Shirt Collection (#21)

Racial / German Magistrate
A magistrate (left) and a knight (right) 16th century

Man in Black 1820S
Elegantly restrained gentleman all in black: top hat, frock coat, gloves, strapped pantaloons, boots & cravat. The shirt at least is white & his cane - brown! Date: 1820s

Paisley Matador Pants
Blonde model wears paisley print matador pants with a broad leather belt, ballet pumps & white shirt with the sleeves rolled up & and the collar upturned. Date: 1950s

Costume / French Page 1800
Livery of a page of the French Empire: red breeches & waistcoat with gold braid, green coat with stand collar & gold braid, tricorn with white plume & tricolore rosette. Date: circa 1800

Olympics / 1920 / Football
Football match between Belgium and Czechoslovakia: tossing the coin Date: 1920

Britannia and Eve magazine, April 1937
Front cover illustration featuring a masculine-looking woman, wearing a shirt and tie, and looking disdainfully over her shoulder

Cover page of pamphlet, A Night in a Workhouse
The cover page of A Night in a Workhouse -- an undercover expose of conditions in the casual ward of the Lambeth workhouse in London

Man asleep in a garden, Mid Wales
A man in a straw hat and shirtsleeves, asleep in a garden, Mid Wales. He appears to have been doing some gardening, as he has left his clippers in front of the railings behind him

Metropolitan Police fingerprint database
A man sits at a monitor to look at fingerprints on the Metropolitan Police database

Stable boy with prizewinning horse
A stable boy posing with a prizewinning horse

Gipsy man at an encampment
A gipsy man at an encampment

Close-up of fishermans hands, mending a net
A close-up of a fishermans toil-worn hands, as he sits mending a net

Little boy working on his stamp collection
A little boy working on his stamp collection at a table. He has various stamps laid out, and is sticking them carefully into an album

Boy and young man playing conkers in the garden
A boy and a young man playing conkers in the garden. The boy holds his conker steady for the man to hit

Met Police officers at Piccadilly Circus, London
Two Metropolitan Police officers, one male, one female, on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking to a young couple

Met Police officer on his radio, London
A Metropolitan Police officer speaking on his radio in Trafalgar Square, Central London, with the church of St Martin in the Fields behind him. A WPC is speaking to a woman in the background. (2 of 2)

A Woman and her evening dresser
The Muslin Shirt. A French woman and her dresser maid - she is getting into a fine muslin dress

Envy by Ethel Parkinson
A rather plump Dutch boy sits smoking a cigar, while a smaller boy watches with envy. Date: early 20th century

Dancers from Campanario, in Funchal, Madeira
Dancers belonging to a folklore group from Campanario, performing an old dance in the street in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira

Gaula boys with flag, Funchal, Madeira
Two boys belonging to a Gaula folklore group holding up a flag on a street in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira

Men from Porto da Cruz, in Funchal, Madeira
A group of men belonging to a Porto da Cruz folklore group, in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. One of the men pours wine from a wineskin and hands a glass to his colleague

Young woman from Gaula, in Funchal, Madeira
A young woman from a Gaula folklore group, wearing traditional costume, consisting of a bright red cape, dress and headscarf

Musician from Gaula, in Funchal, Madeira
A musician belonging to a folklore group from Gaula, seen here with his violin and bow in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. Date: 2006

Metal worker at Matiari, West Bengal, India
A metal worker makes a brass pot by traditional methods at Matiari, a village in West Bengal, India. Date: 2007

Police dog handler and dog, Camborne, Cornwall
A police dog handler training a young Alsatian dog in a field at Camborne in Cornwall

Start of pennyfarthing ride, Lands End
The start of an NSPCC Centenary pennyfarthing ride from Lands End in Cornwall to John o Groats in Scotland, with two intrepid cyclists and the local mayor

Man on a weighing machine, Austria
A man poses on a roadside weighing machine somewhere in the Austrian countryside

King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1941) here as a young man. Impeccably dressed in a wonderful (nautical) outfit of starched collar, reefer jacket and peaked naval hat

DIY version of the fashionable Harem Skirt
The Harem Skirt is an inexpensive garment that may be designed from an old shirt, a waistcoat and a beehive (for a bonnet)

Surface Plate being developed
A surface plate being developed in the Replika Department of the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Woman from North Central Portugal
A woman from North Central Portugal - Beira Alta, shown reclining in a field, holding a yellow flower and smiling. She wears a red and black check shirt

Colonial gent plays tennis, Iran
A colonial gentleman standing in a hard tennis court, Bushire (Bushehr), on the south west coast of Iran. At the time of this photograph the city had been under British occupation for five years

Morris Minor Series 2
Proud owner of a Morris Minor Series 2

Canadian Politician - John G. Farmer

Young boy and his dog play pirates

Windsor Lewis
Hopkin Windsor Lewis (1906- 1982), rugby player and Welsh international

Male Type / Sporting 1932
A man in casual clothes lounges around a harbour or boating marina

Putting on a Shirt
A well dressed monsieur concentrates on doing up the high collar on his new shirt, while his pet dog looks on with trepidation

Jb Lully / Hinton / Univ Mag
JEAN BAPTISTE LULLY French composer and court musician

Navy Seaman of 1822
A British sailor of the early 19th century, in this instance portrayed by the actor Mr G Smith in the role of Robin in the play No Song No Supper

Ironing a Shirt 1911
Photograph demonstrating how to iron a shirt or blouse in 1911

The Rex shirt, 1893
An advertisement for a gentlemans shirt

Rambler Takes a Break
A lady rambler wearing a houndstooth check skirt, shirt style blouse, beret and haversack takes a break to mop her brow

Lapland Girl & Reindeer
Full-length photograph of a Sixties model wearing a checked shirt, cropped trousers and sandals

Costume & Doll 1859
Purple dress with bouillons at the hem, vertical trim & pelerine bodice. Green & black dress with double skirt & funnel sleeves with epaulettes. Girl in knee-length grey dress

Fashions for Feb. 1861
Green: wrap-over dress, Greek key border; grey & purple: d.b bodice, revers, ribbon centre & floating ends; blue plaid dress with braces, Swiss belt, habit-shirt & ankle boots

Striped Dress 1861
Women: short cape & dress in vertical striped fabric & pleated border; high buttoning bodice, pagoda sleeves, purple vandyke & tassel trim. Girl: habit shirt, ankle boots

Suburban Sunday 1970S
A sensible boy cools down with a bottle of shandy and his dog laps up a glass of Caribbean lemonade. Meanwhile, Dad, with his shirt off, struggles on in the heat with his lawnmower

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