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Comic German postcard -- health spa toilets all engagedComic German postcard by Franz Whonpfeng -- desperate, overweight men discover that all the toilets at the health spa are engaged. Date: 1909
Comic German postcard -- paying for accessComic German postcard -- desperate, overweight men paying for access to the toilet at a health spa. Date: early 20th century
Mr. Heywood Hill and Lady Anne Gathorne-HardyGeorge Heywood Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hill of Great Orchard, Bignor, Sussex and owner of the bookshop at 10 Curzon Street, together with his wife-to-be Lady Anne Gathorne-Hardy. 1937
Tennyson Street School for Disabled, London - Basket WeavingThe London School Boards Tennyson Street School for Physically Defective Children - children engaged in basket weaving, one sits in a wheelchair. Date: early 1900s
Dacia the dancer (Miss D. Allwood)Miss D. Allwood, aka the dancer Dacia, well-known for her role in the popular wartime musical, Chu Chin Chow. Appearing in The Tatler at the time her engagement to Colonel Critchley Salmonson of
Prince George, Duke of Kent, announcement of his engagementPrince George, Duke of Kent (1902 1942), announcement of his engagement to Princess Marina, daughter of Prince Nicolas of Greece
Lord and Lady LoughboroughMargaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm, daughter of Harry Chisholm of Sydney, NSW, Australia married in 1915 Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough
Margaret Leicester-Warren by Madame YevondeMargaret Alice Leicester-Warren (?-1964) by Madame Yevonde. She had recently become engaged to Major Oliver William Hargreaves Leese of the Coldstream Guards. They married in 1933. Date: 1932
Hon. Sylvia Coke by Madame YevondeThe Hon. Sylvia (or Silvia) Beatrice Coke (1909-2005) by Madame Yevonde. She was the elder daughter of Viscount Coke (Thomas William Coke, 4th Earl of Leicester)
Daphne and Pamela Gladstone by Madame YevondeDaphne (?-1971) and Pamela (?-1962) Gladstone by Madame Yevonde. They were the daughters of William Buckley Gladstone. Pamela had recently become engaged to Eustace Tennyson D Eyncourt
Royal Wedding 1893 - Princess Marie meets Prince FerdinandPrincess Marie of Edinburgh (later Queen Marie of Romania) meets her future husband, Prince Ferdinand Victor of Romania at the train station at Sigmaringen prior to their wedding on 10 January 1893
Royal Wedding 1947 - at Clydebank before weddingFront cover of The Illustrated London News featuring photographs of Princess Elizabeth and her future husband, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown
Captain Henry and Lady May Abel SmithStudio portrait of Captain Henry(1900-1993) and Lady May Abel Smith(1906 - 1994)(previously Lady May Cambridge), taken just before their wedding at the village church of Balcombe, West Sussex. 1931
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon shows Duke of York around Glamis
The Ashanti War (1873-74) The 42nd Highlanders in the frontThis shows the soldiers from the 42nd Highlanders engaged in the front of the battle against the Ashantis during the 2nd Ashanti War towards the end of 1873
The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Ashanti War DanceWar dance of the Ashanti men folk. British forces engaged the Ashanti people in battle for possession of the coastline of West Africa
Zulu wars. Queen Victoria decorating officers engaged in theQueen Victoria decorating Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard with the Victoria Cross for bravery. Chard was one of the officers who successfully defended Rorkes Drift from an army of Zulu warriors
Sir Henry Morton Stanley with a Maxim Automatic Machine-GunEngraving of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the Anglo-American journalist and explorer, sitting astride a Maxim Automatic Machine-gun, 1887
Engagement of Harold MacmillanFront cover of The Tatler reporting on the engagement of Lady Dorothy Cavendish and Captain Harold Macmillan (later British Prime Minister)
Sketch cover - the Lygon sistersFront cover of The Sketch featuring a photograph of Lady Lettice Lygon flanked by her sisters, Sibell (left) and Mary (right)
Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper, 1928Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Shaftesbury, upon the announcement of her engagement to Lord Alington 1928
Cartoon, Lord Cairns and Miss FortescueCartoon, Lord Cairns to Miss Fortescue -- Delighted, my dear, that my son has shown such good taste! May Fortescue (1859-1950) was an actress, singer and actor-manager
