Back Collection (page 65)

Vienna Fashion 1843
A Viennese woman wears a dress & a small cape in a large checked print. The cuffs & collar are of lace. A long veil falls from the back of her bonnet

German Troops Return
German troops march over a bridge on their way back home from the war

Back from Longchamp 1799
A lady makes her way back from Longchamp, on the outskirts of Paris, in a shower of rain : her high-waisted, low-cut dress will be soaked, making it more revealing than ever

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig5
Act 4 scene 2 : Robert is torn between Bertram (the Devil) and Alice : she saves him from signing a compact, the clock strikes twelve, Bertram vanishes back to Hell

Kochs Tuberculosis Cure
Kochs tuberculosis cure; a patient is inoculated in the back of her neck

Knife-Grinder at Butcher
A man working away sharpening knives at the back of a butchers shop or possibly an abattoir

Selling Sweet Oranges
Two ladies in day dress: white muslin gown with gold & green scarf worn across the back, crossing over the chest & tied at the back. A pink dress with black shawl & hat

Christmas / Firewood 19Th
A Norwegian peasant woman walks home through the winter snow with a bundle of firewood on her back

Prussians Take Stralsund
Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector of Brandenburg, takes Stralsund from the Swedes (but he will have to give it back next year)

Doing up her own Corset
A lady laces up her corset at the back

Pink & Blue Dress 1878
Grey-blue dress with V neck, central panel ornamented with horizontal straps, the sleeves & upper bodice with tassels & a white chemise with stand up collar with a ruffle edge

WOMEN & GIRL 1876
Girl: short grey dress trimmed with red ribbons down the front. Women: jacket bodices, one with pointed basques at the back, tie-back skirts & long mermaid-tail trains

Costume July 1869
Purple polonaise worn over a habit-shirt; white & gold polonaise with triple skirt & open tunic. Girl: triple skirt, over-skirt hitched up at the back with a sash bow

Fashions October 1868
Girl: pleated skirt, front buttoning tunic, cape collar & skirt ends caught up. Blue dress: double skirt, train, pelerine cape, over skirt with diagonal rows of puffings

Polonaise Dresses 1868
Polonaise dresses: double skirts, chemisettes & low bodices & over-skirts caught up with bows. The girls dress has a sack back & the over- skirt opens at the front

Policeman & Police Car
A policeman wearing white armbands used when directing traffic, stands next to a police car with a Stop Police sign on the back

Costume / Amy Aged 10 1865
Girl wears a dress with loose, pleated bodice, a crinoline supported short skirt trimmed with lattice motifs & sleeves with epaulettes & turned back cuffs. Hair worn plain

Murder of King Edward
King Edward is assasinated (stabbed in the back while he drinks a stirrup cup) at Corfe Castle by the agent of his stepmother Elfthryth. Her son Ethelred becomes the next king

Canute Orders Waves
Canute tries to order back the waves to demonstrate how ridiculous the flattery of his courtiers has become

Racial / Mexico / Mother1909
Mexican mother wearing a large sombrero hat and carrying her child on her back

Short Mayo / Mercury
Flying-boat Maia takes off with Mercury on its back, then releases the seaplane, which has not had to expend valuable fuel to get airborne so has a much greater range

Racial / Fighting Indians
Two native men on horseback: one has shot the other in the back with an arrow

Plane with Telegraph
A German reconnaissance plane equipped with radio so that information can be rapidly passed back to base

Hair, Hats & Canezous
Front & back views of: Apollo knot coiffure adorned with an arrow; a wide brimmed bonnet with plumes & decorative detailing under the brim & a lace canezou (cape style)

Costume Parisiens 2885
Hat: large turned-up brim at the front, trimmed with plumes. Dress: lace imbecile sleeves with mancherons, low bodice pointed front & back with Grecian drapery

India / Delhi Street 1857
Delhi: a street at the back of the Jumma Musjid

Franconi Performs / Circus
Laurent Franconi performs in Paris. Standing on one leg on the back of his black horse, he canters around the outdoor ring

Japan - the Koto
A Japanese musician plays the KOTO, a harp-like instrument played horizontally on the floor till the player collapses from back-ache

Blind Woodcutter
A wodcutter, struck blind, is directed in a dream to go on pilgrimage. He ends up at Windsor where Edward the Confessor brings back his sight

Evening Dress / Patou
Design by August Abernard: flaring gored floral print skirt, draped V neckline & plunging V back, worn with a long light weight scarf that drapes seductively

Strawberry Seller 1877
A young woman and her boy assistant sell strawberries from the back of a cart in London

1213 / King John & Pope
King John offers his crown, symbolic of the kingdom, to the Papal Legate. He receives it back as a papal fief, promising to pay tribute

Native Americans 1821
A group of Domiciliated Indians depicted to show their dress and habits - game tucked into belts, papoose carried on mothers back, cooking methods and so on

Quadrille on Horseback
QUADRILLE Men and women in historical costume dance the quadrille on horse back

Lorgues / Welcomed Back
Columbus is welcomed back by Fernando and Isabel at Barcelona, Spain

Tattooing, New Zealand
A Maori tattooist decorates a warriors back

Soldiers Reverie
A SOLDIERs REVERIE - he dreams hes back on the farm with his girl

Lady and her Linen / 1929
A bias cut dress with V shaped back & cape, narrow sleeves, bell shaped reverse cuffs & soft gored skirt which dips slightly more at the back

Chiffon Frocks 1929
Pretty chiffon frocks: rose print with flounces from shoulder to hem, blossom print with pleated skirt & hanging scarf ends, chrysanthemum print with train & cape back

Costume / A Florent 1902
S-bend ladies wear gowns with trained gored skirts, braid trim & sleeves with fullness at the lower arm. Also an open bodice, turned back cuffs, lace yoke & belts

Basket Coach 1780
The Basket Coach, so called because it has a basket at the back to hold the luggage

Photo / Costume / Fratelli
Photograph showing the rear view of dress in watered silk with the sleeves ornamented with lace, a broad band of ribbon hems the skirt. Hair: dressed in a chignon

Drawing Room
The elegant back drawing room in an English home

Coach Type Carriage
Many of the early railway carriages were constructed like road coaches - even with a high seat at the back

Boy & Velvet Chair 1860S
Boy: dark suit with a Zouave style jacket (collarless, one button & rounded front borders), waistcoat, narrow bowtie & boots. His hair is slicked back from his face

GIRL & DESK 1860S
Girl: dress in a large check print, full skirt & vandyked falling collar & sleeves, trimmed with both narrow & broad velvet ribbon. Hair: chignon with hairnet

Photo / Girl & Chair 1870S
Little girl wears a short dress cut low off the shoulders in a narrow horizontal striped fabric: full skirt, ribbon trim, buttoned bodice with long pointed basques

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