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Image Not Available for Buckingham Palace is only one of the many great buildings whose whole aspect is changed by the stands which are being erected for the coronation.
Buckingham Palace is only one of the many great buildings whose whole aspect is changed by the stands which are being erected for the coronation.
Image Not Available for Buckingham Palace is only one of the many great buildings whose whole aspect is changed by the stands which are being erected for the coronation.

Buckingham Palace is only one of the many great buildings whose whole aspect is changed by the stands which are being erected for the coronation.

Creator Dorien Leigh
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 12.6 x 17.1 cm (4 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
    Object number2002/5748
    LocationNot currently on display

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    Image Not Available for A remarkable silhouette of a sight that is now familiar in London….workmen on the steel scaffolding of the coronation stands./S.A.H.259//Dorien Leigh Ltd. (Ludgate House, 107, Fleet St., E.C.4. Central 1847) Stamp.
    A remarkable silhouette of a sight that is now familiar in London….workmen on the steel scaffolding of the coronation stands./S.A.H.259//Dorien Leigh Ltd. (Ludgate House, 107, Fleet St., E.C.4. Central 1847) Stamp.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Petrol is being lowered onto the launch which takes it out to the flying boat; fuelling takes a whole afternoon.
    Petrol is being lowered onto the launch which takes it out to the flying boat; fuelling takes a whole afternoon.
    Dorien Leigh
    c. 1937
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Steel tubing is London's newest decoration and outlines the statue of Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace.
    Steel tubing is London's newest decoration and outlines the statue of Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Maternity Block, erected out of funds noted from the natives' self-appointed local rates. It is now maintained by the government./M. B.D.196 (sic).
    Maternity Block, erected out of funds noted from the natives' self-appointed local rates. It is now maintained by the government./M. B.D.196 (sic).
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Photo of Gustloff the German National Socialist who was merdered by David Frankfurter. Great interest is being aroused by revelations of German propaganda in Switzerland.
    Photo of Gustloff the German National Socialist who was merdered by David Frankfurter. Great interest is being aroused by revelations of German propaganda in Switzerland.
    Dorien Leigh
    unknown
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for A real Irish colleen, Maura Bourke, aged 16. Flying boats don't affect her life nor interest her much. She still goes on drawing water daily from the pump as her ancestors have for many generations.
    A real Irish colleen, Maura Bourke, aged 16. Flying boats don't affect her life nor interest her much. She still goes on drawing water daily from the pump as her ancestors have for many generations.
    Dorien Leigh
    c. 1937
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Pub life goes on as usual, for the village is not affected at all by the proximity of the airport. Here a local gentleman enjoys a glass of beer at the pub which is in the hotel which also houses the I.F.S. airport authorities office.
    Pub life goes on as usual, for the village is not affected at all by the proximity of the airport. Here a local gentleman enjoys a glass of beer at the pub which is in the hotel which also houses the I.F.S. airport authorities office.
    Dorien Leigh
    c. 1937
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for A Nepalese dwarf and his wife. They are both fully grown, and yet compare the size of the woman with that of her baby which she carries on her back.
    A Nepalese dwarf and his wife. They are both fully grown, and yet compare the size of the woman with that of her baby which she carries on her back.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Umbrellas in the army. Hardly the costume one would expect of a warlike officer of the Nepalese army.
    Umbrellas in the army. Hardly the costume one would expect of a warlike officer of the Nepalese army.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Always to be impure has been this one's lot throughout life. The hardest work is given him, the least pay.
    Always to be impure has been this one's lot throughout life. The hardest work is given him, the least pay.
    Dorien Leigh
    1934
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for This chef claims to have cracked roughly 20,142,307 eggs. Employed by a well known firm of bakers, he has done nothing but break eggs for fifteen years, at the rate of one million and a quarter per annum.
    This chef claims to have cracked roughly 20,142,307 eggs. Employed by a well known firm of bakers, he has done nothing but break eggs for fifteen years, at the rate of one million and a quarter per annum.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Rock climbing is hardly a thing to be done unless one does it for pleasure and for some, there are few greater pleasures than scaling a perpendicular rock in this manner.
    Rock climbing is hardly a thing to be done unless one does it for pleasure and for some, there are few greater pleasures than scaling a perpendicular rock in this manner.
    Dorien Leigh
    1930s
    Photograph
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