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The Illustrated London News 1928
Some Events of this year in the Illustrated London News
January 6th - Central London flooded by Thames after thaw and high tide plus more pictures to end of March
May 7th - Equal Franchise Act gave all British women the vote at 21
May 15th - Start of the Flying Doctor service in Australia to cover 250,000 sq miles
August 27th - Kellogg-Briand 'no war' Pact signed by 15 Nations, including Germany
September 30th - Announcement of discovery of Penicillin by Alexander Fleming
November 22nd - First £1 and 10 shilling notes in circulation in Britain
The R100 and R101 Airships were being built in Britain
During the Year Thomas Hardy, Emmeline Pankhurst and Herbert Asquith died
Amsterdam hosted the Olympic Games
Herbert Hoover was elected Republican 31st President of the USA
November - In China the Peking government surrendered to General Chiank Kai-Shek ending civil war, he was made president of the Chinese republic
In Turkey Premier Mustafa Kemal introduced the Roman Alphabet to replace Arabic
The Oxford English Dictionary was published after decades of work on it.
The controversial The Well of Loneliness, by Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, which dealt with Lesbianism was published
DH Lawrence published Lady Chatterley's Lover, in Florence in order to avoid censorship at home
Paul Robeson appeared as Joe in Show Boat at Drury Lane, London
First Mickey Mouse films produced by Walt Disney
March 17th
The Afghan King And Queen Greeted At The "Gateway" Of England;
An Address Of Welcome Read By The Recorder Of Dover In The Presence Of The
Prince Of Wales
London Acclaims The King's Guests (4 Photos)With Queen Mary, Queen Suryia, Prince Henry And The Duchess Of York
Our Notebook
First Studio Portraits Of Queen Suryia (3 Photos)
The Cromwell Of The Wahhabis, Puritans Of Islam -
Being An Appreciation Of
"Ibn Sa'oud Of Arabia, His People And His Land" By Ameen Rihani
(10 Photos)
Books Of The Day
Will The Golden Age Of Sail Return To The Sea? "Morning Mists" From
The Drawing By Frank H Mason (Full Page Colour Plate)
The "Victory" In 1921; And As King Amanullah Will See Her (2 Photos)
Caribou Swimming In The Yukon River; An Antlered Host On Trek (4 Photos)
The Fine Art Of Collecting - The Cigarette Case Of The 18th Century; Old Snuff
Boxes (8 Photos)
The World Of Science - A Bird That Builds It's Nest In Three Storeys By W
P Pycraft (2 Photos Sudanese Hammer-Head)
The Last Hours Of Edith Cavell (2 Photos)
The Camera As Recorder; News By Photography (8 Photos)
Was Neolithic Man A Cannibal? (6 Photos)
"Cote De Provence" By Ch. H G Dagnac-Riviere/"Claire
De Lune Sur Cote D'azure" By Arsene Chabanian/
An Unknown World Of The
Jew; Remarkable Art Of Isidor Kaufmann (6 Paintings)
Fine Acting On The Modern English Stage (6 Photos)
The Unparalled Needlework Exhibition At Sir Philip Sassoon's; Royal And Other
Pieces (11 Photos)
The Toll Of The Air; British And French Disasters At Sea (7 Photos)
The Growth Of The Aeroplane; "Giants" Of Three Periods (4 Photos)
The World Of The Kinema (3 Photos Charlie Chaplin)
Cartoon Sepia "Total Disarmament"
The World Of Music
The Playhouses
The Chronicle Of The Car; The Opening Of The Road
The Joys Of Comfort Motoring By "The Roadster"; The Call Of Spring/Small
Fabric Saloons/The Need For Useful Gadgets
/Flexibility On Top Gear/Attractive
Six-Cylinder/Present-Day Technical Details/Spring-Loaded Jockey Sprocket/
New
Types Of Fuel/Lubrication Lightens Toil/Peripatetic Picnics/Seven Miles For
A Penny (15 Photos)
Also Some Great Ads Including;-Full Page Sepia Ovaltine - Estelle Brody/
Full Page Worthington's Pale Ale (At Rugby Match)
Full Page Abdulla Cigarettes/Green's
Lawn Mowers/Vat 69/Horrockses Nymphalene Undies/Etc.
Full Page B&W adverts Sunbeam , Alvis
1/2 Page Lanchester/Austin/Singer/Clyno/Humber/Crossley/Hooper Etc.
