Mar17 Collection (page 2)

Mary Billington, journalist
Mary Frances Billington (6 September 1862 27 August 1925), English journalist and writer, whose collected articles on women were published as Woman in India (1895)

The Countess of Yarborough in fancy dress
Marcia Amelia Mary Pelham, Countess of Yarborough, 13th Baroness Conyers and 7th Baroness Fauconberg, OBE (18 October 1863 17 November 1926), British peer

Monaco - Cote d Azur - The Rock of Monaco
The Rock of Monaco (Rocher de Monaco) - a 62m tall monolith on the Mediterranean coast of the Principality of Monaco - Cote d Azur. Date: circa 1920s

Fantastic Transvestite Performer
A fantastic Transvestite Performer in dramatic pose! Date: 1924

Riffelsee and Matterhorn - Zermatt, Switzerland
The Alpine lake of the Riffelsee and Matterhorn - Zermatt, Switzerland Date: 1940s

Memorial Stadium, University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Memorial Stadium, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Date: circa 1933

Ryde - Isle of Wight - The Pier and Railway Station Date: circa 1910s

Temple to Elias, Gargalianoi, Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece
Temple of Prophet Elias at Gargalianoi - town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Date: 1906

Aerial View of the Pyramids of Giza, Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1920s

The perennial difficulty of getting changed on the beach when one only has a small wicker handbag and an unhelpful husband for assistance in preserving ones modesty... Date: circa 1950s

Model posing in lingerie, 1934 Vivex colour photograph
A young woman posing in a silk and lace slip. Colour Vivex photograph from the 1930s. Date: 1934

Viscountess Deerhurst (Virginia Daniel)
Viscountess Deerhurst, formerly Virginia Daniel Bonynge, step-daughter of Californian millionaire Charles W. Bonynge, one of the so-called dollar princesses

Artist Olive Snell skiing at Murren
Olive Snell pictured with Captain Beckwith preparing to ski at Murren in Switzerland. Her portraits in crayon and colour regularly appeared in The Tatler

Chimpanzee roller skating in Cannes
Chimpanzee - Lord Scratchem - enjoying a roller skate down the Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. Date: 1912

The Turkey Trot dance craze, 1912
Dancers Oscar and Suzette demonstrate one of the new ballroom dance crazes sweeping London dance halls - the Turkey Trot. Date: 1912

Tatler cover - Lady Moya Campbell on an ostrich
Lady Moya Campbell, nee Brown, second daughter of Lord and Lady Altamont seen riding on an ostrich at Ampthill House, Bedfordshire, the seat of Anthony Wingfield, who owned a remarkable private zoo

Rudyard Kipling skating at Engelberg
Rudyard Kipling seen ice skating at Engelberg in Switzerland. Date: 1912

King George V smiling
King George V (1865-1936), smiling broadly while in Egypt in 1912. Date: 1912

Princess Mary & Princess Helena of Teck
Princess Mary and Helena of Teck, daughters of the Duke and Duchess of Teck (Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice of Albany)

Lady Brooke with baby Charles Fulke Greville
Lady Brooke, formerly Elfrida Eden, with her baby son Charles Guy Fulke Greville, who became 7th Earl of Warwick, 7th Earl Brooke (4 March 1911 20 January 1984)

Miss Rosie Boote - the Marchioness of Headfort
The Marchioness of Headfort, formerly known to playgoers as Miss Rose (Rosie) Boote of the Gaiety Theatre, London. She married the Marquess in April 1901, and her son became the Earl of Bective

Trafalgar Square - Feed the Guns campaign WWI
Trafalgar Square as a wrecked village. Trafalgar Square in central London dressed to resemble a war-torn French village during a fundraising drive on 7th October 1918 called the Feed the Guns

Shop window with model of German blockade, WWI
A shop window of Messrs Bassett-Lowke, a model-makers in High Holborn showing a diorama of the results from Germanys blockade policy

War trophies on display in London, 1915
A German mine and a searchlight on display in Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, London in November 1915, part of an exhibition of war trophies - weapons and salvaged objects from the war. Date: 1915

