Silver Cross advertisementAdvertisement for Silver Cross prams (or baby coaches), featuring an immaculately turned out young 1950s mother wearing an off the shoulder pink dress with pearls, heels and long yellow gloves
Illustration by Marygold -- Woman and baby in a garden at night. circa 1920s
Tatler front cover - Mrs La Touche Congreve and baby daughteMrs William La Touche Congreve, wife of Major William ( Billy ) La Touche Congreve V.C. pictured with her baby daughter, Mary Gloria Congreve, born 21 March 1917
Gas proof pram, 1938. A resident of Hextable in Kent, invented a gas proof pram in which a baby could be kept safe during an air raid
Fair Exchange by George StuddyBonzo and the baby find fair exchange is no robbery. A rather alarming scene where the comic canine creation of George Studdy, Bonzo
Sand Pies by Muriel DawsonA small blonde girl in a sunsuit and sun bonnet studiously mixes sand in a bucket
Circular countryside sceneA watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith showing a typical English rural countryside setting of a half-timbered cottage set amid fields, surrounded by fauna in the shape of a passing Cuckoo
The Rules of Life by H. M. BatemanA baby in a highchair is presented with a long list of rules for life by a queue of influential people including his nurse, his parents, teacher, police officer, judge and vicar. Date: 1930
Just two words! Nestles Milk 1915Nestles milk for yourself and baby. Don t - as you value your childs life - experiment with " foods" of unknown composition; the lives of millions of children have been lost in that way
Advert for Treasure Cot baby specialises 1930Treasure Cot store devoted to mothers babies and children, with a selection of baby clothing, robe, dainty long flannel gown, shawl and a hand knitted carrying cape
Babies in a cabbage patch. Date: circa 1900s
African Lion - cub lying down alert whilst adults are resting (Panthera leo). Ndutu area between Serengeti and Ngorongoro - Tanzania
High Above the Town by Florence Mary AndersonA group of children with a baby fly high above a town in a winged cradle, accompanied by a fairy. c.1925
Two Babies by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a red dress has been bathing her doll. Date: 1930
Outdoor Baby CageA handy baby cage, which can easily be fitted outside the window of even a modest flat. The baby can sleep soundly in the fresh air while the mother relaxes indoors... Date: 1930s
Cheetah family - Mother Cheetah with her 6 cubs (Acinonyx jubatus). Ndutu - Ngorongoro - Tanzania - Africa
Babies Castle, Barnardos Home, Hawkhurst, KentChildren and nurses at Dr Barnardos Babies Castle at Hawkhurst, Kent. The home was opened in 1884 for the reception of babies. Date: Date unknown
Snow babies - A Christmas Carol by Dorothy WheelerA snow baby, dressed all in white, sits on a snowy branch, singing a Christmas carol with a robin. Date: c.1925
Kingsley / Water BabiesTom saw the fairies carry baby & cradle gently down; another drowned baby is introduced to the world of the water babies
Giant Otter - pups Venezuela (Pteronura brasiliensis )
Domestic female Reindeer with newborn calf (Rangifer tarandus). forest near river Taz; spring; North Tumen regon, Siberia, Russia
Lady Louis Mountbatten with PatriciaLady Louis Mountbatten (1901 - 1960), later Countess Mountbatten of Burma and Vicerine of India, previously Miss Edwina Ashley, pictured with her elder daughter Patricia (now Knatchbull)
Kicking Time by Muriel DawsonCharming illustration of a baby lying on its tummy wearing a nappy and knitted cardigan
Long Branch Beach, New Jersey, 1874Engraving showing a beach scene with nursemaids, babies and children at Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1874
German MidwifeThis German midwife doesn t seem to have made a very good job of one of the babies she has just delivered !
Water Babies / Tom / SweepTom, the ragged chimney sweep at the cottage of the Irish woman
Witches Sabbat (Picart)Satan presides while dancers cavort before him, the cooks throw babies into the stewpot and diners enjoy a nourishing cannibal feast
Two children admire new babyTwo children admire the new baby: " Mum found him in an Easter egg..."
Comic postcard, born on St Swithins Day Date: 20th century
Two babies with comic greeting on a Christmas cardTwo babies (hidden under a pair of gloves) with comic greeting on a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Reclining baby by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s
Pencil sketches of babies and a mother. Date: 1920s
Warington and Augustus Smyth PowellPencil drawing of Henry Warington Smyth Powell (1847-1921) and Augustus Smyth Powell (1849-1863), two of the children of the Reverend Baden Powell and his third wife Henrietta
Take fresh milk and plenty of itPoster from the Empire Marketing Board promoting fresh milk, with a happy and healthy baby brandishing a spoon in a high chair
Incubator, 1884The interior and exterior view of an Auvard incubator for premature babies. Date: 1899
Water Babies -- two little children, a boy and a girl, in a pool of water surrounded by rocks (left), and a little boy who has turned into a merman, with a fishs tail
Advert for a Leveson double pram 1928Leveson baby cars, for two babies easy handle and safe. 1928
An incubator nurseryNurses attending to sick babies kept alive in a ward of incubators. The incubators pictured are from a design by Paul Altmann and distributed by Messrs Coney and Schenkhein
Family / Dancing / Baby JokeDo you like dancing? Get married, and you ll go to a BAWL every night!
New Baby Victoria 19CThe new baby, Princess Victoria, is shown off by her mother in Kensington Park, London
Bathingmachines / BrightonLadies and babies paddle and splash in the sea at Brighton
Tom. Water Baby. KingsleyTom sits upon a rock watching the moonlight on the rippling river
Queen Mary with grandchildrenQueen Mary with three of her grandchildren: left, young Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II), right, Princess Margaret, and centre (on Queen Marys lap), Prince Edward, son of Prince George
Musical instruments of the ancient Hebrews. Harp, lyres, flute, psaltery, organ, horn, panpipes, bagpipes, drum, trumpet, bell, sistrum, triangle, rattle, etc. Strumenti musicali
The Hon. Mrs Bowes-Lyon and her childrenMrs Bowes-Lyon, formerly Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, Lord Clintons younger daughter and wife of John Bowes-Lyon, Lord Strathmore younger son and brother to Queen Elizabeth
Three children of King George V and Queen Mary - the future Edward VIII (left), the future George VI (right) and Princess Mary (baby, centre). circa 1900
Birth of a baby, Rochford General Hospital, EssexBirth of a baby at Rochford General Hospital, Essex. When Janet Gisby was admitted, the chances were high that, after two miscarriages, she would lose her baby
Emily Roose, who was nanny to the children of Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece, including Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, pictured here with his two eldest sisters
