A Players Cigarette Card showing the Life Guards uniform at the time of the Battle of Waterloo - 1815, and Peninsula Wars. No. 47 in a series of 50 cards. This is the only one of the set in the museum collection. Cigarette cards began 1875 in the US by Allen and Ginter tobacco company. their function was as a hard back in the cigarette packets. Cards depicted actresses, baseball players, Indian ch

A stereoview photograph showing part of a goods train with Windsor Castle, in shadow, in the background and the river in the foreground. Titled 'Windsor Castle, from the River' No. 445. double images like this could be slotted into a stereoviewer, and as you look through the viewer, the images would blend together and look almost three dimensional.

A photograph postcard showing colour image of Maidenhead Free library, post stamped August 15th 1906. The postcard was probably hand painted. The Library was built in 1904. Local man William Nicholson (part of Nicholsons brewery?) donated £1000 to buy the land. The building was designed by architects, Arthur McKewan and G H V Cole. It cost £6,000. The building also housed the Maidenhead museum

A Valentine photographic postcard showing the High Street and the Guildhall, Windsor when the Corn Exchange was enclosed with glazed windows. The postcard is dated as 1920s by the cars.

In February 1908 the Theatre Royal was completely gutted by a devastating fire. The damage caused to the building is neatly encapsulated by this little black and white postcard, which was photographed close to the Canons’ Residences in the castle grounds. A brand new Theatre Royal was built in the image and place of its predecessor in 1910.

1 of 4 photographs in the museum collection of the Royalty & Empire Exhibition in the Windsor Central Station, depicting Queen Victoria and her royal guests, the Coldstream Guards, a Victorian flower girl and a road sweeper. The exhibition ran from 1983-1997. In 1982, British railway and Madam Tussauds restored the old station and created the exhibition. Originally called ‘Royalty and Railw

Invitation to the Mayor and Mayoress of Windsor to a Ball to celebrate the silver wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales (Albert, later Edward VIII and his wife, Alexandra) To be held at the Town Hall, (the Guildhall) Windsor on the 9th March 1888