Mrs Leeming hoping to become 1st woman to fly Channel
Mrs Leeming, hoping to become the first Englishwoman to cross the Channel in an aeroplane with Lieutenant Lawrence. Lawrence had made his first solo flight in the Blackburn at the end of January

Overweight people causing consternation for Berlin cabbies
A rather plump couple - the man weighing 674lb (aged 28) and the girl 367lb (aged 22) - embark on a cab ride in Berlin. The caption accompanying this picture explains that the weighty pair took some

New sensation dance crazes, 1912
Examples of dances gaining in popularity in 1912, which, The Tatler, says in bemusement, were, threatening to undermine the decorum of our ballrooms

Polaire at Longchamps
Emilie Polaire (1877 - 1939), French actress and music hall entertainer reputed to have the smallest waist in the world, but pictured at Longchamps racecourse

Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1890 - 1914), youngest son of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg, pictured watching the field going to the starting post at a steeplechase meeting at

Christening of Francis David Charteris
The christening of the baby son of the Hon. Hugo and Violet Charteris, nee Manners) at their country seat of Lord and Lady Elcho (Hugos parents), Stanway Hall, Gloucestershire

Madame Steinheil at work
Marguerite Jeanne " Meg" Japy Steinheil, Lady Abinger (1869 - 1954), French woman famous for her many love affairs with important men

Modish skipping skyward toque hats 1912
Two examples of the vertiginous taste in hats in the years leading up to the First World War. The left hat is of lace straw piped with ble-coloured ribbon

Society at a carnival in Cairo
Three guests at The Arabian Nights Ball given by Mrs Harry McCalmont at the Ghezireh Casino in Cairo, Egypt in March 1912

Christabel Pankhurst sledging in Villar
Christabel Pankhurst LLB (1880 - 1958), suffragette, founder and leader of National Womens Social and Political Union, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst

Clement Shorter in fancy dress
Clement King Shorter (1857 - 1926), journalist, critic and biographer, founder of The Sphere magazine. Pictured here in fancy dress in the costume of an Indian prince for the Chelsea Arts Ball in

The Vienna Auto cap - ladies motoring wear 1912
Helmet-shaped knitted cap designed to protect the chin from the wind during inclement weather. The cap is warm, light, and porous

Engagement of Viola Tree to Alan Parsons
Viola Tree (1884 - 1938), English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she made many of her early appearances with his company at His Majestys Theatre

Lloyd George on the Riviera
David Lloyd George, at the time, Chancellor of the Exchequer, with Sir Rufus Isaacs and the Master of Elibank (centre), together with Mr R. Cole and Captain the Hon

The Sphere magazine absorbs Black and White
A newspaper boy selling copies of The Sphere and The Tatler (sister titles from the same group) to a man on a train. The photograph was promoting the fact that The Sphere had successfully absorbed

Duchess of Westminster - amateur dramatics, Eaton Hall
A scene from Scaramouch an amateur theatrical production performed at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster

Gaby Deslys in Vera Violetta
Gaby Deslys (1884 - 1920), French actress, music hall artiste and sometime lover of King Manuel II of Portugal, pictured in 1912 when she was appearing in Vera Violetta at the Winter Garden Theatre

Tatler cover - Maud Cressall as the Fairy Queen
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a portrait of actress Maud Cressall (1886-1962) in the role of the Fairy Queen for the play

Lord and Lady Kinnoull shopping in Monte Carlo
Archibald FitzRoy George Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull (1855-1916) together with his second wife, Florence Mary Darell, snapped on a shopping expedition in Monte Carlo on the fashionable French Riviera

British Officers Playing Rounders in Suda Dockard
The Blockade of Crete: British Officers Playing Rounders in Suda Dockard. The Englishman must have his sport wherever he goes

Lady Maragaret College Boat House, Cambridge Date: 1915

NWFP - Khyber Pass - Showing Railway Bridge, Tunnel and defences. Date: circa 1920s

Exterior of the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, London
The Confectioners & Bakers Exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, London. Date: 1905

South Bank Exhibition - Festival of Britain, including views of the Skylon, Dome of Discovery Lion and the Unicorn Exhibition and part of the Power and Production display. Date: 1951

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