Today Collection (page 15)

A Royal Aeronautical Society staff meeting in what is t?
A Royal Aeronautical Society staff meeting in what is today the Handley Page Room on the second floor of No.4 Hamilton Place

Belfast Lough from Bellevue - a view over steps and artificial garden to the fields toward the Lough, much of which is now built on today. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast)

Dusseldorf Exhibition 1902 was a major national exhibition on an area by the Rhine which covered over 130 acres and had vast numbers of exhibits to showcase German industry

WWI Poster, Come into the ranks and fight
Come into the ranks and fight for your King and Country. Don t stay in the crowd and stare. You are wanted at the Front. Enlist today. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster. Date: 1915

Second foundation of Buenos Aires by Juan de Garay facing the Arbol de la Justicia (Justice Tree), where today is the Plaza de Mayo, on June 11, 1580. By Jose Moreno Carbonell. Realism. Painting

British Royal Naval Recruitment Poster, WW1
Remember! England Expects -- The need is great today.... the Navy requires you for its glorious service. Join today. Skilled artificers and artisans, seamen, stokers, marines and boys

Chelson China cup and saucer - Britannia and Allied flags
Chelson China (New Chelsea Porcelain, Longton) cup and saucer. Transfers show Britannia and Allied flags and reads World War Peace - 1914-1919 - Liberty, Justice, Truth

Poster, Think of Tomorrow, Buy War Bonds Today. Showing two soldiers looking at a photograph of a woman and child. 1940s

Savile Row London
Famous for its tailors shops, here too is Rymans the stationer s, today one of Britains leaders in the business : note too the delivery tricycle. Date: 1937

Chequers Court, near Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, today the country residence of the Prime Minister of Britain, whoever she or he may be

Woman of Mingrelia, today part of Georgia

Old Type Terrier
An early type of terrier, resembling the Black & Tan Terrier of today. Used in the past, as its old name indicates, for hunting and destroying rats and mice

Turkey / Antioch 1630
former capital of Syria, on the Orontes River : this print shows its state in the 17th century, and it is today an unimportant Turkish town

Leicesters Roman remains excavated, 1936
Drawing by Alan Sorrell of excavations in progress in the city of Leicester in 1936 led by Kathleen Kenyon. The excavated Roman remains were initially thought by Kenyon to be a Roman forum

Germany - Bayern - Lohr: Palace - today museum. Date: 2015

T. C Askew and Mde Gioia
Dancers of Today and Tomorrow - T.C Askew and Mde Gioia, who have been giving ballroom demonstrations at the London Coliseum, 1923 Date: 1923

WW1 Poster, Write a Cheque Today for National War Bonds. 1918

Animals at a French Zoo - Persian deer - deer gazing out through bars. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Slide 15

The Golden Hind public house
A pub that was popular with the Plymouth contingent of the CCFF, the Golden Hind is still serving the community today. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters

Willow Park, Philadelphia
Willow Park, also known as Willow Grove Park due to its location within Willow Grove, Philadelphia. Operated as an amusment park from 1896-1975

View, 5th Avenue, New York
5th avenues lower stretch extended the stylish neighborhood of Washington Square northwards. The higher status was confirmed in 1862

5th Avenue, New York
5th avenues lower stretch extended the stylish neighborhood of Washington square northwards. The higher status was confirmed in 1862

4th Avenue, New York
Today 4th avenue is a thoroughfare in the New York city Borough of Brooklyn stretching for six miles. Widely known as Park avenue

Bunker Hill monument, Charlestown, Boston
Built to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major conflict between British and Patriot forces in the American revolutionary war

Nikols Grevinkhoven
NIKOLaS GREVINKHOVEN Dutch writer, considered at the time important enough to have his portrait engraved but, sorry to say, wholly forgotten today... Date: 16TH CENTURY

Georg Baron Fleckenstein
GEORG, baron von FLECKENSTEIN Though ignored by todays reference books, he was surely a mighty military commander in his day... Date: 17TH CENTURY

Girl in Stripy Outfit
Butcher blue and white striped zephyr dress and hat for todays fashionable little girl (available at Harrod s). Date: 1930s

Go-Cart and Pram 1866
Technological progress in the field of infantile transportation - yesterdays go-cart gives way to todays perambulator. Date: 1866

Rudimentary Kitchen C20
Two broken chairs provide the only comfort in this rudimentary kitchen : the stove would be a collectors item today... Date: early 20th century

Painters Overrun London
" The usual Good Friday invasion of London by painters was in evidence today." A group of painters work on ladders. Date: 18 April 1930

Sir Charles Hall
SIR CHARLES HALL lawyer, earning 10 000 per annum in the Chancery Court (say 1m today); no wonder he turned down the offer to become a judge Date: 1814 - 1883

Catching Post 1884
Catching the post - a daily event at the General Post Office, London, as the last letters arrive for todays dispatch. Date: 1884

Disraeli / Civil Service
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy as Manager of the Civil Service Stores, asking a bemused Mrs Britannia what he can do for her today Date: 11 March 1876

Ardelius Della Bella
ARDELIUS DELLA BELLA Jesuit missionary in Dalmatia (todays Croatia) Date: 1654? - 1737

Italy / 452 / Refugees Venic
Italian civilians seek refuge in what today is Venice Date: 452

Syria / Laodicea C1840
The ruins of Laodicea (today Latakia) : if the old city was destroyed, it is perhaps because its inhabitants were said (in the Bible) to be indifferent to religion Date: circa 1840

Music cover, To-Day I ve Made Sweet Annie Rooney My Wife, written by J C Rich, composed by Henry E Pether, sung by Michael Nolan. circa 1895

FRENCH WISKY
WISKY French private carriage of the Louis XV period, driving through todays Place de la Concorde Date: circa 1750

Trafalgar Square - Victory Loan Campaign 1919
Crowds at Trafalgar Square, decked for the Victory Loan Campaign, after signing of the Treaty at Versailles. 1919

Hannah Powell-Cotton, Commandant of Kent / 178
A studio photograph of Hannah Powell-Cotton in her uniform as Commandant of the Birchington Voluntary Aid Detachment, without hat. This jacket survives at Quex Park today (2015)

C Ward. Quex Park Vad Hospital
C Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in the second gallery of the Powell-Cotton Museum. B Ward, in the first gallery, was through the archway on the left of the photograph

B Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in one of the galleries of the Powell-Cotton Museum (currently Gallery 2 (2014)

Staff & patients in C Ward of Quex Park VAD Hospital. The patients are all wearing hospital blues with the exception of one man who is a Belgian solder (holding a tray with glasses)

WW1 poster, War Loan, Invest Today
WW1 poster, War Loan, five shillings, Invest Today, apply at nearest Post Office. Date: circa 1916

Yewdale, Coniston in the Lake District remains more or less the same to this day, though with less horse-drawn traffic today. Date: circa 1907

Ivy Cottage, near Coniston in the Lake District may well still exist but its exact location is uncertain. Ernest Battersbys friends Wilson and Nelstrop are outside the door

Skelwith Waterfall, Lake District
Skelwith Waterfall near Ambleside in the Lake District- still a popular tourist attraction today. Date: circa 1907

Midland Hotel, Marple, Cheshire
Front view of the Midland Hotel in Marple around 1906. The sign over the door identifies the licencee as Samuel Ardern. The Midland is still in business today. Date: circa 1906

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