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'Great Western Railway between Oxford and Kennington - Floods going down after closing the line 3 days'

by Unknown photographer
gelatin printing-out paper print, November 1894
NPG P1700(6a)

Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield

by Frank Reynolds
pen and ink, circa 1909
NPG 5937

'Beeching Special'

by Sir David Low
pen and ink, white heightening and wash, circa 1962
NPG 5348

'Hitched-up' ((Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples; Richard Beeching, 1st Baron Beeching)

by Stanley Franklin ('Franklin')
pen and ink, blue crayon and white heightening, 1962
NPG 5355

The Who (Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle, Pete Townshend)

by Tony Frank
modern colour print from original transparency, 1965
NPG P1380

Laurence Olivier

by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 12 February 1968
NPG P1905

William Ewart Gladstone; Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

by Harry Furniss
pen and ink
NPG 6251(21)

John ('Jack') Strachey

by Unknown photographer
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1860
NPG x38549

View of the Rigi Bahn

by Atelier Richard
albumen cabinet card, 1873 or after
NPG Ax46181

William Ewart Gladstone

by Thomas Birtles
albumen print, 9 November 1885
NPG x134115

'Henry M. Stanley and party at Monterey'

by Isaiah West Taber
albumen panel card, 19 March 1891
NPG Ax68648

'Henry M. Stanley and party at Monterey'

by Isaiah West Taber
albumen panel card, 19 March 1891
NPG Ax68649

'Henry M. Stanley and party at Monterey' (Sir Henry Morton Stanley; Dorothy (née Tennant), Lady Stanley)

by Isaiah West Taber
albumen panel card, 19 March 1891
NPG Ax68650

Maud, Queen of Norway; Queen Alexandra; Olav V, King of Norway

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1904
NPG Ax137115

Iris Tree; Augustus John

by Pacific & Atlantic Photos Ltd
bromide press print, 1925
NPG x135064

Dame Myra Hess

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot enlargement, April-May 1926
NPG Ax183816

Nelson Waite Keys; Dorothy Gish; Herbert Wilcox

by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 1926
NPG x198465

Mahatma Gandhi

by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, December 1931
NPG x137612

Jack Hylton meeting Duke Ellington and his band at Waterloo Station

by James Jarché, for Daily Herald
modern bromide print from original negative, 9 June 1933
NPG x88287

Pat Paterson at Waterloo Station leaving for Hollywood

by Edward Malindine, for Daily Herald
modern bromide print from original negative, 8 November 1933
NPG x135054

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh

by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 28 May 1937
NPG x36099

Jonathan Balcon; Michael Balcon; Aileen Freda Balcon (née Leatherman)

by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, 9 August 1937
NPG x184164

George Lansbury

by Unknown photographer
vintage print, 1937
NPG x194122

Christopher Isherwood; W.H. Auden

by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, 1938
NPG x137621

Sabu and his bodyguards leaving for New York

by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 1938
On display in Room 27 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x198320

Jane Sacchi (née Barlow); Margaret Rawlings (Lady Barlow)

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 23 August 1946
NPG x73626

Wenda Parkinson (née Rogerson)

by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, 1947
NPG x30067

Anne Chambers (Owena Anne Chambers (née Newton))

by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on cream card mount, March 1949
NPG x30068

Michael North (Charles Edward Fletcher Stokes); Robert Morley

by Gilbert Adams
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x88687

Gilbert Charles Harding

by Sandra Lousada
modern contact sheet of twelve 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, 1960
NPG x135640

Group including Sergo Anastasi Mikoyan

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
NPG x134762

Nicolai Poliakoff (Poliakovs) ('Coco the Clown')

by Fox Photos Ltd
bromide press print, 10 December 1964
NPG x184326

(Gladys) Mary Wilson (née Baldwin), Lady Wilson of Rievaulx; Harold Wilson

by Unknown photographer
vintage print, August 1965
NPG x194336

Queen Elizabeth II

by John Plimmer
bromide print, 1965
NPG x125280

Harold Wilson

by David Newell-Smith
gelatin silver print, circa 1970
NPG x200313

John Taylor and an unknown woman

by Mike Owen
bromide print, circa 1987
NPG x126481

Mike Leigh

by Fergus Greer
bromide print, June 1998
NPG x125075

Dizzee Rascal

by Jamie Beeden
chromogenic print, Spring 2003
NPG x127021

David Quay; Freda Sack

by Steve Speller
archival inkjet print, 15 July 2004
NPG x126773

Nigel Goode; Paul Priestman (Priestman Goode)

by Steve Speller
archival inkjet print, 11 June 2004
NPG x126778

Rhodri Morgan

by Huw Alden Davies
digital colour print, 21 September 2007
NPG x132261

Archie Pitt (Archibald Abraham Selinger); Dame Gracie Fields

by Barratt's Photo Press Ltd
bromide print
NPG x17124

Study of an unknown woman in a train car

by George Estall
pen and ink, late 19th century
NPG D23203

James Henry Thomas

by Powys Evans
lithograph, 1926
NPG D33421

'The Railway Centenary Exhibition (Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; King George VI and others)

by Unknown artist
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1935
NPG D47238

'On a Model Railway' (King George VI; Unknown man)

issued by W.D. & H.O. Wills, after Unknown photographer
relief halftone cigarette card, 1937 (June 1925)
NPG D47284

Sketches signed 'Ro Ro'

by Unknown artist
pen and ink
NPG D6704

Sir John Fowler, 1st Bt

by Thomas Oldham Barlow, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
stipple engraving
NPG D8148