Upwards Collection

Tower Bridge jams in summer heat
Tower Bridge, London, jams when the metal expands in the summer heat on 2 July 1968. The bridge is closed for two hours while firefighters cool it down with their hoses

Female Type / Pre-Raph
A Pre-Raphaelite style girl with long flame-coloured hair and white gown sits amongst the pink blossoms of a tree in bloom and gazes dreamily upwards

Ghost Delivers Warning
A spectral figure materialises in a candlelit room where two men are roused from their books. The older man points ahead while the ghost points upwards. A ghostly warning?

Bunty Pulls The Strings by Graham Moffat. First of a set of six cards by artist E. Chandler. Each card is edged by a green and blue tartan border

WW1 - Victory - The flags of the victorious nations flanking a carved statue of the personification of Victory stood atop the world and holding a victory wreath aloft. Date: circa 1919

French Pin-up girl
Smiling French Pin-up girl - reclining on a couch, her leg held upwards (perhaps she has a been suffering with a tight hamstring of late...). Date: circa 1910

Handley Page Hampden Bomber At Night
This coloured double page illustration shows a British Handley Page Hampden heavy bomber plane soaring through the night sky

Advertisement Photograph, Clown
A photograph which would have been used for advertisement purposes, showing a clown looking upwards, with a distinct lack of a smile. Date: circa 1939

Cuban Scene
A painting of some Cuban town houses rising upon an upwards sloping road, leading towards a tower in the background. Date: circa 1923

Queen Of The Fairies
This sculpture shows a ballerina girl standing in an artistic pose, where her torso is bent slightly, with palms facing upwards, almost in a gesture of self protection. Date: circa 1915

Suspense
This painting depicts a girl, eagerly sat on a chair in a living room, with her arms clutching her knee, facing towards a fire surround and looking upwards. Date: circa 1918

Funerary Monument - Angel and Child. circa 1900s

BUROUGHS / WARLORD OF MARS
Jacket illustration. Date: First published: 1920

Italian Model wearing dyed Ostrich-feather hat
Italian Model wearing blue dyed Ostrich-feather hat. Date: 1908

1940s hairstyle suitable for very long hair
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. This style is suitable for very long hair. Date: 1940s

Fanny Brice in Come Over Here by Mizner and Pemberton
Come Over Here, Revue by Wilson Mizner and Max Pemberton. A second card of Fanny Brice at the London Opera House confirms her star status

1940s hairstyles

Pompadour hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. Pompadour hairstyle easily adopted for evening wear. Date: 1940s

Fijian Man with war club
A Fijian Man with war club resting on his shoulder. He wears a spectacluar neckace of carved bones and wears his hair brushed upwards in a wild and alarming fan-shape

The Dukes Motto by John Huntly McCarthy (1859 20 March 1936), starring Lewis Waller (3 November 1860 1 November 1915). First produced at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham

Lily Brayton in Count Hannibal, by Asche and Norreys Connell
Count Hannibal by F. Norreys Connell and Oscar Asche. Photograph of Lily Brayton as Clotilde in Count Hannibal. Lily Brayton (23 June 1876 30 April 1953)

Italian Lakes - Via Serbelloni - Narrow-stepped street leading upwards. Part of Box 184 Boswell Collection - Italian Lakes. Date: circa 1900

The Swing - A French girl flying high and showing some leg
The Swing - A French girl flying high and showing off her stockings! Date: circa 1920

WW1 - French troops watch a German Taube Aircraft pass over their trench. Advertorial postcard for Dubonnet. Date: 1915

Soane - Drummond - Blood
Sir John Soane (1753 - 1837) English architect

WW1 poster, War Loan, subscriptions here, five shillings upwards, with a 4.5 per cent interest rate. Date: 1914-1918

Slide showing a picture of Jesus, with a halo around his head, apparently floating upwards, with a black background/. Part of Box 366. Date: circa 1900

The bells of St Pauls Cathedral on an upward turn, 1903
The bells of St Pauls Cathedral, photographed specially with flashlight photography with the bells mouth up. Date: 1903

Charles Thomas Longley 2
CHARLES THOMAS LONGLEY Churchman, when he was bishop of Durham, whence he moved upwards to Canterbury. Date: 1794 - 1868

Sarah Bernhardt - French Stage Actress
Sarah Bernhardt - French Stage (and early film) Actress (1844-1923) - The Divine Sarah. Date: circa 1902

Myanmar - A Shan Archer
Myanmar (Burma) - A Shan Archer. The Shan are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia. Date: circa 1910s

The new Coxcomb of the 1940s

Classical style of the 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. 1940s

Change of contour hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. A hairstyle with essential simplicity. Date: 1940s

Circular roll hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

Forward movement hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

D Elegance hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

Spooky Spiral Staircase
Detail of a dark, rather sinister spiral staircase, looking upwards... Date: 1950s

Centre Point
The famous Centre Point building, New Oxford Street, London, was designed by Richard Seifert and constructed between 1963 and 1966. View looking upwards. Date: 1960s

Belgian civilians on a quayside, WW1
Belgian civilians on a quayside during the First World War. Some of them are looking upwards, and a soldier at the centre is pointing a rifle. Date: 1914-1918

Todder blowing bubbles
A young toddler sat atop a padded stool playing with a large bubble, that he has blown through a pipe Date: circa 1906

30 Broad Street, New York
Building, 30 Broad Street. Exchange Place looking upwards toward the Continental Bank Building at 30 Broad Street; pedestrians and automobiles visible

Tatler Motor Show Number 1954
Front cover of The Tatler featuring an illustration of an intrepid driver wearing cap, goggles and scarf steering his vintage car to the summit of a very steep hill

Yugoslavian Royal Family attending funeral King Alexander s
The funeral of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Belgrade: the new King, eleven-year-old Peter, stands in the front beside his mother Queen Marie (Marie of Romanias second daughter)

Reaching Great Heights
It is remarkable what scientific training methods will accomplish on the football field. Four players spring upwards to head a football

Map of Londons Docks, 1908
Illustration showing the River Thames and Londons docks in 1908, viewed with Tower of London at the bottom of the image and the East of London at the top of the image

Saint Cyril / Thevet 1584
SAINT CYRIL Bishop of Alexandria

Charles Thomas Longley 1
CHARLES THOMAS LONGLEY Churchman, when he was bishop of Ripon, whence he moved upwards to Durham and then Canterbury. with his autograph

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