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Rare Books and Manuscripts
61
Creator
Valentine & Sons
2
Bamforth & Co.
1
British Council (United States)
1
H. Coates & Sons
1
Raphael Tuck & Sons
1
Wessex Yarns (Firm : Dorset, England)
1
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1970
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
61
Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
60
Free to Use
1
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Unavailable
55
Available
6
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Postcards
55
Photographs
2
Prints
2
Books
1
Creator Gender
unknown
61
Period
20th century
59
19th century
2
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postcard
60
ephemera
58
photograph
25
photographic postcard
25
photographic print
21
photomechanical print
19
postage stamp
8
chromolithograph
3
hat
3
portrait
3
printed ephemera
3
silhouette
3
birthday card
1
collotype
1
collotypes (prints)
1
greeting card
1
lithograph
1
pipes (smoking equipment)
1
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Postcards -- Specimens.
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Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)
18
Ocean travel.
13
Passenger ships.
13
Ships -- Pictorial works.
13
Aquitania (Steamship) -- Pictorial works.
6
Exhibition buildings -- England -- London -- Pictorial works.
5
Exhibition buildings -- England -- London.
5
London (England) -- Exhibitions -- Pictorial works.
5
Railroads.
5
British Empire Exhibition (1924–1925 : Wembley, London, England)
4
Exhibitions -- England -- London -- Pictorial works.
4
Franco-British Exhibition (1908 : London, England)
4
Caricature and cartoons.
3
Cut-out craft.
3
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
3
Photography -- Great Britain.
3
Portraits.
3
Silhouettes
3
Clocks.
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20th century
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19th century
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England
11
London
9
London (England)
5
Great Britain
3
Cheddar (England)
1
English Channel
1
Glasgow
1
Holmfirth
1
Kerry (Ireland)
1
Scotland
1
Associated People
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865–1936
1
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894–1972
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
18
Language
English
60
Efik
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[Postcard with birthday wishes]
[approximately 1910]
2
The Grand Vista
1951
3
Main Vista South
1951
4
[Photographic postcard of an unidentified group of people and 4 wheeled wagon]
[approximately 1880-1900?]
5
Palestine Pavilion
[1924]
6
[Photographic postcard of an unidentified group of people seated in an open top bus]
[approximately 1910-1920?]
7
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" leaving ways -- entering water
[approximately 1914?]
8
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" afloat
[approximately 1910?]
9
[Collection of three postcards]
[approximately 1900]
10
Great Southern Hotels in Kingdom of Kerry
[approximately 1919?]
11
Valentine & Sons
The Fairway
1951
12
The Flip-Flap : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908
[1908]
13
The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway
[approximately 1951]
14
"Nellie"
1951
15
H. Coates & Sons
Guinness Festival Clock, Gt. Yarmouth
[approximately 1954]
16
The Dogs Cemetery, Hyde Park, London
[approximately 1920]
17
South Bank Exhibition
1951
18
[Postcard with the silhouette of a man on front]
[approximately 1900]
19
S. S. Manche entering Newhaven Harbour
[approximately 1906?]
20
[Postcard with the silhouette of a man on front in a hat smoking a pipe]
[approximately 1900]
21
The South Bank Exhibition
1951
22
Centre of Western Section, Canadian Pavilion
[1908]
23
Bamforth & Co.
[Postcard with image of a woman discussing inscription to be written on her husband's headstone]
1908
24
Celebrated liners
[approximately 1900?]
25
Wessex Yarns (Firm : Dorset, England)
Three postcards advertising Wessex Yarns
[approximately 1900]
26
Festival Pleasure Gardens
1951
27
S. S. Cretic
[approximately 1905?]
28
Cunard White Star
[approximately 1931?]
29
S. S. Mauretania
[approximately 1906?]
30
The Shell Byplane X-100
1951
31
[Postcard addressed to Mrs. Wilson]
[approximately 1916]
32
"Oceanic" leaving New York
[approximately 1906?]
33
Canadian Pavilion, The Minerals
[1908]
34
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Festival Pleasure Gardens
1951
35
The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway
[approximately 1951]
36
Cunard R.M.S. 'Scythia'"
[approximately 1930?]
37
The Stadium Terrace
[1924]
38
The Arcades and Entrance Towers, Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea
1951
39
Guinness Clock, Gt. Yarmouth
[approximately 1954]
40
"Wild Goose"
1951
41
"Nellie"
1951
42
Cunard White Star R. M. S. "Queen Mary"
[approximately 1936?]
43
Glasgow Exhibition
approximately 1901]
44
British Council (United States)
Groovy baby!
[approximately 1970?]
45
The Transport Pavilion, South Bank Exhibition, Festival of Britain 1951
1951
46
Amusement Park
[approximately 1924]
47
Cunard R.M.S Aquitania
[approximately 1924]
48
Cunard Liner Aquitania
[approximately 1914?]
49
Seaside
1951
50
South Bank Exhibition, Festival of Britain
[1951]
51
Stadium
[approximately 1924]
52
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
[approximately 1920?]
53
Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908
[1908]
54
Nellie
[approximately 1951]
55
Seaside
1951
56
Mountain Railway
[1911]
57
Canadian Pavilion, South West Section
[1908]
58
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" leaving ways -- entering water
[approximately 1914?]
59
Valentine & Sons
Crystal Palace, London
[approximately 1920?]
60
[Postcard with a silhouette of a woman in a hat mounted on front]
[approximately 1899]
61
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" before launch
[approximately 1910?]