Short Collection (page 7)

WW2 - Messerschmitt Attacking A Parachutist
A WW2 children's short story illustration showing a German Messerschmitt fighter plane attacking a British parachutist. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - British Plane Colliding With An Italian
A WW2 children's short story illustration showing a collision between British and Italian aircraft. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Big Bill Gresham The Human Rope
A WW2 children's short story illustration showing a military character, Big Bill Gresham, clinging onto a branch overhead, as their raft rushes down the river. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Hawker Hurricane Attacks
A WW2 children's short story illustration showing British WW2 Hawker Hurricane fighter plane firing it's guns in a diving trajectory, towards some enemy armoured cars. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - British Fighter Takes Down Italian Fiat
A WW2 children's short story illustration showing a British WW2 fighter plane taking down an Italian Fiat Falco biplane, sending it out of control. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Plane Collision
A WW2 children's short story illustration showing a British WW2 Supermarine Spitfire colliding at the wing with a German aircraft. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - R. A. F. Short Singapore
A photograph showing a pair of British WW2 Short Singapore biplane flying boats of the Royal Air Firce. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Short Sunderland Flying Boats In Formation
A photograph which shows a rear view of some British WW2 Short Sunderland flying boats in formation. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Sunderland Flying Boats
A photograph taken by engines of a British WW2 Short Sunderland flying boat, providing a view of other aircraft of the type, flying over the channel. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Wanda And Sir Maxwell
A WW2 short story illustration which shows a fictional military officer speaking with some women, one if holding a terrier. Date: circa 1940

WW2 - The Ravensdale Mystery
A WW2 short story illustration which shows a fictional military man greeting his daughter. Date: circa 1940

WW2 - There's A Hun Plane!
A short story illustration which shows a military man sitting with a girl, he spots an enemy plane in the sky and prepares to get down! Date: circa 1940

WW2 - Paddy Finds A Family
A WW2 short story illustration which shows a mother and child searching the wreckage of a home that has been devastated by an enemy air raid, a warden helps them, the child races towards a poor dog

How Do The Walls Look?
A short story illustration which depicts a scene of three wartime sisters splashing paint around a room, making quite the mess. Date: circa 1940

WW2 - The Man In Air Force Blue
A short story illustration which depicts a group of young wartime women staring at a man wearing a Royal Air Force blue uniform, preparing his cigarette. Date: circa 1940

The Strangest Ever
A wartime short story illustration from The Strangest Ever, which shows three figures in conversation. Date: circa 1940

WW2 - Worrals Of The W. A. A. F. S
A short story illustration from Worrals Of The W.A.A.F.'S, showing a girl lying on the roof, looking up towards another who observes from a higher window. Date: circa 1940

WW2 - Captain Cullen Comes Home
A short story illustration which shows a British WW2 Royal Navy captain looking through his binoculars at sea, a lady is shouting towards him excitedly. Date: circa 1940

WW2 - W. A. A. F. With Commanding Officer
A WW2 short story illustration which depicts a scene where the commanding officer is snarling towards a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Date: circa 1940

G-ADHJ - Mercury - Transatlantic Float Seaplane - the upper component of the Short Bros. Mayo Composite Aircraft - launched in mid-air from a Flying Boat (see 13816872). Only one ever built

Imperial Airways Scylla Air Liner Saloon - flirst flight in 1934, retired in 1940. A British four-engined 39-seat biplane airliner designed and built by Short Brothers Date: circa 1935

Short Sunderland Mk. I L2160 Selangor
Royal Air Force - Short Sunderland Mk.I L2160 Selangor (msn S.0862), at the naming ceremony by the Sultan of Selangor, held at Port Swettenham in October 1938. Date: 1938

Dahlia Terrace
A childrens short story illustration which shows some earwigs crawling amongst grasses and flowers, observing a sign which advertises Dahlia Terrace. Date: circa 1944

The Frost Fairies
A childrens short story illustration which shows some mythical frost fairies clinging to some thin tree branches. Date: circa 1944

King Bunker Looks Into The Nest
A childrens short story illustration which shows King Bunker finding his lost golf ball in a bird's nest. Date: circa 1944

Grumman F8F-2P Bearcat N212KA (msn D.902, ex BuAer 121528), fitted with a passenger compartment in the fuselage. This aircraft was destroyed on 12 December 1968 when the engine failed on take-off

House At Short Hills, New Jersey, U. S. A
An architectural illustration of a large half timbered house at Short Hills, New Jersey, in the United States of America, with an inner courtyard and lush exterior gardens. Date: early 1900s

Les Coulisses d'Une Feerie
This illustration depicts a scene in which young ladies are gathered, wearing colourful short dresses, with fairy wings and antennae, ready to perform in the Ballet of the Insects. Date: circa 1901

Are You A Stockbroker?
An illustration portraying a finely dressed lady looking down at a short man through her hand held spectacles, asking if he is a stockbroker. Date: circa 1901

Advert, Ten P & O Cruises, 1930, from London or Southampton Date: 1930

Short Brothers Empire flying boat Canopus
Imperial Airways Aircraft, Short Brothers Empire flying boat Canopus Date: 1941

The Dreamer
A portrait painting of a young figure, with short black hair, seated, holding her little finger to her mouth. Her eyes are staring without a direct focus, in a day dream. Date: 1879

Titanic postcard from passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - postcard written by Third-Class passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo-Martino from Queenstown, Ireland, on 11 April 1912

A Short Singapore K-577
Short Singapore K-577 - a British multi-engined biplane flying boat built after the First World War. Date: circa 1930s

Controls of RAF Short Sunderland Flying Boat, WW2
Controls of an RAF Short Sunderland Flying Boat Date: circa 1941

Manx Cat, by Louis Wain Date: 1905

Coronation morning, Westminster Abbey, London
Westminster Abbey, London, on Coronation Morning, 12 May 1937 - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth - showing the Coronation Chair, the Chair of State, the Throne of Homage

Coronation of George IV, Westminster Abbey, London
The Moment of Recognition, Coronation of King George IV at Westminster Abbey, London, 19 July 1821 Date: 1821

Coronation of King Charles II, 23 April 1661, Westminster Abbey, London Date: 1661

Cover design, Progress, April 1926 - Lever Brothers magazine Date: 1926

Comic Score Card for Bridge Playing Card Game No. 4 Date: 1920s

Comic Score Card for Bridge Playing Card Game No. 6 Date: 1920s

Henry Lawoson
A portrait oil painting of Australian writer and bush poet, Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson, renowned for writing great short stories, such as The Drover's Wife, and The Loaded Dog. Date: 1900

Towers at Kampen, Holland
This etching shows some large bell towers, the tallest one being the Nieuwe Toren, (New Tower), located in Oudestraat, in the city of Kampen, Netherlands

Advert for Kershaw's Binoculars
Advert for Kershaw's Sportsman Binoculars - worn like spectacles. Date: 1939

Caricature illustrations, Our Saturday Selection, by Phyllis Kermode, illustrator. Showing the Oxford and Cambridge boat race teams, with quotations, No 4, your bags aren't baggy enough

Advert for Woollands, illustrating their range of women's coats and short coats. Date: 1932

Short Skyvan 3M-400 5S-TA
Osterreichische Luftstreitkrafte - Short Skyvan 3M-400 5S-TA (msn SH1855)m of Fl Rgt 1. (Osterreichische Luftstreitkrafte - Austrian Air Force) Date: circa 1990

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