Sketch cover Engagement of Lord Mountbatten & Edwina AshleyFront cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a photograph, taken in Delhi, India, of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his fianc頍 iss Edwina Ashley. The couple married in July 1922. Date: 1922
Josiah Mason Orphanage, Birmingham - Recreation RoomJosiah Mason Orphanage, Birmingham - girls in the recreation room are engaged in various activities including reading, writing, playing table tennis and other games. Date: circa 1930s
Young couple in a studio photo (Ernest Protor and Lilian Egerton). 1905
Somebody on the wire - A Romantic Telephone conversationNew York, USA - Somebody on the wire - A couple share a romantic Telephone conversation - The Line is engaged ! Date: 1907
St Nicholas Home, Pyrford, Surrey - Girls SewingTwo girls engaged in drawn thread work at the St Nicholas Home for crippled children at Pyrford, near Woking, Surrey. The home was run by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: Date unknown
National Childrens Home, Harpenden - Laundry WorkSome of the older girls engaged in ironing and folding in the laundry at the National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Date: Date unknown
Daniel FeatleyDANIEL FEATLEY (orig. Fair- -clough) English churchman, rector of Lambeth, engaged in controversy with Jesuits on one hand, Baptists on other, imprisoned for Royalist views. Date: 1582 - 1645
Stephen Douglas - 3STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS American Democratic statesman, who engaged in a historic debate with Lincoln. Date: 1813 - 1861
Stephen Douglas - 2STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS American Democratic statesman, who engaged in a historic debate with Lincoln. Date: 1813 - 1861
William AbellWILLIAM ABELL, vintner and alderman of London, with RICHARD KILVERT, similarly engaged; they are described as the two maine Projectors for Wine 1641. Date: FLOURISHED 1640
Camille Clifford with fianceCamille Clifford, Actress, with her fiance The Honourable Henry Lyndhurst Bruce Date: 1906
Military / Training / GermanGerman soldiers engaged in a variety of exercises - swinging from ropes to cross rivers, climbing on one anothers backs to scale walls, gymnastics &c. Date: circa 1850
Photo Workshop 1891A 19th century photographer in his workshop, engaged in retouching his handiwork Date: 1891
The palmists warning (The New Science) -- an engaged couple have just had their palms read, and the palmist has warned them that they are not suited to each other. Date: 1887
Cupid Takes the Plunge - Two Aqua show stars get hitched. High-diver Roy Walsh from Blackpool, a former British Olympic Star (at the 1954 Melbourne Olympic Games) (25)
Diy Carpentry / SwedenA Swedish father engaged in do-it-yourself carpentry Date: 1917
Home for Motherless Children, ChiswickBoys engaged in domestic chores at the Home for Motherless Children, Chiswick Date: circa 1910
Borstal Inmates Farm WorkInmates at an unidentified Borstal engaged in harvesting hay. Date: circa 1926
Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (Lady Alington)Lady Alington, formerly Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902-1936), eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury. She married Lord Alington in 1928 and had one daughter born the following year
EngagedHappy young Welsh couple celebrating their engagement with others. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1910
Engagement of Viola Tree to Alan ParsonsViola Tree (1884 - 1938), English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she made many of her early appearances with his company at His Majestys Theatre
Heritage Craft Schools, Chailey, SussexInmates of the Heritage Craft Schools for crippled boys at Chailey, East Sussex. The scantily clad boys are engaged in various craft activities outside a thatched building
Princess Marina of Greece, announcement of her engagementPrincess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1906 - 1968), later Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent. Announcement of her engagement to Prince George, Duke of Kent
Romance - 1917 by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon" Darling, every potato that I have is yours" (Engaged). Cartoon in The Bystander by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather showing a couple locked in an embrace having agreed to get engaged
Miss Honor Dorothy Leigh by Madame YevondeHonor Dorothy Leigh (1892-1982), only daughter of Mr John Blundell Leigh of Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire and granddaughter of the Marquess of Abergavenny
The Hon. Clarissa TennantClarissa Madeleine Georgiana Felicite Tennant (1896-1960), daughter of 1st Baron Glenconner pictured at the time of her engagement to her first husband