Reads Collection

The Kinecar by William Heath Robinson
Double page illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a well-equipped omnibus transporting passengers while they watch a film

Suffragette Cat In Hat and Flag. A cat wears a large picture hat and a flag in WSPU colours, purple, white and green, fastened as a shawl with VFW badge

Higher Education
A Blue Stocking reads in a Library. Illustration by Webster Murray

Girl playing Nurse
A young girl in her nurses outfit, tends to her teddys injuries with copious bandaging, whilst a pet cat watches on. She seems to be getting her medical knowledge from the First Aid manual in her

Suffragette Cat in Straw Hat Votes for Women. Cat in a straw hat, placed at a jaunty angle, wears a large placard which reads, Votes for Women Date: circa 1908

Child Reads at Window
Picture Books in Winter: " Summer fading, winter comes; Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, & the picture story books."

Ruins d Ypres with wooden frame from a Cloth Hall beam
Ruins d Ypres 1918. Framed in a wooden frame with an inscribed plaque which reads This frame made from a piece of beam from the Cloth Hall, Ypres. Paul Mansard

ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA
ERNESTO GUEVARA - Che Guevara reading a book in Havana in 1960. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

The Zulu war. Scene of the Battle of Isandula (Isandhlwana)
After the Battle of Isadhlwana. A description by Lieutenant Crealock reads, Day waned and the night hung over the hill, when we reached the last ridge, beyond which lay what had been our camp

Flying for the Summer Week-end by C. E. Turner
Illustration from 1928 by C.E. Turner reflecting the growing rise of civilian flying in the 1920s. The caption reads, ...only last month there was a house-party at which the ten guests

Suffragette Hen Pecked Husband Suffers. Poor Hen-Pecked husband cleans out the fire while wife tells him what to do. Caption reads, My Wifes joined the suffrage movement

Woman reading a book
A beautiful young woman with blonde hair and red lipsticked lips, wears a lilac gown with sky blue fur trim. She reclines in her favourite chair to read her book. 1937

A Reader in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers at top of his voice all day long. This is all the education many of these workers receive

Edmund Spenser reading to Raleigh
Edmund Spenser reading the first part of his epic poem The Faerie Queen to Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland

Girl Reads Struwelpeter
A young girl improves her sense of right and wrong by reading Struwwelpeter

Suffragette Rush House of Commons Flyer 1908. An original leaflet/flyer issued by the WSPU. Reads Votes for Women Men and women Help the Suffragettes to Rush the House of Commons on Tuesday Evening

Mary with Jesus (Dyce)
Mary reads a prayer book while Jesus watches

Lusitania Medal
The medal struck in Germany to commemorate the sinking. It reads " Business above all on Cunard Line. The great liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine."

Abc Cafe London / 1900
The Aerated Bread Company Cafe (ABC) Ludgate Hill, London. The tea rooms opened in the 1860s, serving hot drinks and snacks. The stair sign reads Ladies Coffee Room Downstairs

Dancing Hours
Black and white. Image shows a bas relief of six ladies, each holding the hand of the ones next to her, and apparently dancing. This is a Wedgwood bas relief originally attributed to John Flaxman Jr

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - Coloured slide with handwritten inscription - Lorry reads the dispatch Recalled to Life

Suffragette Militant Attack on Golf Course. A Suffragette under cover of darkness, pours acid on the golf course, unaware shes being watched

Lenin Reads Pravda 1918
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN reading Pravda in his study

Hindu Scriptures / Lahore
Ranjit Singh reads the Hindu scriptures on the roof of the palace at Lahore. He was the founder of the Punjab Empire and a Sikh leader

Chaucer Reads at Court
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Chaucer reads one of his Canterbury Tales to Edward III and his court, at Sheen Castle in Surrey

Female Type / Reading Book
A lady reads a book, wearing a cloche hat, Louis heel shoes, stockings and either a chemise or a pair of cami-knickers

Cock Robin 1
After the unfortunate death of Cock Robin, the Rook reads the burial service

Cafe Josty Scene 1890
CAFE JOSTY A gentleman pours cream into his coffee, while a couple are engrossed in their conversation. At the next table a man reads a paper Date: 1890

Geisha / Instruments / C1900
Three geisha, in informal kimono: one practises on her shamisen whilst another reads

Fortune Teller 1950S
A fortune teller reads a mans fortune for him by candlelight, using a pack of ordinary playing cards

Game / Children Acting
A little girl stands on a stool and reads from a script, while her friends and their toys form the audience

Burial of De Soto on the Mississippi
Spanish soldiers lower the wrapped body of Hernando De Soto into the Mississippi River. A soldier holds a torch as a priest reads from the Bible

Suffragette, An Easter Prophecy. Suffragette hen with chick, rabbit and eggs. The hen carries a Votes for Women placard and the rhyme reads, When hens all join the suffrage ranks

Boy sitting and reading
A young boy sits on a pouffe reading a book. Pastel sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Teacher reading to infants, Brentwood, Essex

