in the Trenches. By an Irish Regiment (2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment)

An Extra-Special Romance by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a police officer initially snobbish about the special constable who is accompanying him on his beat

Maidenhead for the summer by Fish
Impression of Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire in August by Annie Fish, a popular a popular destination, and one with a bit of a reputation, for fashionable society in the first half of the 20th century

Scotland Yard C18
Scotland Yard in the 18th century had yet to acquire its present reputation. Date: circa 1720

Lord North and Friend
FREDERICK, LORD NORTH. statesman, prime minister, his name and reputation linked with those of a Miss Sp--c-r. Date: 1732 - 1792

1st Duke Northumberland
HUGH PERCY (Smithson) first duke of NORTHUMBERLAND his name and reputation linked with that of a mrs W-t-e. Date: 1715 - 1786

Clotilde Kleeberg
CLOTILDE KLEEBERG French pianist who established a big reputation in concert halls in London and elsewhere. Date: 1866 - 1909

Montague Guest
MONTAGUE GUEST Politician who apparently acquired a reputation for asking questions in the House of Commons. His other claims to fame can only be guessed. Date: CIRCA 1881

JIMENEZ ARANDA, Jos頨1837-1903). The Corregidor
JIMENEZ ARANDA, Jos頨 1837-1903). The Corregidor Visiting a Shady Reputation House. Costumbrism. Oil on canvas

Thomas Pitt Camelford
THOMAS PITT, second baron CAMELFORD, great-nephew of the elder Pitt, naval commander, noted duellist though neither he nor his reputation survived his last one. Date: 1775 - 1804

Humber Snipe
The Humber Snipe is chosen for police use, giving it a reputation as an establishment car, solid but with high performance when required. Date: 1937

Nathaniel St Andre, Rabbit Docto
Undated upper body engraving of Nathaniel St Andre, " Rabbit Doctor". Attended to the phenomenon of Mary Tofts the Pretend Rabbit Breeder and was taken in by her deception

J. M. Barrie
A portrait of James Matthew Barrie 1860-1937, Scottish playwright and novelist. He studied at Edinburgh University in 1882 and later moved to London

Ayrton and Perry
Portrait engravings of Professor William Ayrton and Professor John Perry, electrical engineers. Ayrton held the post of Professor of Natural Philosophy

Sunbeam-Talbot 1948
The first innovative post-war design, the Sunbeam-Talbot 80 and 90 maintain their pre-war reputation for elegance

Solomons Judgment
He adjudicates in a case of disputed maternity, confirming his reputation for wisdom

STEAMSHIP CARONIA
Cunarder sailing between Liverpool and the United States : with her sister-ship Carmania she had a reputation for fine lines and luxurious accommodation

RICHARD PRICE 1723-1791
RICHARD PRICE Welsh moral philosopher. Dissenting minister in London; established reputation with Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (1758)

Mesmers Patient
Mesmers reputation suffers when mlle Paradis, a blind patient he failed to cure, turns up at the French court playing clavecin at Marie Ant- oinettes spiritual concert

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