High Collection (page 100)

Ball / Evening Dress 1865
Princess style wedding dress with high bodice, tablier trim of lace with rosettes, tight sleeves with reverse cuffs & worn with multiple strings of pearls, a veil & white gloves

Crinoline in High Wind
The fate that befalls fashion conscious women when visiting places susceptible to high winds. A womans skirts are blown over her head revealing her cage crinoline

Racial / Africa / Egypt
An ancient Egyptian king with a high official (left) and a fan-bearer (right)

Robe d
An indoors dress, both front and back views, featuring a high waist, full, bunched skirt and a deep lace collar

Robes de Diner
Two flirtatious girls model the latest Parisian dinner gowns with high waists and full, flared skirts typical of the World War One period

Deux Jolie Toilettes / Summer Series
Two elegantly attired women pose in the latest Parisian summer fashions. Dresses feature the high waisted, full-skirted style typical of the World War One period, and are completed by matching hats

Pyramid of Cheops / Giza
The Pyramid of Cheops at Giza. 146.6 metres high, 13 acre base, 6 million tonnes of stone, 20 years in construction

Fly-wheel at St. Denis
A huge fly-wheel dynamo at St. Denis station, used to light Paris. There were eight dynamos at the St. Denis station, producing a high tension current of 2250 volts and 210 amps

Cotton shoot on the Alabama
Cotton shoot of around 350 feet in length used to send bales of cotton from high up on a steep river-bank down to a passing paddle steam-ship, Magnolia

Racial Types Sudan
A high-ranking Sudanese gentleman, attended by his attendants

Benin Village Scene
Village scene in Benin - a high-ranking citizen with his attendants

Suggestions for the homes of tomorrow: High frequency cooker
Photograph of a woman demonstrating the cooker of the future, in which the high frequency waves cook right through the food. The invention was a forerunner of the microwave oven, commonly in use today

Two drivers in the cab of the Saint Bartholomew
Development of high speed railway travel; two drivers in the cab of the Saint Bartholomew. On its initial run the locomotive arrived into Paddington three minutes early

Hunting Tweeds
A sportsman in tweed suit, high leather boots with elasticated, water-proof spatterdashes and a tweed helmet hat

French Alps / Chamonix
French Alps: the Dru Mountain (3750 metres high) viewed from Chamonix

England / Guildford
Guildford, Surrey, has one of the finest High Streets in the South of England. Half-way down, is the well-known 16th century clock, outside a very quaint Guild Hall building

Stamford High Street
The high street, Stamford, Lincolnshire

Half-Timbered Houses
Fine Tudor half-timbered shops and houses on High Bridge, Lincoln, built on a ribbed Norman arch, c.1160. The dark vault under the bridge is the Glory Hole

Timber-Frame House / 1939
Timber-framed house in High Holborn, London. The ground floor has been converted into shops

Lincoln / Bridge / 1950S
The High Bridge was built upon a Norman arch dating from 1160. The house above dates from 1540

The flooded fens around the Coffer Dam. Farmland drowned in
The flooded fens of the Eastern Counties. The flooding caused by numerous high tides which was hoped to be resolved by the building of the Coffer Dam The dam would act as a barrier to the assaults of

Supreme being Fete
Robespierre orders a Festival of the Supreme Being, in the Tuileries and the Champ de Mars, Paris : but he is thought by many to be setting himself up as high priest

England / Boscastle
A view looking down the High Street of Boscastle, a village on the north coast of Cornwall

Railway of the future
The railway of the future, travelling 300 miles an hour. Mr E. W Chalmers Kearneys working model of his high speed railway, where, he claimed, 300 mph could be obtained in safety

Tarot Card Wheel Fortune
TAROT : 10 LA ROUE DE FORTUNE (The Wheel of Fortune)

Autumn Fashions 1937
Paris Fashions for Autumn include a 3/4 length plum coloured coat with high mandarin collar, a short blue coat trimmed with astrakan fur, & fez-like hat with veil

Girl on a spacehopper 2 of 4
A girl bounces high into the air on her spacehopper, one of the classic new toys of the 1970s. (Picture 2 of 4)

Ether / 1847 / Germany
German students get high on ether

Key Buildings 1850 / World
A comparative view of the principle buildings of the World in 1850 including the High Level Bridge - St Peters Rome - The Great Pyramid - The Porcelain Pagoda in Nanjing

King Alfreds Tower, (1722) 160 feet high, on the Somerset - Wiltshire border: " Alfred the Great, A.D. 879, on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders"

Burrinjuck Dam / 1930S
BURRINJUCK DAM This dam which is 92 metres high was built between the Wars on the Murrumbidgee River, near Yass, New South Wales, Australia

Posing in the Garden
Smiling young woman poses in stilettoes amongst the herbaceous borders

Boy with a Hoop
A boy rolling a hoop along a pavement beside a high wall on a London street

Cocktail Girls 1950S 2 / 4
A blonde perched on a bar stool & a brunette leaning against the bar sip refreshing drinks while wearing one piece bathing costumes & strappy high-heeled sandals

Plas Mawr / Conway / Wales
Plas Mawr or The Great Mansion on the High Street in Conway. This fine building was built in 1576 by the Wynne family and has recently been restored

Large Welsh Banquet / 1846
The Cyfarthfa Banquet given by William Crawshay to the ladies of Merthyr Tydfil and the vicinity in acknowledgement of the high honour paid to his son and bride on their return

High Heels / Bon Ton 1924
High heeled court shoes both with elongated toes, open sides & unusual straps. One is of the T-bar design, the other has multiple loops

Midinette Shoes 1948
Black, high heeled court shoe with a net vamp, ruffle edge & rosette by Lotus

Plumstead High Street, looking east towards Bostall Hill, photographed in its heyday. Note the horse buses, bustling pavements, dental practice, confectioners, butchers etc

Pin-Up on Stool / 1950
Fifties pin-up, seated on a bar stool & with hands on hips, wears tight-fitting black shorts & a see-through, off-the-shoulder top

On the Beach 1899
A lady in a blue gingham dress sits in a high-backed wicker beach chair while her companion in red striped gown carries a shrimping net

Mannequin Stilettos
Study of shop mannequins with stilettos instead of feet!

Prairie / Music Cover
A young couple gaze lovingly at each other as they stand on a vantage point from where they can see their log cabin. Illustration for the song: " When the Moon Hangs High..."

Woman in Trousers 1939
A young woman wearing a pair of wide leg trousers, high heels and a blouse with very large buttons down the front and very small buttons at the cuffs. Date: 1939

Dress of First Empire
A gown of the first French Empire, with a high waistline, puffed sleeves & ornameneted on the sleeves and hemline with vandyking, according to a later source

Ship in High Seas
The transatlantic steam-packet France caught in high seas

Monstrosities of 1819-20
A satire on fashion. Amongst the styles mocked are cossack trousers, pinched male waists, high stand-fall collars, the Nelson bustle, huge headgear & profusely adorned hemlines

Costume Miniature C. 1805
A young, blonde woman in a high-waisted, classical style, white muslin gown with low, square neckline. A red shawl is tucked into her belt. Her hair is dressed in a simple manner

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