Merry Collection (page 8)

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

Christmas Tattoo
A young woman with dark hair having a tattoo put on her shoulder. It reads: Merry Xmas Bob from Annie. Date: early 1930s

Carousel Horses Kissing
Kissing (or fighting) wooden carousel horses from Portlands Merry-Go-Round. Date: early 1930s

Carousel Maintenance
Workmen retouching the paintwork on the horses of Portlands Merry-Go-Round in preparation for the forthcoming Easter funfair. Date: early 1930s

Mae Murray & Ship 1930S
MAE MURRAY American star of many silent films, including The Merry Widow (1925), known as the girl with bee-stung lips, here with a model ship. Date: 1889 - 1965

Christmas Mistletoe being pulled along atop a wooden frame
Delightful Chromolithograph Christmas greetings postcard by Ellen H. Clapsaddle depicting a large bunch of Christmas mistletoe, tied up with a red ribbon, being pulled along atop a wooden frame sled

Christmas Yule Log being pulled along atop a wooden frame
Delightful Chromolithograph Christmas greetings postcard by Ellen H. Clapsaddle depicting a large Christmas Yue Log, tied up with a red ribbon, being pulled along atop a wooden frame sled

Valparaiso, Chile - Christmas Greetings card - The Arco Britanico (Spanish for British Arch) - a monument located in the Avenida Brasil, in Valparaiso, Chile

Embossed silver portrait of a Woman - Christmas Postcard
A very unusual Christmas postcard featuring the embossed silver portrait of a young woman, bearing an expression far removed from what one would usually term Christmas Cheer !! Date: 1905

Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering a letter
Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering good wishes. Traditionally chimney sweeps used to go door to door wishing (and hopefully bringing) folk good luck

Children wake to greet Santa Claus on Christmas night. All rather odd - for one the cot bed seems really rather small for these two siblings...? Date: circa 1908

Christmas postcard - Asleep at Midnight
Christmas postcard - On the Bridge at Midnight A gent (looking suspiciously like Mr Punch) passes out on Christmas Eve after a heavy evening! Date: 1907

Miss Gabrielle Ray in The Merry Widow
Miss Gabrielle Ray (1883-1973), English actress, dancer and singer in The Merry Widow, an operetta by the AustroHungarian composer Franz Lehar

Men of Merry England - Two loons in the stocks Date: circa 1903

Poland - Decking the Christmas Tree
Reproduction of a painting by Waclaw Boratynski entitled: Merry Christmas - showing two polish women decking the Christmas Tree with tinsel, decorations and little candles. Date: 1938

A Christmas Card featuring a Mosque
A quite bizarre Christmas Card featuring a Mosque (the Ayasofya in Istanbul, Turkey)! The creator seemingly failed to attend a How to cut an accurate oval course....!!! Date: circa 1910s

Third Crusade (1189-1192). Surrender of Ptolemaide to Philipe II August and Richard the Lionhearted (July 13, 1191). After an original painting by Merry Joseph Blondel (1840). Engraving. SPAIN

Illustration from Robin Goodfellow: His Mad
" Illustration from " Robin Goodfellow: His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests", 1628. English school. Robin Goodfellow symbolises Puck, an important character in the Anglosaxon tradition

Robin Hood resting in a tree

Fliptail the Otter at the fair

Holidaymakers on Hampstead Heath, London
Holidaymakers making merry on Hampstead Heath, north west London. Date: 1871

Christmas Greetings, 1888 Date: 1888

Merry Christmas in Boston. Illustration shows Thomas W. Lawson standing among Christmas gifts and a notice posted on the wall

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