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Background imageLifestyle Collection: Gypsies and their caravans

Gypsies and their caravans Date: 1910s

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Flowers for Grandmother

Flowers for Grandmother

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Christmas Evening

Christmas Evening

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Saint Humbeline

Saint Humbeline
SAINT HUMBELINE sister of Bernard of Clairvaux, who wrote her letters reproaching her for her worldly lifestyle so she left her husband and became a nun Date: 12th century

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Still Life with Peaches and Pears Date: 1890

Still Life with Peaches and Pears Date: 1890

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Life on a barge, Henley-on-Thames

Life on a barge, Henley-on-Thames - early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Flowers and Path

Flowers and Path

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Bare-breasted tea house girls, geishas, relaxing, Japan

Bare-breasted tea house girls, geishas, relaxing, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Young women taking bath at home, late 19thc. Japan

Young women taking bath at home, late 19thc. Japan
Young women taking a bath at home, late 19th century Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Two Teenage Girls

Two Teenage Girls

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Circus Parade Date: 1891

Circus Parade Date: 1891

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Contrasting Bathroom

Contrasting Bathroom

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Kitchen with Yellow Sink Date: 1950

Kitchen with Yellow Sink Date: 1950

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Morris Minor 1000 Traveller car

Morris Minor 1000 Traveller car Date: circa 1965

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Sedentary Lifestyle not happy

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Sedentary Lifestyle not happy
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - A Sedentary Lifestyle is not happy! Date: circa mid-1970s

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Home Sweet Home down South - Kentucky, USA

Home Sweet Home down South - Kentucky, USA. A slightly-derogatory view of the run-down home of a black family in the deep south of America. Date: 1907

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Image of a woman mid-phone conversation, taken from a lifestyle article about living alone

Image of a woman mid-phone conversation, taken from a lifestyle article about living alone. Date: 1954

Background imageLifestyle Collection: A family of savages living at Nymet Rowland in North Devon, England

A family of savages living at Nymet Rowland in North Devon, England, chatting with a civilised visitor. Date: 1871

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Kabyle woman with a cigarette. Algeria

Kabyle woman with a cigarette. Algeria
19th century vintage photograph - Kabyle woman with a cigarette. The Kabyle people are a Berber ethnic group indigenous to Kabylia in the north of Algeria, spread across the Atlas Mountains

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Two wrestler, strong men with their equipment

Two wrestler, strong men with their equipment
Vintage 19th century photograph: two wrestler, strong men with their equipment, later Victorian era cabinet card

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Japan - young woman writing on a scroll

Japan - young woman writing on a scroll
Vintage 19th century photograph - Japan - young woman writing on a scroll

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Japan - young woman in ornate kimono, smiling

Japan - young woman in ornate kimono, smiling
Vintage 19th century photograph Japan - young woman in ornate kimono, smiling

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Japan - young nurse carrying a baby

Japan - young nurse carrying a baby
Vintage 19th century photograph Japan - young nurse carrying a baby

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Group of children on the island of Capri, Italy

Group of children on the island of Capri, Italy
Vintage 19th century photograph: group of children on the island of Capri, Italy

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Group of geishas musicians on picnic with man, Japan

Group of geishas musicians on picnic with man, Japan
Group of geishas musicians on a picnic with a man, Japan, late 19th century

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Paper lantern makers at work, Japan, studio setting

Paper lantern makers at work, Japan, studio setting. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Woman playing koto stringed musical instrument, Japan

Woman playing koto stringed musical instrument, Japan
Young woman playing a koto stringed musical instrument, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Fishing family outside their cottage, Staithes, Yorkshire

Fishing family outside their cottage, Staithes, Yorkshire. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Three young Japanese women

Three young Japanese women. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Two young women reading and staying warm, Japan

Two young women reading and staying warm, Japan
Two young women reading and staying warm under blankets around a stove beneath a kotatsu table, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Musume / young woman, winter dress with umbrella, Japan

Musume / young woman, winter dress with umbrella, Japan
Musume or young woman in winter dress with an umbrella, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Japanese geisha in an ornate kimono writing a letter

Japanese geisha in an ornate kimono writing a letter. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Japanese woman in an ornate kimono

Japanese woman in an ornate kimono. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Two young women and a mosquito net

Two young women and a mosquito net. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Women of the working class in Tokyo, 18th century

Women of the working class in Tokyo, 18th century
Women of the working class in Tokyo, Edo Era, 18th century. A laundress washing clothes in a tub, a menial maid carrying water pales with yoke, servant with brush, and nursemaid with baby

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Edo street scene, 18th century

Edo street scene, 18th century. A dance teacher and pupil on the left, a nori (glue) seller is beckoned by workers in a small family business

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Young women and geisha on an Edo street, 18th century

Young women and geisha on an Edo street, 18th century
Scene outside an office for servant placement with the entrance to a female bathhouse. An older woman talks to a nanny with baby and other working women

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Wealthy townswomen at a house with courtyard, 18th century

Wealthy townswomen at a house with courtyard, 18th century
Wealthy townswomen, Tokyo, 18th century. Three young chonin women gather at the house of an older woman for a meeting. A maid brings tea to a young nursing mother

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Women of the merchant or artisan class

Women of the merchant or artisan class. Waka poetry tutor in a daimyos house. Servants sewing, writing poems, wrapping items and carrying rice

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancer

Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancer
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Wife of the elite samurai class relaxing

Wife of the elite samurai class relaxing
Wife of the elite samurai class reading books, with other women writing with a pen, one looking at ukiyo-e prints, and one folding paper. Another woman delivers reams of paper and ink

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Japanese women picnicing in a field, Tokyo, 18th century

Japanese women picnicing in a field, Tokyo, 18th century
Japanese women picnicing in a field outside Tokyo, 18th century. Women smoking a tobacco pipe while waiting for a soba-shop woman to bring a kettle and tray of noodles

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Aristocratic women parading past a ?shop, Tokyo

Aristocratic women parading past a ?shop, Tokyo
Aristocratic women parading passing a ?yojiya, a shop selling brushes and toothpicks, Tokyo, 18th century. Young maids carry a mirror

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Edo street scene, 18th century, with archery range

Edo street scene, 18th century, with archery range
Edo street scene, 18th century. A shop girl sits in front of an archery range holding a bow. A tea shop girl stands on a bench with a candle. A woman and edemame seller with baby pass by

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Woman of the nobility or courtier in silk kimono walking

Woman of the nobility or courtier in silk kimono walking
Woman of the nobility or courtier in silk kimono with cypress fan walking in a garden under cherry blossoms. Handcoloured ukiyo-e woodblock print by Toyokuni Utagawa from Shikitei Sanbas Ehon Imayo

Background imageLifestyle Collection: London Docks, Greenwich Hospital and Chelsea Hospital

London Docks, Greenwich Hospital and Chelsea Hospital. Entrance to the new London docks opened in 1805 in Wapping 85, disabled Navy pensioners at Greenwich Hospital 86

Background imageLifestyle Collection: A postcard bearing a very useful message for busy people in order to stop their friends

A postcard bearing a very useful message for busy people in order to stop their friends hating them: " I m very, very busy, With many things to do, But my favorite occupation is

Background imageLifestyle Collection: Cartoon, Mr James (Jimmy) Davis

Cartoon, Mr James (Jimmy) Davis (1853-1907), pen name Owen Hall (a pun on owing all, referring to his gambling and extravagant lifestyle), Irish-born theatre writer, librettist, racing correspondent



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