World Collection (page 20)

Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, Indian ruler
Bhupinder Singh (1891-1938), ruling Maharaja of the state of Patiala from 1900 to 1938. He is perhaps the most famous Maharaja of Patiala, best known for his extravagance, and for being a cricketer

Poster, ARP Looks To You, Womens Voluntary Services, WW2. 1940s

Young peasant woman in a wood, Finland. Date: 1922

Street scene at Newlyn, near Penzance, Cornwall, England, with two neighbours chatting. Date: 1922

Evacuee children in gas masks near Windsor, 1941
London babies find peace in the country: a nurse walks evacuated children in gas masks across a playground, to accustom them to the wearing of gas masks. LCC Residential School near Windsor

Daily Chronicle, Never more confident of victory, WW1
Daily Chronicle, original news stand poster, " Never more confident of victory" -- Mr Asquith, 29 July 1915, First World War. 1915

WW1 - White Chateau, Hollebeke in ruins
circa 1910s

Evening in Athens with wealthy man and two women on a deck Date: 1897

Good Luck Charms of Nenette and Rintintin bring good luck
WW1 era France - The tiny yarn-doll good luck charms of Nenette and Rintintin bring good luck. Popular during the First World War in Paris and beyond. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - A Kurdish Company of the Iraq Levies: these local men who accompanied the British forces and collaborated with them in their attack on Rashid Alis troops at Habanniya Aerodrome

MV Britannic - Cunard White Star transatlantic ocean liner. During World War II she was used to transport troops, carrying 173, 550 people. Date: circa 1936

WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps at work in France
WW2 - Men of the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps at work in France. Date: 1940s

Consolidated B-24H Liberator B-6
Consolidated B-24 Liberator B.6 after Modifications at Scottish Aviation at Prestwick on 8th July 1944 Date: 1944

Junkers Ju-87B-2 Stuka
Loose Formation Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-87B-2 Stukas of 5/St.G 2 Flying over Tmimi, Libya During WW2 Date: 1940s

Fairey Swordfish I / 1 Floatplane
Royal Navy Fairey Swordfish of 810 Nas Squadron of Hms Courageous - Here Taxiing Past Battlecruiser Hms Hood (Later Sunk by the Bismarck) and Destroyer Hms Rocket (Behind) Date: 1940s

Fairey Gannet AEW-3
Royal-Navy 849 Squadron B Flight Fairey Gannet Aew-3 Taking-Off Operating on Aircraft-Carrier Hms Ark Royal with Smoke from the Catapult System Date: 1974

Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero - Model 21
Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M Zeros flying in formation over the Sea with Ships Behind Date: 1940s

Gloster Meteor F-8
RAF 56 Squadron Gloster Meteor F-8S Flying in a Stacked 9-Ship Formation out of RAF Bentwaters Date: 1940s

Supermarine Spitfire 9B / IXB
Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire 9B Taxiing to Take-Off for the First Lone Spitfire Sortie over Germany, Shooting Fighter, Gliders

Supermarine Walrus
A Search & Rescue Supermarine Walrus Picking Up a Downed and Stranded Pilot in a Rubber Life-Raft Dinghy in the Sea Date: 1940s

Aerial View of Singapore
WW2 - Aerial View of Singapore. Air Ministry photography. Date: 1942

Le Treport, France - WW1 - Ambulance drivers, nurses, staff
WW1 - A group of VAD (The Voluntary Aid Detachment) Ambulance drivers and mechanics with a British Red Cross St Johns Ambulance at Lady Murray hospital, Le Treport on the Channel Coast in France

The Landing Stage at Ahvaz, Iran - WWI Xmas card
A rather unusual Christmas Greetings postcard, featuring a World War One era soldier (serving on the Mesopotamian front) in patriotic pose before an inset view of the Landing Stage at Ahvaz - a city

WW1 - Home Front - The Queens Work for Women Fund
After the outbreak of WW1, many women in the textile and clothing industry had lost their jobs as export markets closed, posing a direct threat to their job prospects

