Drinking Collection (page 19)

Regina Badet as a Bacchante
French actress and dancer, Anne Regina Badet (1876 - 1949), dressed as a bacchante at the Theatre des Capucines, Paris. She was a major star of the Opera-Comique in Paris

Four cats and kittens on a Christmas card, drinking milk from bowls by the fireside. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, French cafe scene, WW1
Cartoon, French cafe scene. Two men sit drinking outside a cafe in a French town. An unhappy looking man walks past, preoccupied from reading exaggerated German communiques about their wartime

American anti-gambling cartoon
An American anti-gambling cartoon, showing a Rum-Soaked Old Sport sitting at a table. The verse below ends: It would be very hard to find / A more worthless, useless sample of mankind. Date: 1906

Cartoon, Anti-Saccharites, or John Bull and his Family leaving off the use of Sugar, by James Gillray. Showing John Bull and his wife (actually King George III and Queen Charlotte)

French Theatre -- Les Trois Galans
Les Trois Galans [Galants] (The Three Gallants or Suitors), a farce. Showing one of the gallants sitting on a chair, holding up a glass of wine. Date: 16th century

Victorian family with drunkard husband
Slide showing a picture of a man and a woman talking with two children. The woman is pointing at a shop with a sign saying Christmas Gin with a man in torn clothes walking past. Part of Box 366

African Elephants - drinking (Loxodonta africana). Zambesi River - Lower Zambesi National Park, Zambia, Africa

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf nursing / feeding from Mother immediately after birth (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Papyrus Scroll of Girl and Crocodile
21st Dynasty papyrus scroll showing a girl and a crocodile (Sobek) drinking from the Nile below a hieroglyphic inscription. Egyptian National Museum, Cairo

1920s cocktail party gossip
" I wonder why one always has a cherry in a cocktail?" " So that one shall not drink on an empty stomach" Witty exchanges at a well populated, glamorous

Thoroughness, WW1 cartoon by William Heath Robinson
Mopping-up the floods in Belgium: the new German method. Spiking the water with a combination of sausages, sauerkraut and lager

If Only We Spoke the Truth by Bruce Bairnsfather
A disgruntled gentleman in evening dress thinks aloud, I wish you drank something cheaper, while glowering at his female companion who looks somewhat worse for wear due to all the champagne shes

British and French soldiers enjoying a drink, WW1
British and French soldiers enjoying a drink together on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers standing round water cart, WW1
Thirsty British soldiers standing round a water cart on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Bystander Entente Peace number front cover, 1919
Superb front cover of The Bystander magazine from 1919 celebrating peace in Europe following the end of World War One, though the Treaty of Versailles would not be signed until the following month

Wild West Bar scene
A cowboy smoking and holding a gun at a bar. The sign above the bar reads: " Leave your guns at the bar"

British officers relaxing, Western Front, WW1
Four British army officers relaxing behind the lines on the Western Front during World War One. Their chairs are made from ration boxes. Date: circa 1916

A Turkey Glide by William Heath Robinson
The latest Christmas family gliders fitted with listening in equipment for hearing Dutch concerts during dinner. One particularly large family flies through the air while using hot water bottles or

Japan - Japanese tea ceremony Date: circa 1905

Damascus, Syria - Bedouin men making (and drinking) coffee Date: circa 1910s

Irish drinker receives warning at Taproom door from Priest
" Ye re not goin into that Public House, are ye, Tim?" " Shure, oi am, Yer Riverance." " Then, do ye know the Divel in goin in wid ye." " Faith, thin

Irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair
A study of an irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair. He may have had a little too much to drink. Date: 1894

Port Elizabeth, South Africa - The Horse Memorial - erected to honour the Gallant Animals which perished during the Second Boer War 1899-1902

Autumn, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people enjoying a picnic, with a man picking apples from a tree in the middle distance

Blitz in London -- a welcome tea break, WW2
London Auxiliary firefighters enjoy a welcome cup of tea from a grateful resident in Crawford Street, Camberwell, SE London

Child smoking pipe
Celebrating the Royal Jubilee, child with pipe, bottle and glass, 1887 Date: 1887

Castle Beers advert
Castle Beers, South Africa, 1908 Date: 1908

The worship of Bacchus, or, the drinking customs of society. Published 1864

International Settlement (Old Barbary Coast), San Francisco, California, USA. The red light district - disappeared around the 1950s

The first drawing of an elephant drinking cider
elephant drinking cider 1966

Royal wedding 1893 - celebrations at Inverness
A large crowd of loyal citizens sing God Save the Queen in celebration of the marriage of George Duke of York(later King George V)(1865-1936) to Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York)

Gran pops Cocktail Party by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration depicting Gran pop, the orang utan character created by Lawson Wood, who was a regular feature of The Sketch during the 1930s

Two young boys take their horse to water
Two young country boys take their horse to drink at the village pond. Quite how the little boy sitting astride Dobbin got up there is anyones guess! Date: circa 1904

Macedonian women at the fountain
Country Women at the village fountain, Macedonia Date: circa 1913

Ulysses and Polyphemus, the cyclops, drinking

Baby feeding directly from a goat
An Indian Baby feeds directly from a goat in possibly the most bizarre and unsettling postcard ever produced.... Date: circa 1920s

Pub landlady stops snack, 1858
" Dip your roll in your own pot at home!" A fierce looking landlady berates a hungry customer caught in the act of helping himself to the contents of her cooking pot

Edwardian boat interior, with table and chairs
View of the interior of an Edwardian boat. A table is set, but possibly more for drinking than eating, with a bottle and several glasses. There are three upright chairs with wicker seats

Gipsy family inside a bender tent, Surrey
A roadside gipsy family inside a bender (a tent like a wigwam, made out of sack and other materials), in the Newdigate area of Surrey

Scene in the Blue Anchor, Helston, Cornwall
Locals enjoying a pint (or a swift half) in the Blue Anchor pub in Helston, Cornwall

Empire Marketing Board milk poster
Poster produced by the Empire Marketing Board encouraging children to drink more milk depicting a small girl and a baby in its pram holding their cup and bottle aloft to the toast the king

Titanic glassware
A box of wine or sherry glasses from the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship, which sank on 15 April 1912

Female Dress of 1896
Women dressed elegantly in gowns with lace trim or matching velvet jackets help a child taking a drink

Family of Hop Pickers
A family of hop pickers, including a baby, children, adults and grandmother, stop work for a break and something to eat and drink

3rd Class Carriage / 1857
A Parliamentary Train. The interior of a packed third class carriage

Viennese Cafe Circa 1900
People talking, laughing and drinking in the busy Cafe Rouacher in Vienna

Arriving at Restaurant
A monocled gent guides two ladies to their table in a fashionable restaurant, past another monocled gent in dinner jacket with two ladies

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