Guest Collection (page 4)

Welcoming hotel guest, Japan

Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and two of her children, WW1
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and two of her children, Princess Marie Jose (aged 8) and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (aged 12)

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

Olympic Polo Team, 1924
Englands Olympic Polo team for the Paris Games of 1924. Top left is Major F. W. Barrett, top right is Lieut. Colonel the Hon. J. D. Y. Bingham, bottom right is Captain the Hon. F. E

Individual Guest Cakes. Courtesy Mrs. Joseph A. Lambeth Date: 1936

Individual Guest Cakes. Floral Designs. Date: 1936

Print Users Yearbook -- people in underwear
Print Users Yearbook -- people viewed in a cutaway of a house, all in underwear. A new standard of intimacy. Who would have guessed that undies were the correct garb to don when entertaining guests

Ticket to a regimental ball, Royal Assembly Rooms
Ticket in white, blue and gold design, to a regimental ball for B Company at the Royal Assembly Rooms on 9 April 1890, with the handwritten name of E Guilford. Date: April 1890

Tsar Visits France 2
Tsar Nikolai II is a feted guest in France : he leaves from the gare de Bouy in an atmosphere of enthusiastic cordiality. Date: October 1896

Montague Guest
MONTAGUE GUEST Politician who apparently acquired a reputation for asking questions in the House of Commons. His other claims to fame can only be guessed. Date: CIRCA 1881

A guest at the 1951 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Pa?
A guest at the 1951 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodrome on 6 May

Impressive Wrought-iron Gates of The Akasaka Palace, Tokyo
Impressive Wrought-iron Gates of The Akasaka Palace, or the State Guest House, is one of the two State Guesthouses of Government of Japan in Tokyo

Lalitha Mahal Guest Palace - Mysore, India
Lalitha Mahal Guest Palace, Mysore, India. Built by the erstwhile Maharaja of Mysore to host his most important guest, the Viceroy of India. Date: circa 1910s

Hon Capt Frederick Edward Freddie Guest, CBE, DSO (1875-1937) was the Government Chief Whip 1917-1921 and Secretary of State for Air 1921-1922

RUSSIA. Moscow. Design by Alexander Benois for

Voltaire Sans Souci
Voltaires room in the palace of Sans Souci when he was the guest of Friedrich der Grosse of Prussia. Date: 18th century

Mariner, Wedding Guest
The Mariner compels the Wedding Guest to listen to his tale: The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear Date: First published: 1798

Courtesan and her guest in bed. Print shows a screen enclosing a man with a courtesan on a bed. Date between 1767 and 1770

The time honored guest. Man being served food at table outdoors. Date 1907

Southside Varsity Band concert, Harvey A. Sartorius, director, Southside High School, Rockville Centre Harwood Simmons, guest conductor

Wanted! 10, 000 guest homes, 1000 furnished houses for Worlds Fair visitors by March 15. Poster calling for guest homes to be available during the New York Worlds Fair. Date 1939

The Athletic & Recreation Dept. presents Nassau Suffolk WPA. Symphony Orchestra Guest artist Jeanne Gordon, soprano - Christos Vrionides, conductor : Popular & semi-classic music

Abbey from the guest house, Tintern, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Oberammergau - Luftlmaleri Frescoes
Oberammergau is also famous for its " Luftlmalerei, " or frescoes, of traditional Bavarian themes, fairy tales, religious scenes or architectural trompe-loeil found on many homes

Dressed for the Abbey
Fashions among the royal wedding guests at the marriage of Princess Margaret to Anthony Armstrong Jones (Earl Snowdon) on 6 May 1960 at Westminster Abbey

Medieval bores and boars: after the feast
Three men at the end of a medieval feast: an abbot bores his neighbour, while his other guest tries not to fall asleep. A monk carries away a boars head on a platter out of the hall. Date: Medieval

The Guest who called the Foie Gras Potted Meat by H. M
Cartoon of a man who has made a social faux-pas at the dinner table. Date: 29th November 1929

Two ladies in evening outfits by Paul Poiret and Beer

Garden Party at Buckingham Palace - Princess Elizabeth
Prince Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and her fiance Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten chatting with guests at a garden party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace in July 1947

Coronation. Markers waiting for Guard of Honour
A member of the Royal Air Force Regiment and a member of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, take up position as markers for the imminent arrival of the guards of honour. 1953

Irish Scout leader at a conference
An Irish Scout leader stands by a window reading a programme at the Irish Scouters Conference. 1950s

Queen Elizabeth II - royal tour of India Tatler front cover
Front cover of The Tatler celebrating the royal tour of India in 1961. Queen Elizabeth II, resplendent in magnificent emeralds meets a guest at the Presidential Palace in Pakistan where a banquet was

Mother of the Bride outfit drawn by Barbara Hulanicki
A dress of ocean blue cellophane lace by Mandell as a suggested outfit for a mother of the bride. The line is simple with the skirt mounted on a taffeta camisole bodice

Clever Gretel
The guest runs away from the master, his hands clasped to his head

The Imperial wedding at St. Petersburg
Guests pass up the grand staircase of the Winter Palace on their way to the wedding of Emperor Nicholas II to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess Alix of Hesse. 26th November 1894

Young Victorian couple in their best clothes
A young Victorian couple pose for their photograph in the studio. They are wearing their best clothes, perhaps for a wedding. He wears a long coat, a waistcoat and a wing collar with tie

Young Victorian couple in an outdoor setting
A young Victorian couple pose for their photograph in an outdoor setting. They are wearing their best clothes, perhaps attending a wedding

My Tea Party by Muriel Dawson
A small blonde girl enjoys playing with a toy tea set. A tiny toy soldier on the other side of the table appears to be her only guest

Priory at Odiham, Hampshire - the remains of the Old Guest House

Prince of Wales (George V) at Bolton Abbey
The Prince of Wales (soon to be George V) at Bolton Abbey as a guest of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at the opening of the grouse shooting on Wharfedale Moor

Paper Bag Race party game
A guest at a party takes part in a paper bag race game where two teams must sit on rows of chairs, and blow up a bag and pop it after racing around the line once, before it is the next persons turn

Party Game - identifying by smell
A boy in an Eton style suit takes a sniff at assorted muslin bags containing solids that must be identified by smell

Colonel Billy Bishop VC with German air aces
Air Marshal William Avery Bishop (1894 - 1956) VC, Canadian First World War flying ace, being toasted at a gathering of air aces in Berlin where he was guest of honour

Queensland, Australia
St Leonards Guest House, Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia

William Ball, also known as John Bull, 1851
Engraving showing William Ball (1795-1852), an Englishman from Shropshire, who came to be nicknamed John Bull on account of his weight - 40st

THE FIRST ARRIVAL a guest shakes the hand of his hostess Date: 1895

De Lesseps Honoured
DE LESSEPS HONOURED - the French engineer is guest of honour at a reception at the Dutch consulate at Alexandria - a young girl presents him with a beribboned pick !

Dinner Date
A sulty raven-haired woman in a halter-neck evening dress looks seductively into the eyes of her dinner guest opposite during a candle-lit meal for two

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