1909 Collection (page 20)

Granton in Edinburgh in 1909

Comic German postcard -- health spa doctor and patient
Comic German postcard by Franz Whonpfeng -- the doctor at a health spa examines a grossly overweight female patient. Date: 1909

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilets all engaged
Comic German postcard by Franz Whonpfeng -- desperate, overweight men discover that all the toilets at the health spa are engaged. Date: 1909

Rhodes Memorial, Main Street, Bulawayo, Rhodesia
Memorial to Cecil Rhodes in Main Street, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), with the Grand Hotel on the left. Date: circa 1909

Rue du Commerce (Shopping street) in Port Said, Egypt
View on the Rue du Commerce (Shopping street) at the Suez Canal in Port Said in north-eastern Egypt, from the perspective of a group of talking men in the foreground

Trinity College Rugby Team, Dublin, Ireland, including N P Jewell (front row, far right). 1908-1909

Advert for N D Eynede Paris corsetmarker 1909
Women wearing elegant corsets with drawstrings to the back to bring in the waist with lace edging. 1909

Famous Musicians of 1909, including Paderewski and Elgar
Famous Musicians of 1909: (top row left) Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), Polish pianist, composer, politician (and spokesman for Polish independence)

Science Jottings by Dr W. Heath Robinson II
II Testing gold with the uncle magnet at the mint. Typically ridiculous invention by Heath Robinson showing men at the Royal Mint testing gold by holding a pawn brokers sign nearby. Date: 1909

Lady Paget, previously Mrs Arthur Paget, formerly the American heiress, Minnie Stevens (Steevens), American heiress and prominent society figure. Date: 1909

Lily Elsie and Robert Michaelis in The Dollar Princess
The Dollar Princess a musical starring Lily Elsie as (Alice Condor), the heroine, and Robert Michaelis as (Freddy Fairfax), a penniless Britisher, who seeks employment in the Condor household. 1909

Dancers at the Palais de Glace, Paris, 1909. It remained an icing ring until he early 1920s when it was turned into a Palais de Danse Date: 1920s

Four people on a 1929 Ariel motorcycle & sidecar
Four people on a 1929 Ariel 500cc motorcycle & sidecar on sand dunes at the seaside circa 1930

Law-abiding Suffragists
A group of Suffragists standing next to a bicycle and a sign asserting that they are law-abiding. Date: c1909

Eloff Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Junction of Eloff Street and Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, with people throwing snowballs after a snowstorm in August 1909. Date: 1909

Eruption of Mount Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 17 November 1909. The eruption was from the El Chinyero vent on the Santiago Ridge. Date: 1909

Advert for Dickins - Jones corsets 1909
The Specialite Guninea corset, available from Dickins & Jones, is ideal for slight figures. It promises not to cause undue pressure to the respiratory organs. 1909

Barber Shop Montmartre
Scene inside Maison Lespes, a gentlemens hairdressers at 21 Boulevard Montmartre, Paris. Date: 1909

Valletta, Malta - street scene near Church of San Francesco
Valletta, Malta: street scene near the church of San Francesco. Date: 1909

Propaganda / Baby Impaled
Grinning enemy soldier with a baby impaled on his bayonet Date: 1909

Advert for American Shoe Company 1909
Bargains in boots and shoes, for clearance for spring goods. 1909

Arthur Walter Gamage, founder of Gamages, a department store in Holborn, London. Date: 1909

William Taft Howard Taft (1857 - 1930) 27th US President (1909-13)

Chesterfield House, London in the Tatler
Photographs in the Tatler of 20th October 1909 showing previously unpublished photographs of the interior of Chesterfield House, London, as well as the owner at the time, the Dowager Lady Burton

Photo of the Queen of Spain and her brothers, the Tatler
Full page black and white photograph of Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and her brothers in the Tatler of 8th December 1909

Tatler portrait of King Manuel of Portugal & his mother
Tatler portrait of King Manuel of Portugal with his mother, Queen Amelie, entitled A Marriageable Monarch. The King was planning a visit to England for a possible matrimonial announcement of extreme

Tatler portrait of HRH Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
Tatler portrait by Leon Noel showing HRH Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll at the age of seventeen wearing a beautiful off the shoulder dress

Front cover of The Tatler - The Duchess of Sutherland
Front cover portrait of Her Grace The Duchess of Sutherland, 27th October 1909. Described as one of the most beautiful members of the aristocracy

Tatler front cover of Lady de Bathe (Lillie Langtry)
Tatler front cover showing Lady de Bathe, Lillie Langtry, by name of Emilie Charlotte, Lady de Bathe, n饠 Le Breton, also called (187497) Emilie Charlotte Langtry (born Oct)

Photo of Ellen Terry and Mr James Carew in the Tatler
Black and white full page photograph of Ellen Terry and her husband James Carew at home in Kent, in the Tatler of 10th November 1909

Two Little Vagabonds by George R Sims & Arthur Shirley
Promotional postcard for Two Little Vagabonds by George R. Sims and Arthur Shirley from Les Deux Gosses by Pierre Decourcelle (Theatre de lAmbigu-Comique, Paris, 19th February 1896)

Photo of Baroness von Hutten in the Tatler
Black and white full page photograph of Baroness von Hutten in the Tatler of 22nd December 1909. Born Bettina Riddle in Erie, Pennsylvania, she married Friedrich Karl August

Train on the elevated railway approach to Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York City, USA Date: circa 1909

Walter Rothschild & collecting party, Algeria
Rothschild (second from right) undertook three separate ornithological collecting expeditions to Algeria in 1908, 1909 and 1911, along with Ernst Hartert

Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod
Castanospermum australe, Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod collected in Queensland, Australia in 1909 Date: 1909

Illustration, Rumpelstiltskin -- In front of the house a fire was burning, and an indescribably ridiculous little man was hopping on one leg and singing. Date: 1909

Illustration, The Jew Among the Thorns -- The Jew was forced to dance faster and faster till the thorns tore his shabby coat, combed his goat-s beard, and scratched him all over. Date: 1909

National Childrens Home (NCH) branch Ballacloan at Ramsey, Isle of Man. Children stand outside the house. Date: circa 1909

Illustration, The King of the Golden Mountain -- The Son made a circle, and his Father and he took their places within it, and the little black Mannikin appeared. Date: 1909

Illustration, A Song of the English, Melbourne
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). Melbourne -- Greeting! Nor fear nor favour won us place

Illustration, A Song of the English, Bombay
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). Bombay -- Royal and Dower-Royal, I the Queen

Illustration, A Song of the English, Barren Landscape
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Workhouse Nursery
Children in the nursery at an unidentified workhouse. Date: 1909

Lord Cromer at official opening of Port Sudan
Lord Cromer (Sir Evelyn Baring, 1841-1917), British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator, in a car at the official opening of Port Sudan on the Red Sea, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1 April 1909

Birklands, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Birklands, Welbeck, Worksop, near Holbeck, Nottinghamshire, England. Showing Russian Log Cottage Date: 1909

Railway Station, North Fambridge, Essex
Railway Station, North Fambridge, Chelmsford, near Ashingdon, Essex, England. Great Eastern Railway Date: 1909

The Village, Great Wakering, Essex
The Village, Great Wakering, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. Showing Horse & Trap Date: 1909

Horncliffe House, Horncliffe, Northumberland
Horncliffe House, Horncliffe, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. Date: 1909

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