Light Weight Collection

Advert for Underwood portable typewriters 1931
Underwood creates the new portable typewriter. With a quiet carriage that never interrupts the train of thought, a quieter key action and shift key

Advert for Underwood portable typewriters 1931
Your personal letters... write them on the Underwood portable. With a quiet carriage that never interrupts the train of thought, a quieter key action and shift key

Manual Fire-Engine / 1885
Factory Pattern Manual Fire- engine constructed by Merryweathers for the use of factory fire brigade

1958 Tatler cover: fashionable lady in a park
Shes happy because shes going away this weekend-and she has no cares about humping heavy luggage. Everything shes taking with her-bar the Borzoi-will fit into two small cases.The dress she wears for

Tatler fashions for July 1930
A fashion design by Gordon Conway, taken from a series of monthly supplements drawn by the artist. A summer dress in printed cotton voile, trimmed in cream coloured organdie

Sir Alan Cobham with his de Havilland DH. 60 Moth biplane
Sir Alan John Cobham (18941973) - English aviation pioneer standing in front of his de Havilland DH.60 Moth G-EBKT, a light-weight, two-place, single-engine

Sir Alan Cobham with his de Havilland DH. 60 Moth biplane
Sir Alan John Cobham (18941973) - English aviation pioneer standing in front of his de Havilland DH.60 Moth G-EBKT, a light-weight, two-place, single-engine

Young lady in evening gown by Paul Poiret
Young lady wearing a sleeveless evening gown of grey velvet with embroidered silver pattern, with a long lightweight sheer dress scarf draped around her neck and arm, by Paul Poiret. 1924

Albania - Vlore - A horse-drawn tram
A small lightweight horse-tram, pulled by a singularly uninterested-looking beast at Vlore, Albania

Mulatto Woman from Martinique
A beautiful Mulatto (person with one white parent and one black parent, or a person who has black ancestry and white ancestry) woman in a Foulard dress (foulard is a lightweight fabric)

Two ladies in dresses by Doucet and Beer
Two fashionable ladies in the latest sleeveless dresses. On the left, a pink crepe dress with crystal edging and three layers of frills at the hem, by Doucet

Brassierette 1938
Kleinerts brassierette: a lightweight bra without fastenings but with a shirred elastic back. Suitable for sports. It is also fitted with dress shields. Date: 1938

Lady holding the reins
A rather stern-faced middle-aged lady holding the reins to a fine open lightweight carriage, while a gentleman in a silk top hat attends to the two ponies

Greece - Crossing the Canal at Corinth
Greek men and their horse-drawn carts cross the Corinth Canal, Greece on a lightweight chain ferry

Weaving - Southern Algeria
Southern Algeria - Sahara - Goubi Women from Kames weaving on a lightweight loom in the shade of a palm tree at an oasis

Laceknit in Two-ply
A lightweight summer sweater with a tailor type collar and sleeve edging in plain garter stitch

Carrying a lightweight boat - Adirondacks, USA
Grenville Collins Collection

British Paratroops on exercise in England; Second World War
Photograph showing a group of British paratroops readying themselves after landing, during an exercise taking place in England in 1944

Motorcyclist of the British First Airborne; Second World War
Photograph showing a soldier, of the Motorcycle Section of the British First Airborne Division, heading off on his motorcycle, 1944

Raincoat 1939
Protector lightweight raincoat has won its place in every mans summer wardrobe

Admiral McDonalds Folding Boat, 1878
Engraving of Admiral McDonalds Patent Folding Boat, as exhibited at the Crystal Palace, London, November 1878. This lightweight

Poro-Plastic Corset
The patent Poro-Plastic corset is composed of felt & is seamless, boneless & stitchless and yet affords excellent support being elastic & porous & lightweight

Patriotic Pillow 1915
Dress by Jessie Porter: triple skirt in a lightweight striped fabric, the upper skirt in plain black, vest bodice with dentate edge, wide brimmed hat. Girl: short double smock

Working Class Boy 1860S
A working boy wears a felt hat, lightweight jacket in a coarse fabric, trousers, boots & a coarse apron

Man in White Suit C1905
Farren Soutar in a lightweight casual 3 piece suit: straw boater, all-round collar, trousers with front crease & turn-ups, short jacket with single button & braid trim

Boy in Muslin Frock 1789
A young boy, Master Henry Hoare, wears a high-waisted, white muslin frock with tucks at the hem, a blue sash, white stockings & lightweight brown lace-up shoes. N.B straw hat

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