1929 Collection (page 22)

Sax Appeal by G. H. Heath
A young woman in a caf頯 r restaurant, sits entranced by a saxophone player who appears to be playing a tune just for her. Date: 1929

Central London District School, Hanwell
Distant view of the Central London District Schools at Hanwell, also known as the Cuckoo Schools. The schools were opened in 1856 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Little girl at the waters edge by Muriel Dawson
A little girl stands on the beach at the waters edge, thinking about having a paddle, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1929

The advent of women at the polls, 1929
Two sophisticated and fashionable ladies in heels, cloche hats and fur trimmed coats alight from a taxi at a polling station where they will vote for the first time in the General Election of May

Lady Alexandra and Lady Victoria Haig by Mme Yevonde
Lady Alexandra Henrietta Louisa Haig (1907-1997) and Lady Victoria Doris Rachel Haig (1908-1993) by Madame Yevonde. They were the two elder daughters of the late Field-Marshal Earl Haig. Date: 1929

Lady Angela Scott by Madame Yevonde
Lady Angela Christine Rose Montagu Douglas Scott (1906-2000) by Madame Yevonde. She was the youngest of the five daughters of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. Date: 1929

Glasgow to Oban bus, with crew and passengers
A Glasgow to Oban bus, with crew and passengers, on a country road somewhere in Scotland. Date: 1929

HMS Poseidon submarine
The launch of the British submarine, HMS Poseidon, a P class sub, launched on 21st June 1929 at the Barrow-in-Furness works of Vickers-Armstrong

Greta Garbo (1905 - 1990), promoting her film Wild Orchids. Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm and was spotted whilst studying at the Royal Theatre Dramatic School by the Swedish director Mauritz

Armpit Tattoos
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of armpits with small flowers and butterflies. A daring young woman shows off the butterfly tattoo on her armpit. Date: 1929

Beryl Edna Beadle CEng FRAeS 1929-2009
Beryl Edna Beadle, CEng, FRAeS, 1929-2009. Date: 1929

George Holt Thomas (1869-1929) - the industrialist who formed in 1912 the Aircraft Manufacturing Co Ltd (Airco) from which, in 1917

Harbin, China - Russian Schoolgirls chatting on a streetside
Harbin, China - the largest city of Heilongjiang Province - Russian Schoolgirls chatting on a streetside bench. Almost a Wild West town with transient populations

Prince of Wales meeting coal miners
Edward, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, shaking hands with a coal miner at Middlestone Moor in County Durham, during his tour of the coalfields in 1929

Queen Elizabeth in her pram aged three
An imperious looking Princess Elizabeth of York (Queen Elizabeth II) being taken out in her new perambulator by her nanny after returning from Scotland, where she had been with her parents

Supermarine S6 - Schneider Trophy 1929
The Supermarine S6 which helped Great Britain win the Schneider Trophy in 1929. The Schneider Trophy was a competition for seaplanes held in 1929 off Cowes, Isle of Wight

YOUNG PLAN / 1929
The Young Plan rises like a phoenix/vulture from the ashes of the Dawes plan (the USs previous attempt to ease Germanys economy). 1929

Lady Cranbourne, Mrs Harriman Russell and Lady Diana Cooper holidaying in Palm Beach, Florida

Boys Drilling, Training Ship, Exmouth, Grays, Essex
Boys at drill on the Training Ship Exmouth, operated from 1876 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the River Thames off Grays, Essex

Veritas Mantles 1929
Advertisement for Veritas Mantles...for strength and brilliancy. A clumsy man (possibly a lamp lighter) accidentally breaks the glass of a street lamp with his ladder as he passes...Not broken

Delineator magazine front cover April 1929
Front cover illustration featuring a stylish 1920s woman in a cloche hat at the wheel of a car

Grand Duke Nicholas / Stamp
GRAND DUKE NIKOLAI NIKOLAYEVICH Russian Grand Duke and soldier (son of Alexander IIs brother)

Queen Maud of Norway with her granddaughters, Ragnhild (left) and Astrid, in 1937. Mauds only child, Crown Prince Olav, married Princess Martha of Sweden in 1929: Ragnhild

Nude blue lady
A nude, blue lady admires her reflection in a hand mirror

Sapphic lovers
Two women, barely clad in diaphanous classical togas embrace each other, while a statue of pan plays pipes in the twilight

Naked joy
A naked woman with long, flowing blonde hair appears to be worshipping the approach of dawn

Naked woman
Woman posed against a wall wearing a diaphanous dress which barely covers her modesty

Hat & Mask in One 1929
Dual purpose headwear: cloche hat worn so low over the eyes that it doubles as a mask. Eyeholes are cut in the crown. Perfect hat for hiding upper facial flaws

Mentmore Towers 1929
Aerial view of Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire. Built in 1855 for Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild & designed by Sir Joseph Paxton in the Elizabethan style

Salisbury Cathedral
An aerial view of this famous cathedral

Air Wonder Stories scifi magazine cover, Destroyimg Waterspout
THE FLIGHT OF THE EASTERN STAR (Ed Earl Repp) - the powerful aircraft destroys a dangerous waterspout by flying through it

Erasmic Peerless Soap
Advertisement from 1929 for Erasmic soap featuring The Erasmic Twins, Violet and Blanche

M. G. Six Sports car Illustration
An illustration captioned Morning on the Moors showing an M.G. Six Sports car, which at the time was one of the fastest standard sports cars available at a price of 510"

Bystander Christmas Number 1929
Art deco illustration for the front cover of The Bystander Christmas number showing an elegant woman being admired by two men

THE SHOT INTO INFINITY (Otto Willi Gail) Space voyagers from Earth spacewalk around the Moon Rocket

Reading Subconscious
In Ray Avery Myers fiction Into the subconscious, future scientists develop machines that read the subconscious mind and project its thoughts as images

Advert / Norway by Rail
Norway, natures wonderland

Art Deco Chair - 3
Armchair covered with Cordely embroidery

Art Deco Stool
Stool for the boudoir covered with Cordely embroidery

Arriving at Restaurant
A monocled gent guides two ladies to their table in a fashionable restaurant, past another monocled gent in dinner jacket with two ladies

Edward Carpenter
EDWARD CARPENTER - influential sandal-wearing nudism-favour- ing idealist, gay, vegetarian, sought to combine socialism with eastern religion. Major influence on many writers &c

Chemise & Knickers 1920
A young woman with an angular bob hairstyle models a chemise & a pair of matching Directoire knickers ornamented with a circular motif trim

Moonstrollers, Amazing Stories scfi Magazine Cover
THE MOON STROLLERS - Earthmen explore the moon

Rudyard Kipling / Cartoon
Cartoon of English writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), writing in the Indian bush watched by a snake and a lion

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist and early feminist, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, and president of the moderate National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

Autumn hats and bridge coats 1929
Women models wearing Autumn season clothing. 1929

Umbrellas from a-slot machine 1929
The inventor showing off his A-Slot vending machine Not Schirm, G.M.B.H in Berlin, New York, London and Paris. 1929

Advert for Magnet household items 1929
Magnet, a wide variety of electrical gifts for Christmas. 1929

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