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Elisabeth Welch studio portrait by Sasha, London. Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) African American singer & actress who settled in London in 1933

Late Victorian 1890s Greetings Card Glove Gloves
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Man with bucket and rope ladder on a Christmas card
Man with a bucket and a rope ladder on a Christmas card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Surrendered German ships at Scapa Flow, WW1
Surrendered German battleships and cruisers at Scapa Flow, First World War. circa 1918

Smoke trail of observation balloon, WW1
Smoke trail of an enemy observation balloon, First World War. 1914-1918

Spanish Civil War poster, Read anarchist books and you will be a man. circa 1937

Queen Victoria with her four great-grandchildren 1900
Queen Victoria with her four great-grandchildren taken at Osborne House, eldest standing next to Victoria, Prince David, future Edward VIII for one year in 1936 and then Duke of Windsor (1894 - 1972)

Latest frocks and smart hats by Robert Heath available at Knightsbridge, London. Date: 1930

Mourning card, 1913
The interior of a black-edged mourning card in Victorian style, marking the death of James McNeill of Greenock, Scotland, who died on 14th July 1913, aged 58 years. Date: July 1913

Baby's funeral coffin carried by young girls in white dresses. circa 1850

Dick Turpin almost certainly a different version of the story. The central image shows Turpin, aghast, as Black Bess, who has carried him to York, is carried dead on a stretcher

14th Century 1350 Black Death Blood Continent
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The Black Death. 14th century. Figure of a woman hit by
The Black Death. 14th century. Epidemic that ravaged the European continent. Figure of a woman hit by plague. Medieval Museum. Stockholm. Sweden. Date:

Advert for Peter Robinson's mourning clothing 1896
Variety of mourning clothing for widows kept in stock for daughters, relatives and servants, available from Peter Robinson's Mourning Warehouse, Regent Street, London. 1896

Advert for Jay's mourning clothing 1893
Large and well-assorted stock of mourning costumes, mantles and millinery for immediate wear. 1893

Mouring dress 1916
Widow wearing a black mourning dress in the First World War. Date: 1916

Victorian mourning dress 1875
Widow's mourning dress. 1875

Woman wearing morning dress 1875
Widow wearing elegant Victorian mourning dress, with tassel edge, tails and long train. Hair dressed high at the back with complicated twists and rolls with flat cap. Date: 1875

Death of David Livingstone (1813-1873). Engraving. Colored
David Livingstone (1813-1873). Scottish explorer. Death of Livingstone in the village of Chief Chitambo's, 1873. Engraving by Riov. The Illustrated World, 1882. Colored

Funerary stele of Hefrer. Egypt
Funerary stele of Hefrer. Painted limestone. 26th-early 27th dynasties. Late Period. C. 600-500 BC. Probably from Abydos, Egypt. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

19th Century 20th Century Aivazovsky Armenian
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Greek art. Attic krater painted with black figures representing an Homeric battle around the body of a dead warrior (possibly Patroclus). Found at Pharsala. Dated circa 530 BCE. Detail

The Mourning of Laszlo Hunyadi by Viktor Madarasz
Viktor Madarasz (1840-1917). The Mourning of Laszlo Hunyadi. 1859. Hungarian National Gallery. Budapest. Hungary

Cartoon, The Merry Widows, WW1
Cartoon, The Merry Widows. A reference to the operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar, showing widows of the First World War in a cafe looking anything but merry

Caricature of George Leybourne, music hall singer
Caricature of George Leybourne (1842-1884), British music hall singer, described as a lion comique, famous for his song Champagne Charlie. It appears that his death had been mistakenly announced

Victorian Death Bereavement Mourning White Black
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Victorian mourning card, Edgar George Pottle
Victorian mourning card, In Loving Remembrance of Edgar George Pottle, MRCS LRCP, who died April 9th, 1880, aged 40, interred in the family grave, at Highgate Cemetery

Victorian mourning card, In Memoriam, with envelope
Victorian mourning card, In Memoriam, with a cross and ivy, and accompanying mourning envelope with black edging. Date: circa 1880s

Embossed Victorian mourning card, three daughters
Embossed Victorian mourning card, with a grieving woman, an urn above and a church on the right. In Memory of Louisa, fourth daughter of Edward and Louisa Paris, who died January 8th, 1858

Mourning woman with cross and flowers. Date: circa 1880s

The People's Packet of Mourning Stationery
Victorian packet design, The People's Packet of Mourning Stationery, which would contain writing paper and envelopes with black edging. Date: circa 1880s

Embossed Victorian mourning card, In Memoriam, with a woman kneeling in grief -- Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord -- and an architectural border in Egyptian style. Date: circa 1880s

Box of Victorian mourning pins by George Goodman. Date: circa 1880s

Women on production line, United Biscuits, Harlesden
Women at work on the production line for McVitie's Jaffa Cakes at the United Biscuits factory in Harlesden, Middlesex, 23 September 1970. Date: 1970

Children in a school hall
Children sitting in a school hall, April 1976. Date: 1976

Teachers distributing milk to children, Woolwich, London
Teachers distributing milk to children at a school in Woolwich, south east London, around the time free school milk was discontinued. The school was distributing milk in defiance of the change

Children drinking milk in a playground, Woolwich, London
Children at a school in Woolwich, south east London, drinking milk in a playground around the time free school milk was discontinued. The school was distributing milk in defiance of the change

GEC workers campaigning, GEC Headquarters, London
GEC workers campaigning outside the GEC Headquarters in London during a lockout from the Keith Blackman works at Tottenham, 18 March 1970. Date: 1970

Cartoon, Now you have peace, WW1
Cartoon, a figure of death says: Your wishes are granted, now you have peace. A silhouette of Kaiser Wilhelm hangs from a gibbet, with a flock of vultures gathering around his body. Date: 1916

Illustration of Greyfriars Bobby by Cecil Aldin -- the faithful terrier who visited the Edinburgh grave of his master, a farmer named John Gray, for nine years until he died in 1872. Date: 1932

Art Nouveau design, Nemo Ante Mortem Beatus
Art Nouveau design with the Latin proverb: Nemo Ante Mortem Beatus (No-one can be called happy before death). Date: circa 1920s

Black bear attacked by bees as it attempts to take honey from a dead tree stump.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Sibly's Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Death and a black Demon battle over the Gambler at the gaming table.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

Mid-18th century German male fashions worn by state officials.. From a mural by the Venetian artist Tiepelo in Wurzburg castle. Below the balcony is a black servant boy with a hunting dog

POSADA, Jos頇uadalupe (1852-1913). D�de los muertos en M鸩co. El jarabe en ultratumba (Day of the Dead in Mexico). Contemporary Art. Engraving

Spain. Civil War. Demonstration in Madrid calling to mobilization against the milutary uprising (July 1936). SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Salamanca. Archivo Hist󲩣o Nacional

George V, Queen Mary and family at funeral service
King George V, Queen Mary and other members of the royal family at a funeral service. Date: 1912

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Shop window in Valencia (1937). Photography by Kati Horna. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

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