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Sporting with Winter Sports by H. M. Bateman - ski-ingSki-ing high jinks according to H. M. Bateman in his series of cartoons on winter sports. Date: 1912
Royal Burgess Golfing Society of EdinburghMels Scottish Tour - Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh. The club, at Barnton is the next oldest golf club in the world to Royal Blackheath having been formed in 1735. Date: 1935
Advertising card for Thoms Castile Soap of ManchesterAdvertising card by Louis Wain for the Gold Medal-winning Thoms Castile Soap - the Best in the World - manufactured by David Thom & Co. Ltd. of Pendleton, Manchester
London - The Connaught Hotel, Mayfair. Date: 1937
Golf Clubs and Golfers - Royal Blackheath dinnerAnnual dinner of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club by Mel; the club was founded in 1608. Date: 1938
Evacuee children in gas masks near Windsor, 1941London babies find peace in the country: a nurse walks evacuated children in gas masks across a playground, to accustom them to the wearing of gas masks. LCC Residential School near Windsor
Railway Hotel, Iringa - Tanzania, East Africa. Date: 1930s
Promotional Card for Blue Cross TeaPromotional Card for Blue Cross Charity Tea Date: circa 1908
University of London - Plans of the new buildings - HoldenUniversity of London - Drawing based on the plans for the new buildings by Architect Charles Holden (1875-1960). Date: circa 1930
The Harbour Front - Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East AfricaThe Harbour Front - Dar-es-Salaam (" Haven of Peace" ), Tanzania, East Africa - showing the Anzani front and the Cathedral. Date: circa 1910s
Joseph Chamberlain in his orchid-houseMr Chamberlains favourite hobby: Joseph Chamberlain in his orchid-house at Highbury, with his head orchid gardener, 1903 1903
Verona, Italy - Piazza Erbe and Palazzo Maffei. Date: 1914
Palace Theatre Company - London - Theatrical Garden Party Date: 1912
Liverpool Cathedral under construction from St. James Mount Date: circa 1908
Two Girls of the Nuer Tribe - SudanTwo Girls (sisters?) of the Nuer Tribe - Sudan. Date: circa 1910s
Fancy dress costume - BibendumMr R. H. Cobb as Bibendum (the Michelin Man) at the Chelsea Arts Club Ball in 1912. Date: 1912
Sir Jock Delves Broughton and Lady Broughton attending the wedding o f Lord and Lady Lovat at Brompton Oratory in October 1938
Lady Astor wearing Cartier tiara with Sancy diamondLady Astor, who sat as MP for the Sutton Division of Plymouth from 1919 to 1945 pictured arriving for the opening of Parliament in 1948 wearing a Cartier tiara featuring the Sancy diamond
Amateur Studio portrait photograph of a teenage girlAmateur Studio portrait photograph - shot in the back garden with suitable table and plant pot props - the subject is not the most jolly ever - I don t think that hat was a regular personal choice
Mud Therapy at a spa in ItalyMud bath (bed!) therapy treatment at a Spa at Acqui Terme, a city and comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the province of Alessandria (see: 10644815) Date: circa 1910s
Acacia Avenue, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa. Postcard published by Moloo Brothers & Co Ltd. Curios and Carpet Dealers of Dar-es-Salaam, the premises of whom we can see in this shot
American Samoa - Pago Pago - production of copraPago Pago, Capital of American Samoa - the cultivation of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) for the production of copra, the dried flesh of the coconut
Cast of a basking shark(Selache Maxima)Described in The Illustrated London News as a cast of the skeleton of a basking shark(Selache Maxima) caught off Bergen in 1901
Hurricane at Madras, India: wrecks on the beach Date: 1872
Florence - Italy - Giacosas Tea Rooms. Date: circa 1903
G Munday - Fishmonger & Poulterer - Cliftonville, KentG Munday - Fishmonger & Poulterer - Cliftonville, Margate, Kent. Date: circa 1909
