Early Collection (page 20)

Girl / Mother Dancing 20C
A little girl and her mother have fun dancing. Date: early 20th century?

Dry cleaners
American Gas Appliance Co. Men Cleaning Overcoats

Music cover with Scottish harpist
An unidentified music cover depicting a female Scottish harpist wearing a tartan shawl and medieval costume. The emblem at the top contains the Latin words, Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

Switzerland - Unterseen
Switzerland - the old wooden buildings in the centre of Unterseen. The city was founded on July 13, 1279, when King Rudolf I von Habsburg granted Baron Berchtold III of Eschenbach-Oberhofen

Lincolns Inn
Bird s-eye view, in the early 18th century

A Happy Party of Little Motorists. Six young children are taken for a spin in an open-top car. They are all wrapped up warm against the elements. Date: circa 1905

King George V and Queen Mary with their sons
King George V and Queen Mary at Ascot in the early 1930s, riding in a carriage with their sons Edward, Prince of Wales (in black) and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester

Cork, Blackrock Rail Co
RAILWAY COMPANY The bold design of the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway Company

South Eastern Railway
The Coats of Arms of the South Eastern Railway

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Enlarged View of
Engraving of a detail of the Sovereign weighing machine invented by Mr Bate to deal with the crisis in light gold coinage in the early eighteen forties

French Cake-Walker
According to the caption, the cakewalk was invented by the kangaroo, but that doesn t explain this ladys eccentric cakewalking costume - and is that a spear shes holding ?

Little Girl and Pug Dog
A little girl in her Sunday best outfit sits on an elegant wicker-work chair with the family pug dog

Building a wooden Rollercoaster - Ramsgate Seafront
Huge scaffolding erected for the construction of a wooden rollercoaster on the seafront - part of the Merrie England funfair at Ramsgate, Kent, England

Grannie Typist
88-year-old Mrs Caroline Blore, using her own typewriter in her back garden

An Elizabethan Playhouse
An early 20th century drawing of a scene at the Swan Theatre, Bankside, loosely based on a contemporary sketch by Johannes de Witt

Young Girl and Pet Dog
A young girl dressed in her best white dress, with her pet dog, a Manchester Terrier

Family / Dancing / Baby Joke
Do you like dancing? Get married, and you ll go to a BAWL every night!

Social / Us Sewing Room
Two girls and a woman in an old-time sewing room

Horses being X-Rayed
A horse being x-rayed at the Royal Veterinary College, Camden, London, using portable x-ray apparatus, which has proved invaluable in the treatment of animal ailments

Fashions for November 1815
Early 19th century fashion plate showing the typical Classical outline, and high waists fashionable of the period

Kolynos Trade Card
Trade card for KOLYNOS dental cream, in the shape of a tube of toothpaste. It is described as cleansing - antiseptic - delicious

Peire Vidal / Troubador
Peire Vidal, French troubador of the late 12th, early 13th centuries, entertains the lady Azalais of Roquemartine, from whom he stole a kiss while she slept and had to leave court

Racial Types / Scots Fling
A man in full tartan doing the Highland Fling

French Cartomancy Book
Comment se tirer les cartes soi-meme (How to interpret the cards yourself) - a French popular manual by Madame Athena

Bakers Shop / Loaves
A scene in a bakery, with the preparation and baking of standard size loaves of white bread

BOX SELLER
Band Boxes. A box seller passes Benjamin Tabarts Juvenile Library on Bond Street, London. Tabart was an early seller of fairy tales & nursery stories for children

HARRY KELLAR 1849 - 1922
American magician who presented large stage shows during the late 1800s and early 1900s - the predecessor of Harry Houdini and successor to Robert Heller

Professor Jaeger
Professor JAEGER Norwegian psychical researcher

Margery Crandon 4
Controversial American medium Margery in trance. She was exposed by Houdini but many believe her genuine

Love / Language of Kisses
The language of kisses: timid, frivolous, passionate, amorous, languorous, and - last but not least - voluptuous

School for Butlers
Trainee butlers take notes as their teacher points to a blackboard diagram, explaining the correct way to carve lamb

Rag and Bone Man
Mothers and children gather around the local rag and bone man with their various offerings on the back streets of Harbertonford, south Devon, England

Cat Flea Powder
An unsuspecting cat is stroked and lulled into a false sense of security on a cushion before being dowsed in flea powder!

Telegraph Parrot
No one told this poor parrot on a telegraph pole that it would need to buy a telephone before it could chat to its mates

Devon Well 1930S
A country lass fetches water from the well in Milton Coombe, South Devon, England

Godwins Project
FRANCIS GODWIN An ingenious method of flying by harnessing trained birds, who would tow the intrepid aviator even so far as the Moon

Victoria & Melbourne
Victoria goes riding at Windsor, accompanied by Lord Melbourne who was her political advisor during the early years of her reign

Harry Ford / Variety
HARRY FORD Music hall entertainer Date: early 20th century

Peter Crawley, Boxer

An early typing pool
From the start, typing was perceived as the archetypal employment opportunity for women : this is the Typing Office of the Society for the Employment of Women

Byron / Newstead / Bedroom
NEWSTEAD ABBEY Bedroom of Byron, aristocrat and Romantic poet, at his Nottinghamshire home

English Rural Postman
An English rural postman collects the mail from a letter-box

Edinburgh / Advocates Clos
Edinburgh: Advocates Close

Scottish Cottage Inter
An old Scots peasant sits by the fire in the kitchen of his simple home

Poland / Warsaw Institute
Warsaw: the Polytechnic Institute

Matron Instructs Nurse
A Matron (distinguished by her head gear) explains a piece of equipment to a nurse. Note the bottle of poison on the left

Dogs Club Cocktail Bar
The Dogs Club Cocktail Bar, where privileged dog owners can enjoy drinks with both their human and canine friends

Eating with Chopsticks
Japanese politicians enjoying a meal using chopsticks, in the canteen of the new parliamentary buildings in Tokyo

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