Class Collection (page 89)

Jean Jaures, Speaking
JEAN JAURES depicted singing the revolutionary song La carmagnole, which contains the words Tous les bourgeois on les pendra ! (we shall hang every bourgeois)

Boy & Pigeons
A young man in a cloth cap and waistcoat, photographed with four friendly pigeons sitting on his head and shoulders at Hyde Park, central London

Girls Camping 1930S
Four girls preparing a meal around the camp fire at Boxhill, Surrey, England

Cunarder Cabin
A third-class two-berth room (they don t call it a cabin) on a Cunarder on the Atlantic run

Cunarder Dining Room
The third-class dining room of a Cunarder on the Atlantic run

Mistress & Maid 1919
Yet more sneering middle class humour at a maids expense. A haughty mistress pries into her maids life wanting to know her reasons for wanting an evening off. Typical!

First Glimpse of the Sea
An elderly couple from the country make a dim-witted observation regarding the amount of water at the seaside. Typical example of sneering middle class humour

Birmingham Railway 1837
BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY: classes of train - each would have had its own engine. First: has a gentlemens barouche! Second: Royal Mail & passengers. Third: Goods & livestock

School Prize 1864
A small prizewinners certificate or bookplate awarded to Charles Cooper for his improvement in Common Things 3rd class in hope that it will spur him on

Flyer for Ladies School
Leaflet for a High Class Ladies School in Filey, Yorkshire with French & German governesses, limited pupil numbers, gym, tennis & special care taken of delicate girls

First Day at School 4
The teacher gives the class an arithmetic lesson

Science Class
Pupils at South Hall school for Girls, at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, at work in the laboratory. The girl in the centre is using a Bunsen Burner

Oil Lamps C19
By the middle of the 19th century, oil lamps are the standard form of illumination in middle-class homes

Social / Nijni Novgorod
A working class restaurant in Nijni Novgorod (with outdoor seating in the shade)

Toy Theatre 1888?
A boy demonstrates a toy theatre to his brothers, sisters and mother

Life Class / Slade / 1881
A life class at the Slade

Washing Day in York
Washday in the back court of a working-class home, York

Dunlop Tyres 1931
Dunlop tyres - in a class by itself

TYPES / FRANCE, 1797
Typical appearance of working- class in French Revolution

French C17 Warship
A first-class French warship, commissioned for Louis XIV by his minister Colbert

Sewing Class, Africa
Benevolent colonialism - Mrs Shaws sewing class at Rabai, East Africa

Mission, Nyasaland
At Mangoche, Nyasaland, Yao tribespersons attend a hearers instruction class in Christian teaching

Garden Family 1864
A large and happy family do the gardening together

Social / Leaving Theatre
People in evening dress leaving His Majestys Theatre, in the Haymarket, London

Gathering Mushrooms 1886
Victorian ladies gathering mushrooms

Working Class Home
A working mans home at Lincoln Court, London : mantelpiece ornaments contrast with the mother searching her childs head for lice, and washing hanging up to dry

Waiting for Pub to Open
Sunday in London - waiting for the public house to open at 1 pm

Pub Opening Time 1856
Waiting for the pub to open, Sunday, London : note the street is named Paradise Gardens

London Gin Palace 1850
A London gin-palace, with the usual drunken father being led home by his sorrowful family

Crime / Robbery / Mugging
A London rough & his accomplice stalk a victim

T. Gracchus, Tribune
TIBERIUS GRACCHUS is appointed Tribune of the People and seeks to initiate reforms to restore the peasant class

Lorenzo Da Ponte
LORENZO DA PONTE Italian poet and librettist. Wrote librettos for Mozart and established a class in New York, advancig interest in Italian culture in the US

Labour Exchange
LABOUR EXCHANGE at Camberwell Green, expectant claimants and busy officials

Dinner party in an aristocratic French home
An elegant dinner party in an aristocratic French home

Aristocratic French lady receives morning visitors
An aristocratic French lady receives visitors while she completes her morning toilet

Music making in an aristocratic home, with violin, cello, spinet and singer

Fashionable people in the Row, Hyde Park, London
Fashionable riders and strollers in the Row, Hyde Park, Central London

People by the Serpentine, Hyde Park, Central London
A group of people, adults and children, passing the time by the Serpentine, Hyde Park, Central London, on an autumn afternoon

Futuristic teaching machine in a classroom
A futuristic teaching machine in a classroom. The teacher loads the books into a hopper and the knowledge percolates into the boys heads through wires leading to headphones

Classroom scene, East Finchley, North London
A classroom scene at Holy Trinity School, East Finchley, North London - boys and girls of Classes 6 and 7

Large classroom of boys with two teachers
A large classroom of boys at a boys school, with two teachers, a man and a woman, standing at the back

Class of boys at a junior school
The First Class of boys at a boys junior school, with their teacher sitting at a desk on the right

Classroom of girls
A classroom of girls in a girls school. They are all wearing white smocks

Class of girls with their teacher, Miss Bowls
A class of girls in a girls school, with their teacher, Miss Bowls

Class of boys at a school in North London
A small class of boys with their teacher at a school in North London -- it appears to be a private school

Classroom in a North London primary school
A drawing class in a North London primary school -- boys on one side, girls on the other

Politics / Class
The four classes - the priest, the soldier, the peasant and the magistrate

People dancing the Cotillion in a London ballroom
People dancing the Cotillion in a fashionable London ballroom

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