1940 Collection

WW2 poster, We shall not flag, Winston Churchill speech
WW2 poster, We shall not flag, we shall not fail. Winston Churchill speech, 4 June 1940. Date: 1940

Churchills praise for RAF Pilots
" Never was so much owed by so many to so few" - Prime Minister Winston Churchill from a speech made on 20th August 1940

Winston Churchill - Giving the V for Victory sign
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) - Giving the V for Victory sign. Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdon from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Date: circa 1940

WW2 poster, activities of 52 (Lowland) Division
Screen-print poster, published circa 1950, showing the activities of the 52nd Lowland Division during the Second World War, with a map of Northern Europe, and unit badges along the top and bottom

W Churchill Gives V Sign
WINSTON CHURCHILL British statesman and author Gives the V-sign in 1940

Full Dress Parade, the Citadel, Charleston, SC
View shows soldiers marching in formation across the parade grounds of the Citadel. Buildings re visible in the background

Deserve Victory 1940
Winston Churchill says we Deserve Victory!

Carl Gustav Jung
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Swiss psychologist in 1940

Leon Trotsky / Iln 1920
LEON TROTSKY or LEV DAVIDOVICH BRONSTEIN Russian Communist leader in 1920, at the height of his popularity as the Peoples Commissar for War

HMS Exeter arriving at Plymouth, Second World War, 1940
Photograph showing the arrival of the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Exeter at Plymouth Docks, February 1940. Exeter was returning to Britain for the first time since taking part in the Battle of the River

Firefighters on a tea break after fire St Katherines Dock
London firefighters (with cork helmets) and Auxiliary Fire Service firefighters (with tin hats and AFS badges on their tunics)

George Formby
Entertainer George Formby (1904-1961) and his wife Beryl Formby, nee Ingham (1901-1960), also a variety artist. Date: 1940

Bomb damage in Brampton Road, Bexleyheath, WW2
Panoramic view of extensive bomb damage in Brampton Road, Bexleyheath, Kent, 14 November 1944, with ambulances ready to remove casualties from the scene

200-inch observatory at Palomar, drawn by Russell Porter, 1938. ?The glass giant of Palomar? by David O Woodbury. 1940. pp.304-5 Date: 1938

Wartime poster of Churchills famous words: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few, referring to the pilots of the Royal Air Force, fighting the Battle of Britain

Cunard White Star liner
The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth sails into New York Date: circa 1940

Tatler front cover featuring Princess Elizabeth & Margaret o
Front cover of The Tatler featuring the fourteenth birthday picture of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) together with her sister, Princess Margaret Rose

Bomb damage in Kilgour Road, SE London, WW2
Panoramic view of bomb damage in Kilgour Road, SE London, 18 November 1944. Rubble and debris can be seen on both sides of the road

A Mass of White Contrails During a Battle-Of-Britain Dog?
A Mass of White Contrails During a Battle-Of-Britain Dog-Fight in the Sky over the Spire of Saint Francis Catholic Church, Maidstone, Kent, UK Date: 1940

Sixth Column Strategy
Stout patriots dislodge an enemy machine gun post from the dome of St. Pauls using the usual Heath Robinson cunning! Please note

Bbc Broadcasting House
BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London

HMS Jervis Bay attacking the Admiral Scheer, Second Worl
Illustration showing the Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay (centre) steaming towards the German pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer, North Atlantic, November 1940

Ballerina & Snow
View from the Artists Window Romantic depiction of a young blonde ballerina looking at the snowy scene ouside

Catford Evacuees
A group of excited evacuee schoolchildren wait with their nurses on the platform of Catford train station in south east London. (Note the barrage balloon behind them)

Firefighters standing by during the Blitz, London in WWII LFB150
Firefighters standing by during the Blitz, London -- in the early hours of the morning, after a night of bombing

Blitz in London -- ambulance at Ladywell, Lewisham, WW2
Blitz in London -- an ambulance and rescue workers in the Ladywell area of Lewisham, SE13, where houses were demolished by a parachute bomb, 18 September 1940

Penzance Station, Cornwall, c.1940
A view of Penzance station, Cornwall, c.1940, showing Castle Class locomotive No. 5024, Carew Castle, sitting at the platform with the town of Penzance visible in the background

Blitz in London -- Balham High Road, WW2
Blitz in London -- a bus in a bomb crater over an underground station in Balham High Road, SW London, 14 October 1940

Sandbanks Chain Ferry No.1 - Entrance to Poole Harbour
The No.1 steam-powered Sandbanks chain ferry. Sandbanks Ferry is a vehicular chain ferry which crosses the entrance of Poole Harbour in the English county of Dorset

Lake Placid, N.Y. USA - View across Mirror Lake - Winter
Lake Placid, N.Y. USA - View across Mirror Lake toward Lake Placid Club - Winter Date: 1940

Lake Placid, N.Y. USA - Main Street Date: 1940

FALL / SALUKI / 1940
Three of Mrs Barrs adolescent Salukis. Date: 1940

Blitz in London -- Whitechapel Fire Station
Whitechapel Fire Station in Whitechapel Road having suffered heavy blast damage following a bombing raid on 8 September 1940

White leghorn chicken
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1940s: White leghorn chicken standing next to egg. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

WW2 Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe informing suppliers
WW2 Home Front Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe Colette of Swallow Street, London sending information on a printed card to inform suppliers that (likely due to Bomb damage)

Messerschmitt Bf109E-4 of German Ace Franz von Werra, adjutant of II Gruppe JG3, forced down at Marden, Kent, on 5 September 1940

Cutaway view of a Pan-American Clipper. Boeing 314, c1940
PAN AM CLIPPER, 1940. Cutaway view of a Pan-American Clipper. Boeing 314, c1940

King George VI and Winston Churchill, 1940
Wartime British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill photographed with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in September 1940 after the Palace had been damaged by German bombs during

Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, Virgin Islands, West Indies
View of Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, Virgin Islands, West Indies. Date: circa 1940

WW2 recruitment poster, Join the Wrens (Womens Royal Naval Service) and free a man for the Fleet. Printed for HMSO. Date: circa 1940

John Buchan / Vanity Fair
JOHN BUCHAN Scottish author and administrator Date: 1875 - 1940

Blitz - Fire at Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe
Warehouses ablaze (the left wing of the No.8 warehouse) following the heavy enemy bombing raids on the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe

Judy Garland (1922 1969), American singer, actress. Date: 1947

Poster by James Montgomery Flagg from the 1940 presidential campaign, supporting the re-election of President Franklin
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, 1940. Poster by James Montgomery Flagg from the 1940 presidential campaign, supporting the re-election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Blitz in London -- warehouses, Surrey Docks, WW2
Warehouses ablaze following heavy bombing raids on the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, SE London. This raid took place on 7 September 1940

HMS Jervis Bay, armed merchant cruiser, WW2
HMS Jervis Bay, an armed merchant cruiser which served during the Second World War. Launched 1922 (as a passenger ship), commissioned for war service 1939

ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955). American (German-born) theoretical physicist
ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955). German-American theoretical physicist. At his home in Princeton, New Jersey. Photograph by Lucien Aigner, 1940, digitally colored by Granger, NYC

ERROL FLYNN (1909-1959). Australian actor. Flynn in the title role of The Sea Hawk, a 1940 film based on Rafael Sabatinis novel

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