April 21st (Spring Number)
A Lure, In Season And Out Of Season; London The Ever Changing
Our Perilous World; Recent Disasters By Land And Sea
Our Notebook; A Tragic Bereavement In The Royal Family; The Late Viscount
Trematon, The Queen's Nephew, Who Died From Injuries In A Motor Accident
Personalities Of The Week; People In The Public Eye
The Centenary Of Goya; His Unique Frescoes In The Church Transformed Into
His "Shrine"
From The World's Scrap-Book; New Items Of Topical Interest
The Camera As Recorder; Home And Foreign News By Photography
The Bomb Attempt On King Victor; An Outrage That Killed Nineteen People At
Milan
The First East-To-West Atlantic Flight; The "Bremen", Her Crew And
The Start
The World Of Science: A Strange Grasshopper From India
A Gramophone That Changes Its Records; A Musical "Robot" (Illustrated)
Where Spring Means Renewed Warfare And Starvation; In Family-Stricken China
Books Of The Day
The Storied Past Of India; Iv. A "Unique Monument" Discovered
The Great Lesson Of Imperial Germany; The World's Largest Submarine And The
First To Be Also A Mine-Layer, The "V4" A Recent Addition To The
United States Navy
New Zealand Action In Troubled Samoa
April's Magic Change In The Alps; The "Snows" Of Blossoming Spring
The Coming Season; A Forecast Of 1928 - A Diary Of Important Fixtures
The World Of The Theatre
The Covent Garden Opera Season; Singers Of Outstanding Interest
Sport Of The Season; The Promise Of 1928
"Hopes" Of The Season In The World Of Sport; Protagonists Of Golf,
Cricket, And Lawn-Tennis
Some Debutants Of The Season
Growing Air Travel This Season; London's New Air Terminus
The "Victoria" Of The London Airways; A Wonderful System Of Air
Traffic Control In Use At Croydon
Fashionable Accessories For The London Season/Jewels And Modes That Shine
By Night
The Fine Art Of Collecting- Old Buffets, Ancestors Of The Modern Sideboard
Important Pictures By Old Masters Of The Dutch And Flemish Schools
Oxford Street Today And Yesterday (8 Photos & Drawings)
Fashions & Fancies (Illustrated)
The Chronicle Of The Car
The Playhouses
This Season's Lawn Tennis
Electricity In Daily Life
Adverts include
Wonderful Rowntree's 4/- Chocolates Are Supreme Six Assortments To Choose
From;-
York Seal Assortment, Prince Of Wales Assortment, York White Rose Assortment,
York Hard Centres, Fluted Dessert Assortment, And King George Assortment
Full Page Colour Plate Dewar's The Butler
Half Page Austin Car/Half Page Crossley Car/Half Page Bean Cars/Half Page
Wolseley Car/Half Page Singer Car
Advert The Globe-Trotters For Abdulla
Cigarettes
Battersby British Hats For Men
Full Page B&W Ovaltine/Carl Brisson
Full Page B&W Worthington's India Pale Ale
Zambrene Weatherproofs
Dunhills Motor Equipment Specialists
Full Page B&W De Reszke
July 28th
The late actress Ellen Terry
GK Chesterton
The scientific side of crime detection - by H. Ashton-Wolfe - the detection of forgeries by forensic methods
Nepal and the gurkhas - by Perceval Landon
The civil war in China - the change over in Peking - by Brayton Barff -
Nationalist troops ( Shansi army ) arrive in Peking, General Pao - last to leave - passing through the east gate
Stoke court - home of the poet Gray
The prince of Panna, India with a tiger he had bagged
The murdered president of mexico - Alvaro Obregon
The King of England with the 10th royal hussars
Cyclists of the United States olympic team training on bikes on board the "President Roosevelt"
The trans pacific flight of the aeroplane "southern cross" the landing at eagle farm, brisbane, australia -
The medieval tournament at Carcassonne
An aeroplane over the Moorfoot hills, near Peebles - by Alfred Buckham
aviator Winifred Spooner
Doctor Justina Wilson - the first woman fellow of the Royal College of physicians, Edinburgh
The air rescue of the general nobile's "italia" dirigible expedition by captain Lundborg -
Shark off the Bahamas
Giraffe trapping in East Africa -
The great cars of juggernaut in india - the Rath Jathra
The art deco film sets of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film "our dancing daughters" -
The funeral of Dame Ellen Terry at Small Hythe-
