Folding Collection (page 4)

Ossi Oswalda with Fan
Actress Ossi Oswalda holds a folding fan with decorative sticks covered in ostrich plumes. Her gauze hat is also trimmed with feathers - this time its osprey. Date: early 1920s

Morecambe Tourist Shop
A shop at Morecambe caters for the holiday trade with buckets and baskets, postcards to send Auntie and perambulators for hire, folding chairs and hoops in all diameters... Date: circa 1905

Kinners Folding Plane
Folding monoplane designed by W B Kinner for Dr T C Young, chairman of the 1928 National Air Race Committee (USA) : the plane unfolds from 2.4 to 10.6 metres, and flies at 200 km/h Date: 1928

New Year card in the shape of a folding screen, depicting an artist with a palette and a set of verses. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in the form of a folding screen
New Year card in the form of a four-part folding screen with country scenes. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the form of an oriental folding screen with winter scenes. Date: circa 1890s

Shy by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), engraved by Theodor Knesing (1840-?). Date: 1884

Thor 30, folding elecrtic ironer 1929
Thor 30, folding elecrtic ironer, the operator (a woman) has merely to sit in a comfortable chair, turn a switch and guide the pieces through, electrically operated

Advert for Maple & Co. garden and lawn furniture 1904
Marquee Mayfield, portable wooden frame with extended front awning supported by arched iron stays, complete 6ft square. Date: 1904

Two artists painting, Portholland, Cornwall
Two artists painting at Portholland, Cornwall, looking across towards Dodman Point. Date: circa 1970s

Hull Sailors Orphan Homes - Laundry
The Sailors Orphan Homes, Hull, also known as Newland Homes, established in 1895 by The Port of Hull Society. Girls at work, ironing and folding, in the homes laundry. Date: circa 1907

Seven girls on a Balham street, SW London
Seven girls in front of a wooden fence on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Six girls on a Balham street, SW London
Six girls huddled together in front of a wooden fence on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Little boy photographing pet dog in a garden
A little boy photographing his pet dog on a chair in a garden. The dog is keeping obligingly still, with its front paws resting on the wooden arm of the chair

Little boy with pet dog in a garden
A little boy with his pet dog in a garden. He is posing the dog on a chair, ready for taking a photograph. Date: circa 1960s

Barcelona. Gaudi House Museum. Bedroom of Gaud
GAUDI i CORNET, Antoni (1852-1926). Bedroom of Gaud� rom 1906 to 1925. Modernism. Furniture. SPAIN. Barcelona. Park G� SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Gaud� ouse-Museum

Advert for Kodak folding pocket cameras 1909
Take a Kodak with you. Try to recall the details of your holiday of five, even two years ago. You remember that you went to this place or that, enjoyed the change, and that is all

A WWI Officers folding clothes hanger
A First World War Officers folding clothes hanger. Firearms & Equipment

Advert for John Pound & Co military equipment 1915
An advertisement for the military equipment, ingersoll service watch nickel or gun metal, lifeguard reinforced pocket periscope, campaigning knife, penlite pocket lamp, folding pen knife

British bombers with folding wings 1918
Built before the Gothas, British bombers with fold out wings. Reducing space, necessary for storage. Date: 1918

The laundry room of the Cavendish Hotel, 81-83 Jermyn Street, London Date: C. 1910

French views of German ambitions, WW1
A fold-out item expressing French views of German ambitions during the First World War. At the centre, the French cockerel crows, proclaiming the dawn of liberty

Two men sitting in a garden
Two men sitting in a slightly overgrown garden -- the lawn certainly needs mowing!

Girl with teddy bear
A girl sitting in a folding chair with a large teddy bear on her lap. She is looking at the bear rather quizzically

Advert for Gamages garden furniture 1926
A wide range of garden furniture including wicker and cane tables and chairs, couch hammock, folding cane lounges, bathing tents and gaden shelters. Date: 1926

Advert for Lancaster & Sons bellows cameras 1886
Advertisement for 19th century bellows cameras with mahogany frames and apparatus. 1886

Three boys on a desert island captured by an indigenous man, who nails their packing case clothing to a long pole and carries them away midst weeping sore and wailing. Date: 1898

St. James Park, London - View towards Horseguards Parade. Date: circa 1906

A Cosy Diner - Workmen have lunch amid the air raids
Keep Calm and Carry On. A quite fantastic photograph showing two workmen engaged in repairing air raid damage in the London area continue with their private luncheon although the sirens have sounded

Street Baker - Cairo, Egypt - with his lovely fold-put trestle table which he has positioned in a prime spot in front of a beautiful window, with tracery screening surrounded by fantastic tiling

Winfield Bertram Kinner with his Kinner monoplane which used a patented wing-folding system

First prototype de Havilland DH60 Moth G-EBKT
First prototype de Havilland DH60 Moth, G-EBKT, during a demonstration of its wing folding

Photographic, 10841493
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The first production Supermarine Seafire III LR675
The first production Supermarine Seafire III, LR675. This had non-folding wings and was later to be re-designated a IIC

Fairey Rotodyne XE521 made its maiden flight on 6 November
Fairey Rotodyne, XE521, made its maiden flight on 6 November 1957 in helicopter mode and without the folding upper fins. Date: 1957

Tanzanian leaf folding frog
The right hand of a Tanzanian leaf folding frog. The size of the toe discs can vary from specimen to specimen. These frogs were first discribed in 1928 but there has been no agreement on how many

Detail of a folding screen of eight sheets with episode of the Genpei Wars (1180-1185). End of the Heian Period. Tosa School 18th century. Japanese art. Edo period. Painting. ITALY. Venice

Courtiers cap and folding fan. Date between 1801 and 1810

Hiogi: Japanese cypress folding fan Hi?gi: Japanese cypress
Hiogi: Japanese cypress folding fan. Print shows a woman examining a garment; a wooden fan is on the ground at her feet. Date between 1820 and 1822

To the right hon able Lord Viscount Kingsborough, ... this plate representing a perspective view of a lapping room, with the measuring, crisping or folding the cloth in lengths

Kodak film wallet for photographs and negatives 1939

Groveferry, Kent - The Ferry
Grove Ferry (Kent, England) took its name from a hand-drawn ferry that crossed the River Great Stour, shown here in this early 20th century postcard photograph

Messina, Italy - before the earthquake of 1908
Messina, Italy - seen before the devastating earthquake of 29th December 1908. The Giardino a Mare (Sea Garden) Date: circa 1908

Father and daughter outside beach hut
A father and his daughter outside their beach hut at a seaside resort. He looks at her, she looks at the camera. Date: late 1950s

Folding Camp Bed
A handy folding camp bed. Date: 1930s

Folding Travel Chair
A useful chair for holidays and picnics. Folds into a very small waterproof bag, with a stud fastener and handle for carrying! Date: 1930s

Music at home - a lady plays the piano
" Dulce let her fingers stray for a few moments aimlessly over the keys." Date: 1891

COSTUME 1774-1780
French costumes of the later 1770s include the examples of the high, elaborate hairstyles then worn, also the polonaise gown & pelerines. One lady wears a calash (folding hood). Date: 1774 - 1780

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