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Photograph entitled 'A new controlled type of pedestrian crossing' by Reuben Saidman, 22 March 1938. Gelatin silver print

A new controlled type of pedestrian crossing

Photographs

1938-03-22

A glass negative of an Imperial Airways flight to Australia by Reuben Saidman, 26 June 1938

Imperial Airways flight to Australia

Photographs

1938-06-26

Murphy combined television and radio broadcast receiver, model A58v, introduced 1938

Murphy television and radio receiver, model A 58V,

Radio Communication

1938

Guidebook, London & North Eastern Region, "West Riding Limited", 1938, timetable and seating arrangements, 12 pages, soft cover.

west riding limited

Library Collections

1938

Guidebook, Southern Railway, "The Passing Scene. London, Portsmouth and Isle of White", pre 1938, descriptions of places of interest to be seen from the train en route, with photographs and maps, cost new 3d, 24 pages, soft cover with pen and ink sketches of places mentioned.

The Passing Scene. London, Portsmouth and Isle of White

Library Collections

1938

Travel Guide, London Midland & Scottish Railway & London & North Eastern Railway, "Through The Trossachs", 1938, rail-coach-steamer, 6 pages.

travel guide - through the trossachs

Library Collections

1938

Stella projection television receiver, type ST1481 (rebadged Philips TV set). Serial number M1004. Patent guaranteed 002.44, in 2-door cabinet. c1955

Stella projection television receiver, type ST1481

Television

1950-159

Telefunken valve, type VY2, (RMW/A126 - McVitie Weston number), by Telefunken, 1938.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Telefunken valve, type VY2

Electronic Components

1938

Purma Special. Purma Cameras c.1938

Purma Special camera

Photographic Technology

1938

Six-20 Kodak Junior De Luxe. 1938

Six-20 Kodak Junior De Luxe

Photographic Technology

1938

Smoke box door, London Midland & Scottish Railway, 8P Coronation class 4-6-2 No 46229 "Duchess of Hamilton", designed by William Stanier, built at Crewe in 1938. Component removed from locomotive when streamlined in 2005.

LM & S smoke box door

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1938

Two top feed covers, London Midland & Scottish Railway, 8P Coronation class 4-6-2 No 46229 "Duchess of Hamilton", designed by William Stanier, built at Crewe in 1938. Component removed from locomotive when streamlined in 2005.

LM & S top feed covers

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1938

A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Farmer, Sharecropper, New Madrid, Missouri" taken by Russell Lee, in 1938. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Farmer, Sharecropper, New Madrid, Missouri

Photographs

1938

Gelatin silver print of barage balloons at an airfield, taken by an unknown photographer for Sport & General, 10 May 1938. 'Bringing in the monster. A squad of RAF boys close-hauling the baloon to bed.

Barrage Balloon

Photographs

1938-05-10

Plastic bodied box camera for 620 rollfilm 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch. Fixed focus and aperture, simple lens, T/I shutter. Optical frame finder. Braided strap. Eastman Kodak.

Kodak 620 Bullseye Camera

Photographic Technology

1938

Collection of personal items relating to Basil K. Field, works manager, Brighton Works.

Collection of personal items relating to Basil K. Field

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1938

London News Agency photograph showing French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen during a match.

Suzanne Lenglen on tennis court

Photographs

29 June 1938

Box for balsa and tissue paper flying model named Condor made by the Northern Model Aircraft Company, 1938

Box for balsa and tissue paper flying model

Aeronautics

1938

"Sauter" electric semi-storage heater, part sectioned to reveal 1 of 6 heating elements in iron box sunk in concrete, 3 heat settings to tot al of 4KW with storage period of 3 hours, installed as experiment in D un Laoghaire Telephone Exchange, near Dublin in 1938, French, 1938

"Sauter" electric semi-storage heater, part sectio

Domestic Appliances

1938

Pickle fork, silver plated, Great Western Railway - Hotels, made by Elkington & Co, Birmingham, 1938; plain, GWR coat of arms on handle with "GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY HOTELS" below. Overall: 13 mm x 192 mm x 15 mm, 0.03kg.

Silver plated pickle fork, Great Western Railway - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1938

Vintage chlorobromide print. Portrait of HRH Princess Elizabeth, by Marcus Adams. Signed and dated in pencil by photographer on front.

Princess Elizabeth

Photographs

1938

Vintage silver gelatin print on original cardboard mount by Kurt Hutton, titled "Camden Town". Published in Hutton's book "Speaking Likeness" (London and New York: Focal Press, 1947). pp. 86.

Camden Town

Photographs

1938

Selection of components from the three prism Oxford Solar Spectroscope made by Casella Limited with optical components from Adam Hilger Ltd. for the University Observatory, Oxford in 1938. Parts include two large 60 º prisms, one prism stand and the collimator objective lens.

Selection of components from the three prism Oxfo

Astronomy

1938

Photograph entitled '1000 Indians march through London' by Harold Tomlin, 18 August 1938. Gelatin silver print

1000 Indians march through London

Photographs

1938-08-18

Photograph entitled 'Why not yodel in London' by Sayers for Daily Herald, 14 February 1938. Gelatin silver print

Why not yodel in London

Photographs

1938-02-14

Photograph entitled ''Poshing up' on the Underground' taken by an unknown photographer for Fox Photos, 15 August 1938. Gelatin silver print

Poshing up' on the Underground

Photographs

1938-08-15

L.N.A. photograph showing Queen Mary shaking hands with Mdlle. Suzanne Lenglen after presenting her with a Jubilee Medal at Wimbledon 1926.

