Birmingham Collection (#83)

Young WWI soldier in a 9 carat gold frame
Portrait of a young First World War soldier in a 9 carat gold frame (fashioned as a brooch). Frame marked Birmingham 1919. English School

Britain poster, Birmingham, Britains Second City, by Val Doone for The Travel Association. Date: circa 1940s

William Churchs steam road carriage, 1835
William Churchs highly ornamented steam road carriage, which ran between London and Birmingham, and was capable of holding 50 people. Date: 1835

Making Dummy Guns at Birmingham
For bayonet practice and other aspects of training, recruits to the new army during the First World War were supplied with dummy guns

Birmingham working in war time
A page of sketches by Helen McKie showing Birmingham as a hive of industry during the First World War, showing female munitions workers in a national shell factory

Sinking of a German submarine by G. H. Davis
The sinking of a German submarine, showing the action in four stages between HMS Birmingham and the German U-boat U15. Also shown: how long a cruiser can keep going with one supply of coal (middle)

NCH Home, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Tiny tots dining at the National Childrens Homes Watson Home at Birmingham. Date: Circa 1940

Magazine page, fire brigade sports news
A magazine page reporting fire brigade sports news from Birmingham, Manchester and London. Prizes shown in the photographs are for swimming (London)

Silhouette portrait, Bishop of Birmingham -- either Ernest Barnes (bishop from 1924 to 1953) or Henry Wakefield (bishop from 1911 to 1924). Date: 20th century

St Joseph De Chamberlayne. In Birmingham Cathedral. His spear of fiscal reform has overcome Uncle Sam and Deutscher Michel

Messenger Gas lit chandelier
A gas lit chandelier shown at the 1862 International Exhibition held in London, and made by Samuel Messenger of Birmingham 1862

Ratcliff and Tyler Gas lit chandelier
A gas lit chandelier, exhibited at the 1873 International Exhibition in Vienna, and manufactured by Ratcliff and Tyler of Birmingham Date: 1873

U-15 German submarine
The German submarine U-15, which became the first U-boat to be lost to an enemy warship when on 9 August 1914 it was rammed by H.M.S. Birmingham. All 23 crew members perished. Date: 1914

HMS Effingham, Birmingham Class Cruiser

Interior of the Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham, 1891
Engraving showing the interior of the (then) new Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham, 1891. The images are, clockwise from top left

Advert for Lancaster & Sons bellows cameras 1886
Advertisement for 19th century bellows cameras with mahogany frames and apparatus. 1886

Benjamin Stone Photo
SIR BENJAMIN STONE statesman - MP for Birmingham - and photographer, notably of folklore customs. Date: 1838 - 1914

William Scholefield
WILLIAM SCHOLEFIELD radical member of parliament, yet mayor of Birmingham. Date: 1809 - 1867

Sir John Ratcliff
SIR JOHN RATCLIFF Mayor of Birmingham, wearing his municipal robes. Date: CIRCA 1858

Sir Josiah Mason - 2
JOSIAH MASON Pen manufacturer of Birmingham, philanthropist notably at Stratford-on-Avon. with his autograph Date: 1795 - 1881

Sir Josiah Mason - 1
JOSIAH MASON Pen manufacturer of Birmingham, philanthropist notably at Stratford-on-Avon. Date: 1795 - 1881

John Angell James - 2
JOHN ANGELL JAMES Nonconformist churchman at Birmingham. ` Date: 1785 - 1859

John Angell James - 1
JOHN ANGELL JAMES Nonconformist churchman at Birmingham. ` Date: 1785 - 1859

Labourers March 25 1790 Mezzotint second state
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Riders Sheep Estuary 1830 Watercolor sheet 6 1 / 8 x 9 3 / 16
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Entombment 1879 Green blue brown touches reddish gouache
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Piano Lesson 1800-1859 Watercolor graphite
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Cumaean Sibyl November 1 1882 Etching drypoint
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Prospect Bermingham Ravenshurst neere London-road
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Adam Eve Labour Whan Adam Delved Eve Span Then
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Sketch Nature January 24 1784 Etching stipple
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Bath Venus 1890s Metallic paint graphite Sheet
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Armed Men 1855-98 Graphite heightened white chalk
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Seated Couple Embracing ca 1865 White chalk touches
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Welsh Pine Wood ca 1891 Watercolor graphite paper
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Greenwich Hospital recto Study Building verso
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Month March ca 1866 Graphite paper 19 x 10-5 / 8
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Group 6 Early Stereograph Views Birmingham England
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Seated Woman 1864 Graphite sheet 12 5 / 8 x 8 3 / 4
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Ascension Christ Acts I 1-9 Study stained-glass window
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Houseboats on the Gas Street Canal Basin in the heart of Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Canal boats on the canal, Gas Street Basin, in the heart of Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Victoria Square, a pedestrianised public square in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Houseboats on Gas Street Basin in the heart of Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Europe

DESEGREGATION: ALABAMA. African American anti-segregation activists, including Reverend Frederick Shuttlesworth, sit alongside white passengers on a bus in Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph, 1956

CIVIL RIGHTS PROTEST, 1963. African American protesters kneel on the sidewalk outside of City Hall in Birmingham, Alabama, to protest racial segregation. Photograph, 1963

BIRMINGHAM: MARCH, 1963. African American demonstrators march through downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph, 7 May 1963

MAP: ALABAMA, c1885. Aerial view of Birmingham, Alabama. Lithograph after a drawing by Henry Wellge, c1885

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