british empire

[Soldiers from the British Empire in front of a ship at the Dead Sea]

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Prince Henry, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) who was the son of King George V and Queen Mary. In 1919, he attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned in the British Arm... More

Prince of Wales at White House, [Washington, D.C.]

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Close ups. Rockefeller Center, British Empire Building, detail of entr...

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[King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on steps of U.S. Capitol, Washingt...

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Reciprocal aid. An American crew at work on a British Halifax four-eng...

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Prince of Wales in N.Y. - Public domain portrait photograph

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Sir A. Conan Doyle - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about... More

Lady Hadfield, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Stokowski, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows British conductor Leopold Anthony Stokowski (1882-1977). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).... More

Lady Diana Manners, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

Rt. Honorable H. Samuel - Public domain portrait photograph

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Sir Ernest Rutherford, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Lady Auchland, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Sir Alf. Booth & Sylvia - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Sir Cecil & Mary Chubb - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Sir M. Hyslop, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Sir Max Waechter, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

J.G. Smith, Lily Smith, Walter Brickett

Photo shows Walter Brickett (on right) British Olympic Swimming coach in 1908 and 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from d... More

British coal strike - idle dock laborers, Cardiff

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Sir Jas. Key Caird - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows Sir James Key Caird, 1st Baronet (1837-1916), a Scottish textile manufacturer, philanthropist and mathematician. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News... More

Prince [of] Wales, King Manuel, Duke Connaught

Photo shows King Manuel II of Portugal at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England, when the Prince of Wales was invested with the Order of the Garter on June 10, 1911. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009... More

Viscount Kitchener, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph show Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916), a British Field Marshal and proconsul who served in the Second Boer War and World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title f... More

Viscount Kitchener, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph show Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916), a British Field Marshal and proconsul who served in the Second Boer War and World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title f... More

Taking body of Whitelaw Reid to British cruiser

Photo shows guards in London escorting the caisson carrying Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador to Great Britain. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008, and Library staff) Title from unverified data provided by ... More

W.B. Howland, Henry Vivian, and John A. Stewart

Photo shows members of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary (1814-1914) Committee. William Bailey Howland (1848-1917) was the British-American Commissioner, John Aikman Stewart (1822-1926) was Chairman of the Exe... More

Lord de Freyne, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Captain Arthur Reginald French, the 5th Baron de Freyne of Coolhaven (1879-1915), husband of Annabel Angus French. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010) Title from data provided by the Bain News Se... More

RAMILLIES, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the HMS Ramillies a Royal Navy battleship. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collecti... More

Hamenev i.e. Kamenev by Sheridan

Photograph shows a bust of Soviet politician Lev Kamenev (1883-1936) by British sculptor Clare Sheridan (1885-1970). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on t... More

Prince of Wales in N.Y - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

General F.S. Maude, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows British Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude (1864-1917) who served in Mesopotamia during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News... More

Sir Sam'l Hoare, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, (1880-1959), also known as Sir Samuel Hoare, a British Conservative politician. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provid... More

General Sir Sam'l Hughes - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Sir Samuel Hughes (1853-1921)who served as was the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News... More

Rob't Donald, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Sir Robert Donald (1860-1933) who was a British newspaper editor. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George... More

British Voluntary Aid detachment dressing station

Photograph shows a British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Dressing Station, Abbeville, France on June 27, 1917 during World War I.(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on Imp... More

British band plays Star Spangled Banner Detroit

Photograph shows British soldiers participating in a Red Cross parade in Detroit, on July 15, 1917 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on... More

British training, tailor shop - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows soldiers at a tailor's shop cutting out cloth, Tadworth Camp, England, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on Imperial War Museums website: http://www.iw... More

[Britain expects every son of Israel to do his duty]

Poster shows a soldier cutting the bonds from a Jewish man, who strains to join a group of soldiers running in the distance and says, "You have cut my bonds and set me free - now let me help you set others free... More

Prince of Wales at Annapolis, [Maryland]

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Prince of Wales at Annapolis, [Maryland]

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Lady Burbidge, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Catherine Jemina Grant (ca. 1873-1964), wife of Sir Richard Woodman Burbidge, 2nd. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negat... More

Prince of Wales at Mt. Vernon, Virginia

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

General Sir J. i.e. R. S.S. Baden-Powell

Photograph shows Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857-1941), founder of the Boy Scout movement. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives. F... More

Crowd at White House, Washington, D.C., to see Prince of Wales, 83024

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More

[The Arab Club House draped with crepe and black flags on day of Lord ...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930

Half lgth., seated, facing right. Photo by Bain News Service. LC-B2-5073-12 and LC-BT-5692-13 (Deteriorated). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection ... More

Mary Devlin, a forty-year-old Irish worker in a Bren gun plant

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Reciprocal aid. British equipment plays an important part in supplying...

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Reciprocal aid. A U.S. officers' mess in England, with girls of the Br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grand hotel Summit Mt. in the Catskills, on the Ulster & Delaware R.R.

M5618 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Schile, H.

[Cartouche from A map of the British Empire in America with the French...