Mother & Daughter Read
Mother reads a large book while her daughter hangs over her shoulders

Camel / Travel / Bridge 1924
A woman reads her guide book on the back of a camel. She crosses a Chinese bridge, watched by an eskimo, a gondolier and a Tahitian singer

Leningrad Library
Reading in the library despite constant bombing - during the siege, bombs landed about every 3 minutes. The sign reads Please keep quiet

Girl Reads in Armchair
A girl sits in an armchair, with her hands behind her hair and wearing a white pinafore, reading a book

BARBER 1827
A barber trims the back of his customers hair while he reads his paper

Reading Palm Left
A gipsy reads a palm - the left hand Theres happy days in store for you

Reading a Letter
She reads a letter above a vase of blue flowers

She Reads a Letter 1889
She reads a letter at her dressing table

Birdie Reads Thermometer
Birdie Bowers reads the thermometer on the ramp

Epicurus / Virtus Mihi
EPICURUS Greek philosopher: the Latin inscription reads " Virtue is my only pleasure"

Haydns "Anti-Visiting"card, which when translated reads, "Gone is all my strength
Haydns " Anti-Visiting" card, which when translated reads, " Gone is all my strength, old and weak am I". Franz Joseph Haydn, 1732 - 1809

Client: Tricosa - location: BOAC Terminal
Client: Tricosa - Beige White Suit - location: BOAC Terminal - November 1956 (Agency: S. C. Peacock) Shoot date: November 28, 1956 Date: 1956

Stormy evening, Isle of Harris
Ulrike Eisenmann

Professor Lambert Rogers and Surgical Unit, Cardiff Royal Infirmary. Formal group of 16 men in white coats, two women in white coats, and two sisters

Ernest King and other Marland Hospital Staff, including six male nurses. Reverse reads Ernest King is 2nd row centre. Charge Nurse Marland Hospital nr Rochdale, Lancs. Approx 1949. Date: circa 1949

The Port of Leghorn, 1858. Creator:s Read
The Port of Leghorn, 1858. Livorno in Italy, ...a town of considerable trade, importing corn, woollens, cottons, hardware, and salt-fish; exporting silk in thread or manufactured, straw hats, oil

English Songs and Melodies - "The Day has Gone", 1858. Creator: J. L. Williams
English Songs and Melodies - "The Day has Gone", 1858. Illustration to sheet music: Poetry by Charles MacKay; Symphonies and Accompaniments by Frank Mori'

Haddon Hall, from the Bakewell-Road, 1854. Creator:s Read
Haddon Hall, from the Bakewell-Road, 1854. Country house dating from the 11th century. Haddon-hall, the admiration of artists, of antiquaries, and of all true lovers of nature

Crystallised Cavern, in the Blue John Mine, 1854. Creator:s Read
Crystallised Cavern, in the Blue John Mine, 1854. Geological tourist attraction in Derbyshire. Fluor spar was called by the miners "Blue John"...The Blue John Mine is chiefly celebrated for

Eaux Bonnes, Pyrenees, 1854. Creator:s Read
Eaux Bonnes, Pyrenees, 1854. Town in southern France. Through a drenching rain and an encircling fog...we pursued our way rapidly, and just as we emerged from amongst the cliffs, the rain abated

Clifton, from the Ferry, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Clifton, from the Ferry, 1850. At a mile from Bristol, and the most aristocratic portion of that city, is [Clifton, ] another of the Great Western Railway attractions...the crescent of houses in

Manufacture of Glass for "The Crystal Palace"...Birmingham, 1850. Creator:s Read
Manufacture of Glass for "The Crystal Palace", at Messrs. Chance's Works, Spon-Lane, near Birmingham, 1850. Workers making an...immense quantity of plate glass required for

The Great Wall of China, seen from the Top of the Tower, 1850. Creator: Smyth
The Great Wall of China, seen from the Top of the Tower, 1850....the wall continues apparently more or less in a ruined state for about three miles in a N.N.W

Panorama of the Nile - The Simoom, 1850. Creator:s Read
Panorama of the Nile - The Simoom, 1850. This Exhibition at the Egyptian Hall [in London] has much improved in its character

The Marston Salt-Pit, 1850. Creator:s Read
The Marston Salt-Pit, [Cheshire], 1850. Salt...was an ingredient alike in pure religious rites, an instrument of sorcery

Regent-Street - Marston Salt-Pit, 1850. Creator:s Read
Regent-Street - Marston Salt-Pit, [Cheshire], 1850. The gigantic columns of rock salt - with floor and roof of the same mineral - all glittered in the sudden light; and the shadows of the guests

The Shaft - Descent of the Bucket, Marston Salt-Pit, 1850. Creator:s Read
The Shaft - Descent of the Bucket, Marston Salt-Pit, 1850. Scene at Marston Mine, near Northwich, in Cheshire....every facility was shown to strangers who were desirous of seeing the wonders of

