Legs Collection (page 8)

Cartoon, body parts after the battle, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled After the Battle, showing German soldiers trying to match up body parts before loading them onto a train. Date: 1914-1918

Advert for Wolsey nylons
A pair of legs wearing and advertising Wolsey nylon stockings. They appear to be wearing a very groovy pair of wedge shoes as well. Date: 1947

Five Girls 1920S
And it was all done in the best possible taste ! Five lively girls cross their legs on a sofa at a hostel in Paris, France. Date: late 1920s

No Peeking! A brunette lays down the law to a Peeping Tom
No Peeking! A brunette lays down the law to an invisible onlooker, who is seemingly admiring her choice of tiny red (with black spots) beach wear and red high heeled shoes. Date: early 1940s

Peek-a-boo! A Blonde starlet with tights and bare back
Peek-a-boo! A Blonde starlet standing alongside a some red stage curtains covered in little black stars, looks back over her shoulder

New Compensation Act - 1906 - Stableboy kicked in stable
" The New Compensation Act" - " Hurroo! Oim kicked to Death, Be Gob!" - a Yokel Stable Lad is not unduly concerned at being kicked against the stable wall

Seminole Indian - Billy Bowlegs III
Billy Bowlegs III, Billy Fewell, aka Cofehapkee (18621965) - a Seminole elder (also of African-American descent). A tribal historian in Florida. Date: circa 1890s

Lovely Legs Cream
Model Esme Bankhead applies moisturising cream to her lovely legs. Date: 1940s

A Pair of Legs
A pair of legs. Date: late 1960s

The exhibit of the car of Gangster Jack Legs Diamond
Queues awaiting entry to the exhibition of the $20, 000 Killer Car ( Direct from New York ) of American Gangster and Bootlegger Jack Legs Diamond (1897-1931) opposite Derrys Clock, 16 George Street

Thumbelina ridiculed by the Lady Cockchafers
Thumbelina is ridiculed by the Lady Cockchafers, who laugh at her for having only two legs and no feelers. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

Enver Pasha (1881 - 1922)
Ismail Enver Beyefendi (1881 - 1922), known to Europeans during his political and military career as Enver Pasha (Turkish)

Cami-Knickers 1920S
A lady lifts the legs of her cami-knickers coyly

Pussys Butcher
Pussys butcher. A street trader sells cat food from his cart. He feeds a scrap to passing cat who stands on its hind legs to reach

Pin-Up in Pink Skirt
Delightfully pretty blonde in T-bar shoes, perched on a stool in her boudoir, coyly raises her skirt to reveal her shapely legs & broderie anglaise petticoat

Peggy Moran / 10-Pin Bowl
Actress Peggy Moran, one of Hollywoods top-ranking female bowlers, boasting an average score of 175

Bagne De Brest - 3
LE BAGNE DE BREST New arrivals have chains fixed to their legs

Marquis of Anglesey - 2
HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, first marquis of ANGLESEY soldier, depicted before the battle of Waterloo while he still had both of his legs

Gulliver / Lilliputians
The Lilliputians clamber all over Gulliver: he compares the experience to an army of rats walking on their hind legs

World War One Training
British soldiers on rifle practice. They are all wearing puttees (cloth wound round the lower part of the legs to support the ankles and to keep dirt out of their boots)

A Girl Putter
A GIRL PUTTER Wearing a harness whose chain passes between her legs, a girl on all fours pulls a laden hutchie through a low gallery, for 100-200 metres

Susi - with football and roller skates. 1950s

Susi - on a fallen tree trunk, hanging onto a branch. 1950s

Victorian Scrap - Washing Clothes in the Navy. late 19th century

Starr Woods Annual The Snark - ironing
Front cover of Starr Woods Annual, The Snark, Summer 1928, featuring an illustration of a flapper girl with hair severely cropped and very short skirts

Great Dane and woman on a pebbly beach
Unusual Friends - Great Dane and woman on a pebbly beach. 1950s

Small terrier dog with shopping basket
Unusual Friends - small terrier dog with shopping basket. 1950s

Young woman with boxer dog
Unusual Friends - young woman with boxer dog. 1950s

Two tabby kittens playing a game
Unusual Friends - two tabby kittens playing a game (or possibly a boxing match). 1950s

Woman at the seaside, leaning on a wooden post. Date: circa 1960s

Young woman doing aerobics in lycra and legwarmers. Date: circa 1980s

Children performing Fame routine, Cornwall
Three children from a gym club in Cornwall, performing an energetic routine from the TV programme Fame in a village hall. Date: circa 1980s

Pinup girl, Movie Humor magazine
Pinup girl, described as a Metropolitan Model, in Movie Humor magazine, November 1937. Date: 1937

Dorothy Compton, Movie Humor magazine
Dorothy Compton, performer, appearing in an elaborate costume at the French Casino (probably the one in New York City), in Movie Humor magazine, November 1937. Date: 1937

Cover design, Movie Humor magazine, November 1937 -- Hollywood Girls and Gags! The pigskin you love to touch. Showing a scantily dressed woman holding an American football 1937

Self-portrait, 1896 by Anders Zorn
Anders Zorn (1860-1920). Swedish painter. Self-portrait, 1896. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

The Show-Girls Wedding by Wallis Mills
A showgirl bride and her husband run the gauntlet of high kicking legs for her unusual guard of honour after leaving the church. Date: 1929

Two close lady friends in stylish attire. Date: circa 1930

1920s woman admiring her shoes
1920s woman seated admiring her shoes. 1927

The Gartered Skirt
The gartered skirt, " the latest stunt costume", according to The Sphere magazine, which had the " merit of convenience, but the disadvantage of ugliness". 1927

A Flapper Girl
" A smart costume for sport from the centre of feminine fashion", presumably Paris. A highly modern outfit featured in an article in The Sphere

Ballito stockings advertisement
Advertisement for Ballito stockings, made from pure silk. 1930

Cartoon, Britannia Mourns -- Henry Irving, legendary actor-manager, sets off on his tour to America. 1883

Snap Playing Cards - Tailor - Stephen Stitch. circa 1930s

Misfitz Dolls - Ping-Pong. early 20th century

Waterside scene, Leven, Fife, Scotland
Waterside scene with boys and boats at Leven, Fife, Scotland. Date: circa 1900s

Group photo, pupils at a school (possibly Bootham in York). Date: 1943

Group photo, teachers and pupils at a school (possibly Bootham in York). Date: 1942

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