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Sir Arthur Harden

by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 6 January 1936
NPG x158900

Beryl Markham

by ACME Newspictures, Inc.
bromide press print, September 1936
NPG x139860

Harry Egerton Wimperis

by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 4 December 1936
NPG x85118

Sir Arthur Harden

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 6 January 1936
NPG x81263

Sir Arthur Harden

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 6 January 1936
NPG x81264

Beverley Nichols

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 16 November 1937
NPG x26713

James Jarché; Reuben Saidman

by Unknown photographer, for Daily Herald
modern bromide print from original negative, March 1937
NPG x88286

(Edward) John Mansel Hugh Frampton Child-Villiers; Mary Barbara Child-Villiers (née Frampton)

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 26 July 1937
NPG x153122

(Edward) John Mansel Hugh Frampton Child-Villiers; Mary Barbara Child-Villiers (née Frampton)

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 26 July 1937
NPG x153123

Ida Kar

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1930s
NPG x134077

Machine Worker in Summer (Joan Richards)

by Yevonde
tri-colour separation negative, 1937
NPG x220579

Tubby Clayton

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x10844

Winifred Clara Cullis; Sir Edward James Salisbury; Mary Field

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x23986

Winifred Clara Cullis; Sir Edward James Salisbury; Mary Field

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x23987

Winifred Clara Cullis; Sir Edward James Salisbury; Mary Field

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x23988

Winifred Clara Cullis; Sir Edward James Salisbury; Mary Field

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x23989

Winifred Clara Cullis; Sir Edward James Salisbury; Mary Field

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x23990

Winifred Clara Cullis; Sir Edward James Salisbury; Mary Field

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x23991

Cecil Beaton

by John Phillips
bromide fibre print, 1937
NPG x40637

Cecil Beaton

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print, 1937
NPG x40420

Franz Bergel

by Trude Fleischmann
bromide print, 1938
NPG x133150

Nefertiti

by Yevonde
tri-colour separation negative, 1938
NPG x222006

Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1938
NPG x2883

Cecil Beaton

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1938
NPG x40450

Charles Gavan Power

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 15 April 1939
NPG x154084

Lillian Emma (née Matthews), Lady Chatfield

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 8 February 1939
NPG x34694

Lillian Emma (née Matthews), Lady Chatfield

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 8 February 1939
NPG x34695

Marcus Adams with his travelling camera, designed and built by himself

by Marcus Adams
gelatin silver print, circa 1939
NPG x199836

Photomontage of Marcus Adams with his travelling camera

by Marcus Adams
gelatin silver prints, circa 1939
NPG x199838

James Beaumont Strachey

probably by Alix Strachey
velox snapshot print, circa 1940
NPG x38535

Marcus Adams

by Unknown photographer
bromide print, circa 1940
NPG x35716

Norah Lofts

by Fred Daniels
modern print from original negative, 1940s
NPG x133208

Lady Alexandra Henrietta Louisa Haig (later Alexandra Trevor-Roper, Lady Dacre)

by Tunbridge & Sedgwick
vintage bromide print, 1940
NPG x134562

Harcourt Johnstone

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 23 May 1940
NPG x177609

Angus McBean

by Angus McBean
vintage bromide print, circa 1940
NPG Ax183859

Marcus Adams and his studio at 43 Dover Street, London

by Gilbert Adams
gelatin silver print, circa 1940
NPG x199839

Princess Margaret; Queen Elizabeth II

by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 13 October 1940
NPG x198534

Daisy Fellowes

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1941
NPG x40094

Remains of German tanks

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1942
NPG x40595

Remains of German tanks

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1942
NPG x40596

Wilfred Paling

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 22 September 1943
NPG x178794

Hilary Aidan St George Saunders

by ACME Newspictures, Inc.
bromide press print, 13 May 1943
NPG x139633

Cecil Beaton

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 12 February 1943
NPG x40416

Eugenie Marie Wavell (née Quirk), Countess Wavell

by Cecil Beaton
modern bromide print, 1944
NPG x132087

Tallulah Bankhead on the desk of Hector Dods talks over 'Lifeboat'

by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 1944
NPG x135817

Alexander Fleming

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944
NPG x136472

Margaret Jennings

by Wolfgang Suschitzky
gelatin silver print, 1944
On display in Room 27 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x200746

Arthur Gordon Sanders

by Wolfgang Suschitzky
gelatin silver print, 1944
NPG x200759

Alexander Fleming

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944
NPG x12322

Alexander Fleming

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944
NPG x12323

Alexander Fleming

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1944
NPG x12324

Gordon Grimsdale; Cecil Beaton

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1944
NPG x40697

Hermione Gingold

by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, 1 October 1945
NPG Ax39606

Hermione Gingold

by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, 1 October 1945
NPG Ax39609

Cecil Beaton

by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, 28 November 1945
NPG Ax39604

P.G. Wodehouse

by Emil Reynolds, for ACME Newspictures, Inc.
bromide press print, 24 September 1945
NPG x139628

Spike Hughes

by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 28 November 1946
NPG x39697

Jasmine Bligh

by Planet News
bromide press print, 5 February 1946
NPG x182354

Dorothea Lambert Chambers (née Douglass); Jasmine Bligh

by P.A. Reuter Photos Ltd
bromide press print, 5 June 1946
NPG x182355

(Edward) Russell Westwood

by James Jarché
bromide print, 5 April 1947
NPG x35604