Material Collection (page 6)

Embroidered palm trees with gold edging
Embroidered palm trees and flowers on fabric with an ornate gold edging. Date: circa 1890s

Embroidered fruit trees with gold edging
Embroidered fruit trees and flowers on fabric with an ornate gold edging, stuck onto card with a greeting in German below. Date: circa 1890s

Putting up Curtains
Curtains can make a room. Material and pattern are foremost, followed by hanging technique. Be sure to have plenty of hooks or rings and a generous amount of material Date: 1940s

Cartoon, Parisian woman out shopping, WW1
Cartoon showing an elegant Parisian woman in a very tall hat, out shopping for fabrics. She asks for a large amount of material for a new hat, in spite of wartime austerity. Date: 1917

Justine Yilve wrapped in a sheet
Justine Yilve (?) wearing a sheet in a decorative but not very practical fashion. She is admiring herself in a hand-held mirror. Date: 1904

Scene at a seance, with a woman sitting in a chair on the right, and a man emerging from behind a curtain with a long piece of white muslin in his mouth (presumably meant to be ectoplasm)

Advertisement, Ifan Kyrle Fletcher rare book seller, London
Advertisement, Ifan Kyrle Fletcher rare book seller, 11 Stafford Street, Old Bond Street, London W1, with another department in Wimbledon SW20. Date: 1952

Window display, Nehesco Fabrics. circa 1930s

Studio portrait, little girl in ballerina costume. Date: 1934

Two black cats made of felt, one with a blue bow, the other with a pink bow. Date: early 20th century

A Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in the Drawing Room of Quex House. Originally built as a small ballroom in 1883

Group of hospital patients, Quex Park. There are twenty men in the group. They are outside the front door of Quex House. All are wearing hospital blues the uniform of military hospital patients

Glove cutters at work, Gloversville, New York State, USA
Glove cutters at work in Gloversville, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1913

Celanese utility slip, 1943 - WWII fashion
Advertisement for Utility lingerie made from Celanese, 1943. Date: 1943

Sefton Fabrics advertisement 1919 - Victory Year
Fashions Favourite this Victory Year. Advertisement for Sefton Fabrics designs by Annie Fish, who was the wife of Walter Sefton who owned the company. Date: 1919

Cartoon, In trouble, WW1
Cartoon, In trouble, showing a draper with a pile of cloth. He claims to be as patriotic as the next person, but is wondering whether he should dye his stock in grey-green (the German uniform colour)

Jaeger fashion 1965
Model wearing a Jaeger wool suit in marigold frieze, worn with a sleeveless white wool sweater and white linen hat. She is posed in the stock order department at Dormeuil

Terylene advertisement, 1965
Advertisement for Terylene polyester fibre featuring a model with bobbed hair wearing a pink and white striped blouse. Date: 1965

WW2 poster, request for salvage
WW2 poster by Fougasse, Please put out all your paper, metal, bones, rags and rubber for salvage, as they can help make tanks, munitions, tyres and planes. Date: circa 1940

Simple designs for batik, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

How to make braided rugs, with material dyed in different colours, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

Can House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
The Can House (constructed out of metal cans), Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with a man standing outside. Date: circa 1910

Cartoon, W H Smith news stall
Cartoon, showing a man at a W H Smith news stall on a railway station platform. 1910

Commercial Travellers School, Pinner - Girls Sewing Class
Commercial Travellers School, Pinner. Girls cutting out material and sewing by hand or by machine

Venetian woman in headscarf
A typical Venetian woman in a headscarf. Date: circa 1902

Civilian Clothing utility label, WW2
Civilian Clothing utility label inside a cotton garment. The labelling was introduced during the Second World War to help conserve resources

Women sitting at a table sewing arts and crafts. Date: circa 1920s

Women with display of homemade arts and crafts
A group of women with a display of homemade arts and crafts. Date: circa 1920s

Woman with display of homemade arts and crafts
A young woman with a display of homemade arts and crafts. Date: circa 1920s

Display of homemade arts and crafts. Date: circa 1920s

German gentlemens luxurious fashion from 1526.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Children on a mattress, Balham, SW London
Children sitting on a mattress on top of a pile of rubbish in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys on a mattress, Balham, SW London
Four boys lying on a mattress on top of a pile of rubbish in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys on a pile of rubbish, Balham, SW London
Boys on a pile of rubbish in a Balham street, SW London. Perhaps it has been stacked up ready for bonfire night! Date: circa 1961

Willimantic Thread trade card, with the profile of a young woman in a red scarf. The Willimantic Thread Company won three medals at the New Orleans World Cotton Exposition of 1884 for the excellent

Silhouette advertisement for Lapidosus Limited
Silhouette advertisement by H.L. Oakley for Lapidosus Limited of High Holborn, London. Depicting the history of work in stone through the ages, with Stonehenge in the Stone Age

Sicily - Woman doing the laundery, Syracuse
Black and white Victorian lantern slide of a lady washing material and a baby sat nearby. Slide number 41 of Box 106 entitled Sicily Date: circa 1890s

India - Shrine at Rams Birthplace, Fyzabad
Black and white. Structure made of thatched plant material with an archway. Inside there are lamps, decorated mats, flowers and metal containers.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection

Advertisement for Sefton Fabrics
Advertisement for silks, sherevoiles and handkerchiefs from Sefton s, one of the leading manufacturers of fashionable textiles in the early 20th century. Date: 1920

Flower arrangement with daffodils and tulips in a green vase against a silky purple background

Militant Suffragette Crested China Figurine
A porcelain figure of a militant suffragette produced as an item of crested ware with the crest of the city of Exeter. The figure of the woman is finely detailed to illustrate her allegiance to

Paris, France - Arsenal and its shipyard. Date: circa 1600

Firefighters at Wansdown Place, London SW6
Firefighters in action with hosepipes at a storage and maintenance works in Wansdown Place, Fulham, London SW6, 31 March 1956. Date: 1956

Firefighters at Crabtree Lane, London SW6, 12 September 1956. They are turning over the large quantities of cardboard cartons which constituted the major portion of combustible material stored

Man with salvage cart, London, WW2
Man with a salvage cart full of bundles of material, near bombed-out buildings in London during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

The Vision Feminine
An ilustration showing a woman knitting during WW1 and using a specific technique with a ball of wool. Date: 1916

Assorted ephemera including some Toc H material. Collection

Sefton Fabrics advertisement
Advertisement for Seftons Fabrics displaying a number of coloured patterns and designs. Date: 1918

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