News Collection (#89)

Sharing a loving moment behind The Times
A couple share a loving moment behind The Times ! Date: 1916

A. D. Nineteen Fifty
Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, originally published in The Bystander magazine on 29 September 1915 and subsequently issued as part of his Fragments from France, and, as here

WW2 - Italian brides of American GIs arrive in USA
WW2 - Seven Italian brides of American GIs reach the United States of America through the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation on the last stage of their journey to their new homes

Celebrating the glorious victory in WWI - France & America and their leaders, President Woodrow Wilson, Marechal Foch and Georges Clemenceau Date: 1919

Two scruffy street boys discuss lowering of income tax
Joyful News. " Ow, I sy Billie, Fader says there ll be a penny off de income-tax nex Year." Date: 1895

Actor delighted to receive news of well paid role
Theatrical Appointment - Ten Quid a week. An actor delighted to receive news of his forthcoming lucrative contract! Date: 1892

Chelsea Pensioner reads the latest news from the Boer War
A Chelsea Pensioner reads the latest news from the front (during the Second Anglo-Boer War). Date: 1900

Four girls promoting the News of the World
Four promo girls for the News of the World - circa 1905. Pictured outsides J Berrys Newsagents (also a postcard publisher) in Crediton, Devon

Ukbekistan - Mail Carrier distributing newspapers
Ukbekistan (former Soviet Central Asia) - A horseback Mail Carrier distributing newspapers in the native language. Date: 1933

View of the Shipyard, Newport News, Virginia - with a decorative surround of seashells Date: 1912

13 NOVEMBER 1964 Only the boot of this Tokyo car is convertible. This lucky pointer enjoys travelling in it. Watching the traffic

John Topham press cuttings - top publishing pictures were put in elephant folio cuttings books which started in 1933 and continued through to 1969 eTopFoto

Front page of Harpers Weekly, 9 October 1909, with a photograph of a biplane flying near the Statue of Liberty in New
STATUE OF LIBERTY, 1909. Front page of Harpers Weekly, 9 October 1909, with a photograph of a biplane flying near the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor

The first issue of the Centinel of the North-Western Territory, 9 November 1793
NORTHWEST TERRITORY, 1793. The first issue of the Centinel of the North-Western Territory, 9 November 1793

The front page of Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, 15 August 1945, announcing the end of World War II
WORLD WAR II: V-J DAY, 1945. The front page of Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, 15 August 1945, announcing the end of World War II

The front cover of Shell Aviation News, March 1960, (261). Date: 1960

Tinted R34 cutaway drawing by W.B. Robinson for Illustrated London News, July 1919. Date: 1919

Farman circular kilometre. History of Flying Set 1, The Illustrated London News

The front cover of Avro News August 1956
The front cover of Avro News, August 1956, 6, (4). Date: 1956

New Flower Market, Paris. Flower sellers filling their water cans at the fountain. From The Illustrated London News, 4 July 1874

Chapel on board the prison hulk Warrior at Woolwich. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Advertisment for Pears soap using endorsements from famous people including the soprano Adelina Patti and the actress Lillie Langtry. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 6 November 1886)

Opening of the London to Paris telegraph link. Instrument room at the Submarine Telegraph Company, Cornhill, London, showing the Wheatstone needle telegraph instruments

Prison Hulks: Warder watching prisoners in the washroom on board convict hulk Warrior at Woolwich. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Prison Hulks: Warder watching prisoners entering their ward on board convict hulk Warrior at Woolwich. This hulk held 600

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: A street in Strasbourg during the siege and bombardment, 1870. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 15 October 1870). Wood engraving

Prison Hulks: Ward on board the convict hulk Warrior at Woolwich. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Paddington Station, the London terminus of the Great Western Railway, 1854. Iron was used in the construction of the roof, and the spans supported on cast iron pillars

Samuel Colt (1814-1862), American inventor and industrialist, shown here with the Colt revolver, the weapon which, after the Mexican war of 1846-8, was adopted by the US army

London Dock Labourers Strike 1889: Scenes along the strikers procession. Among aims of strike was establishment of minimum wage of 6d (2.5p) per hour, but it failed.From The Illustrated London News

One of the first letter boxes erected in London at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street. Wood engraving from The Illustrated London News, 24 March 1855

Edmund Lyons, lst Baron Lyons (1790-1858) British naval commander, c1860. Rear-Admiral of British fleet in Black Sea during Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856

Victoria Cross: reward for gallantry instituted 1856 for all ranks of army and navy. First conferred by Queen Victoria on 62 men June 1857

Prison Hulks: Convict hulk Warrior at Woolwich. This hulk held 600 and was an intermediate confinement between an ordinary gaol or transportation

Advertisement for Kodak cameras from The Illustrated London News, 16 September 1893 including Kodaks famous slogan You press the button, we do the rest

Panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush of 1849. From The Illustrated London News 6 January 1849. Wood engraving

Charles Dickens (1812-70) English novelist and journalist speaking at a Dulwich College Charity meeting. From The llustrated London News, 22 March 1856

Dinner given by Waterhouse Hawkins (the maker) to celebrate the completion of two Iguanadon statues to be put on display at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, New Years Eve, 1853

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: A balloon from Paris passing over Versailles. During the war Paris was under siege from September 1870 to January 1871

Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Scottish-born British jurist and politician. Social Science: London University. From The Illustrated News of the World, London c1861

Indian (Sepoy) Mutiny, also known as the Sepoy Mutininy or the Great War of Independence: Siege of Delhi: Colonel Campbells troops storming the Cashmere Gate after engineers had blown it up

Jenny Lind (1820-87) soprano known as the Swedish Nightingale, 1848. Lind in the title role of Donizettis opera Lucia di Lammermoor based on the novel The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873) English prelate, third son of abolitionist William Wilberforce. Bishop of Oxford 1845, Bishop of Winchester 1869. Known as Soapy Sam for his charm. Opposed Darwinism

Workers in underground galleries putting cartridges of dynamite into position in preparation for the blowing up Flood Rock

Blowing up Flood Rock, part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex which prevented large vessels reaching New York Harbour, and presented a hazard to smaller ones. Dynamite was the explosive used

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital. This was under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was built to meet the needs of the epidemic of the winter of 1870-1871

Florence Nightingale (1820 -1910) English nurse and statistician. From The Illustrated Midland News, 19 March 1870. Wood engraving

The barrack hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-56) under Florence Nightingale s
The barrack hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-56) under Florence Nightingales (1820-1910) management. From The Illustrated London News, 1854. Wood engraving

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