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Andrews Liver Salt poster by John HassallI must have left it behind. A bemused gent scratches his head as he searches his suitcase for his precious tin of Andrews Liver Salt. It is, of course, in his back trouser pocket. Date: c.1920
A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. TwortA bucolic scene showing hop pickers in a Kentish landscape. Date: 1935
Dewars advert - The Monarch of the GlenAdvertisement for Dewars whisky, the spirit of the highlands, featuring Edwin Landseers painting The Monarch of the Glen. 1927
Le Miroir des Modes front cover - art deco woman & goldfishFront cover of French fashion magazine, Le Miroir des Modes featuring a woman in a draped red patterned day dress alongside a glass sphere or bowl of goldfish. Date: c.1920
The Last Crusade by Bernard Partridge in Punch WW1The Last Crusade. Coeur-de-Lion (looking down on the Holy City)
Wedding of Viscount Althorp and Hon. Frances Roche in TatlerPage from The Tatler reporting on the wedding of Viscount Althorp (later Earl Spencer) and the Hon
Lady Mary Cambridge by Madame YevondeLady Mary Whitley (n饠 Lady Mary Ilona Margaret Cambridge; 24 September 1924 13 December 1999), relative of the British Royal Family
Oliver Messel (1904 - 1978), English designer of film sets, costume and interiors. Pictured with his portrait of the Countess of Seafield. Date: 1928
Wrens in the First World War Victory MarchWrens, led by Dame Catherine Furse: a detachment of the Womens Royal Naval Service, taking part in the Victory March on 19th July 1919 in London following the end of World War One
Diana Mitford by Paul HelleuA portrait of the Hon. Diana Freeman-Mitford, one of the famous six Mitford sisters, drawn by the French artist Paul Helleu during Dianas stay in Paris while at finishing school
Tatler cover - Lady Milbanke (Sheila Chisholm) by YevondeMargaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929)
Lascars on British ships: the question of their retention, 1906. Human salamanders: the lascar at work and play
Wedding of Raine McCorquodale & Gerald Legge, 1948Front cover of The Tatler showing Mr and Mrs Gerald Legge receiving their guests at Londonderry House after their wedding at St. Margaret s, Westminster
Sir John Milbanke and Lady LoughboroughTwo photograph reporting on the forthcoming marriage of Lady Loughborough (formerly Miss Sheila Chisholm) to Sir John Milbanke on 14 November 1928
Sketch cover - Mrs Gerald D erlanger (Edythe Baker)Front cover of The Sketch featuring a portrait of Edythe A. Baker (1899 1971), American boogie-woogie pianist, wife of Gerard (" Pop" ) d Erlanger, pictured by society artist, Olive Snell
Group of female factory workers, c. 1910A group of women factory workers from the Edwardian era wearing clogs. Date: c.1910
Mr Gandhi in England with a travelling spinning-wheel, 1931Mr Gandhi in England with a travelling spinning-wheel. He arrived in England to attend the Round Table Conference, on 12th September 1931, landing from a cross-channel steamer at Folkestone
Refracting stereoscope, 1852Diagram of a refracting stereoscope, 1852. Date: 1852
Tatler cover - Mrs Peter Thorneycroft by Madame YevondeMrs Peter Thorneycroft, formerly Countess Carla Roberti, wife of the President of the Board of Trade pictured posed in front of an over mantel mirror by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1954
Sketch cover - Paula GellibrandFront cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a photograph of the Marquise de Casa Maury, formerly miss Paula Gellibrand
Wax celebrities in Paris shop windowsCelebrities of 1928 cast as wax mannequins in Paris shop windows
Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (Lady Alington)Lady Alington, formerly Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902-1936), eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury. She married Lord Alington in 1928 and had one daughter born the following year
Fancy Dress for Winter sports holiday carnival - radishSuggestions for a fancy dress costume appropriate for a carnival as part of a winter sports holiday programme. Available from Dickins and Jones. Date: 1928
Barbara Cartland in the OrkneysPage from The Sketch magazine carrying photographs of novelist and socialite, Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland (1901-2000), married name Mrs Barbara McCorquodale, pictured at Swanbistre
Girls building at the Wigman SchoolPage from The Sketch reporting on the novel sight of girl pupils at the Mary Wigman School in Berlin working as assistants to the workmen engaged on building a new school-house
New hats for the Wrens, 1942New hats for the Wrens: a petty officer (centre) and two leading W.R.N.S. photographed wearing the new hats to be issued to the womens branch of the Senior Service. Date: 1942
Little boy with scooter, c. 1900A small boy poses for his photograph with an early scooter. Date: c.1900
John Hassall Correspondence Art School in St. AlbansThe very picturesque John Hassall Correspondence Art School, a successful venture by one of the leading illustrators and poster artists of the day
John Hassall Correspondence Art School - the Poster CourseA man up a ladder posts a poster; illustration accompanying a section in the John Hassall Correspondence Art School brochure explaining about its poster course
John Hassall Correspondence Art School brochureFront cover of a brochure for The John Hassall Correspondence Art School. Hassall was a leading illustrator and poster artist who established an art school in Kensington in the 1900s
The Aesthete by H. M. BatemanA very modern woman residing in a minimally and fashionably furnished flat gets very excited by one small cactus on her windowsill. Date: 1935
The Probationer who Disagreed with the Matron, H. M. BatemanA hospital matron goes puce and faints with shock at a rookie nurse who has dared to contradict her over the diagnosis of a patient. Date: 1934
After Forty Years by H. M. BatemanAfter forty years of marriage, its clear who wears the trousers in this marriage. A satire on new fashions and matrimony by cartoonist H. M. Bateman. Date: 1934
Mrs Quintin Gilbey and her Cairn by Madame YevondeRosemary Hope-Vere, at the time Mrs Quintin Gilbey. She was previously married and Mrs Drury-Lowe and was married a third time to Sir Roderick Brinckman. Pictured with her Cairn terrier named Looney
Garden swing, 1954A glorious spring suspension garden lounge with adjustable back and three independent leg rests available from Barkers of Kensington in 1954
The Embroidery Frame by Bertha NewcombeA young Victorian woman using an embroidery frame, a sewing box next to her and an example of her work, in the form of a sampler, seen on the wall behind her. Date: 1905
Sir Edward PoynterSir Edward John Poynter (1836 - 1919), English painter of historical subjects, President of the Royal Academy and Director of the National Gallery (1894-1904)
Fancy dress - young woman dressed as carnivalA young women, by the name of Sadie according to the postcard, is dressed as Carnival with a fancy dress featuring rosettes, a mask and hat. Date: 1918
Fancy dress - young woman dressed as a flowerA young woman in fancy dress costume - perhaps as a flower of the chrysanthemum or gerba daisy variety. Date: c.1900
The Clairvoyante who Foretold her own Marriage by H M BatemaA sequential cartoon by H.M. Bateman showing a woman studying cards to tell her own future