Original artwork digitised from The J Salmon Image Archive. J Salmon Ltd. was founded in 1880 as a stationer's shop and general printing business based in Sevenoaks, Kent. Aound 1912, his son, also Joseph Salmon started to publish postcards featuring the work of Alfred Robert Quinton, a famous association that was to last until the artist's death in 1934. The company grew throughout the 20th century and remained in the ownership of the Salmon family. Alongside the superb work of ‘ARQ’, other highlights include the paintings of aircraft and ships by A. F. D. Bannister, attractive Fairyland illustrations by Flora White, humorous postcard illustrations of Reg Carter and a delightful set of seaside scenes by Cicely Mary Barker.

Photographs of Castro's Cuba, with pictures of Castro himself, Che Guevara and Ernest Hemingway among others.

Images of science and scientists through the ages

The Scout Association archive traces the development of the movement through its 110-year history, including pictures from that very first Brownsea Island camp. The photographic element of the collection also reflects the international character of scouting, with images of scouts from Sweden to the Seychelles. There are records of the wide-ranging efforts of the scouts during both world wars, as well as their participation in the opening ceremony of the 1948 London Olympic Games and at jamborees around the world.

Rare imagery of Mary Seacole

Rare and restored early photography with global coverage

Stunning First World War battlefield photography showing the battlefields as they are today and how the landscapes preserve the memories of the Great War. Many images were exhibited in the Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace 14-18 exhibition that was exhibited globally.

Raymond Sheppard (1913-1958) was an artist and illustrator whose superb draughtsmanship and observational skills produced remarkable studies of birds, animals and other subjects. Working in a variety of media, including watercolour, pastel and pen and ink, Sheppard was a prolific artist, also painting landscapes, historical scenes and his family life. He was made a Fellow of the Zoological Society in 1949.

Colin Sherborne studied at the Guildford School of Photography and by the 1950s had established himself as a professional, commercial photographer carrying out (mainly) studio work for a number of big London advertising agencies. The work we represent covers the period from 1957 to 1962, an era when Britain was told by its Prime Minister it had 'never had it so good' a claim well reflected in this archive of imagery devoted to the consumer.

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The artist Dora Sprinzel created a series of fashion drawings in the 1930s that are a stylish tribute to more acclaimed designers. She arrived in London in the early thirties with her husband Paul, as refugees. Paul had been a film director and so Dora was exposed to the glamorous world of the silver screen. She began to forge a career as a fashion illustrator, translating descriptions sent by her sister from the Paris catwalks into a series of elegant images recording the latest styles from visionaries such as Lanvin, Rochas and Schiaparelli.

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Fashion illustrations by fashion designer Victor Stiebel

Digging around for dinosaurs? Searching fruitlessly for aliens in space? Then may we recommend Stocktrek? The many images from Stocktrek Images, bookend our historical collection with digital artwork on dinosaurs and prehistory alongside dazzling depictions of the future encompassing sci-fi, fantasy, space and alien life.

Images of the cheeky cartoon character Bonzo

The STUDIOCANAL Films collection includes artwork, production and publicity images from over 1000 titles from the early days of sound cinema to the late 1980s. Highlights include early Hitchcock films, the classic Ealing comedies of the 1950s such as The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers, as well as the much-loved series of Carry On films including Carry on Screaming and Carry on Cleo. The studio is officially represented by Mary Evans Picture Library and commercial use may be available on request.

Süddeutsche Zeitung, which began publication in October 1945, was the first newspaper to receive a licence from the post-war US administration of Bavaria and is now the largest German national daily newspaper with a readership of over 1 million. The content of their remarkable archive, which is mainly photographic, includes images of two world wars, the Berlin Wall and life in East Germany not to mention fantastic portrait photography of stars such as Elvis, Gloria Swanson and Alfred Hitchcock.