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"Minimax" wringer and stand, 1949

"Minimax" wringer and stand, 1949

Domestic Appliances

1949
Skull, no mandible or facial skeleton, said to be young adult female, from Upper Nile region, inscription Egyptian, 2000 BC-1900

Human Skull

Anatomy & Pathology

2000-1900 BCE
Silver gelatin print 'Tour Eiffel' by Brassaï, 1949 for the Focal Press Publication 'Camera in Paris'.

Tour Eiffel

Photographs

1949
Solid body eyelevel camera for 120 rollfilm, 2 1/4x31/4 inches, or 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Envoy Wide Angle lens F:64mm f/4.5 - 22, No 381682. Rimset shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/150/B. Wire frame finder, with parallax adjustable rear sight. Coaxial flash socket, Back will accept single metal darkslides when roolfilm holder is removed. In fitted case, with 6 single metal darkslides and screw in yellow filter. Agifold camera made by Agilux.

Envoy Wide Angel camera

Photographic Technology

1949
Replica plane diffraction grating, usable area 64 x 64 mm, mounted on a glass lantern slide, with glass cover plated and taped edges, with label reading 'Ives' Photographic Replica of Diffraction Grating / C153, $1.50. Nearly 3,000 lines to the inch. / Sold by the Scientific Shop, Chicago.' Label annotated in red ink '2,888'.

Replica plane diffraction grating, usable area 64

Optics

1900-1949 (estimated)
Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of British artist Graham Sutherland (1903-1980). Sutherland's painting of W. Sommerset Maugham is propped up gainst the wall behind him.

Graham Sutherland

Photographs

1949
Keystone Press Agency photograph titled 'Farewell at sailing time' Image shows Hollywood film star Clark Gable on board the Cunard liner Queen Mary in New York. Gable was sailing to Europe for a holiday.

Clark Gable with Nancy Hawks on board Queen Mary

Photographs

12 July 1949
Associated Press photograph titled 'Gable marries again'. Image shows actor Clark Gable and his 4th wife, Lady Sylvia Ashley (formerly Lady Sylvia Stanley of Alderley), outside a ranch in Solvang, Santa Barbara, California, just before their wedding.

Clark Gable marries 4th wife

Photographs

20 December 1949
PA Reuter photograph titled "Roll, bowl, or pitch". Caption on back reads: Armed with megaphone, Vivien Leigh attracts custom to the "Aunt Sally" sideshow at the Theatrical Garden party today (Tuesday), while Sir Laurence Olivier holds the missiles aloft. Held at the Roehampton Club, in aid of the Actors' Orphanage, the garden party was attended by scores of stage, screen and radio 'stars'. Members of the general public, of course, were particuarly interested in the fashions.

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier at Theatrical Garden Party

Photographs

31 May 1949
Keystone Press Agency photograph titled 'Kent's new dental clinic on wheels'. Image shows a dentist cleaning the teeth of a young boy in a mobile dental clinic.

Kent's new dental clinic on wheels

Photographs

25 April 1949
Photograph entitled 'Anne Crawford cuts a tape', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 23 May 1949. Gelatin silver print.

Anne Crawford cuts a tape

Photographs

1949-05-23
Gelatin silver print entitled 'It Flies Through The Air With The Greatest of Heat', taken by an unknown photographer for the Atomic Energy Commission and released through Associated Press on 20 May 1949. 'The fireball of an atomic bomb explosion was just rising as this picture was taken during tests at Eniwetok in spring of 1948...'

As Eniwetok Atomic Fireball Rose

Photographs

1949-05-20
Silver gelatin print taken by an unknown Daily Herald photographer in 1949, two views of a power station and cooling towers.

Cooling towers

Photographs

1949
Gelatin silver print entitled 'First Pictures - Atomic Test Explosion New Mexico', the first of a three picture sequence taken by an unknown photographer for Keystone 16 July 1949. 'Here is three picture sequence photographed six miles distant on July 16th, in the wide-open-spaces of New Mexico showing three stages of the explosion. A special camera was used to record this test.'

First Pictures - Atomic Test Explosion New Mexico

Photographs

1949-07-16
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Old-Age Pensioner". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Rustic among Cockneys is Charles Hobson (82), former gamekeeper and artist's model." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Old-Age Pensioner

Photographs

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "One With an Eye for Pageants". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Always something to lean on. Always something worthwhile to look at in the endless procession." Photographer's stamp on verso.

One With an Eye for Pageants

Photographs

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "One Who's Seen Them Come and Go". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Local brides get bouquets, local corpses get wreaths from Lal Brown (centre). She's been here 50 years odd, since she was eight." Photographer's stamp on verso.

