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Seaside Fashions 1878Princess line dresses: one is short & more practical for walking, the other has a stand up collar, lacing down the central back seam, buttoned panels at the sides & a train
GIRLS FASHIONS 1847Grey dress: corsage a caraco made to resemble a jacket & skirt. Blue dress trimmed with black rosettes: pointed waist, skirt pinned up to reveal an underskirt
Silk Topper & Crop 1824Tall silk top hat, pink striped English cravat, single-breasted brown frock coat with roll collar, yellow waistcoat, white strapped trousers & riding crop
Man & Woman Costume 1806Man: top hat, top boots, drab coat with sleeves padded & gathered at the shoulder, breeches. Woman: close bonnet, blue pelisse, short cape, vandyked falling collar
Riding Habits 1834Riding habits. Woman: imbecile sleeves, embroidered canezou, cravat & top hat. Boy: pantaloons, waistcoat with a roll collar, short jacket with gigot sleeves, ruff
Advert / Lime Juice StowerTailor-made costume with a jacket with gored basques & gigot sleeves (leg-of-mutton) & a gored skirt, high stand- fall collar & tie, gauntlets & a hat with birds & bows
Surtout Greatcoat 1907An American surtout greatcoat: double-breasted with waist seam, full skirts, long lapels & a velvet collar. Worn with a bowler (Derby) hat & half- boots or town boots
Formal Menswear for 1963French mens formal wear for Spring-Summer 1963: evening dress of tail coat, white tie, wing collar & waistcoat; daywear of morning suit with morning jacket & top hat
Sir Francis Drake / GoldarSIR FRANCIS DRAKE English Admiral
Ts Eliot / Anon PhotoT.S.ELIOT American-born writer, photographed in his early twenties
Mary, Queen of ScotsMary, Queen of Scotland, in a black and white dress with lace at the collar and cuffs
Norma Shearer, Canadian actress. Date: 1934
Balthasar Coymans by Frans HalsBalthasar Coymans (1589-1657) by Frans Hals (c.1580-1666) - painting on canvas Date: 1645
Charles and Diana, St Marys, Isles of ScillyCharles and Diana, Prince and Princess of Wales, on a visit to St Mary s, Isles of Scilly, with a crowd of spectators lining the street
Two early women police officers -- one of them is Millicent Duncan (right). Date: 1910s
Chic Vs False Chic 1914True chic - elegant young woman wears the latest fashion to good advantage: hobble skirt & long belted fur trimmed jacket, the skirts of which create a tunic & a fur muff. Date: 1914
Cartoon, French soldier and his mother, WW1Cartoon, French soldier and his mother, taking a borzoi and a lapdog for a walk. He says that people will think she is his fiancee
Caruso / Anon PostcardEnrico Caruso ((1873 - 1921), Italian operatic tenor
G F Hamilton / WoodburyGEORGE FRANCIS, lord HAMILTON Son of the 1st duke of Abercorn: politician, administrator in India (see here in 1876) Date: 1845 - 1927
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Cracker and BogieIllustration by Cecil Aldin, Cracker subjecting a small dog called Bogie to a nightly ordeal, holding her collar in his mouth and dragging her round the lawn on her back. Date: 1927
Chocolate box design, lady in carnival maskChocolate box design, featuring the head and shoulders of a smiling lady in a carnival mask. Date: 20th century
Psittacula krameri manillensis, Indian ringneck parakeet (LuPlate 33 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph
Entomyzon cyanotis, blue-faced honeyeaterDrawing No. 49, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection
Green Coat & Cane 1807Green double-breasted cut-away coat with stand-fall collar & revers, white waistcoat, cravat & silk stockings, pale grey breeches, black pumps, top hat & fob ribbon
Green Dress 1938A short sleeved dress, with interesting bodice detail, made in green woollen jersey and worn with a matching green hat and white bow tie and wing collar. Date: 1938
WW2 Christmas card, dog with gas maskWW2 Christmas card, a black Scots terrier runs along with a gas mask in a box tied to his collar. Date: circa 1942
Mastiff, gaurding the entrance to a building. the dog is wearing a studde collar Date: 20th century
Two Gents in Bowler HatsTwo fine gentlemen in bowler hats
Farmers walk and lead a team of working horses across a harvested cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Lloyd George / Haines / 1909DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1909 Date: 1863 - 1945
Auriol Lee in a Hat 1905Miss Auriol Lee wears a coat with an unusual collar and a hat with a ribbon threaded through the brim perched at an angle on the top of her pompadour hairstyle
Stringed instrument maker in his workshopA stringed instrument manufacturer in his workshop, testing the strings of a double bass
Social / Night on TownShe wears an evening coat by Worth: oriental cherry blossom fabric, wide full sleeves, fur cuffs & collar. He wears a black tailcoat & white tie
Woman / Mode Illustre / 1923Barrel-line dress with fold over scarf collar & apron front in an orange & white rose print fabric with a tie belt worn low on the hips. She holds a hat with a broad brim
Male Type / Traveller 1922Happy chap in a cosy double- breasted overcoat lined in opossum & with a fur roll collar, also a flat cap, narrow trousers with turn-ups, spats & gloves
Male Type / Rich Toff 1922Arrogant young gent ready for a night on the tiles wears a 3/4 length double-breasted overcoat lined with sable, also white gloves, top hat, silk fringed scarf & monocle
Joseph Haydn / Rotary PcJOSEPH HAYDN Austrian musician and composer
Thomas Mann / Aged 30THOMAS MANN German novelist
Archduke F. FerdinandARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND Heir to the Austrian empire, son of Archduke Karl Ludwig, assassinated in 1914
N Chamberlain / PostcardNEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN British Prime Minister in 1939
Lilburne / John / GuchtJOHN LILBURNE Political agitator, English leader of the Levellers, imprisoned for importing Puritan publications
James Hogg / Roffe EngJAMES HOGG Scottish poet with his dog
Sir Rowland Hill / World ISIR ROWLAND HILL English postal reformer
Guillaume DupuytrenGUILLAUME DUPUYTREN French surgeon and anatomist
Gordon Craig / Sepia PhotoGORDON CRAIG Stage designer in 1890
Colquhoun / FreemanPATRICK COLQUHOUN Police magistrate, Scottish merchant and reformer, founder of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce in 1783
Sir Redvers Buller / SepiaSIR REDVERS HENRY BULLER British general
Matthew Boulton / SharpMatthew Boulton Engineer