Respectable Collection

Rude Gargoyle
Gargoyle on a medieval seminary (now a girls school) at Tours, France : masons often amused themselves by cutting such subjects on respectable buildings

Recruitment poster - British Military
The Royal Munster Fusiliers, 101st and 104th Foot. The Cork, Limerick, Kerry & Clare Regiment. A few smart, respectable young men wanted. Chromolithograph recruitment poster after R Simkin, 1896

St Margaret Clitherow
Saint MARGARET CLITHEROW (nee Middleton), respectable but Catholic housewife of York convicted of harbouring priests, crushed to death with those weights 24 March 1586

Sunday School teacher and pupils
A Sunday School teacher and his pupils

Criminal, Thomas Carr
THOMAS CARR Clerk of respectable family gone to the dogs. Crimes included theft with violence & using his legal expertise to assist criminals

Advert / John Bull 1906
Advertisement for John Bull magazine, edited by Horatio Bottomley: a hard hitter but never below the belt! Date: 1906

M JEKYLL, O HYDE
Dr M Jekyll and Mr O Hyde - Tenniel uses Stevensons novel as an allegory of Irelands two faces - the one respectable, the other murderous. Date: 1888

Importance of Punctuality, Victorian morality print Date: circa 1850

Theatre Villains, Old Style and New Style Date: 1863

MUTES, LONDON
Mutes stand outside the front door of a middle-class London home, the outward sign of a respectable funeral... 1858

Comic postcard, Teddy bears in the street. I m waiting for a bus. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Soldier in the British Army, WW2 - what its like to sleep in a small tent with seven soldiers! Date: circa 1940s

Cover design, W M Thackeray, The Newcomes
Part-work cover design, William Makepeace Thackerays serialised novel, The Newcomes, Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, designed by Richard Doyle. 1858

Cartoon, The Bishop of London and The Ballet, showing Frederick Temple, Bishop of London, and the ballerina Martha Wooldridge, who had recently been performing at the Alhambra

Cartoon, Respectable People - portrait heads. 1870

The interior of a respectable tea-house Date: 19th century

The interior of a respectable tea-house

MAKING PRESERVES 1851
A French housewife makes preserves. Date: 1851

TYPING POOL, 1889
The Type-writing Office young ladies find respectable employment in the Victorian precursor of the typing pool Date: 1889

The Bottle, 1 -- Cruikshank
A workmans home, with father and mother at the table, a little maid serving them, and their two young children at a tiny table in front of the hearth. Ominously, the father is holding a bottle

Snowballing pigs on a Christmas postcard
Two snowballing boy pigs cause a respectable-looking adult pig to fall over in the snow on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

John Ellis, Teacher
JOHN ELLIS - Ragged school teacher born of humble but respectable parents who developed his own system for educating the children of the London streets. Date: 1809 - ?

Restrained Tango Dancers
A monocled gent and his partner perform the tango in a restrained and respectable manner Date: circa 1914

Frederick William Farrar, clergyman and writer
Frederick William Farrar (1831-1903), often known as Dean Farrar, English clergyman and writer. Date: circa 1880

The Vicars Temptation by William Heath Robinson
As his parishioners come out of church into a snow-covered churchyard, the vicar bends down to make a snowball, The question is, will he throw it, and if so, at whom? 1947

Woman Railway Porter WW1. Stranded old lady passenger is offered a bed with the lady porter! (Both are respectable married women) Date: circa 1917

An emancipated woman dreaming of the perfect husband
My Dream. An emancipated woman dreaming of a small, manageable, respectable husband! Date: circa 1920s

Two ragged street women disgust respectability
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting two poor ragged street women disgusting another who they describe, with no hint of the obvious irony, as " not respectable"

German Townsfolk 1580
Respectable townsfolk : she carries a dangling reticule and wears several necklaces beneath her high ruff Date: circa 1580

Homeless refuge chapel in New York
Association 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 York
Association 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 Room
Association 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

Dr Thomas John Barnardo
Portrait of Dr Thomas John Barnardo (1845-1905). In 1867, Barnardo set up a Ragged School for poor children in Londons East End, followed in 1870 by a home for boys at 18-26 Stepney Causeway

Three paddlers at Scarborough, North Yorkshire
A father takes his little son and daughter for a paddle in the sea at Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Republic Respectable
France decides that, after all, Republicanism doesn t necessarily mean Revolution - why, this one looks quite respectable !

Child Praying C1850
A child kneels in prayer at the side of the bed

Old English Drawing Room
A lady stands in the doorway of her Old English style drawing room

Girl, Pearls & Stout
A smiling, respectable looking blonde, wearing a blouse, tweed skirt & pearls, enjoys a glass of stout while sitting in front of a modern tiled fireplace

Family at Prayer C1850
The whole household, including the maidservants, gather for bible reading and prayer

Family on a Beach C1860
A mother and her children sit reading on a beach

Lady in Drawing Room
A lady sits at home in her Blue Scheme drawing room

Singing in Church 1870S
A pretty young woman and three children singing in the village choir

Toy Theatre 1888?
A boy demonstrates a toy theatre to his brothers, sisters and mother

Burning Bacchus
In Norway, they re so respectable, they d burn Bacchus himself at the stake ! Date: 1919

Garden Family 1864
A large and happy family do the gardening together

Altered State / Hypnosis
Under the influence of a hypnotist, a respectable Frenchman removes his toupee

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