Headscarf Collection

Mary Quant Ginger Group dresses in Liberty print, 1964
Traditional Libert print used for a new-old look in Mary Quants Ginger Group collection. Fashioned in demure covered-up little dresses with pique collars and cuffs

Mount Lebanese man wearing turban, cloak, carrying a spear.. Handcolored woodcut from Auguste Wahlens Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World, Brussels, 1845

Basque woman riding a donkey
Basque peasant woman (from the far south of France) riding sidesaddle on a donkey. She carries an absolutely superb wicker basket. Date: circa 1910s

Potato harvest, Rafta Farm, St Levan, Cornwall
Mother and daughter (Pamela and Sandra Semmens) working on the potato harvest at Rafta Farm, St Levan, near Lands End, Cornwall. Date: 1970s

Marie Louise, former Empress of France
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Empress of France from 1810 to 1814 as the second wife of Napoleon (1791-1847). circa 1810s

The Duke and Duchess of York - Durham Colliery visit
The Duke and Duchess of York (Later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) - visiting a Durham Colliery on 29th July 1936 - most likely the Glamis Pit at Kibblesworth Colliery

Chinook Basket Maker - British Columbia, Canada. The use of the word Kloochman on this postcard is an example of chinook jargon, meaning Wife. Date: circa 1910s

Shoot for Jaeger - thick dark smart coat, black gloves and headscarf. Date: circa early 1970s

Client: Dorville - Model: Maxime De la Falaise - Shoot date: November 11, 1952 Date: 1952

Sudanese woman showing traditional facial scarification and elegantly braided hair - (see 10284598 and 10587718 (close-up) for the original B/W print versions). Date: circa 1907

West Africa - Nigeria - Kano Woman - Sanusi People
West Africa - Nigeria - Kano Woman with a wicker mat rolled-up under her arm - Sanusi People. Date: circa late 1950s

Lord and Lady St Levan, St Michaels Mount, Cornwall
Lord John Francis Arthur St Aubyn, 4th Baron St Levan (1919-2013), and his wife Lady Susan St Levan (d 2003), walk along the causeway from their home on St Michaels Mount, Cornwall

Pretty young lady making a splash with a dive into the sea
I'm making a big splash down here'! A pretty young lady in a vivid red swimsuit and headscarf leaps into the sea, sending some of the other occupants of the waters flying into the air!

Woman Wearing Headscarf
A 1930s fashion photograph portraying a smiling young woman wearing a patterned headscarf outdoors. Date: circa 1939

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Plant Soya Beans! Date: circa mid-1970s

Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746-1817). Polish general and statesman. National hero in Poland and Belarus for his leadership of a national insurrection

Conversation Piece - Donegal
A painting of two headscarf wearing women in the countryside, the standing lady is speaking, possibly in consolation, with the red haired girl who is sat by a stone wall, with downcast eyes

Donna Di Sora (Abrusso)
A portrait illustration of an old woman with a heavily wrinkled face, wearing a long, black and white striped headscarf. Date: circa 1921

Mrs. Mounter
A portrait oil painting of Mrs. Mounter, an older woman wearing a red headscarf, sat at a breakfast table, with a black teapot and white cups and saucers

Jean and Nounou
An intimate group portrait painting of a little child, comforted by a nanny, wearing a purple banded headscarf, she is holding a toy dog. Date: circa 1916

Gathering Rhubarb
This painting shows a tall woman wearing a blue headscarf and dress, carrying a basket laden with rhubarb stalks, which has been loaded by the two figures nearby

Orange Headscarf
This painting shows a country woman wearing a bright orange headscarf, holding a long stick to a flame. Date: circa 1916

The Gipsy Girl
A portrait painting of a seated Romani woman, caressing her shoulder, while wearing a red and white outfit with a bright headscarf. Date: 1915

Old Age
A side profile portrait of an old woman wearing a white bonnet or headscarf, she expresses some sadness with her frown and wrinkle forms. Date: circa 1915

Marcela
An etching of a woman, with one hand on her hip, wearing a headscarf in a countryside landscape of dunes that are populated with goats. Date: circa 1915

Travelling Man
A portrait painting of a seated foreign traveller, wearing a white headscarf and carrying a large assortment of bags and cases strapped around his body. Date: circa 1914

Thatched Cottage Bemerton
A watercolour painting of a town, with an older lady wearing a white headscarf and red top, stood outside a thatched cottage in Bemerton, a civil parish in Wiltshire, England. Date: circa 1918

Santander wet nurse, 1856, by Valeriano Dominguez Becquer
Valeriano Dominguez Becquer(1833-1870). Spanish painter. Santander wet nurse, 1856. Museum of Romanticism. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019

Spinning Virgin, 1897, by Feliks Cichocki-Nalecz
Feliks Cichocki-Nalecz (1861-1921). Polish painter. Spinning Virgin, 1897. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

A Girl from Bronowice, 1893-1894, by Aleksander Gierymski
Aleksander Gierymski (1850-1901). Polish painter. A Girl from Bronowice, 1893-1894. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Beet-lifting, 1893, by Leon Wyczolkowski (1852-1936)
Leon Wyczolkowski (1852-1936). Polish painter of Young Poland movement. Beet-lifting, 1893. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Skerikulla
A portrait etching of a Skeri girl with a beaming smile, wearing a dotted headscarf tied under the chin. Date: 1912

Alpine woman with headscarf, pipe, large basket and goat, outdoor scenic photograph. Captioned Beauty and the Beast, and an Alpine Discovery'. Date: 1910

The front cover of Britannia and Eve from August 1943. Date: 1943

Ronald Reagan with Queen Elizabeth II
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and Queen Elizabeth II (b 1926) out horse riding together. Date: circa 1980s

Sylvia Syms, English actress, in demonstration
Sylvia Syms (b 1934), English actress, seen here taking part in a demonstration against the Apartheid Movement in South Africa

A housewife with a mouthful of clothes pegs strikes a pose as she hangs out the washing! Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

A young couple, Ivy A. Hill and Bruce Lindemann, pose together for a romantic photograph in a bucolic setting. With him in a cricket pullover and she in a checked dress with matching headscarf

A smiling young woman in a headscarf and apron washing up or preparing food in a kitchen or scullery. Tea towels hang from the airer above, assorted ladles and pans are close to hand

Italian Glamour - Bewitching woman with jewel headscarf
Italian Glamour - Bewitching woman with exotic jewel headscarf and dark make-up around her eyes Date: circa 1920s

A young woman in fancy dress, in a type of Romany gipsy costume that was very popular in the early twentieth century. Date: 1918

A little girl dressed up in costume, perhaps as a Romany gipsy or similar due to her head scarf and her tambourine. Date: c.1950

Girl in a red headscarf
Lovely young girl in a red headscarf and winter coat with fur trim. Ivy and red berries in foreground. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: circa 1915

Victorian scrap, a Greek woman. circa 1890

Prince and Princess of Wales in a motor car
The Prince and Princess of Wales (later King George V and Queen Mary) in a motor car. 1905

Mrs Libbys Milk
Libbys Happy Families Card Game, Mrs Libbys Milk. circa 1950s

Itelmen people of the Kamchatka peninsula
Itelmen woman in headscarf, and Itelmen man in furlined coat. Native of the Kamchatka peninsula. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of Men

Pueblo Indian drilling turquoise, New Mexico, USA
Pueblo Indian drilling turquoise for the making of necklaces, New Mexico, USA. Date: circa 1920

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