Craze Collection (page 4)

French park festivities with fireworks and balloon

Satirical images of an Air Balloon
Set of 12 satirical images with captions of an Air Balloon, showing filling, flying, reaching the moon, coming back to earth, and bursting. 1784

The airship craze. Illustration shows a golf club driving a golf ball that is covered with insects; at the bottom is a ticket booth labeled Conquest of the Air where insects can purchase tickets for

The knitting craze. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon that shows an effeminate Santa Claus standing in front of a fireplace where stockings are hanging

Steps Have Been Taken by Laurie Tayler - Growth of the Charl
Humorous cartoon illustrating the growth in popularity of the Charleston dance during the 1920s. The top picture shows a dancefloor crowd looking on with amusement as a single couple engage in

George Felix & Lydia Barry in The vaudeville craze George Fe
George Felix & Lydia Barry in The vaudeville craze. Date c1899

The Bowery Burlesquers presenting an original burletta on the latest New York craze, Slumming. Date c1898

The cross-continent craze. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon of scenes depicting transcontinental journeys by various modes of transportation

Charleston legs
An energetic flapper wears out one dance floor doing the Charleston and Black Bottom before partnering with another. Date: 1927

Mr C G Barr, champion paper tearer
The champion paper tearer of the world, Mr C. G. Barr of Seattle, Washington with some examples of his work. Date: 1904

Crossword Craze - Distracted housemaid
The Crossword Craze What Lizzie was late with the lunch! A housemaid gets totally distracted trying to finish her crossword and completely forgets to do her cleaning or prepare the midday meal

Tattooing the Eyebrows
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of the eyebrows with small flowers and butterflies. This picture shows a lady being tattooed in a West End (of London) salon. Date: 1929

Tattooing an Armpit
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of armpits with small flowers and butterflies. This picture shows a lady being tattooed in a West End (of London) salon. Date: 1929

Tattooing an Eyelid
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of eyelids with small flowers and butterflies. This picture shows a lady being tattooed in a West End (of London) salon. Date: 1929

Tattooing the Lips
The latest craze for feminine beauty is the tattooing of the lips with small flowers and butterflies. This picture shows a lady being tattooed in a West End (of London) salon. Date: 1929

Tea tango craze: learning to Tango, 1913
Ladies learning the tango standing in a circle, while teacher Mme Vicarni instructs and drills them in steps and movements. Here, the correct position of the arm is demonstrated. Date: 1913

Dancing after supper at the Savoy Winter Garden
Dancing after dinner: normality resumed as the the tango craze, described here as a continental novelty peters out, to be replaced by more traditional dances

Popular music - ragtime in the home in 1906
Incongruous glimpse of a stately home music room, with the upper class occupants enjoying the popular music of the day: ragtime

Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913
The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913

Tango Tea, 1913
The new craze of 1913, the tango dance given a novel spin with the tango tea at the Queens Theatre, London where the theatre stalls were removed and replaced by tables and chairs for afternoon tea

Tango records advertisement
Advertisement for Tango records from His Masters Voice, encouraging people to learn the steps to this new dance craze with the help of their records. The tango took Britain by storm in 1913. 1913

Tango dancing at Harewood Place
A newly opened venue for the tango tea craze of 1913, at Harewood Place, Hanover Square in London. Opened by Mr F. H. Payne

Ta ra ra boom de ay - the popular favourite
Mr. Punch shields his ears against the din of the popular music hall hit Ta ra ra boom de ay, sung, played and whilsted in the street by all and sundry. Date: 1892

Concert craze in Germany
A violinist is mobbed by his fans as he takes a bow following a performance

John Bull gets crossword fever
The mid-1920s crossword craze brings John Bull out in crossword fever as an epidemic of crossword puzzles hook the nation

And Never a Cross Word by Howard K. Elcock
A nonchalant young woman in crossword themed pyjamas leaves a hotel bathroom. She smokes a cigarette and swans off oblivious to the waiting queue of other hotel guests who have obviously been there

The Next Infliction - the Cross-Word Puzzle Illustrated by W
Heath Robinsons contribution to the crossword craze of 1925, an illustrated crossword puzzle with clues included under the picture

Worthington Crosswords advertisement
An advertisement for Worthington Ales at the time of the craze for crosswords showing an engrossed crossword puzzler bumping into people and causing chaos in his wake as he walks along

The Missing Link by H. M. Bateman
An engrossed and rather obsessive crossword puzzler looks at his modest collection of dictionaries, reference books and encyclopaedias for inspiration while working in a particularly fiendish puzzle

Squaring the Dance Circles by Reginald Higgins
A stylish 1920s couple are distracted from their dancing by an engrossing crossword puzzle, all the rage in 1925. The caption reads, " A word of five letters, beginning with C

The Cuckoo by Alfred Bestall
Series of humorous illustrations showing a young girl, full of energy and optimism as she models her new hiking outfit, and then chatting to neighbours as she passes on her walk

Charleston Sweetie
New craze for the Charleston dance during the 1920 s. This back-kicking dance originated in Charleston, South Carolina and became popular following the musical, Runnin Wild in 1923

Dear, Dear, Dear! by G. E. Studdy
Early illustration by G. E. Studdy during World War I, showing a soldier (standing) speaking to a older lady on a London bus or tube train

Surburban Whist-Drive
Men and women enjoying a very sociable game of cards at a public whist drive, the new craze in suburbia

Sockette Fashion 1929
The sockette fashion and some of its exponents demonstrate that there are those who can get away with it and others, who sadly, cannot!

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