Council Collection (page 14)

The Indian Council, c1847. Artist: Seth Eastman
The Indian Council, c1847

Portrait of Wladyslaw Vasa (1595-1648), son of King Sigismund III of Poland. Found in the Collection of Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, Madrid

Boyarinya Kseniya Ioannovna Shestova, spouse of Fyodor Romanov and the mother of Mikhail Romanov, La Artist: Anonymous
Boyarinya Kseniya Ioannovna Shestova, spouse of Fyodor Romanov and the mother of Mikhail Romanov, Late 18th century. Found in the collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

King Wladyslaw IV Vasa of Poland (1595-1648), Tsar of Russia, 1637. Artist: Hondius, Willem (1597-1652 / 58)
King Wladyslaw IV Vasa of Poland (1595-1648), Tsar of Russia, 1637. Found in the collection of the National Museum, Poznań

Ambassadors from the Czar of Muscovy in The Hague on 4 November 1631, 1630s. Artist: Beest, Sybrand, van (1610-1674)
Ambassadors from the Czar of Muscovy in The Hague on 4 November 1631, 1630s. Found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Tsar Mikhail Feodorovichs staff. In the vestry of the Ipatiev Monastery, Kostroma, 1911
Tsar Mikhail Feodorovichs staff. In the vestry of the Ipatiev Monastery, Kostroma

Gospel of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and the sacramental vessels of of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, 1911
Gospel of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and the sacramental vessels of of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich

A meeting of the board of enquiry, 1934
A meeting of the board of inquiry, 1934. The front cover of the L illustre Du Petit Journal, 18th March 1934

The new municipal council of Paris, 1900. Artist: Eugene Damblans
The new municipal council of Paris, 1900. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 17th June 1900

Doge of Venice and his counsel, late 16th century. Plate marking the naval victory of Lepanto, 1571, when the Christian states defeated the fleet of the Turkish Ottoman Empire

Detail of a frieze on the Treasury of the Siphnians, 6th century BC
Detail from the east frieze on the Treasury of the Siphnians at Delphi, showing the Council of the Gods. From left to right are Aphrodite, Artemis, and Apollo, 6th century BC

Arthur Arnold (1833-1902), British surveyor and land agent and radical politician, 1896. Appointed Government Inspector of Public Works in 1863

Pope Urban II presiding over the Council of Clermont which launched the First Crusade, 1095 (1522). The First Crusade was sent with the mission of liberating the Holy Land from the occupying Muslim

The Gaiety Theatre, Aldwych, London, 1909. View from Wellington Street towards the theatre and the Waldorf Hotel. Cars, horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians crowd the street

Statue of a girl scholar beside the door, Hamlet of Ratcliff Schools, Stepney, London, 1945
Statue of a girl scholar beside the door, Hamlet of Ratcliff Schools, 51 White Horse Road, Stepney, London, 1945. Small sculpture in a Gothic-style niche of a girl in Victorian dress

Broad tree-lined street with tramlines, Burdett Road, Stepney, London, 1912. Horses and carts are the only traffic on this comparatively empty street of four-storey terraced houses

Crowds in Deptford High Street shopping after dark, London, 1913. Shop fronts, including Elstons Market can be seen

Elderly couple in Victorian interior, Albury Street, Deptford, London, 1911

People in the street, Albury Street, Deptford, London, 1911. Street of two-storey Georgian terraced houses with elaborate carvings above the doors. People stand and chat, children play in the road

Shot Tower, gates with sphinxes, and milk cart, Belvedere Road, Lambeth, London, 1930
Shot Tower, gates with sphinxes, and milk cart, 63 Belvedere Road, Lambeth, London, 1930. A man with a hand-drawn milk cart waits in front of a gateway with sphinxes on the posts

Pedestrians and traffic, Victoria Street, London, April 1912. Busy street scene with cars, horse-drawn vehicles, an open-topped omnibus on the left, and people crossing the road

Men standing in the cutting shield, Rotherhithe Tunnel, Stepney, London, August 1907. Front view of the shield with workmen standing in compartments where the shield partly emerged into Shaft 4

Cars parked outside London Bridge Station, 1931. Cars, one with white-walled tyres, parked beside the railway bridge, with an advertisement for the National Building Society

WH Smiths bookstall at Waterloo Station, Lambeth, London, 1960. Bookstall on the station concourse, selling newspapers and magazines. Men wait at the counter to be served

Camberwell Car Shed and trams, London, 1914. Interior of the shed with pits for access to the under-side of the vehicles. Double-decker trams stand waiting behind

Replacing an old gas main, Commercial Street, London, 1906
Replacing an old gas main, Commercial Street, Stepney, London, 1906. Works during tramway electrification: replacing an old 48-inch gas main with a new one at the junction of Whitechapel High Street

Spitalfields silk weaving industry, Alma Road, Bethnal Green, London, 1909. Interior of a textile works showing revolving drums and a spreading out machine. A man is seated in the background

Girls in the gymnasium, Fulham County Secondary School, London, 1908

Girls playing netball, Chelsea Secondary School (Hortensia Road School), London, 1911. A girl is poised ready to shoot a goal

Typewriting class for women, Blackheath Road Evening Institute, London, 1914

Examination class for male and female students, Queens Road Evening Institute, London, 1908
Written examination in cvc class for male and female students, Queens Road Evening Institute, London, 1908. Seated in a hall in long rows, with teachers at the back

Bobbin lace and embroidery class, Northern Polytechnic, London, 1907. Female students gathered round a table, with examples of their work on a board behind them and in the foreground

Children aboard a steamer moored at Westminster Pier, London, 1937. A group of children and adults wave to the camera during their outing from Westminster Pier

X-ray room, Fulham School treatment centre, London, 1914. With a patient being treated, and a nurse standing by the window

Padded room, Saint Ebbas Hospital, Surrey, 1938. Before 1935 the institution was known as Ewell Mental Hospital

A copy of a photograph of the ward deck of the Atlas Smallpox Hospital Ship, c1890-c1899. Joyce Green Hospital was once the centrepiece of the Metropolitan Asylums Board complex of smallpox

Technical instruction, Haselrigge Road School, Clapham, London, 1914. A class of boys receiving instruction in the technique of edging, used in optical industries

Assembly in the playground, Jews Free School, Stepney, London, 1908. Boys lined up for a mass assembly in the school playground

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