Chatting Collection (page 7)

Father Christmas with children in his grotto
Father Christmas with two children in his grotto, based on Walt Disneys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Date: circa 1970s

Queen Mother at the Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge, standing with the Show Secretary Albert Riddle, and a prize bull wearing three rosettes. Date: circa 1982

Fishermen and boat at Newlyn, Cornwall. Date: circa 1950s

Two young children talking - Elizabeth Bem
Painting by Elizabeth Bem (1843-1914) - " There will be a lot of Honey and Flies". Date: 1910

Two sisters conversing
The Sisters - two sisters conversing. 1851

Girls chatting on the steps of The Cabin, St Ives, Cornwall
Two girls chatting on the steps of The Cabin, St Ives, Cornwall -- one of a great series of studies of the town. circa 1946

Robert Morley and Michael North on a train
Robert Morley (1908-1992), British actor, and Michael North (Charles Edward Fletcher Stokes, 1902-1960), BBC producer and light music composer

Fashionable ladies discussing a set of undergarments
Fashionable ladies discussing a set of hand-embroidered undergarments (a crepe-de-Chine set from Dickins & Jones, London). Date: 1923

Pere Damasene and Rev Newsam, Mahe, Seychelles
Catholic and Anglican priests, Pere Damasene and Rev Newsam, chat amiably in Mahe, Seychelles, Indian Ocean. 1912

Mexican dating - Lovers chat through a barred window
Mexican dating ( Novios Mexicanos ) - A pair of lovers chat through a barred window - it doesn t look as if she is going to shutter him out of her life any time soon.... Date: 1906

Four medieval scenes on a set of Christmas cards -- four friends together, a couple with lute and mistletoe, three men, and three people by a table. Date: circa 1890s

Medieval scene on a Christmas card
Medieval scene with three people on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two girls in a garden on a Victorian scrap
Two girls sitting in a garden on a Victorian scrap. circa 1890s

Benz car on a postcard -- the driver stops to ask the way. Date: 1914

Cartoon, Meeting in the fog, WW1
Cartoon, Meeting in the fog. And you, old man, what do you do? General! Ah, you ve got a cushy job! Date: 1917

Cartoon, Before the review, WW1
Cartoon, Before the review. A soldier explains that he joined the band because by carrying the drum he doesn t have to carry a bag! Date: 1917

Cartoon, Cushy job, WW1
Cartoon, Cushy job. One soldier asks another: What do you pay the sergeant to get all the cushy jobs? Date: 1917

Two Chinese women in traditional garb Date: circa 1905

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - chatting with neighbour. circa 1910s

Cartoon, New taxes on dogs, WW1
Cartoon, New taxes on dogs (to help pay for the ongoing war). Women discuss a man who has replaced his dog with a goldfish in order to avoid paying the tax, and is taking it for a walk. Date: 1917

Two men resting, Fribourg, Switzerland
Two men resting and chatting on the road, Fribourg, Switzerland. 19th century

Caricature of F B Chatterton and Leopold Lewis
Caricature of Frederick Balsir Chatterton (1834-1886), theatre manager, and Leopold Davis Lewis (1828-1890), dramatist. What will they do at the Wells? 1881

Four police officers playing mixed doubles tennis
Four police officers (including WPC Alison Blair, right) playing a mixed doubles tennis match. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer with two men on a London street
Woman police officer chatting with two men on a London street on a sunny day. She is wearing the new style Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968. Date: circa late 1960s

Woman police officer outside a furniture shop, London, chatting with a man and a woman. The WPC is wearing the new style Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968. Date: circa late 1960s

Woman police officer and two young women, London
Woman police officer with notebook and pencil, talking to two fashionable young women on a London street. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer chatting to a pedestrian, London
Woman police officer chatting to a pedestrian on a London street. Date: circa 1930s

Chatting on Bond Street
Two gentlemen pass the time of day next to the W.H. Smith newspaper and magazine kiosk, outside Sothebys auction house on Bond Street, London. Date: late 1960s

Cartoon, Victim of food. A young French woman is being courted by a baron, but her mother has made her promise to flirt only with the dairymans son. Date: 1919

High-Waisted Frocks 1918
The silhouette at the close of decade: skirts have become less full but narrow at the hem, waist-lines remain high. Hats: high crowns & narrow brims. Shoes: high heals & bows. Date: 1918

Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits, WW1
Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits. High Empire waists, short full skirts and high hairstyles. Gingham dress: plain sailor collar

Feminine Boater 1919
Soft crowned hat with chin strap, accordian pleated short tubular skirt, short coatee, boater style hat, checked suit with open jacket with a narrow belt at the bustline. Date: 1919

Cartoon, postwar benefits. Two elegant French ladies are pleased that winning the war has allowed them to get out their low-cut dresses again, to dance the foxtrot, to eat cakes and dragees

Cartoon, Bad Neighbourhoods. Two women stop in the street to pass the time of day, and comment on a nosy neighbour. Date: 1918

Cartoon, Gossiping in the background. The older ones watch the younger ones dance. One of the men is still in uniform, for the war is only recently over. The other man is in evening dress

Cartoon, French street market, WW1
Cartoon, French street market. A woman and stallholder chat about the war and food rationing while a stray dog steals a fish. Date: 1917

Edward Vii / Cowes / Vf 1894
Edward VII with yachting companions at Cowes, Isle of Wight Date: 1894

Afternoon tea for two by the fire
Tea for two by the fire on a winter afternoon Date: 1930

Vignette design, two Mexican women chatting. Date: circa 1910s

Group of retired fishermen at Brixham, Devon
Group of four retired fishermen sitting chatting at Brixham, Devon. Date: 1956

Steerage passengers on an emigrant ship out of Liverpool to New York, 1896. Young emigrants working their passage and chatting

Sy-metra stockings advertisement, 1939
Two women are chatting over afternoon tea about the wearing qualities of Sy-metra stockings. Date: 1939

Cartoon, A nouveau riche man, WW1
Cartoon, a nouveau riche man, who has made his money from the war, tells a showgirl that he arrived in Paris in clogs, and he won t blush to admit it

Cartoon, Methodical training, WW1
Cartoon, Methodical training. A French soldier on the Western Front has been given a dog as a mascot. He is gradually training him by giving him less meat each day

Cartoon, Concerning sugar, WW1
Cartoon, Concerning sugar. Two French women discuss how little sugar they are using during the sugar crisis, but it still sounds like quite a lot! Date: 1916

Cartoon, The right way, WW1
Cartoon, The right way. An old soldier chats to other old soldiers in the square of a French town. They are all too old to enlist in the war

Cartoon, Humour, WW1
Cartoon, Humour, showing two fashionable French women chatting with an English soldier. They say it must bother him to kill Germans. He replies no, they ve been used to it for a long time. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Dreams of the future, WW1
Cartoon, Dreams of the future. A German shopkeeper chats to some little boys what they will do after the war. Fritz will open a shop from which he will sell German products

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