Life Collection

Book cover design, My Airships: the Story of my Life, by Alberto Santos-Dumont, London: Grant Richards, 1904. 1904

Birth
Abstract in pastel, entitled Birth

Poster: Blood Donors Wanted. Your blood can save the life of someone, somewhere. Showing two soldiers tending a wounded colleague. 20th century

Alexander Graham Bell with a telephone
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) with a telephone, and a country scene behind him with telegraph poles and wires

French decorative fan with a couple and a slogan saying what you need to be happy in life -- a little air, and jewels, diamonds and pearls. c. 1920s

Wartime leaflet, blood transfusion service
Wartime leaflet about the blood transfusion service, showing how blood, and blood transfusion equipment, are dropped by parachute behind enemy lines to save the lives of wounded soldiers. 1940s

Japanese woman with fan at home in Japan circa early 20th century

Piazzeta - Venice Life - R. Jafari
Piazzeta - Venice Life -- view of Venice from the water by R. Jafari. circa 1900

Robin knitting pattern featuring old chap with pipe
Cover of a Robin knitting pattern for a fetching tank top for the dapper gent in your life. c.1955

Still life of artists tools
From a magazine advertisement c.1920

Flights into the Future - dinosaurs on Venus?
Dinosaurs pictured as possible inhabitants of the planet Venus in a book on the possibilities of space travel. Date: 1943

The Baked Potato Man with his cart -- an aspect of London life. The cart holds metal drawers for keeping the potatoes hot, and spikes at the top to stick the potatoes on. early 20th century

Officer 2nd Life Guards - Boer War Campaign Uniform. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: 1899

Titanic lifebelt
A canvas-covered circular lifebelt with the words RMS TITANIC LIVERPOOL on it. Date: 1912

Country pastimes by John Hassall
A group of young boys lark about during harvesting, running amok in a cornfield and fishing in a pond. Date: c.1910

Life Guard - Dismounted Review Order
A Life Guard - Dismounted Review Order (as he would be for dismounted sentry duty). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: 1970

Empire Marketing Board poster - Gibraltar
Empire Marketing Board poster showing a family on the deck of a ship which is sailing close to the rock of Gibraltar. Date: c.1925

First cover of London Life magazine
Very first cover of London Life magazine, published on 9th October 1965 with an eye-catching oversized date line and a photograph of sixties supermodel Celia Hammond photographed by Terence Donovan

Couple on lifes journey, with roses and thorns
A couple depicted on lifes journey, with roses and thorns. The caption reads: Life & Love close linked together, And strong to bear times wintry weather. 1891

Life Guard - Lance Corporal - Mounted Review Order (wearing cuirass). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: 1953

Wartime poster, save bread, serve potatoes
Wartime poster encouraging people to save bread (and you save lives), serve potatoes (and you serve the country). Depicting a loaf of bread inside a lifebelt. 1940s

London fortune teller and her birds
A fortune teller and her birds on a London street. The sign on the cage reads: Ladies & Gents, these innocent little birds take a planet from the box, telling your past and future life for one penny

Horses pulling the plough
Two heavy horses, pull a farmers plough through a newly cut cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Shire horse pulling a hay wagon
A heavy working horse pulls a high hay wagon along a country lane. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Farmers walk and lead a team of working horses across a harvested cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Collecting hay bales
Collecting bales of hay in a horse-drawn wooden wagon. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Shire horse drawn dray
Shire horse drawn brewery dray passes through a village, delivering beer to The Lamb and Flag pub. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Horse-drawn harvester
Two shire horses pull a farmer sitting asride an basic harvesting machine. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

My Life is My Own - book cover by David Wright
My Life is My Own, featuring a front cover illustration by the pin up artist David Wright

Cover design for Womans Life by Muriel Dawson, showing a toddler with toys. 1928

Man on beach in cork lifebelt
Man on a beach wearing a cork lifebelt

Militaria - on red cloth
British army militaria, displayed on a vivid red cloth. Includes short knives, plumed helmets of the Life Guards Regiment, a cereoinial drum and light cavalry helmets

Artist painting from Life magazine
An artist paints a portrait from the front cover of Life magazine -- how original! Date: 1950s

Fishing boat on the beach at Almunecar
A fishing boat at Almunecar, Costa del Sol, Spain. It has been propped up ready for repairs and repainting. Date: 1962

Lance Corporal of the Life Guards
A Lance Corporal of the Life Guards (Mounted Review Order). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Highlander / Yeoman Warder / Drum Major / Life Guard
(Left to right) Officer from the Gordon Highlanders - A Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London (Yeoman Gaoler) - Drum Major from The Grenadier Guards - Corporal from The Life Guards

All the Queens Men - Golden Jubilee Military Group
A painting by Malcolm Greensmith to celebrate Queen Elizabeth IIs Golden Jubilee in 2002, depicting members of a number of different regiments in the British Army. Date: 2002

Trooper - 1st Regiment of Life Guards. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: 1814 - 1815

Children in cinema queue
Children queueing up to go to the cinema, probably on a Saturday morning, in the Harrow Road or Portobello Road area, West London. Date: 1957

