Classes Collection (page 7)

The Workmans Train. Interior of a third class carriage running workers from the suburbs of London into the city centre. The illustration related to a feature in the same issue of The Illustrated

Ettie, Lady Desborough
Ethel Anne Priscilla ( Ettie ) Grenfell (Fane), Lady Desborough (1867-1952), Wife of William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough

The Road to Epsom by Thomas Rowlandson
" Those red-cheeked, guffawing Cockneys, who sreamed to Epsom in coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, donkey cart, formed the inchoate mass whence were drawn the man who shouldered his Brown Bess in

Lady Loughborough and son
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm, daughter of Harry Chisholm of Sydney, NSW, Australia married in 1915 Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough

Lady Drogheda - An Aerial Propagandist
The Countess of Drogheda, born Kathleen Moore Pelham Burn married the 10th Earl of Drogheda in 1909 and divorced him in 1922 to marry Guillemo Delanda a polo player

Tatler cover - Mrs Adrian Bethell
Clarissa Madeleine Georgiana Felicite Tennant (1896-1960), daughter of 1st Baron Glenconner pictured at the time of her marriage to her first husband

The Country House Season 1915 by Charles Robinson, WW1
House party at Castle Bareacres coming down to dinner during the munitions season. A pastiche on the traditional, upper class house party of the pre-war era

Cicely and Winifred Mordaunt, WW1
Miss Cicely and Miss Winifred Mordaunt, youngest daughters of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet and his wife Mary Louise Cholmondeley of Walton Hall, Warwick

Tatler cover - Duke & Duchess of Buccleuch & daughters
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch together with three of their daughters, Lady Sybil Scott (between the duke and duchess)

The Venetian party held by Mrs Keiller, July 1914
Page from The Sketch reporting on a lavish party hosted by Mrs Alexander Keiller, formerly Miss Doll Phil-Morris, the artist

Tatler cover - Wedding of Lord & Lady Granby
Front cover of The Tatler magazine with a photograph of the wedding of John Henry Montagu Manners, Marquess of Granby (1886-1940), heir of the Duke of Rutland and Miss Kathleen Tennant

Lord and Lady Loughborough
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm, daughter of Harry Chisholm of Sydney, NSW, Australia married in 1915 Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough

Sketch cover, Lady Michelham as a nurse, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring Lady Michelham, formerly Miss Aimee Geraldine Bradshaw, at the time she was working on an ambulance train given by her husband

Deauville - an artists impression by Tony Wysard
Humorous illustration depicting society at the fashionable French seaside resort of Deauville, indulging in polo, cocktails, gambling, horse racing and golf

Western Hospital, Seagrave Road, Fulham

Western Hospital, Seagrave Road, Fulham - Doctors Residence
Uniformed nurses stand next to the doctors residence at the Western Fever Hospital on Seagrave Road, Fulham. Opened in 1877

Prince of Wales meeting coal miners
Edward, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, shaking hands with a coal miner at Middlestone Moor in County Durham, during his tour of the coalfields in 1929

Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire, changing classes
Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire: changing classes during morning school. Date: 1953

Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox & Earl Alan Percy engagement 1911
The enagement of Earl Alan Percy (1880 1930) to the youngest daughter of the Duke of Richmond, Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, later Countess Percy (1886 1965) in 1911. 1911

The Gamekeeper and his wife (and their pet black spaniel)
The Gamekeeper (his shotgun resting on his knee) and his wife (and their pet black spaniel) relaxing in their garden. Date: circa 1908

A Gallant, Gay Lothario in the Days of the Grand Monarque - a barve young gent kisses the hand of his hearts desire as she carefully manouevres her wide gown into a small Opera Box in Paris, France

Mrs Adair (Cornelia Wadsworth)
Mrs Adair, formerly American heiress Cornelia Wadsworth, pictured in fancy dress costume in the Empire style for a Fancy Dress ball she gave in 1903

Lilian, Duchess of Marlborough
Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (n饠 Lilian Warren Price) (June 10, 1854 January 11, 1909), American heiress and socialite during the Gilded Age. Date: 1895

The Museum of Antiquity, in Mustafa Sup鲩eur
People of Sidi M Hamed, gather in front of the Museum of Antiquity in the area of Mustafa Sup鲩 eur. Date: circa 1910s

