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France - Elderly water carrierA really extraordinary photographic postcard of an elderly lady water carrier smoking a pipe at Morlaix, Brittany, France Date: circa 1910s
Middle Aged SkierA middle-aged man skiing. Date: 1960s
Plump woman with parasol by a streamA plump, middle aged woman with an open parasol, standing by a stream in the countryside. Date: early 20th century
Victorian woman with two childrenA middle aged Victorian woman poses with two children in the photographers studio. She has a rather serious expression on her face, and the children look bored. Date: late 19th century
Princess Elizabeth of York in her pramPrincess Elizabeth of York (the future Queen Elizabeth II) aged 14 months in June 1927. Date: c.1927
Bookshop WindowA middle-aged man looks at a bookshop window display. Date: mid 1970s
Three women in back garden with dollThree women (probably two sisters and their mother) in a back garden. The older woman is seated, with a doll in her lap. They are all wearing patterned dresses. Date: circa 1940s
Broken down Power BoatA balding, overweight middle- aged man attempts to mend his power boat engine! Date: 1960s
A fair knock-outA middle aged couple sitting indoors eating pickled onions and drinking stout beer, when the man reads in the newspaper that the First World War has ended " blime, lizer, the Wars over"
ILN Front cover: Princess Elizabeth aged 2 yearsFront cover of The Illustrated London News featuring a photograph of Princess Elizabeth of York (the future Queen Elizabeth II) in a party dress
Thomas BrightmanTHOMAS BRIGHTMAN Puritan churchman and writer, who believed he wrote under divine inspiration. Aged 45. though he looks older. Date: 1562 - 1607
Sales FashionsA middle aged woman looks in a shop window during the London Summer Sales. Is she wondering whether she can contend with the trendy dolly birds all around her? Date: late 1960s
Virgin IslandersA jolly-looking middle aged couple of West Indian Virgin Islanders at the market on Tortola, Virgin Islands, West Indies. Date: late 1960s
Three middle-aged women with their catsThree middle-aged women out to tea with their cats. first published 1879
Louisa Twining at two-and-a-halfAn engraved portrait of Louisa Twining aged two-and-a-half from a miniature by her sister. Twining later became a campaigner for improvement in conditions for workhouse inmates
Scouts helping elderly manAmerican Scouts assisting an elderly person from his wheelchair onto a bus. circa 1930s
Eventide by Hubert von HerkomerHubert von Herkomers 1878 painting Eventide showing the aged womens ward at Westminster Union workhouse. It was as re-working of his 1877 illustration Old Age - A Study at the Westminster Union for
Portslade Industrial School - Carpentry WorkshopBoys at work in the carpentry workshop at Portslade Industrial School near Brighton in Sussex. The school opened in 1902 to house children aged 7-15 placed there by magistrates for reasons such as
Portrait of a middle-aged manHead and shoulders portrait of a middle-aged man
Book Shop 1940SA middle-aged woman and young man, bookworms, browsing in a book shop. Date: 1940s
Proust (Age 51)MARCEL PROUST in the last year of his life, aged 51, while he was completing A la recherche.. Date: 1871 - 1922
Babies with BiscuitTwo babies, aged 1 year and 9 months, politely sharing a biscuit. Date: circa 1960
Alexander BromeALEXANDER BROME Attorney and poet, aged 44. Date: 1620 - 1666
Charles I & HudsonJeffrey Hudson aged 30 years, standing beside King Charles I
Proust (Age about 20)MARCEL PROUST aged about 20 Date: 1871 - 1922
The Struldbrugs / GulliverGULLIVER IN LUGGNAGG The Struldbrugs live for ever, and are exceedingly unhappy about it, becoming foolish, opinionative, peevish, unloving and unloved... Date: First published: 1726
St Bernard drinking from a tapA St. Bernard puppy, Totila, owned by McKenna, aged ten weeks. Totila drinks water straight from an outdoor tap while his little friend watches. Date: 1976
Homeless refuge chapel in New YorkAssociation for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females. The Chapel. Chapel at the Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females, 891 Amsterdam Avenue, looking toward altar
Homeless refuge in New YorkAssociation for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females, Parlor. Parlor at the Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females, 891 Amsterdam Avenue
Board RoomAssociation for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females, Board Room. Board room at the Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females, 891 Amsterdam Avenue, table
Queen Farida aged 17Miss Farida Zulficar(1921-1988), later Queen Farida of Egypt, shown at the time of her engagement to King Faruk of Egypt, when she was 17 years old
Middle-aged Victorian woman in a dark crinoline dressA middle-aged Victorian woman in a dark crinoline dress, standing near a chair in the photographers studio
British Ballad, Auld Robin GrayAULD ROBIN GRAY British ballad of Scottish origin written by Lady Anne Barnard (1750-1825) Old Robin Gray marries a young girl whose lover is thought to be dead
Middle aged Victorian couple, head and shoulders portraitA middle aged Victorian couple in a head and shoulders portrait. She is wearing a wide lacy collar with a brooch at the neck
Middle-aged Victorian woman in a crinoline dressA middle-aged Victorian woman in a crinoline dress made of satin material
Origin Species, CH Bennett, Courting man - frogHe would a-wooing go. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a rotund man, from a frog. Middle aged
Gipsy womans handsClose-up of a middle-aged gipsy womans hands, blemished with hard work. She is wearing several rings on both hands, and a man-sized watch
Edwardian man with a little girl in a white dressAn Edwardian middle aged man sitting in a chair with a little girl in a white dress perched on his knee
Edwardian man with an impressive moustacheAn Edwardian middle aged man with an impressive moustache in a head and shoulders studio portrait
Middle aged woman with Red Cross wreath, Mid WalesA middle aged woman sitting in a garden with a Red Cross wreath, Mid Wales
Middle aged man with potted palm, Mid WalesA middle aged man poses in the photographers studio, Mid Wales, with a potted palm on a table
Middle aged man in studio photo, Mid WalesA middle aged man poses in the photographers studio, Mid Wales. He has a pointed beard, and wears a three-piece suit, with a spotty tie and wing collar
Middle aged man with spaniel, Mid WalesA middle aged man sits on a large felled tree trunk in a country house garden somewhere in Mid Wales, with a spaniel at his side
Middle aged woman reading in a garden, Mid WalesA middle aged woman sitting reading in a garden, Mid Wales. She is wearing a full-length spotted dress
Middle aged woman in Victorian style costume, Mid WalesA middle aged woman in a Victorian style satin dress sitting next to a rustic table with two books on it, Mid Wales
Middle aged man in straw boater in a garden, Mid WalesA smartly dressed middle aged Edwardian man poses for his photo in a garden, Mid Wales. He is wearing a three-piece suit and a straw boater, and sits on a wooden chair on a slightly overgrown lawn
Middle aged man with spaniel puppy, Mid WalesA middle aged man poses in the photographers studio, Mid Wales, with a spaniel puppy on a chain. There is a stone bench behind him, and a painted backdrop of a lake and mountains
Couple outside cottage, Pembrokeshire, South WalesA middle aged couple outside their cottage in Pembrokeshire, South Wales