Writing Collection (page 3)

Central Stores & Post Office, High Street, Chalford, Glos
Central Stores and Post Office, High Street, Chalford, Gloucestershire. Date: circa 1909

Dodie Smith at home in Essex
Dorothy Gladys (Dodie) Smith (1896 - 1990), English novelist and playwright whose works include the play Autumn Crocus and the childrens novel

Signwriters at work
A wonderful photograph by Heinz Zinram showing a master signwriter at work, with his younger collegue (or apprentice) behind. A study in concentration, accuracy and exactitude in the craftsmans art

Moods of Mount Fuji - 3
A view across stormy seas to Mount Fuji. A stylised painting by Malcolm Greensmith in the style of the great Japanese printmakers of the late 18th and 19th centuries such as Hiroshige and Hokusai

WW2 - Secret Of The Scarlet Bomber
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Secret Of The Scarlet Bomber, written by Phillip Conde. The image portrays a wartime policeman writing notes

Sir Richard Tangye, Birmingham engineering firm
Sir Richard Tangye, Head of the famous Birmingham engineering firm. late 19th century

Anti-Catholic graffiti, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Anti-Catholic graffiti on a wall in Belfast, Northern Ireland -- No Pope Here. Date: 1969

Children with IRA graffiti, Belfast, Northern Ireland
A group of children with IRA graffiti on the wall behind them, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Choirbook number 7. Gregorian chant. 15th. century. The Visi
Choirbook number 7. Gregorian chant. 15th. century. Antiphonary By Master of Burgo de Osma. Parchment. The Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth. Drop cap D. Miniature. Spain

Witiza tombstone. Basilica of Saints Justo and Pastor. Barce
Wittiza (687-709). Visigothic King of Hispania from 694 until his death. Witiza tombstone. Copy in the Basilica of Saints Justo and Pastor. Barcelona. Spain

United States. New York. Central Park. Strawberry Fields. Me
United States. New York. Central Park. Strawberry Fields, dedicated to the memory of the musician John Lennon. Memorial mosaic. Imagine. Detail

Temple of Ramses III. The pharaoh Ramses III with Khepresh. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt

Native American Indian Picture Writing (Medicine Mans Chant) of the Chippewa or Ojibbewa Indians. Date: circa 1890s

Art deco girl writing a letter
" If you re ever passing by". Girl in art deco style fashion sitting down at her desk writing a letter. " 1923

A set of 8 lithographs - WWI era
A set of 8 lithographs in a folio. 1) Inscribed Private B. Miller, Queens Westminsters, out since 1914, 2) Inscribed Of the Labour Battalion, 3) A soldier reading a newspaper

King George VI at his desk in naval uniform, 1942
King George VI (1895 - 1952), pictured writing at his desk in Buckingham Palace wearing naval uniform in May 1942. An exclusive photographic sitting specially granted to the Illustrated London News

Ancient Scripts - 2
Specimens of HIEROGLYPHS, DEMOTIC GREEK, PALMYRAN, HIERATIC (Egyptian priests), COPTIC and CYPRIOT scripts 2 of 2

Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams meet at Jeffersons lodgings, on the corner of Seventh and High (Market) streets in Philadelphia

Two Turkish Wrestlers
A spectacular postcard photograph of two Turkish wrestlers, showing off their muscles, finely crafted moustaches and bowties!

Florence Nightingales carriage at the seat of war
Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father. Although it was not deemed suitable for ladies of Florences social standing to become

Dennis Brain Letter 1955
A letter from Dennis Brain, French horn player, to an admirer, enclosing his photograph

Writing / Gray Poem
Part of the manuscript of his poem, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, inspired by a visit to Stoke Poges Churchyard, Bucks

Wh Russell / Illus Times
SIR WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL British war correspondent for The Times, reporting from the Crimea in 1855

Kells : Evangel Symbols
the Evangelical Symbols

Advert / Mander Bros Inks
Mander Brothers Printing Ink Makers - an advertisement featuring Queen Victoria in the year of her Diamond Jubilee

HANSENs TYPEWRITER / 1880
The remarkable typewriter invented by Rasmus Hans Malling Johan Hansen (1835 - 1890) in 1865, using a completely novel writing ball system

Wandsworth Prison / Letter
Built in 1851 and originally called the Surrey House of Correction. The inmates writing letters

John Signs Magna Carta
King John, pressured by the barons, signs the great charter on the Thames island of Runnymede

Major James H Perkins, Commissioner for France for the American Red Cross during World War One

DUNSTAN WRITING(STRUTT)
DUNSTAN Archbishop of Canterbury English prelate writing with a quill pen Date: 12th century

Children in Falls Road area, Belfast, Northern Ireland
A group of children in the Falls Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Botanical Sketchbook -- lettering. A poem entitled English Flowers. Date: 1920s

Leo Tolstoy in Study
LEO TOLSTOY Russian novelist and moral philosopher writing in his study Date: 1828 - 1910

John Bunyan imprisoned
During his imprisonment Bunyan wrote the " Pilgrims Progress". John Bunyan, English Christian writer and preacher

Lenin / Comintern Congress
VLADIMIR LENIN Russian statesman, at the 3rd Congress of Comintern (Communist International Congress), Moscow, Russia

Advert / Onoto Pen 1920S
Onoto - the Pen with Self-Filling Safety

Maria Edgeworth / Library
MARIA EDGEWORTH The novelist writing in her library at her home in Edgeworthstown, near Dublin

Boy with Slate Kept In
A little boy has to stay in to work out a sum on his slate

Stylish young lady writing a letter sitting on cushions
A stylish young lady seated on a set of plump and elaborate cushions, writing a series of blank letters to a male friend, as a lead-up to an April Fools Day prank! Date: 1923

Missal Vetus Oxemense. Drop cap depicting The Pentecost. 12t
Codex Missal Vetus Oxemense. Anonimous. 12th-13th centuries. Parchment. Drop cap depicting The Pentecost. Spain

Contract of sale. The clergyman Bruno sell to Sentefred several lands. Parchment with visigothic writing. 815. From Sant Pere de Codinet Monastery. Chapter Archive. Seu d Urgell. Catalonia. Spain

Mel Roy on the stage mid-nite, spook party talking skulls, spirit slate writing, spirit table raising, ghosts from the dead. Date ca. 1935

Interior at New College Lane, Oxford
Watercolour sketch of an interior at New College Lane, Oxford, showing Reverend Baden Powell and his wife (they married in 1846), with five children

Caligraph typewriter
Advertisement for the Caligraph typewriter from The American Writing Machine Co. " A business house without a Caligraph is behind the times." Date: 1892

Scottish soldier writing home on a spiral staircase, WW1
A resourceful Scottish soldier sits on a section of spiral staircase on the Western Front during the First World War to write his letter home. Date: 1914-1918

Words by King Charles II
Poem written by King Charles II entitled I Pass All My Hours in a Shady Old Grove, accompanied by a stylised illustration of the Merry Monarch composing under the shade of an oak tree

Fragment from the Nibelungenhandschrift
A fragment from the Nibelungenhandschrift, describing the betrayal by Sigfrid (Siegfried) of his love. Date: 14th century

Travel to India
Poster published by the British India Press, Bombay, advertising travel to India

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