Class Collection (page 20)

Japanese women picnicing in a field, Tokyo, 18th century
Japanese women picnicing in a field outside Tokyo, 18th century. Women smoking a tobacco pipe while waiting for a soba-shop woman to bring a kettle and tray of noodles

Views of the spa town of Bad Liebenstein, Germany, 1817. The schloss or hotel with the ruins on top of the mountain, nearer view of the hotel with 72 rooms, and house of Louise Eleonore

English gentleman being shown into a drawing room for a musical night, 19th century. Facey Romford in tweeds playing the flute, Cassandra Cleoptra holding a music score. Mr

Le Salon Royal - Lyon Exposition Internationale (Belgian Section). The Exposition internationale urbaine de Lyon was the 1914 Worlds Fair in the French city of Lyon

English Middle Class wedding party - group photograph outside an elegant detached home. Date: circa 1930s

Group of schoolchildren with teacher, nurse and cat
A group of schoolchildren of a small school (mostly girls, but two young boys) with their teacher (holding the class cat) and rather stern-faced nurse. Date: circa 1910s

Working class gent with his two young daughters
Working class gent walks proudly along a British seaside seafront with his two young daughters. Date: circa 1920s

Suggested decor and layout for a high-class luncheon and dining room of the 1900s. With the painted green panelled walls and elegant furniture

Photograph of what is described as a high-class restaurant in Britain during the Edwardian era. The room is slightly baronial in style with wood panelling and studded dining chairs

Charles Martin, a working miner from Dinnington Colliery who was also a successful artist, having painted in oils 270 pictures, many of which he had sold

Motto frontispiece in a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine aimed at the industrial classes, advocating temperance and education. Laborare est Orare - To Work is to Worship

Front cover of a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine for the working classes founded by Thomas Bywater Smithies in 1855, committed to encouraging temperance, protestantism

Page in The Bystander magazine 1936 featuring photographs of four aristocratic children - David Greville, Lord Brooke, the future 8th Earl of Warwick (who sold Warwick Castle to Madame Tussaud s)

Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of Lady Weymouth (formerly Daphne Vivian) with her son, Alexander George Thynne who would become the 7th Marquess of Bath

The classroom
The School. Silhouette. Girl and her dolls in class with teacher. Artist: Helen Grace Marsh Lambert Date: 1918

Rubber Rule in Africa - Methods of Barbarism. The atrocities carried out against the native population in Belgina Congo, Africa. An elderly Chief is shot for not meeting his rubber collection target

A VE Day party in Pontardulais, Glamorgan, a strict methodist community. The party was probably dry and there isn t much food on the table; maybe it had all been eaten but it wouldn t have been a

Cartoon, Land and Labour (Agricultural Union)
Cartoon, Land and Labour; or, How to Settle It. A comment on the current unrest over working conditions in agricultural districts

Pacific Class. 2. 4040 Queen Boadicea
1. 111 The Great Bear, 4 cylinders 6-8 wheels, Pacific Class. 2. 4040 Queen Boadicea, 4 cylinders 6-8 wheels, 4000 Class. 3. 2034 Butleigh Court, 2 cylinders 6-8 wheels, 2900 Class. 4

B6 class locomotive engine by Richard Francis Trevithick. Side view. Date: circa 1904

Class 860 steam locomotive by Richard Francis Trevithick. The first locomotive built in Japan, side view. Stamped versos Ichida, Kobe. Date: 1893

Lady Sibell Lygon by Madame Yevonde
Lady Sibell Lygon (1907 - 2005), English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things. Daughter of the 7th Earl Beauchamp, she was the eldest of the four Lygon sisters

Lady Broughton by Madame Yevonde
Lady Broughton (1894 - 1968), first wife of Sir Jock Delves Broughton, photographed by Madame Yevonde in 1932. Previously Miss Vera Griffith-Boscawen

Woodwork class, Sandringham, Norfolk
Woodwork and carpentry class, Queen Alexandras Royal Technical Schools, Sandringham, Norfolk. 1910

Viscountess Fitzharris, Northumberland
Viscountess Fitzharris on the battlements of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. 1839

