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Advertisement for Kodak cameras and prints

Photographic Technology

1943

Printed advertisement for Kodak cameras and prints with the headline 'Reunion at Christmas', showing an image of a woman, child and dog in a wallet and a man in military uniform looking at the same photograph, printed in 1943.

Men leaving the shipyard, Tyneside

Photographs

1943

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Workers leaving the Tyneside shipyards, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton.

Sandstorm in the Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of a British soldier walking to his tent during a sandstorm in the Western Desert during the second world war.

General António Óscar Fragoso Carmona

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of General António Óscar Fragoso Carmona (1869-1951), President of the Portugese Republic. He is pictured at his residence in 1942.

British soldier in the Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of an RAF polit standing in front of a sand bag pyramid in the Western Desert during the second world war.

Debris in the Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of battlefield debris in the Wester Desert duing the second world war.

Nurse Ellis in field hospital operating theatre

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin print. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of Nurse Ellis in the operating theatre at a field hospital in Tobruk, Libya, during the Second World War.

Chinese orphan

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of a young orphan in Chungking, China.

Battlefield debris, Egypt

Photographs

May 1942

Vintage silver gelatin print. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of debris left by Italian soldiers during the First Battle of Halfaya Pass, Second World War.

Filming "This Happy Breed"

Photographs

1943-07-20

Vintage gelatin silver contact sheet. Images by Reuben Saidman for Weekly Illustrated. Images show the filming of "This Happy Breed", in Clapham, London.

Filming "This Happy Breed"

Photographs

1943-07-20

Vintage gelatin silver contact sheet. Images by Reuben Saidman for Weekly Illustrated. Images show director David Lean during the filming of "This Happy Breed", in Clapham, London.

Cotton picking, Mississippi

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin print, by Andre de Dienes. Image shows a cotton picker tilling a field in Mississippi. African Amrican child's face superimposed on the sky. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Mullard ECC31 Valve

Electronic Components

1942

A Mullard medium μ double triode with a common cathode valve, type ECC31.

Gee Counting Card

Aeronautics

1943

Gee counting card, used by Flight Lieutenant Edmund Bell, Royal Auxiliary Air Force Navigator.

RAF Flying Goggles MK VIII

Aeronautics

1943

Royal Air Force issued boxed Mark VIII flying goggles; the box contains outfit anti-dimming Mark VI, and tinted lenses.

County of London plan

Public Health & Hygiene

1943

County of London plan, published by MacMillan, London, 1943.

No1 Dress RAF Officer's trousers

Aeronautics

1942

No1 Dress RAF Officer's trousers

ampoule of 5% glucose

Public Health & Hygiene

1943

Large (approx 25 x 15cm) ampoule of 5% glucose by Crookes Collosols, association Dr Maycock, 1943. Velcro has also been attached. A60802 comprises accessories.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Sylvania valve, type 6K6GT/G

Electronic Components

1943

Sylvania valve, type 6K6GT/G, (RMW/Y445 - McVitie Weston number), by Sylvania Electric Products Incorporated, 1943.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Sylvania valve, type 5ZE

Electronic Components

1943

Sylvania valve, type 5ZE, marked VT-145, (RMW/Y452A - McVitie Weston number), by Sylvania Electric Products Incorporated, 1943.

Loading slide rule for short Sunderland Flying Boa

Aeronautics

1943

Loading slide rule for short Sunderland Flying Boat, c. 1943. (Slide rule sums +VE and -VE effects on centre of gravity of loads in cargo holds and fuel tanks)

McVitie Weston valve collection, RCA valve, type 801A

Electronic Components

1943

RCA valve, type 801A, marked 801A/801 and U.S.N. CRC 801-A, pinch embossed 32, in carton, (RMW/Y408B - McVitie Weston number), by RCA Corporation, 1943.

Visibility meter MkII by Casella London, MO 1434/4

Meteorology

1943

Visibility meter MkII by Casella London, MO 1434/43, cased

McVitie Weston valve collection, Osram valve, type NR15A

Electronic Components

1943

Osram valve, type NR15A, marked ADM.PATT.7404A, (RMW/Y431B - McVitie Weston number), by Osram, 1943.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Osram valve, type NT82

Electronic Components

1943

Osram valve, type NT82, marked Z A.P.7418, and 2 36, (RMW/Y447A - McVitie Weston number), by Osram, 1943.

