Auntie Collection

Mrs Sullivan of Covent Garden Market
Mrs Sullivan, or Auntie of the Garden, a famous character in Covent Garden Market who earned her living from looking after the carters whips

Auntie Says Goodnight 2 of 2
Auntie kisses her two little nieces goodnight

R L Stevenson / Poems
To Auntie: " Chief of our aunts - not only I, But all your dozen nurselings cry..."

Comic postcard, Woman reading aunts letter Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple with uncles letter. I wish Auntie would write plainer; it looks as though Uncle had got drunk or shot himself! Date: 20th century

New Year card in the shape of a gift box. Date: circa 1890s

Fortune telling from tea leaves
While reason sleeps, Auntie tells her young nieces of the handsome strangers promised by their tea leaves. Date: 1851

Little girl at the seaside on a comic postcard -- Hurry up, Auntie, theres another big wave coming! Date: circa 1900s

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Auntie Goes Wading
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. Auntie Goes Wading (1/6). Date: circa 1900

Charleys Aunt by Brandon Thomas. Much the same design as the previous item, but in black and white, with a border of flowers. Top of the flyer reads Under the direction of the Author

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - doing homework. circa 1910s

Brighton Postcards
Sending postcards is part of the holiday ritual : this display is at Brighton. Is this one too saucy for Auntie Glad ? Date: 1962

Morecambe Tourist Shop
A shop at Morecambe caters for the holiday trade with buckets and baskets, postcards to send Auntie and perambulators for hire, folding chairs and hoops in all diameters... Date: circa 1905

Lost tooth causes sleeping difficulties for Kitty
Kitty - " Aunty, I can t sleep at night since I lost my front toof for the draught blowing down my throat." Date: circa 1890s

Swimwear 1910
Auntie Maudie and Auntie Dolly in their rather O.T.T. stripy bathing costumes at Bognor Regis, Sussex, England! Date: 1910

Birds on dedication page
Birds on the dedication page -- to Auntie Alice. Date: 1937

Children / Seaside / Girl
A little girl in a red one- piece swimming costume on the beach sends Love to Auntie from Blackpool. Date: circa 1910

Spoonful of Medicine 1 of 2
Ugly Auntie : a young girl refuses to take her medicine

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