Idle Collection

The Ladder of Fortune. Industry and Morality bring solid rewards. Idle schemes and speculations yield poverty and ruin. Date: 1875

Cheshire Fox Meet
Well-to-do fox hunters standing beside their cars with a pack of Royal Rock Beagles at a Meet at Storeton, Merseyside, England. Date: 1950s

Idle - Town Gate - Ox roast - Bradford

Idle - The Green - Bradford

Striking Lancashire Workers Date: 1854

Photographs of Gainsborough shooting party, outdoor sporting portraits and group shot. Captioned, Those Idle Rich: The Earl of Gainsborough's Birthday shooting party, at Exton Park, Rutland'

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Un vago es un faccioso (A lazy is a factious). Poster edited by the Departament of Public Order of Aragon

Comic postcard, Foreman and workman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Boss and workman Date: 20th century

Calligraphic title page with vignette of the Skeleton of Death tipping over a misers chair as two relatives grab bags of money from his strong box

HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 12
12. The industrious prentice Lord Mayor of London Date: 1747

HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 6
6. The industrious prentice out of his time and married to his masters daughter Date: 1747

HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 8
8. The industrious apprentice has grown rich and become Sheriff of London Date: 1747

Industry: The idle prentice punished
5. The idle prentice turnd away and sent to sea (final destination unknown). Date: 1747

HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 2
2. The industrious prentice performing the duty of a christian Date: 1747

Happy New Year card - turning over a new leaf
Happy New Year greetings postcard - turning over a new leaf and do a bit of washing for a change! Rather than idle chit chat on the doorstep, get the washing done...!!! Date: circa 1910s

Hamburg workhouse - punishment of inmates
An illustration of the punishment meted out to idle paupers at the Hamburg workhouse in 1777. Offenders were placed in a large basket suspended by a rope over the dining hall table while the more

World War One pack of playing cards - Shell Motor Spirit Co
World War One pack of playing cards issued by the Shell Motor Spirit Company with Shell logo and Best Of Allies Always In the Front surrounded by images of warships, aeroplanes, tanks, etc

Gossip about Fairies 31
Idle Inny and the Dwarf - an Irish variant on the German tale of Rumpelstiltskin

Dick Whittington. The Pavilion Theatre in Torquay
Dick Whittington. Second page of four-page flyer for The Pavilion in Torquay on 26th December 1939 for 3 weeks. Headed " Laughter

Cartoon, Robert Soutar, actor, and Meyer Lutz, composer
Cartoon, Robert Soutar (left, 1830-1908), English actor, comedian, stage manager, writer and director, and Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (right, 1829-1903), German-born British composer and conductor -- A Month

Cockfighting (John Kay)
A cockfight in Edinburgh Thus we poor Cocks exert our Skill & Brav ry For idle Gulls and Kites that trade in Knav ry Date: 1785

Cartoon, British troops at the Front, WW1
Cartoon, British troops at the Front. Rumour has it that British troops on the Western Front are living in idle luxury, leaving it to the French to do any nasty fighting that has to be done

Trifles Light as Air by Barribal
A pretty young woman idly blows bubbles with a pipe. Date: 1919

Cartoon, A Friend at Last, WW1
Cartoon, A Friend at Last. A German cavalryman says to a British slacker who hasn t yet joined the armed forces: Thanks, mein friendt! Your neutrality in the war is most helpful to me

Lunchtime scene on the Embankment, London, WW1
Rank Outsiders. A lunchtime scene on the Embankment, London, at the start of the First World War. Young men who could be joining up to fight stand idly watching through the railings as the Inns of

King Gustav & Guests
GUSTAV V, KING OF SWEDEN (1912-1950), chatting to a gathering of ladies and gentlemen after a tennis match. Date: 1858 - 1950

Prevent revealing sensitive information to the enemy spies
A poster design from WW2, warning against idle talk to strangers, even if they are exceptionally attractive! circa 1940

Double page spread in a diary for 14-19 May
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 14-19 May. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

German Boys on a disused Railway, Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing two German boys playing on a railway track leading into the American Sector of West Berlin, November 1948

Police breaking up a fight in Soho, London, 1911
Illustration showing the aftermath of a street brawl between immigrants in Soho, London. The original caption emphasised that although many of these foreigners were hard working handcraftsmen

Jacket & Trousers 1939
Leisure, those idle care-free re-creating moments, has brought the Lounge Sports Jacket and Flannel Trousers into great popularity

French at Venice
The French under Louis XII defeat the Venetians at Agnadella (Rivolta). The guns stand idle as the foot- soldiers and cavalry separately collide

Unemployed Men
A group of unemployed Italian men, Saffron Hill, near Farringdon, London EC1

Crystal Palace / Opera
In consequence of the great pressure for lodgings, the Proprietor of Her Majestys Theatre allows parties visiting the opera to live in their boxes until the next day

Hogarth Banquet / Ind&idle
8. The industrious apprentice has grown rich and become Sheriff of London

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 10
10. The industrious prentice Alderman of London, the idle one impeach d before him by his accomplice

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 4
4. The industrious apprentice a favourite and entrusted by his master

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 3
3. The idle apprentice gambling in the churchyard during Divine Service

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 1
1. The fellow prentices at their looms

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