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Woman holding a rose

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman in costume

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman with a spinning wheel

Photographs

1899

Woman with hourglass

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman in white

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman looking in a mirror

Photographs

c. 1900

Seated woman drinking tea

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman on a tree trunk

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman in an outdoor scene

Photographs

1897

Three women with musical instruments

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman at a piano

Photographs

1898

Woman with a miniature

Photographs

1898

Woman in classical costume

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman standing at a table

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman wearing a bonnet

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman with a water jug

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman wearing a plumed hat

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman with vase of flowers

Photographs

1899

Woman in a sequinned dress

Photographs

c. 1900

Detroit-based portrait photographer, active late 19th-early 20th century

Arthur, James

1855 - 1912

A photograph of a reclining woman with a hookah pipe, taken by James Arthur, c. 1900. The photograph shows a woman dressed in an exotic eastern-style costume reclining on rugs and cushions.

Woman with hookah pipe

Photographs

c. 1900

Collection of railway carriage fittings, all fixed in an exhibition case, which contains a plate engraved 'James Holgate, Arthur Street East, City, London' collection comprises:-( a) 15 door handles (one engraved S.E.R.);(b) 5 door hinges;(c) 3 carriage key hole covers; (d) 2 carriage locks; (e) one decorative fitting; (f) one silk window blind with ivory fittings.

james holgate collection of railway carriage fittings

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1829-1895, photographer, British

Melhuish, Arthur James

1829 - 1895

1879-1957, artist, Australian

Burgess, Arthur James Wetherall

1879 - 1957

active 1860s, camera manufacturers, London

McLean, Melhuish & Co

Minnitt gas-air analgesia apparatus, England, 1943-1960

Anaesthesiology

1943-1960

Components of the James Watt Workshop reproduction

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1922-1924

Components of the James Watt Workshop reproduction

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1922-1924

Three original home made Arthur Kingston cameras with plastic lenses developed by James Fenton.

Three home made 'Arthur Kingston' cameras

Photographic Technology

Silver gelatin print by James Jarché, mounted on board. Photograph of Dr Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, at a garden party for church vergers at Fulham Palace. Winnington-Ingram held the post of Bishop of London from 1901-1939.

Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London

Photographs

1930s

Main components, consisting of a fireplace, double sash window with frame, door with frame and other structural elements, of the reproduction of the James Watt Workshop by H.M. Office of Works from Heathfield presented by J.T. Hudson Esq. and Arthur Round Esq.

Components of the James Watt Workshop reproduction

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1922-1924

Painting, oil on canvas, Gower Coast by Arthur James Wetherall Burgess, about 1952. Depicts the view looking down onto a sandy beach beneath a blue sky with white clouds. In the foreground, at left, is a ruined castle. Seated beneath the castle is a woman in a red dress. There are people on the beach, and a boat with a red sail at the water's edge. Beyond the beach are promontories with white cliffs, and a lighthouse is just visible. There is a ship at sea in the distance. Signed by the artist at bottom right. Original poster artwork for British Railways (Western Region) poster "The Gower Coast, Glamorganshire, South Wales, For unspoilt natural beauty", one of the Travel by Train series. Unframed.

Gower Coast

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c. 1952

Beading from the double sash window from the reproduction of the James Watt Workshop by H.M. Office of Works from Heathfield presented by J.T. Hudson Esq. and Arthur Round Esq.

Components of the James Watt Workshop reproduction

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1922-1924

Memoirs, Institution of mechanical engineers, of Thomas Arthur Bewley, William Sutton Bocquet, William Frederick Dennis, Edward Fletcher, James Simpson, George Wilson Stevenson, William Stroudley and Edward Walker Nealor Wood with excerpts of the minutes of proceedings from October 1889, published by I. Mech.

institution of mechanical engineers memoirs

Documents

1889

SKS Ltd

Print. Mezzotint, on laid india. [James Forrest] Wm. Mainwaring Palin ; James Faed [Presentation Proof] London. Published March 28th. 1892 by Arthur Lucas. 31. New Bond Street. W. c1892 77x56 cm, platemark 55.6 x 43.2 cm. Signed in pencil by sitter and artists. - After the oil by Palin, 1890, in the Institution of Civil Engineers London. Portrait, HL, resting r. hand on open Minute Book of General Meetings of the ICE on table before him; Secretary of the ICE, 1860-1896 (O'Donoghue, Supp.) Forrest, James, 1825-1917 Portraits 1892; Faed, James 1821-1911; Palin, William Mainwaring 1862-1947 (Note formerly recorded as 1981-2151/35 - Airy Collection)

Print. Mezzotint, on laid india. [James Forrest]

Art

Floor-boards from the James Watt reproduction Workshop, by H.M. Office of Works, United Kingdom, 1922-1924

Floor-boards from the James Watt Workshop reproduction

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1922-1924

1909-c 1955, camera and cinematographic equipment manufacturer, London

Newman and Sinclair Limited

Reproduction of the James Watt Workshop by H.M. Office of Works, consisting of a skylight roof hatch, fireplace, double sash window with frame, door with frame and other structural elements from Heathfield presented by J.T. Hudson Esq. and Arthur Round Esq.

Reproduction of the James Watt Workshop

James Watt's Garret Workshop

Eddington, Arthur Stanley

1882 - 1944

Dickinson, Henry Winram

1870 - 1952

Pinewood Studios

Mounted photograph, commemorative portrait group, opening of the Forth Bridge, 4th March 1890, by J Lamb, photographer, Edinburgh. Showing Arthur J Knowles, Sir William Arrol, Joseph Philippe, Andrew S Biggart, A J Symonds, Reginald E Middleton, R Walter Mlik, Louis Neville, Duncan Campbell, Alex Chalmers, Rudolph Lilljequiot, T Moir, Allan D Stewart, Ernest W Moir, William Gray, Alfred E Mavor, W F Jackson, John Walker, William White Millar, Marquis of Tweeddale, Sir Matthew W Ridley, Lord Colville, William Heygate, Matthew W Thompson, Earl of Elgin, James Hall Renton, Lord Hindlip, John Dent, J B Wieland, Sir John Fowler, Samuel Balbirnie, Wilhelm Westhofen, E Malcolm Wood, John Noble, Spencer Brunton, Walter J Bourke, Maurice Fitzmaurice, Axel Shluter, Evelyn G Carey, Henry Oakeley, James Blackburn, Sir Benjamin Baker, Frederick G Cooper, William N Bakewell, Thomas Scott, George Aitken, Adam Hunter, J B Webster, John Martin. Overall: 918 mm x 672 mm.

The Forth Bridge Commemorative Portrait Group

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1890

Smith, Archibald

1813 - 1872