People of the Upper Nile - Sudan. Date: circa 1910s
Bagamoyo Road - Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa. Date: circa 1910s
Cairo, Egypt - Arabic School House Date: circa 1904
Olga Valery - French actress - RosesOlga Timchenko (aka Olga Valery) (1903-2002) - French actress of Ukrainian origin - performing at the Casino de Paris. The (remarkable) comment on the postcard reverse reads as follows
Cable and Wireless Station. Lagos, Nigeria Date: circa 1930s
Port Said, Egypt - Fioravanti and Chimenz Department Store. Date: circa 1903
Tunisia - Tunis - Street Snake Charmer with a pair of cobras - note the French colonial men and women watching on (from a safe distance). Date: circa 1907
Taglioni in La SylphidePage from the Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1940, showing The Vision Which Ravished European Audience A Hundred Years Ago: Old Lithographs of the Unmatched Taglioni in La Sylphide
Mabel Knibbs of Windsor with her new handbag, 1941The Sketch featured this picture in their We Take Off Our Hat To- page on 18th June 1941. " Mabel Knibbs of Windsor, fourteen year old member of the Windsor Youth Club detatchment
The Tallien Costume, finishing touches to a new fashionThe Tallien costume, so called after the famous Directoire beauty, Mme. Tallien, the latest fashion from Paris. A model being fitted with the style at the salon of Doeillet. Date: 1912
The Head Decorative - A Fashion of Old EgyptMiss Enid Bell wearing an elaborate headdress as Princess Amenset in The Dust of Egypt playing at Wyndhams Theatre in 1912 Date: 1912
Gallantry in ParisThe Gallantry of other days in the Paris of today. " Aprez-vous, Madame!" " Aprez-vouc, Monsieur!" Male chivalry turned on its head by a young woman offering for an elderly
A Bumper Mistake by Lawson Wood - PhrenologyThe Phrenologist: Bless my soul, Sir; your bump of destructiveness is most abnormally large. You must be a soldier. The Subject: Oh, dear no; I m a chauffeur. Date: 1912
Senorita Tortola Valencia, dancerSenorita Tortola Valencia pictured in costume for the Dance of the Incense likened at the time to an animated Egyptian frieze
Oxford and Cambridge rowing crews by H. M. BatemanPictured at Putney by our artist with the blues. The Light Blues and the Dark: Wild caricatures of the Eights for the University Boat-Race. Date: 1912
Mrs George Cornwallis-West at work on pageantMrs George Cornwallis-West, formerly Miss Jennie Jerome and Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill, pictured at work as the promoter
Work of Italian Futurists at the Sackville Gallery, 1912Double page spread from The Sketch magazine giving examples in colour of some of the paintings on display at the Sackville Gallery in London as part of an exhibition of Italian Futurists
The General - Flora Drummond - suffrage campaignerFlora Drummond Suffragette. Mrs. Florrie (Flora) Drummond of the W.S.P.U, also known as General Drummond, pictured in The Sketch magazine in 1912. Date: 1912
If Unhealthy, Be Healthy by William Heath RobinsonIf Unhealthy, Be Healthy: If Healthy, Be Healthier! Keep Fit Exercises: 1. The Bathroom Window Sill Bite - for strengthening the front teeth and developing the muscles of the legs and back
H. M. Bateman impressions of the Futurist exhibitionA synthesis of a Bateman state of mind! Drawn after a visit to the Futurists Exhibition: Our artist records what he saw and what he remembers. Cartoon by H. M
Sketch cover - Futurist artA futurist portrait of the futurist poet-leader (on the front cover of The Sketch magazine), Signor Marinetti, leader of the Futurist movement, by Signor Carra
Kleinarts Camishield dress shields advertisementAdvertisement for Kleinarts Camishield dress shields, to be worn inside the camisole and to protect dresses from stains and odours in the days before automatic washing machines. Date: 1912