The Snowmans Christmas by Oliver Herford (1863-1935). British born American writer, artist and illustrator. Was a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life, and Ladies Home Journal Date: 1925

Jack Frost Window Painter by Oliver Herford (1863-1935). British born American writer, artist and illustrator. Was a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life, and Ladies Home Journal Date: 1926

Foujita and Friends
LEONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA, Japanese painter and engraver (second from left) at a cabaret club with one of his outrageous models, Kiki of Montparnasse (far left), who was also Man Rays lover

Life-Line by David Wright, showing a back view of a naked lady. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

German Monks 1930S
A time for study and contemplation for two monks in the grounds of the Gorheim Franciscan monastery, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Boys Fishing 1930S
Boys fishing for tiddlers with a fishing net under a canal bridge. 1930s

Monk and Mug
A monk with a double chin drinking a mug of beer! Date: 1940s

South Downs Picnic
Two young women enjoy a bracing picnic on the South Downs, England. Date: early 1930s

Still life with crockery, cutlery, beer glass and newspaper

Life on the Ocean Waves - Kimbei
Three Japanese women in a rowing boat Date: 19th century

Chocolate box design, arrangements of fruit
Chocolate box design, featuring various arrangements of fruit and flowers. 20th century

International Night Life magazine
Cover for International Night Life magazine, New York, 1938

History of English Life front cover
Front cover of a history school text book, A History of English Life, with a bold silhouette illustration of a mammoth attacking a man, in front of an industrial, possibly mining, backdrop. Date: 1948

International Night Life magazine, New York
Cover for International Night Life magazine, New York, 1937, featuring the Bravo show at the International Casino (Broadway & 45th Street) Date: 1937

Packaging for Riz Caroline from Indochina
Packaging for Riz Caroline -- rice from Indochina (now Vietnam). The trademark is La Bouee, a lifebuoy. 20th century

Driving two horses down a snowy lane
A farmer sits side-saddle as he rides/drives two working carthorses down a country lane in the middle of winter. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Poster design for Spanish fruit

A team of working horses at work in the fields ploughing. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Advertisement for Life Savers, five flavour sweets

Feeding the horses

A pair of working Shire Horses & Farmer
A pair of working Shire Horses, Farmer and Collie dog. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Where Have You Been All My Life? by David Wright
Where have you been all my life? by David Wright featuring a vampish semi-naked brunette woman. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Poster design for La Boheme, by Henry Murger

Fishing in India
A wonderful photograph showing colonial life in India in the early 1920s

Monks Tea Time 1930S
Tea time is the longed for recreational moment for the monks of the Monastery of Gorheim, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Monks Mending Sandals
Monks from the Franciscan monastery of Gorheim, Germany. One mends his sandals with a hammer while another watches. Date: early 1930s

Royal Line poster
Poster promoting Royal Line Northern Canadian railway system and Atlantic steamship service, showing a ship crossing the Atlantic on the way to Canada from Bristol

Fishing Nets / Almunecar
A fisherman mends a net at Almunecar, Costa del Sol, Spain Date: 1962

Fishing / Almunecar / Spain
A fishing boat at Almunecar, Costa del Sol, Spain. Date: 1962

New Zealand Fishermen

New Zealand Fisher Folk
New Zealand fishermen and women proudly show off their line of freshly caught trout! Date: January 1934

Trout Catch 1934
A trout caught on a New Zealand fishing trip. Date: January 1934

French Fishermen
Two old French fishermen relaxing and perhaps reminiscing together. Date: early 1930s

Bordeaux Net Fishing

Australian Trawler
An Australian fishing trawler, full of freshly caught fish. Date: early 1930s

A Catch of Fish
A good days fishing catch, Australia. Date: early 1930s

Sorting Whale Blubber
Fishermen sorting out whale blubber on shore. Date: 1930s

Cleaning Life Buoys
Using a huge crane to lift life buoys out of the River Thames for cleaning. Date: early 1930s

Life Buoys on Shore
Huge life buoys, used for life saving and moorage at sea - viewed from inside a hut or cabin. Date: early 1930s

Oiling a Crane Pulley
Two construction workers risking life and limb to oil the pulleys on top of a huge crane. Date: early 1930s

Belgian Nuns Gardening
The Beguins, Belgian nuns, of the Beguinage convent of Ghent, Belgium, digging and hoeing their garden vegetable patch. Date: early 1930s

Belgian Nuns
The Beguins, Belgian nuns, of the Beguinage convent of Ghent, Belgium, with hoes and spades and other gardening tools over their shoulders. Date: early 1930s

Central London 1930S
The hustle and bustle of city life, captured outside the Bank of England, central London. Date: early 1930s

Oiling Bridge Pulleys
This brave workman risks his life to oil one of the pulleys used to construct the new Lambeth Bridge, designed by George Humphreys, opened by George V in 1932. Date: early 1930s

Newlyn Cornwall 1939
Scene at the harbourside in Newlyn, Cornwall. Date: 1939

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