Story Collection (#36)

Princess Elizabeths life-story in pictures
To celebrate the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Philip, four colour photographs are published here showing Elizabeth as a young child, at the coronation of her father

Ivan and the Czar of Russia. The old man knelt in front of the mighty Czar of Russia

The new gnome king orders a fine meal from the cook
The Gnome Who Wanted to be King. The new gnome king orders a fine meal from the cook

Ministers interrupt the new gnome kings meal
The Gnome Who Wanted to be King. Ministers interrupt the new gnome kings meal

Unidentified fairy story

A Story at Bedtime

Wessex / Hangmans Cottage
Wessex scenery: the Hangmans Cottage at Dorchester, which features in Thomas Hardys short story The Withered Arm Date: 1910

Abductions / Pascagoula
CHARLES HICKSON and CALVIN PARKER are fishing when a UFO lands near them and they are abducted on board : returned, they insist their story is true - and still do ! Date: 11 October 1973

Conrad / Typhoon / Engine-Rm
TYPHOON Short story by Joseph Conrad Jukes and Rout in the engine room Date: First published: 1902

Conrad / Typhoon / Helm
TYPHOON Short story by Joseph Conrad The second mate at the helm Date: First published: 1902

Conrad / Typhoon / Chinese
TYPHOON Short story by Joseph Conrad...the Chinamen were lying prostrate about the decks Date: First published: 1902

Conrad / Typhoon / On Deck
TYPHOON Short story by Joseph Conrad Captain MacWhirr & Jukes on the bridge Date: First published: 1902

Conrad / Typhoon / Parasol
TYPHOON Short story by Joseph Conrad Captain MacWhirr crossed the deck... Date: First published: 1902

Book cover design, My Airships: the Story of my Life, by Alberto Santos-Dumont, London: Grant Richards, 1904. 1904

Book cover design, The Air Patrol: a Story of the North-West Frontier, by Herbert Strang, London: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Showing an airman with a map. 1913

The old story. Illustration shows a monkey wearing a plumed hat labeled European Powers and a cat wearing clerical robes labeled Missionary in front of a fireplace

The story of Gettysburg Music composed for the piano, respectfully dedicated to H. T. Helmbold, manufacturer of Helmbolds Extract Buchu

Story hour WPA recreation project - Dist. no. 2. Poster showing a girl sitting at the knees of a woman holding an open book. Date between 1936 and 1939

Hearts of the world A love story of the great war. Motion picture poster showing soldier holding whip over woman laying across basket of vegetables in a field

A trip around the world at story hour time Story hour club - WPA library center. Poster for the WPA statewide library project, showing two children on a large book

An old, old story by Wilton Williams
Twilight scene with an 18th century couple seated in a garden, or on a balcony, with the man, apparently whispering sweet nothings into the ear of the woman who wear a powdered wig and pink dress

Pictures of the Tannhauser story, Arbeitszimmer, Neuschwanstein Castle, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Farcical love story. Japanese print shows two actors in scene from humorous love story, one actor dressed as a tiger. Includes some text. Date 1860

The Gaumont Co. L T D. London presents the motion picture records of the undying story of Capt. Scott and animal life in the Antarctic. Motion picture poster for Capt

Pictures of Tristan story, bedroom, Neuschwanstein Castle, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Pictures of the Lohengrin story, drawing room, Neuschwanstein Castle, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Red-Ridinghood and the wolf. Date 1867

Collecting cards depicting a story about a Chinese governor of Bac-Ninh, who, while relaxing on a hill with his rabbits, is frightened by an approaching balloon carrying sailors

Scene of the story of Robinson Crusoe. Selkirks Cave. Side view looking up the valley. Crusoes Quibedrada. Photograph shows two men outside cave that Alexander Selkirk used as shelter while stranded

Mr. Henry Ludlowe in The raven the love story of Edgar Allan Poe by George Hazelton. Date c1908

Tam O Shanter escapes the devils - Burns Poem
Tam O Shanter rides with the devils close behind him... " And scarcely had he Maggie rallied When out the hellish legion sallied." Date: 1909

Way down East a story about plain people. Date c1897

16-inch coast artillery gun stamped Watervliet Arsenal 1921, Ft. Story, Va. Date 1942 March. 16-inch coast artillery gun stamped Watervliet Arsenal 1921, Ft. Story, Va. Date 1942 March

Peter Pan statue without his pipe
The statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London pipe-less. It was stolen in February 1961, but the pipe stolen was actually a replacement as the original, in stolen before, was in store

Jacob Litts production of Caleb West a dramatization of F. Hopkinson Smiths beautiful story of New England sea-folk by Michael Morton. Date c1900

Old glory a story of our blue jackets in Chili i. e. Chile by
Old glory a story of our blue jackets in Chili i.e. Chile by Chas. T. Vincent. Date c1894

CR Renos successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story laughingly told. Date c1900

A sumptuous revival of Bret Hartes beautiful story, M liss. Date c1900

The last stroke a story of Cubas fight for freedom : by IN Morris. Date c1896

Reno & Curtis successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story, laughingly told. Date c1899

The man we would like to strangle
" The man we would like to strangle." from " The Sketch Book & Winters Pie". A room full of people look fed up as a man recounts his fishing stories during a thaw at a Winter

Studies of Moorish Life -- a Storyteller. The man on the right holds up his hands as he tells his story. The man on the left sits on a rock with a human skull in one hand

Luvisca blouse
A mother reads a bedtime story to her children, wearing a jumper blouse of Courtaulds Luvisca, reinforced with a basque and with a V shaped neckline. 1931

Riding to Bethlehem by Francis Taylor
Stylised illustration or, as it is described in the caption, illumination showing the Three Kings following the star to Bethlehem. Date: 1927

The Truth About Grown-Ups by William Heath Robinson
A baby, who should really be fast asleep in his cot, instead regales a gathered group of elves and pixies in his bedroom with tall tales about the deeds of his parents

Hotel building, Eberbach, Baden Wurttemberg, Germany
View of the Hotel Zum Karpfen, a timber-framed house, in the town of Eberbach, Baden Wurttemberg, Germany. Paintings on the facade (left) depict the story of the town. 2010

Prince Finikin, his mamma and Dolly. The prince offers Dolly a cup of tea, and thinks hes very kind to do so. first published 1879

Washington D. C. USA - Story Puget Sound Bank Building and New National Bank of Tacoma Building. Date: circa 1910s

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