Successful Collection (page 2)

Poster, Daily Graphic, Army Aeroplane's Successful Flight
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: Rare Daily Graphic Newspaper Billboard poster ?Army Aeroplane's Successful Flight Illustrated?. 20ins. 29ins. Date: early 20th century

Dr Auguste Nelaton, French surgeon
Dr Auguste Nelaton (1807-1873), French surgeon, famous for a successful operation on Garibaldi in 1862. In 1866 he was appointed surgeon to Napoleon III. Date: circa 1860s

Vietnam - Successful Insurgency - Central Highlands
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Successful insurgency liberates the Central Highland Region. Date: circa mid-1970s

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Punish the PIrates
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - The great seal of the United States Navy lies in ruins after a successful attack by Vietnamese forces - Punish the PIrates'. Date: circa mid-1970s

Arthur Ambrose McEvoy Self Portrait
A self portrait painting of English artist, Arthur Ambrose McEvoy, 1878-1927, whose work style was influenced by James McNeill Whistler

Farmer's Window Poster
A reproduction in miniature of the Window Poster used in connection with a recent and successful week of Fashion Propaganda by Farmer's, Sydney, in November 1918

Gallant Affair of the Hecla and Arrogant, 20 May 1854 - cutting out a Russian barque from under the batteries of Eckness. The Arrogant, anchoring off the batteries, kept up a furious cannonade

Anthony Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter
Anthony Joshua Shaffer (1926-2001), English barrister, advertising executive, novelist, playwright and screenwriter, identical twin brother of the writer and dramatist Peter Shaffer

Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter
Irving Wallace (1916-1990), American bestselling author and screenwriter. Date: circa 1970s

Yuri Gagarin and Harold Macmillan, London
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968), the Russian cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union who made history on 12 April 1961 by becoming the first human in outer space

Lifeboat putting out to sea, St Ives, Cornwall
The James Stevens lifeboat setting out in a choppy sea, St Ives, Cornwall. The James Stevens No.10 was built for St Ives by Thames Ironworks in 1899

Lifeboat returning to harbour, St Ives, Cornwall
The James Stevens lifeboat in a choppy sea, returning to harbour, St Ives, Cornwall. The James Stevens No.10 was built for St Ives by Thames Ironworks in 1899

Edward VII's yacht, Britannia
The Royal yacht, Britannia taken in 1909 during the reign of Edward VII. Originally commissioned by Edward when he was Prince of Wales from G

WLADISLAW IV WEDS
Wladislaw IV Wasa, one of Poland's most militarily successful rulers, weds (after the death of wife Cecilia) Ludwika Maria Gonzaga de Nevers, a French noblewoman. Date: 25 September 1645

ROBERT NIXON, PROPHET
k.a.'The Cheshire Prophet, from Over Delamere, his successful prophecies include that he will starve to death, which happens by accident ; some say he died 1467 Date: died circa 1620

HUNTING AT BALMORAL 19C
Evening at Balmoral: it has clearly been a successful day's hunting, as two magnificent stags lie dead on the ground. Date: circa 1853

Group photograph: hunting wild boar, India
A group of people after a successful day hunting wild boar in India. Date: April 1917

STUDENTS & SPIRIT
Two scholars, dabbling in the occult as scholars will, invoke a spirit of the dead - and are alarmed when their invocation is successful ! Date: circa 1850

Return of European captives after the storming of Magdala, Abyssinian War (a rescue mission for the recovery of hostages). Date: 1868

Walker, London, the successful comedy by J M Barrie at the Theatre Royal, Eastbourne, by Sydney Paxton and Company, from Tooles Theatre, London Date: early 20th century

The JP, the successful farcical comedy by Fenton Mackay, The Strand Theatre, London, Edward Lyttons Company Date: circa 1900s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Chin-Chin
The caption on the card is Chin-Chin! The expression has shades of meaning. Probably here it means Well done, perhaps on a successful first shave. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1945

Two dancers: Virginia Marvin - left - and Barbara
Two dancers in 1927: Virginia Marvin (left) had been with Mikhail Mordkin as solo dancer and in the Eastern tour company of the Shubert Operetta My Maryland

