Postcards

An album containing a group of ten postcards and a greetings card by Louis Wain, all featuring anthropomorphic cats, including one dressed as Father Christmas.

A collection of approximately 99 postcards featuring dogs, the majority artist cards, including a variety of breeds.

A collection of 21 postcards of social history interest, including postcards titled ‘Tortoises, World’s Largest Alligator Farm, St Augustine, Fla,’ ‘Walchersche Kleederdracht (Zeeland), Uit rijden’ and ‘The Smallest Society Dancers’.

A group of ten photographic postcards of shopfronts with window displays.

A group of eight photographic postcards of shopfronts.

A collection of 13 postcards of industrial interest, including a few of agricultural interest.

A group of five postcards of railway stations, comprising postcards titled ‘Special Strawberry Train, Bexley Station, Kent’, ‘Farningham Rd Station, South Darenth’, ‘Liverpool Street Station Main Line’, ‘Railway Station, Swanley’ and ‘Shooters Hill Station & Parade’.

A group of five postcards of emergency vehicles, including postcards titled ‘Hornsey Fire Bg 1905', ‘Fire Station, Plaistow’, ‘Subscribed for by the People of Tottenham’, and ‘City of London Ambulance’.

A collection of 11 photographic postcards of trams, buses and coaches, mostly in the London area.

A collection of 16 postcards featuring motor cars or horse-drawn vehicles, including a photographic postcard titled ‘No 7 Funeral of the Victims, Giant Airship Disaster at Hull… 1921’.

A collection of 12 photographic postcards of streetcars, including postcards titled ‘Opening Day of New Electric Tramways, Elsternwick… 1913’, ‘8th Ave looking West from 1st West’, ‘Sight Seeing Car, Calgary Alta’, ‘Mayor Sharpe Reading the Riot Act Street Car Strike Winnipeg’ and ‘Napier Trams, First Car Run’.

Two postcards commemorating the collision between S.S. St Paul, an American Liner, and HMS Gladiator during a blizzard in the Solent in 1908.

A collection of approximately 56 postcards of shipping interest, including a few advertising cruise lines.

A collection of approximately 170 postcards of shipping interest, the majority merchant ships, liners, pleasure boats and cargo ships.

A collection of approximately 120 postcards of naval interest, including portraits of officers and crew, ships and one of a shipwreck titled ‘Iphigenia et Intrepid Bloquant, Zeebrugge’.

An album containing approximately 238 postcards of railway interest, including photographic postcards titled ‘West Station, Bournemouth’, ‘The Station, L. & S.W. Railway, Sidmouth’, ‘Railway Station, Huddersfield’, ‘Joint Station, Aberdeen’, ‘Penzance Station’, ‘Sundridge Park Station’, ‘Interior Great Northern Railway Station, King’s Cross, London’, ‘Bickley’, ‘High Level Station, Crystal Palace’, ‘G.W.Ry Station Dawlish’, ‘L. & S.W. Railway Station, Lyme Regis’, ‘Lyme Regis Station’, ‘Hayes’, ‘Arnside Station’, ‘Great Northern Railway Station, Lincoln’, ‘Lofthouse Station’, ‘Chislehurst Station’, ‘S.E. & C Rly Station, Tonbridge’, ‘Central Station, Manchester’, ‘At Sudbury Railway Station’, ‘New Street Station, Birmingham’, ‘Railway Station, Swanley’, ‘The Station, Westcliff-on-Sea’ and ‘High Wycombe Station’, also including printed postcards of European railways.

A group of 13 postcards of collieries in Glamorgan, Wales, including photographic postcards titled ‘Cwmdare Colliery, Treorchy’, ‘Colliery, Porth’, ‘Glenavon, Colliery, Blaengarw’, ‘Crumlin Viaduct, Pontypool’, ‘Maindy Colliery, Ton Pentre’ and ‘Lady Lewis, Porth’.

A collection of approximately 88 postcards of Monmouth, Wales, including photographic postcards titled 'Ida Place Ebbw Vale', 'Market Hall, Ebbw Vale', 'Central Hall, Ebbw Vale', 'New Bessemer, E.V.', 'Blast Furnaces Victoria', 'Newport Bridge and Castle', 'Transporter Bridge, Newport, Mon' and 'Waterloo Road, Talywain'.

A collection of approximately 53 photographic postcards, all British topographical views, including postcards titled ‘Push Ball Match, Bexleyheath Gala’, ‘Stratford Road, Wolverton’, ‘High Street, Halesowen’, ‘Woolwich Traders v Plumpstead Traders, Charity Comic Football Match at Manor Ground’, ‘Wounded Indians in the New Forest’, ‘North End, Croydon’, ‘Cross in Hand, West View’, ‘The Gamma Army Airship on Salisbury Plain’, ‘Mr H. Pastley and his Monoplane in Pymmes Park, Edmonton’, ‘Eynsford Peace Celebrations’ and ‘Slade Green Church F.C. 1910-11’.