1915 Collection

Matania - Last Absolution of the Munsters
The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois - painting by Fortunino Matania

First Zeppelin air raid on London, 1915
First Zeppelin air raid on London, during World War I 1915

FREDERICK O BRIEN (1869-1932). American writer. O Brien on Samoa, 1915, doing research for his book White Shadows in the South Seas. 1919

Advertisement for Pan Yan Pickle, WW1
First World War advertisement for Pan Yan Pickle, showing a happy soldier enjoying a bite to eat in the trenches. 1915

Red Cross nurse
Red Cross Nurse. On Service. Artist: Harold Copping Date: 1915

British troops WWI
British troops from the Royal Navy Division at Gallipoli during World War I

The Canadians at Ypres - William Barnes Wollen
The Canadians at Ypres 1915 - This depicts the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry at Bellewaerde Ridge on 8th May 1915

Shackleton's Endurance Sinking, November 1915
Shackleton's Endurance sinking in the ice of the Weddell Sea off Antarctica while a sled team looks on, Nov. 1915

Painting of the Lusitania
A framed painting by B Parr, dated 1919, of the SS Lusitania, a passenger ship which was torpedoed without warning by a German U-boat in May 1915

Kitchener Poster C. 1915
Your Country Needs You This direct and graphic recruitment poster featuring Lord Kitchener, aimed to command and inspire

Ww1 Kitchener Recruiting
KITCHENER POSTER Recruitment poster featuring Kitchener : " You are the man I want"

Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Dardanelles - WW2 - Landing supplies
Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, Dardanelles - WW2 - Landing supplies - view looking towards ArAnburnu, 1915 Date: 1915

University College Lond
University College, London. The impressive classical front

COMRADE IN WHITE
The Comrade in White - also known as Jesus - comforts a wounded soldier as he is assisted by a Red Cross officer 1915

British Royal Navy recruitment poster, WW1
A British Royal Navy recruitment poster for seamen, aged 19 to 30, to enlist for the duration of the First World War. No previous experience necessary. Date: circa 1915

Grape-Shot by Lou Mayer
A red-haired girl sits on top of a champagne cork as it zooms off into the air

Harley Davidson 1915
An advertisement for Harley- Davidson, showing a soldier taking his lady friend for a ride

WWI Poster, The Empire Needs Men
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, design by Arthur Wardle (1864-1949), The Empire Needs Men! Enlist Now. Depicting a lion and cubs, representing Britain and her Empire. Date: 1915

Edith Piaf Photo
(born Edith Giovanna Gassion) changed name to Piaf (= slang for sparrow): popular French singer

Forward! Enlist Now
FORWARD ! Forward to victory - enlist now. A soldier charges on a black horse

HMS Good Hope in Great War Deeds, WW1
HMS Good Hope of the British Royal Navy going down with her last guns firing, in an action against overwhelming odds off the coast of Chile, South America

Womens Institute activities during the First World War, making jam and wicker baskets to help with the war effort. 1915

Scriabin / Hull 1914
ALEKSANDR SCRIABIN Aka Skryabin Russian composer

Mills Bomb No 5 hand grenade, used during World War One, 1915. Oval cast iron segmented body with handle and split pin. Marked on base plate with grenade number and maker?s name P B and Company

Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, in uniform during the First World War. Postcard reproduction of a painting by Fischer. Date: 1914-1915

Cornwall / Lamorna Cove
Cornish scenery: Lamorna Cove

LUSITANIA
At the time of her launch in 1907, she was the largest vessel in the world : her sinking by a U-boat in 1915 continues to inspire conspiracy theories

Angels of Mons, cover design for piano music
Angels of Mons (Reve Mystique), cover design for solo piano music by Sydney C Baldock, inspired by rumours of angelic intervention in the fighting (Battle of Mons, Belgium)

Rejected by the inventions board

Keir Hardie giving a speech
Keir Hardie (1856-1915), founder of the Labour party, addressing suffragettes at a free speech meeting

Territorial Army Poster
A recruitment poster for encouraging new recruits to enlist in the British Territorial Army, stressing the camaraderie of being one of the Lads of the Village

Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
The IMPERIAL HOTEL, TOKYO : designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built 1915-1922, survived 1923 earthquake, demolished 1967

A bunch of Rhubarb - delicious with Birds Custard
A bunch of Rhubarb - delicious with Birds Hot Custard Sauce - featuring a recipe for Rhubarb Charlotte Date: 1915

