Legs Collection (page 15)

Advert for Foxs spiral puttees 1902
Foxs puttees for men, comfortable support spiral wraps closely fitted from ankle to the knee, can be worn under your trousers. Date: 1902

Patterned stockings including patriotic flags, WW1 fashion
Two pairs of stockings with the embellishment fashionable during the First World War on the left, a pair featuring squirrels on the ankles from Peter Robinson an don the right

Advert for Wolsey Nylons 1951
Advertisement for Wolsey Nylons " Delys" shade featuring a glamorous woman with a pair of shapely legs clad in stockings. Date: 1951

Patterned stockings, WW1
Three types of patterned stockings - checked, geometrical and unconventional floral selected from the range available at Peter Robinson of Oxford Street

Anatomical details
Tab IV. Figures and diagrams showing anatomical details Source: De motu animalium - Joh. Alphonsi Borelli, Neapolitani matheseos professoris, De motu animalium

Water-bottle rotary by W H Robinson
Water-bottle rotary for warming the legs of scottish soldiers after a night in the trenches. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Germans Training Wasps to Sting Highlanders Legs, Heath Rob
Humorous illustration showing more treacherous German ideas for making life difficult for British troops. Here, with the help of the ubiquitous plum jam

Tango craze: dancing feet, 1913
A front cover of The Sketch, showing the entwined legs of two dancers performing a step from the tango." Why worry about home rule and the land question, when you can learn the tango

European man and daughter on camel, India
European man and his daughter on a camel, India. The girls legs are too short to reach the stirrups. Date: circa 1890s

Man sitting on a stool
Man in a smart suit, sitting on a stool. Date: 20th century

Advert for Tenova mens self-supporting socks 1939
Made to be forgotten. Tenova socks stay up. The cut-out at the back and the band at the top, containing Lastex yarn keep these Tenova socks gently but firmly in place

Advert for Tenova mens self-supporting socks 1938
Tenova socks need no suspenders. Tenova socks have a band at the top containing Lastex yarn, which is part of the sock itself. The band holds them up gently buy securely. Date: 1938

Rags the puppy sitting up on his hind legs
On His Best Behaviour! -- Rags the puppy sitting up on his hind legs. Date: 1912

Exercise class at Ministry of Health, 1938
A health and beauty class formed by seventy female members of the staff at the Ministry of Health, using one of the conference rooms in Whitehall to indulge in their after-work hours exercises

Bonzo gets into the usual seaside snapshot! by George Studdy
Bonzo gets into the usual seaside snapshot, surrounded by leggy bathing beauties. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Advert for Tenova mens self-supporting socks 1937
A new kind of sock. Self-supporting. No suspenders needed. This special patented design with a top band containing lastex yarn does the trick. They can t come down. They don t let you down

Corner of a large tiled kitchen, showing a gas cooker (right) and a large stove with doors for the coal (in a scuttle at the side), and a flue. There are pots and pans on a tall stand (left)

Nursery Rhymes -- Tom the Pipers Son. Tom with his pipe did play with such skill, that those who heard him could never keep still; as soon as he played they began for to dance

Four soldiers enjoying beer near Okehampton, Devon
Four soldiers enjoying a glass (or bottle) of beer near Okehampton, Devon. Date: 1940s

Workman standing in a yard
A workman in waistcoat and trousers, standing in a yard with a sack on a trolley behind him. Two other men look out from a doorway

Label design with girl in fancy dress
Label design featuring a girl in fancy dress, carrying a bowl containing clubs, spades, diamonds and hearts

Man at the seaside
A man at the seaside, sitting on what is probably a pier. His coat and hat can be seen at his side. (The woman in the previous picture is probably the photographer.) (2 of 2)

Woman at the seaside
A woman at the seaside, sitting on what is probably a pier. A mans coat and hat can be seen at her side, no doubt belonging to the photographer (see next picture). (1 of 2)

Prunella Stack maniuplating Herbert Barkers legs, 1939
Lady David Douglas-Hamilton(nee Prunella Stacks) meets Sir Herbert Barker(1869-1950), manipulative surgeon. Following treatment of her husband by Barker for a slight spinal injury

The Principal Boy by Bevan Petman
A pretty actress in a top hat shows off her shapely legs on stage. Illustrations full title is: The Principal Boy - And a Real Topper too

Advert for Wolsey Nylons 1950
Advertisement for Wolsey Nylons " Blue Smoke" shade featuring a glamorous and beautiful woman sporting a pair of seamed stockings on her shapely legs. Date: 1950

Advert Hey-day by Joyce shoes 1946
Orange slip-on shoes Date: 1946

Performing Bear, Germany
A bear is made to dace on its hind legs while musicians perform. Date: 16th century

Advert for Foxs puttees stockings 1903
Foxs patent spiral puttees. Are so shaped as to wind on spirally from ankle to knee and to fit closley to the leg with even pressure without any turns or twists. Date: 1903

Rameses II Colossus
Colossal statue of RAMESES II ( The Great ), Pharoah of Egypt, with the smaller statue of his wife NEFERTARI between his legs, Karnak, Thebes, (modern day Luxor), Egypt Date: REIGNED 1279 - 1212 BC

Kirchoffer Photo
KIRCHOFFER French fencing-master, author of books on his art, war hero whose legs had to be amputated : photo 1904. Date: circa 1904

Polar Bears Begging
Two polar bears begging on their hind legs at a zoo. Date: early 1930s

The Joy Ride Lady - a theatre poster banned on the Tube
A poster, designed by William Barribal, for the show, The Joy Ride Lady at the New Theatre, St. Martins Lane. Though passed by the Bill Posters Censorship Committee

Advertisement for Lifeguard soap -- little girl and adult female models posing (Sandra Palmer and Geraldine Hill). 1959

Joseph Chamberlain leading John Bull deeper
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) leading John Bull (representing the British populace as a whole) inward into the deeper waters of his new Fiscal Policy

Young British Tommy - Studio Portrait WWI - seated. On the reverse, the soldier reports that he is still alive on 24th October 1914... Date: circa 1914

Coupon Wedding - Cloth in short supply leads to a rather daring wedding gown! Date: 1943

Musical Terms Up to Date - Adagio - very Slow! A pretty young girl sits expectantly, whilst her elderly suitor takes a LONG TIME to make his move! Date: circa 1905

Old Man with pair of wooden legs advertising corn plasters
Very black humour - An Old Man with a pair of prosthetic false legs advertising corn plasters! Date: 1895

A ginger-haired young lady golfer, completing her swing
Winsome - A ginger-haired young lady golfer, completing her swing having driven down the eighth hole. The tight short blue jumper and thin red and white stripe mini-skirt seem par for the course

Leggy beauty sunbathing on a floating wooden platform
Inspiration - A long-legged beauty reclines and relaxes on a floating wooden platform seeking sun, inspiring thoughts and a good view of the diving! Date: early 1940s

French girl in swimwear, carrying a colouful parasol
Pretty French girl in swimwear, carrying a colouful parasol Date: circa 1920

Spinet - this lovely example with its six-legged stand was made in London by Stephen Keene at the Sign of the Virginal on Threadneedle Street in the 17th century

English Insects illustration of Minotaur beetles and Cockcha
Illustrated plate from The Genera Insectorum of Linnaeus exemplified by various specimens of English insects drawn from Nature (1781) by James Barbut

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