Year Collection (page 19)

Frog at a writing desk on a New Year card
Frog standing at a writing desk on a New Year card, with seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Frogs and grasshopper on a New Year card
Four frogs and a grasshopper on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky portrayed as an imposter
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky(1831-1891). Russian mystic and writer portrayed in the last year, satirised by her detractors

Visa pages with stamps in a French passport valid for one year from 15 March 1921, belonging to Mlle Henriette Stephanie Pannier, student

Signature page, French passport valid for one year from 15 March 1921, belonging to Mlle Henriette Stephanie Pannier, student. Date: 1921

Old Father Time on a German New Year card
Old Father Time with hourglass, scythe and rose on a German New Year card dated 1 January 1815. Date: 1815

Boys playing in the snow on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Elephant and circus arriving on a New Year card
A little boy on a donkey meets an elephant and circus arriving -- We know not what is coming in the New Year. Date: circa 1890s

Stealing Pantalones food on a Christmas and New Year card
Harlequin and Columbine stealing Pantalones food and drink on a Christmas and New Year card (they are passing it through the windows to a Clown on the other side). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Spider and web on a Christmas card, with a tab to pull for a three-dimensional effect. Date: circa 1880s

Cartoon, Epiphany 1916, WW1
Cartoon, Epiphany 1916, illustrating a contemporary version of a childrens song about the Three Kings. Here, the three kings are from Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria

Gaston and Andree, London (1926)
The sensational adagio and acrobatic dancers Gaston and Andree, London (1926) Date: 1926

The eccentric dancer Hal Sherman in the Piccadilly Revels, L
The eccentric American dancer Hal Sherman in the Piccadilly Revels (1926) cabaret show at the Piccadilly Hotel Date: 1926

Robert Quinault & Iris Rowe at the Kit Kat Club, London (1927) Date: 1928

Young man with dog outside a building, on a New Year greetings postcard. Date: circa 1910s

Chinese noble transportated in palanquin at the times of the Qing Dynasty. Illustration in travel magazine El viagero ilustrado (The Illustrated traveler). Year 3. No. 7. April 15, 1880. Engraving

Peregrine Falcon - adult warms a chick after feeding him in the nest (a single chick because of the bad year due to the lack of lemmings as food, a natural fluctuation), (Falco peregrinus)

For Good Luck by William Heath Robinson
Training black cats to enter the front door at the stroke of twelve on New Years Eve. A contraption to encourage a New Year tradition imagined by the cartoonist William Heath Robinson. Date: 1919

WW2 Poster -- This Is The Year
This Is The Year! Its Up To Us To Let Em Have It! Colour photolithograph after Clive Upton. Date: 1944

105th Mahratta Light Infantry - Christmas and New Year card
105th Mahratta Light Infantry. Christmas and New Year card - Karachi 1922.. Commemorative Art

Scottish troops on New Years Day, WW1
Scottish troops enjoying a sing-song on the Western Front on New Years Day, World War One. Several of the men are playing bagpipes. Date: circa 1916

Disused tram, Blackpool St Annes & Lytham Tramways
A disused tram of the Blackpool St Annes & Lytham Tramways, damaged and rusting in the open air. It still carries advertising for Hovis, Lifebuoy Soap, Hudsons Super Soap

Aerial View of Madrid, 1936
Illustration showing an aerial view of Madrid, pictured at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Madrid, the Spanish capital

Marie-Louise Photo
MARIE-LOUISE d Autriche empress of France, second wife of Napoleon I : photographed in the last year of her life. Date: 1791 - 1847

Karl Anton Werther
KARL ANTON baron von WERTHER Prussian ambassador to France in 1869 : in less than a year the two countries would be at war... Date: 1809 - 1894

Obelisk of Senusret I, site of Heliopolis, Egypt
The obelisk of Senusret I, in the ancient city of Heliopolis, Egypt. Senusret erected two red granite obelisks there to celebrate his Year 30 Heb Sed Jubilee

Turquoise pots with white flowers on three cutout cards
Turquoise pots decorated with white flowers on three cutout greetings cards for Christmas, New Year and Birthday. Date: circa 1890s

Birds perched on logs on three cutout Christmas cards
Colourful birds perched on logs on three cutout Christmas and New Year cards. Date: circa 1890s

Autumn, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people enjoying a picnic, with a man picking apples from a tree in the middle distance

Summer, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people harvesting in the fields, with a storm in the distance

Hermann Lang on the twelve-cylinder Mercedes-Benz
Hermann Lang on the twelve-cylinder, 490 bhp, 3 litre Mercedes-Benz with which in 1939 he made the fastest timed laps of four Grand Prix circuits with an astonishing peak of 117.5 mph in practice for

An Ukhara, with a view of the British Residents camp. From: Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809. Date: 1813

Siege of Lathom House
LATHOM HOUSE, Lancashire, is heroically defended for 3 months by Charlotte, countess of Derby, but surrenders next year : in this picture, the defenders make a sortie Date: 1646 - 1647

Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years old, all shuck regularly. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina. Date 1911 February

Queen Elizabeth II meets Gordon Richards at the Derby
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh meet jockey, Sir Gordon Richards in the paddock after his victory in the Derby in Coronation year. Date: 1953

New Year Greetings Card
A humourous photographic New Year Greetings card from Germany, depicting a couple tucking into sparkling red wine having spent a productive few hours making the snowman who stands happily between

Edward VIII in full dress uniform on a blotter
King Edward VIII (1894-1972) in full dress uniform on a Family Journal Coronation Year Blotter. Date: 1937

National Service 1947
Eighteen-year-old R.A.S.C. National Service recruit Tony Boxall. Date: 1947

Princess Margarita of Greece & Prince Gottfried of Hohenlohe
Princess Margarita of Greece (1905-1981) and Prince Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1897-1960)in 1931, the year of their marriage

Buckingham Palace prior to Renovation, 1913
Photographs showing two views of the facade of Buckingham Palace as scaffolding began to rise for the renovation of 1913. That year the whole of the facade was re-faced with white Portland stone

The Edge of the American Sector, Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing German men and women removing the rubble barricades between the American Sector and the Soviet Sector of Berlin at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949

A furious charge of Irish troops at the taking of Guillemon
An illustration showing Irish troops attacking German positions at Guillemont, September 1916. The image depicts Irish soldiers engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat at a machine-gun post which

Henry VI Crowned - 2
9-year old Henry VI, already crowned in England, is crowned again in Notre Dame, Paris, as king of France : however, for some reason he is not listed as such in French histories

Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen head for the North Pole
Illustration showing Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen waving goodbye to the Fram as they set out in an attempt to reach the North Pole on skis, March 1895

The Scene on the Deck of HMS Discovery at Portsmouth, 1876
Engraving showing the scene on the deck of HMS Discovery at the end of her Arctic expedition, Portsmouth, 1876. In 1875 the British Admiralty sent Captain George Nares with two ships

The Lord Mayors Banquet at the Guildhall, November 9th 1887
Banquet scene at Londons Guildhall. An annual banquet is traditionally held to celebrate the mayors installation in November each year

HMS Phoenix after the Hong-Kong Typhoon, September 1906
Photograph of HMS Phoenix, the twin-screw steel and wood sloop of 1895, heeled over beside the coaling station, Hong Kong

The SS Berengaria, New York, 1938
Photograph of the Cunard-White Star liner Berengaria at her pier in the River Hudson. Built in 1912 for the Hamburg-American Line as Imperator

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