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Background imageBest Collection: Cycles et Motos. De Dion Bouton

Cycles et Motos. De Dion Bouton
A De Dion-Bouton advertising poster by Felix Fournery, featuring a female cyclist and her dog. The French manufacturer De Dion-Bouton was best known for building cars

Background imageBest Collection: Cottage on an embossed greetings card

Cottage on an embossed greetings card
Cottage with purple flowers, ivy leaves, horseshoe and handshake on an embossed greetings card - With Best Wishes. Date: early 20th century

Background imageBest Collection: Birds, flowers and heart on a greetings card

Birds, flowers and heart on a greetings card -- Best Wishes from my heart. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageBest Collection: Victorian 1890s Card Greetings White Ornate Lace

Victorian 1890s Card Greetings White Ornate Lace
victorian, 1890s, card, greetings, white, ornate, lace, lacy, oval, man, men, food, paper, best, wishes, chef, chefs, cook, cooks, carrying, plate, culinary, 12013267

Background imageBest Collection: Late Victorian 1890s Greetings Card Boy Boys

Late Victorian 1890s Greetings Card Boy Boys
late, victorian, 1890s, greetings, card, boy, boys, child, children, blue, uniform, salute, saluting, cutout, standing, attention, jacket, trousers, sailor, sailors, best, wishes, monkey, monkeys

Background imageBest Collection: Advertisement for Hixopad rubber heels

Advertisement for Hixopad rubber heels - the best. Date: early 20th century

Background imageBest Collection: Girl with pug dog on a greetings card

Girl with pug dog on a greetings card - Best Wishes. Date: circa 1900s

Background imageBest Collection: Toilet humour on a comic German greetings card

Toilet humour on a comic German greetings card - Karlsbad sparkling water is the best treatment for constipation. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Background imageBest Collection: Two men with bottles on a comic German greetings card

Two men with bottles on a comic German greetings card - Karlsbad sparkling water is the best treatment for constipation. (1 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Background imageBest Collection: New Year card in the shape of a gift box

New Year card in the shape of a gift box. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageBest Collection: Darby Foster and Mae Marsh in Paddy the Next Best Thing (192

Darby Foster and Mae Marsh in Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923) directed by Graham Cutts Date: 1923

Background imageBest Collection: Five people standing outside a house

Five people standing outside a house
Five people in smart clothes standing outside a house. circa 1920s

Background imageBest Collection: Caricature, Lillie Langtry and Henrietta Hodson

Caricature, Lillie Langtry and Henrietta Hodson
Caricature, Lillie Langtry (1853-1929) and Henrietta Hodson (1841-1910) -- The best of friends must part. Hodson (referred to here as Mrs Labouchere because of her relationship with Henry Labouchere)

Background imageBest Collection: 21st Birthday Card with Horse Racing

21st Birthday Card with Horse Racing. 20th century

Background imageBest Collection: APOLLO

APOLLO
After Apollo has successfully defeated the Phrygian musician Marsyas in a contest, who can best play the flute, he rather unsportingly flays his rival alive for his presumption

Background imageBest Collection: Crossword puzzle on a birthday card

Crossword puzzle on a birthday card - solved. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Background imageBest Collection: The Best Souvenir Shop, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Best Souvenir Shop, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bazar de la Bourse, The Best Souvenir Shop of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Date: circa 1940s

Background imageBest Collection: Best Friends. Stockton on Tees 1970s

Best Friends. Stockton on Tees 1970s Date: 1970s

Background imageBest Collection: Patent Triplex Grate F Pattern

Patent Triplex Grate F Pattern with Best Black Porcelain Enamelled finish Date: circa 1920s

Background imageBest Collection: Lavochkin La-5 -one of the Soviets best fighters, 9, 9

Lavochkin La-5 -one of the Soviets best fighters, 9, 920 were built Service entry was in July 1942

Background imageBest Collection: WW2 greetings card, rabbit ARP warden

WW2 greetings card, rabbit ARP warden
WW2 greetings card, a rabbit ARP warden with a torch. Date: circa 1942

Background imageBest Collection: Children with sweets on a Balham street, SW London

Children with sweets on a Balham street, SW London
Five children in their Sunday best explore a bag of sweets in the doorway of a shop on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Background imageBest Collection: Bottlenose Dolphin - two, smiling

Bottlenose Dolphin - two, smiling (Tursiops truncatus)

Background imageBest Collection: Postcard portrait of King George V and Queen Mary

Postcard portrait of King George V and Queen Mary. Printed on reverse - With our best wishes for Christmas 1914. May God protect you and bring you home safe. Mary R. - George R.I. Commemorative Art

Background imageBest Collection: Tightening his belt - hunger is the best source

Tightening his belt - hunger is the best source. A typical anti-German cartoon of the period. J. Harold Hudson

Background imageBest Collection: World War One pack of playing cards - Shell Motor Spirit Co