One Who's Seen Them Come and Go

Photographs

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Air of an Industrial Present". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Railway arches everywhere. And under every other arch, a coal-yard. The coalman's wagon is a vital part of the Elephant's sooty scene." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Air of an Industrial Present

Photographs

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "In Thousands of Similar Basements Live Tens of Thousands of Similar Folk: Yet Each Is Different". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "There are countless rooms like it at the Elephant, innumerable folk in the same image. Yet every one is special. The hunger, the love, the dreams and imaginations, are all shared by all, yet particular to each. One contemplates a new job, another a new boy-friend. Somebody plans to bath a baby. Somebody plans to burgle a baker's. Somebody wonders if her husband's untrue. Somebody wonders how much he'll make tonight at his chestnut can." Photographer's stamp on verso.

In Thousands of Similar Basements Live Tens of Thousands of Similar Folk: Yet Each Is Different

Photographs

1949
2 francs coin, France, 1949. Aluminium; 27mm diameter, 1.5mm deep. obverse: LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE. 2 FRANCS 1949. B, or monogram LB, marked below date between two cornucopeia. reverse: REPVBLIQVE FRANCAISE, head to l, signed r, MORLON

2 francs coin, France, 1949. Aluminium; 27mm diame

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1949
Medal, bronze, commemorating bicentenary of birth of Prof. Georgius Prochaska (1749-1820) at Moravus, Czechoslovakia, by J.T. Fischer, 1949. Obverse legend. GEORGIUS PROCHASKA / MORAVUS 1749-1820. J.T. FISCHER. Bust of Prochaska looking left. Reverse legend: PROFESSOR PHYSIOLOGIAE ANATOMIAE MORB. OCULORUM UNIV. PRAGEN. Reverse field: ARTIS MEDICAE / NOVAM LUCEM ET / FACIEN ELEGANTIOREM / DABAT / 1749 1949

Medal commemorating Georgius Prochaska

Wellcome Medals

1949
5 francs coin, France, 1949. Aluminium; 31mm diameter, 2mm deep. obverse: RF 5 FRANCS 1949. wreath. reverse: REPVBLIQVE FRANCAISE, head to l., signed at base, A. LAVRILLIER

5 francs coin, France, 1949. Aluminium; 31mm diame

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1949
Christmas card from The Stationery Officer and Staff, Paper and Printing Department, Wellers Court, King's Cross, London N W 1, The Railway Executive, Eastern and North Eastern Regions, Dec 1949.

Christmas card, the Railway Executive

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1949
Photograph entitled 'Underground school' by an unknown photographer for Daily Herald. Gelatin silver print

Underground school

Photographs

1949-11
Planet News photograph titled 'Olivier honoured by Danes'. Caption on back reads: Sir Laurence Olivier receiving the Danish Order of Knight Companion of the Danne Brog from Count Eduard Reventlow, the Danish Ambassador, when the noted British actor rweceived the honour at the Danish Embassy in London. Left to right is seen Lady Olivier (Vivien Leigh, the actress wife of Sir Laurence); Prince George of Denmark, Assistatn Military Attache at the Embassy; Sir Laurence Olivier; Count Edouard reventlow, the Danish Ambassador, and his wife.

Laurence Olivier receives Danish knighthood

Photographs

25 February 1949
Case for Advocate 35mm camera by Ilford, 1949.

Case for Advocate 35mm camera

Photographic Technology

1949
Bottle of pills, by Allen and Hanburys Ltd., London, 1949

Bottle of pills, by Allen and Hanburys Ltd., Londo

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1949
Photograph by Angus McBean showing Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in act III of the London production of Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. The production was directed by Leigh's husband, Sir Laurence Olivier.

Vivien Leigh in London production of A Streetcar Named Desire

Photographs

1949
International News Photos photograph titled 'Sir Laurence leaves for weekend whirl'. Caption on back reads: Sir Laurence Olivier starts his busiest week-end tonight by flying to New York. Tomorrow he has lunch with the Lunts and starts rehearsals for his appearance at the Carnegie Hall on Saturday. He is to speak the preamble to the first anniversary celebrations of the Declaration of the Human Rights by the U.N. He is also introducing a new music work. Afterwards he has dinner with Mrs. Roosevelt, General Eisenhower, Mr. Trygve Lie, President of the Assembly and flies back to London on Sunday for the rehersals of his play "Venus Observed". I.N.P. photo shows -- Sir Laurence seated in his car as he left for the Airport says goodbye to his wife Vivien Leigh, who couldn't go to the airport owing to her performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire".

