Jan17 Collection (page 2)

Wedding of Oswald Mosley and Cynthia Curzon
Wedding of Lady Cynthia Curzon and Oswald Mosley in 11 May 1920, as reported in The Sphere magazine. The left picture shows the bride leaving Carlton House Terrace with her father, Lord Curzon

The Cottage Window by Harold Harvey (1874-1941), one of the Newlyn School of Painters, showing a woman feeding a small bird in a cage by a cottage window. Date: 1919

Wedding of Lady Diana Manners and Duff Cooper
Wedding of Lady Diana Cooper (nee Manners) and Alfred Duff Cooper at St. Margarets Church, Westminster on 2 June 1919. The newlyweds photographed leaving the church. Date: 1919

Raymond de Trafford (1900-1971J), son of Sir Humphrey de Trafford and famously a member of the Happy Valley in Kenya during the 1920s

Barbara Cartland with newborn daughter, Raine
Mrs Alexander McCorquodale, aka prolific writer, Barbara Cartland (1901-2000), pictured with her newborn daughter Raine (1929-2016), later Countess Raine Spencer, stepmother to Diana

Capability Brown boutique, Carnaby Street
Capability Brown, a sister boutique to I Was Lord Kitcheners Valet in Carnaby Street, London during the swinging sixties. Date: 1967

Ratting in the trenches, WWI
Ratting: The New Sport in the Trenches. British soldiers follow a terrier as it dashes along a trench on the Western Front in pursuit of a rat

Court gown and evening dress for the opera, 1930
On the left, a court dress from Reville of Hanover Square, carried out in shimmering white satin manufactured in Britain. On the right

Helen Wills as a debutante
Helen Wills Moody (1905-1998), American tennis player dominant during the 1920s and 30s, winner of 31 Grand Slam titles including 8 Wimbledon Championships

Sketch cover - the Marchesa Malacrida
Marchesa Nadja Malacrida portrayed by Olive Snell on the front cover of The Sketch magazine. She was born Louisa Nadia Green, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Green and niece of Lord Cowdray

Kendal Milne & Co. Manchester - Department Store
Kendal Milne & Co. Deansgate, Manchester - Department Store. Card advertising the Winter Sale (Monday 4th January to Saturday 16th January). Date: 1904

Cumbernauld New Town, Scotland - Housing & Town Centre
Cumbernauld New Town, North Lanarkshire, Scotland - Housing & Town Centre. Cumbernauld is the clearest example of a modernist new town vision in the UK. Date: circa 1969

Cocktails in The Sketch, 1920s
Page from The Sketch full of advertisements relating to the cocktail craze of the 1920s. Drinks advertised include Vermouth, Cointreau

The Duchess of Manchester (Helena Zimmerman)
Helena Zimmerman (1878-1971), who married William Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester in 1900. She was the daughter of Eugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati, Ohio

Town versus Gown fight in Oxford
Town versus Gown brawl in Oxford in the 1850s, with undergraduates fighting locals. Date: 1850s

Norman Hartnell tulle gown
A striking frock in white tulle embroidered with pearls embodying the lengthening of skirts which typified fashions towards the end of the 1920s and beginning of the 1930s

Norman Hartnell and dress designs, 1924
Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell (1901 - 1979), British couturier and favourite fashion designer of the Queen and Queen Mother. Pictured at the very start of his career in 1924 when he had just launched

Elizabeth Ponsonby
Miss Elizabeth Ponsonby (later the Hon. Mrs Dennis Pelly), one of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s, and daughter of Arthur Ponsonby a senior minister in the Labour government

Entertainment of two boxing Boys - Ezbekieh Gardens, Cairo
Entertainment of two boxing Boys (Owen and Dade) at the Ezbekieh (Esbekieh, Ezbekiya, Azbakeya or Azbakia) Gardens, Cairo, Egypt. The MC is Sergeant Chase and the photographer was K. Bolam

Children in a sailing boat
Two children and their dog go for a bracing ride in a sailing boat accompanied by a jolly old sea salt. Date: c.1920

Ali Baba at the Cave by Rene Bull
Open Sesame - Ali Baba at the cave. Date: 1914

Russian ermine and white fox coat 1929
An evening wrap of the finest Russian ermine trimmed with white fox. The drooping barrel sleeves are flared hemline are important features of the seasons fashions

The Aga Khan marries his third wife, Andree Carron
Aga Khan III (Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, 1877-1957), Indian Muslim leader, racing enthusiast and prominent society figure, marrying his third wife