A family taking their summer holiday on the South Coast of England - seated in deckchairs on the beach, the couple's young baby havig great fun digging in the sand. Date: 1936

Major William Augustus Fitzgerald Lane Fox-Pitt, reading
Major (later Major General) William Augustus Fitzgerald Lane Fox-Pitt, CVO, DSO, MC (1896-1988) at The Albuhera Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire reading in the Library

Lord Suffield at the Guards Boat Club, Maidenhead
Victor Alexander Charles Harbord, 7th Baron Suffield (1897-1943) reclining on a chaise longue and reading a sporting magazine at the Guards Boat Club, Maidenhead, Berkshire Date: 1932

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, Jacob Milling postcard
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. An exceptional handwritten postcard postmarked 11pm on 9 April 1912 sent by Second Class passenger Jacob Christian Milling (1863?1912)

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, in Belfast, Northern Ireland
White Star Line, RMS Titanic, sepia photograph of Titanic in Belfast, late 1911, the reverse reads ?1912?, ?Titanic?, ?Belfast?, ?1 page?. It bears the stamp of Harlingue studio collection

Poster, Samuel Cody, bust image with War Kite
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: S. F. Cody?s Famous War Kite. Chromolithograph poster with handsome lifesize bust image of Cody dressed in a crisp, white military uniform

WW2 Canadian Soldier And Dugout
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a Canadian soldier standing with his equipment, while the right picture represents D for dug-out

Miss Doris Beresford - British Actress, sitting and reading an issue of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Date: circa 1911

Woodpecker Tapestry
A tapestry designed by William Morris, inspired by a story from Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which a sorceress transforms King Picus into a woodpecker, having refused to become here lover

In Prayer, The Examination Of Conscience
A portrait sketch of a young lady wearing a smart dress and fine hat, resting her elbows on a surface as she reads from a small prayer book. Date: circa 1901

In Memoriam
An etching which acts as a tribute to the lives lost during World War 1, elements include a memorial stone, which reads 1914-1915, 1916-1917 indicating those that have died during this period

Lever Brothers Advertisement, Lux
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Lux, a product for washing dainty fabrics, a box of which can be seen in the hand of the central woman in the picture

Hudson's Soap Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for R. S. Hudson Limited, which shows a hooded girl leaning on a wall, smiling, with a basket containing a packet of Hudson's soap. Text reads

White Star Line, Titanic lettercard written on board
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Henry James Beauchamp, rare Titanic lettercard written on board and posted with original one penny stamp

Titanic Hero Memorial notice, Belfast
RMS Titanic - notice relating to the Belfast Titanic Hero Memorial'. It reads The Lady Mayoress having desired the opportunity of putting before our employes a suggestion that they should be

Letter from Captain Edward Smith to his daughter
Future Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, from RMS Baltic - a unique handwritten letter to his daughter Helen, dated 29 November 1906: My Dear Daughter

RMS Titanic - letter, Mabel Francatelli, passenger
RMS Titanic - First Class passenger Mabel Francatelli. A fascinating letter from Mattison, Davey & Rader of New York to Miss Francatelli dated 17 April 1956

Royal Navy typewritten message, WW2
Original Royal Navy typewritten message, dated 23 May 1941 regarding the movements of the German battleship Bismarck and a Cruiser as they left the port of Bergen to take part in the massive naval

A physician, his patient, a coffin and two skeletons
Frontispiece of Robert Poole's A physical vade mecum (1741). Depicting a physician, his patient acoffin and two skeletons

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"Discovering Worlds through Reads: From Historical Battles to Empowering Movements" "Unleashing Imagination: The Kinecar by William Heath Robinson takes readers on a whimsical journey. " "Empowerment in Every Page: A Suffragette Cat In Hat and Flag inspires with its message of equality. " "Unlocking Knowledge: Higher Education opens doors to endless possibilities for eager minds. " "Nurturing Compassion: A young girl playing Nurse learns the power of empathy through reads. " "Remembering History's Lessons: The Zulu war captures the intensity of the Battle of Isandula (Isandhlwana) in vivid detail. " "Revolutionary Ideas Unveiled: ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA's writings ignite passion and inspire change. " "Window into Imagination: A child finds solace and adventure as she reads at her window sill. " "Escaping Reality, Soaring High: Flying for the Summer Week-end by C. E. Turner transports readers to thrilling heights. " "Breaking Stereotypes, Empowering Women: Suffragette Hen Pecked Husband Suffers challenges societal norms through humor and wit. " "The Power of Words Transcends Boundaries: Woman reading a book reminds us that knowledge knows no limits or restrictions. " "From Factory Floors to Literary Escapes:A Reader in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. , he reads books and ne showcases how reading can uplift spirits amidst challenging circumstances. " "Literature Connects Souls across Time:The image of Edmund Spenser reading to Raleigh portrays the timeless bond between authors and their avid readers. " Note.