Visitor Collection (page 8)

The Queen entertains the Shah of Persia
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh entertain the Shah and Queen Soraya of Persia to luncheon at Buckingham Palace. With them are Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Date: 1955

Aix les Bains, France - Porters with Sedan Chairs (Covered Litters), complete with viewing holes, in order to protect the modesty of the under-dressed spa visitor! Date: circa 1910s

School / Weighing Pupil
School health visitor weighs a pupil Date: 1958

Looking at Pictures
A lady shows her pictures to a visitor and her daughter Date: 1880

James Neild - 1
JAMES NEILD Justice of the Peace, prison visitor responsible for prison reforms notably of persons imprisoned for small debts. Date: 1744 - 1814

Healthcare Visitor
A health visitor on a visit to a farmers wife and her baby on a farm near Colchester, Essex Date: 1950s

Queen Elizabeth II signing the visitors book at a Metropolitan Police archive

Reception for colonial coronation visitors
Lord and Lady Warwicks reception to Indian and colonial coronation visitors at Warwick Castle. A large and distinguished company travelled down to Warwick Castle by special train from Paddington;

Three visitors, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three visitors, including Mr Vickerman (the boss) at the Margaret pithead, Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Three sisters sitting in a Pembrokeshire garden
A family group of three middle-aged Edwardian sisters, sitting in the garden of a Pembrokeshire house. They are all wearing black clothes, in mourning for King Edward VII

Prison visit, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
An inmate at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, receives a visitor. The meeting takes place through a metal grille and is observed by a prison officer

Patients relaxing at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing patients relaxing with visitors in a rest room. One patient has his leg in plaster, and is watching television

Visitors outside the Reichstag building, Berlin, Germany
Visitors enjoy the summer weather outside the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany. The building opened in 1894 to house the German parliament

A welcome visitor to a poor home is greeted by a young barefoot boy, his brother and their mother holding a baby. This ladys arrival may be the only relief this family has had in a while

Hunting and Fishing in Manitoba, Canada, 1877
Engraving showing four views of European men hunting and fishing in Manitoba, Canada, 1877. The views show (clockwise from top)

H. H. the Rajah of Kapurthala, 1893
Engraved portrait of His Highness the Rajah of Kapurthala, 1893. The Rajah was a visitor to London that year, in order to attend the opening ceremony of the Imperial Institute

A Christmas Visitor
A woman is interrupted from her Christmas decorations by the sight of her husband returning home from the war. A truly filmic moment

Baby Elephant Pickpocket at Olympia, London, 1893
Sketch showing one of Barnum and Baileys elephants investigating the pocket of a female visitor to the circus, Olympia, London, 1893

The Portland Vase
The destruction of the Portland Vase in February 1845, by a visitor to the British Museum. The vase, originally known as the Barberini Vase, was discovered in the 16th century at the Monte del Grano

A Visitor to an Emigrant Ship being soaked by Seamen, 1884
Sketch showing sailors scrubbing the decks and an early visitor getting soaked by them, 1884

Life on the Stars 4
On Spica, in the constellation Virgo, the light of their sun is 1120 times brighter than ours : so life there will be adapted to it, while a visitor from Earth would be in trouble

Entertaining at Home
A scene in a middle class home where the lady of the house entertains a visitor with a hand-picked selection of books to read while she works at her embroidery

Entertaining with Tea
A lady of the house entertains a female visitor in her parlour with afternoon tea and polite conversation

Racial / Swedish Cottage
Scene in a Swedish cottage: entertaining a British visitor during the Crimean War

French Take Rome - 6
The French may have re-taken Rome for the pope, but they are very unpopular in the city - a French visitor is set upon by patriotic citizens and their no less patriotic dog

Pilgrims Progress 20
Christiana, who had stayed at home when Christian set out, is encouraged by a visitor to follow her husband to the Celestial City

Dancing Women
A highly improbable dance performed for the benefit of a European visitor : the anonymous Italian artist has given free rein to his imagination

A Welcome Visitor
A jolly young woman rings on the doorbell of a house at Christmas time armed with a basket of festive food and gifts

Visting an Art Gallery
A Sunday afternoon in a Picture Gallery

Man and Monkey

St John the Egyptian
saint JOHN THE EGYPTIAN hermit, depicted imparting wisdom to a pilgrim visitor (illustration to Wynkyn de Wordes 1495 edition of Vitas patrum )

Visitor in Trouble
A visitor to a country cottage finds himself in snow up to the waist within sight of his destination

Maid Admitting Visitor
A pretty maid, sporting a fashionable hair style of the day, looks coyly at a male visitor who is calling on her mistress

Birds / Turtle Doves
TURTLE DOVE (Turtur communis) A summer visitor to the British islands

Louis XIV of France and visitors from Siam (Thailand)
King Louis XIV of France receives delegates from Siam (Thailand) who have come to study science in Europe

Tea on the Table
A visitor receives a genuine welcome, with tea ready on the table, and the fire stoked to a frenzy by the housemaid

The Ruins of London
One day in the future, a visitor from New Zealand will come to London, and sit and contemplate the ruins of this once-great city

Crystal Palace / World
Visitors from all over the globe flock to the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. Date: 1851

China Rural Visitor 1951
A visitor to rural parts from the central government

Hester L Stanhope / Saloon
LADY HESTER LUCY STANHOPE Traveller to Asia, where she settled - seen here entertaining a visitor in her saloon

Examining Leaning Tower
A visitor examines one of the cracked pillars of the Leaning Tower of Pisa which has been bound with steel

The Cats Meat Man goes from house to house in a London street, and a very popular visitor he is - with the cats, at any rate

Wine of the Cloisters
German monks entertain a visitor with the wine of the cloister, while one of their number accompanies the revelry on the lute

Looking at Modern Art
Although the caption is in Norwegian, most of us can make a guess at what the gallery visitor is saying

Tate Entrance Hall
A policeman is the only visitor to the Tate Gallery, standing by potted plants where, one day, half a horse and suchlike masterpieces will be hung

Lions and Tigers Zoo
Regents Park zoo, London Visitors admire lions, tigers, and other cats. Date: circa 1880

Irish Spinners
A visitor enters an Irish cabin and finds that nine women have brought their wheels to spin and reel together

Cheyne Row Chelsea
A hansom cab delivers a visitor to Cheyne Row, Chelsea

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