Wilson Collection (#7)

Chicago Bathing Beach
Not seaside but lakeside - Chicago may not be your idea of a holiday resort, but the Wilson Avenue bathing beach (North Shore) is a pleasant enough spot. Date: 1916

Arthur Knyvet Wilson
Sir ARTHUR KNYVET WILSON V.C. Distinguished British naval commander who won his VC at the battle of El Teb. Date: 1842 - 1921

Bradford Butter Cross
The old Bradford Butter Cross, now in the grounds of Bolling Hall, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. The ancestors of Edith Bolling, wife of Woodrow Wilson, lived here. Date: Medieval

Christopher North / John Wilson
John Wilson (1785-1854) - professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh, journalist and writer, under the nom-de-plume Christopher North, editor of Blackwoods Magazine. Date: circa 1830

Harold Wilson and Eric Johnston
Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, and Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Pictures Association of America

President Wilson and his wife in Paris, France
The American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) and his wife in Paris, France, probably at the time of the postwar Peace Conference. Date: 1919

President Wilson addressing Congress in April 1917
President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) addressing the American Congress to recommend entering the war on the side of the Allies. Four days later the USA declared war on Germany

President Woodrow Wilson giving a campaign speech
The American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), seen here at Shadow Lawn, West Long Branch, New Jersey, USA, giving a campaign speech. Date: summer 1916

President Woodrow Wilson and President Poincare
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), American President, with Raymond Poincare (1860-1934), President of France, greeting the crowds outside a Paris railway station at the end of the First World War

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, American President
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 28th President of the United States. Date: circa 1916

Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song by Billy Gould
Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song with words and music by Billy Gould. Sheet music cover, with a photograph of President Woodrow Wilson at the centre, a soldier on the left and a sailor on the right

President Wilson arriving at Dover on SS Brighton
The American President, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, arriving at Dover on the SS Brighton, probably after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War

President Wilson and others in Paris, France
The American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), seen here (centre) at the Peace Conference, Hotel Crillon, Paris, following the end of the First World War

President Woodrow Wilson in a rocking chair
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), seen here sitting in a rocking chair in the year he was elected 28th President of the United States (he served officially from 1913 until 1921). Date: 1912

Poe / Tales / Will. Wilson
Poe/Tales/Will. Wilson

The last steam engine at Carnforth
Tradesmen at Carnforth standing in front of their engine

R Wilsons patent self acting motion as applied to J Nasmyths 30 cwt steam hammer, front elevation

Steam hercules with Wilsons patent valve, side elevation Date: 1851

Wilsons patent no 11, 767 steam hammer
Wilsons patent (no 11, 767 steam hammer improvements) front and side elevations Date: 1847

LNWR express passenger engine

Double boiler tank engine, Grantham
Double boiler tank engine, side elevation and sections, Grantham Date: 1851

Double boiler tank engine, side elevation and sections Date: 1850

Locomotive passenger engine, sections Date: 1851

Lablanche, constructed drawing of a locomotive passenger engine, side elevation Date: 1897

Locomotive passenger engine, side elevation and section Date: 1848

Locomotive for the Manchester and Sheffield Railway
Locomotive passenger engine built for the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Date: 1849

Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester Railway

York and North Midland Railway
Locomotive passenger engine built for the York and North Midland Railway Date: 1845

Standard tender built by the E B Wilson Company, plan, elevations and sections Date: 1845

White Horse of Kent, plan and side elevation

Passenger engine, longitudinal section Date: 1846

Passenger engine, cross sections Date: 1846

Harold Wilson housing campaign
Harold Wilson, as leader of the Opposition in September 1963 pictured opening the five thousandth flat to be built in the borough of St. Pancras since 1945

Church Army emergency accommodation, London
Men try to sleep on narrow benches at a Church Army emergency accommodation shelter in London

Breakfast at Church Army Shelter, London
A 5 am breakfast for homeless men being distributed at a Church Army shelter in London

Church Army meal for applicants to a London workhouse
A number of elderly men and women awaiting admission to one of Londons workhouses are provided with a meal by the Church Army

Greeley Square, New York
Greeley Square and Broadway and the Wilson building, New York City, America

Mount Wilson, California
150 foot tower telescope, Mt Wilson observatory, Mount Wilson, California, America

Officers and Men of the Scott expedition on board Terra Nova
Officers and men of the Second British Antarctic Expedition on board the Terra Nova. The view was taken before the vessel left Lyttelton in December 1910

Dr. Wilson at work
Dr Wilson, zoologist and artist, at work in the Antarctic (during the Discovery" 1901-3 expedition) examining a thermometer

Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson
Captain Robert Falcon Scott pictured with Dr E. A

Zoology of the Antarctic Regions drawn by Dr. Wilson
A series of heads of the Adelie penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae, drawn by Dr Wilson, who accompanied and died with Captain Scott on his fateful expedition to reach the South Pole in 1912

The South Polar Times
Page from the Illustrated London News showing pages from the South Polar Times, the furthest south illustrated newspaper edited by Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton

Steamer City of Chester
City of Chester Steamer of the Wilson Line, on the Delaware River, Chester, Pennsylvania, America

Poster advertising the Red Cross, with a quotation from the American President Woodrow Wilson, " I summon you to comradeship in the Red Cross."

