Vice Collection (page 5)

Anthony Comstock
ANTHONY COMSTOCK American reformer, Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Date: 1844 - 1915

Nicolas Bravo
General NICOLAS BRAVO Mexican soldier and statesman, when Vice-President of the Mexican Federation Date: 1787 - 1864

Vice Admiral Sir John de Robeck, British naval officer
Vice Admiral Sir John Michael de Robeck (1862-1928), British Royal Navy officer who commanded the Allied naval force in the Dardanelles during the First World War

Admiral Maximilian Reichsgraf von Spee
Vice Admiral Maximilian Reichsgraf von Spee (1861-1914), German admiral during the early part of the First World War. He also served during the Boxer Rebellion. Date: circa 1914

General Harbord and General Dawes, Paris
Major General James Guthrie Harbord (1866-1947), Chief of SOS (Services of Supply), and Brigadier General Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951), both of them American army officers

Vice Admiral Sir George Patey, Royal Navy officer
Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Sir George Edwin Patey (1859-1935), British Royal Navy officer, Commander of the Australian Fleet during the First World War. Date: circa 1913-1915

American Boy Scout with Richard Nixon
Cub Scout Joe Berry, 10, of Alexandria, Virginia, presented Vice President Nixon with a Boy Scout plaque during ceremonies in Nixons Office

Signing of Armistice, Compiegne Forest, Northern France
Photograph taken just after the signing of the Armistice which ended the First World War, in a railway carriage in the Compiegne Forest, Picardy, Northern France

Overland - Telegraph
The old pre-electric telegraph signals the abstract of the Indian Mail from Marseille to Paris, or vice versa. Date: 1844

Air Vice-Marshal Sir W Sefton Brancker
Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker (1877 - 1930), Director of Civil Aviation, killed in the R101 airship disaster on 5th October 1930

Cutting ivory to make piano keys
A craftsman cuts (ethically harvested) ivory tusks in order to make piano keys

Manchester Board of Guardians, Officers and Ex-Chairmen
The Chairman (Hugh Fay, centre), Vice Chairman (William Reid, left of centre) and Clerk (F.W. Greenhalgh) of the 1930-31 Manchester Board of Guardians

Model boatbuilder
Model boat builder aholding up a finished example of his craft

Vice-Admiral Eugene Ivanovitch Alexeiev, Viceroy of the Russian Dominions in the Far East, around the time of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

Tunisia - Sfax - Rue de la Republique
Rue de la Republique, Sfax, Tunisia. The British Vice Consulate is in the middle distance on the left-hand side of the street

Sfax, Tunisia - Rue de la Republique
The Rue de la Republique with the British Vice Consulate at Sfax, Tunisia. The Consulate is right next door to a general store, selling pottery, overcoats and flat caps

Bethlehem - Working Mother-of-Pearl
Working Mother-of-Pearl used (amongst other things) in the decoration of furniture and small decorative items in Bethlehem, then very much part of the Ottoman Empire

Carpenters building a wagon
Three carpenters working on a wooden wagon, using traditional tools and techniques. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Certificate for Harry Price from the Magicians Club
Coloured certificate for Harry Price from the Magicians Club informing him of his unanimous election as Honorary Vice-President of the Club, signed by Will Goldston and others, 7 January 1931

Matthias Erzberger
Herr Matthias Erzberger, German State Secretary and Vice Chancellor.He was part of the German delegation who attended the Armistice Agreement

(Vice) Admiral J. M. de Robeck / Stamp
Admiral SIR JOHN MICHAEL DE ROBECK, 1st Baronet GCB, GCMG, GCVO (1862 - 1928) British Royal Navy Admiral who commanded the Allied naval force in the Dardanelles during World War I

(Vice) Admiral Sturdee / Stamp
Admiral of the Fleet SIR FREDERICK CHARLES DOVETON STURDEE, 1st Baronet, GCB, KCMG, CVO (1859 - 1925) British admiral

(Vice)Admiral Sir Richard Peirse / Stamp
Admiral Sir Richard Peirse

Vice Admiral David Beatty / Stamp
LORD DAVID BEATTY British admiral and 1st Earl

India - Pigeon Post envelope
A Pigeon Post envelope used to send a message to Vice Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert CB C.M.G from Kalyan to Bombay (a distance of thirty miles)

King Farouk with Air Vice Marshall Toomer
King Farouk pictured with Air Vice Marshall Toomer. Farouk I of Egypt (1920 - 1965), was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and Sudan

Vice Admiral Sir Frederick C. D. Sturdee

The British Committee of the inquiry into the breaches of th
From left: Viscount Bryce, O.M. Chairman; Professor A.L. Fisher, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University; Mr Harold Cox, Edior of the Edinburgh Review; Sir Alfred Hopkinson, K.C

Cambridge speaking to Harvard
The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, The Reverend G. A. Weekes, having a telephone conversation with the President of Harvard University

The Scotland Football Team, 1897
Photograph of the Scotland International Football Team selected for the game against England in 1897. On the 3rd April that year they beat England 2-1 in the British International Championship

Newcastle United Football Team, 1908
Photograph of the Newcastle United Football team of the 1907-1908 season. The players and staff shown are: Back row, left to right: W. McCracken, D. Pudan, P. McWilliam, J. Carr

Italy Napoli
The vice-regal palace on the waterfront

University Admission
Latin document given by the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, testifying that Chandos Hodgkyns has been admitted as a student

Fable / Vice & Fortune
VICE AND FORTUNE A fable of Plutarch in which Vice and Fortune argue over who has the most power to make mankind unhappy

Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596)
Engraving of Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), Elizabethan explorer and seafarer. In 1577 he and his crew became the first Englishmen to circumnavigate the globe

aRON BURR (1756 - 1836)
aRON BURR American political leader. Vice president of the United States (1801-5). Tried for treason in 1807. Date: 1756 - 1836

Carpenter at Work / Sawing
A carpenter uses a large frame saw to split a thin piece of wood held tightly to his bench

George Clinton (Chappel)
GEORGE CLINTON American Revolutionary general and statesman, vice-president

Lady Rescued from Den
An inadequately dressed lady is escorted from a den of vice by two concerned but disapproving friends

John Lightfoot, English churchman and scholar
John Lightfoot, English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharines College, Cambridge. Date: 1602 - 1675

Cambridge Uni Wrangler
The Senior Wrangler - he who has obtained the highest place in the mathematical tripos - is presented to the Vice Chancellor

Book Binder 1827
A book binder using a vice to compress his books. Other books are in a large press behind him and pots of glue and tools are at his feet

An Iron Foundry C19Th
The interior of an iron foundry with men hammering on an anvil, working at a furnace and using a vice

Maori Greeting
One Maori greets another, and vice versa, by each of the two individuals rubbing his or her nose against that of the other

Station at Calais
At Calais station, travellers from England transfer from boat to train or vice versa

JULIA (39BC - 14AD)
JULIA Roman noblewoman. Only child of Augustus Caesar and Scribonia. m. 1st Marcellus, 2d Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, 3d Tiberius. Banished for vice Date: 39BC - 14AD

Morals / Virtue & Vice
Virtues and vices: (1) nobility (2) anger and accidie (3) envy

Charon (Tooke)
The ferryman who carries travellers across the Styx to the Underworld, but rarely vice versa : in the foreground is Cerberus, a particularly fierce watchdog

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