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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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1880
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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.
2
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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
[Photographic postcard of an unidentified group of people and 4 wheeled wagon]
[approximately 1880-1900?]
3
Main Vista South
1951
4
The Grand Vista
1951
5
Palestine Pavilion
[1924]
6
[Photographic postcard of an unidentified group of people seated in an open top bus]
[approximately 1910-1920?]
7
The Flip-Flap : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908
[1908]
8
Valentine & Sons
The Fairway
1951
9
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" leaving ways -- entering water
[approximately 1914?]
10
[Collection of three postcards]
[approximately 1900]
11
Bamforth & Co.
[Postcard with image of a woman discussing inscription to be written on her husband's headstone]
1908
12
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" afloat
[approximately 1910?]
13
Great Southern Hotels in Kingdom of Kerry
[approximately 1919?]
14
Canadian Pavilion, The Minerals
[1908]
15
[Postcard with the silhouette of a man on front in a hat smoking a pipe]
[approximately 1900]
16
The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway
[approximately 1951]
17
Festival Pleasure Gardens
1951
18
S. S. Cretic
[approximately 1905?]
19
Cunard White Star
[approximately 1931?]
20
Wessex Yarns (Firm : Dorset, England)
Three postcards advertising Wessex Yarns
[approximately 1900]
21
The Shell Byplane X-100
1951
22
"Nellie"
1951
23
H. Coates & Sons
Guinness Festival Clock, Gt. Yarmouth
[approximately 1954]
24
The Dogs Cemetery, Hyde Park, London
[approximately 1920]
25
S. S. Mauretania
[approximately 1906?]
26
Celebrated liners
[approximately 1900?]
27
Centre of Western Section, Canadian Pavilion
[1908]
28
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Festival Pleasure Gardens
1951
29
[Postcard addressed to Mrs. Wilson]
[approximately 1916]
30
S. S. Manche entering Newhaven Harbour
[approximately 1906?]
31
The South Bank Exhibition
1951
32
"Oceanic" leaving New York
[approximately 1906?]
33
The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway
[approximately 1951]
34
[Postcard with the silhouette of a man on front]
[approximately 1900]
35
Guinness Clock, Gt. Yarmouth
[approximately 1954]
36
Valentine & Sons
Crystal Palace, London
[approximately 1920?]
37
[Postcard with a silhouette of a woman in a hat mounted on front]
[approximately 1899]
38
Cunard Liner Aquitania
[approximately 1914?]
39
Cunard R.M.S Aquitania
[approximately 1924]
40
Nellie
[approximately 1951]
41
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
[approximately 1920?]
42
Seaside
1951
43
Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908
[1908]
44
Mountain Railway
[1911]
45
Canadian Pavilion, South West Section
[1908]
46
South Bank Exhibition
1951
47
The Transport Pavilion, South Bank Exhibition, Festival of Britain 1951
1951
48
Amusement Park
[approximately 1924]
49
British Council (United States)
Groovy baby!
[approximately 1970?]
50
"Nellie"
1951
51
Cunard R.M.S. 'Scythia'"
[approximately 1930?]
52
The Stadium Terrace
[1924]
53
The Arcades and Entrance Towers, Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea
1951
54
"Wild Goose"
1951
55
Seaside
1951
56
Stadium
[approximately 1924]
57
South Bank Exhibition, Festival of Britain
[1951]
58
Cunard White Star R. M. S. "Queen Mary"
[approximately 1936?]
59
Glasgow Exhibition
approximately 1901]
60
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" leaving ways -- entering water
[approximately 1914?]
61
Cunard Liner "Aquitania" before launch
[approximately 1910?]