Mills Collection (page 8)

Textile workers early 1900s

Florence Mills in Dover Street to Dixie (aka The Plantation Revue). Florence Mills (1896-1927) singer and dancer who became a major star of vaudeville and revue in the 1920s in both America

Florence Mills. Florence Mills (1896-1927) singer and dancer who became a major star of vaudeville and revue in the 1920s in both America and Britain. Date: 1927

Florence Mills signed photograph. Florence Mills (1896-1927) singer and dancer who became a major star of vaudeville and revue in the 1920s in both America and Britain. Date: 1920s

Florence Mills grave at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York USA. Photographer: Bill Egan. Florence Mills (1896-1927) singer and dancer who became a major star of vaudeville

Royal Arsenal Football Team: O Brien, Powell, McAvoy, Hollis (Trainer), Jenkyns (Captain), Davis, Boyle, Gavin Crawford, Mills, Hare, Gordon, Buchanan, Mortimer, Howatt, Storer, Caldwell, Ward. 1890s

Drawing by Harold Auerbach, waterwheel and stream
Pen and ink drawing by Harold Auerbach, waterwheel and stream. Date: circa 1910

Windmills of Surrey - Capel Mill. circa early 20th century

Firth Carpet Co Mills, Orange County, NY State, USA
Firth Carpet Company Mills, Firth Cliffe (Firthcliffe), Orange County, NY State, USA. Date: circa 1908

Map for St Jamess Theatre, King Street, London, on the back of a flyer for The Basker, a comedy by Clifford Mills. First produced at St Jamess Theatre, London, January 1916

Welsh International Rugby Football Team, 1895, at the time they played against England: Williams (Touch Judge), Jackson, Mills, Pearson, Boucher, Elsey, Selwyn Biggs, Nicholl, Hannen, Watts, Gould

Florence Mills the American artiste and star of the Lew Leslies Plantation Revue in New York, 1923. To appear in Charles Cochrans show Dover Street to Dixie at the London Pavilion Date: 1923

Letterhead design - McGregor Hosiery Mills, Toronto
Letterhead design - McGregor Hosiery Mills, manufacturers of finest quality hosiery, Toronto, Canada. 1936

Cause and Effect by Wallis Mills - tennis fashion cartoon
The new fashion for tennis shorts inspires one player to discard her dress and play in her underwear, much to the consternation and shock of some elderly female spectators. Date: 1931

Blue Maids Orphan Asylum, Bristol
The Blue Maids Orphan Asylum at Hooks Mills, Bristol. Date: circa 1907

Clark and Butchers Roller Mills, Soham, Cambridgeshire Date: circa 1910s

WWI Poster, Appeal to cotton operatives
Appeal to Cotton Operatives. WWI Recruitment poster aimed at the men of the cotton industry to join up or make munitions, and for women to take their place in the mills. Date: circa 1916

Number 23 Mills hand grenade made as an ink stand
A Number 23 Mills hand grenade made as an ink stand on a round glazed metal base, inscribed Memento of the Great War. Actual hand grenade casting as used by the Allies. Registered Number 651542

Mills hand grenade made as an ink stand
A Number 23 Mills hand grenade made as an ink stand on a glazed metal base, inscribed Memento of the Great War. Actual hand grenade casting as used by the Allies. Registered Number - 651542. 1915

Bertram Mills Circus 1938
Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia, London. Various clowns in costume: Kelly, Coco, Busti, George Sayer, Pinocchio, Coco-nut, Pipo and Joe Craston. Date: 1938

Macedonia - Water Mills at Bukovo, near Bitola
WW1 era - Water Mills at Bukovo, near Bitola (formerly Monastir or Manastir), Macedonia. Date: circa 1910s

Windmill and water mill, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Windmill (known as Archers Mill) at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. It was a post mill working two pairs of stones, purchased together with the nearby water mill by John Archer in the 19th century

Paston Windmill
Stow Mill on Stow Hill, Paston, near Mundesley, Norfolk. Often known as Paston Mill, it was built with dummy windows to make it look picturesque. Date: built 1827

Florence Mills in Black Birds
Florence Mills, born Florence Winfrey (1896 - 1927), American cabaret star, singer, dancer and comedienne. Pictured centre stage with Miss Tillie Meadows

Beautiful Sheffield! A sarcastic interpretation on the skyline of dark satanic mills which characterised Sheffield from the Industrial Revolution through to the 1950s

Roman Rotary Quern
A Rotary Quern used by the Romans for grinding corn. A number were found intact at the bakery in Pompeii

Scottish Hand Mill
Two women use a handmill to grind flour in a Scottish cabin

Windmills of Suffolk - Drinkstone Postmill near Stowmarket, Suffolk. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Cambridgeshire - Bourne Mill
Windmills of Cambridgeshire - Bourne (Bourn) Mill. circa early 20th century

British Columbia, East Canada - River Log Boom at the Mills Date: 1910s

Saxtead Green Post Windmill, Suffolk
Saxtead Green Post Windmill, a Grade II* listed building at Saxtead Green, Framlingham, Suffolk, dating back to the 18th century. Date: 1956

Windmills of Sussex - Mudmerry Mill, Selsey. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - The Old Mill, Rye. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Medmerry Mill, Selsey. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Salvington Mill, near Worthing. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Patcham Mill. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Earnley Mill, near Bognor Regis. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Surrey - Outwood Mills. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Clayton Mill. circa early 20th century

Windmills of Sussex - Clayton Mills, near Brighton. circa early 20th century

How to be unsuccessful in modern society - 2
The hearty shows enthusiasm at a gathering of intelligentsia. Date: 1929

The Show-Girls Wedding by Wallis Mills
A showgirl bride and her husband run the gauntlet of high kicking legs for her unusual guard of honour after leaving the church. Date: 1929

Moquette Mills, Yonkers, Westchester County, NY State, USA
Moquette Mills, Yonkers, Westchester County, New York State, USA --Alexander Smith & Sons, Axminster Carpet manufacturers. Date: circa 1905

Lady Dukes, 1928
Lady Dukes, wife of Sir Paul Dukes, formerly Mrs Ogden Mills, pictured at the Gallo Theatre, New York, dancing under her maiden-name, Miss Margaret Rutherfurd. 1928

Sakia in Upper Egypt
Camel-drawn wooden sakia in Upper Egypt with local children supervising. The sakia (sakieh) is an animal-drawn water wheel serving irrigation and is still used in India

The Cloth of the World, Horrockses, Crewdson & Co Ltd, Preston, Lancashire, an outline of the history of the company, dating back to the 18th century -- trade design. 1920

The Cotton Industry, a Romance of Modern Work -- trade design. 1920

Portrait of the exhibition dancers Seille and Mills, London
Portrait of the exhibition dancers Robert Seille and Annette Mills, London, 1921. The pair have been dancing at the Palais de Danse, Hammersmith and the Centraal Theatre Amsterdam

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