Queen Mary shakes hands with French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen

Photographs

29 June 1938

Silver gelatin print portrait of Miss Dorothy Dickson, by Angus McBean, 1938.

Miss Dorothy Dickson

Photographs

1938

Vintage silver gelatin print by Kurt Hutton, titled "Shipbuilder". Image shows the man who built the "Queen Elizabeth". Editorial commentary on verso. Published in Hutton's book "Speaking Likeness" (London and New York: Focal Press, 1947), p. 44, as "Builder of the 'Queen Elizabeth'".

Shipbuilder

Photographs

1938

Vintage silver gelatin print by Kurt Hutton, titled "Unemployed". Published in Hutton's book "Speaking Likeness" (London and New York: Focal Press, 1947). pp. 88.

Unemployed

Photographs

1938

Guidebook, Great Western Railway, "Holiday Haunts 1938", 1938, by Maxwell Fraser FRGS, introductory chapter by S P B Mais, England, Wales, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, maps, description of places of interest, accommodation adverts, frontispiece of 'bathing beauty reading GWR information', cost new 6d, 976 pages, hard cover. [Front cover detached]

holiday haunts 1938

Library Collections

1938

Triumph 498 cc speed-twin 27 hp motor cycle engine, 1950, sectioned, based on the 1938 prototype. 63 mm bore x 80 mm stroke

Triumph 498 cc speed-twin 27 hp motor cycle engine

Road Transport

1938

Compass camera No. 2475 by Le Coultre Co., with roll film back, pocket tripod, shutter release, security chain, unused plates (4 pkts), cut film (5 pkts) and roll film (2 rolls) ; all in fitted case, c. 1938.

Compass camera

Photographic Technology

1938

Egg incubator by the Stephens Cabinet Incubator Co. Ltd. c.1938; fan circulated air, electrically heated

Egg incubator by the Stephens Cabinet Incubator Co

Biotechnology

1938

Black and white photograph of two men in a cafe, taken by an unknown photographer October 1938. Print made about 1990 from original photograph.

Men in Cafe

Photographs

1938-10

Three boxes of 'Dufaycolor' lantern slides by G.B. Mason, MBE, taken in Morocco and Guernsey, c. 1938.

Three boxes of 'Dufaycolor' lantern slides by G

Photographs

1938

Advertisement, Wills's Gold Flake cigarettes, illustrating London & North Eastern Railway streamline train hauled by A4 4-6-2 No. 2512 Silver Fox, celluloid on tinplate,c. 1938, 380mm x 510mm.

Wills's Gold Flake cigarettes

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

c. 1938

'Argus', model C3, 35mm. miniature camera, 'Cintar lens' with leather ever ready case, c.1938.

'Argus', model C3, 35mm miniature Camera

Photographic Technology

1938

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Desert Highway' by Dorothea Lange, 1937. One of 105 monochrome prints by women photographers of The Farm Security Administration, c. 1935-1945, included in the exhibition `Let us Now Praise Famous Women', NMPFT, 1986

Desert Highway

Photographs

1938

Book: An air fighter's scrap book (1938) by Ira Jones

An air fighter's scrap book by Ira Jones

Printed Books

1938

Book: Wonders of World Aviation Vol I (c.1938) by Clarence Winchester.

Wonders of World Aviation Vol I

Printed Books

c. 1938

Photograph entitled 'Service and blessing of the candles' by Edward Malindine, 2 February 1938. Gelatin silver print

Service and blessing of the candles

Photographs

1938-02-02

A glass negative of the Mayo composite aircraft taxi-ing by Edward George Malindine, 19 January 1938.

The Mayo composite aircraft taxi-ing

Photographs

1938-01-19

Photograph entitled 'He won't go wild anymore' by Sayers, 22 April 1938 Gelatin silver print

He won't go wild anymore

Photographs

22 April 1938

Photograph entitled 'Railway speed up for holidays' by Edward Malindine, 27 June 1938. Gelatin silver print

Railway speed up for holidays

Photographs

1938-06-27

Photograph entitled 'Mothering Sunday' by Sayers, 27 March 1938. Gelatin silver print

Mothering Sunday

Photographs

1938-03-27

A glass negative of Imperial airways new monoplane at Croydon Airport by Edward George Malindine, 11 August 1938.

Imperial Airways new monoplane at Croydon Airport

Photographs

1938-08-11

A glass negative of the Mayo composite aircraft taxi-ing by Edward George Malindine, 19 January 1938.

The Mayo composite aircraft taxi-ing

Photographs

1938-01-19

Photograph entitled 'Railway speed up for holidays' by Edward Malindine, 27 June 1938. Gelatin silver print

Railway speed up for holidays

Photographs

1938-06-27

Photograph of the 'Silver Jubilee Express', taken by an unknown photographer for Topical Press, 2 February 1938. Gelatin silver print

Silver Jubilee Express

Photographs

1938-02-02