Aerial view, Clairmarais aerodrome, Northern France, WW1
Aerial view of part of Clairmarais aerodrome, Pas de Calais, Northern France, with handwritten annotations, showing buildings and aeroplanes. Date: 1918

Cartoon, Arf a Mo, Kaiser! WW1
Cartoon, Arf a Mo, Kaiser! by Bert Thomas of the Artists Rifles, showing a British soldier lighting his pipe. The cartoons purpose was to raise money to supply tobacco

The Kings Message to the Royal Air Force, WW1
The Kings Message to the Royal Air Force, 11 November 1918, thanking and congratulating the men and women of the RAF for their valued contribution at the end of the First World War. 1918

Peggy Prince received an M.B.E. after making two journeys out to sea in a canoe in order to rescue the crew of a crashed bomber, saving the wireless operators life. 1940

Fashion at Rectors Night Club. A model wearing a dance frock shown in Philip Moss Fashion Parade, London, 1923. Long bodiced of pale pink chiffon velvet

Hazel Lavery in a Lucile gown for Petticoat Lane Tombola WWI
Hazel, Lady Lavery, wife of painter Sir John Lavery pictured as the artist in a tableau staged for a charity event during the First World War called Petticoat Lane

Tirpitz the pig: naval mascot of HMS Glasgow, WW1. 1916

HMS Nelson, battleship, Nelson class. 1940s

HMS Ajax, light cruiser, Leander class. circa 1940s

WW2 poster, German Junkers JU 188 fighter plane
Poster, German Junkers JU 188 fighter plane with sectional views and annotations. 1944

St. Louis World Fair, Missouri, USA - Souvenir Booklet Cover
St. Louis World Fair, Missouri, USA - Cover of the souvenir fold-out booklet Date: 1904

The British Royal Family - King George VI and family
The British Royal Family - King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth (late Queen Elizabeth II - pictured wearing an ATS hat) and Princess Margaret

WW1 - Patriotic - Little Tommy has a pee on a German Helmet
Tommys Kiddie. WW1 - Patriotic - Little Tommy has a pee in a German Helmet. Date: circa 1916

Tatler cover - Gabrielle Chanel & Alain Gerbault
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a snapshot taken at Eaton Hall, Cheshire seat of the Duke of Westminster, where Alain Gerbault, captain of the Firecrest and French lawn tennis star, was staying

Syria. Krak des Chevaliers. Castle built in the twelfth century by the Knights Hospitaller during the Crusades to the Holy Land

Mrs. Ples skull
Mrs. Ples. Reproduction of a skull of a Plesianthropus transvaalensis. Found at Sterkfontein. South Africa

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) by Abraham Or
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Written by Abraham Ortelius and originally printed on May 20, 1570, in Antwerp. World Map

First World War. Big Bertha M42
WORLD WAR (1914-1918). BIG BERTHA M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km. away in 1918. Its gauge was 210 mm. and was 34 m. long

GPO map of Mail Steamship Routes. Date: circa 1950s

Two women police officers in gas masks, London, WW2
Two women police officers in gas masks in London during the Second World War. One of them is Florence Bragg (joined November 1936). Date: 1940s

Sunderland Flying Boat
The cockpit of a Sunderland Flying Boat aeroplane, proto 1937. During World War Two it was used for destroying U- Boats and the was nicknamed The Porcupine by the Germans Date: 1937

WW1 recruitment poster, Teufel Hunden, US Marines
WW1 American recruitment poster, Teufel Hunden (Devil Dogs), German nickname for US Marines, showing a bulldog chasing a dachshund. Devil Dog Recruiting Station, Smithfield & Water Streets

The most famous buildings of the world 1885
Comparative heights of famous buildings in 1885, including 1. Porcelain Tower, Nankin China. 2. St. Georges Hall Liverpool. 3. Tomb of Thedoric, Ravenna. 4. Chichester Cathedral. 5

Japanese battleship Yamato
The Japanese battleship Yamato at sea, which, with her sister ship Musashi was the biggest ever built (by the time of the Second World War) displacing over 70, 000 tons at deep load. Date: c.1942

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