Sir Isidore Salmon (1876-1941), co-founder of Salmon and Gluckstein Tobacconists which evolved into the J. Lyons catering empire. Salmon was manager and director of the J

Model of John Blenkinsops rack-rail engine. Being a steam locomotive propelled by a toothed wheel engaging in a rack on one of the rails

Cartoon, A Bit of Animated Nature, the Protectionist Cuckoo in the Hedge Sparrows Nest. A satirical depiction of Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, as the cuckoo

Orlando Martins (1899-1985) was a Nigerian actor who had a long and successful career in British cinema. Date: 1946

In Dahomey at the Crown Theatre in Peckham
In Dahomey was a stage revue with an African American cast that toured Britain from 1903-1904 following a successful run in Londons West End. Date: 1904

Cartoon, Miss Nellie L Estrange, singer
Cartoon, Miss Nellie L Estrange, popular singer - Successful! Rather! 1885

First fully successful westbound North Atlantic flight
Captain Charles Kingsford Smith, co-pilot Evert van Dijk, navigator John Patrick (Paddy) Saul and wireless operator John Stannage

St. John Harmsworth by Sir William Orpen
William Albert St John Harmsworth (1876 1933) English businessman who bought and established the fledgling Perrier brand of sparkling mineral water in France

Capt. Faulknor Storming Fort Royal, Martinique
Captain Faulknor in the ship Zebra, storming Fort Royal in Martinique in 1794, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Faulknor uses his sword to point up a set of wooden stairs

Guglielmo Marconi with his Assistants Kemp and Paget, behind is the experiments kite. Date: 12th December 1901

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), Italian inventor and electrical engineer, shown in photograph with his apparatus, after receiving signals at Newfoundland

Transatlantic success, the forest of the telegraph poles at Poldhu Station, Cornwall, from which the first ever wireless message was sent across the Atlantic to Newfoundland. Date: 12th December 1901

Found FBA-1A CF-GMO-X (msn 1). The pre-cursor to the Found FBA-2A Bush Hawk, first flown on 13 July 1949, was designed and built by brothers N.K (Bud) and S.R. (Mickey) Found from 1946

Taylor AeroCar N103D. The Taylor Aerocar was probably the most successful of the road-able aeroplane genre, though production was limited. The door of the car says... see you at

United States Navy - Destroyer DD-293 - USS Billingsley
United States Navy - Destroyer DD-293 USS Billingsley, assisting Douglas World Cruiser float-plane 23-1231 (msn 147) Boston, which was forced down near the Faroe Islands and damaged beyond repair

General Airborne XCG-16A 44-76193 at Clinton County Field, Wilmington, OH.. Designed by Hawley Bowlus and Albert Criz, the sole General Airborne Transport Co

The French, after their successful campaign in Italy, loot Venice, removing art treasures from the cathedral of San Marco Date: 1797

After Hunting Date: 1830

Freemasons planting banners outside the Porte Maillot; Paris
A group of Freemasons planting their banners in front of the Porte Maillot, during the Paris Commune, April 1871. The Freemasons were one of many groups who tried to encourage Thiers

Masonic Banners on the Paris Ramparts; Paris Commune 1871
Masonic banners flying on the Paris ramparts, near the Octroi Gate and Porte Maillot, 1871. The Freemasons were one of many groups who tried to encourage Thiers

BASEBALL FOR LADIES
Young Lady Baseballlists The very novel and already successful idea of manager W.S.Franklin and the belles of the Ball and Bat. Date: 1890

BATTLE OF FONTENOY Though initially successful, the British, let down by their Dutch allies, lose the day to the French who proceed to take Tournai Date: 11 May 1745

SPORT / SWIMMING / CHANNEL
Captain Boytons system for successful cross channel swimming. Date: 1876

Comic view of Cooks voyages and excursions
Cooks Tours -- a comic view of Cooks voyages and excursions, with Thomas Cook and his clientele as depicted by Fun magazine. Date: 1867

The first American in space, Commander Alan B. Shepard ?
The first American in space, Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr, is greeted by his daughter, Juliana, 9, on his return home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on 9 May 1961

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