The Railway Station Interior (South Platform), Rugby, Englan
The Railway Station Interior (South Platform), Rugby, Warwickshire, England. London & North Western Railway. Date: 1915

Turnbull & Asser khaki puttees advertisement
Advertisement for khaki stocking puttees in medium and heavy weights from Turnbull and Asser, military and sporting outfitters

Fourth Avenue, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
Fourth Avenue (looking east), Huntington, West Virginia, USA. 1915

British submarine HMS E6, WW1
British submarine HMS E6. Date: circa 1915

Staff cooks at King George Military Hospital, London, England, 1915
A group portrait of staff cooks at King George Military Hospital, London, England. Two military personnel are sitting in the front row, 1915

Pears Soap Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Pears Soap, showing a young boy in a bath tub, holding out his arms to receive a puppy from girl, who is standing by the promoted bar of soap. Date: circa 1915

Fairies in flight by Florence Mary Anderson. 1915

Army Chaplain in Great War Deeds, WW1
An Army Chaplain holding a night service on the battlefield, with a packing case as an altar and a tin mug as a chalice

Another Maxim Maxim by Bairnsfather
Another Maxim Maxim " Machine guns form a valuable support for infantry" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Date: 1915

WWI Poster, The Recruiting Sergeant
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, The Recruiting Sergeant, shown beckoning for men to join him. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, Remember Scarborough
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Remember Scarborough! Great Britains resolve to crush the German Barbarians. Enlist Now! Date: 1915

The Central Powers of WWI
With United Forces (the motto of Emperor Franz Josef I) - patriotic depiction of the Central Powers of WWI - Germany, Turkey and Austro-Hungary

Piper Daniel Laidlaw V. C
Piper Laidlaw won the V.C

Machine gun diagrams
Full page diagrams and illustration showing the workings of the Hotchkiss and Lewis machine-guns, used widely by the British army during World War I

ZEPPELIN RAIDER / 1915-16
A Zeppelin raider is caught in the searchlights over the countryside

Steam rail motor approaching Penzance Station, c. 1915
A view of a steam rail motor approaching Penzance Station, Cornwall, c.1915. Penzance station opened in 1852 and is the terminus of the Cornish Main Line and also the southernmost station in England

Kemal Ataturk in World War One
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (centre, above row sitting) at Gallipoli during World War One. Date: C.1915

5th Battalion Connaught Rangers, Basingstoke, WW1
Men of the 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers, 10th Division, arriving at Basingstoke from Ireland before going to Gallipoli during the First World War. Date: May 1915

Driffield Union workhouse, East Yorkshire
The entrance to the union workhouse (or Poor Law Institution) on Bridlington Road, Driffield, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Two inmates can be seen on the left, sitting on a bench

Australian soldiers at Gallipoli WWI
Australian soldiers at Anzac, Gallipoli during World War I

Canada - Fort William, Quebec - Indian Church & School

Plants / Algae
FRESH-WATER ALGAE various species

Ww1 / C 1915 / Kitchener Pos
KITCHENER POSTER " Your Country Needs You" The striking recruitment poster featuring Lord Kitchener

Heath Robinson - Lancing-Wheel
RECOMMENDED TO THE WAR OFFICE (REPLY AWAITED) Patent Applied For: The New Lancing-Wheel for Teaching Young Lancers to Lance. A typically convoluted contraption created by William Heath Robinson

Churchill / Iwn May 1915
WINSTON CHURCHILL As First Lord of the Admiralty during the political crisis in the early months of the First World War

Bathing Belle on Pier
A flirtatious young woman in a two-piece bathing costume of side lacing shorts & striped tunic adjusts her black stockings. N.B espadrilles with ribbon lacing

Hms Invincible
British battle cruiser which distinguished herself in World War One in the battle against Von Spees squadron off the Falklands. Date: 1915

Dr. Elsie Inglis Scottish Womens Hospitals
Portrait of Dr Elsie Inglis (1864-1917), founder of the Scottish Womens Hospitals for Foreign Service, funded largely by the N.U.W.S.S. Date: circa 1915

RMSP Cardiganshire Leaving Port Said, Homeward (1915). Shoesmith, Kenneth Denton 1890 - 1939. Date: 1915

