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Chantelle Crop - Murrays Cabaret Club costume designChantelle Crop - Original costume design for one of the performers at Murrays Cabaret Club, 16-18 Beak Street, Soho, London
Mrs Adair, formerly American heiress Cornelia Wadsworth. Married her second husband, the wealthy Irishman, Mr John George Adair, in 1867. A leading society hostess during the Edwardian era
Nancy, Lady AstorNANCY, LADY ASTOR nee Nancy Witcher Langhorne wife of Waldorf, 2nd viscount Astor (her 2nd husband) first woman MP, noted hostess of the Cliveden Set Date: 1879 - 1964
Dinner Party with Thirteen PeopleTHIRTEEN AT TABLE - the hostesss ultimate nightmare ! Date: 1925
Air stewardess demonstrating oxygen mask on board a passenger plane. Date: circa 1970s
Mrs Harry Payne WhitneyGertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 April 18, 1942), American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City
Mrs & Mrs Sweeny at an Ascot House PartyA group present at the Old Malt House in Bracknell, for an Ascot house party hosted by Mr and Mrs William Garthwaite. The group shows, from left, Mrs Charles Sweeny
727 Passengers-LufthansaAn Air Hostess checks passengers seatbelts are firmly secured prior to take- off aboard a Lufthansa Boeing 727
Princess Yourievsky, well known society hostess and singerPortrait of Princess Yourievsky, well known society hostess and a gifted singer, London, 1923 Date: 1923
Swiss Hostess, Canton of Glacis. 19th century
Sallie Monkland in SchiaparelliSallie Monkland, an American member of high society in London, pictured in the dress she wore for a cocktail party at her Carlos Place house
Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew - Hostess (to Sly): You will not pay for the glasses you have burst? circa 1830
Gambetta at a SalonLEON MICHEL GAMBETTA French statesman, making his debut at Madame Adams Paris salon, an influential gathering - where his hostess is the only female ! Date: 1838 - 1882
Suzanne Curchod NeckerSUZANNE CURCHOD NECKER French writer & salon hostess, wife of statesman, mother of Mme de Stael; previously betrothed to Gibbon but their relationship declined & fell. Date: 1739 - 1794
Cartoon, How Many Lumps? WW1Cartoon, How many lumps? The French comic actress Cecile Sorel serves her guests, including a bearded man who has been fighting in the war. On the left sits the French philosopher Voltaire. Date: 1917
Lady Webster and her childrenLady Webster, whose husband, Sir Augustus Webster, purchased Battle Abbey for 200, 000, is a daughter of the late Mr. Henry Crossley of Aldborough Hall, Bedale
Lady Wodehouse with her Airedale TerrierLady Wodehouse, formerly Frances Margaret Montagu, twice-divorced wife of John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley (often thought to be the inspiration for P.G)
Advert for Hawkins kitchen accessories 1952Home-making begins with Hawkins. Hawkins labour saving kitchen accessory to make light of every chore. From a Tecal, that automatically makes your morning tea or coffee
Lady Dorothy Nevill (1826 - 1913), English writer, hostess, horticulturist and plant collector
Bystander cover - Lady DesboroughEthel Anne Priscilla ( Ettie ) Grenfell (nÚÑáFane), Lady Desborough (1867-1952), Wife of William Henry Grenfell, Baron DesboroughEttie, Lady Desborough
Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland by Madame YevondeMillicent Fanny Sutherland-Leveson Gower- [n饠 Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine], duchess of Sutherland (18671955), society hostess and social reformer
The Food Problem, WW1 cartoon by FishProfessor of Economics (to Hostess): Pardon! - my bread, I believe. Polite society begin to squablle over portions as food shortages take hold in the latter part of the First World War. Date: 1917
Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland as a nurse, Tatler cover, WMillicent Fanny Sutherland-Leveson Gower- [n饠 Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine], duchess of Sutherland (18671955), society hostess and social reformer
Miss Susan Bligh as Calypso, by Madame Yevonde. Calypso played hostess to Ulysses when he was shipwrecked on her island. Susan Rachel Bligh (1916-1983)
Millicent, Duchess of SutherlandMillicent Fanny Sutherland-Leveson Gower- [n饠 Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine], duchess of Sutherland (18671955), society hostess and social reformer. Date: c.1905
Mayfair Catering Company advertisement 1928Advertisement for the Mayfair Catering Company, offering everything a society hostess might need for successful entertaining during the Season from silver and glasses to flowers
Morris flip top table advertisementThe Morris Triple Fliptop table, the table that actually grows and grows and grows. The accompanying photographs show a table four ingeniously transformed into a table for ten with the help of a
Tatler front cover, Entertaining issue, 1964Front cover of The Tatler magazine showing a girl acting hostess, representing Tatlers devotion to autumn entertaining in this particular issue
Advertisement, Dryad Tea WaggonAdvertisement for the Dryad Tea Waggon, with three oak trays, on four plated swivel wheels, rubber tyred, with cane work. Very convenient for houses with long passages and for tea on the lawn
Poems of Childhood -- two little girlsTwo little girls sit facing each other -- one is the hostess, the other is the visitor. Date: 1912