Friends Collection (page 5)

Comic postcard, Two women discuss musician boyfriend Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man scratching himself on his bed Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women chatting - one of them in tears, confiding in her friend Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Girl and boy chat over a gate Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Girl comforts crying boy Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Girl and boy falling out over broken toy Date: 20th century

Children on a birthday postcard Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, Two cats enjoying the peace, WW1 Date: circa 1918

A jolly group of holidaymakers pose for a photograph with prop beer bottle, various modes of transport and hats at a Blackpool studio. Date: 1933

Back view of two ladies walking along an unidentified sea front arm in arm. Date: c.1948-1952

A group of children lined up for a photograph in a terraced street. Date: 1930s

Theatrical stars June and Antia Elson on holiday in sunny England at Lulworth Cove, 1926 - top in a motorboat with Nick Prinsep (top) and with other friends (below) Date: 1926

Group of geishas musicians on picnic with man, Japan
Group of geishas musicians on a picnic with a man, Japan, late 19th century

Two women on the beach at Bognor Regis. Date: 1920s

Studio portrait of two women, both with their dark hair bobbed and wearing identical blouses with large collars and tie. Date: c.1930

Two women pose for a photograph in identical fancy dress costumes, given patriotic flair with Union Jack skirts. Date: late 1920s

All are not Friends Who Speak Us Fair. Artists interpretation of a traditional proverb. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1916

To Absent Friends
Heres Health to Them Thats Awa Young girl in a floral dress making a toast to absent friends. Artist: Ethel Larcombe

The Four-in-Hand Club
The Four-In-Hand Club, a coach driving club, was founded in April 1808, by Charles Buxton, the inventor of the Buxton bit, along with some friends

Samuel Rogers house facing Green Park. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated

Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth

Barber and customer in a barbershop decorated with wigs. The Shaver and the Shavee. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed by Henry Bunbury

Seadragon and striped cowfish
Common seadragon or weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus and striped cowfish, Aracana aurita. (Superb dragon, Phyllopteryx foliatus, and ostracian)

John Dory, magpie perch, silver fish and butterfly lobster
John Dory, Zeus faber, magpie perch, Cheilodactylus nigripes, migratory silver fish, and butterfly lobster, Ibacus peronii

Emu and young, Dromaius novaehollandiae
Emu and young chicks, Dromaius novaehollandiae. Lithograph after an illustration by Louisa Anne Meredith from her book Tasmanian Friends and Foes, Feathered, Furred and Finned, Marcus Ward, London

Turqoise berry and Aristotelia peduncularis
Turquoise berry, Drymophila cyanocarpa, and red, white & black, Aristotelia peduncularis. Moth butterfly, Liphyra brassolis

Native fuchsia, lilac and pepper
Native fuchsia, Correa speciosa, native lilac, Tetratheca glandulosa, native pepper, Tasmannia aromatica with green mantis, Mantis religiosa var

Margin-winged stick insect and red epacris
Margin-winged stick insect, Ctenomorpha chronus, and red epacris, Epacris impressa. (Walking stick mantis, Phasma sp.) Chromolithograph after an illustration by Louisa Anne Meredith from her book

Copperleaf snowberry and purple apple-berry
Copperleaf snowberry, Gaultheria hispida, and purple berry, Billardiera longiflora. With emerald king butterfly, Papilio palinurus

Common stargazer and longsnout boarfish
Common stargazer, Kathetostoma laeve, and longsnout boarfish, Pentaceropsis recurvirostris. (Catfish, Kathethostoma loeve, and pig-faced lady)

Globe flower and buttercups
Globe flower, Trollius europaeus, and other species of buttercups, Ranunculus glacialis, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Daniel Rabel after a botanical illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian

Irish gentlemen fighting a duel with pistols, Dublin, 1821
Irish gentleman Brian Boru and Naval officer Tarpaulin fighting a duel with pistols, Dublin, 1821. Seconds and members of the Duelling Society of Dublin attending

Irish gentlemen slumming it in a barnyard shebeen, Dublin. Peg-leg officer falls among pigs, geese and potatoes. Disagreeable Adventures of Brian Boru

Three young Italian sisters by their Christmas Tree
Three young Italian sisters playing with their toys underneath the Christmas tree. Date: 1911

Memorial to poet and musician Ivor Gurney, Belgium
Similar in design to those for Ledwidge and Chavasse, the memorial was unveiled on 12 September 2007, the initiative of Piet Chielens and the Friends of the In Flanders Fields Museum

Plaque to Capt Clement Robertson VC, Merlijn Restaurant
The memorial, on the wall of the restaurant, was unveiled on 29 April 2019 in the presence of Lt Gen A.D. Leakey, the British Ambassador Alison Rose

Children playing in rowing boat on beach at Gorleston-on-Sea
Seven young children playing in a rowing boat on the beach at Gorleston-on-Sea. Date: circa 1910s

A group of friends in the sea at Margate, Kent - displaying a fine variety of bathing costumes and caps! Date: 1919

Large group of extended family and friends on British beach
A superb seasdie candid photograph of a large group of extended family and friends on a British coastal resort beach. Date: circa 1920

Cheery cover of London Opinion magazine, May 1932, featuring a group of gaily dressed and very pretty young women sitting on a sea wall. Date: 1932

A postcard bearing a very useful message for busy people in order to stop their friends hating them: " I m very, very busy, With many things to do, But my favorite occupation is

Gloriously joyous photograph showing three women on the beach. While two younger women in their swimming costumes giggle as they pose in front of a beach hut

A group of five women posing for a photograph in the 1920s, all in hats, mainly of the cloche variety. Date: 1920s

Cartoon, A Friend at Court (John Bright)
Cartoon, A Friend at Court -- a satirical comment on the radical Liberal MP John Bright, a Quaker (hence the friend pun), who had recently obtained a Cabinet position (President of the Board of Trade)

Cartoon, A Dress Rehearsal (John Bright)
Cartoon, A Dress Rehearsal -- a satirical comment on the radical Liberal MP John Brights expectation that he might obtain a Cabinet position in the next Liberal government

Dog owners given free licences
Over 200 free licences were given to dog owners too poor to pay the 7s. 6d. tax. The licences were presented at the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch

Johnson and Boswell in Bolt Court, London
Dr Samuel Johnson and his friend James Boswell in Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. 18th century

Bottlenose Dolphins, wearing Christmas hats

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