Sphere Collection (page 10)

Loss of the Titanic
A page from the supplement that appeared in the first issue of The Sphere to be published following the loss of the Titanic, describing it as The Greatest Wreck in the Worlds History

German battleship sinking at night, WW1
An artists impression of a German battleship sinking at night, with searchlights flashing in all directions, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Britannia mourns the death of Queen Victoria
Front-cover of The Sphere showing Britannia mourning the loss of Queen Victoria who died on the 22nd January 1901. Date: 1901

Queen Victoria funeral edition of The Sphere
Showing the front page of The Spheres commemorative issue, dedicated to the funeral of Queen Victoria. Date: 1901

Front cover of the Sphere, the Queen with Princess Anne
The Queen with Princess Anne at Kings Cross Station. They are travelling to Sandringham for the Christmas holiday. Date: 1955

Home of the Sphere on Coronation night, 1953
The lower part of Ingram House, in the Strand, just opposite the bombed-out shell of St. Clement Danes Church, as it is illuminated after nightfall. 1953

Front cover of the Sphere Silver Jubilee Record
This special cover for the Spheres Silver Jubilee Record is silver and features a royal carriage and attendant guards and footmen. 1935

Sphere front cover, Royal Maundy, Queen ElizabethII, 1957
Royal Maundy at St. Albans Abbey. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, attends the first royal distribution of Maundy money outside London in 300 years

Front cover of the Sphere, Childrens Coronation Concert
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret attend the Childrens Coronation Concert at the Central Hall, Westminster. It is their father, King George VI, whose coronation is being celebrated. Date: 1937

Front cover of the Sphere, the Olympic torch enters Wembley
Photograph taken during the opening ceremony of the 1948 Olympic Games in London, as the last runner enters Wembley Stadium with the Olympic flame, ready to set light to the Olympic Altar. Date: 1948

Miss Clelia Matania, dressed in the costume of an Arabian dancer. She was the daughter of the Spheres special artist, Matania. 1934

Page from The Sphere, 4th May 1912, called The Newsletter, Week by Week. It features images of Indian students who have studied at the London School of Economics; Signor Murri

Sphere front cover featuring Queen Elizabeth II, 1957
Queen Elizabeth II (born 1926), attending a gala performance at the opera in Paris on the first night of her visit to France

The Sphere, Royal Thanksgiving Number front cover
The front cover of this special Thanksgiving issue features a portrait of a smiling King George V, recently restored to health. Date: 1929

Sphere Motor Exhibition Supplement - motoring tour of Italia
Front of the Spheres Motor Exhibition Supplement showing a motor car party exploring the Italian Lakes in a very large Napier car. Date: 1913

Front cover of the Spheres Silver Jubilee Number
This special Sphere front cover for the Silver Jubilee Number features King George V and Queen Mary in ceremonial attire. 1935

Back page of the Sphere Silver Jubilee Number
The illustration features the royal standards flying, along with stereotyped depictions of colonised peoples, including a ceremonial elephant. 1935

The Sphere front cover, Coronation Number 1953
Front cover of the Sphere, a special coronation issue covering the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II, featuring a carved frame with roses and thistles symbolizing England and Scotland. Date: 1953

The Sphere Christmas Number 1938 - Frozen Thames 1683
Front cover of the Sphere magazine for Christmas 1938 featuring an illustration showing the Thames frozen in 1683. The river was frozen for long enough for the famous Frost Fair to take place with

The Sphere front cover, Christmas 1953
Front cover of The Sphere, Christmas Number featuring An English Christmas by J. S. Goodall showing various traditional festive scenes from a shepherd looking at a snow-covered village to Father

Royal Wedding Cake, 1923
A full page advertisement in the April issue of The Sphere covering the royal wedding of the Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, placed by McVitie and Price of Edinburgh, who strangely

The Sphere Christmas Number front cover 1956
Front cover of The Sphere Christmas Number featuring a charming illustration of welcoming house, its front door opened by a small girl and her Spaniel to reveal a roaring fire