Bootblack at Prince of Wales investiture, Caernarvon

Reverend Wilson Carlile
Wilson Carlile, CH (1847-1942), British evangelist who founded the Church Army in 1882, and Prebendary of St Pauls Cathedral. Known as The Chief, he inspired generations of evangelists

Admiral A. K. Wilson / Stamp
Admiral SIR ARTHUR KNYVET WILSON VC (1842 - 1921) English Admiral and briefly First Sea Lord who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the war in Sudan

America declares war
President Woodrow Wilson declares America at war with Germany, to a joint session of Congress in 1917

Modern Athenians plate 12 - Edinburgh
Mr John Wilson (d. 1854) Poet, angler, walker and Professor of Moral Philosophy, approaching Mr George Joseph Bell (d. 1843) Professor of Scots Law

W Barrett as Mercutio
WILSON BARRETT English actor- manager in the role of Mercutio in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet

Picture No. 10220816
President Wilson Date: P

Alice Martha Bacon, Baroness Bacon (1909-1993) English politician, elected as MP for Leeds SE in the 1945 election. Here at 10 Downing Street to meet Harold Wilson on 19th October 1964

Harold Wilson (1916-1995) English politician and prime minister at Wembley

Allied Leaders at Paris
The Big Four, LLoyd George, Vittorio Emmenuele Orlando, Woodrow Wilson & Georges Clenenceau, who battled out the First World War peace treaties meet at Paris

Angus Wilson / Morgan
ANGUS WILSON British novelist, born in South Africa

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

The Civil War in America; some of Wilsons boys in wooden
From a sketch by an ILN special artist. Headquarters in the camp of the 2nd New York regiment. Colonel Wilson defends Staten Island from the Confederate threat

Memorial Service for R. F. Scott, St. Pauls, London, 1913
Illustration showing the memorial service held in St. Pauls Cathedral, 14th February 1913, for the men who died during the Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12. Those who died were Captain Scott, Lt

Cricket / Team / Sussex
Sussex: Henty, Fry, Guttridge, Wilson, Bean, Marlow, Draper, Shaw, Brann, Murdoch, Arlington, Newham, Butt, Hilton, Humphrey

Cricketer, Wilson
G.L. Wilson Cricketer - Sussex

Decoration Scandals 2
The decoration scandals (the usual " honours for cash" naughtiness) - drag on from last year : scene during the trial of Wilson at Paris

Wilson as Hypocrite
WOODROW WILSON depicted as a hypocrite, pretending to be neutral but in practice aiding the English

America and Vatican
Pope to Wilson : Theres not much chance of peace so long as you keep your pockets stuffed with grenades !

Wilson Experiment / 1760
English artist Benjamin Wilson conducts an experiment with electricity in the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London

C1690 BEAU (COSTUME)
BEAU WILSON Flamboyantly dressed dandy, wearing a feathered hat, ornately embroidered waistcoat with tassels, necktie and wig

Hh Ellis / Helen Wilson
HENRY HAVELOCK ELLIS English physician, psychologist and man of letters

Daniel Wilson
DANIEL WILSON churchman, bishop of Calcutta with his autograph

Richard Wilson, Artist
Richard Wilson Artist

Woodrow Wilson in 1883
WOODROW WILSON American president, at the outset of his career when he practised law

Wilson in Paris to Talk
Woodrow Wilson, in Paris for the peace talks, doffs his hat to the crowd from his carriage Date: 1919

Cook and Admirers
The cook attracts many admirers - but do they admire her for herself alone, or for what she can produce with the help of her Wilson Cooker ?

Woodrow Wilson / 1918 Phot
WOODROW WILSON American President

Woodrow Wilson / Nobel 19
WOODROW WILSON American president and Nobel Prizewinner in 1919

Wilson & Bolshevism
British Prime Minister Lloyd George & French President Clemenceau let U.S. President Wilson deal with Bolshevism on his own

Marie Wilson / Mascara
Marie Wilson applies mascara to false eyelashes using a hand-mirror

Woodrow Wilson / Stereosco
WOODROW WILSON 28th President of of U.S seated at his desk and holding a document

Wilson in Paris
Woodrow Wilson, American President, drives through the streets of Paris - he is acclaimed by Americans in the crowd along the Champs Elysees

Sir Cw Wilson / Hill & Sau
SIR CHARLES WILLIAM WILSON Soldier, seen here in academic dress

Harriette Wilson / Col Lit
HARRIETTE WILSON Courtesan and memoir writer, one of whose friends was the Duke of Wellington

Peace Talks Notables
Notables at the talks: (l-r) Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Arthur Balfour and Baron Sonnino (Italian Foreign Minister)

Peace Talks Leaders
" The Big Four" at the peace talks: (l-r) Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson Date: 1919

1917 / Wilson & Congress
American president Woodrow Wilson, asks Congress to declare war on Germany, and receives a favourable response

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