Advert, T E Turner, Bakery, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey
Advert, T E Turner, High-Class Baker, Richmond Road, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. 1901

Needlework class, Sandringham, Norfolk
Needlework class, Queen Alexandras Royal Technical Schools, Sandringham, Norfolk. 1910

Lady Elizabeth Courtenay, Countess of Devon (1801-1867). 1838

School photograph of Class IV
School photograph of the girls and boys of Class IV. 19th century

Schoolgirls in greenhouse learning horticulture. circa 1965

Tatler Cover - Jose Collins & Lord Robert Innes-Ker
Lord and Lady Robert Innes-Kerr. Lady Innes-Kerr was formerly the stage actress Jose Collins and daughter of the famous Lottie Collins

Cartoon, The First Question (Derby and Disraeli)
Cartoon, The First Question -- Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli, having just won a General Election for the Conservative party, are asked by a working man what they are going to do for him

Cartoon, How Does It Strike You? A jester, representing Fun, asks a grumpy striking ironworker how he feels about a ship named Capital leaving the nations shores. Date: 1866

Cartoon, The New Marshal (George Potter)
Cartoon, The New Marshal -- a comment on a large and turbulent demonstration by the Reform League in Hyde Park which had taken place some months earlier

Cartoon, A Parcel of Old ------ Frightened at a... Bill
Cartoon, A Parcel of Old ------ Frightened at a Nasty! Great! Ugly! Jew Bill. A satirical comment on the House of Lords rejection of the Jewish Disabilities Bill

Cartoon, A Chip of the Old Block -- Sir Robert Peel introduces his eldest son (Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, 1822-1895, who became an MP the following year) to Mr Punch. Date: 1849

Cartoon, Noble Poulterers; or, Licensed to Sell Game -- a Peer of the Realm, making money out of the game caught on his estate, mostly fed at the expense of his tenant farmers. Date: 1845

Audience types at the London Hippodrome 1904
An impression of country visitors, looking ruddy and bumpkin-ish, and town visitors, looking elelgant but disdainful. A reflection of the popularity of the London Hippodrome

Lady Weymouth by Madame Yevonde
Viscountess Weymouth by Madame Yevonde. She was formerly the Hon. Daphne Winifred Louise Vivian (1904-1997), and married Viscount Weymouth in 1927. Date: 1931

Napier Road Boys School, Newham, East London
Classroom photo, Napier Road Boys School, Newham, East London, taken on 7 May 1924. 1924

The Countess of Seafield by Madame Yevonde
Nina Caroline Ogilvie-Grant, 12th Countess of Seafield (1906 - 1969), by Madame Yevonde. Married Derek Herbert Ogilvie-Grant-Studley-Herbert in 1930, divorced 1957

A Sewing Class, Guild of the Good Samaritan
A Sewing Class, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor, making up material sent by our readers. 1899

Joe Mann Memorial, Open-Air Theatre, Best, Holland
This was put up by the people of Best in memory of Private 1st Class Joe E. Mann of H Coy, 502nd US Parachute Infantry Regiment. It was unveiled by his parents on 17 September 1956

Mixed gender evening class at an arts school 1909
A mixed gender evening class at the Birmingham School for Jewellers and Silversmiths, a Branch of the Municipal School of Art

Lady Low and Lord Cochrane at Fife point-to-point
Lady Morrison-Low and Lord Cochrane of Cults at Fife point-to-point, Balcormo Races. 1935

Cartoon, Mr William Yardley, English cricketer and writer
Cartoon portrait, Mr William Yardley (1849-1900), English first class cricketer (Cambridge University and Kent) - Always good at scoring. He was also an actor, playwright and drama critic. 1884

Cartoon, Messrs Stephens and Yardley don t like being harassed, and are now running the " Vicar" themselves. Possibly a reference to the comic operetta, The Vicar of Bray

Cartoon, Lord Cairns, In A New Part
Cartoon, Lord Cairns (Arthur William Cairns, 2nd Earl Cairns) - In A New Part. He had just succeeded to the title on the death of his father. 1885

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