World War One pack of playing cards - Shell Motor Spirit Co
World War One pack of playing cards issued by the Shell Motor Spirit Company with Shell logo and Best Of Allies Always In the Front surrounded by images of warships, aeroplanes, tanks, etc

Background imageBest Collection: Poster, Phillips Bicycles

Poster, Phillips Bicycles -- renowned the world over. Look for this famous mark -- all the best bicycles carry a lion

Background imageBest Collection: Heath Robinson - Wartime Cartoons - WWII

Heath Robinson - Wartime Cartoons - WWII. Showing people climbing up onto barrage balloons. Date: 1940

Background imageBest Collection: Huysmans Photo

Huysmans Photo
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS French writer best known for his occult fantasies, and for religious works done after his conversion to Catholicism. Photographed in 1900. Date: 1848 - 1907

Background imageBest Collection: Federico Zuccaro

Federico Zuccaro
FEDERICO ZUCCARO Italian artist best known for his portraits of Elizabeth I and other celebrities of the day. Date: 1543 - 1609

Background imageBest Collection: Wladyslaw Reymont - 2

Wladyslaw Reymont - 2
WLADYSLAW STANISLAW REYMONT Polish writer, his best-known work The peasants : he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1924. Date: 1867 - 1925

Background imageBest Collection: Five Girls 1920S

Five Girls 1920S
And it was all done in the best possible taste ! Five lively girls cross their legs on a sofa at a hostel in Paris, France. Date: late 1920s

Background imageBest Collection: Christmas Holly being pulled along atop a wooden frame

Christmas Holly being pulled along atop a wooden frame
Delightful Chromolithograph Christmas greetings postcard by Ellen H. Clapsaddle depicting a large bunch of Christmas holly, tied up with a red ribbon, being pulled along atop a wooden frame sled

Background imageBest Collection: Wedding - Crown Prince of Sweden and Lady Louise Mountbatten

Wedding - Crown Prince of Sweden and Lady Louise Mountbatten
The Wedding of Crown Prince Adolf of Sweden (1882-1973) and Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten (1889-1965) on 3rd November 1923 at St. Jamess Palace, London

Background imageBest Collection: Advertisement for Chlorodyne

Advertisement for Chlorodyne
An advertisement for Dr J Collis Brownes Chlorodyne, the best and surest remedy for all kinds of conditions, including coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, spasms

Background imageBest Collection: Young Victorian man with flower in buttonhole

Young Victorian man with flower in buttonhole
A young Victorian man in his best clothes, with a cravat and pin, and a flower in his buttonhole, poses in the photographers studio

Background imageBest Collection: The Pirates Cave. By A. E. Bestall

The Pirates Cave. By A. E. Bestall
An Illustration of two ladies daring each other to venture into a pirates cave. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years

Background imageBest Collection: A Landlady with her a prospective lodger

A Landlady with her a prospective lodger
Seaside Landlady (discussing previous lodger):And to crown it all, she actually wanted to take alf of my lovely pictures down! So I tells er straight, You ain t got no soul for art. I says

Background imageBest Collection: Coquette by A. E. Bestall

Coquette by A. E. Bestall
A colour illustration by Alfred Bestall of a young girl with auburn hair trying to coax a red squirral down from a tree. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)

Background imageBest Collection: The Char-A-Banc. By A. E. Bestall

The Char-A-Banc. By A. E. Bestall
A fantasy scene showing two fairies hiding beside a waterfall. They cower from the humans looking from real world above. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)

Background imageBest Collection: David Duguid

David Duguid
Scottish medium, best known for his drawings done in trance

Background imageBest Collection: James Glaisher

James Glaisher
JAMES GLAISHER English aeronaut and founder of the Meteorological Society (1850), best known for his balloon ascents with Coxwell. Date: 1809 - 1903

Background imageBest Collection: Fall / Crufts / Chow Chow

Fall / Crufts / Chow Chow
CHAMPION CHOONAM HUNG KWONG CRUFTS BEST IN SHOW 1936 Owned and bred by Mrs VAM Mannooch Sired by Champion Choonam To To

Background imageBest Collection: Lumiere Cinematograph

Lumiere Cinematograph
LUMIEREs CINEMATOGRAPH : a contemporary depiction of the French device which has the best claim to be the worlds first practical film projector

Background imageBest Collection: Clement Ader Photo

Clement Ader Photo
CLEMENT ADER French engineer and inventor in various fields, best known for his pioneer work in aviation, photographed in 1913. Date: 1841 - 1926

Background imageBest Collection: Books / Newman / Gerontius

Books / Newman / Gerontius
" That Angel best can plead with Him for all tormented souls..." Date: First published: 1866

Background imageBest Collection: Studio photo of an Edwardian boy in his Sunday best

Studio photo of an Edwardian boy in his Sunday best (Albert Auerbach). Date: circa 1907

Background imageBest Collection: Two brothers in Sunday best, Ealing, West London

Two brothers in Sunday best, Ealing, West London
Two brothers (Albert and Harold Auerbach) in their Sunday best, standing in their back garden at Ealing, West London. 1906



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