Headscarves Collection

Visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Edlington - onlookers
A group of expectant ladies (Mother, Grandmothers and their young children) awaiting the arrival of the Duke of Edinburgh during his visit to Edlington, South Yorkshire. Date: circa 1955

Open Market, Bruges
An oil painting of some women, wearing white headscarves and carrying baskets containing vegetables, at an open market in Bruges, Belgium. Date: circa 1919

Munich Beer
An illustration of a scene inside an alehouse in Munich, Germany, where three women wearing headscarves are enjoying a beer with a man

Twin sisters in matching headscarves, coats and skirts c. 1930s

SWIMWEAR / BELGIUM 1913
Bathing beauties in polka dot headscarves and clinging one- piece bathing costumes take a stroll in the sea. One costume has side lacing on the legs & a deep V -neck. 1913

Physiognomy - Northern Russian Type - Woman (1 / 2)
Physiognomy - Northern Russian Type - Woman (1/2) - full face front view. Date: 1902

Advert for Viyella, womens motoring headscarf 1908
Miss Kitty Gordon wearing Viyella gauntlers. Date: 1908

SOCIAL / WOMEN CHATTING
Two elderly women in coats, both wearing headscarves, one wearing her slippers, chatting on the pavement of an otherwise deserted London street Date: 1950s

Dressed for Motoring
A family dressed for the ride - they are wrapped up in fur coats, headscarves and goggles. Date: 1909

Three fishermen, Sri Lanka
Three ragged fishermen, two wearing headscarves, stand ready to launch their outrigger, prau, fishing boat from shallow water Munnakkara, Sri Lanka Date: 1994

Children wearing native costume - near Lagos, Nigeria. Date: 1955

Two Good Friends - Happy young boy and Girl - Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1920s

Two women smoke from a hookah pipe, Algeria
Two women smoke from a hookah pipe in Algeria, North Africa. One woman is seated and holds the stem of the sheesha pipe near her mouth, ready to inhale

Hungarian Wedding Cake
These Hungarian peasant women in traditional headscarves are decorating a wedding cake with painted gingerbread swords, hearts and edible babies. Date: 1930s

Advert for Burberry weatherproof top-coats and suits 1913
Showing a man wearing a trilby hat, striped single breasted lounge suit for daytime function, in a wide range of materials, flannel, cashmere and tweed, narrow trousers and spats shoes

Market women and their Bananas - Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: 1909

Communist China - Palestinian soldiers marching
Palestinian soldiers marching - the Peoples Republic of China was a supporter of Palestine against the State of Israel during the 1950s and 1960s. circa 1960s

Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Children seated with Chillum and tea
Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Children in traditional Uzbek costume seated with Chillum pipe and teapot. Date: circa 1908

US Comic Postcard - How can you afford it?
How can you do it - on $13.50 per ? A Gent is chauffeur driven in a posh car with two lovelies - how does he manage it??? Date: 1908

Tatler front cover, New Universities 1964
Helen and Catherine Jay, the twin daughters of Labour MP Mr Douglas Jay pose in the grounds of the University of Sussex, one of a number of new campus universities opening in the 1960s

Romanian Women by village gate Date: 1920s

Women and Children of Zermatt, Switzerland - seated next to one of the traditional wooden houses of the Alpine town. Date: circa 1910s

Women in Fashionable Oriental Costume with fans Date: circa 1920s

Rotary hand quern for grinding corn - Palestine, Middle East. Date: circa 1920s

Spakenburg, The Netherlands - Negotiations for a horse sale - rural community, one of the last where Dutch women wore traditional costume. Date: early 1930s

Three Russian women in traditional costume off boating
Three Russian women in traditional costume head off for a boating jaunt on a still lake (or a very wide river - possibly the Volga?). Date: circa 1902

Sullen Russian girl seated in the undergrowth
Sullen Russian country girl (in need of a good joke) seated in the undergrowth. Date: circa 1902

Rural Russia - Villagers, including a dapper accordion player and three headscarf-wearing young ladies holding bouquets of flowers

Russian Countrywomen in traditional costume
Russian Countrywomen in a variety of traditional costumes Date: 1902

Traditional dance - The Women of Megara, Greece. Date: 1920s

Lighthouse at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Lighthouse on the East Jetty (Harbour Wall) at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France Date: circa 1903

Russian village girls - all wearing white headscarves. They may be out picking soft fruits, judging by the woven reed basket held by the central figure.. Date: 1904

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