Laurence Olivier says goodbye to Vivien Leigh outside Chelsea home

Photographs

18 December 1949
Enlarger, type D-496-A no. 163417 by Muirhead and Co. Ltd., January 1949 with stand, 6-piece spare plate holder, focussing screen, 10 masks and one red filter

Enlarger, type D-496-A no. 163417 by Muirhead and

Telecommunications

1949
Magnetic disc record type Universa 50, serial no. 24715, made by W. Assman at Bad Homburg, c. 1949

Magnetic disc record type Universa 50, serial no.

Sound Reproduction

1949
The Donald Fleming Collection of North American television receivers: RCA 10" console television receiver, 1949.

RCA 10" console television receiver, 1949

Television

1949
The Donald Fleming Collection of North American television receivers: Motorola Bubble 8" tabletop television receiver, 1949.

Motorola Bubble 8" tabletop television receiver, 1949

Television

1949
The Donald Fleming Collection of North American television receivers: Emerson 12" console television receiver, 1949.

Emerson 12" console television receiver, 1949

Television

1949
The Donald Fleming Collection of North American television receivers: General Electric Model 818 12" console television receiver, 1949.

General Electric Model 818 12" console television receiver, 1949

Television

1949
The Donald Fleming Collection of North American television receivers: DuMont Stratford 105-A1 14" tabletop television receiver, 1949.

DuMont Stratford 105-A1 14" tabletop television receiver, 1949

Television

1949
The Donald Fleming Collection of North American television receivers: RCA 8" tabletop television receiver, 1949.

RCA 8" tabletop television receiver, 1949

Television

1949
The Donald Fleming Collection of North American television receivers: Motorola Bubble 8" tabletop television receiver, 1949.

Motorola Bubble 8" tabletop television receiver, 1949

Television

1949
Drum read head from Manchester University Mark I Computer.

Mark 1 Computer Drum Read Head

Computing & Data Processing

1949
Model railway wagon, `0' gauge, LNWR cattle with drover's compartment, No.72324, built by M.C. Hart, c.1960

London & North Western Railway cattle with drover's compartment,

Railway Models

1955-195
Leaflet illustrating and describing insulated containers, glass cradles and road-rail tanks. Published in May 1949.

Door to Door Transport

Documents

1949
Menu, for the Annual Dinner of the Gosforth Golf Club at the Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle, 1949.

Menu for the Annual Dinner of the Gosforth Golf Club at the Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle, 1949

Documents

1949
Painting, oil on canvas, The Cotswolds by John Chater, 1949. Depicts a rural harvest scene with fiields, woods and hills. In the foreground is a hayfield, with haystacks and farmworkers loading hay on a horse drawn wagon. In the middle distance is a village with a church, flanked by trees, with fields and hills beyond. Signed at bottom left. Unframed. Original artwork for British Railways (Western Region) poster.

The Cotswolds

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1949
Notice. Transport Act 1947. Vesting of the undertakings of the Great Western Railway Company, London & North Eastern Railway Company, Southern Railway Company and London Passenger Transport Board in the British Transport Commission on 1 January 1948. Issued 31 December 1947. Reissued 1 March 1949. Black text on white background. Ref: No 113/RCH61765. Printed by Barrow Printing Co Ltd.

transport act 1947

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1949
Painting, oil on canvas, 'The Opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway 1825', by Terence Cuneo, 1949. Depicts the steam locomotive 'Locomotion', driven by George Stephenson, hauling a train of chaldron wagons crowded with passengers, as a horse-drawn carriage and spectators race alongside.

The Opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1825

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1949
Christmas Card issued by the British Transport Commissionl, Christmas 1949. Illustration reproduced from a colour lithograph drawn on stone by Alexander Scott of the Viaduct over the River Medlock and the Ashton Canal on the Ardwick Branch Railway. Inside the words "With every good wish for Christmas and the New Year" and signed by Miles Beevor.

viaduct over the river medlock and the ashton canal

Documents

1949
Christmas card from A E S Bunney, Chief Docks Manager, South Wales Docks, Cardiff, The Docks and Inland Waterways Executive, Dec 1949. With two flags containing the company logo.

The Docks and Inland Waterways Executive Christmas 1949

Documents

1949
Memorandum to F. G. Hole, General Manager (The Hotels Executive), and Gordon Yates (The Hotels Executive), room 114, St Pancras Chambers re the provision of Christmas Cards. Dated 22nd September 1949.

christmas cards

Documents

1949
Christmas card from George Dow & Staff, Public Relations and Publicity Department, Euston House, NW1, British Railways.

Christmas card from George Dow & Staff

Documents

1949
Book, "Rule Book (Railways) 1949" issued by Great Northern Railway, (Ireland) [Greenore Station, Dundalk Newry & Greenore Railway], 1949.

rule book (railways) 1949

Documents

1949