Entertaining Gallery

Hawkins electric hostess trolley advertisement

Advertisement for the Hawkins Electric Hostess Trolley for gracious living, enabling you to entertain with dignity even when domestic help is not available'! An elegant hostess is pictured serving a pre-prepared meal to her guests from the trolley, where everything is kept warm for stress-free dinner party entertaining, sixties style! Date: 1964

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Muslim women entertaining themelves in their private

Muslim women entertaining themelves in their private quarters. Woman smoking hookah pipes, spinning yarn, embroidering, etc. Appartement d'une dame Mahometane avec le tandour. Appartamento d'una donna Ottomana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Modern o Story, Florence, 1842. Copied from Ignace Mouradgea d'Ohsson's Tableau General de L'Empire Othoman, Paris, 1790

© Florilegius

The perils of sitting on a freshly-painted park bench

A humorous postcard cataloguing in 6 frames, the perils of sitting on a freshly-painted park bench. A masher "the vacant seat and hopes his lady love to greet" - but is then unable to get up to greet the object of his affections as he is stuck fast to the newly-painted slats. Eventually his only mode of escape is abandoning his trousers! Date: 1905

© Grenville Collins Postcard Collection / Tom Gillmor / Mary Evans