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Proposed NEW 3rd city for London
Discoveries on the site of the city that fell before Joshua's trumpets
A Map illustrating the excavations, showing the position of the citadel and it's walls etc.
(from an article that appeared in February 1909 in The Illustrated London News)
Haviland Series Portraits of Theatricals Celebrities
Buchanan's Black & White Whisky Adverts 1909 - 1922
Some Events of this year in the Illustrated London News 1909
April 6th - North Pole conquered by Commander Robert E Peary of the American Navy at 10pm
July 25th - Louis Blériot first to cross the English Channel in an aeroplane in 43 minutes
Sept 18th - A Week in the life of the ILN
December 7th - Union of South Africa proclaimed in London
Lloyd George introduces his "People's Budget"
Selfridge's department store opens in London
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes perform in Paris
January 2nd
Page size 11 3/10 inches by 16 1/2 inches approx
Volume134 no. 3637 Price 6d
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Front Page Numerous Adverts
inside Front Page Advert 'Players'
Page1. Turkish ladies unveiled P.
Page2. Pantomimes.holidays,deaths,books, T.
page3. The Messina earthquake (7 before P.)
Page4. GK Chesterton and Roskilde cathedral
Page5. Messina (full page P. before earthquake)
Page6. Portraits and world news
Page7. Photo of a giant iceberg
Page8. is p6 continued includes golfing in the snow Page9. Full page drawing
by A Forestier "Children Floating candles as fortune tellers"
Page10. and 11 Photos opening of the turkish parliament
Page12. Science Jottings - a new apparatus for use by a blind author - giant
barometer
Page13. A military funeral in Japan - A German insult to France
Page 14 'At the sign of St. Pauls'(Andrew Lang on certain matters)
Page 15. Pantomime Sketches of little red riding Hood(Lyceum) and Cinderella(Adelphi)A
Forestier
Page16. and 17 Art, Music and Drama Elsie Craven & Miss Viola Tree in 'Pinkie
and the Fairies' with a full page drawing in blue monochrome by W. Russell Flint
Page18 and 19 centre spread Dick whittington at Drury lane by S. Begg
Page20. Snow scenes P.
Page21. scene from Berlin 'Princes' ice Palace - artificial ice
Page22. photos of aeroplanes, model of the Flip flap, professional lady chauffeur
Page23. Chinese pigeon Whistles P.
Page24. Battersea park as it might be drawn by T Raffles davison
Page25. Drawing by cc wilmshurst, heroines of modern novels 'Miriam and the
Brushwood boy' on horseback
Page26.Ugandas marathon race from Entebbe
Page27. The Royal jubilee in siam
Page28. Can the Taxi lie? testing Taxi meters at Kew (6 P.)
Page29. Full page advert Sanatogen with testimonial signatures by Walter Crane
etc.
Page30. Ladies half page plus advetrs for Birds custard and Vinolia skin cream
Page31. adverts Lemco Thermos flask , Wolfes schnappes, Allenburys baby foods
Page32. The chronicle of the car ' a motor boat laying submarine mines' plus
advert scrubbs ammonia
Page33. adverts numerous
Page34. Chess and adverts
Page35. adverts numerous
Page36. Wills and Bequests and Ecclesiastical notes plus adverts lea & perrins
Page37. adverts numerous Buchanans whisky
outside back cover
blue red and white adverts samuel brothers school outfitters,
Summer edition
illustration by Cyrus cuneo of the beginning of the ballet in "Louise" at Covent Garden, French penal system - Devil's Island & Iles du Salut w/ illustrations,
"the Chinago" by Jack London & illus by R Caton Woodville - complete short story.
Story by Edwin Balmer, an illustration of sacred boat of Isis by Andre Castaigne,
double page supplement "Nereid of the Summer Seas" by J Simont, full pg illus by from picture by W Balfour-Ker
"Edge of the Precipice" & also one by C J Budd "Love's Labour"; story by Alfred Tresidder Sheppard illus A H Buckland
Cook and Peary both claim to have reached the North Pole
The Longest Flight made on a "Heavier-Than-Air" Machine, piloted by Henry Farman-,
The Disastrous Flood in Monterey, Mexico,
The Arrival of the Zeppelin 3,
The Ship Mauretania,
A panoramic colour pull out of Mont Blanc,
First Races Between Flying Men- Aviation week at Rheims
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