Favourite Collection (page 7)

A couple occupying their Favourite Corner Newlyn, Cornwall
A couple occupying their Favourite Corner on the seafront at Newlyn, Cornwall Date: circa 1890s

BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, Duke of (1592-1628). British politician, favourite of James I and Charles I. Etching

The universal favorite. Date c1889 Jun. 15

Real Friends - Young Boyand his favourite horse
Real Friends - Young Boy leaning against the neck of his favourite grey horse. Date: 1913

Equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener
A colossal equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), the first monument to be raised to the famous general, pictured shortly before it was sent to India

Little Patriotic Girl astride a cavalry horse, holding a Union Flag and playing a side drum. Her feet are nowhere close to reaching the stirrups! Date: circa 1914

Irish Jaunting Cars
Jaunting Cars, still a favourite method of carrying tourists, at Ross Castle, near Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. Date: 1950s

Japanese Arm Wrestling
LEONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA, Japanese painter and engraver (back right, with glasses and fringe), watching a game of arm wrestling, a favourite Japanese sport. Date: 1886 - 1968

Mickleham Park
A glorious vista in Mickleham Park, a favourite beauty spot, between Leatherhead and Dorking, Surrey, England. Date: 1930s

Jealous Boy
A jealous little boy, crying at nursery because his favourite girl is sitting in a cardboard box with his best friend... wait till he grows up! Date: 1960s

No Mans Land Common, near Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England; a favourite parking place on any summer afternoon. Date: 1930s

A Young Woman and her favourite horse
A stylish young woman tenderly holds the head of her favourite horse Date: circa 1906

Close Friends - a little girl and her favourite horse
Close Friends - a little girl holding on to the head of her favourite horse Date: circa 1910s

Lady rider and favourite horse
Keen Lady rider tenderly holds the head of her favourite steed. The picture is captioned with the line: " Oh, you Darling!" Date: circa 1910s

Two Thoroughbreds - a little girl and her favourite horse
Two Thoroughbreds - a pretty young woman and her favourite horse Date: circa 1910s

Pet dog interrupts Romeo and Juliet theatre production
The favourite dog of a star actress disturbs her death scene in Romeo and Juliet. Date: 1886

Popular music - ragtime in the home in 1906
Incongruous glimpse of a stately home music room, with the upper class occupants enjoying the popular music of the day: ragtime

Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913
The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913

Ta ra ra boom de ay - the popular favourite
Mr. Punch shields his ears against the din of the popular music hall hit Ta ra ra boom de ay, sung, played and whilsted in the street by all and sundry. Date: 1892

Sopwith Pup Aeroplane
The Sopwith Pup fighter plane, a favourite with the Royal Naval Air Service. Armed with a single machine gun, it was manoeuverable and fast and could climb and hold altitude. Date: circa 1917

London to Margate 1821
The Victory and the Favourite, two early steamboats on the popular run down the Thames from London to Margate. This is Margate, not London. Date: 1821

Cuba / Havana Floridita
Havana: the Floridita Bar, Ernest Hemingways favourite drinking place. Date: 1983

Setting out on Journey
A tourist sets out to visit the country on horseback. Dr Syntax proposes to visit the Lake District, then as now a favourite tourist destination. Date: 1812

Sofya (Sonia) Aleksandrovna Ivanova
Sofya (or Sonia) Aleksandrovna Ivanova, favourite niece of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (daughter of his sister Vera Ivanova). He wrote letters to her about himself and his work

Bathing Beauty
Latest Photographic Notes: Well Developed - a fine photographic postcard of a fetching young lady in her best pearls and favourite stripey bathing costume, perching delicately on the end of the quay

Agra - Fatehpursikri - Hiran Minar
The Elephant Tower at Fatehpursikri, Agra, India. Alledged to have been built by the Emperor Jehangir (1569 - 1627) in memory of his favourite elephant

Hermann Vezin on his 82nd birthday
Hermann Vezin (1829-1910), American actor, drama teacher and writer, reading a congratulatory telegram on his 82nd birthday

Kennington Common
South London : a favourite venue for gatherings, musterings and demonstrations

PEARS
Jargonelle Beurre d Amanlis Clapps Favourite

Epping Forest
Some of the trees which compose Epping Forest, Essex, a favourite destination for holiday-making Londoners

Princess Louise and Ernest of Hesse
Hereditary Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt (1868-1937) with his aunt, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939) in 1881

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
rince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942), fourth son and seventh child of Queen Victoria and Albert. The Queens acknowledged favourite

Norma and Constance Talmadge with their favourite publicatio
A Tatler cover to celebrate the arrival of film celebrities Norma and Constance Talmadge to London. On their journey from Victoria their car was covered in flowers

Henri IV Born
The union of Francois de Bourbon and Jeanne d Albret is blessed with a baby boy who will, against all odds, grow up to be Frances favourite king, Henri IV

Tivoli Concert Rooms
The interior of the concert hall in the Tivoli Gardens, the favourite rendezvous of the people of Copenhagen

Rizzio Plays Lute
DAVID RIZZIO Italian musician. Favourite & foreign secretary of Mary Queen of Scots. He arranged her marriage with Darnley

Chateaubriand / Francoise
FRANCOISE DE FOIX COMTESSE DE CHATEAUBRIAND Favourite of Francois I of France

Rachel - Wife of Jacob
Rachel - the second and favourite wife of Jacob and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin

Italy Rome Pincio
The Pincio Gardens are a favourite place to stroll in the cool of the evening : you can enjoy a fine view of the Vatican and saint Peter s

Japanese Childrens Masks
Dressing in masks is a favourite game with Japanese children

France Enghien
Today a suburb of Paris, Enghien in the Val d Oise is both a popular residential district and a favourite place of recreation for Parisians

The King and Queen at the Windsor festivities
George III (1738-1820)and Queen Charlotte observing the roasting of an ox at Windsor, part of celebrations to mark the kings Diamond Jubilee in 1810

Leslie Mitchell learns about oysters. A Picture Page broad
Mr Cunningham of Cunningham s, Mayfair standing before the television camera during a Picture Page broadcast with Leslie Mitchell

Prisoners Summoned
Each day, an official comes into the prisons with a list of those scheduled for guillotining : the pathetic scenes are a favourite subject for artists

England / Pin Mill
The waterfront at Pin Mill, Suffolk, with its waterside inn, the " Butt and Oyster", overlooking the Orwell Estuary, a favourite resort for fishermen and yachtsmen

Grigori Rasputin / Lustige
GRIGORI RASPUTIN Russian mystic and court favourite caricatured with Tsar Nicholas II

Peepshow at Brighton
Patronising the penny peepshows on Brighton Pier : the middle one is that traditional favourite, What the Butler saw without which no pier is complete

Wilhelm / English Uniform
WILHELM II, Queen Victorias favourite grandson, photographed wearing an English army uniform, in 1894

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