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Newsstand with foreign language newspapers. Date 1941 Fall

Real School at Voronezh, Russia
A view of the Real School at Voronezh, the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on both sides of the Voronezh River

European Gentleman in India learning Arabic
An European Gentleman with his Moonshee, or Native Professor of Languages. (plate 1 of 20) Date: 1813

Sign Language - The Alphabet illustrated on a postcard Date: circa 1910s

Humorous Postcard - Underwear Department
A couple are directed to the Sports Department " Straight through the Ladies Underwear". This comment causes much delight to the Gentleman

A Professor of Languages A Language Student returns to his College, but his grasp of the vernacular of his cabby seems less that First Class as he appears to have underpaid his driver

Japanese Straw Boaters
If we MUST bring back the straw hat, why not copy the Japanese method of popularising it? Three straw boaters, worn with advertising sandwich boards! Date: 1933

Slovak Mother & Child
A young Slovakian mother and child in traditional dress. The Slovaks are a farming people who speak a different language than the Czechs. Date: 1930s

The Chaous Baushee, Afghan court official
The Chaous Baushee in his dress of Office. A 19th century Afghan official in uniform, riding a horse. The Chaous Baushee presents persons admitted to pay their respects to the King

Dr Jephsons Home
DR HENRY JEPHSONs home at Beech Lawn, Leamington, Warwickshire. The panegyrical poem to the good doctor is a marvel of laudatory language. Date: 1842

Greenaway Book / Flowers
Pages from Kate Greenaways Le Langage des Fleurs. Date: First published: 1884

Lincolns Inn Oration
A woman addresses a crowd of men during a lunchtime oration at Lincolns Inn Fields, London Date: 1950s

Page from the Gospel of Saint Mark
A page from the Gospel of Saint Mark, in Ulfilas Bible. Ulfila (Ulfilas, Wulfila), was a 4th century bishop of the Goths, a missionary, and a bible translator from Greek into the Gothic language

Spooky Stories
An old man tells creepy stories to children before they go to bed

Esperanto Club Members
ESPERANTO : members of the Hamburg Esperanto Club pose for their group portrait, holding an Esperanto newspaper and other documents Date: circa 1900

Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
JEAN-BAPTISTE BOUILLAUD French medical, known for his work on language and the brain and for his teaching; he was a deputy for a time. Date: 1796 - 1881

Decorative Floral
from NARCISSUS (egotism) to NIGHTSHADE (truth) Date: 1884

Lily / Language of Flowers
Lily personified

Blush Rose / Language of Flowers
Blush Rose personified

Convolvulus / Language of Flowers
Convolvulus personified

Mossrose / Language of Flowers
Mossrose personified

Harebell / Language of Flowers
Harebell personified

Pansy / Language of Flowers
Pansy personified

Daisy / Language of Flowers
Daisy personified

Violet / Language of Flowers
Violet personified

Holly / Language of Flowers
Holly personified

The language of the legs
The Language of the legs! - charting the development of a relationship through body language - from Timid to Ecstacy !

Thomas Cook Interpreters
A poster advertising Thomas Cook Interpreters - available to aid travellers arriving on all the principal rail and boat arrival locations at the chief cities and ports across Europe

KNSM shipping company
A Spanish language KNSM Royal Netherlands Steamship Company poster depicting the lifeboats of an ocean liner

Language of Stars 1918
She gazes at the moon and sees an image of her soldier love reflected in it. Three cherubs use a telescope and translate the writing in the stars - Je t aime

Rusyn People - Hungary
Rusyns - an Eastern Slavic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language (or dialect) known as Rusyn. This appears to be a team working on a railway in the Carpathian Mountain region of Hungary

Heligoland - The New Port. A small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1)

Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1884-1954), as a member of the Borussia Corps of Bonn University in about 1904

English Journal
The first issue of The Communist International, an english-language periodical intended to inform the world about the achievements and benefits of the Soviet regime

Breakdown Communication
An American couple on their honeymoon bring out the phrase book hoping to understand what the European railway official is trying to tell them

Miming a gesture, the method of registering sunshine, posed
Human speech the result of a variety of movements made by the muscles which control the lungs. A typical deaf-mute gesture, the sign language for sunshine

Black Beauty Boot Polish
A tin of boot polish using the name Black Beauty, after the book by Anna Sewell - the sixth most popular book in the English language

Language Students
London telephone girls being taught French and German in a classroom

Jakob Gronovius
JAKOB GRONOVIUS (Gronow) Dutch scholar, eminent in the history of language, professor of eloquence

African Boat Boy
A boy in the a pond in the West African section of the Paris Exhibition, France. He only spoke an African language and was known as the silent black watchman

Robert Moffat
ROBERT MOFFAT British missionary in Africa depicted soon after his arrival in 1817 : he will translate the Bible into the Bechuana language

Welsh Language Plaque
One of a series of wall plaques at Conway, north Wales, giving the Welsh alphabet and language and the English translation

Two Women Talk in Street
Two elderly women in coats, both wearing headscarves, one in her indoor slippers, exchange news and gossip on the pavement of an otherwise deserted London street

Frenchman 1792
A fashionably dressed Parisian expresses his elegance with his body language

Story Telling, Norway
In a peasant home, an old countrywoman holds her hearers entranced with her folktales and stories of times gone by

Passionate Orator
A passionate orator

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