Child Collection (page 8)

Street music: a family of singers
A pathetic scene: an impoverished family of street singers, shoeless and ragged, singing in the rain. Date: 1870

Young woman holding a baby, with sunflowers
A young woman holding a baby, looking at some sunflowers. first published 1879

Queen Mother visiting London evacuees at Horsted Keynes, 1939
The Queen Mother(1900-2002) with evacuated children from Battersea. A little four year old girl called Shirely here is playing " mothers"

Fairyland Fancies -- a little girl gazes into the fire, seeing imaginary figures of fairies, witches and goblins. late 19th century

Air Scouts learning to glide
Two Scouts sit in a Slingsby T.21 while another Scout connects it to a cable prior to launch at the first Air Scout Gliding Course at Lasham. An Avro York G-ANTK can also be seen in the background

Music at home - little girl at the piano
Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Sir William and Lady Maria Somerville, plays the piano on tiptoe. Date: 1866

Scouts with a Rolls-Royce engine
A group of Scouts looking at a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. 1940s

American Cub Scouts
A group of American cub scouts sit around a table doing art and craft activities with their den mother or Akela. In American Cub Scouting, the boys meet in small groups called " dens"

Princess Elizabeth playing with dolls pram
The young Princess Elizabeth plays with her dolls pram in her miniature garden, attached to her miniature house. 1936

Tuesdays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Dunce at School
A boy stands on a stool with a dunces cap on his head. Date: circa 1900

Mermaid and Child
A mer-mother with her mer-child

Main building, Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
General view of the main building of the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. The school opened in 1870 to house workhouse children from the two unions

Victorian girl with her nanny (Polhill-Turner family)
An upper class Victorian girl, Beatrice (Emily Beatrice Violet, d 1930), standing on a chair, with her nanny standing next to her. They lived at Howbury Hall, Renhold, Bedfordshire

Group outside Three Salmons Inn, Crickhowell, Mid Wales
The Three Salmons Inn in the town of Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, with two men and a girl with a doll posing for their photograph -- perhaps three generations of a family

A Perfect Picture by Muriel Dawson
A small toddler looks in dismay at a large blotch of paint on the front of his outfit

Feeding Time by Muriel Dawson
A little girl, wrapped up warm against the cold, feeds crumbs to a group of ducks swimming along a stream

Wallingford Union Childrens Cottage Homes, Berkshire
The Wallingford Unions cottage homes on Wantage Road, Wallingford, Berkshire. Cottage homes were established by some poor law authorities to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Poplar Union Schools, Brentwood, Essex
In 1906, the Poplar Union (East London) established a Schools site located between Shenfield and Hutton, near Brentwood, Essex

Union Workhouse, Hertford
A view of Hertford Union workhouse, Hertfordshire, opened in around 1869 on Ware Road, Hertford. The imposing three-storey building has a clock tower at its centre

Young girl in model racing car
A happy young girl sits in a beautifully-made model of a vintage racing car

Grandfather welcomes his Granddaughter
A Grandfather, fishing in the shade of a tree by a quiet pool, welcomes his Granddaughter with open arms. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Soldiers in Lille 1918
British soldiers greeted by children in Lille on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

French poster of the occupation
Populations abandonnees, faites confiance au soldat allemand! World War Two propaganda poster of occupied France encouraging the abandoned population to have confidence in German soldiers

Young Native American girl
A very young Native American Toddler, wearing a shell-adroned shawl, fantastic patterned trousers and moccasins

The Courage to Heal, a Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, the book that fueled the American abuse scare of the 1980s/1990s

Princess Alice with her children
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1843-1878) with her children in 1877: (l to r) Ella, Alix, Victoria, Ernst Ludwig and Irene, with the youngest, May sitting on Alices lap

Princess Alice and Grand Duke Louis of Hesse with children
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, second daughter and third child of Queen Victoria (1843-1878), with her husband

Princess Beatrice in 1860
Princess Beatrice, later Priness Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944), fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert photographed in 1860

Maria Teresa Isabella, later Queen of Sicily, as a little girl

Girl on Stile / Spring
A little girl in a blue dress stands on a stile: spring is well under way, with blossom on the trees and birds flying

A Piper of Dreams
Child-like piper in a fantastic, moonlit snowy landscape, surrounded by fairies, pixies and cupids. The illuminated border shows various Christmas and nursery characters and motifs

Mother, Child, Limehouse
A mother stands with her child at the door of her home in Limehouse, east London : the boards are presumably to prevent the child straying into the street

Joan of Arc / Holy Family
JOAN OF ARC Depicted with the Madonna and child and St Michael

Girl & Grandfather Clock
Is it Christmas yet ? - an impatient girl inspects the grandfather clock with her candle

Players cigarette advert
Child with toys offering a handful of cigarettes

German Guardian Angel
A guardian angel watches over a small child as it gathers flowers in the German countryside on a fine summers day

Victoria Waters Flowers
Victoria as a child, tending the garden at Kensington Palace

Doctor Examines a Child
A mother takes her little girl to a female doctor for a routine examination. She sits on the doctors knee

Father, Mother, Child
A proud couple with their daughter

Boys playing with toy car, 1930s
Two boys play with a minature Rolls Royce

Mother and Daughter
Maman gives her daughter a goodbye kiss as she leaves for school

Noise Pollution
A knife-grinder, a milkmaid, dogs, beggars, musicians, a coalman, and a dustman, a postboy with his horn and a child with her rattle - noise pollution in the 18th century

Blackheath 1808
A mother and child take a walk on a picturesque Blackheath, where a windmill, long since vanished, can be found. Date: 1808

Child on Potty
Child on potty

Goat-Borne Witch
A witch rides through the starlit sky on her goat, carrying a child she has stolen from its mum

Five children building a snowman in a wood
Five Edwardian children building a snowman in a wood

Child Labour
Girl spinning wool at Fosters mill, Bradford, Yorkshire, England

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