Bottomed Collection

Arthur Godfrey music hall coster act
Arthur Godfrey of the music hall coster double act Duncan and Godfrey with Minnie Duncan. Wearing coster costume of suit with long jacket and bell bottomed trousers trimmed with pearly buttons

French Tailors C18Th
An elegant Frenchman has a fitting for a new coat. A tailor, down on one knee, makes some adjustments. Another, sewing buttons, sits cross legged on a bench

CREPE PAN
A flat-bottomed, shallow frying pan made for cooking crepes or pancakes to perfection

James II / P Schenk
JAMES II - James II of England / VII of Scotland. Brother of Charles II. Second son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. Date: 1633 - 1701

Heal and Son Living Room
An advertisement photograph for Heal & Son, London based furniture and interior designers. The image promotes a range of cottage furniture inside a living room, including a plain oak dining table

INVASION OF BRITAIN The English expected that Napoleons army would cross the Channel in huge, flat- bottomed boats, oared like a galley but with sails as well Date: 1803

An historical overview of the costume of the 17th century. Date: 17th century

Spain and Portugal - on the roadside, Grenada - elderly man mending cane bottomed chair, surrounded by bits of cane.. Part of Box 149 Boswell collection - Portugal and Spain. Date: circa 1900

German Officials 1670
German professionals (possibly legal dress): full-bottomed wigs, hats with cocked brims, coats with deep turned back cuffs like boot-cuffs, cloaks. Date: 1670

The Phoenix, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA
The Phoenix, a glass-bottomed boat for viewing marine life, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA. Date: 1939

Emperor power boat, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA
Glass-bottomed Emperor power boat, used for showing sightseers the Submarine Gardens, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA. circa 1914

Glass-bottomed boat, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA
Glass-bottomed passenger boat, used for showing sightseers the Submarine Gardens, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA. Date: 1922

Cartoon, The Pigs Possessed, or, the Broad-bottomd Litter running headlong into the Sea of Perdition, by James Gillray. Showing John Bull (doubling as Farmer George)

Cartoon, Political Mathematicians, Shaking the Broad bottomd Hemispheres, by James Gillray. To that last Hope of the Country, the New Opposition

Cartoon, L Assemblee Nationale, or grand Cooperative Meeting at St Annes Hill, respectfully dedicated to the admirers of a Broad-Bottomd Administration, by James Gillray

An efficient ships lifeboat by G. H. Davis
In quest of an efficient ships lifeboat: a type which might have helped the Volturno (where one lifeboat overturned, two smashed against the side of the burning vessel)

Young Egyptian woman holding an amphora
An extremely odd artistic photographic postcard showing a young Egyptian woman holding an amphora close to her naked breast

Double-bottomed frame of the Aquitania
The double-bottomed frame of the Aquitania, looking forward

Wigmaker making a wig for the legal profession - Temple, London. Date: 1910

Italian Sailor
Postcard of an Italian sailor, complete with full naval uniform/costume, nautical pose (propped up by an anchor!) and a model steamship. Full use of the photographic studios prop cupboard

Man Fishes from Boat
A clergyman fishes from a flat bottomed boat

Mandarins Barge
A Chinese Mandarins ceremonial barge - an elaborately decorated flat- bottomed vessel

Observing Sea Depths
Observation of the Sea-Bed from Transparent-Bottomed Boats, Using Atom-Ray Illumination

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