Scenes on the deck of the new italian trans atlantic ocean liner "Augustus"-
"the Marquise de Pompadour" by Maurice Quentin de la tour -
From Coventry to Budapest, Hungary in a 6 cylinder rover car
Worthingtons ale advert
Willys overland "whippet" motor car-
Hadfield bean sports 14/70 model
The Battlefield of the Boer war as a commercial enterprise -
The great electric power station at Colenso, South africa - by C.E. Turner
August 18th
Frontispiece:- Photo - A Tornado With A Loop; A Unique Phase Of A Minnesota "Twister" Breaking-Up
Our Notebook (Photo Deputy Prime Minister During Mr Baldwin's Holiday;
Lord Hailsham,
The Lord Chancellor, With His Sons And Stepson, At His Sussex
Home, Where He Will Transact Official Business)
The Twister Again; A Looped Tornado That Faded In Rings
From The World's Scrap-Book; Pictorial Records Of Interesting Topical Events
Far And Near
The Dramatic Side Of The London "Air Raids"; 23 Tons Of Bombs Assumed
In One Day Alone
Personalities Of The Week; People In The Public Eye
The Great Ice-Dam Burst In Kashmir; Regions Afected By 120,000,000 Tons Of
Flood Water
Kingston Bridge Damaged By Fire; A Great Timber Yard Blaze
The Art Of David Evans; Modernism With Classical Traditions
The Scientific Side Of The Detection Of Crime
Scientific Crime-Detection; Tell-Tale Signs In Criminal Faces
Books Of The Day
By Air And Sea Abroad; Events In France And Germany
The World Of Science - Oyster-Shells And Their Making
Cinematography Under Water By Sunlight; A Submarine Film Camera, And Its Results
In Haitian Seas
The Past In Persia; The Muhammedan Period, Since 630 A.D. - Treasures Of Bygone
Architecture
Air "War" Seen From The Air; The Menace To Battleships
The Great Athletic Match; British Empire V United States
Fashions And Fancies
The Chronicle Of The Car
Adverts;
Full Page 4711 Eau De Cologne
Full Page Black & White Scotch Whisky
Full Page Abdulla Cigarettes
Full Page Mobiloil
Boots Old English Lavender Day Cream/Crossley Cars/Castrol Motor Oil/Etc
December 8th
Floyd Crosby, G H Davis, Lucy Dawson, Olive Hewerdine, Tolmer Laris, Lewis Bauner
Articles include a number of pieces/illustrations on the Illness of King George
"The Scientific Side of the Detection of Crime: Arson" by H Ashton-Wolfe, "Illusions of Film Wizardry"
"A Dinner Party to Wild Lions" by Martin Johnson, The Prince of Wales / The Prince of Wales' Homecoming, "Portable X-Rays",
"The New Archbishop of Canterbury: Enthronement Ceremonial", "The Migdol of Beth-San" by Alan Rowe, "Dwellers in the Dogs World" by Lucy Dawson, etc.
December 29th
Frontispiece:- Copy Of Drawing; From U.S.A. To Dutch Art Exhibition:
"The
Laughing Mandoline Player" By Frans Hals
The Dutch Exhibition At Burlington House
Herculaneum Resurrected After 1850 Years; Excavated Houses
Tormented By Ghosts: "Windy-Witted" Women - (East Africa)
Winter In Disturbed Afghanistan: The King And Queen; British Residents;
A Panorama Of Kabul
News From Far And Near; Rangoon; "African" Frejus; Jerusalem
Underground Jerusalem: Hidden Antiquities In The Holy City That Is The Centre
Of Christendom
A Flowering Of Art In The East End, London; Workers' Pictures To Be Shown
At The Tate Gallery
The Habub That Turns Daylight Orange; A Sudan Sandstorm
Books Of The Day
New Year Emblems In Japan; Ropes, Lobsters And Oranges
Italy's Crown Prince As Famous Ancestor; A Laszlo Portrait
The World Of Science; St. Peter's Fish - The John Dory And Others With Tubular
Mouths (Illustrated)
Prior Wibert's Water-Tower At Canterbury Cathedral; Interesting Discoveries
During Its Restoration
Surf-Bathing Indoors! Breakers Artificially Produced In A German Swimming
Pool At Luna Park, Berlin
Circus Folk As An Artist Sees Them; Laura Knight Sketches
A City Of Galilee, Named Nazareth; The Home Of Christ
Marine Caravanning (Illustrated)
The Chronicle Of The Car (9 Photos)Tric Gramophone Wonders
Elec
And Much More! Also Some Great Ads Including;
Full Page Dewar's Whisky Colour Plate
Thorneycroft And J Samuel White & Co. Motor Lifeboats/Lancia Cars/
Marshall
& Snelgrove's Winter Sale/Kia-Ora Orange & Lemon/Mansion Polish Etc.
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