Bowler Collection (page 11)

Girl Bowling 1921
A female bowler, holds her ball and smiles

French Statue Seller
A remarkable card depicting a French Statue Seller, offering the complete package of bust and ornamental stand!

Prince of Wales (later George V) at football match
The Prince of Wales (soon to become George V) attending a football (probably rugby) match between the students of Guys Hospital and the London Hospital

The Hatters Shop. A smartly-attired young gentleman tries on a top hat in front of a full-length mirror in a Hatters shop

Churchill as a Boy
WINSTON CHURCHILL Pictured as a child and wearing a bowler hat

The Man Who Crept Into The Royal Enclosure In A Bowler, H. M
A humorous illustration showing a man in the incorrect dress getting a lot of disapproving glances. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch

Disqualified! by Henry Rountree
An illustration of a dog contest moments after a British Bulldog has stolen the judges bowler hat

Couple / Winter Fashions
A couple wearing winter fashions of 1926-7

Emigrants sighting Australia, 1887
Engraving showing a group of emigrants on the deck, sighting Australia in the distance, 1887. The men are shown dressed in suits and bowler hats, whilst the women wear skirts, jackets, hats and shawls

American Indians. The Rising of the North American Indians
Indians in native costume with European influences seen in the headgear - a bowler with feathers. Throughout this period American Indians clashed with American troops

Gent in Sloane Sq. Pub
A well-dressed old businessman in a suit having a pint at the Sloane Square underground station pub. The barmaid holds the pub cat in her arms

Sport / Cricket / Spofforth
F.R.SPOFFORTH The Demon or imp-etuous bowler, representing cricket on T other side of the Hearth

F. R. Foster (1889-1958)
Photograph of Frank Foster, the Warwickshire and England cricketer, demonstrating his left-arm fast-medium bowling action, c.1910

A Trip on a Tricycle Chair, 1890
Illustration showing a Trip on a Tricycle Chair that leads to disastrous consequences for the chairs driver. At top right, the young man in the bowler hat purchases the machine

L C Braund - Cricketer
Len C Braund - Somerset and England Test cricketer and Test official (umpire) 1926-29

E G Arnold - Cricketer
Edward (Ted) G Arnold - Worcestershire and England cricketer

G J Thompson - Cricketer
George J Thompson - cricketer for Northamptonshire and England. Test official (umpire) 1922/23

H V Hesketh Prichard
Hesketh Vernon Hesketh- Prichard - Hampshire bowler, explorer and fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Zoological Society!

Wilfred Rhodes (Yorks. )
Wilfred Rhodes - the great Yorkshire and England bowler

J T Hearne - Cricketer
Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet - Spin bowlerfor Middlesex and England, who invented the googly - a leg-spin delivery with the effect of an off- break but with the same action

Edwardian City Gent
Profile of a young upper class gentleman, dressed in a three- piece pin-striped suit and bowler hat, ready to go off to his job in the City

Proud Mother & Son
An Edwardian Lady wearing a fur stole, looks proud of her grown-up son in his pin- striped suit, overcoat and bowler hat, ready for his new job in the City

Upper Class Edwardians
An upper class family. The father wears a hat and overcoat, the mother wears a mauve overcoat and fetching hat and the son wears a pin- striped suit and bowler hat

Montmartre Girls 1908
Two French girls in Montmartre lean against a statue for a rest from their skipping game; an inquisitive man in a bowler hat looks at the photographer

Costume Men & Boys 1848
Evening dress; a sac overcoat or wrapper & window-pane check trousers; bowler style hat, short trousers, red velvet coat, forage cap, wrapper with hood & soutache trim

Crowd / Bourdin Funeral
Crowd versus police at the funeral of Martial Bourdin, anarchist, who died trying to blow up the Greenwich Observatory

Members of Waddon Hunt
Members of the Waddon Chase Hunt, young and old, men and women

Sketches of Life and Character in the City - The Luncheon Ho
Scene in an unidentified City restaurant showing City gentlemen at lunch. The chairs and sign on the wall suggest this is a French-style restaurant

Male Types / 1890S
This man is a confectioner from Whitby, Yorkshire

Mens Overcoat
A man wearing 3/4 quarter length double breasted coat, with trim

John Lewis & Co
Outside John Lewis & Co. department store, shoppers crowd along the pavement on Oxford Street, London

Clerks / Russia / 1917
Three Russian office clerks take a break and have a smoke

Fur Stole 1910
A young woman in a fur toque & stole sits cross-legged on a bar stool while chatting to a man in a bowler hat & lounge suit with large turn-ups on his trousers

Austen Chamberlain 1928
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN and his wife at the Hotel Splendide in Lugano, Italy, where he was attending a summit meeting

Great Weiland / Variety
THE GREAT WEILAND Music hall comedian, known as Americas funniest juggler

Tom Leamore / Variety 1905
TOM LEAMORE Music hall entertainer: Bertie

Social / Us City in Snow
Young American wears a half- length blue double-breasted overcoat with velvet collar, broad lapels, cuffs & pocket flaps, a bowler hat & a high detachable collar & cravat

Reporters Room / Mail
The reporters room at the Daily Mail showing journalists busy at their typewriters

Knitted Bowler Hat 1891
Tweed lounging jacket & matching waistcoat worn with checked woollen trousers of a different fabric, dark tie & pale coloured bowler hat that appears to be knitted?

Street Doctor 1877
A street " doctor" attempts to sell peppermint cough lozenges to a gullible woman

Dryden / Keen Racer / 200
Outfit for the keen racegoer

No Smoking Aloud
A very funny postcard about an Irishman who can t spell and thinks, poor fellow, that a notice saying NO SMOKING ALLOWED means NO SMOKING ALOUD, so he smokes quietly

Connie Gilchrist / Bowler
CONNIE GILCHRIST English actress in her riding clothes - she left the stage in the late 1880s to become Countess of Orkney

Chaplin / Cartoon Postcard
CHARLIE CHAPLIN (Sir Charles Spencer) English comedian and actor in cartoon style

Fatty Arbuckle / Bowler
ROSCOE FATTY ARBUCKLE American film actor

Father Off to Work
Father in suit and bowler hat merrily goes off to work in his Anglia, and his children stand in their suburban driveway hoping for a lift

Country Clothes 1927
Fernie Hunt horse show, Market Harborough: Lord Stallbridge, Master of Hounds (left) & friend wear bowler hats, gaiters & water-proof coats

Newspaper Sellers / 1892
Three newsmen sell their broadsheet newspapers at Ludgate Circus

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