Belgian Gallery

WW2 Poster -- Formation Signs

Formation signs, dated 8 May 1945. Chromolithograph poster, showing various formation signs of infantry and armoured divisions, brigades, groups, including Airborne TPS, GHQ Liaison Regiment, Polish Armed Division, Czech Independent Armoured Brigade Group, 1 Independent Belgian Brigade Group. Date: 1945

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

Manneken Pis Postcard Album - Nun and Children

Embarrased nun: "Look to the left my children". The nun leads a group of schoolgirls (one snubbing her nose), holding an umbrella to shield their innocent eyes from the little boy statue. Manneken Pis (Dutch for little pee man'), also known in French as the petit Julien, is a very famous Brussels landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. This fold-out postcard album contains humourous sketches relating to the statue and individuals reactions on viewing it!

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10282560

Beach bathing machines, 1913

Beach bathing machines with bathers. These huts on wheels were developed in the Victorian era to allow bathers to change and be wheeled down to the sea for private and secluded bathing. Men and women initially bathed separately, but later mixed bathing became acceptable. This photograph, taken in Ostend, Belgium, dating from 19 June 1913, is from the Bain News Service, one of the USA's earliest news picture libraries

© LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY