Children Collection (page 21)

Children / Robin in Snow
Three children peep round a tree trunk to watch a robin in the snow

Auntie Says Goodnight 2 of 2
Auntie kisses her two little nieces goodnight

Girl has Fairy Dreams
A small girl sleeping by the fire with her dolly dreams of the joys of Christmas Day

Children on Beach 2 of 4
Children on the beach - two boys watching a girl cry

Girl Reads in Armchair
A girl sits in an armchair, with her hands behind her hair and wearing a white pinafore, reading a book

Easter egg customs in a Russian village
In a Russian village, friends and neighbours exchange eggs and kisses at Easter

Boy & Girl Post Letter
A boy and girl arrive with a letter just as the postman is emptying the box

Darwin / Sister / Children
CHARLES DARWIN Naturalist, depicted as a young boy with his sister Catherine

Pram Advert C1888
A typical late Victorian perambulator, made by Lloyd & Hill, Birmingham

Channel Ferry 1882
Embarking on a channel steamer at Folkestone harbour

Queen Mary / Children 1905
QUEEN MARY Wife of George V, with her children Mary, George, Henry and John

Isadora Duncan / 3 of 4
ISADORA DUNCAN at her school at Grunewald, near Berlin, where she teaches children to dance in the Greek manner (3 of 4)

Advert / Terrys Confectio
Terrys Pure Confections

Watching Le Guignol
Children watching a Guignol show - a delightful variety of facial expressions !

To Bed by Candlelight
A nurse takes a small child to bed by candlelight

Childrens Hospital
Nurse attends to four young children

Kids Fly Model Planes
Children fly their model aeroplanes, powered by the unwinding of a rubber band which drives a propeller

Elephant Ride 1
Elephant rides for children at Regents Park Zoo : the passengers mount by ladder

Bathing Child 1852
A mother bathes her two children: the elder, a toddler, sits drying on a table, while baby stands in the bath tub

Children Wash Clothes
Two little girls help their mother with the laundry on washday

Boy & Girl Kissing C1880
A boy and girl kissing through a gap in a chair

New Baby Victoria 19C
The new baby, Princess Victoria, is shown off by her mother in Kensington Park, London

Girl Prays for Father
A little girl kneels on her bed to pray for her fathers safe return from the war

Children in Sand Pit
Children play in a sandpit in a park; a little boy digs, whilst a young girl ties a bonnet around her dogs head

Girl Minds Baby 1888
A little girl minds the baby and shells peas at the same time

Girl Peels Potatoes 1878
A little girl sits in the kitchen peeling potatoes, while the cat watches her

Girl with Nestlings 19C
A little girl has found a nest of chicks in a meadow: the mother bird hovers anxiously above her

Boy / Girl Gather Apples
A boy and a girl gathering apples in an orchard

Fashions December 1880
Dress fitting tightly to below the hips, reverse collar, buttons down the back. Girl: coat body with tails pinned up behind. Blue jacket body: tartan collar & basque

Children Watch Robin
Two children watch a robin the barn who is standing on one leg

Girl with Fan 1870S
Girl in a white party dress with a pink sash, broderie Anglaise trimmed drawers, long gloves, shoes with rosettes & a folding fan decorated with roses

R L Stevenson / Poems
To Auntie: " Chief of our aunts - not only I, But all your dozen nurselings cry..."

Goethe / Sorrows Werther
Werthers first sight of Charlotte (Lotte)

Burmese Monks Begging
A group of monks pass through a Burmese village, begging for food, which two small children carry for them

Learning Sign Language
A class of young women learning sign language at a school for the deaf

Rolling the Pitch
Rolling the pitch in preparation for the cricket season in the West Indies

Belgian Baby & Dogs
A typically Belgian child in a long blue gown, wearing a white little cap and clogs meets two dogs as big as her pulling a straw cart

Girl Daydreams 1880
A girl pauses from her reading and daydreams of faries for a while. She sits in a hammock with her doll disgarded below

Children Make a Wreath
Three little girls & their brother sit upon a quilt in the middle of the floor. The eldest girl has abandoned her knitting to make a floral wreath for the youngest. Date: circa 1870

Children Cat Dog
Two French children pose with a very large dog - very likely a Newfoundland. The girl sits with a book

Chimneysweep Falls
A chimney collapses - and a chimneysweep falls

Miracle - Nun & Tiger
A nun is on a country outing with some children, when a tiger appears, escaped from a zoo : she holds up her crucifix to it, whereupon it slinks away

Royal Anglers
The younger children of king George V & Mary, fishing at Balmoral (the one holding the rod is presumably the future George VI)

Children Arrive Station
Children arriving at a terminus are met by their relatives

Pied Piper / Greenaway / Rat
The Pied Piper leads the rats away from the town

Fairies and Snowball
Fairies and children play with a giant snowball, each seeing which can push it hardest

Children Playing, Knole
Children playing games in the Long Gallery at Knole, Kent

Christmas / Germany
Papa dresses up as Pelz- Nickel [= furry Nicolas, i.e. Santa Claus] to give presents to the children

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