Spirit Collection (#13)

That evening star-shell - Bairnsfather
Cartoon, That evening star-shell. Oh, star of eve, whose tender beam falls on my spirits troubled dream. From Fragments from France - No. 5, published by The Bystander in 1916

Spirit of the Regiment - 31st Regiment of Foot, c.1815, and the 9th Battalion Royal East Surrey Regiment, c.1916. Colonel Henry Bathurst Vaughan, Indian Army, (b.1858). Date: circa 1916

Sketch cover, Mrs Vernon Castle (Irene Castle)
IRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, with her husband Vernon Castle known as Americas Dancing Sweethearts. Pictured on the front cover of The Sketch as " The Spirit of France

Tatler cover - Irene Castle as the Spirit of France
IRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, with her husband Vernon Castle known as Americas Dancing Sweethearts. Pictured on the front cover of The Tatler as " The Spirit of France

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902 1974), American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. Photographed here on his first Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on the 2021 May

Advertisement, Buchanans Scotch Whiskies
Advertisement for Buchanans Scotch Whiskies, featuring a portrait of Samuel Weller, a character in Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers. Date: September 1914

Dewars Whisky advertisement
Advertisement for Dewars whisky, featuring a smart footman in full livery and powdered wig carrying a decanter and glass on a tray. Date: 1927

Cartoon, As One Possessed, WW1
Cartoon, As One Possessed, showing how the ordinary German beer drinker has been possessed by a devil in the shape of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has brought about the outbreak of the First World War

Advertisement for Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky. Born 1820 -- still going strong. Every drop is over 12 years old. Date: 1914

George Robert Tapp, spiritualist, member of the Dalston Association of Enquirers into Spiritualism. He attended meetings during which the medium Florence Cook materialised the spirit of Katie King

Georgina Houghton, spiritualist writer and medium
Georgina Houghton (?-1887), spiritualist writer and medium, seen here with her mothers spirit hovering behind her. The photographer was later exposed as a fraud. Date: 19th century

Mrs Thomas Everitt, English spirit medium
Mrs Thomas Everitt (1825-1915), English spirit medium from 1855 onwards, wife of a North London tailor. She was the first to produce direct voices in England, claimed to be of John Watts and Znippy

Mrs J H (Fannie) Conant, American spirit medium
Mrs J H (Fannie or Fanny) Conant (1831-1875), American spirit medium and healer. Seen here with spirit hands and flowers in the background. Date: 19th century

Seance of the Philip group, Toronto, Canada. This science-based group invented an imaginary spirit, Philip, who seemed to communicate as effectively as any real spirit from the other world

A football match played by troops during the battle of the A
" Our Happy Tommies" A typical upbeat choice of subject for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Sutcliffes illustration

Idyllic harbour scene, Spirit of England
An idyllic harbour scene representing the Spirit of England, showing a sailing boat and a cluster of cottages

Idyllic country scene, Spirit of England
An idyllic country scene representing the Spirit of England, showing a colourful row of cottages surrounded by trees

Ramsgate, Kent - Habour scene with boats
Ramsgate, Kent - Harbour scene with fishing boats and pedestrians. Date: circa 1900

Henri IV & Saint-Esprit
Henri IV receives the homage of the chevaliers du Saint- Esprit : the Holy Spirit attends the occasion in person, though none of those present seems to notice. Date: 8 January 1595

Ordre Du Saint-Esprit
Henri III founds the ordre du Saint-Esprit : the Holy Spirit (in the form of a dove) is actually present though only one of the courtiers seems to have noticed. Date: 1579

Advert for Asprey cocktail cabinets 1936
Cocktail wagon in walnut and chromium, closing mahogany with chromium mounts, walnut with rising back panel fitted with English cut glass and separate serving tray and limed oak

LFB recruits taking part in hosepipe training at HQ

LFB recruits taking part in hook ladder training at HQ -- having reached the top of the tower with a single hook ladder, the recruits learn the two-man hook ladder drill

LFB recruits taking part in escape training at HQ
LFB recruits taking part in escape ladder training at HQ -- team spirit is essential as speed can save lives

Advertisement for Van Zijl whisky -- male and female models posing (Geoffrey Jones and Geraldine Hill). 1959

Advertisement for Emu sherry -- smiling male model (George McGrath) holding up a glass. 1959

Photographic studio setup for Rolls Royce stroboscopic photoshoot. 1959

Scottish American War Memorial, West Princes Street Gardens
Scottish American War Memorial (1927), West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh - The Spirit of 1914. The Sculptor was Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938). Date: circa 1940

Patriotic Postcard, Signees of Declaration of Independence
Flowers of Freedom - The Spirit of 1776 had for its motto: " Right, and not might, shall prevail." That motto still lives with Germanys Unconditional Surrender of May 8th, 1945

WW2 - Canadian Patriotic Postcard - Land, Sea and Air, We re over there. Date: circa 1943

A Cosy Diner - Workmen have lunch amid the air raids
Keep Calm and Carry On. A quite fantastic photograph showing two workmen engaged in repairing air raid damage in the London area continue with their private luncheon although the sirens have sounded

WW2 - Rationing of petrol illustrated on this postcard, a little boy relaint on his ration book to keep his car running! Date: circa 1942

Kate Kearneys Cottage, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. Kate was a well known beauty in Ireland in the years before the Great Famine and it was at this sibin that Kate distilled her famous poitin

Martin Johnsons two aircraft at Kimberley on the flight from Cape Town to Nairobi. Sikorsky S39CS, NC52V, Spirit of Africa, (foreground) and S38BS, NC29V, Osas Ark

A replica of the Ryan monoplane Spirit of St Louis N-X-211
A replica of the Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St Louis, N-X-211

Ryan monoplane Spirit of St Louis N-X-211
Ryan monoplane Spirit of St Louis, N-X-211, with Charles Lindbergh at the controls comes in to land at Le Bourget, Paris

The 46ft wing of the Ryan monoplane Spirit of St Louis, N-X-211, was built on the second floor of the Ryan Airlines factory in San Diego

de Havilland DH60 Cirrus II Moth G-EBQE Arom
de Havilland DH60 Cirrus II Moth, G-EBQE, Arom, is filled with Shell Motor Spirit by Mrs George Wilson

The Drummer of Tedworth - Glanville
The tale of the Drummer of Tedworth (told by Thomas Glanville) recounted that local landowner, John Mompesson of Tedworth (now Tidworth, in Wiltshire)

The Tank Room, Darwin Centre
The Tank Room in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Chamaeleo jacksonii, Jacksons chameleon
Jacksons chameleon specimen in spirit jar held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London. This image is on display in the link corridor from the Life Galleries to the Darwin Centre

Fish specimens
Specimen jars containing fish, held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London. Notice how over time the specimen jars have been warped by gravity and are no longer straight

Juvenile fish specimens
Specimen jar containing juvenile fish, held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Darwin Centre storage room for specimens in spirit
Zoological specimens in one of the storage rooms in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Marine specimens preserved in spirit jars
Specimen jar containing various marine creatures, in the former spirit building, which is now stored in the Tank Room of the Darwin Centre at the Natural Histroy Museum, London

Argyropelecus sp. hatchetfish
Specimen jar containing hatchetfish (Argyroplectus sp.), held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

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