Thirty Collection

The Last Caravan by A. E. Bestall
A colour illustration by Alfred Bestall showing a fantasy scene where a group of travellers are being spied on from woodland by a centaur and female imps

Employees - Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA
The 36, 000 Employees of the Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA pose for a group photograph in front of the factory buildings

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California. Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as Migrant

Harrisons First Chronometer
This photograph shows Harrisons first chronometer, developed between 1729 and 1735 in response to the British Government offer of a 20

Eve Before The Fall. By A. E. Bestall
A scene beside a waterfall of four girls in their bathing costumes. The girls are watching the waterfall, prehaps resting after swimming

Gabriel Masselin, Waiter
Gabriel Masselin served as a waiter at the Grand-Vefour, Paris, for over thirty years. Date: 1879

Battle of White Mountain
Two views of the Battle of the White Mountain. Bohemians under Christian of Anhalt were routed by combined armies of Ferdinand II and the Catholic League at Czech Hord - Prague

In Possession. By A. E. Bestall
Three girls sat on a bank by a stream watching a crab under the water. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years

First Metropolitan Police-Dogs
Front cover photograph showing two London policemen with the first Metropolitan police-dogs in 1938, thirty years after the first dogs were used by the North Eastern Railway Police to patrol Hull

Thirty Years War. Battle of Rocroy (1643). Formed troops. Detail. Painting. FRANCE. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles

Grendels Arm Ripped
Beowulf, who has the strength of thirty men, rips off the arm of Grendel the monster

Recruitment / Callot
Potential raw recruits are given the once over before they take the Kings shilling. Experienced troops on parade look dashing to encourage & lure those in two-minds

Lloyd Georges Maternity Insurance Benefit
In the early twentieth century a free National Health Service did not yet exist and the poor could not usually afford medical services

30 Years War, Cavalry
General battle scene : a cavalry skirmish

30 Yrs War, Prague Taken
Prague taken by the Swedish army

King George VI with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and Queen Mary during a recent visit by Queen Wilhelmina of Holland

Cover design, Hoover News, 30th Anniversary Edition, August 1948, showing the latest vacuum cleaner Date: 1948

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, booklet of notes
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. Rare booklet of notes and illustrations for First and Second Class passengers on board the Titanic

Egyptian Art. Sarcophagus of Wennefer. Late Period. Dynasty 30-2nd Persian Period. 380332 B.C. Memphite Region, Saqqara, Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Photograph showing Noel Coward (1899-1973) and Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952) starring in Coward's repertory Tonight at Seven Thirty, which included the piece Shadow Play, Manchester, 1935

LEWIS CARROLL'S HOUSE
The Chestnuts, Castle Hill, Guildford, Surrey, England, which English author Lewis Carroll owned for over thirty years, before his death on 14 January 1898. Date: 1832 - 1898

BATTLE OF LUTZEN 1632
BATTLE OF LUTZEN The Swedes defeat Wallenstein's imperial army, despite the death of their leader Gustavus Adolphus. Date: 16 November 1632

Thirty guinea jewels: brooch, pendant, rin, and bracelet in diamond, opal, pearl and sapphire. Chromolithograph from Edwin Streeters Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895

Horse and knight in amour
Sir Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565 - 1635), English military leader during the Eighty Years War and the Thirty Years War. Riding a armoured horse

Advert, Holmeswoods Patent Car for children, October 1888. 1888

BATTLE OF ROCROI During the Thirty Years War, Conde defeats the Spanish with heavy casualties, an event which marks the decline of Spanish military power Date: 19 May 1643

BATTLE OF ROCROI Louis II Conde - thats him on the white horse - inflicts a severe defeat on the Spanish under Don Francisco de Melo Date: 19 May 1643

Gustavus Adolphus lands at Peenemunde to fight for the Protestant cause against the Austrian empire Date: 1631

Gustavus Adolphus lands at Peenemunde and falls on his knees to thank God for bringing him safely to fight for the Protestant cause against the Austrian empire Date: 1631

COMBAT DE TRENTE (battle of Thirty) wherein 30 Englishmen engaged 30 Frenchman in hand- to-hand combat at Ploermel, Bretagne Date: 1350

The PEACE OF WESTPHALIA signed at Osnaburg (or MUNSTER where further signatures were added on 24 October) brings the war to an end though France and Spain continue fighting Date: 6 August 1648

CALLOT / PEASANT AMBUSH
General scene : Peasants ambush ravaging soldiers Date: 1633

Cartoon, At Last! (franchise for women)
Cartoon, At Last! Women aged 30 and over are finally given the vote in the UK. A Joan of Arc figure stands victorious with a flag labelled Womans Franchise. Date: 1918

Lady on a 1930 Raleigh motorcycle
Lady poses for photograph on a 1930 Raleigh 500cc Twin Port motorcycle

Second Defenestration of Prague, 1618. Engraving coloration

Critias (460-403 BC). Engraving. Colored
Critias (460-403 BC). Greek sophist. One of the Thirty Tyrants. Engraving. Colored

Heinrich Graf Zu Dohna
HEINRICH graf zu DOHNA und Wartenberg, Imperial military commander in the Thirty Years War, depicted at the Rhine where his men are crossing the river to attack the Swedes. Date: circa 1630

WWI pen and ink and pencil sketches
A collection of First World War pen and ink and pencil sketches drawn by the artist when stationed in France and Flanders with the Northumberland Fusiliers

Cartoon on postcard, Kitchener news, WW1
Cartoon on a postcard, showing a skinny woman in the early stages of the First World War, reading a news bulletin: Kitchener gets half a million men in a month

Death penalty. Tied to a cart wheel, the condemned
" Death penalty. Tied to a cart wheel, the condemned man is being beaten while he confesses his sins. Table 14. Illustration from " The miseries of war", 1633

RAC Tourist Trophy Race, Ulster 1933
A colour illustration by Roland Davies depicting an exciting moment during the RAC Tourist Trophy Race on the Ards Circuit in Ulster in 1933

The Pirates Cave. By A. E. Bestall
An Illustration of two ladies daring each other to venture into a pirates cave. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years

A Landlady with her a prospective lodger
Seaside Landlady (discussing previous lodger):And to crown it all, she actually wanted to take alf of my lovely pictures down! So I tells er straight, You ain t got no soul for art. I says

Coquette by A. E. Bestall
A colour illustration by Alfred Bestall of a young girl with auburn hair trying to coax a red squirral down from a tree. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)

The Char-A-Banc. By A. E. Bestall
A fantasy scene showing two fairies hiding beside a waterfall. They cower from the humans looking from real world above. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)

Using Boys as Chessmen
Thirty-two pupils from Ramsgate schools act as living chessmen in two matches that form part of Kent Chess Associations Easter Congress

30 Years War Soldiers
Irish soldiers, some with guns, some with bows, in the service of the Swedish king, Gustavus Adolphus, during the Thirty Years War

Bank of Fashion novelty bank note, advertising hair cutting and dressing. 1823

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