Austere Collection

1940S Housewife Cooking
A housewife cooks on a simple stove in a bare and austere kitchen, adding milk to the pan she is stirring

Late Victorian Wedding party
A superb photograph of late Victorian Wedding party focusing on the bridal group. All show perfect serious face expressions, in keeping with the formality of the occasion (it seems!). Date: circa 1895

All Saints, Margaret Street, London - The Vicars Room - here many of the Ritual Conferences were held. Date: circa 1910s

All Saints, Margaret Street, London - The Dining Hall. A Grade I listed Anglo-Catholic church designed by the architect William Butterfield and built between 1850 and 1859 Date: circa 1910s

FLORAL ARRANGEMENT JAPAN
An example of the traditional Japanese art of flower arranging know as Ikebana. Date: 1901

Friar Juan Sanchez Cotan (1560-1627). Spanish painter. Still
Baroque art. Seventeenth century. Friar Juan Sanchez Cotan (1560-1627). Spanish painter. Still Life with thistle and carrots. Fine Arts Museum. Granada. Andalusia. Spain

Oscar Asche as Count Hannibal, by Asche and Norreys Connell
Count Hannibal by F. Norreys Connell (b. 1874) and Oscar Asche (1871 - 1936) from the novel by Stanley John Weyman (1855-1928) written in 1901

A chalet at Squires Gate Holiday Camp
A rather austere looking chalet at Squires Holiday Camp in Blackpool. Date: 1930s

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Russian writer. Totlstoy in his work room. Mancastropa engraving in The Artistic Illustration (1892). Colored engraving

Monastery of Santes Creus. Dormitory
Monastery of Santes Creus built between 12th and 13th centuries. Dormitory for the monks. Aiguamurcia. Catalonia. Spain

Actress / Cushman
CHARLOTTE SAUNDERS CUSHMAN American actress, with book and elaborate chair Date: 1816 - 1876

Grace Aguilar / Anon Eng
GRACE AGUILAR English writer of novels & poems, author of The Spirit of Judaism Date: 1816 - 1847

WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and Threds
WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and Threads. Lovely card by Evelyn E Morris, relating to the need for austerity during wartime and hence a lack of available cloth for new clothes or repairs

Greek Anti-Plutocrat Propaganda Postcard
An anti Plutocrat Greek postcard from the Second World War, praising the austere simple pride in the life of a Greek soldier against the extravagant largesse of the Plutocrat

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