Back Collection (page 66)

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

Frock Coats 1854
Three French gentlemen in frock coats with minor variations. A view is also given of the seams & vents at the back. Also trousers, shoes with bows, bowties & top hats

Sleeping on Mothers Lap
Mother sits up until her baby goes back to sleep after it wakes up in the night

Long Pipe 1836
Decadent gent smoking a long exotic looking oriental pipe converses with a cohort back from a night on the tiles

Fancy Waistcoat 1828
Blue cut-away coat, gigot sleeves, hip pockets, gold buttons, high stand-fall collar, patterned waistcoat, pleated shirt front with gold buttons. Back view included

Family / Comic / Having Doll
- Put that pillow back where it belongs! - But I m going to have a doll!

COSTUME / MEN / 1826
D-B coat with gigot sleeves, velvet collar, hip pockets, cut-away at the front & vents, pleats & hip buttons at the back; white strapped pantaloons, pleated shirt

Evening Cape Coat 1922
Voluminous cape like evening coat by Paul Poiret: oblong yoke in a floral fabric & rounded hem at the back with a red border at the front, plus drop earrings & a headband

Striped Waistcoat 1816
Green coat, cut away at the front, velvet collar, sleeves gathered at the shoulder, turned back cuffs, pantaloons, black pumps, top hat, striped waistcoat with stand collar

Overcoat 1810
Green overcoat with velvet revers, M-cut collar, turned back cuffs that cover the knuckles, fastening with buttons & tabs piped in gold & black hessian boots

Making of a Clerk / Satire
Victorian satire depicting the entry of a young man as an office clerk & the finished article, as an old man with a crooked back (" Making a sharp lad of him" )

Blackpool Charabanc
This is how we re enjoying ourselves here at Blackpool - three saucy couples necking in the back seat of a charabanc

Saved on Alpine Pass
A traveller on the pass of Saint Bernard is saved by dogs and monks who carry him back to their hospice

Military Style Mini
Mini-dress with military pretension & stand collar, epaulettes, brass buttons, belt loops & self-coloured belt. The model wears sling back shoes. Date: 1960s

Woman Brushing Hair
A young woman wearing a paisley pattern dressing gown brushes her long hair with a silver handled bristle brush with an embroidered floral back. Date: 1940s

The Return from the Hunt
The return from the hunt - a Flemish huntsman, with his servant, two hounds and two smaller dogs, brings back a stag, borne on the second horse

Floods in Cheshire
When Northwich, Cheshire, is inundated, the streets are full of boats - even a sailing boat ! - rescuing people from their homes, while others are evacuated on piggy-back

Oasis, Central Africa
Arriving at an oasis with a herd of cattle, the animals are held back until the humans have slaked their thirst

Back from Derby (Dore)
A lively crowd comes back to London after a day at the Epsom Derby

EDNA MAYs HAT 1905
Edna May wears a neat, little hat with a high crown, the brim cocked up at the back & swathed with chiffon tied decoratively above her face

Death Greets Derbygoers
Death doffs his hat and kindly opens the gate for a coachload of revellers back from the Derby. He ll be getting to know them a whole lot better soon

Piet Hein Dutch Naval
PIET HEIN Dutch sea-captain who becomes a national hero when, in 1628, he captures an entire Spanish silver fleet and brings it back to Amsterdam in triumph

Medical Help for Bird
A bird comes for medical treatment to straighten his back

Hunting Turtles / 1865
Hunting turtles. Having captured a turtle, it is turned on its back so it cannot escape

Gilpins Famous Ride
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN Gilpin, wigless and on the back of a uncontrolled horse, is chased by other horseback riders to try to slow him

Gilpin at Edmonton
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN Gilpin, on the back of his uncontrolled horse, speeds past his family waving from the balcony at Edmonton

Vogue for Antique Jewels
Satire on the fad for classical jewellery: a woman back from the Grand Tour is laden down with reproduction antique Roman jewellery

Amazing Stories scifi magazine cover, 35, 000 years from now
MACHINE MAN OF ARDATHIA (Francis Flagg) A man from 35, 000 years hence travels back in time and is delighted to encounter a live prehistoric man of 1927

Edward Hunting Tigers
Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, shooting a tiger from the safety of his howdah on the back of an elephant in India

Snow White Found
Schneewitchen (Snow White, or Little Snowdrop) is found by the dwarfs. She is not at all well, so they take her back to their cottage. (Story from Grimm)

Richardson by who 1908
Dr H.L.S Richardson wears a frock coat with carnation buttonhole, a top hat & trousers with a front & back crease. He carries a cane over his arm

The Golden Bird
He covers ground rapidly, sitting on the foxs tail with his feet on its back

Depiction of Winter 1903
A depiction of Winter: a woman in a reform style dress with uncorseted high waistline, fur-trimmed tunic & a skirt with embroidery. The back is reflected in the mirror

Pleated Skirt 1904
Striped high necked chemisette is worn with a a bolero style jacket bodice with full sleeves with turned back cuffs & a box pleated skirt. Her flat hat is draped with lace

Tunic Dress by Doucet
Column like tunic dress by Doucet: the over-skirt caught up at the back with roses & ornamented wih pendants

Afternoon Dress 1912
Taupe coloured, high-waisted dress by Doucet with white engageantes, lace tucker, & a green sash. A narrow piece of drapery hangs from the waist & back. N.B hat with chin strap

Hubbard / Tuck Series 4
She went to the barbers to buy him a wig but when she got back he was dancing a jig

Afternoon Mantlet 1913
Mantlet in a bold red floral fabric with black collar & turned-back cuffs worn with a black hobble skirt, soft hat or toque & drop earrings

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