Beads Collection

Lourdes - The statue in the Grotto
Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, France in the Grotto at this sacred Christian site

Lady Charles Cavendish aka Adele Astaire
Adele Astaire (1896 - 1981) comedy actress and dance partner of her brother, Fred Astaire from childhood until 1932, when she retired from dance to marry the British aristocrat Lord Charles Spencer

Girl from Mali with wonderful beads and headdress
Young Soninke Girl from Mali wearing wonderful beads and beaded headdress. The Soninke (also called Sarakole, Seraculeh, or Serahuli)

Sri Lanka - Hindu Ascetic - Incredibly long hair
Sri Lanka - Hindu Ascetic Sadhu with incredibly long hair, worn in thick dreadlocks called jata. Date: circa 1910s

Federico Cattani Amadori (1856-1943). Colored engraving
Federico Cattani Amadori (1856-1943). Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura (1924-1935). Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1877. Colored

Decorated Christmas tree with toys and food below. Date: circa 1890s

Dorma Leigh in 1920
Dorma Leigh (1890 - ?), British stage performer, appearing here in The Whirligig, at the Palace Theatre, London. 1920

Romanian Women - Traditional costume
A pair of Romanian women, in traditional National costume. A particularly fine example of the highly-decorative embroidery emplyed to decorate the skirts

Shilluk Girl bearing extensive traditional scarfication
A Shilluk Girl bearing extensive traditional facial scarfication and wearing thick wood-block earrings - Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Christian Dior dress, 1953
A woman enjoys a glass of champagne while wearing a Christian Dior evening dress of blue silk organza worn over a number of full net underskirts and embroidered with swags of silver bugle beads

Belinda Willis
Top 1960s model Belinda Willis, photographed for London Life magazine by Alan Ballard wearing a multi-layered choker of beads and moody eye makeup

Production of Gounods Faust by Carl Rosa Opera Company
Characters from Charles Gounods opera Faust in a touring production by the Carl Rosa Opera Company. Seen here are Charles Manners as Bertram, the Irish tenor Barton McGuckin as Faust

Young woman, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Flower Power 1967
HIPPIES His and Hers Flower Power outfits at the great Love-In at Woburn Park, Bedfordshire, England. Date: August 1967

Two Indian women are approached by a bead merchant Date: early 20th century?

Three people in Cowboy and Indian costume in studio photo
Three people in Cowboy and Indian costume in a studio photo -- signed The Three Shentons. Date: circa 1910

Fashionable women in new creations 1913
Women models wearing the latest winter beautifully decorative wraps. 1913

Feather Flapper headband 1912
Woman wearing a flapper style headpiece, with feathers and beaded detail at side. 1912

Elderly Jewish Couple - Thessaloniki, Greece Date: circa 1916

Front cover of The Bystander by Rick Elmes
A front cover illustration by Rick Elmes entitled The Minx, depicting an elegant young woman in evening dress, with her fur-trimmed coat falling off her shoulders

Algerian Dancer
An Algerian Belly Dancer - holding aloft her scarf, in an alluring pose

Gilt-edged Security by Elsie Harding
Illustration by Elsie Harding featuring a beautiful and elegant young woman with red hair just visible tying a bandeau style cloche hat in gold colours around her lovely head

Punjabi Muslims - North-west Frontier Province - an area of South Asia spanning from central Pakistan to north-western India

Chinese Mandarin
A Chinese Mandarin in ceremonial court costume

The Island King by Percy Gawthorne
Promotional postcard for The Island King by Percy Gawthorne; music Harold Garstin. First produced at the Adelphi Theatre, 10th October 1922. This image shows W. H

Swing High Swing Low by Muriel Dawson
A little girl sits placidly in a baby swing clutching a necklace of brightly coloured beads

Platinum Blonde Flapper
A typical flapper with platinum blonde bobbed hair, green eye-shadow, rouge and pencil thin eyebrows. She wears emerald and diamond bangles, ear-rings & beads

Two Girls of the Nuer Tribe - Sudan
Two Girls (sisters?) of the Nuer Tribe - Sudan. Date: circa 1910s

Man and woman of China, 1818. Man with tobacco pipe, holding hands with a woman. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal

Queen Nenzima, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Queen Nenzima of the Mangbettus (Mangbetu) tribe, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. Date: 1922

Young South African girl in the bush Date: circa 1910s

Five male members of the Mois Tribe, Vietnam
Five male members of the Mois Tribe, Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam (just about preserving their modesty). The Mountain People ( Mois is actually a derogatory term) are The Degar

Lady Diana Abdy by Madame Yevonde
(Helen) Diana (nÚÑáBridgeman), Lady Abdy (1907 - 1967), Fashion leader; wife of Sir Robert Henry Abdy; daughter of 5th Earl of Bradford

Chukchi woman with tattoos on her cheek, chin and arm, and ear piercings. (Chukotka region, Russia). From Joseph Billings

Various types of clothes worn by Indian men. Man of distinction with prayer beads, and men in dhoti. Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Philippines - Igorote Tribe - Baguio
Igorot girl from the Philippines - Baguio City, Mountain Province. Igorot are the people of the Cordillera region, on the Philippino Island of Luzon

Sudanese woman showing traditional facial scarification and elegantly braided hair - (see 10284598 and 10587718 (close-up) for the original B/W print versions). Date: circa 1907

Zulu Maid showing traditional beadwork and scarification Date: circa 1920s

Masai, Kenya, silhouette
Kenya, Masai warriors in genuine traditional clothes. One carries a spear with the tip protected by a feathered su-su. The other carries a rifle. Silhouette

Model wearing a short-skirted afternoon frock and a string of pearl beads Date: 1930

Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617), circa 1670
Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617). Christian mystical religious, member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. Portrait by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), circa 1670. Detail

Colour illustration of woman with red, long beads, earrings
Colour lustration of woman with red, long beads and earrings, and jewel box, in front of a hand mirror. Captioned: ??Man-Killers: The Weapons Woman Wields??

Queen Mary Date: 1935

An array of colourful beads and ear-rings. Date: 1954

Illustration of fashionable women's gloves and jewellery. Date: 1954

Illustration of fashionable women's shoes and jewellery. Date: 1954

A canoe-necked knitted top, with a beaded design. Date: 1954

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