Upper Collection (page 41)

Tours in the English Lakes and isle of Man
Cover illustration for Tours in the English Lakes and isle of Man, organised by Thomas Cook & Son, Ludgate Circus, London

The Nest, Salvation Army Childrens Home, London
Inmates in the garden of The Nest, a home for sexually abused girls, opened by the Salvation Army in 1901 at Upper Clapton, north east London

Man and Woman of Issinia, Upper Guinea, West Africa. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Italy - Assisi - Panoramic View of the town
Panoramic View of the town of Assisi in the Upper Tiber Valley, with the Basilica of San Francesco d Assisi in the foreground

Upper and lower locks, showing chamber cranes, Miraflores, Panama Canal

Dublin - Nelson Pillar and Upper O Connell Street. This large granite pillar was destroyed by a bomb in 1966

Topsy turvy 1854 / Leech
Topsy turvy - or our Antipodes. A reversal of fortune, showing miners being served and waited upon by the upper class

France, Nantes - Old Houses, Haute-Grande-Rue

Bai Jove by George Ranstead
Pen and ink drawing on a postcard showing a caricature of a typical British officer, complete with puttees, cane and eye glass

National Hotel, Russell Square, London
National Hotel, Upper Bedford Place, Russell Square, London

Upper Canada College - Toronto, Canada

Temple Pylon at Edfu, Egpyt
Edfu, was capital of the second nome of Upper Egypt. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Two Moorish Women - Algeria
An attractive hand-tinted postcard depicting two Moorish Women sitting and standing at the bottom of a narrow set of stairs leading to the upper level of a house

Tram in Birmingham
A lovely photographic postcard depicting the number 39 tram rounding a corner in Birmingham, England. The upper level has an elegant front balcony. It is the 430th tram of the fleet!

Reims, France - Rue de Tambour. Maison des Musiciens. Fine example of late medieval civil architecture with statues set in the upper level of the building in gothic alcoves

Morocco - A public meeting in a restaurant. The architecture of the building shows typical Moorish influence in the open arcading of the lower and upper terraces

Turkish rug manufacture
The manufacturing of Turkish carpets. Women sit at the base of a large loom, with the different coloured balls of wool hanging on an upper strut

Chaffeaur-driven tourer and passengers
A party of country gentry and a half-open-roof tourer with a chaffeur

Berliet Automobile
A fabulous Berliet car with a full compliment of passengers

A street in Buyukdere, Istanbul, Turkey. Old traditional Ottoman houses at the end of the Sultunate. The upper rooms overhanging the street are called Cumbas

Serpentine Column and Theodosius Obelisk
The three intertwined bronze serpents were the base of a trophy which once stood in the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. Dedicated to the God Apollo by the 31 Greek cities who defeated the Persians at

Fancy portrait of a man in a distorting mirror, with the upper and lower parts of his body elongated and the middle half shortened

Fancy portrait of a soldier in a distorting mirror, with the upper part of his body elongated and the lower half shortened

Fancy portrait of a soldier in a distorting mirror, with the lower part of his body elongated and the upper half shortened

Edward VII at a tree planting ceremony
King Edward VII at a tree planting ceremony. Well dressed spectators watch from a distance, some of them looking over a wall

Cheshire Hunt at Combermere Abbey
A fashionable meet of the Cheshire Hunt at Combermere Abbey, the home of Katherine, Duchess of Westminster. The Cheshire Hunt was founded in 1763

Flying and ploughing in Weybridge, Surrey
A primitive aeroplane flies over a field which a man and his team of horses are ploughing. The plane has two bicycle-type wheels on the undercarriage

Four in Hand Club at Hyde Park
The opening meet of the Four in Hand Driving Club at Hyde Park, a popular social event for the upper classes, showing Lord and Lady Ludlow (Henry Ludlow Lopes, 2nd Baron Ludlow of Heywood)

Lord Rosebery leaving the Liberal League building
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929) leaving the Liberal League, of which he became President in 1902

Monro O Hagan wedding with dog
Scene outside Westminster Abbey as the Hon Mary Caroline O Hagan arrives for her wedding to General Sir Charles Carnichael Monro

Society wedding at St Margarets Church
A society wedding between Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Vivian Campbell Douglas and Elizabeth Cicely de Bunsen. The bridegroom is from Mains, Laraich, Aberfoyle, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Coaching Club in Hyde Park, London
The Coaching Club driving from Hyde Park to Ranelagh -- a fashionable social event for the upper classes

Charles Augustus Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington (1844-1917), royal aide-de-camp, known as the Grand Old Man of Polo. Seen here on horseback in a field

1958 Creation Life Peers
A page from the ILN devoted to portraits of the first life peers created in 1958 including Baroness Ravondale, Sir Ian Fraser, Sir Robert Boothby and Sir Edward Twining

Regent Street Building
Building in progress in Upper Regent Street

London Queenhithe
A quay on Upper Thames Street

Mother, daughter and pet dog
A Mother and daughter pose for a photograph in a garden in Devon in the 1910s. The lady holds an elegant Chinese-style parasol and the seated young girl is staying close to the small family pet dog

Fighting a fire with a stirrup pump - The Blitz
Now that the worst is out. Attacking a fire with a stirrup pump following an air raid on London - circa late 1940

Model of Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb
A small scale model of Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb. Central Square was laid out by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and includes St Judes Church, The Free Church and a Quaker Meeting House

Upper Street Islington
Upper Street, Islington

Strbske Pleso, Slovakia
Strbske Pleso (with its large glacial mountain lake) - a favorite ski, tourist, and health resort in the High Tatras, Slovakia

Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley and son
Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (1865 - 1929), the second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860 - 1918), pictured with her son Vladimir Pavlovich Paley (1897 - 1918)

Sudan - Upper Reaches of the Nile

The Obelisk of Theodosius - Constantinople
The Egyptian obelisk of Thutmose III (1549 - 1503 BC) - originally from Deir el Bahri opposite Thebes in Upper Egypt to commemorate campaigns in Syria

Sudan - Shulluck Hippo Hunters at Hillet-Abbas

Children ride on the top deck of an open omnibus
Children ride on the top deck of an open horse-drawn omnibus. A conductor makes sure everyone has purchased a ticket. The driver, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Mr Punch

Shullucks of the Upper Nile (Khartoum)
Shulluck Tribesmen of the Upper Nile near Khartoum, Sudan

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