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Cottage at Barmouth

Photographs

1919

Photograph of stone cottage against tree-covered hillside. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Hill behind Barmouth

Photographs

1919

Photograph of rocky Hillside. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

The Gate of Goodbye

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1918

Photograph, allegorical carbon print, 'The Gate of Goodbye' by Francis James Mortimer, 1918 (signed and dated); view of troops and their families outside London Victoria Station. Image: 340 mm x 480 mm; overall: 512 mm x 643 mm.

No. 3A Autographic Kodak Junior camera

Photographic Technology

1918

No. 3A Autographic Kodak Junior. Eastman Kodak, 1918.

No. 1 Autographic Kodak Junior

Photographic Technology

1918

No. 1 Autographic Kodak Junior. Eastman Kodak, 1918.

No. 2 C Kodak Autographic Camera

Photographic Technology

c.1918

No.2C Kodak Autographic camera for rollfilm No.130 3 1/4 x 5". Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lF.8 130mm lens mounted into a Kodak 3-speed ball bearing shutter. With optical waist-level viewfinder attached to top left side of front standard. Of wood and metal construction with leather covering. Eastman Kodak Co, c.1918

Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak

Photographic Technology

1918

Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak.

Autographic No 2-C Kodak Junior Model A

Photographic Technology

1918

Autographic No 2-C Kodak Junior Model A. Eastman Kodak 1918.

No. 1A Autographic Kodak Junior

Photographic Technology

1918

No. 1A Autographic Kodak Junior. Eastman Kodak, 1918.

Vest pocket Kodak Autographic

Photographic Technology

1918

Vest pocket Kodak Autographic. Eastman Kodak, 1918

'Vest' pocket folding Autographic Kodak camera

Photographic Technology

1918

'Vest' pocket folding Autographic Kodak camera, 1918.

Tommy bar, for Dorman 4 cylinder 11.9HP, light motor car engine type 4 K.N.O

Road Transport

1919

Tommy bar, for Dorman 4 cylinder 11.9HP, light motor car engine type 4 K.N.O

Geyer 35mm title printer type 4

Cinematography

1918

For 35mm film; lens missing; claw intermittent, two sprockets; film fed from and to external magazines on top; footage counter. No 27. Extract from letter from Dr K Geyer, 29 May 1957 re printer; 'This tilting camera was designed and made by me in 1918. The titles were arranged in four segments of a rotating double-glass disc, between a lamphouse and the camera. The camera switched itself off automatically at a preset title length, and the next title was brought into focus by 90° rotation. The titles were printed on transparent paper 8cmx10cm.'

Glass positive:- a portion of the Moon (Tycho to P

Astronomy

1919; 1929

Glass positive:- a portion of the Moon (Tycho to Ptolemaus), Mount Wilson Observatory, 1919, September 15, age 21 1/2 days, 100-inch Reflector, equivalent focal length, 134 ft, 16" x 20"

HC Woodnesboro

Photographs

1918

Photograph, entitled "HC Woodnesboro". In round frame. HC is in military uniform standing, legs astride, in a field. From an album created by H. Cutner between 1913 and 1920.

Example of Horstmann single-train controller for street lights

Time Measurement

c. 1919

Example of Horstmann single-train controller for street lights, of about 1919, with hand set dial, with winding key, no.61757

Uniform worn by Medical Officer on the North Russian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1918-1919

Uniform worn by Medical Officer on the North Russian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919. Uniform conprises: helmet; blouse; trousers; boots and belt.

Leyland type F5 steam lorry

Road Transport

1919

Leyland type F5 steam lorry, by Leyland Motors Limited, Leyland, Lancashire, England, 1919

London & South Western Railway hints for holidays official guide 1919

Library Collections

1919

Travel guide, London & South Western Railway, "Hints for Holidays", 1919.

Axle-box cover, Great Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1918

Axle-box cover, Great Eastern Railway, cast iron cover with handle, embossed "G.E.R. BI 1918".

Electrolux canister-type vacuum cleaner

Domestic Appliances

1918

Canister-type vacuum cleaner, by Electrolux Limited, England, 1918

Radio transmitter, from Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane, 1919

Aeronautics

1919

Aircraft radio transmitter, by Harry W. Cox and Company Limited, London, England, 1919. Used in the Vickers Vimy/Rolls-Royce Biplane: the aircraft in which John Alcock (pilot) and Arthur Whitten Brown (navigator) made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in June 1919.

Verdun

Photographs

1918-1919

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Verdun' by Olive Edis, about 1918.

Quartz fibres for Heurtley magnifier, 1919

Telecommunications

1919

Box containing quartz fibres for Heurtley magnifier, Muirhead and Company Limited, Beckenham, 1919.

Map, Railway Clearing House, Yorkshire, 1918, coloured, 4 1/

Railway Maps & Plans

1918

Map, Railway Clearing House, Yorkshire North Sheet, 1918, coloured, 4 1/2 inches to 10 miles.

Silver plated vegetable dish, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway - Grill Room

Passenger Comforts

1918

Vegetable dish, silver plated, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway - Grill Room (Manchester Victoria?), made by Elkington & Co., Birmingham, 1918; round 8" divided. (BTH 325M) Overall: 43 mm x 207 mm, 0.54 kg.

