Happiness Collection (page 3)

Birthday card, Lots of Luck, with three black cats and a top hat Date: 20th century

Greetings card in the shape of a box of matches, With Kindest Greetings and all Good Wishes for your Happiness and Prosperity. Date: circa 1890s

First Class Contract, spoof ticket, 25 December, available by all routes to Prosperity, Health and Happiness. Date: circa 1880s

Lalla Rookh, long narrative poem by Thomas Moore
She found that the short dream of happiness was over -- the title character of Lalla Rookh, a long narrative poem by Thomas Moore, first published in 1817. 19th century

Birthday card in the form of a newspaper -- The Birthday Times. Date: circa 1910s

Cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited
Christmas cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited, paying to all true friends 365 happy days, from Mr and Mrs Kittridge of Bridge Street, Cambridge. Date: circa 1920s

SABATTIER, Louis R魹(1863 - 1935). End of the
SABATTIER, Louis R魹 (1863 - 1935). End of the First World War. 1918. The liberation in the Place de la Concorde of Paris. Watercolour

Certificate from the Overseas Club - Empire Day 1915
A Certificate from the Overseas Club on Empire Day 1915. Inscribed.This is to Certify that Annie Matthews - 1915 - has helped to send some Comfort and Happiness to the brave Sailors

A Certificate from the Overseas Club in 1916. Inscribed A Signal Wish from the School Children of the Empire who sent Christmas Gifts to Our Brave Soldiers and Sailors

UK General Election 1906 - Winners as the True Blue
The General Election - Comic postcard showing the delight amid the working class at the landslide defeat for the Conservative Party and their Liberal Unionist allies

The results of getting married
Beautiful postcard by Lance Thackeray entitled Amateur Gardening - A Labour of Love. A handsome gent pushes his lovely wife around their walled garden in a green wooden wheelbarrow

Edward VIII - laughing
The Prince of Wales, future King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972), laughing in country attire of tweed suit (with plus fours) and flat cap

The Seaside Girl. Date: circa 1910s

Mother and daughter take the sea air - Cleethorpes
Two jolly pinsters take the sea air arm in arm at Cleethorpes, a seaside resort on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire. The railings remain today. Date: circa 1930s

Model splashing about in the surf
A model (Gill Emberton) splashing about in the seaside surf. Date: circa 1960s

Christmas card, motoring snow scene. 1939

The Blue Bird for Happiness by M. Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird for Happiness by Belgian playwright Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, translated by A. Texeira de Mattos. First produced at the Haymarket Theatre on 8th December 1909

Young woman leaps up from a sand dune, Cornwall
Young woman in a bikini leaps up from a sand dune, Cornwall. Date: 1970

The actress Mai Bacon, London, 1924. A success in Whirled into Happiness and now in the cast of the Little Revue Date: 1924

Three scenes from the musical farce Whirled into Happiness at the Lyric Theatre, London, 1922 with Mai Bacon, Tom Wells and Billy Merson Date: 1922

Christmas Card - Santa carrying sack of toys
Christmas Card - To Wish You a Bumper Load of Happiness at Christmas - Santa carrying a sack of toys. circa 1935

Victorious Irish guard decorated by Madeleine
" Take this back to Tipperary" - At the end of WW1, a victorious Irish guard is decorated by a thankful Madeleine, the personification of the French State. Date: circa 1918

Eggcup stand with eggs on a cutout Christmas card
Eggcup stand with eggs and spoons on a cutout Christmas card -- Health, Happiness, Prosperity, Lays for the Season. Date: circa 1890s

The Swing - A French girl flying high and showing some leg
The Swing - A French girl flying high and showing off her stockings! Date: circa 1920

Young boy plays with a football at a holiday camp
Young boy happily plays with a football at a holiday camp, complete with caravans in the background. Presumably somewhere in Northern England. 1960s

Christmas card in the form of a railway ticket -- the express line of goodwill, first class ticket, terminus of contentment. Date: 1931

Greetings card with playing cards -- Peace and Happiness, Health and Wealth, Every Joy. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card with medieval style interior, looking very cosy in the firelight. Date: circa 1920s

China - Street Food promoting happiness on a cold day Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - Brother, Sister and partners before outbreak of war
A poignant and touching photograph taken on the eve of the First World War as two couples (a brother and sister (far left and second from right)

Proclamation of the First Spanish Republic. 1873
First Spanish Republic.1873 - 1874. Proclamation of the Republic by the National Assembly. 1873-02-11. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana

Birthday card, Dog with basket. early 20th century

Young woman leaps up from a sand dune
Gleefully happy young woman jumps for joy in the sand dunes. 1960s

British seaside bathers - fine selection of bathing costumes
British seaside bathers in a fine selection of bathing costumes and swim caps. Date: circa late 1920s

Mother and Daughter on a shingle beach near fishing boats
Mother and Daughter on a shingle beach near a groyne and some pulled-up fishing boats. Possibly Hastings? Date: circa 1920s

A very jolly group playing with a huge ball on the beach
A wonderful photograph of a very jolly group (possibly one large extended family) playing with a huge ball on the beach - note the variety of magnificent beachwear on show!

The Pursuit of Happiness by Alan Child and Isabelle Loudon
Promotional postcard for The Pursuit of Happiness by Alan Child & Isabelle Loudon (Avon Theatre, New York, 9th October 1933). First produced in England at the Vaudeville Theatre, 30th May 1934

Two winged angels
Happiness at Yuletide. Two angels, one with a lute, appear to be looking down at those on Earth. From the Misch postcard series Angels Guard Thee.Date: 1906

Candid Street snap - Three jolly young women walk down road Date: circa 1930s

Snowdrops on a cross-shaped Easter card. Date: circa 1930s

People drinking water on a New Year card
People drinking water from the Fountain of Happiness on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Two young sisters and their pet cat

Come down under Australia emigration poster 1926-7
Poster encouraging British emigration to Australia, 1926-7. To the young unemployed miner, come down under and be a digger on the surface. Work, health and happiness on the land in Australia

School children in Japan in western dress. Date: 1932

WW2 birthday card, WaF
WW2 birthday card, two girls in WaF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) uniform. A full measure of happiness on your birthday! Date: circa 1942

Willss tobacco advert by H. M. Bateman
Advertisement by H. M. Bateman for Willss Cut Golden Bar tobacco featuring a gent seated in a comfortable armchair wearing a smoking jacket in a state of pipe smoking ecstasy. Date: 1929

The first World war (1918). Celebration of the Victory in the Paris streets (November). Illustration by Charles Hoffbauer

Portrait of young girl, 1788-1790. Francesc Camb󧳠; legacy. Rococo. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Barcelona. National Art Museum of Catalonia

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