Formal Collection (page 6)

Japan - The Crown Prince (later Emperor) Taisho (1879-1926) - Crown Prince from 1888 and Emperor from 1912. Date: circa 1908

Wedding - Crown Prince of Sweden and Lady Louise Mountbatten
The Wedding of Crown Prince Adolf of Sweden (1882-1973) and Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten (1889-1965) on 3rd November 1923 at St. Jamess Palace, London

Sultan Mehmed VI exchanges greetings with the German Princes
Sultan Mehmed VI exchanges greetings with the representative German Princes at the time of his formal accession to the Sultanate in June 1918

Advert for Kensitas Cigarettes, 1929
Its better to be fit than fat Kensitas Cigarettes marketed as a appetite suppressant in 1929, recommending substituting snacks between meals with a cigarette instead

RSS Discovery handed over to Sea Scouts
RSS Discovery handed over to HRH Duke of Kent, Commodore of Sea Scouts, by Mr Ormsby Gore, with Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell in attendance. 9 October 1937

Festival of Britain dedication service, St Pauls Cathedral
Festival of Britain service of dedication, St Pauls Cathedral, London. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Fisher, speaks from the pulpit

1960s Dinner Party
A 1960s dinner party. Two couples enjoy a jolly (if very formal!) evening meal with distinctive sixties period crockery, costume and interior decor. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Girls Gym Display
Schoolgirls, pupils of Nita Henson, put on a formal gymnasium display on a rib stall climbing frame. Children exercising at school, PE lesson, keep fit class

Gatehouse in mist, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall
Gatehouse in the early morning mist at Lanhydrock House, a Grade I listed building near Bodmin, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Formal garden and gatehouse, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall
Formal garden and gatehouse at Lanhydrock House, a Grade I listed building near Bodmin, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Church, urn and garden, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall
Church, ornamental urn and formal garden at Lanhydrock House, a Grade I listed building near Bodmin, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Elegant lady in a grand country garden picks roses Date: circa 1890s

Gymnastics Demonstration in the Stadium, Ankara Turkey. Date: circa 1930s

Royal Engineers Annual Reunion Dinner, 1925
Members of the Railway Operating Division, Royal Engineers Annual Reunion Dinner in 1925. Date: 1925

Mother and child after a christening, formal portrait. circa 1960s

Smart Upper Class British Couple dance at a formal ball. Date: 1910s

Trees in a Paris park, France. circa 1967

Tying an evening dress bow tie
Learning to dodge mans stumbling block - typing an evening dress bow - how it is done. Date: 1909

Throne Room, St Jamess Palace, London
Scene in the Throne Room of St Jamess Palace, London, on a Collar Day, when a collar is worn over military uniform or morning dress by those attending a formal event. 1847

Chateau with garden and lake in the foreground. 18th century

Spain and Portugal - Cloister of Belem Monastry - Cloisters around formal gardens. Part of Box 149 Boswell collection - Portugal and Spain. Date: circa 1900

Nursery Rhymes - Stranger sings
Stranger sings - Man in formal clothes standing and singing. Part of Box 52 Boswell collection. Nursery Rhymes. Date: circa 1890s

Dresses for dining 1910
Four women wearing fashionable dinner dresses with high waists. 1910

Greeting, Japan, circa 1880s - Formal greeting, men with swords and ornate clothing, Japan, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Freedom R. A. F. Ball, guests - 1963
A ball to celebrate the granting of the Freedom of Boston (Lincolnshire) to the RAF Station at Coningsby. Guests - Mrs David Matthews

Couple at Downhill Only Club celebration, 1954
Downhill Only Club for skiers, celebration of the start of the season in London. A couple - Miss Vora Mackintosh, who was in the British skiing team, with Mr Jack Shaw-Stewart - share an aperitif

Couple at the Cambridge Uni Conservative ball
A couple - Miss Colette Hinedson and Mr Leslie Thornton-Wallis - dancing the samba (apparently!) at the Cambridge University Conservative Association Ball. Date: 1949

New Years Greeting, Chinatown, New York
Two men toasting in occasion of the New Years celebration in Chinatown, New York, 1912. 1912

Our Boys Clothing Company, ladies riding hats
Our Boys Clothing Company riding hats for women Date: c.1895

Japan - Geisha Girls by the side of a garden pool. Date: circa 1907

The Royal Visit to Cambridge
The royal visit to Cambridge: presentation of the University address to the prince and princess in the quadrangle of Trinity College Date: 1864

Japan - Two Rich women with their young children pose for a formal photograph the infants in full traditional attire. Both women hold circular fans, symmetrically framing the shot. Date: circa 1901

Japanese Couple pose for a formal photograph, possibly directly after their wedding? Date: circa 1895

The Children of the Crown Prince of Japan. From left: Their Imperial Highnesses Prince Hirohito (1901-1989), Prince Nobuhito (1905-1987) and Prince Yasuhito (1902-1953) of Japan

Edward VII in Coach 1901
The King and Queen leaving Buckingham Palace in a state coach. Date: 1901

Garden / Elizabethan
A lady dressed in black walks in an Elizabethan formal garden. (Fair Rosamond of Thomas Delones poem.) Date: 16th century

Christmas Toast
A mother and daughter in evening dresses enjoy a Christmas tipple together in front of the tree. Date: late 1950s

Country Cottage by Kay
A country cottage with a formal garden designed by Claud J Kay Date: 1912

Emile-Francois Loubet
EMILE-FRANCOIS LOUBET French President (1899-1906) in formal dress, with his overcoat over his arm Date: 1838 - 1929

BERNSTORFF (1862- 1939)
JOHANN HEINRICH BERNSTORFF Count Bernstorff; endeavored to further Woodrow Wilsons attempts at mediation preceding USAs entry into WW1. With (US) wife & daughter Date: 1862 - 1939

Formal Dinner 1913
CUOB (Cambridge University Old Boys?) dinner, the men wearing dinner jackets and the tables set with formal place settings including flowers and even a pineapple. Date: 1913

Elizabeth / Austria / Niz 77
KAISERIN ELISABETH VON OESTERREICH, wife of the emperor Franz Josef, looking very unhappy in her formal court costume Date: 1837 - 1898

Ceremony of Presenting the Sheriffs of London
The Ceremony of Presenting the Sheriffs of London. 1811

Hair styles for state functions in 1937
Suggestions for hair styles to be worn with regulation headwear at court presentations or state functions in 1937, the coronation year. Emile of Conduit Street advises curls dressed high on the head

Alice Maud Kay - Photo taken at Christmas, Buenos Aires
Three and a half year-old Alice Maud Kay - Photo taken at Christmas, Buenos Aires Date: 1907

Gardens / Trentham Hall
Trentham Hall, Staffordshire - the formal gardens Date: 1847

Family in formal wear going to church, c. 1800
Family in formal dress going to church or similar, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Harrods tiara for court presentations
For Their Majesties Courts or the Coronation Ceremony (in 1937), a tiara of rhinestones and pearls, plumes and regulation veil from Harrods. 1937

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