Conversation Collection (page 6)

Count Baillet-Letour
Count Baille-Letour (left), in conversation with Dr. Lippert, Commissioner of State for Berlin and Dr. von Lewald (right), President of the Olympic Organising Committee. Date: 1936

Oak Panelled Staircase
Would you care to join me for a nightcap?, a smart gentleman in a suit asks the young couple ascending an oak panelled staircase. Date: 1930s

Social / Girl in Snow 1904
The streetgirl and the cabbie commiserate with each other - in this weather, business is bad for both their professional activities. Date: 1904

Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits, WW1
Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits. High Empire waists, short full skirts and high hairstyles. Gingham dress: plain sailor collar

Feminine Boater 1919
Soft crowned hat with chin strap, accordian pleated short tubular skirt, short coatee, boater style hat, checked suit with open jacket with a narrow belt at the bustline. Date: 1919

Ladies Read at Table
Bored with male-dominated conversation, women find their own diversions in cards, books and magazines; the chaps seem rather peeved... Date: 1927

Couple Walking 1928
A smart young couple, walking and talking. Date: 1928

Scientific Conversazione
The Society of Apothecaries holds a Scientific conversazione at their council chamber, Apothecaries Hall, in Blackfriars, London. The evening focused on the use of the microscope. Date: 11 April 1855

Morning Dress March 1801
Long-sleeved, spotted muslin gowns with ruffs. A purple garment - possibly a Tyrolese cloak, bonnet with veil & a muff grace the green dress, a simple lace cap suffices for the white. Date: 1801

Coffee & Cakes Party
He wears a single breasted, dark 3-piece suit. Of the ladies frocks: one uses plain fabrics with contrasting collar & cuffs; the other 3 are of various printed textiles. Date: 1930

Cartoon, French street market, WW1
Cartoon, French street market. A woman and stallholder chat about the war and food rationing while a stray dog steals a fish. Date: 1917

Mussolini & D annunzio
BENITO MUSSOLINI Italian dictator having a conversation with the writer Gabriele d Annunzio in a motor boat of a lake. Date: early 1930s

Doctors Disagree / 18Thc
A gathering of doctors, disagreeing over their diagnoses Date: 18th century

French Coaching Inn
Diligent passengers stop for a food break at a French inn. Date: 1826

At an Inn / 17th Holland
Drink and conversation at a Dutch inn Date: 17th century

Social / Russia / Cafe 1887
A group of Russian men in a cafe. Date: 1887

1848 / NAPLES / DEMO
A demonstration at Naples. Date: 29 January 1848

Gentleman and lady in a room, c. 1810
A gentleman and lady in a room, c.1810. The gentleman looks like he is about to leave the room, the lady as though shes just arisen to prevent his exit. Date: C.1810

Taking tea outside, 1790s
Taking tea outside in a leafy bower, c.1790s Date: C.1790s

Men arguing outside a theatre, c. 1800
Two men having an argument or disagreement in the street outside a theatre, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Two gentlemen talking, c. 1800
Two gentlemen strolling and talking, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Two gentlemen, c. 1800
Two gentlemen talking, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Gentlemen talking and smoking, c. 1800
Two gentlemen in an interior. One approaches the other, who is sitting by the window smoking a pipe, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Steerage passengers on an emigrant ship, a family
A family group of steerage passengers on an emigrant ship out of Liverpool to New York, 1896. The journey began in London with an emigrant train from Euston to Liverpool. Date: 1896

Steerage passengers on an emigrant ship out of Liverpool to New York, 1896. Young emigrants working their passage and chatting

Tom Browns School Days - Tom, the young master & Arthur
Illustration from Tom Browns School Days by Thomas Hughes. It is Tom Brown, grown into a young man nineteen years old. Tom sits on the bench with a cricket bat in conversation with the young master

Cartoon, Concerning sugar, WW1
Cartoon, Concerning sugar. Two French women discuss how little sugar they are using during the sugar crisis, but it still sounds like quite a lot! Date: 1916

Cartoon, A false rumour, WW1
Cartoon, A false rumour from the Western Front. Four market women talk about cannibalism among the troops. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Humour, WW1
Cartoon, Humour, showing two fashionable French women chatting with an English soldier. They say it must bother him to kill Germans. He replies no, they ve been used to it for a long time. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Two French soldiers, WW1
Cartoon, Two rather elderly French soldiers stand in the street, chatting about the possibility of winning the war. Date: 1916

Cartoon, At the bistro, WW1
Cartoon, At the bistro. Two French soldiers chat with the bistro owner about their determination to win the war. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The soldier back from leave, WW1
Cartoon, The soldier back from leave. His colleague asks him if he told his wife all about their battles. He replies that he didn t have chance, she was talking all the time! Date: 1915

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot meets some sheep
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot meets a ram and some sheep in a field, and has a theological conversation. " And what may latitudinarian be?" Date: 1895

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot and a bulldog have a chat
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot and Scrunch the bulldog have a chat. " I laid the whole matter before Scrunch." Date: 1895

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Farm Babies. Decimus Duckling tries to strike up a conversation with three young pigs, the Porkers of Sty Hall. Date: 1909

Page design, big moments in my life, School Silhouettes
Page design for big moments in my life, in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

WW1 - Successful Zeppelin raid
WW1 - The achievement and success of a recent zeppelin raid. The zeppelin is characterised as the child, that has returned, weeping to its Father the emperor

WW1 - Cartoon - General Joffre and Grand Duke Nicholas
WW1 - French General Joseph Jacques C鳡 ire Joffre (1852 - 1931), and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856 - 1929), as " men of few words"

Cartoon, Parrots of Paris, WW1
Cartoon, Parrots of Paris, showing women going about their normal business, with little understanding of the seriousness of war. Date: 1915

Group at Schneeberg Hotel, Austria showing Edwardian men in conversation on the terrace of this dramatic hotel, which still exists today Date: circa 1908

Cartoon, At Biarritz, WW1
Cartoon, At Biarritz. A man who is optimistic about the war chats in the sea with a fellow-bather. Date: 1915

Group of men in conversation outside tennis club house - a delightful shot which captures a very natural and relaxed scene with compassion and humour Date: 1913

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, So Obvious
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, So obvious, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916

Womens seats in Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1858. Costumbrism. Watercolour. ARGENTINA. BUENOS AIRES. Buenos Aires

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with Dowager Lady St. Levan of St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall Date: 1980s

Food shortages, WW1
London society finds that the only topic of conversation in 1918 is food, rationing and what there is available to eat. An illustration by Annie Fish to accompany the Letters of Eve gossip column in

2 French Airforce Officers in conversation. French School

A conversation between two Cannucks - one with his arm in a sling. 301166 Sergeant Donald Mcritchie, 36Th Battery, 9Th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force

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