Gypsies and their caravans Date: 1910s
Saint HumbelineSAINT 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
Christmas Evening
Still Life with Peaches and Pears Date: 1890
Life on a barge, Henley-on-Thames - early 1900s Date: early 1900s
Flowers and Path
Bare-breasted tea house girls, geishas, relaxing, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Two Teenage Girls
Morris Minor 1000 Traveller car Date: circa 1965
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Sedentary Lifestyle not happyVietnamese Patriotic Poster - A Sedentary Lifestyle is not happy! Date: circa mid-1970s
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
Image of a woman mid-phone conversation, taken from a lifestyle article about living alone. Date: 1954
A family of savages living at Nymet Rowland in North Devon, England, chatting with a civilised visitor. Date: 1871
Young women taking bath at home, late 19thc. JapanYoung women taking a bath at home, late 19th century Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Circus Parade Date: 1891
Kitchen with Yellow Sink Date: 1950
Kabyle woman with a cigarette. Algeria19th 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
Two wrestler, strong men with their equipmentVintage 19th century photograph: two wrestler, strong men with their equipment, later Victorian era cabinet card
Japan - young woman writing on a scrollVintage 19th century photograph - Japan - young woman writing on a scroll
Japan - young woman in ornate kimono, smilingVintage 19th century photograph Japan - young woman in ornate kimono, smiling
Japan - young nurse carrying a babyVintage 19th century photograph Japan - young nurse carrying a baby
Group of children on the island of Capri, ItalyVintage 19th century photograph: group of children on the island of Capri, Italy
Group of geishas musicians on picnic with man, JapanGroup of geishas musicians on a picnic with a man, Japan, late 19th century
Paper lantern makers at work, Japan, studio setting. Vintage 19th century photograph
Woman playing koto stringed musical instrument, JapanYoung woman playing a koto stringed musical instrument, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Fishing family outside their cottage, Staithes, Yorkshire. Vintage 19th century photograph
Three young Japanese women. Vintage 19th century photograph
Two young women reading and staying warm, JapanTwo young women reading and staying warm under blankets around a stove beneath a kotatsu table, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Musume / young woman, winter dress with umbrella, JapanMusume or young woman in winter dress with an umbrella, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Japanese geisha in an ornate kimono writing a letter. Vintage 19th century photograph
Japanese woman in an ornate kimono. Vintage 19th century photograph
Two young women and a mosquito net. Vintage 19th century photograph
Women of the working class in Tokyo, 18th centuryWomen 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
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
Young women and geisha on an Edo street, 18th centuryScene 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
Wealthy townswomen at a house with courtyard, 18th centuryWealthy 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
Women of the merchant or artisan class. Waka poetry tutor in a daimyos house. Servants sewing, writing poems, wrapping items and carrying rice
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancerConcubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)
Wife of the elite samurai class relaxingWife 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
Japanese women picnicing in a field, Tokyo, 18th centuryJapanese 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
Aristocratic women parading past a ?shop, TokyoAristocratic women parading passing a ?yojiya, a shop selling brushes and toothpicks, Tokyo, 18th century. Young maids carry a mirror
Edo street scene, 18th century, with archery rangeEdo 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
Woman of the nobility or courtier in silk kimono walkingWoman 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
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
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
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
Return from the masked ballReturn from the ball: a young man flirts with several women undressing after a costume ball. During carnival you must be especially vigilant, old husbands of young wives, outdated lovers
A meeting at a masquerade ballA meeting at a ball: A masked woman and Normandy girl flirt with a revolutionary man in bicorn and cockade, while a woman in drag as a Turkish man interrupts and a double bass player looks
