Luxuries Collection

Elizabeth Arden Soaps advertisement, 1940
Advertisement for Elizabeth Arden Soaps. A little luxury a woman earned after a hard day during the Second World War. The advertisement reads

Advert for Elizabeth Arden soaps, promoted as a little wartime luxury. Date: 1940

Frys Cocoa advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Frys Pure Breakfast Cocoa, Always on Active Service, being enjoyed by three British soldiers at the Front. 1918

Fortnum & Masons advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for quintessential British department store, Fortnum & Mason and its service for sending boxes of food to the front during the First World War

WW1 poster, National Savings Campaign, How you can help. Date: 1914-1918

Eve and her luxuries, WW1
Eve, the fictional gossip columnist of The Tatler magazine, pictured surrounded by some of her favourite luxury items - hats, dresses and lingerie

The effects of WW1 on French Food Prices - AFTER (2 / 2)
The Household Accounts The effects of the First World War on French Food Prices - in 1918 (2/2) Date: circa 1918

Duty-free Cigarettes and Alcohol - Norway
Two women and a man pose on the deck of a Norwegian ferry boat wit their duty free spirits and cigarettes. Following WW2 there was still considerable rationing of food and drink in the UK

Luxuries versus lifeboats. Illustration shows an ocean liner sinking amid icebergs with many passengers jumping into the sea for lack of enough lifeboats

Luxurious Car
This car, fitted with silver brocade blinds and countless innovations and luxuries, is a wedding gift for the only grand-daughter of wealthy Indian Bai Rahematbai. Date: 13 March 1930

Wrights Coal Tar soap
Advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar soap showing a British soldier (or Tommy ), writing a thank-you letter to his sweetheart

Oppian Law Opposed
Valerius persuades the Senate to rescind the 20-year old Oppian Law which prohibited women from using expensive luxuries

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