Lady Bridgett Poulett by Olive Snell
Lady Bridgett Poulett, ( only sister of Earl Poulett, described by The Sketch as a typical modern beauty, with fair hair, large eyes and is greatly in request at social gatherings. Date: 1932

Giuseppe Crespi (1665 1747). Searching for Fleas. 1715 / 20
Giuseppe Crespi (1665 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo. Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Searching for Fleas. 1715/20. Oil on canvas. Museum of Louvre. Paris

Portsmouth street scene, exact location unknown, used for training classes and for recording the activities of the CCFF under fire

George Birkbeck
GEORGE BIRKBECK Educator of the working classes, who founded Mechanics Institutions, named after him. Date: 1776 - 1841

Workers Cottage
Double cottage for agricultural districts, drawn from the plans presented to the Society for improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes. Date: 1849

King, Soldier, Labourers
King or Chieftain: mantle, tunic, leg bandages, short boots. Labourers: phrygian caps, short tunics & girdles, braies, short hose & shoes tied on with a leather lace. Date: 8th century

Mens Costume of C15Th
Various social classes from farmer to judge: hose, hood with tabs, pouch suspended from belt, piked pattens & shoes (cracowes), houppelande (gown) with hanging sleeves. Date: 1425

Female Londoners 1590
The clothing of London women of various social classes including a servant. All three wear ruffs. The 3rd woman is taken from " Descriptions of England". Date: 1590

Slade School of Art / 1883
The life class at the Slade School of Art Date: 1883

WORKERS COTTAGE / 1857
Improved cottage dwelling for the labouring classes; the illustration shows dwellings for two families Date: 1857

Lady Percy
Countess Percy, formerly Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond and later Duchess of Northumberland. She married Earl Percy in 1911. Date: 1907

Mrs. A. B Marshalls school of Cookery 1887
Interior of Mrs. A. B Marshalls crowded class room during the progress of an entire dinner lesson in Mortimer Street, Regent Street, London. May 1887

Gentleman talking to farmers with produce, c. 1800
A gentleman stops two farmers with baskets of produce on a donkey presumably on their way to market, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Lady Loughborough and Lord Massereene
A snapshot taken at Antrim where an interesting foursome was recently played on the Massereene Golf Links between Lord and Lady Loughborough and Lord and Lady Massereene

Participants in a first-rate prancing party - Ardenrun House
Participants in a first-rate prancing party at Ardenrun House, Surrey, held to celebrate he British victory in the Grand Prix d Endurance (June, 1929)

The Monitor: Automatic but not fool-proof by H. M. Bateman
" The Monitor. Automatic, but not fool-proof: a war-drama in nine fits." This Bateman cartoon from World War One sends up the jingoistic, often misguided

Why aren t they in the Honours List? H. M Bateman WW1 cartoon
" Civilian Heroes of the Great War" Batemans WWI illustrations often mock the upper classes for their oblivion to the true extent to which ordinary people were suffering during the war

WW1 recruitment: employers encourage servants to enlist, 1915
" 5 questions to those who employ male servant" s: an advertisement intended to encourage employers to get their servants to enlist during World War One. Date: 1915

Lord Norbury as a munition worker
Well-known peer doing his " bit" as a fitter in an aeroplane factory. The Earl of Norbury pictured in overalls, who, at the age of fifty three years

Cooking classes. Illustration published in the Illustrated London News, 1921. Engraving

The Flying Pole. 2nd half 17 c. Viceroyalty of New Spain. Panel screen with genre scenes. Lower detail with pulque drinkers and fight. Mexican School. Oil on canvas. SPAIN

POSADA, Jos頇uadalupe (1852-1913). Printed songs
POSADA, Jos頇 uadalupe (1852-1913). Printed songs 1901. En alta mar (Waltz) and Dance of the forty-one. Zinc engraving printed in the press of A. Vanegas Arroyo

China - Hong Kong shweing peak and peak railway
Lantern slide of Hong Kong shweing peak and peak railway. In 1881 Alexander Findlay Smith first put the project of a Peak Railway into shape

Ladies working in a Russian soldiers home under Bolsheviks
Those who suffer under the revolutionary regime - Russian ladies earning their living as cleaners I a home for soldiers. Scene showing upper class women employed in scrubbing

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