Images Dated 3rd August 2015 (#100)

Wurlitzer advertisement, 1925
Girl of 13 makes $75 a week! Alice Higgie of Chicago made this amount weekly in vaudeville in the summer of 1924, thanks to her easy to play Wurlitzer saxophone. Send for your free book now

Musical instrument manufacture, 1855
The interior of the factory of Pierre Louis Gautrot, showing the manufacture of musical instruments. Furnices can be seen to the rear

The Great Kitchen at Brighton Pavilion
The Great Kitchen at Brighton Royal Pavilion, complete with decorative cast iron palm tree columns

String and wind instrument manufacture, 1855
The interior of the factory of Pierre Louis Gautrot, showing the manufacture of wind and stringed musical instruments in 1855. Date: 1855

Musical instrument manufacture, 1855
The interior of the factory of Pierre Louis Gautrot, showing the manufacture of brass musical instruments in 1855. Date: 1855

Rene Fraser on board Goddess in 1928. Date: 1928

Alan Fraser in dingy

Rene Fraser at Buntingford carrying a climbing ladder on her shoulder

Goldie Fraser on Velocette L. E. motorcycle, reg. No. 460 BAF
Goldie Fraser on Velocette L.E. motorcycle, reg. No. 460 BAF

Exhibit of Bessons musical instruments, 1885
An exhibit of F. Besson & Companys brass musical instruments, 1885. Date: 1885

Ladies of the Council of Queen Marys Needlework Guild
Members of the Council of Queen Marys Needlework Guild. On 10th August 1914 Queen Mary issued an appeal to the women of the Empire to organise a large collection of garments for those who will suffer

War dog attached to a French motor ambulance
A canine Red Cross worker attached to a French motor ambulance during World War I. Trained dogs were not only used to hunt for the wounded in outlying parts of the battlefield

Captain J. E. T. Harper
Captain J.E.T.Harper of the Royal Navy, appointed Master of the Fleet for the Inspection of the Fleet by King George V at Spithead in July 1914 Date: 1914

Bystander cover, Anthony Wilding & Arthur Balfour tennis
The Rt. Hon. Arthur Balfour and Mr Anthony (Tony) Frederick Wilding, four-times Wimbledon tennis champion, pictured as doubles partners in a friendly match on Centre Court at Wimbledon in July 1917

The massing of war columns
When the First World War broke out, newspaper readers thought there would be a constant stream of new information to keep them up-to-date with everything

Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux (1856 - 1929)
Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux (formerly Lambton), pictured while Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1916

Sportsmen on active service during World War I
The call to arms summoned a number of prominent sports personalities to the front. Among them are Captain McCalmont, the owner of The Tetrarch, Captain Tomkinson, of polo fame, and Captain Gibbon

Admiral Sir George Callaghan (1852 - 1920)
Admiral Sir George Callaghan, pictured while Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy Home Fleet. When war broke out at the end of July 1914, he was relieved of this command by Sir John Jellicoe

Balachowa and Mordkin leaving for the front
The famous Russian dancers, Mme. Alexandra Balachowa, who is to be a Red Cross nurse, and M. Michael Mordkin, who is a reservist, leaving Charing Cross for the front

Vice-Admiral Stanley Colville (1861 - 1939)
Vice-Admiral Sir Stanley Cecil James Colville, pictured while in command of the First Battle Squadron of the Royal Navy. He was promoted to Admiral shortly after the outbreak of war

Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland as a nurse during WWI
Millicent Fanny Sutherland-Leveson Gower- [n饠 Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine], Duchess of Sutherland ), society hostess and social reformer

The brass plate at the German Embassy removed during WWI
A sign of diplomatic relations breaking down at the outbreak of World War One was the removal of the brass plate at the German Embassy in London. Date: 1914

Hospital nurses boarding a train to Portsmouth during WWI
Women volunteered in their thousands to become nurses during the first few months of World War I. Here a detachment of nurses board a train from London Waterloo to Portsmouth to work with the British

Russian and Romanian Royalty
The Russian and Romanian royal families, pictured during the formers visit to Constanza, on the Romanian coast. From left, going around the back: Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, Carol I

The Prince of Wales at the outbreak of World War I
Edward, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII), in the uniform of a non-commissioned officer of the Oxford University Officer Training Corps

