Flag Collection (page 5)

Waac Poster / Wwi
Recruitment poster for the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps during the First World War, stating that " every fit woman can release a fit man" for service

General Strike 1926
A struggle between police and demonstrators during the General Strike as a policeman tries to take a flag out of a protestors hands

Lear / Jumblies / Nonsense
THE JUMBLIES The Jumblies go to sea in a sieve on a stormy day

British at Harare
The British flag is ceremonially raised over Fort Salisbury (now Harare) in Mashonaland (later Rhodesia, later still Zimbabwe)

Terminal Building, Cork Airport, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Deserted alleyway with Israeli flag hanging from a window above an archway, Muslim Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem, Middle East

Advertising card for Singer Sewing Machines - showing a good patriotic wife using her sewing machine to produce a white ensign for a Royal Naval Seaman husband. Date: circa 1916

The view from Poon Hill, 3210m, with Dhaulagiri, 8167m, and Dhaulagiri massif, Dhampus Peak, 6012m, and Tukuche Peak, 6920m, in the background with prayer flags in the foreground

Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Duomo, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

United Trade Unions poster for the Popular Front, spring 1936
FRANCE: POPULAR FRONT, 1936. United Trade Unions poster for the Popular Front, spring 1936

Our heroes and our flag. Print showing full-length portraits of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and G.T. Beauregard with four versions of the Confederate flag surrounded by bust portraits of

WHITE HOUSE: SUFFRAGETTES. Women suffragettes picketing in front of the White House, Washington, D. C. 1917
WHITE HOUSE: SUFFRAGETTES. Women suffragettes picketing in front of the White House, Washington, D.C. 1917

TEXAS: LONE STAR FLAG, 1839. Lone Star Flag of Texas, 1839
TEXAS:LONE STAR FLAG, 1839. Lone Star Flag of Texas, 1839

Picton Castle, near Haverfordwest, South Wales
General view of Picton Castle, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The castle dates from the late 13th century

Scott of the Antarctic and his predecessors
Illustration showing Captain Scott with his team flying the Union Jack flag, along with the names of previous polar explorers with the chronology traced back over a map of Antarctica

George V presenting colours to Irish Guards
King George V presenting new colours to the Irish Guards at Buckingham Palace

Ataturk Starts Reforms
Kemel Ataturk introduces language reform

Sacred Mt Kailash and prayer flags - Tibet
BMD-233 Sacred Mt Kailash and prayer flags Tibet Brian McDairmant Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Formula One World Championship: Race winner Stirling Moss Lotus 18 crosses the finish line
Race winner Stirling Moss (GBR) Lotus 18 crosses the finish line. This was the first GP victory for Lotus. Monaco Grand Prix, Monte-Carlo, 29 May 1960

Battle of Solferino
Austrian forces, opposing the unification of Italy, are defeated in a decisive battle at Solferino, near Verona, Italy, by French and Piedmontese forces

Scott at Amundsens Tent
Scotts team arrive at the South Pole to find that Amundsens crew have beaten them to it; frozen and demoralised, they perished weeks later

Advert / Wrights Soap
Wrights Coal Tar Soap: Britains Might is (W)right

Andrew Jackson / On Horse
Andrew Jackson 7th president of the United States

Events / Exploration / Polar
Sledge party planting British flag. Shackleton, Scott and Wilson Discovery exploration of the Antarctic

Dutch Ship at Anchor off the Coast of Tsushima, 3rd month, 1859. Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II
Dutch Ship at Anchor off the Coast of Tsushima, 3rd month, 1859

Serranos Gate, Valencia, Spain, Europe

Bahamas, Exuma Island. Flags on ceiling of bar at Yacht Club. Credit as: Don Paulson / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont

Flag of Togo

WORLD WAR I: MARINES, 1918. First to Fight. Posed photograph, 1918, showing U.S. Marines charging onto a beach, issued by the War Department for recruitment purposes during World War I

Ship Passengers
Passengers who have disembarked from the Cunard liner Mauretania at Fishguard, Pembroke waiting with their luggage to board the first special passenger train to London

Scottish troops take part in Victory parade in Paris - WWI
Scottish regiments taking part in the Victory parade in Paris following the end of World War One - 14th July 1919. The soldiers march below the Arc de Triomphe. Date: 1919

Large Letter Card - Greetings from Sacramento, California Date: circa 1940

HMS Exmouth - Royal Navy predreadnought battleship
HMS Exmouth - a Duncan class predreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. HMS Exmouth was launched in August 1901 and served as a flagship for various fleets including the Mediterranean Fleet

USA-Indiana-Indianapolis: Downtown- Soldiers & Sailors Monument / Monument Circle
USA, Indiana, Indianapolis: Downtown, Soldiers & Sailors Monument / Monument Circle

Albania, Tirana, Skanderbeg square, buildings in Italian Fascist style

Small old Fiat 500 car parked on a back street in Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

USA, Massachusetts, Chatham. An American flag and the Coast Guard flag wave in front of Chatham Light lighthouse

Europe, Switzerland, Matterhorn. The Swiss flag flies proudly at the base of the Matterhorn near Zermatt, Switzerland

American seamstress and patriot. Betsy Ross making the first American flag. Drawing by Elisabeth Moore Hallowell
BETSY ROSS (1752-1836). American seamstress and patriot. Betsy Ross making the first American flag. Drawing by Elisabeth Moore Hallowell

Woman suffrage headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland - A. (at extreme right) is Miss Belle Sherwin, President, National League of Women Voters; B. is Judge Florence E

Poster against American capitalism, showing a man in a stranglehold, with a stars and stripes design on the aggressors sleeve. 1944

The Queen as Captain-General
In her role as Captain-General of the Honourable Artillery Company, the Queen presents new colours to Lieutenant F.H.B Layfield, right (Queens Colour) and Lieutenant J.S. Teakle (Regimental Colour)

CHINA: POSTER, 1976. Revolutionary Committees are Good. Chinese woodcut poster, 1976

Nyhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe

A view of Round Island Light Station

Victoria Diamond Jubilee celebration bookmark
A beautifully embroidered silk bookmark to commemorate Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee

A parade in Fall River Massachusetts, Sherwin Williams float

We Are Not Downhearted by H. T. Hardy
World War One postcard showing a a group of children, dressed in the uniforms of French, British, Russian and Belgian soldiers, arm in arm and holding their individual countrys flags

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