Violet Collection (page 8)

Mrs Patrick de Bathe - wife of war correspondent
Mrs Patrick de Bathe, formerly Miss Violet Lindsay Wood who was the wife of Mr. Patrick de Bathe, one of The Daily Telegraphs special war correspondents during the First World War

Radiation Apparatus
A man demonstrates a modern ultra violet radiation treatment machine. Date: early 1930s

Radiation Treatment
The application of ultra violet light radiation treatment, applied to a hand using a modern machine. Date: early 1930s

Violet Dana
The lovely Violet Dana, possibly an actress, photographed in profile, wearing a knitted hat with a rosette on it. Date: 1930s

Clothing - Air Raid Victims - Queen Elizabeth & Lady Reading
Inspecting a clothes distribution scheme for Air Raid victims (which have arrived in Britain from New Zealand) - a visit by Queen Elizabeth & Eva Violet Isaacs (neaMond), Marchioness of Reading

Hans Sloane Vol. 211 page 29
Viola violacea Makino, Oxalis corniculata and Trachelospermum asiaticum Nakai. Specimens taken from Hans Sloane Vol.211 page 29

Viola tricolor, wild pansy
Wild pansy in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, July 2004

Melopsittacus undulatus, budgerigar
Budgerigar specimen (Melopsittacus undulatus), photographed under UV light. From the Natural History Museum at Tring

Franklinite, fluorescing
Ore of zinc fluorescing under ultra violet radiation: calcite - pink; willemite - green; zincite - blue; franklinite - black. See image number 388 for white light view

Willemite
A specimen of willemite (zinc silicate) photographed under UV light

Viola sp
Plate 62 from Flowers by John Edwards, 1795. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Opal doublets
Opals are not truely crystalline and are therefore mineraloids. They comprise of (hydrated silica glass)

Fluorescent group
A group including amber, ruby, ivory, fluorite and opal photographed in ultra violet light. See 179 for the same group in white light

Roger Bushell at Club Dinner
Roger Bushell at a dinner to celebrate the foundation of the Vintage Club, established to teach people to appreciate fine wine

Birthday card with violets, lily of the valley and daffodils
Sweet Thoughts and Birthday Wishes: a birthday card with a bunch of violets, daffodils and lily of the valley. Date: circa 1930s

Merchant of V - Portia
Miss Violet Vanbrugh as Portia Date: 11 October 1905

Clement Attlee and wife
Prime Minister, Clement Attlee and his wife Violet attending the memorial service for the Czecho-Slovak Foreign Minister, Jan Mazaryk. 1948

Waifs and Strays Society appeal advertisement
An appeal for funds by the Waifs and Strays Society featuring a picture of four-year-old Violet, one of a family of eight motherless children

Grandville Violet 1847
VIOLETTE (erythronium) Date: 1847

Violet and the Doll Fairy, showing a little girl called Violet with a life-sized doll who comes to life as a fairy and takes her to a fancy dress party. Date: 1900

Violet / Language of Flowers
Violet personified

Primula Farinosa (Birds Eye Primrose), a flowering perennial of the Primulaceae family, with violet-blue or candy pink flowers

Two women at Bideford, Devon
Christine Pitts Tucker picnicking with her mother Violet at Binneys Reach, Bideford, Devon

Edraianthus Serpyllifolia (Grassy Bells)
Edraianthus Serpyllifolia, or Wahlenbergia Serpyllifolia (Grassy Bells), a perennial flowering plant of the Campanulaceae family

Campanula Speciosa (Pyrenean Bellflower) of the Campanulaceae family. It often has blue-violet flowers, but is seen here with very pale blue petals

Edraianthus Dalmaticus (Dalmatian Rockbell), a perennial mountain plant of the Campanulaceae (Bellflower) family. The flowers are large, with a violet-blue colour. See here in close-up, from above

Scene from Shakespeares Henry VIII
A scene from Shakespeares play, Henry VIII, in a production by Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majestys Theatre, London. The production opened in 1910

Britannia and Eve, July 1938
Front cover illustration featuring a woman in a spring like yellow dress and matching hat picking violets

Charles Lauth / Gill
Charles Lauth (1836-1913) English chemist, and inventor of various colors including Lauths violet

Plants / Viola
VIOLET with PRIMULA (primrose)

Paris fashions for February, 1864
Sketches of designs featured on the monthly ladies fashion page. (From left) The walking dress, made from dark brown silk, trimmed with black velvet

Children being treated with ultra-violet light
Three children being treated with ultra-violet rays to cure rickets. Their goggles were designed to protect them from becoming sun burnt in the artificial sunlight

Dye / Methyaniline Violet
The manufacture of methyaniline violet dye

Violet Trefusis / Morgan
VIOLET TREFUSIS Writer, and passionate friend of Vita Sackville-West

Marchioness of Granby
MARION MARGARET VIOLET LINDSAY Marchioness of Granby in 1889 (she married the Marquis in 1882)

Lord Edward Cecil
EDWARD HERBERT CECIL Fourth son of third Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Cecil fought in the Boer War, and married Violet Maxse

Duchess of Rutland 1888
Marion Margaret Violet, marcheioness of Granby and subsequently duchess of Rutland, daughter of Colonel the Honorable C H Lindsay. A very fine portrait photo

Plants / Erythronium Sp
VIOLET PERSONIFIED

Gas Laser Light Beam
The first commercially available long life gas laser, capable of producing a continuously intense beam of ultra-violet light

Violet Cameron, Actress
VIOLET CAMERON (Violet Lydia Thompson) actress, here as Gretchen in Rip van Winkle

Using a Sunlamp
A lady enjoys the benefits of the ultra-violet rays emitted by the Homesun sunlamp - and it costs her only 18 pounds !

Holmes / Copper Beeches
THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES " I am so delighted that you have come." Holmes and Violet shake hands

FLOWER V
Flowery V

Walking Dress 1860
Black velvet mantle, green silk dress; blue silk dress with black & blue flounces, sleeves with puffings & black frills; Pardessus Medici with violet silk ruchings

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