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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
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Freight Car and Grain Elevators", taken by John Vachon in 1938. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Freight Car and Grain Elevators

Photographs

1938
Gelatin silver print entitled 'First Pictures of London's Balloon Barrage', taken by an unknown photographer for the Air Ministry, 10 May 1938. 'London protected by a network of balloons against enemy aircraft, is rapidly becoming an actual fact. These pictures are the first showing balloons, part of several hundred which have been delivered to the Royal Air Force for the new Balloon Barrage Group...'

First Pictures of London's Balloon Barrage

Photographs

1938-05-10
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
Firebox left front cover, 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 firebox cover

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1938
Two steam chest claddings (RHS), 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 steam chest cladding

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1938
Firebox right rear cover, 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 firebox cover

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1938
Lubricator handles, 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 lubricator handles

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1938
Ejector exhaust (rear section), 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 ejector exhaust

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1938
Telefunken valve, type VCL11, marked 068, (RMW/H17 - McVitie Weston number), by Telefunken, 1938.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Telefunken valve, type VCL11

Electronic Components

1938
Adaptor for 9x12cm Kodak Recomar no 33 camera to take 828 rollfilm; sliding back with ground glass screen and 828 rollfilm holder; in original box.

Miniature Kodachrome adaptor

Photographic Technology

1938
X-ray, possibly of a foot, marked ‘Boy Manning 6.12.38’

X-ray, possibly of a foot

Radiomedicine

1938
Premium box camera for 127 rollfilm 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches. Fitted with a simple lens of fixed aperture, T/I shutter, wire frame finder. Kodak Limited. 1938.

hawkeye ace camera

Photographic Technology

1938
Box camera for 127 rollfilm 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches. Fitted with a single lens, a rotary shutter, wire frame finder with a push on portrait lens. Kodak Limited, 1938.

hawkeye ace camera

Photographic Technology

1938
Premium box camera for 127 rollfilm 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches. Fitted with a meniscus lens, rotary shutter, wire frame finder with portrait attachment and neck strap. Kodak Limited. 1938.

hawkeye ace de-luxe camera

Photographic Technology

1938
35mm camera 24x36mm; Schneider Xenar lens F:5cm f/2.9 No 1193776. Rimset Compur shutter 1-1/300; helical focusing; direct vision optical finder.

Adox 35mm camera

Photographic Technology

1938
Part of apparatus used in filming development of the chick embryo, 1938 by F Percy Smith.

Part of apparatus used in filming development of a chick embryo

Cinematography

1938
Guidebook, Southern Railway, Cross Channel Services to and from the Continent, containing timetables and fares, printed McCorquodale & Co Ltd, 8 pages.

Cross Channel Services to and from the Continent

Library Collections

1938
Guidebook, London Midland & Scottish Railway, Electric Train Services to & from Liverpool, Birkenhead, New Brighton, Hoylake, West Kirby, 1938, containing timetables and fares, printed by McCorquodale Newton, soft cover, 8 pages.

Electric Service to & from Liverpool

Library Collections

1938
Guidebook, Clyde Coast via Craigendoran (Summer 1938), 28 page, soft backed, booklet giving timetables for trains & steamers. Includes information on excursions & cruises. Produced by LNER.

Clyde Coast via Craigendoran (Summer 1938)

Library Collections

1938
Voigtlander Bessa camera, c 1938.

Voigtlander Bessa camera

Photographic Technology

1938
Photograph entitled 'Topiary at its best' by John Topham, 5 August 1938. Gelatin silver print

Topiary at its best

Photographs

1938-08-05
Microscope lamp on stand and with power unit by Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar, Germany, 1938

Microscope lamp on stand and with power unit by Er

Microscopes

1938
Photograph entitled 'Spring day in three counties' by George W Roper, 3 February 1938. Gelatin silver print

Spring day in three counties

Photographs

1938-02-03
Travel Guide, Great Western Railway, "Rambles and Walking Tours in The Wye Valley", by Hugh E Page, 1938, 20 individual walks with maps, cost new 6d, 143 pages, soft cover, cover illustration of couple looking at river by "M" [Mayo].

travel guide - rambles and walking tours in the wye valley

Library Collections

1938
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
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
Photograph entitled 'The mock opening of a new footbridge' by Reuben Saidman, 7 September 1938. Gelatin silver print

The mock opening of a new footbridge

Photographs

1938-09-07
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
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
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
Photograph showing a little girl leading a horse, taken by Harold Tomlin, 24 May 1938. Gelatin silver print.