Ammonites: fossilized cephalopods

Bring the Batman (patented by Germany), Heath Robinson
Bring-The-Batman (Patented in Germany) by William Heath Robinson. Simplicity itself: A device adopted by hun officers for awakening their servants. Date: 1917

Looking in a shop window during the sales, WW1
Each person has his or her own interpretation of the national call to thrift. This is the construction put upon it by the great drapery houses in the West End of London

Prominent racing personalities at Brooklands
Caricatures of famous racing personalities at Brooklands by The Tout - Mr Ns Hinde, the Hon. L Bruce, Major Linday Lloyd, Mr Malcolm Campbell, Dr Da Costa, Gordon Watney and the Hon R Westenra

Ammonites
Four fossils: ammonities(including a Beaumont ammonite) and a ceratite(horn stone)

Lady Drogheda with Prince Henry of Pless
Lady Drogheda pictured with Prince Henry of Pless and the Princes eldest son. The Countess of Drogheda, born Kathleen Moore Pelham Burn married the 10th Earl of Drogheda in 1909

Carnival by F. Woolrich
Striking illustration of a woman dressed in a flamboyant, theatrical costume, having her hand kissed (at least I think its her hand) by a man in a Pierrot costume. Date: 1914

Wrights Coal Tar soap advertisement
Advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar Soap showing a sleeping baby in bed while a parade of fairies and elves carry the soap in a procession

Thomas Lipton launches Shamrock IV, 1914
Sir Thomas Lipton photographed at Gosport in June 1914 after his fourth challenger for the Americas Cup had been christened by the Countess of Shaftesbury and safely launched in Portsmouth harbour

Suffragette disturbance at Royal Horse Show, 1914
Scenes at the Royal Horse Show in June 1914, when two suffragettes made an attempt to appeal to the King. Larger picture shows Princess Mary, Lady Desborough, King George V, Queen Mary

George Grossmtih & Peggy Kurton, The Pigeon Walk
The Pigeon Walk, a new dance demonstrated by Peggy Kurton and George Grossmith in Tonights the Night at the Gaiety Theatre in 1915

Suzanne Lenglen aged 15
Suzanne Lenglen (1899 - 1938), French tennis player, winner of 81 singles titles during the 1920s. Pictured as a precocious fifteen year old in The Tatler, which writes

Visitors for wounded soldiers by Miss Watson Williams
A set of four pictures - the pair on the left entitled, As Tommy Does Not Like It, showing some rather tiresome visitors - an aristocratic lady and a maiden aunt

An unmilitary salute in silhouette, WW1
Professor Miggs, of the Volunteers, takes his first walk in uniform and gives a very unmilitary salute. An academic type takes to khaki but isn t yet familiar with military etiquette. Date: 1915

A War Bride by J. Mitchell Elliot
Artistic photograph showing a bride in veil and dress, looking pensively out of a window, perhaps in the knowledge that her new husband will soon be leaving for the front

Raphael Kirchner
Portrayer-in-chief of Fair Femininity, and painter of " A Ducks Egg!" (see picture number 10223078). Raphael Kirchner (1876 - 1917), Austrian artist, best known for his pin-ups

Check Mate by S. Abbe
Illustration of a pretty young woman in a swimsuit and a fetching checked bathing cap. Date: 1915

The Maharajah & Maharanee of Kapurthala
H.H. The Maharani of Kapurthala, formerly Anita Delgardo (Delgado), the famous Spanish dancer who married Maharajah Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala in 1908

Phyllis Dare knitting, WW1
Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), the English actress, who was born Phyllis Haddie Dones, c.1910. Together with her sister, Zena, she was one of the great

River trip for wounded soldiers, WW1
An up river trip on the River Thames from Kingston to Walton and back for wounded soldiers convalescing at the Victoria Hospital Chelsea arranged by the print-machine managers at the Illustrated

Loves Labour - Not Lost by Barribal, WW1 knitting
A pretty young woman engrossed in her knitting, a popular and patriotic pastime during the First World War, making comforts for troops. Date: 1915

When May is Out by William Heath Robinson
The residents of a town take the old proverb, Cast ne er a clout, til May is out rather literally now that June has arrived. Even the local policeman has felt the urge to disrobe. Date: 1915

First attack of the Battle of Flanders
Second Battle of Flanders: Going methodically forward they took every trench and point they were set to take precisely as was appointed for them, until they arrived close up to the Steenbeek River

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