Silver plated fish knife, North Eastern Railway - Station Hotel, Newcastle

Passenger Comforts

1919

Fish knife, reeded handle with shields, silver plated, North Eastern Railway, by Elkington & Co., 1919, handle stamped Station Hotel Newcastle on garter around NER. Overall: 11 mm x 232 mm x 24 mm, 0.1kg.

Silver plated table spoon, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway - Exchange Station Hotel, Liverpool

Passenger Comforts

1919

Tablespoon, silver plated, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, made by Elkington & Co, Birmingham, 1919; plain, L&YR coat of arms on handle, engraved on back "EXCHANGE STATION HOTEL LIVERPOOL". Overall: 28 mm x 206 mm x 41 mm, 0.07 kg.

Replica plane diffraction grating, area 17 x 16 mm

Optics

1900-1919 (estimated)

Replica plane diffraction grating, area 17 x 16 mm, mounted on glass plate: inscription in white ink on black tape round sides of plate reads 'With T. Thorp's compliments / Thorp's Echelon Grating / 1000 grooves to inch'.

No.1 Pocket Kodak Autographic Folding Bellows Camera

Photographic Technology

c.1919

No.1 pocket Kodak Autographic folding bellows camera for rollfilm No.120 2 1/4 x 3 1/4". fitted with Bausch & Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lens approx F.8. Brilliant viewfinder in centre of lens panel. Metal construction with leather covering. c.1919

'The Fly Danger' poster

Public Health & Hygiene

1918

One of 3 posters, entitled 'The Fly Danger' (second copy), with illustrations by Grace Edwards, published by British Museum (Natural History), London, 1918

Foreign body, wooden cone removed from rectum of a

Surgery

1919

Foreign body, wooden cone removed from rectum of a man in Gibraltar by B.A. Fetherston Dilke, 29 August 1919

Bag of "Omuwhoko", Phytolacca docedandra plant, Ug

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1919

Bag of "Omuwhoko", Phytolacca docedandra plant, Uganda, collected 1919

Royal Photographic Society bronze medal

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1919

Awarded to J H Pledge. Prince Albert bust; reverse, Apollo in chariot.

White metal medal, to commemorate the liberation o

Wellcome Medals

1918

White metal medal, to commemorate the liberation of Belgium and the allied victory, Belgium, 1918

British Red Cross Society medal

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1918

British Red Cross Society metal gilt medal, awarded to Thirza P. Stevens for her work in the V.A.D. in the First World War, 1918

At the Derby 1914

Photographs

1918

Photograph of Crowd in stand, similar to 32/1. From an album of photographs taken in the Gold Coast and the U.K. between 1910 and 1915 by unknown photographer.

resistance box

Electronic Components

1919

resistance box; labeled 'secondary'. Made of wood, with brass connectors.

Set of seven different coloure

Lighting

c. 1918

Set of seven different coloured Royal Ediswan decorative light bulbs by Edison Swan Electric Co Ltd, c. 1918

Gilt and enamel bar for Red Cross medal, English(?

Wellcome Medals

1918

Gilt and enamel bar for Red Cross medal, English(?), 1918

Mechanical substitute for the arms, United Kingdom, 1919

Orthopaedics

1919

A mechanical substitute for the arms.

Indicator Panel, London Victoria (Eastern) Signalbox

Signalling & Telecommunications

1919

Collection of small rectangular metal panels with 5 holes on each and various numbers written in white. Part of signal lever frame, General Signal Co Ltd, 40 lever section of power frame from London Victoria (Eastern) signalbox, c1919.

Indicator Panel, London Victoria (Eastern) Signalbox

Signalling & Telecommunications

1919

Indicator panel, green metal box with brass lighting strips on front, numbered 11-20. Part of signal lever frame, General Signal Co Ltd, 40 lever section of power frame from London Victoria (Eastern) signalbox, c1919.

Indicator panel, London Victoria (Eastern) signalbox

Signalling & Telecommunications

1919

Indicator panel, green metal box with with brass lighting strips numbered 31-40. Part of signal lever frame, General Signal Co Ltd, 40 lever section of power frame from London Victoria (Eastern) signalbox, c1919.

Indicator panel, London Victoria (Eastern) signalbox

Signalling & Telecommunications

1919

Indicator panel, green metal box with with brass lighting strips numbered 21-30. Part of signal lever frame, General Signal Co Ltd, 40 lever section of power frame from London Victoria (Eastern) signalbox, c1919.

Medal, bronze, to commemorate Marshal Foch, by Aug

Wellcome Medals

1918

Medal, bronze, to commemorate Marshal Foch, by Auguste Maillard and by Paris Art, Paris, France, 1918.

Dans le Ciel de la Patrie by J. Cocteau

Printed Books

1918

Book: Dans le Ciel de la Patrie (1918) byJ. Cocteau

Cavalry of the Clouds by "Contact"

Printed Books

1918

Book: Cavalry of the Clouds (1918) by "Contact" (Capt. Alan Bott).

Small glass bottle, contains piperazin liquid made

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1919

Small glass bottle, contains piperazin liquid made by The British Drug Houses ltd. of london, English 1919

The Poultry Farm

Photographs

1919

Photograph of 4 hens in front of shrubs. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.