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and elephant, Terai

Photograph showing the Prince of Wales posing with elephant bearing a howdah, Terai, India, 1875 or 1876. In album: India. No. 91.

[Cave Hill. Belfast. County Antrim, Ireland]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12077". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available a... More

[Frank Carpenter(?) and another man on horseback, Bar U Ranch, Prince ...

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Col. Sir Rob't Horne - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

Lord Mountbatten (Prince Leopold of Battenberg) seated

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Lady Cayzer, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Lady Mercy Dean, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Stokowski, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows British conductor Leopold Anthony Stokowski (1882-1977). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).... More

Sir Chas. Higham with G. Kingsley

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Street scene, including Church of Our Lady of Carmel, New York

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Mrs. Robt. T. Scott (Lady Scott)

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Sir Aug. Fitz George - Public domain architectural photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Prince of Wales [Edward VIII] on march

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King Belgium. Crowned heads following King Edward's coffin

Photograph shows the King of Belgium and others at the funeral of Edward VII in London, England on May 20, 1910. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of... More

General Sir Jas. M. Grierson - Public domain photograph, glass negativ...

Photograph shows British General James Moncrieff Grierson (1859-1914). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Ba... More

[General Marlborough Churchill, half-length portrait, seated at desk, ...

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ASQUITH, THE RT. HON. H.H. OF ENGLAND

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Your king & country need you to maintain the honour and glory of the B...

Poster showing an old veteran, wearing his decorations, shaking hands with a young soldier. Caption: A chip of the old block. Copyright by Dobson, Molle & Co. Ltd. Poster no. 18.

Taking bodies from LADY GREY - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows sailors taking coffins from the Lady Grey at Quebec City, Canada. Coffins contained bodies of passengers from the RMS Empress of Ireland which sank on the Saint Lawrence River, May 29, 1914. (S... More

[Children protesters with signs: "Mr. Wilson is busy protecting Americ...

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Van Dresser, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Marcia Van Dresser (1877-1937), an American operatic soprano, recitalist and actress, wearing an American flag and posed beside an American flag and a British flag. (Source: Flickr Commons proj... More

General Birdwood, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood (1865-1951) who was a British Army officer during the Second Boer War and World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by ... More

American, British, French, & German masks gas

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

Thomas, Haig, Joffre, Lloyd George

Photograph shows Lloyd George, British Minister of Munitions; Gen. Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army; Gen. Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army; and French Und... More

British officers' luncheon in wrecked village

Photograph shows British officers eating lunch in the ruins of a building at Étreillers, Aisne, France on April 25, 1917 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and the Imperial War Museums we... More

King George, Poincare & wives - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows King George V and Queen Mary, President of France Raymond Poincaré and Madame Henriette, Edward, Prince of Wales; Sir Douglas Haig and Sir Francis Bertie, on the steps of the British Officers' ... More

German prisoners, Messines Ridge

Photograph shows German prisoners of war captured by British forces at the Battle of Messines in West Flanders, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Imperial War Museums website... More

Maj. General Sir J.S. Cowans - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photograph shows Sir John Stephen Cowans (1862-1921), British Quartermaster General from 1912 to 1919, and a member of the British Army Council during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title a... More

British troops in Detroit - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows British soldiers participating in a Red Cross parade in Detroit, Michigan, on July 15, 1917 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News ... More

Prince of Wales in Japan - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Prince Edward riding in car. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about t... More

Duke of York, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the Duke of York (1895-1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Servi... More

Waiting at Union Station for Prince of Wales, 83024

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[Lord Balfour at the opening of Hebrew University]

Standing in row, left to right: Lord Balfour, High Commissioner Herbert Samuel, Chancellor of Hebrew University Judah L. Magnes; and Chaim Weizmann. (Source: researcher N. Lavsky, 2007).

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Public domain image with Picryl description as title The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian utopian community that was established in Jerusalem in the late 19th century. The community was founded by ... More

Hebrew University and Lord Balfour's visit. Lord Balfour at Richon

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Hebrew University and Lord Balfour's visit. Arab protest; shops closed

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Hebrew University and Lord Balfour's visit. Scene in the campus of the...

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Sir Alan Cobham, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Sir Alan John Cobham (1894-1973) who was an English aviator. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Gran... More

Palestine disturbances 1936. Arrival at the war graves cemetry [i.e., ...

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Reciprocal aid. Sergeant A. Baker of Texas loading armament in a Briti...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reciprocal aid. A British concrete mixer is employed to prepare a runw...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish set...

Relief shown pictorially. Gift; Mrs. Jefferson Patterson; December 1980. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569 Index map to Popple's larger, 20 sheet map of the same name. Includes 4 inset views, 18 inset maps, ill... More

Mrs. Hilton Young (Lady Scott) - Public domain photograph, glass negat...

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Sir Alex C. Houston - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Lord Robt. Cecil, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Lord Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864-1958), who served as British Minister of War Trade and was an advocate of the League of Nations. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) T... More

Adm. Lord Beatty, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Lord Northcote, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

King George of England - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Lord Lee of Fareham - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More