War in the Pacific
Pages from The Sphere, 20th December 1941, with an article and accompanying photographs and illustrations about the loss of the British battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse

The Antarctic Drama - page from The Sphere
Page from The Sphere which tells of the ill-fated expedition of Captain Scott and his team, showing a picture of the inner tent used by Scott and the others

Why Captain Scott did not rely wholly on dogs
Page from The Sphere with drawings and photographs of the huskies used in Captain Scotts first polar expedition in 1901-4

Autumn painted by Pauline Baynes
A boy and a girl in the Elizabethan era pictured picking blackberries while in the background, horsemen are hunting a stag

Madonna and Child by Adriaen Isenbrant, painter of the Flemish school in the first half of the sixteenth century

The Disaster of the Scott Expedition
Page from The Sphere, a journal which took great interest in the expedition to the South Pole of Captain Scott, which gives a commentary on the disaster

The Bioscope cinema
A scene inside the Bioscope cinema in Vauxhall Bridge Road, London with a pianist playing ragtime on the piano to accompany the silent movies

Titanic news reports, magazines, sheet music
A selection of news reports, magazines and sheet music relating to the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912. It includes a copy of The Times newspaper, a twelve-page supplement of The Sphere

RMS Titanic and iceberg
Artists impression of RMS Titanic at the moment it hit the fatal iceberg on 15 April 1912

New Life Peers 1958
Page from The Sphere depicting the first life peers arriving at the House of Lords for the traditional ceremony of introducing barons to the House of Lords

Happy Christmas Hours by W. Bryce Hamilton
Drawn for The Sphere Chistmas Number this image shows a group of people skating on a Winters Day

The Sphere Spring fashion number front cover
Colour illustration for the front cover of The Sphere spring fashion number showing two women in a springtime setting

Off for Paris by W. Bryce Hamilton
Off for Paris - The Start of an Imperial Airway Liner from Croydon Aerodrome, drawn for The Sphere by W. Bryce Hamilton

Sphere front cover: Prince of Wales visiting unemployed
Front cover from The Sphere, April 1933, showing Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor (1894-1972) inspecting the allotment gardens at Woolwich of the unemployed

Suggestion by The Sphere for a monument to Scott
Design reproduced in The Tatler, suggested by the Spheres special artist, Fortunino Matania for a memorial to the late Captain Scott and his companions

Christmas mail arriving in the trenches 1916
Front cover photograph from The Sphere, December 1916 showing a joyful soldier in a trench laden with Christmas parcels

Various Anchors, December 1948
Illustrations of a variety of anchors, from The Sphere, 11th December 1948. Anchors shown include the Admiralty stockless type, U.S. Navy pattern, C.Q.R and Danforth types. Date: 1948

A Black Forest Nurse of Germany in full costume. From an article in the Sphere showing nurses from all countries

A Royal Galleon in the Pool of London, 16th century
Illustration of an Elizabethan galleon in Pool of London, from The Sphere 24th November 1913. A royal barge appears in the foreground and the old London Bridge and a Dutch galleon in the background

Various types of Anchors, November 1946
Illustrations of various anchors and anchor housing, from The Sphere, 16th November 1946

Using Armillary Sphere
An astronomer using an ARMILLARY SPHERE whose rings show the equator, tropics, polar circles and so forth

Father Christmas Enters by the City Gate
Illustration by J.R Skelton from the Sphere, November 27th, 1922 showing Father Christmas entering by the city gate in a sleigh pulled by reindeer. A large group of excited children precede him

John of Holywood
JOHANNES DE SACROBOSCO also JOHN OF HOLYWOOD English Mathematician. Author of treatises on astromony as well as mathematics

Mrs Campbell / Sphere 1901
MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL English actress reading a book

16th Century Astronomer
As astronomer at his desk, consulting his books : a celestial sphere hangs over his head, and he can see the stars themselves through his window

Over Niagara in Sphere
Jean Albert Lussier goes over Niagara enclosed in a steel sphere and comes out smiling, despite hitting a rock

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