Inviting Collection

Poster for Valencia, Garden of Spain
Poster advertising Valencia, the Garden of Spain

Adam, Eve, Serpent
Conveniently placed foliage conceals the private parts of Adam and Eve, of which they are about to become modest thanks to the apple Eve is inviting Adam to taste

Advert / Travel French Alp
Poster inviting you to go winter-sporting at Mont- Revard, in the French Alps

Summer Holidays in Holland and Belgium
Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in Holland and Belgium, Cooks World Travel Service. A young woman in a short green dress stands on the beach waving a handkerchief

Turkish booby trap near Gaza, Palestine, WW1
A Turkish booby trap, made to look inviting by the presence of food and drink, near Gaza, Palestine during the First World War. Date: September 1917

Female Type / Reading Book
A lady reads a book, wearing a cloche hat, Louis heel shoes, stockings and either a chemise or a pair of cami-knickers

Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks
Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks World Travel Service, showing a West Country scene with people playing on a sandy beach, fishing nets and seagulls

Dwelling House Entrance Design
A lithographic plate produced by Day and Sons, showing a design for an entrance doorway for a dwelling house. The quatrefoils above the doorway allow for inviting light

At The Fair
A pair of illustrations showing scenes of women at a fair, the figure of an old man on a cart is clutching the skirts of a lady, inviting her to visit the hall of lost steps. Date: circa 1901

RMS Titanic - archive of Joseph Bell, Chief Engineer
RMS Titanic, archive of Joseph Bell (1861-1912), Chief Engineer on the Titanic, and victim of the disaster. Collection of letters and ephemera relating to Mr Bell's son Frank

A water nymph holds out her arms, inviting a small fairy to experience for herself the joys of a marine existence Date: circa 1880

Comic postcard, Cockerel and hens, egg production, WW2 Date: 1940s

Original Artwork - Design for a novelty Christmas card - Invitation - sprig of mistletoe hanging over a comfy armchair Date: circa 1937

PETAIN HONOURED 1941
Once upon a time there was a marshal of France - 1941 propaganda publication inviting chldren to honour Petain, saviour of France during the German occupation. Date: 1856 - 1951

Wreath on the Door Date: 1940

ATLANTIC ISLANDS / MADEIRA
Madeira: looking inviting, with palm trees and flowers Date: 1931

Cartoon, Richard d Oyly Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan
Cartoon, Richard d Oyly Carte as maitre d, with Ws Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as chefs, at the Savoy Dining Room. Opening the new shop -- it is wonderful what may be done by enterprise and Patience

Cocktail Girls 1950S 4 / 4
Two smiling, leggy young models prop up a bar as they share a drink together. Looking very inviting they appear to be saying, come over and buy me a drink

Girl Wears Towel / Colour
A young blonde model dressed in white stilettos and a towel watches out of a window. She is possibly expecting a visitor with a gift to put under her Christmas tree

Green Cloche & Scarf
A rosy young blonde woman in a fetching green cloche hat with an upturned brim and trimmed with a red rose. She also wears a long floral print scarf. Date: 1920s

Rommel Letter, Bir Hakim
BIR-HAKEIM : message sent by Rommel to the Free French forces, inviting them to surrender (which they choose not to do, instead inflicting a serious defeat on the enemy) Date: 3 June 1943

Mass Resistance
Handbill issued by the Committee of 100 inviting you to participate in its programme of mass resistance against Nuclear weapons Date: 1961 or 1962

Lady in a blue dress with a basket of Easter eggs
A lady in a long pale blue dress leaning against a wall, holding a basket of large decorated Easter eggs. Date: circa 1910

Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst Trafalgar Square. Christabel pankhurst speaking to a crowd in Trafalgar Square, inviting then to Come to the House of commons on October 13th. Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs

Poster: come and explore Britain (2)
Poster inviting you to come and explore Britain, showing a quiet town with older style architecture. (2 of 2)

Beef Cattle, near Granite Pass - Wyoming - Grass instead of the ubiquitous sagebrush gives an inviting look to the range. Date: 1952

Gen. Marion in his swamp encampment inviting a British officer to dinner. Date 1840

Christmas Eve in Canada with a a wooden cabin just visible in the dark and the snow, its warm light inviting. Outside, horses are ready to pull a sleigh through the deep snow. Date: 1926

Holidays in Spain and Portugal with Thomas Cook
Cover illustration for Holidays in Spain and Portugal, the Balearic Isles, Andorra, Madeira, Malta, Gibraltar and Cyprus, with Thomas Cook & Son Ltd and Dean & Dawson Ltd

Best Through Cooks, rail and steamer services
Poster or handbill design for Best Through Cooks, travel by British Railways rail and steamer services, showing a Mediterranean beach scene with boats, two wine glasses and a bottle, a green shutter

Poster advertising Airwork for African safari
Poster for Airwork Ltd and Hunting Clan, inviting you to fly Safari to Africa

Poster advertising Amaro Valsesia, a bitter aperitif made in northern Italy

Standard Motor Company advertisement
Advertisement for the Standard Motor Company of Coventry, England, wishing all their customers a Happy Christmas. The illustration featuring a Standard car (model unknown)

Disobedience Forum
Handbill issued by the Committee of 100 inviting you to join Bertrand Russell at a Mass Forum on Civil Disobedience against Nuclear weapons

Shop Display 1940S
A window display at Lovegrove & Sons family grocers, inviting people to Come and Spend Your Points Here, i.e. to use up their rationing coupon points during wartime

Blonde by Pond 1950S
A pretty short-haired blonde model, in a red gingham halter-neck sun-top & white shorts, sits with outstretched legs beside a modern style garden pond

Pin-Up in Bathrobe 4 / 5
Brunette model, dressed in blue slingbacks & a bathrobe kneels on the bed & pauses from looking out of the window at the snow. Is she looking for Father Christmas?

Girl in Gingham 1950S
An engaging young brunette model with a broad, bright smile wears a halter-neck gingham sun-top. Date: 1950s

Pin-Up in Bathrobe 2 / 5
Smiling brunette model, dressed in blue slingbacks & a bathrobe kneels on the bed next to a Christmas tree. Is she waiting for someone to come & fill her stocking?

Pin-Up in Bathrobe 5 / 5
Eager brunette model, in blue slingbacks & a bathrobe stands next to a Christmas tree while pausing from looking out of the window at the snow. Is she waiting for Father Christmas?

Pin-Up in Bathrobe 1 / 5
Smiling brunette model, dressed in blue slingbacks & a bathrobe kneels on the bed to look out of the window at the snow covered scenery. Is she waiting for someone?

Pin-Up in Bathrobe 3 / 5
Smiling brunette model, dressed in blue slingbacks & a bathrobe kneels on the bed next to a Christmas tree. Is she waiting for someone to come & fill her stocking?

Leopard Print Costume
Blonde pin-up model reclines on the grass in an ocelot / leopard print bathing costume, a coolie hat on the ground beside her, and white stilettos on her feet

White Bathing Costume
Fifties blonde wears a backless, white one-piece bathing costume while sitting on a sandy beach

Inviting to Dance
A gentleman invites a lady onto the dance floor

Kpd Poster 1924
Poster inviting you to vote Communist (KPD = Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) in the German elections

Boating at Scarborough
Sightseers are taken for a row round Scarborough Bay, though the weather is not particularly inviting

Fairy Courtship / Doyle
A Fairy Prince pays court to a fairy, inviting her to share his crown

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