Secretary Collection

Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim, c. 1890
Photographic portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, pictured at her writing desk, c.1890

Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim, 1900
Queen Victoria, Empress of India, listening to a despatch describing the elation of the troops at the services they had rendered to the Queen. Her Indian servant, Munshi Abdul Karim, supports her

Samuel Pepys
SAMUEL PEPYS statesman, secretary to the Admiralty, kept a diary. with his autograph

LEGGY SECRETARY 1920 S
A leggy secretary sits by her typewriter and takes a letter, revealing her suspender in the process

Clapton Orient FC football team 1936. Back row: Oakley, Murray, Farrell, Searle (Captain), Herod

Group photo, Millwall Athletic football team
Millwall Athletic football team for the 1895-1896 season, including Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary and Trainer, as well as the players themselves. circa 1895

Court room scene, Mr M Naughten trial
A sketch taken of the courtroom at Old Bailey where the trial of Mr M Naughten took place, for the assassination Mr Edward Drummond, secretary to Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel

Winston Churchill at Sidney Street Siege, East London
Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, with a group of policemen during the Siege of Sidney Street in Stepney, East London, on 3 January 1911. Date: 1911

A Young Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) photographed in 1906 at the age of 32, while he held the post of Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Team, 1908
Photograph of the Wolverhampton Wanderers Football team of the 1907-1908 season. The players pictured are: Back row, left to right: W. Shepherd (Director), W. Wooldridge (Captain), J. Jones, K

Corry / Vanity Fair 1877
MONTAGU WILLIAM LOWRY CORRY BARON ROWTON Statesman and philanthropist, Disraelis private secretary

Suffragettes WSPU Wimbledon Banner
Members of the Wimbledon branch of the Womens Social and Political Union, with their banner displayed. Probably taken at an at home meeting in the garden of Rose Lamartine-Yates house - Dorset Hall

Portrait of Anne Page Croft in Red Cross uniform, WW1
Portrait of Anne Page Croft in Red Cross uniform. She was War Treasurer and Secretary to the Ware Division of the British Red Cross until 1919. By Florence Kate Upton (1873-1922)

SS Norman arriving at Southampton, 1903
Photograph of the SS Norman arriving at Ocean Quay, Southampton, 14th March 1903. Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, was on board the Norman arriving back from a foreign tour

Khrushchev Speaking at the UN
Russian statesman, secretary-general of the Communist Party and premier 1958-1964, Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), depicted addressing the assembly at the United Nations

Walthamstow Avenue FC football team 1936. Back row: Took (Honorary Secretary), Wright, Oliver, Mercer, Pinner, Hicks, Garner (Trainer), Childs, Barlow

Kathleen Scott sculpting statue of Edwin Montagu
Kathleen, Lady Scott, Baroness Kennett pictured in her London studio at work on her ten-foot statue of Edwin Montagu (former Secretary for India) destined for Calcutta

Queens Park Rangers FC football team, in green and white stripes: Miles (Trainer), Foster (Director), Murphy, Cross, Collins (Captain), Downing, White, Singleton, McLean (Assistant Trainer)

Jeremiah (650-585 BC) dictating his prophecies to Baruch. En
Jeremiah (650-585 BC). Hebrew Prophet. Jeremiah dictating his prophecies to Baruch. Engraving by Pannemaker. The Bible in pictures by Gustave Dore. Colored

Lady Cynthia Colville with David, Philip and Jock
Lady Cynthia Colville, wife of the Hon. George Colville, younger son of the late Lord Colville of Culross pictured with her three sons, David, Phillip and Jock

Federico Cattani Amadori (1856-1943). Colored engraving
Federico Cattani Amadori (1856-1943). Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura (1924-1935). Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1877. Colored

Daniel Webster and quote on God granting Liberty
A postcard illustrating a quote by Daniel Webster (1782-1852) - a leading American statesman and senator from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War

Joseph Stalin, Secretary-general of the Communist party of Soviet Russia. Date 1942?

