Merry Collection (page 7)

The Merry Wives of Windsor
Illustration of scene from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V, Scene V. Fenton steals away with Anne Page to be married.Date: circa 1904

Girl on a log with holly
Girl sitting on a log with a sprig of holly. From Merry Winter series of postcards published by Raphael Tuck.Date: 1908

Collecting holly
Girl collecting holly branches. From Merry Winter series of postcards published by Raphael Tuck.Date: 1908

Taking home the holly
Girl & boy returning home with holly on a toboggan. From Merry Winter series of postcards published by Raphael Tuck.Date: 1908

Tobogganing
Girl on a toboggan. From Merry Winter series of postcards published by Raphael Tuck.Date: 1908

Merry Maidens stone circle, near St Buryan, Cornwall
The Merry Maidens, nineteen granite megaliths also known as Dawns Men (Dans Maen or Stone Dance), a late neolithic stone circle, near St Buryan, not far from Lands End, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Five bulldogs in tankards on a Christmas card
Five bulldogs sitting in tankards on a Christmas card, each one holding an envelope in his paw. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas cheque from the Greeting Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, for ten thousand kind greetings. Date: circa 1900s

Kitten with letter cards on a Christmas card
Kitten with letter cards spelling out Merry Xmas on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Illustration, Willie Brew d a Peck o Maut
Illustration to Willie Brew d a Peck o Maut, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Title page illustration, Merry and Bright, by Cecil Aldin. Showing Merry, an English terrier, and Bright, a German dachshund. Date: 1911

Endpaper illustration, Merry and Bright, by Cecil Aldin, depicting Bright, the German dachshund. Date: 1911

Cover design, Merry and Bright, by Cecil Aldin. Showing Merry, an English terrier, and Bright, a German dachshund. Date: 1911

Illustration, Merry and Bright, by Cecil Aldin
Illustration, Merry and Bright, the English terrier and the German dachshund, running along side by side. Date: 1911

Mrs Rachel Merry
Louisa Birt was the sister and colleague of childrens emigration promoter Annie Macpherson. Rachel and her husband Joseph Merry superintended Macphersons Home of Industry for several years

Girl with teddy bears. Merry Christmas. Girl in Santa outfit & teddy bears speed downhill on sled in snowy scene. Artist: Agnes Richardson Date: circa 1917

Girl with an Xmas parcel. Merry Christmas. Girl in red in snowy Xmas scene with a large parcel, surrounded by rabbits. Artist: Agnes Richardson Date: circa 1917

WW2 Christmas card, female air warden (ARP). Date: 1945

WW2 Christmas card, Business As Usual (inside). Date: circa 1942

Cartoon, Parrots of Paris, WW1
Cartoon, Parrots of Paris, showing women going about their normal business, with little understanding of the seriousness of war. Date: 1915

Council Crest Amusement Park, Portland, Oregon, USA, with various mountains visible. From left to right: Mount Rainier, Mount St Helens, Mount Adams, and Mount Hood

Ivy Tresmand (1898 - 1980), actress and singer. Appearing in Dalys production of the part of Frou-Frou in The Merry Widow. Date: 1923

Woman wearing piped tunic skirt 1909
Woman wearing large brimmed hat with plumes, demi-saison wrap in ermine and embroidery, velvet piped tunic skirt, high waist and neck. 1909

Pigs playing with a wheelbarrow
Three pigs play at chariots using a wheelbarrow, with the greeting A merry Christmas to you. Date: C.1890

Woman wearing fur muff and stole 1909
Woman wearing large brimmed hat with plumes, fur muff and stole. 1909

Suffrage Parliament M. P Woos Maiden
A Member of Parliament attempts to woo a Suffrage campaigner (Lydia Becker?) with the promise of a bill to secure Womens Franchise

Merry-Go-Round, Copley Plaza, Boston, Mass, USA
Merry-Go-Round bar, Copley Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Merry-Go-Round Cafe, San Francisco, California, USA
Scene inside the Merry-Go-Round Cafe, O Farrell Street, San Francisco, California, USA. The food is selected from a long revolving table. Date: circa 1930s

Suffragette. I Vote you a Merry Xmas. Two couples kiss under the mistletoe at Christmas while the suffragette stands alone. Caption reads, I Vote you a Merry Xmas

Suffragette W. S. P. U Christmas Card
Suffragette W.S.P.U Christmas Card. A merry Christmas and votes for women in 1910 card produced by W.S.P.U showing a girl dressed in the uniform of the organisations Drum

Formidable looking Suffragette. Formidable looking Suffragette in pork pie hat and tie, with Votes for Women flag, with caption, A Merry Xmas. Date: circa 1908

Boy playing a clarinet. Piping songs of merry glee. Date: circa 1906

Silk postcard embroidered Merry Christmas - WWI era
Silk postcard embroidered Merry Christmas with flowers and windmill. Commemorative Art, World War One era

Merry-go-round made from Lewis Gun magazines
A fairground merry-go-round made from Lewis Gun magazines.. Trench Art

Falstaff
A portrait of Sir John Falstaff in Shakespeares The Merry Wives of Windsor. Date: 1891

The Merry Mummers, World War One entertainment troupe
The Merry Mummers entertaining troops at a West African Concert Party organised by Major P. a Beckett, son of the late Arthur a Becket of Punch

Seasonable Cakes. Christmas Design Date: 1936

Cake design, flower making. Holly and bells. Date: 1936

The new Maxim flying machine
Illustration showing the new flying machine designed by Sir Hiram Maxim in full working order. The ride was opened at Earls Court in 1905. Date: 1904

The Latest Novelty in Flying Machines
One of the machines attached to the mammoth merry-go-round invented by Sir Hiram Maxim, shaped like a rather terrifying fish. Date: 1904

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year by H. G. Hine
An engraving of Christmas tree showing the bills that the father of the family has to pay over the Christmas period. 1853

Graceful frock for Ranelagh 1909
Beige coloured silk muslin, the skirt showing wie tucks and black satin ribbon threaded through two of them, over the frock a scaft arrangement of mereore foulard is draped in shades of golden brown

Evelyn Laye listening to music in 1923
Evelyn Laye (1900 - 1996), English theatre and musical film actress, listening to music with headphones. Here in a title role in " Merry Widow" at Daly s. Date: 1923

Tolstoy & Family
TOLSTOY dining with his family at Jasnaia Poliana. It doesn t look a very merry gathering, but perhaps things will liven up when they ve had a little more to drink. Date: circa 1900

Harriot, Duchess of St Albans
HARRIOT (nee Mellon) duchess of St ALBANS, actress in the role of mistress Page in Shakespeares Merry wives. Wife of banker Thos. Coutts, later of William ninth duke. Date: 1777 - 1837

Edward Progers
EDWARD PROGERS Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles II : his memoir, I emptied the Merry Monarchs Chamber-Pot remains, alas, unpublished. Date: 1621 - 1717

Robert Merry
ROBERT MERRY - dilettante poet and playwright, for some time in Florence but quarrelled continually, much mocked by Walpole and others : married actress Ann Brunton. Date: 1755 - 1798

James Merry
JAMES MERRY Racehorse owner, wearing as fine a top hat as any in our files. And with his autograph, too. Date: 1805 - 1877

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