Copper foil with etched perforations at 20,000 holes to the square inch

Nuclear Physics

1942-1943

Copper foil with etched perforations at 20,000 holes to the square inch, by Sun Engraving Co., Watford, Hertfordshire, England, 1942-1943. Object was constructed for the Tube Alloys Project for experiments on the separation of uranium isotopes, 1942-1943.

Scenes after the surrender of Halfaya

Photographs

1942

Vintage silver gelatin print by J. Allan Cash, titled "The Libyan Campaign. Scenes after the surrender of Halfaya". British official photograph (War Office). Crown Copyright. Caption on verso reads: "The enemy at Halfaya sent an envoy to Major General de Villiers at 8 a.m. on January 17th, asking for terms of surrender. At mid-day near Halfaya Major General de Villiers met an Italian General to receive the unconditional surrender of the Axis garrison. This picture shows: Italian prisoners loading up a truck with their kit. In the foreground is a wounded German prisoner, awaiting transport to a P.O.W. camp."

Box of tape reels, for Magnetophon type HTS, 1942

Sound Reproduction

1942

Box of tape reels, for Magnetophon type HTS, by Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft, Germany, 1942

Three metal discs for reel unit, for Magnetophon type HTS, 1942

Sound Reproduction

1942

Three metal discs for reel unit, for Magnetophon type HTS, by Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft, Germany, 1942

Towing hook for military glider

Farnborough

1942

Towing hook for military glider

McVitie Weston valve collection, valve, type VR699A

Electronic Components

1943

Valve, type VR699A, (RMW/Y664B - McVitie Weston number), by Unknown maker, 1943.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Brimar valve, type 7D5

Electronic Components

1943

Brimar valve, type 7D5, domed envelope, graphited, pinch marked X286, (RMW/Y552B - McVitie Weston number), by British Thomson-Houston Company Limited, 1943.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Osram valve, type NT62A

Electronic Components

1943

Osram valve, type NT62A, marked ZOSJ ADM. PATT. 3794A, (RMW/Y513B - McVitie Weston number), by Osram, 1943.

McVitie Weston valve collection, MOV valve, type VR99

Electronic Components

1943

MOV valve, type VR99, domed envelope, graphited, (RMW/Y548A - McVitie Weston number), by M-O Valve Co. Limited, 1943.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Sylvania valve, type 1625

Electronic Components

c. 1943

Sylvania valve, type 1625, marked U.S. Navy C.H.S. 1625, (RMW/Y697A - McVitie Weston number), by Sylvania Electric Products Incorporated, c. 1943.

Drum for recording instrument, Met O 3225/-/43.

Meteorology

1943

Drum for recording instrument, Met O 3225/-/43.

Drum and clock, MET O 23/-/46

Meteorology

1943

Drum and clock, MET O 23/-/46

Debris in the Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton showing the wreckage of a plane in the Western Desert during the Second World War.

Pablo Picasso

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).

Debris in the Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton showing battlefield debris in the Western Desert during the Second World War.

Naval officer reading newspaper

Photographs

ca. 1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of a man in Navy uniform reclining on a sofa while holding a newspaper in front of his face.

Clothes drying in the Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of clothes strung up to dry in the Western Desert during the Second World War.

Bomb damage, Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of bomb damage in an unidentified North African city duing the second world war.

Dehydrated blood for wounded in North Africa

Photographs

20 November 1942

Planet News photograph showing Red Cross nurses loading crates of dried human serum into a van for the first stage of the journey to British war hospitals in North Africa.

Deborah Kerr

Photographs

1943

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of actress Deborah Kerr (1921-2007).

Strut psychrometer Mark VB, wet anddry bulb alcoho

Meteorology

1943

Strut psychrometer Mark VB, wet anddry bulb alcohol-in-glass Fahrenheit thermometers in frame to strap on small aircraft. Marked MO 1393/43, wet bulb and strap missing. Dated 1943. Thermometer marked NPL 45

Single-thread chart recorder, with suspended-coil

Electricity and Magnetism

1943

Single-thread chart recorder, with suspended-coil movement, no. C358009, made by the Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd., in 1943, fitted for thermometry and scaled in degrees centigrade

McVitie Weston valve collection, MOV valve, type CV1182

Electronic Components

1943

MOV valve, type CV1182, marked ADM PATT W264 NR60, in carton, (RMW/Y406B - McVitie Weston number), by M-O Valve Co. Limited, 1943.

Singer surgical stitching instrument

Surgery

1943

Singer surgical stitching instrument, stainless steel and ebonite, with accessories, in folding leather case, made in USA, 1943

Marconi thermionic triode valve

Radio Communication

1943

Marconiphone thermionic triode valve with box