Family Collection (#95)

Market Reports illustrated - Game - Supply Strong. A Fair clearance was effected! A Butcher scares away his customers (a rather well-heeled family)

Traditional costume from Valencia, Spain
Traditional costumes from Valencia, Spain. Date: 1910s

Ragged British Family Carol Singing - Christmas - this card bears the title: " I still work for the same firm - Wife and four kids" !! Date: circa 1910s

Pompeii - Italy - Casa dei Vetti. Date: circa 1910s

Pompeii - Italy - Casa di Cornelio Rufo. Date: circa 1910s

Greek Countryfolk and elaborate loom. Date: circa 1910s

Hawaii, USA - Making Poi - Staple food from the Taro Plant
Hawaii, USA - Making Poi. Primary Polynesian staple food mad fom the underground stem of the Taro Plant - known in Hawaii as Kalo. Date: circa 1910s

Old Yokel extols the fighting qualities of his son
" My Laad Garge as bin feaghtin t Booers. If e only whopped em like e did is did is Old Woman, ed mak em sit up, I tell ye." Date: 1900

The Second in Command - Mr and Mrs Binks
Mr and Mrs Binks - A very funny cartoon by Phil May showing a VERY dominant Woman (wearing a monacle) leading her subservient and tiny husband and their small son along the street

Russian Rural family gather around the Samovar and share afternoon tea. Date: circa 1902

Rural Russia - Village Scene. Women, men and children stand around a wooden house, with a horse wagon tethered alongside. Clearly a rural setting. Date: 1902

Russian villagers having lunch
Russian villagers take a break from hard work on the family farm and have their lunch, sitting outside in the grass close to their wooden cabin home. Date: circa 1901

Russia - Family from Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast. Date: 1902

Russia - Family and their fine wooden house Date: 1902

Russian Country Folk
Russian Country Family Date: circa 1904

Typical Bourgeois French family on holiday in Nice, France in the 1890s. Date: circa 1890s

HRH Crown Prince Olaf of Norway (1903-1991). He became heir apparent when his father (Haakon VII) was elected king in 1905

The four (male) generations of a German Family in Munich. Date: 1905

Tsarskoye Selo - The Farm
Tsarskoye Selo (" Tsars Village" ) - town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, south of Saint Petersburg. Now part of the town of Pushkin

Jewish Mother and daughter - Thessaloniki, Greece
Jewish Mother and daughter walking down the street- Thessaloniki, Greece. This postcard is captioned: " Two Centuries Meeting" ! Date: circa 1905

Visitors to Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Visitors to Royal Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England - approaching the Round Tower. Date: early 1950s

Mother and her two boys in Trafalgar Square, London - 1950s
A delightful photograph of a Mother and her two boys by one of the fountains in Trafalgar Square, London - 1950s. The distinctive shape of the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields can be seen in

Grandma peering at the Christmas Cake - 1950s
Grandma peers at the Christmas Cake - Family Christmas Dinner, 1950s. Note the lack of icing on the cake - sugar was still being rationed at this time. Date: early 1950s

Family Christmas Dinner - 1950s. The young boy (front left) is wearing his Christmas present - a Martian Space Outfit. Date: early 1950s

Extended family eating Christmas Dinner. Three generations celebrate with turkey and all the trimmings which rationing would allow

Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria (1846-1923) - Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein by marriage, a member of the British Royal Family

View on the Thames Embankment, London
View on the Thames Embankment, Central London Date: circa 1903

Family Group of the Koibal people - Siberia Russia
Family Group of the Koibal people - one of the subdivisions of the Khakass people of Southern Siberia. Although they speak the Turkic Koybal language, the Koibal have mixed ancestry

Large Wedding Party Photograph - circa 1920s. The Vicar, Parents, bridesmaids relatives and friends all are featured. Date: circa 1920s

Sudan - Native Women, Omdurman Date: circa 1910

Delhi Durbar - King George V and Queen Mary
The Coronation Durbar, Delhi - 12th December 1911. The King Emperor (George V) and Queen Empress (Mary) presenting themselves to their people

Dyak people outside their house, Borneo (Indonesia). An elder son of the family has adopted western, colonial dress, further evidenced by the presence of a bicycle in the entrance to the family home

Wootton Wawen Hall, near Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire
View of Wootton Wawen Hall, near Henley-in-Arden in Warwickshire. It was built mainly in 1687 in the Palladian style, incorporating parts of an earlier, probably Elizabethan, house

Dutch Garden, Kensington Palace, London. Contains many interesting mementoes of (and links to) British Royalty. Here, on 24th May 1819 Queen Victoria was born

Albert I, Prince of Monaco lures gamblers to his Casino
Viens poupoule, viens poupoule, viens! ( Come to me Little Chicken, Come! ) -the lyrics of a famous French Music Hall song of the early years of the 20th century

Canadian Pioneers - Five Generations
Pioneers - Five Generations of the same family at Tignish, a fishing community located in western Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Date: circa 1905

Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh - 18751938) - later Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927

Crown Prince Wilhelm & Crown Princess Cecile of Prussia
Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest (18821951) of the House of Hohenzollern, the last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia

Wedding of Crown Prince Umberto of Italy to Marie Jose
The Wedding of King Umberto II of Italy (1904-1983) to Marie Jose of Belgium (1906-2001) in Rome on 8th January 1930. They are pictured on the balcony of The Quirinal Palace

A Single Horse Family Omnibus - January, 1905. Date: 1905

Waziri Tribal Family of Waziristan - NWFP
Family of a Waziri Tribesmen of Waziristan - North West Frontier Province. Date: circa 1920s

Sudan - Travelling by Ox in Kurdufan Province Date: circa 1910

Large Jewish Family - Bukhara, Uzbekistan Date: circa 1908

Germany - The Eccentric Weisgarber Family
The Eccentric Vegetarian Weisgarber Family from Blankenburg (Harz) - a town and health resort in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, at the north foot of the Harz Mountains

Kruger Family Graves - Pretoria, South Africa Date: circa 1910s

Egypt - Faux Tourist Card - a fancifully staged group featuring an incorrectly-drawn Egyptian flag! Date: 1920s

Dover, Delaware, USA - Christ Episcopal Church
Christ Episcopal Church, South State and Water Streets, Dover, Delaware, USA - erected in 1734. In the foreground is the Bonwill Family Obelisk. Date: circa 1920s

Married for Company
An amusing American postcard entitled: Married for Company, showing a Mother who has certainly gained company through her marriage, in the form of ten children (and a pet dog)!! Date: circa 1910s

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