The U. S. Brig-of-War Somers
The U.S. Brig-of-War Somers

Gandhi, Sonja Schlesin and Hermann Kallenbach
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), Indian independence leader

Aston Villa Football Club, 1896
Photograph of the Aston Villa Football Club, with the team for the 1896-1897 season. The photograph shows: Back row, left to right: G.B. Ramsay (Secretary), Dr. V.A

Scottish International Association Football Team, 1895, at the time they played against Scotland: Harrison (Vice-President), Drummond, Lambie, Sliman (President), Russell, Gibson, Dixon (Treasurer)

Aston Villa FA Cup Winners, 1894-5: Grierson (Trainer), Dunkley (Hon Sec), Johnstone, Spencer, Wilkes, Lees, Rinder, Margoschis (Chairman), Reynolds, Devey (Captain), Welford, Ramsay (Secretary)

William Clive Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman (18641935) - British Conservative politician and peer

Ben Rubner, General Secretary of the FTAT union
Ben Rubner (1921-1998), General Secretary of the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union (FTAT) from 1976 to 1986

Harry Pollitt, Communist Party leader, with Mao Zedong
Harry Pollitt (1890-1960), Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and head of its trade union department. Seen here shaking hands with the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

Harry Pollitt, Secretary of the Communist Party
Harry Pollitt (1890-1960), Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and head of its trade union department. Date: circa 1950s

George Woodcock, TUC General Secretary
George Woodcock (1904-1979), British trade unionist and TUC General Secretary from 1960 to 1969. Date: 1963

6th Earl of Donoughmore, Vanity Fair, Spy
RICHARD WALTER HELY-HUTCHINSON, 6th Earl of Donoughmore (1875-1948) Irish peer and politician. Caption: A most discreet under secretary, drawn for the first time Date: 1848 - 1900

Pit Ponies in Retirement - Plum & Danny with Alfred Brisco (Organising Secretary). Card issued on behalf of The National Equine Defence League. Date: circa late 1930s

Richard von Kuhlmann signing Peace Treaty, Romania
Richard von Kuhlmann (1873-1948), German Foreign Secretary, signing a Peace Treaty (known as the Treaty of Bucharest) with Romania in the Cotroceni Palace, near Bucharest

Pitmans School, Southampton Row, London - School Building of the famous Secretarial School, teaching secretarial skills such as shorthand and typing

Mrs Florence Emily Hardy
Florence Emily Hardy, nee Dugdale, second wife of the novelist Thomas Hardy, pictured in 1914. Florence was Hardys secretary and herself a write of childrens books

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, David Lloyd George, General
A photograph of a meeting between political and military leaders of the Allies in France, 1916

The Zulu war. Rorkes Drift, near the scene of the recent co
From a sketch by Major North Crealock, 95th Regiment, Assistant Military Secretary. Panoramic scene of the undulating country on the Zululand/ Natal border

1950S Office Computer
A man and a women working together with a Pegasus computer at Ferrantis London computer Centre, 21 Portland Place, W1. Date: 1950s

Footballers Battalion attending HQ at Kingsway for pay, WW1
Mr F. J. Wall, secretary of the Football Association, sits at a table at the associations headquarters, ready to pay members of the Footballers Battalion

Francis Windebank
Sir FRANCIS WINDEBANK statesman, secretary of state Date: 1582 - 1646

Gideon Welles - 2
GIDEON WELLES American statesman, Secretary of the Navy Date: 1802 - 1878

Lloyd George and Balfour in Paris, WW1
David Lloyd George (left), British Prime Minister, and Arthur James Balfour (right), British Foreign Secretary, riding in an open topped car

Olivetti Advert 1932
The boss consults his watch - hes in a hurry for this report - but don t worry, signor, thanks to the Olivetti you gave her, your secretary will have it done in time

Boss and Secretary 1928
A secretary stands beside her boss, seated at a desk whose size indicates his importance

Mike Parker, equerry to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Lieutenant-Commander John Michael Avison Parker, CVO, AM (23 June 1920 29 December 2001), Australian who served as an officer of the Royal Navy (RN), and as Private Secretary to Prince Philip

Comic postcard, reasons (or excuses) for not writing Date: 20th century

Dispute between two knights about the Immaculate Conception, in a tournament ordered by the Emperor. Chromolithography after a miniature in Chants Royaux sur La Conception, 16th century

Reception of a knight of the Order of Saint Michael
Reception of a knight of the Order of Saint-Michel (Order of Saint Michael), French military order founded by King Louis XI (1423-1483) in Amboise on 1 August 1469. Engraving by J

New York World's Fair, Cordell Hull
This photograph captures the moment in which Secretary of State Cordell Hull speaks from the stand on the Federal Building terrace during the Pan-American Day ceremonies at the New York World's

