Kind Collection (#3)

Birthday card, Dog with basket. early 20th century

One Kind of Picnic - Another by H. M. Bateman 1 of 2
A fabulously elegant and sedate picnic, with the diners being waited on by a team of servants as a gramophone plays. One of two cartoons by H. M

Elevated rail road, Houghton st, New York
The New York elevated rail road company was founded in 1872, building a standard gauge rail road under the control of Jay Gould

Two frogs playing leapfrog on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Robert Gamble
ROBERT GAMBLE at age 25 The caption - A child of many mercies - is suggestive of a dissenting churchman of some kind, but we have not been able to trace him. Date: CIRCA 1800

David Baker, Benedictine
DAVID BAKER (in religion, Augustine) Lawyer, Catholic convert : became a Benedictine monk, writing quantities of theology of a spiritual and ascetic kind. Date: circa 1610

Offering a Lift
A kind lady invites two soldiers into Bath with her, but they may get into hot water if they accept... Date: 1916

Bathing Beauty / Sporty
A sporty young woman balancing on a kind of raft towed by a powerboat, and loving every minute of it. Date: 1917

Englishman 1440
His tunic is cut full and loose; that thing on the floor is his roundlet, a kind of cap with frills Date: circa 1440

Menander (Bust)
MENANDER Greek author of more than 100 comedies, considered the finest of their kind Date: 343 - 219 BC

Menander (Seated)
MENANDER Greek author of more than 100 comedies, considered the finest of their kind Date: 343 - 219 BC

Maria Pazzi / Piattoli
Maria Maddalena de Pazzi, Italian mystic, as a child is noted for her benevolence to people in the prisons of Florence. Date: circa 1560

Rw Emerson / Roberts
RALPH WALDO EMERSON American essayist and poet Date: 1803 - 1882

Preparing for Flight
Preparing a biplane for flight at the Semaine d Aviation, Nantes (France) : this kind of air show is repeated throughout France, attracting immense public interest. Date: 14-21 August 1910

Food preparation in the 17th century
Preparing foodstuffs of every kind - fowls are dressed, cows are milked, grapes are trod, soup is heated, bread and other items are carried by porters, biscuits are tasted Date: 17th century

French Window Seat
COIN DE FENETRE design for a window-seat in a kind of art deco style, Date: 1921

The widows plant -- an old lady leans out of her window with a potted plant in her hands. Date: circa 1875

Black Guinea Monkey
The middle sized Black Monkey from Guinea in Africa who seems to have made friends with some kind of cat... Date: 1761

Hair Curling Clips
A girl having rather painful looking clips put into her hair, presumably to make it curl into the kind of curly hairstyle made popular by child star Shirley Temple. Date: 1930s

Vignette illustrations, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- A busmans holiday and The kind-hearted engine driver. Date: 1935

Christmas cheque from the Greeting Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, for ten thousand kind greetings. Date: circa 1900s

Greetings card in the shape of a cross, with flowers, a woman, a girl and a kitten. Date: circa 1890s

Booklet cover, A New Year Greeting, with kind regards and best wishes. Date: circa 1880s

Plump man and pig on a Christmas and New Year card
A plump man and a pig on a Christmas card, with a quotation from Hamlet: A little more than kin, and less than kind. Date: circa 1890s

Patient fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson
A party of benevolent philanthropists rewarding the patience of unfortunate fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Barnardos Group, location unknown
A group of Barnardos children and their carers at some kind of fund-raising event, location unknown

Display with Glass Barriers
Hand coloured. Illustration of some kind of display with glass barriers, with a corner running down the centre of the image

Thatched Cottage
Hand coloured. Illustration of a thatched cottage with some kind of brass horn hung outside. There are two children standing in front of it

Town by the sea with an inland dock
Hand coloured. A town by the sea with some kind of inland dock. The background is somewhat mountainous but appears green and fertile. In the centre of the image is a church

Rome, Italy - The Mammertine Prison
Black and white. Low-ceilinged room with a carving and mantlepiece to one side. There is a hole in the floor with a low ridge around it (possibly a well or some kind of drainage device?)

India - A Thibetan man, Himalayas
Black and white. Man wearing a simple garment which wraps around him. He is holding what appears to be some kind of umbrella, staff or weapon.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection

Rome, Italy - Arezzo, Birthplace of Petrarch
Hand coloured. Rustic pedestrian street with tall narrow buildings. The closest one on the right hand side has some kind of statue and coat of arms built into a small cove above the door

Munitions Workers WW1. Man and woman workers in Munitions factory, captioned, The only kind of matches allowed in a munition factory. Referring to safety notice on wall. Date: circa 1916

Suffragette Votes for Women. Picture of a woman dressed as Suffragette with VFW flag. This is the kind of seaside photo where the persons head is superimposed on a drawn cartoon body. Date: circa 1910

Xmas scene with children. With all kind thoughts. Three young girls in winter coats, hats and muffs in a winter landscape. Date: 1904

Swimming Bath, Barnet Industrial School
Boys in the swimming bath at the Barnet Industrial School, Hertfordshire. The presence around the pool of women in long frocks and children indicates that occasion is some kind of open day. Date: 1908

Nina Vanna by Madame Yevonde
Nina Vanna (Nina Yasikova Kind Hakim Provatoroff, 1899-1953) by Madame Yevonde. She was a Russian-born British film and theatre actress

American First World War postcard. Kind thoughts from glorious France! 1917-1918

Jeek the puppy strays into a cottage garden
Jeek the mongrel puppy loses his way on a day at the seaside and strays into a fishermans cottage garden. Date: 1940

Tippoo Tib (1837-1905)
Photograph of Tippoo Tib, then Chief of the Manyema, c.1887. His real name was Hamid ibn Mohammed and he was an African-Arab adventurer and warrior, who controlled a large section of Central Africa

Homeless Men in a Royal Park, London, 1903
Illustration showing a group of homeless men sleeping on the grass in one of Londons Royal Parks, 1903. The original caption for this image ran: The Submerged Tenth - Lounging in Londons Royal Parks

Charles Edward Mudie
CHARLES EDWARD MUDIE Writer and librarian - his subscription library was the leading business of its kind in England. Date: 1818 - 1890

Captain Meetza
Captain MEETZA A leader of the Greek insurgents against Turkey, in the picturesque uniform of his kind. Date: circa 1878

A Flying Bear
A kind pilot gives his bear passenger a drink to steady its nerves before it takes to the air... Date: early 1930s

British Soldier and his Mother - Boer War uniform
British Soldier and his Mother - wearing Boer War uniform - sentimental postcard Date: circa 1904

One Encore too many - Boy performer collapses backstage
One Encore too many - A young boy performer collapses backstage and is tended to by his female co-star, a kindly clown and another older member of the ensemble

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A little bit behind
" A little bit behind!" - A kind young girl helps her boy chum who has torn his shorts and requires an urgent spot of patching-up! Date: circa 1942

Generous donation to a tramp as well as a doorman
Generous donation from a smart young gent to a tramp as well as a doorman - " I must hand it to you". Date: circa 1940s

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