Comfort Collection (page 5)

RMS Queen Mary - The Main Restaurant
The Cunard White Star Line RMS Queen Mary - The Main Restaurant Date: circa mid-1930s

RMS Queen Mary - The Garden Lounge - Third Class
Cunard White Star Line RMS Queen Mary - The Garden Lounge - Third Class. Date: circa mid-1930s

Bedroom interior with dressing table and bed. Date: circa 1930s

Advert fo J. Foot & Son, convalescing in comfort 1915
WW1 - A product advertisment promoting The Burlington Rest-Chair, an adjustable recling chair. The product is advertised as the ideal chair for the sick and wounded

Selector portable wireless advertisement, 1929
Advertisement for the Selector Quality Portable featuring Mr Derek Oldham and Miss Winnie Melville listening intently from the comfort of a hammock and garden chair. Date: 1929

Hotel at Old Point Comfort, Hampton, Virginia, USA
The Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel at Old Point Comfort, Hampton, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1920

Cartoon, The civilian husband, WW1
Cartoon, The pacific (ie civilian) husband. He says after the war he will regret not having seen anything. His wife replies that he will regret not having done anything. Date: 1915

Lounge of Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USA
Lounge of the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1910

Lobby of Canyon Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, USA. Date: 1915

Lobby of Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park, USA
Lobby of the Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park, USA. Date: circa 1915

Silhouettes for Bristol Pure Milk Co Ltd
Silhouettes by H.L. Oakley for a leaflet published by Bristol Pure Milk Co Ltd, on the production, processing and delivery of homogenised milk

The Needle Worker, WW1 knitting & sewing booklet
Front cover of monthly magazine, The Needle Worker, from the Great War period featuring a photograph of a Belgian kepi cap - the knitting pattern for which was inside. Date: c.1915

USS Ohio, American battleship at anchor, Virginia, USA
USS Ohio, American battleship at anchor in Hampton Roads, off Old Point Comfort, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1907

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1934
How wonderfully soft ! The Vi-Spring overlay mattress is made by hand throughout. Unlike the cheap mattress the Vi-Spring will last and last

French officers in an underground shelter, WW1
French officers dining in an elaborately constructed underground shelter on the Western Front, somewhere in Northern France in the winter of 1915/16

The Little Theatre as a soldiers clubhouse, WW1
A page from The Sphere, reporting on how the Little Theatre, in the Haymarket, London (now the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) temporarily converted to become a soldiers clubhouse during the First World

Khaki puttee footless stockings, WW1
Pattern for some khaki puttee hand knitted stockings to make for soldiers during the First World War to replace shop-bought puttees. Date: c.1915

Daddy, what did You do in the Great War? British Military Recruitment Poster, WW1
Recruitment poster, Daddy, what did You do in the Great War? Colour lithograph, after Savile Lumley, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, Poster No 79

Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 12
This is the cottage, the home of delight, Whence prayer, like an incense, ascends day and night, Where joy and contentment sit smiling so bright - Whence came this glad home where such comforts unite

Church Army Recreation Huts advertisement, 1918
Advertisement in The Tatler appealing for funds to provide more Church Army Recreation Huts. The Church Army providing hundreds of huts

Certificate from the Overseas Club - Empire Day 1916
A Certificate from the Overseas Club presented on Empire Day 1916. Inscribed To Annie Matthews who has helped to send some comfort to the brave Sailors and Soldiers of the British Empire

The Kaisers Motor Kitchen, WW1
To Cook Williams rations - May We Cook His Goose! The elaborate motor field kitchen and mess tent following Kaiser Wilhelm II around at the Front to ensure the Emperor could eat in comfort. Date: 1914

A blanket converted into an overcoat for British soldiers
The blanket as overcoat. With the shortage of military overcoats, a suggestion for converting a blanket into a warm and practical coat

Sitting room at the May Fair Hotel
A smart sitting room inside the newly opened May Fair Hotel, Stratton Street, Mayfair, London. Date: 1927