WW2 - Certificate - Salute the Soldier - Savings Campaign
WW2 - Home Front - Certificate of Honour presented to The Gillmor Savings Group in grateful acknowledgement of successful achievement in the Salute the Soldier National Savings Campaign of 1944

Portrait of Nehemiah Grew, physician and botanist
Nehemiah Grew, MD, physician and botanist, secretary to the Royal Society, 1641-1712. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Newton after a portrait by Robert White from Dr

Portrait of Nehemiah Grew, physician and botanist
Nehemiah Grew, MD, physician and botanist, secretary to the Royal Society, 1641-1712. Gresham College, Holborn, London, where the Meetings of the Royal Society were held from 1660 to 1710

John Thurloe, Author of State Papers, 1616-1668. Secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England, spymaster for Oliver Cromwell

Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (1836-1882). Politician
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (1836-1882). British politician. He was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in May 1882 but was murdered only hours after his arrival in Dublin. Portrait

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Notice, Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, Victoria House, Victoria Street, Westminster, London SW. Free supplies of water for man and beast in the streets of London. 1887

Munshi Abdul Karim, Queen Victorias Indian Secretary. 1892

Cartoon - sex before marriage?
"You won't marry a man who snores in bed? But darling, how are you going to find out?" An interesting comment on the question of sex before marriage. Date: circa 1940

Comic postcard, Wife, husband and secretary Date: 20th century

The Royal Visit to the Vatican - standing behind Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip are Major Martin Charteris, Private Secretary to the Princess (wearing white tie), Lady Palmer

Ernest Bevin giving speech at East Woolwich
Ernest Bevin giving a speech to socialist workers at his East Woolwich constituency after a period of illness

Clementine Churchill (1885 -1977), in her house in Sussex Square

Sir Frederick Wall, secretary of the FA
Sir Frederick Wall, secretary of the Football Association, when vast crowds proved difficult to control at the Wembley Cup Final on 28 April 1923. 1923

Geoffrey de Havilland, Frank T. Hearle and Wilfred E. Nixon
From left: Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, Frank T. Hearle, General Manager and Wilfred E. Nixon, Company Secretary, in September 1949. Date: 1949

Comic postcard, Boss instructs secretary Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman and doctor Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man trying to type a letter Date: 20th century

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish painter and printmaker. Los Caprichos. Aquellos Polvos. Aquatint n 23 published in 1799

Queen Victorias Munshi, Abdul Karim
Favourite attendant of Queen Victoria, Abdul Karim (18631909), who served the queen in the final 15 years of her reign

Jubilee Of The Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Jubilee, of, the, Royal, National, Lifeboat, Institution, Duke, Northumberland, President, Richard, Lewis, Secretary, The, Family, Friend, magazine, Dec, 1874, , 13974362

WW2 - Home Guard Goings On
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Home Guard Goings On, written by Basil Boothroyd

Letter to Laura Francatelli, RMS Titanic survivor
White Star Line, RMS Titanic

Cartoon, Retribution, or the Greenwich Dinner, with Lord Palmerston, Liberal Prime Minister (L) and Lord John Russell, Liberal Foreign Secretary (R)

RMS Titanic - letter, Mabel Francatelli, passenger
RMS Titanic - First Class passenger Mabel Francatelli. A fascinating letter from Mattison, Davey & Rader of New York to Miss Francatelli dated 17 April 1956

Animals at the Zoo
Angry animals at the zoo which were being studied. Two brown bears fighting with their claws and teeth. A secretary bird after a sparrow had eluded its waiting jaws

Sir Edward Grey
Portrait of Sir Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, (25 April 1862 ?? 7 September 1933)

Lord Salisbury's stables in Hatfield house. Known as Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil

Photographs of housemaids and secretaries workwear
Photographs of new housemaids and secretaries workwear, women working in trousers. Captioned, Mind work? not in these-!: Flannelled housemaids and secretaries: an idea from the States'. Date: 1911

W H Congreve, Secretary of Birkbeck Institute, London
W H Congreve, Secretary of Birkbeck Institute, later Birkbeck College, London. Studio portrait in jacket, waistcoat and tie, captioned Mr W H Congreve'

Stanley Ford Rous, Football Association Secretary
Stanley Ford Rous, Secretary of the Football Association, later President of FIFA Date: 1946

Minister Secretary of the three Orders of Charles III, Noble Ladies of Queen Maria Luisa and Isabella the Catholic

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