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Contrasts Collection

Background imageContrasts Collection: M Keyte Perry and Samoyeds

M Keyte Perry and Samoyeds
Miss Marion Keyte Perry with her 10 champion Samoyeds. Their kennel name is of the Arctic. Miss Perrys neat hairstyle contrasts with the fluffy white coats of her dogs

Background imageContrasts Collection: Gathering Crowd

Gathering Crowd
A sketch of a crowd that has gathered outside a brightly lit window, which contrasts from the rest of the picture. Date: circa 1901

Background imageContrasts Collection: Limpsfield Common

Limpsfield Common
A landscape watercolour painting of Limpsfield Common, in Oxted, England. The sandy coloured foreground contrasts effectively with the cool tones of the hills in the distance. Date: circa 1923

Background imageContrasts Collection: Photograph enhanced with illustrations in foreground, showing children in marketplace, Nice, France

Photograph enhanced with illustrations in foreground, showing children in marketplace, Nice, France. With illustrations of fashionable woman and girl in foreground, looking

Background imageContrasts Collection: Revelations from the Riviera -What the smartest

Revelations from the Riviera -What the smartest
Revelations from the Riviera (1927) - What the smartest women wear at Monte Carlo is prophetic of what will be worn in London and Paris in the subsequent seasons

Background imageContrasts Collection: Two May-September couples dancing at a ball

Two May-September couples dancing at a ball
Two May-September couples at a ball. The old and ugly partners have arranged the company of two young, good-looking escorts, who flirt with each other

Background imageContrasts Collection: Woman in a chequered design cardigan

Woman in a chequered design cardigan
Woman in a green chequered design cardigan. 1960s

Background imageContrasts Collection: Savages feel our muscle, Taiwan, 1890

Savages feel our muscle, Taiwan, 1890
Natives of the hill country of Bankimsing, Formosa(today Taiwan), explore the possessions of some English visitors that they encounter

Background imageContrasts Collection: Lady Sarah Wilsons bomb-proof shelter at Mafeking, 1900

Lady Sarah Wilsons bomb-proof shelter at Mafeking, 1900
Lady Sarah Wilson (1865 - 1929), formerly Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, youngest child of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough

Background imageContrasts Collection: Suffragette Attitude of Politicians

Suffragette Attitude of Politicians. Contrasts the, Attitude of Politicians towards womens Suffrage, At Election time, and At Westminster Date: circa 1908

Background imageContrasts Collection: Suffragette Male and Female Political Prisoners

Suffragette Male and Female Political Prisoners. Contrasts the treatment of male and female political prisoners, with the caption, Comparisons are Odious. Date: circa 1908

Background imageContrasts Collection: Loading ships guns in 1805 and 1935 by G. H. Davis

Loading ships guns in 1805 and 1935 by G. H. Davis
From Nelson to Nelson : feeding a ships guns today and in 1805. Loading methods in a modern battleship and at Trafalgar: contrasts after 130 years of naval gunnery. Date: 1935

Background imageContrasts Collection: French and German contrasts, WW1

French and German contrasts, WW1
Postcard contrasting the French and German attitudes towards the enemy during the First World War -- German barbarity and French generosity. Date: 1914-1918

Background imageContrasts Collection: The fruits of success - A Chorus Girl visits home

The fruits of success - A Chorus Girl visits home
The fruits of success - An all-American chorus girl visits home and is greeted by surprise and a certain element of bemusement

Background imageContrasts Collection: A quick change of front

A quick change of front
A German Shopkeeper hides his origins following the outbreak of war with Germany

Background imageContrasts Collection: Find the Man Who Has Enlisted

Find the Man Who Has Enlisted
A propagandist illustration during World War One contrasting the pride and satisfaction of the man who has enlisted to join up, with the shame of one who has not

Background imageContrasts Collection: A Muddy a sketch in Bond street

A Muddy a sketch in Bond street
A small coach contrasts with its large lackeys. Dandies converse with a lady through its window. The coach, coloured bright yellow with red trim, is spattered with brown mud

Background imageContrasts Collection: Caleche 1820S

Caleche 1820S
A French caleche de Longchamp suitable for ladies to drive in le Bois de Boulogne : the small seating area contrasts with the overall size of the vehicle

Background imageContrasts Collection: Hat with Aigrette C1913

Hat with Aigrette C1913
Blonde woman wears a soft hat with an aigrette, a blouse with a scallop edged turn down collar, a large green pendant & a wrap-over garment in an eastern style print


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