Bare Collection (page 12)

Nursery Rhymes -- Ride a Cock Horse
Nursery Rhymes. An unidentified one (above), showing a man with a brush running into another mans bedroom. Below is a scene illustrating Ride a Cock Horse, showing the fine lady on her white horse

Chocolate box design, lady with wavy hair
Chocolate box design, featuring a glamorous lady with dark wavy hair, set against a wickerwork background. Date: 20th century

Lifeboat man rescuing a baby
A lifeboat man swinging across the waves on a lifebelt, holding a baby in his arms

Man on beach in cork lifebelt
Man on a beach wearing a cork lifebelt

Family on holiday in their beach hut
A family on holiday, sitting in their beach hut

Nursery Rhymes -- couple arguing, blacksmith
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- an elderly couple argue in a bare room, with bags of gold and silver on the floor

Yoghurt Salesman
A youthful Romanian Yoghurt Seller, with a defiant look in his eye, carrying two pans of his dairy wares (carried on a yolk over his shoulder). Date: 1910s

Indians of Oregon C1860
Native American Indians of Oregon (possibly Snake or Shoshone). Date: circa 1860

Chest measurement of LFB applicant
An LFB applicant has his chest measured by A D O Packer, commandant of the Training School. The brigade minimum is 36 inches with a two-inch expansion

When Autumn Blasts the River Banks Lay Bare. McAldowie, James fl.1885 - 1913

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan - Police Station Date: circa 1902

Japan - Japanese Geisha prepare themselves in the morning
Japan - Japanese Geisha (two of whom are topless) prepare themselves in the morning for the day ahead. Date: circa 1903

Sri Lanka - Noss Village maids with Palm Leaf Umbrella. Date: circa 1910s

Fine portrait of a Zulu Woman, South Africa - Intombe River region. Date: circa 1901

Smiling Zulu Woman and child, South Africa Date: circa 1901

Sakai Women, Kampong Ulu Jelebu, Malaysia Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - Women carrying mealie-meal - a relatively coarse flour made from maize (called mielies or mealies). A staple food in South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi

South African couple - postcard entitled Sweethearts Date: 1906

Oriental beauty reclining on a divan
Oriental beauty (yet to open her wardrobe that morning) reclining on a divan. Date: 1914

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Inside Information
" This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister. Inside Information - a little girl out shopping for fish is slightly disappointed to

Tripoli, Libya - Italo-Turkish War damage and exotic dancer
Tripoli, Libya - Evidence of Bombardment during the Italo-Turkish War and an exotic dancer. The Italo-Turkish War was launched by Italy against Turkey, with the aim of gaining Libya

Exotic Turkish Dancer in Egypt Date: circa 1908

Ostrich Feather Seller at Aden, Yemen. Date: 1892

A Gentleman of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Date: 1892

Oriental Egyptain Beauty wearing a Dragonfly Wing skirt
Oriental Egyptian Beauty wearing a Dragonfly Wing skirt, a very popular motif of the period in fashion and jewellery. The terminology was Plique-a-jour (French for " letting in daylight" )

Mexican Ollas Seller - An olla is a ceramic jar, often unglazed, used for cooking stews or soups, for the storage of water or dry foods, or for other purposes. Date: circa 1910s

Parqueuse or Oyster Gatherer, France
A Parqueuse or Oyster Gatherer from the Bassin d Arcachon in south-west France. Her shoes may lack Parisian chic but are eminently practical for traversing the mudflats. Date: circa 1910s

Algerian Moorish beauty " Antinea la Charmeuse", dressed in headscarf, earrings and not a lot else... Date: circa 1910s

Symbol of Ireland - Harp. The harp was adopted as a symbol of the Kingdom of Ireland on the coinage from 1542. Date: 1903

Precambrian Landscape
Artists impression of a Precambrian (4, 500 to 543 million years ago) landscape, when oxygen built up in the atmosphere (about 1)

Coryphaenoides sp. rattails
Four specimens of rattails on sand

Japanese sailor, with his bare hands, is fighting with two R

A bare chance. Date 1879. Published by Currier & Ives. A bare chance. Date 1879. Published by Currier & Ives

The grizzly bare. Illustration shows an attractive young woman and an old, bald man dancing the Grizzly Bear dance on the shore of a beach next to lobsters, crabs, and fish

Sea Scouts washing the deck of a boat or ship. 20th century

Cairo - Sellers of Bouza
Itinerant sellers of Bouza, a fermented alcoholic beverage produced from wheat in Egypt. Is this the origin of the English term booze??? Date: circa 1910s

The Toilet of Helen by Aubrey Beardsley, an illustration to his novel Under the Hill. A bare-breasted Helen is preened and pampered by decorative ladies in 18th century dress

Birds on a tree
Many varieties of birds, including an owl, perch on the bare branches of a tree. 1925

Messalina by Aubrey Beardsley
Messalina and her companion by Aubrey Beardsley, an illustration to an edition of the Roman satirist Juvenals Sixth Satire. Messalina was the wife of the Roman emperor Claudius. Date: 1895

African Coptic Priest - probably in Ethiopia. He is wearing a spectacular tradional hat and carries a staff and a Coptic cross. Date: circa 1930s

Dugouts and trenches on a battlefield, WW1
Dugouts and trenches on a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Little boy with spaniel on a birthday postcard
A little boy with a King Charles spaniel on a birthday postcard. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Guinea, Africa - A Fula Girl
A young Saussai girl, from Senegal, West Africa, carrying her baby. Date: circa 1910

Kabyle Women and babies - Algeria. The Kabyle are Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimated population today of 5 million individuals. Date: circa 1910s

Young woman, Miss Peggy Kurton
Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- a young woman (the actress Peggy Kurton) in a relaxed pose with roses. Date: early 20th century

Father and daughter outside beach hut
A father and his daughter outside their beach hut at a seaside resort. He looks at her, she looks at the camera. Date: late 1950s

Baby on cushions, sitting up in a chair
A baby, around six months old, sitting up in a chair on some comfy cushions. Date: November 1954

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