Tatler cover - Maxine Elliott & Charlie Chaplin
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of American-born actress Maxine Elliott with Charlie Chaplin. Date: 1919

On the Cliff by Harold Harvey (1874-1941) one of the Newlyn School of Painters, well known for painting Cornish landscapes and social scenes from the area. Date: 1919

Tatler cover - Lady Diana Manners on her wedding day
Society darling, Lady Diana Manners (Lady Diana Cooper) 1892-1986, youngest daughter of the Duke of Rutland, in picturesque pose in her wedding gown at her familys London home in Arlington Street

Edythe Baker
Edythe A. Baker (August 25, 1899 August 15, 1971), American boogie-woogie pianist, wife of Gerard (" Pop" ) d Erlanger

Raymond de Trafford riding with Prince of Wales
H.R.H. Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor) pictured clearing a hedge leading in the Brigade Chase at a meeting at Wappenham

Visit of the Prince of Wales to India - elephants
Visit of the Prince of Wales to India. Cover of the Special Supplement to the Illustrated London News, 8th January 1876. The Prince (later King Edward VII)

Sketch cover - Diana Guest Manning
Miss Diana Guest, later Manning (1909-1994), daughter of Captain Freddie Guest, who recently took her pilots A certificate. One of a number of society women taking to the air in the inter-war period

Tennis in Johannesburg
The Wimbledon of Johannesburg - a crowd of spectators watching a match on a hard court in South Africa. Date: 1929

Princess Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge wearing a beautiful and original grey and black dress, with a close-fitting cloche hat. Date: 1929

Unusually dressed man in Carnaby Street, 1960s
A man dressed in a variety of military and historic vintage items of clothing from a kilt to a velvet frock coat and admirals hat, amuses a group of sailors and school boys in Carnaby Street

Map of Carnaby Street, 1960s
Map of showing the location of epicentre of sixties cool, Carnaby Street, in central London, as directed by one of the leading male boutiques, Lord Kitcheners Valet. Date: 1966

Bomb party using cigarettes to light fuses, WWI
A bombing party detachment of the Buffs at Bethune using cigarettes to light fuses in the pouring rain before throwing. The men held off the Germans for 17 1/2 hours

General Santa Claus - WW1Christmas cartoon
General Santa Claus distributes the orders of the day. Cartoon in The War Budget shown in a great coat distributing gifts and comforts to Allied soldiers fighting around Europe during Christmas 1915

English toys during WW1 - English made war dolls
An female worker posed with war dolls representing the King, Lord Kitchener, Sir John French, Sir John Jellicoe and General Joffre. A selection of British-made toys during the First World War

The War Budget - Piper Laidlaw
Front cover of The War Budget featuring a portrait of Piper Daniel Laidlaw, who won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Loos

Listerine advertisement, 1930
Advertisement for Listerine mouth wash, suggesting that halitosis can lead to being left on the shelf, marriage-wise as her birthdays creep towards that tragic thirty mark. Date: 1930

Society during the 1924 London Season
Double page spread from The Sketch featuring photographs of well-known figures in society in London for the summer season

Lord and Lady Castlerosse in caricature by Tony Wysard
Valentine Edward Charles Browne, 6th Earl of Kenmare (29 May 1891 20 September 1943), styled Viscount Castlerosse from 1905 to 1941, the Earl of Kenmare and the son of Valentine Browne

The Column of Constantine or Burnt Column, Istanbul
The Column of Constantine (or Burnt Column ) is a monumental column constructed on the orders of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great in 330 AD

Italo-Turkish War - Defense of the Bumiliana Wells, Libya
Italo-Turkish War - The heroic Italian defense of the Bumiliana Wells, Libya, North Africa. Date: 1911

Cumbernauld New Town, Scotland - Abronhill
Cumbernauld New Town, North Lanarkshire, Scotland - Abronhill. Cumbernauld is the clearest example of a modernist new town vision in the UK. Date: circa 1969

The Seven Ages of Man - silhouette by Chris Heaps
The seven ages of man depicted in silhouette, finishing with old age represented by Father Christmas. Date: 1914

The Great Train Robbery: Winson Green Prison, Birmingham
" How to rob a prison of its prisoner" : a page from The Illustrated London News, detailing the escape of Charles Frederick Wilson

Commedia delle arte - Harlequinade
Ancestors of the Harlequinade - characters of the old Italian comedy. Date: 1929

Wedding of Anthony Lindsay-Hogg and Frances Doble
The wedding of Anthony Lindsay-Hogg and the actress Frances Doble in December 1929. Their pageboy attendants were Archie Kidston and Reresby Sitwell. Date: 1929

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