Jolly Collection (page 9)

H. L. Oakley - silhouette artist
Jolly silhouette self-portrait by H. L.Oakley (1882-1960), renowned silhouette artist, who depicts himself with a knapsack and suitcase (complete with H.L.O initials) on tour

The Graphic Christmas Number 1925 front cover
Entitled, Safety First, a woman in a pink dress ensures she won t be struck by an arrow of love as she teases a tiny cupid, waving his bow and quiver of arrows high above his reach. Date: 1925

New Year Greetings card
Colourful New Year Greetings card from Germany - featuring two jolly German ladies in bonnets, one playing the trumpet and the other beating a large side drum. Date: 1906

A pair of Romanian Girls
A pair of jolly Romanian country girls in traditional costume. Both wear dresses of wonderfully-patterned fabric. Date: circa 1902

Lady at a Masked Ball displaying a toothy grin Date: circa 1904

New Zealand - Chatham Island
A Christmas card from Chatham Island, New Zealand. Scenes pictured include the SS Storm, Torotoro, a bridge over the Waitangi River, the Waitangi Port, Te One

British troops on Jolly Roger gunboat, Russian Civil War
British troops on board the Royal Navy motor gunboat, The Jolly Roger, on Lake Onega, Medevja-Gora (Medvedja-gora, Medvezhya Gora, now known as Medvezhyegorsk, Republic of Karelia)

DAF Variomatic card
Promotional card for the DAF Motor Company showing a jolly Dutch family in their smart new Daf motorcar - a Variomatic, a stepless, fully automatic transmission car. Date: circa 1939

Boating Tea Break
A jolly young woman, wearing a beret, offers a cup and saucer of tea from the deck of her moored boat to another young woman wearing a box pleated skirt beside a tree trunk! Date: 1930s

Boys Brigade
A jolly group of boys on a rowing boat at the Boys Brigade summer camp, England. Date: mid 1930s

Happy Bathers
A jolly group of bathers in the sea. Date: 1923

Virgin Islanders
A jolly-looking middle aged couple of West Indian Virgin Islanders at the market on Tortola, Virgin Islands, West Indies. Date: late 1960s

THE JOLLY TAR
The inn sign of the Jolly Tar public house at Barbridge, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Christmas Eve on the Airway by Norman Keene
Jolly festive illustration by Norman Keene showing an aviator in an aeroplane greeting Father Christmas and his sleigh mid-air. Date: 1930

Village Vicar not tempted with the offer of a pint of mild
The Vicar is not tempted with the offer of a pint of mild from a village Yokel. A card from the Weather Reports series, entitled " Genial and Mild". Date: 1907

A Frieze in Tempera-Ture by Jay Gee
A wonderfully vivid and jolly frieze like illustration (hence the pun-like title) featuring a group of mae and female skiers and winter sports enthusiasts dressed in bright clothes

Tom Tom the Pipers Son " Tom with his pipe made such a noise, That he pleased both the girls and boys, And they all stopped to hear him play, Over the hills and far away."

Mary Churchill christens a new bomber, 1944
After breaking a bottle of Coca-Cola across the nose of a new Fortress aircraft and naming it Stage Door Canteen, Miss Mary Churchill left the airfield with some of the officers

The Toast by W. R. S. Stott
An early 19th century scene showing four jovial gentlemen raising a toast in front of a blazing fire. Date: 1936

Father Christmas and wreath
A Jolly Father Christmas holding up a Happy Xmas wreath. Date: circa 1910s

Leopardskins at Carnival
A jolly group of friends in leopardskin costumes, including mini dresses, at the annual Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

Game / Balloon Football
The ladies have balloons on the end of their strings - the gentlemen try to jump on them. He who succeeds in bursting a balloon has won... its all frightfully jolly... Date: 1911

Musical / Nellie Kelly
A selection of songs from a Charles B. Cochran musical. Date: 1922

Santa & Punchbowl
" GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !" A jolly, red-faced Father Christmas, smoking his long pipe and bearing a huge punchbowl full of hot punch. 1890s

Sunny Boy by Muriel Dawson
A jolly little boy in a bathing suit having fun on the beach

Curly Head by Muriel Dawson
A jolly little toddler with curly blond hair and a smart yellow, checked coat

Little Rosebuds by Muriel Dawson
A jolly little girl wearing a pink dress picks tiny pink rosebuds from a hanging branch

Lets Play by Muriel Dawson
A jolly looking child with brown curly hair and shining brown eyes holding a colourful ball

Jolly Holly Days by Muriel Dawson
Two rosy-cheeked children, wrapped up warm, carry bunches of holly through the snow

The Humorist Summer Number 1939
Bright and jolly front cover design for The Humorist magazine Summer Number by William Heath Robinson featuring a number of bathers paddling and playing about in the sea

Flying kites by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Two children run up a hill to fly their jolly looking kites

Washing Day by Millicent Sowerby
Two jolly girl guides and a little Brownie hard at work on washing day. One washes clothes in a soap sud filled wash tub while another hangs gleaming sheets on a line

Christmas cracker box design
A jolly design for a box of Christmas crackers featuring three children; two are taking wicked enjoyment in pulling a cracker and frightening an innocent looking little blonde girl

Macedonia - Woman working at a loom
Bitolao (Bukovo), Macedonia - Jolly weaver woman, working at her loom, making pale mats

Tatler Christmas Number 1910
Front cover of the Tatler Xmas Number 1910 designed by William Barribal. A jolly young woman looks ready for a party with her hair adorned with bells and a jester, as well as jester earrings

Four happy Algerians
Four happy black Algerians, seated outside a building

Turkish beggar woman with baby
A Turkish beggar woman seated, holding her young child in very simple clothing. The Turkish people (particularly Turkish men) are mad about children

Greetings from Ramsgate
A jolly souvenir postcard from the Kent seaside resort of Ramsgate, depicting a pretty lady bather in the shallow waters edge, holding aloft a lifebelt

Proud of his new motor
A jolly chap leaning happily on the bonnet of his new car, a soft-top Bellanger Freres 3.2 Litre Tourer (French), as his female passenger (his wife?) leans out of the vehicle to get in the shot

What a jolly cricketer he would make
A school boy cricketer admires a suit of armour and imitates the poise and the position of the statues sword, with his cricket bat

A signwriter painting a pub sign
A signwriter paints the pub sign for the Hare and Hounds pub. Behind him can be seen other examples of his art and traditional tavern signs hanging in situ. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Batgers Forfeit Crackers
A jolly party game at home at the dinner table with a family wearing party hats playing forfeits. Looks like poor Percy has had to go under the table with Uncle Clarence

Britannia and Eve, October 1939
Front cover illustration showing a jolly brunette woman admiring an autumnal branch. Date: October 1939

Dog, sled and snow
A jolly winter scene showing five children playing with a sledge in the snow. Their dog looks keen to give them a pull

Christmas children by Florence Hardy
A quintet of children in winter jerseys and pointed caps skate in unison on a pond holding bunches of holly in a very festive manner

Twelve boys have fun in dilapidated car 1928
Twelve members of a boys club have a jolly time of it as they sit for a photograph in the remains of an old dilapidated car body

Jovial elderly couple
A jolly elderly couple sit on a pebble-covered hillside by a hut, having a good old chuckle!

India - A happy country girl
A jolly country girl in India from the region close to Bombay (Mumbai), holding a small sickle in her right hand and standing alongside a large bale of hay

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