Living Collection (page 4)

DREAMING
Dream Situation : THE DREAM OF THE LIVING DEAD Date: 1934

Francisco Javier, miracle at Travancore, India
Francisco Javier (or Xavier) (1506-1552), Spanish Jesuit missionary in Asia. Seen here as a missionary at Travancore, India -- to convince people of God's power

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

Lady Morvyth Bensen and Mr Valentine Whitaker dressed up as Ford Madox Browns painting, The Last of England, for the Empire Day Ball held at the May Fair Hotel on 24 May 1928. Date: 1928

Feeding the Doves, a Living Picture Date: 1890s

Comic postcard, I m living in style here - a toilet roll made of ten shilling notes - clearly pre-decimalisation! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man with ducklings on the beach Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor and patient Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Struggling hard to earn a living Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Cockerel scratching for a living Date: 20th century

WWI: refugee living in beach hut, Ostend
Vintage World War One photograph - WWI: refugee living in beach hut, Ostend

Armenian family living at Kerman, Iran. Date: circa 1900s

The accommodation of the Chelsea pensioners designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Each ward had 36 veterans sleeping in old oak cubicles with little curtains that could be drawn across

George Robert Sims (1847 - 1922), journalist, writer and publisher, pictured in the study of his home in Clarence Terrace, Regents Park, part of a long-running series in The Tatler

Isobel Violet Hunt (1862 - 1942), British author and literary hostess; writer of feminist novels. She founded the Women Writers Suffrage League in 1908

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (1853 - 1931), writer, pictured in a charming Arts and Crafts room at his home in Wimbledon. Part of a series in The Tatler of photographs of literary figures at home

Greenwich Pensioners
Group of Greenwich Pensioners, the Naval equivalent of a Chelsea Pensioner. Although the initial concept of a Greenwich pensioner was that of someone living in the Royal Hospital Greenwich

A member of the Wardens Service fitting a gas mask
Shorlty after the Munich Agreement, a member of the Wardens Service (and his assistant - far right) - not yet issued with their uniforms - fit gas masks in the living room of a family in Sunderland

Double page spread from The Tatler, reporting on Captain Neil MacEacheans novel party held at Brook Street, where well-knowns dressed up as living celebrities

Prussian soldiers capturing Napoleons coach after the Battle of Waterloo. The soldiers shot the driver and coachman, and the Major von Keller claimed the coach as booty

Woman wearing an overcoat in blue French vicuna wool over a trouser suit, holding a top hat. Pardessus de vigogne bleu de France

Fred Karno, music hall star, pictured in the well-appointed living room of his house-boat on Taggs Island near Hampton Court

Living drop-curtain in Better Days, London Hippodrome
A living drop-curtain at the London Hippodrome revue, Better Days, with various young ladies draped through peep holes. Date: 1925

Life below stairs, 1940
Life below stairs article in Britannia & Eve, November 1940, about living with air raids during World War Two. Date: 1940

Edward Entwistle, Oldest Living Engine Driver, cutting from Success'. Date: 38108

A Bare living by Wilton Williams
A cabaret dancer wearing very little entertains diners at a smart restaurant. Date: 1928

Cartoon, Why Coals Are Dear -- a satirical comment on the high cost of coals to ordinary working people, caused by Restricted Navigation and City Tax. Date: 1853

Living Bronzes at the London Hippodrome
The Three Olympiers, who posed as some of the finest bronze figures in classical art in an act at the London Hippodrome in May 1906

Camille Clifford at home
Camille Clifford (1885 - 1971), Belgian-born stage actress, the model for the Edwardian Gibson Girl drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, who married the Hon

Actors revising script before show opening, September 1939
Actors revising the script of " Design for Living" by Noel Coward before the shows opening at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool

Soya beans - a hint for hungry Europe 1921
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the possibilities of the soya bean as the solution to the cost of living in Europe

Better Days at the London Hippodrome
Page from The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News showing scenes during the " Beads" number in the Better Days revue at the London Hippodrome in 1925

Fred Terry, Julia Neilson and Phylis Neilson-Terry
A wonderful real photographic Rotary postcard showing (from left) the actress Julia Neilson (1868 - 1957), her husband, the actor Fred Terry (1863-1933)

Cartoon by Gillray, a poor man goes hungry - wages were low and food prices were high, thanks to foreign wars, corn duty and a bad harvest. 1790s

A scene from The Passing Show, London, 1915. In the tapestry at the back, five of the figures are real Date: 1915

Prince Andrew of Greece at Cannes
Prince Andrew of Greece, father of the current Duke of Edinburgh, pictured at Cannes in the company of Margot Hambling, David Townsend and Gilbert Beale, whose yacht was in Cannes Harbour

Tilting at a living quintain, 14th century
Boy with lance titling at a living quintain, attempting to push a man in armour with shield off a stool, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports

Tilting at quintain, 14th century
Boy with lance tilting at a moveable quintain operated by another boy (top), boy with lance tilting at a living quintain (trying to knock a man in armour with a shield off a stool)

Decorative ornaments with centaurs and harpies in the oecus or living room in the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno

Three fashionable women in bonnets with tall floral displays, holding a green shawl to form a living fruit basket. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Louise nursing
Napoleon Bonaparte and Empress Marie Louise nursing their first son Napoleon Francois Charles Joseph Bonaparte, King of Rome, 1811

Elisabeth Welch theatre programme for her one-woman show Time to Start Living at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York. Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003)

The Strand Theatre, London Date: 1934

Belgian refugees at Ostend, WW1
Belgian refugees at Ostend - families living in beach huts escaping the German invasion, August 1914, at the start of the First World War. 1914

Window Cleaner - People You See. From Teddy Bear (22 May 1964). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1964

Royal visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Bristol
Royal visit of George V and Queen Mary to Bristol, where 2500 school children formed a living British flag. Date: circa 1911

Housing problems in the East End of London with typical large families living in one room. Date: 1919

SPANISH SACRIFICED
Spanish conquistadors captured by the Aztecs are sacrificed in their customary way, cutting the heart out of the living body, to the glory of the gods Date: 1519

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