WWI: CARRIER PIGEONS. British motorcyclists taking carrier pigeons to front line trenches during World War I. Photograph, c1916

WWI: POSTER, 1915. An Irish hero! 1 Irishman defeats 10 Germans... Lithograph, 1915

PLAYING CARDS, c1915. A cowboy and a Native American man seated on a blanket and playing cards on the Great Plains. Photograph, c1915

WWI - Battle of Champagne - Spent shell casings
WWI - Spent shell cases from just one battery after the first day of the Battle of Champagne (25th-30th September 1915) Date: 1915

Brooding Soldier - Canadian Memorial, Vancouver Corner - WWI
The memorial commemorates the 18, 000 Canadian soldiers who withstood the first gas attack on April 22/24 1915 (Battle of Ypres), suffering over 2, 000 casualties

Widener Library at Harvard University, USA
Widener Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Date: 1915

WWI Poster, If the cap fits you, join the Army today
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, If the Cap fits you, join the Army today. Date: 1915

Harley Davidson 11F V-Twin (11hp) 1915 grey

Illustration by Edmond Dulac for The Dreamer of Dreams
DULAC: THE ICE MAIDEN, 1915. Illustration by Edmond Dulac for The Dreamer of Dreams, by Queen Marie of Romania. Watercolor and gouache, 1915

WOMENs SUFFRAGE, 1915. The Awakening

GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946). American writer. Interior of Steins studio at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris. Photograph, c1915

Poster, Britons! Your Country Needs You

Poster, Your King and Country Need You, Enlist Now. Encouraging people to join up and fight in the First World War. circa 1914-1915

London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage, Woking
General view of the main building of the London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage at Woking, Surrey

ASC Barracks, Grove Park, Lewisham
Entrance to the ASC (Army Service Corps) Barracks on Marvels Lane, Grove Park, Lewisham, south east London. Two officers and a large dog stand at the entrance

Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey & allies
Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey (1844 - 1918), pictured with Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Franz Joseph of Austro-Hungary; the three emperors of the Central Powers in World War I

Southwark Military Hospital, Dulwich, South London
Ward blocks at Southwark Military Hospital which, during the First World War, was established in the St Saviours workhouse infirmary

Union Workhouse, Brighton, Sussex
Brighton Union workhouse on Race Hill, at Elm Grove in Brighton, Sussex, which opened in 1867. From 1915 to 1920 it was the Kitchener Indian Hospital and later became Brighton General Hospital

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Baba Beaton
Miss Baba Beaton is the younger of the two beautiful and attractive Beaton girls. They are among the most popular of the blonde ex-debs, and no party is complete without them

In the Famous Plug Street Wood by Matania
A relief party marching back to the trenches through Ploegstreet Wood (known as Plug Street), south of Ypres

Rupert Brooke, c. 1915
Photographic portrait of Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915), the English poet, pictured c.1915

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"1915: A Glimpse into the Turbulent Times of World War I" Step back in time to 1915, a year filled with both heroism and heartache. In the realm of art, Matania's masterpiece "Last Absolution of the Munsters" captures the poignant farewell between soldiers and their chaplain, immortalizing their sacrifice. Meanwhile, Kitchener Poster C. 1915 beckons young men to join the ranks and defend their nation. The Canadians at Ypres by William Barnes Wollen showcases bravery amidst chaos, reminding us of the indomitable spirit that prevailed on those battlefields. Forward. Enlist Now echoes through history as WW1 Kitchener Recruiting posters rally citizens to support their troops. Amidst this tumultuous era, even simple pleasures like a bunch of rhubarb become cherished delights when paired with Birds Custard. The British Royal Navy recruitment poster stands tall as a symbol of strength and unity during these trying times. The haunting painting depicting the ill-fated Lusitania serves as a somber reminder of lives lost at sea. Grape-Shot by Lou Mayer transports us onto war-torn fields where artillery fire reigns supreme. Yet amidst all this chaos, women find solace in activities organized by the Women's Institute during the First World War – knitting socks for soldiers or providing comfort to grieving families. The British submarine HMS E6 emerges from beneath turbulent waters as a testament to technological advancements shaping warfare strategies during WW1. And who can forget Angels of Mons? Its cover design for piano music evokes ethereal beauty amid tales woven around divine intervention on battlefields. In 1915, humanity faced its darkest hour yet found glimmers of hope within these artistic expressions and historical events etched forever in our collective memory.