Mask Collection

Recruitment poster for the Corps of Military Police - Second World War. circa 1940

Street performers, Japan. circa 1890s

Two people fencing, Japan

Lady at a festival, Haimhausen, Bavaria, Germany
Lady in costume and mask at a rococo festival in Haimhausen, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Date: early 21st century

Decorated orange fan with a masked face, advertising Moet & Chandon champagne. circa 1930s

X-X-X-X-Xmas by J. Gordge
Two lovers dressed as Columbine and Harlequin prepare for a romantic kiss at what looks to be a deserted party. Date: 1927

Poster advertising The Yeomen of the Guard, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Showing an executioner leaning on his axe. 20th century

Advertisement for Bell Telephone System, with a large telephone at the centre, and various people surrounding it. circa 1950s

Two soldiers in flooded trench, Western Front, WW1
Two British soldiers in a flooded communication trench on the Western Front in France during World War One. 1917

Pinocchio -- with other puppets on stage
Pinocchio -- The demonstration of warm brotherly affection that Pinocchio received. 1911

Cover design, Pinocchio

Brotherhood of the Misericordia of Florence, Italy, a charitable institution dating back to the Middle Ages. Seen here transporting a sick man. Masks are worn to preserve anonymity. late 19th century

Street parade with people in costume
A street parade with people in costume, including big heads

Art deco design, pilot at controls of plane
An art deco style design, depicting a pilot at the controls of his plane. An illustration by Sergeant J W Lambert to a book of poetry by Sergeant R P L Mogg

Two boys saluting, probably during the Second World War. The one on the right is wearing a tin helmet and a gas mask. The one on the left is wearing a Royal Artillery peaked cap

Masks from the Ivory Coast, one representing an Antelope. African masks such as these were to prove a fertile source of artistic influence to abstract artists (such as Picasso)

South American ceramics
Items of material culture from South America. Distinctive ceramic bowls and drinking vessels, sporting fierce mask faces and anthropomorphic forms. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Japanese fencing Date: 19th century

Woman Giving Birth 1960S
A woman lying in a hospital bed about to give birth is soothed by a midwife with a surgical mask over her nose and mouth Date: 1960s

Gebrauchsgraphik front cover 1930
Simple, striking front cover of Gebrauchsgraphik, the journal of international advertising art, featuring a stylised image of a woman wearing a party mask. Date: 1930

Chocolate box design, lady in carnival mask
Chocolate box design, featuring the head and shoulders of a smiling lady in a carnival mask. 20th century

Batgers Masks and Animals Luggage label
Rather odd scene featuring an adult in a sinister party mask trying to lasso a group of children in fancy dress masks and head dresses at a party. Date: c.1925

Poster design by Marcello Dudovich, showing people at a fancy dress party with bottles of vermouth. circa early 20th century

Metalworkers welding a railway carriage
Three metalworkers wearing protective masks weld large metal boxes together to form the shell of a railway carriage. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1950s

German World War One poster
World War One poster showing a German soldier with gas mask and steel helmet with the text reading Help us to triumph! Subscribe to the war loan. Illustration by Fritz Erler. Date: 1917

Premature Baby
A nurse in the Baby Ward holds a premature baby in her lap and gets ready to give the baby its bottle. Date: 1960s

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious! Date: 1920s

East Indies Devil Dancer
A Devil Dancer of the Dutch East Indies, attired in terrifying costume and make-up, designed to cast out demons and disease and inspire fear. Date: 1930s

Beauty Treatment 1930S
A woman wearing a strange mask undergoing beauty treatment at a Berlin beauty specialists salon. Date: 1930s

Couple with Flu Masks
Another bout of flu that killed so many in Britain after WW1 lasted from 1929 to 1937; people wore surgical masks or as this couple show stylish nose caps Date: 1929

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