Pug Peter -- vultures, dog and rabbit
Pug Peter -- The Vultures smiled disagreeably. A dog comforts a rabbit in the face of four predators. Date: 1905

Man listening to a radio
Man sitting in an armchair, listening to a large radio. Date: circa 1930s

British submarine depot ship by G. H. Davis
A home from home for underwater sailors during the Second World War: details of a typical British submarine depot ship. These mother ships were floating workshops and supply depots

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1939
Get up wide awake ! How you feel in the morning depends largely upon how you sleep during the night. Take no chances with your nights rest, sleep on a Vi-Spring

Pressure cabin in airliner by G. H. Davis
Travelling comfortably at 25, 000 feet: pressure cabins in airliners. Details of a system demonstrated in last weeks high altitude passenger-carrying flight by a British airliner. Date: 1946

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1935
30 years supremacy in sleeping comfort. The Vi-Spring overlay mattress. Never in its years of unparalleled success has the wonderful Vi-Spring mattress occupied so higgh a position in the favour of

At the Eagle Hut by Helen McKie
Sketches of members of the American Army and Navy enjoying the comforts of the Eagle Hut in Aldwych, London. The YMCA supplied British servicemen away from home in the UK

Forager the puppy joins the other animals by the fire
The Limit -- Forager the puppy joins Master Quack the duckling, Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits, Rags the puppy, Rufus the cat and Hungry Peter the piglet by the fire. Date: 1912

The duckling joins the other animals by the fire
Still They Come -- Master Quack the duckling joins Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits, Rags the puppy, Rufus the cat and Hungry Peter the piglet by the fire. Date: 1912

The rabbits join the other animals by the fire
A Growing Family -- Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits join Rags the puppy, Rufus the cat and Hungry Peter the piglet by the fire. Date: 1912

Rags the puppy joins cat and piglet by the fire
A Cosy Corner -- Rags the puppy joins Rufus the cat and Hungry Peter the piglet by the fire. Date: 1912

Advertisement for O Sullivans shaped rubber heels for men and women. Wearing these, you can increase your walking powers one hundred per cent. From B F Goodrich of Golden Lane, London. 1914

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1945
Kumf-ees are here... Flexibility, comfort and good looks are teh main features of these smart wedge heel shoes, obtainable from Dolcis. 1945

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1930
Its luxuriously comfortable ! Only thoses who slept upon a Vi-Spring can really appreciate the luxurious comfort of this fine overlay mattress

Little girl asleep, dreaming of her soldier father, WW1
A little girl asleep in an armchair, dreaming of her soldier father who is away fighting in the First World War. The caption is written in English and French. Date: 1914-1918

Business card design, woman reading
Business card design, made in France, depicting a woman sitting comfortably in an armchair under a standard lamp, reading a book. Date: 20th century

Sleigh Rides
Apres Ski : Some travel in comfort by horse and sleigh, others trudge home on foot through the snow! Date: 1930s

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1929
Too tired to dance, a good partner - a fine band - a jolly evening wasted, because they are too tied to enjoy themselves. What a joy it is to get up each moring felling thoroughly rested

Man Knitting
Knit one, purl one.. a very smart man in a suit, with slicked-back hair and wearing spectacles, learning to knit in the comfort of his living room armchair. Date: early 1930s

Hotel Carls-Rite, Toronto, Canada - the House of Comfort - advertising itself as the Worlds Premier Hotel for Business travellers. Date: circa 1920s

Sending a new pipe and a heart of love to the front
France, WW1 - A pretty girl sends her beau a new pipe and a heart of love to the front, where her brave man is fighting. Date: circa 1916

John Bull coming to the aid of Victims of Messina Earthquake
John Bull coming to the aid of the personification of Italy (Italia Turrita) following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 27-28th December 1908 at Messina, Sicily

Cover of a Japanese Railway Timetable - Tokyo to Kobe
The beautifully illustrated cover of a Japanese Railway Timetable - covering the route from Tokyo to Kobe, Japan. Date: circa 1930

Beautifully dressed passengers on the Underground. As the card states: The Bakerloo & Piccadilly Tubes afford the maximum of speed, safety

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