Little girl leading a horse

Photographs

1938-05-24
Teacup, ceramic, London Midland & Scottish Railway, unidentified maker from Boguchwała, Poland; white with green LMS transfer, c1938. Overall: 68 mm x 104 mm 78 mm, 0.18 kg.

Ceramic tea cup, London Midland & Scottish Railway

Passenger Comforts

c1938
Hot water jug, 1 pint, silver plated, by Walker & Hall, Sheffield, London & North Eastern Railway, oval base, hinged lid, LNER script monogram on side, 1938.

Silver plated hot water jug, London & North Eastern Railway

Passenger Comforts

1938
Box camera for 127 rollfilm 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches. Fitted with a meniscus lens of fixed aperture. i rotary shutter. Pull out wire frame finder. Distributed through mickey mouse weekly. Kodak Ltd 1938.

Hawkeye ace de Luxe camera

Photographic Technology

1938
Treatment head with applicators from pneumatic transfer radium teletherapy machine installed at the Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy, the Middlesex Hospital, in 1938 and used with a cobalt 60 source from 1955, by Bryant Symons and Co., London, 1938.

Treatment head with applicators from pneumatic tra

Radiomedicine

1938
A glass negative entitled 'Inauguration of Danish Airlines Copenhagen to London' by Reuben Saidman, 28 July 1938.

Inauguration of Danish Airlines Copenhagen to London

Photographs

1938-07-28
Scene still showing Vivien Leigh and Lionel Barrymore in MGM British film 'A Yank at Oxford' (Jack Conway, 1938).

Vivien Leigh in 'A Yank at Oxford'

Photographs

1938
A glass negative entitled 'Inauguration of Danish Airlines Copenhagen to London' by Reuben Saidman, 28 July 1938.

Inauguration of Danish Airlines Copenhagen to London

Photographs

1938-07-28
A glass negative entitled 'Inauguration of Danish Airlines Copenhagen to London' by Reuben Saidman, 28 July 1938.

Inauguration of Danish Airlines Copenhagen to London

Photographs

1938-07-28
Pathescope H 9.5mm camera.

Pathescope H 9.5mm camera

Cinematography

1938
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Second Hand Furniture Store, Springfield, Ohio, Summer 1938" taken by Ben Shahn, in 1938. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Second Hand Furniture Store, Springfield, Ohio

Photographs

1938
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Coal Miner's Child Taking Home Can of kerosene, Dursgrove, Scott's Run, West Virginia, 1938", taken by Marion Post-Walcott, in 1938. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Coal Miner's Child with can of kerosene

Photographs

1938
STC Micromesh valve, type R3, (RMW/A147 - McVitie Weston number), by Standard Telephones and Cables Limited, 1938.

McVitie Weston valve collection, STC Micromesh valve, type R3

Electronic Components

1938
Pinned barrel, part of mechanism used to operate the carillon of the Holy Name Church, Oxford Road, Manchester. This barrel plays the Angelus which is rung in Roman Catholic churches at noon and 6.00pm.

Carillion mechanism pinned barrel

Time Measurement

1938
Osram valve, type N43, pinch marked 1186, glass envelope cracked, (RMW/Y73 - McVitie Weston number), by Osram, c. 1938.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Osram valve, type N43

Electronic Components

c. 1938
Osram valve, type NR44, marked A.P. 3832 ZOSJ, gettering plate loose, Osram type Z8216, (RMW/Y498A - McVitie Weston number), by Osram, 1938.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Osram valve, type NR44

Electronic Components

1938
United Artists Corp. publicity portrait of Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff in William Wyler's film adaptation of Wuthering Heights (1939).

Wuthering Heights

Photographs

1938
Photograph entitled 'A gardener with 250 window boxes' taken by an unknown photographer for Fox Photos,13 September 1938. Gelatin silver print

A gardener with 250 window boxes

Photographs

1938-09-13