1915 Collection

April Collection
4 Items

February Collection
24 Items

January Collection
26 Items

Simon Maccabeus aka Simon Thassi, d. 135 BC, prince of the Hebrew Hasmonean Dynasty and high priest. After the painting by Margaret Dovaston (1884-1954)

FA Cup final 1915 Sheffield United vs Chelsea at Old Trafford Manchester View of the crowd - some of whom were soldiers on leave Sheffield won 3-0 Known as the the "Khaki Cup Final"

Illustration from London Underground World War I
During the war women did many jobs which previously had been considered only suitable for men. The Lift Girl, Dover Street

Illustration from London Underground World War I
During the war women did many jobs which previously had been considered only suitable for men. The Gatewoman. At the bottom are the soldiers in France who would have been doing this job in peacetime

Illustration from London Underground World War I
During the war women did many jobs which previously had been considered only suitable for men. Female ticket collector

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952), French military commander and Marshal of France. c.1915 Photo Taponier credit:Photo12/Coll. Taponier

From the Gallant Lads of Carbrook who used the Royal Hotel
From an original at Sheffield Libraries: p00103

Salvation Army shelter, Blackfriars, London. The " Penny Sit-Up" for men, where the homeless could find shelter sitting on a bench for a penny a night

Franz Josef Strauss (1915 - 1988) German politician (CSU) and long - time minister - president of the state of Bavaria

Wreckage of the plane in which the British pilot Flight-Lieutenant Warneford was killed on 17 June 1915. Awarded Victoria Cross for shooting down Zeppelin LZ 37 on 7 June 1915

Mikhail Vasilevich Alexeiev (1857-1918) Russian soldier. Chief of the Russian Imperial General Staff 1915. Organised anti-Bolshevik volunteer army after 1917 Revolution. Chromolithograph

Alfred Adler (1870-1937) Austrian psychiatrist; member of group around Freud until he broke away in 1911 and developed theory of Individual Psychology

French Air ace Adolphe Pegoud, 4th from right, in front of his plane on the day when fellow officers presented him with a bouquet in celebration of his latest citation. Killed action 1915

French Air ace Adolphe Pegoud. Wreckage of plane in which Pegoud was killed in action, 1915. First World War

Flight-Lieutenant Warneford, British pilot, awarded Victoria Cross for shooting down Zeppelin LZ 37 on 7 June 1915. Here in Paris on the eve of his fatal flying accident on 17 June. World War I

Exploits of French air ace Adolphe Pegoud, killed in action 1915. Looping-the-loop: dropping bombs: shooting- up observation balloon. From a contemporary broadsheet

Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Brazilian aeronaut in his aeroplane of 1906, the machine in which he made first recorded flight in Europe (22 August 1906)

Mohondas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), known as Mahatma (Great Soul). Indian Nationalist leader. Here he stands between Lord and Lady Mountbatten

Frank Sinatra (b1915) American film star and singer

David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945) Welsh - born British statesman, was appointed Minister of Munitions in 1915

Scene from London during World War I
World War I - 1914 - 1918. Recruitment tactics in a London street. A contingent of army riflemen giving a demonstration

Scene from London during World War I
World War I - 1914 - 1918. Working - class women trying to shame men into volunteering for the services by threatening to make them wear petticoats

Illustration from London Underground World War I
Signalman. The main picture shows the signalman at work in the signal box. Below, searchlights are pointing to the sky seeking Zeppelins on bombing missions

Illustration with Lorry - Body Builders
Lorry - Body Builders, World War I - 1914 - 1918. At the bottom is a convoy of army lorries of the type the men are working on. Lithograph. by Archibald Standish Hartrick

Illustration from London Underground World War I
Platelayers. At the bottom are younger men serving as soldiers in France who would have been doing this job in peacetime

Airship down in flames over city

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Leader in civil rights

Suffragist Alice Paul using telephone

High Commissioner talking with members of crew

Poster Take Up Sword of Justice, 1915
Poster " Take Up Sword of Justice", 1915

Jacquard Loom. Power operated development of Joseph Marie Jacquards (1752-1834) invention, showing swags of punched cards on which the pattern to be woven was encoded. Chromolithograph, 1915

JJ (Joseph John) Thomson (1856-1940) British physicist: discoverer of Electron and pioneer of nuclear physics. From photograph taken pre-1916

Mohondas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), known as Mahatma (Great Soul). Indian Nationalist leader. Here he is working at his spinning wheel, a symbolic task he performed almost daily

World War I: New Zealand troops taking Holy Communion administered by an Army chaplain in the open air

Mohondas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), known as Mahatma (Great Soul), as a young man. Indian Nationalist leader and organiser of the non-cooperative movement against British rule in India

Mohondas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), known as Mahatma (Great Soul). Indian Nationalist leader

The Second Battle of Ypres 1915 A. D
The Second Battle of Ypres 1915. Richard JackCanadian War Museum

Street Car in the Susan B. Anthony Pageant

Street Car in the Susan B. Anthony Pageant

All products are expertly crafted, using premium materials, tailored to your specifications and promptly shipped