Mirror Collection (page 16)

Maid applying lipstick
A maid applying lipstick. Date: circa 1920s

Fashionable woman applying lipstick
A fashionable young woman applying lipstick, holding a box with a mirror under the lid. Date: circa 1920s

Bedroom interior with dressing table and bed. Date: circa 1930s

Soldier shaving in the open air at a camp. Date: circa 1940s

Actress Freda Wyn doing cat makeup for a pantomime
Freda Wyn, English actress (aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989), making herself up as a cat for a pantomime, Puss in Boots, in which she appeared with the comic actor Jimmy Edwards

From khaki to civvies, end of WW1
A tailor measures a demobbed soldier for civilian clothes after his return from the Great War. Date: 1919

Statue of Venus, Roman bracelets, fans, shoes, parasol, and mirror.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity

Winged nautilus shell with a womans figure.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Womans hand mirror and gilded silver spoons from the early 17th century.. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt

Camp follower from the 17th century, with lance and basket.. A mirror and keys hang from her girdle. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

Fashions from the mid 15th century.. Doctor (B), musicians playing lutes (G, O) and spinets (N), carrying jugs (P), cups (H) and mirrors (D), dancing (R, T), and drinking toasts (L, M)

Metal mirror decorated with angels and hearts from the 14th century.. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks

Washingtons crossing of the Delaware River, 1776. Illustration published in the New York Mirror on September 24, 1842. Engraving

CATHERINE de Medicis (1519-1589). Queen of France (1547-1559), wife of Henry II. The astrologer Cosimo Ruggeri, or possibly Nostradamus

UNITED STATES (20th century). Pretty Woman (1920-1930). Litography

Italian fashion. Advertising shirts Lynx. La camicia fuori camicia classe, 1941. Engraving

ZANDOMENEGHI, Federico. Il ricciolo (la toilette)
ZANDOMENEGHI, Federico (1841-1917). Il ricciolo (la toilette). 1894-1910. Impressionism. Oil on canvas. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Milan. Pinacotheca of Brera

Children of the year. December
Young girl in long pink dress & holding a fan, admiring herself in a mirror.Date: 1901

Picture of a woman dressing in an ornate dress
Slide showing a picture of two women, one looking the the mirror in an ornate dress, the other a servant girl helping her get dressed. Part of Box 366

The modern invention - the art of puffing
Slide shows a photograph of a woman looking into a mirror and applying make-up to herself. Part of Box 366. C.1880s

Favourite Sayings - The blind need no mirrors
Black and white lantern slide of a young man holding a mirror in front of a blind old man who is holding a cup and the leash of a small dog which sits between them

Favourite Sayings - Don t cut of your nose
Black and white lantern slide of a man sitting at a table in front of a mirror with a razor to cut of a painted in nose.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Favourite Sayings - Don t shave with a handsaw
Black and white lantern slide of man sitting at a dressing table in front of a mirror shaving with a handsaw.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

ORANG-UTANS - adult and young looking at reflection in mirror (Pongo pygmaeus)

Reading news of the Armistice in Daily Mirror, WW1
An elderly couple peering at the Daily Mirror newspaper to read news of the Armistice, signed at 5 am on 11th November 1918, bringing an end to the hostilities of the First World War. Date: 1918

Billiard room, hotel in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
Billiard room in the Grand Hotel Chateau Bellevue, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland

Suffragette Publicity Advertising Asquith. A placard outside a newsagents shop, advertising the Daily Mirror, has the headline, Mr. Asquith Caricatured

Suffragette Ellen Terry Actress. Miss. Ellen Terry (1847-1928) suffrage sympathiser and mother of Edith Craig, photographed looking into a mirror

Suffragette, Child Breaks Mirror. Delighted mother, on seeing her toddler smash a mirror with a hammer, exclaims, Oh the Darling! The little pet is going to be a suffragette. Date: circa 1912

Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters getting cleaned up, WW2
Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters getting cleaned up in the station washroom after many hours tackling air raid fires, 19 September 1940. Date: 1940s

Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box, London
Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box near the Royal Festival Hall on Londons South Bank, used for a fire service exhibition. Date: 1957

Advert for Waring furniture suite in walnut 1930
Warings fine furniture suite made from walnut wood. 1930

Advet for Erasmic soap 1918
Advertisement for Erasmic Dainty Soap, showing a woman in Victorian style dress admiring her reflection in a hand mirror. Date: 1918

Erasmic soap advertisement, 1918
Advertisement for Erasmic soap, featuring a stylised illustration by the artist Annie Fish, depicting an elegant woman inspecting her reflection on a mirror. Date: 1918

1st Port of Spain scout with heliograph, Trinidad. The equipment was made by two scouts, the Potter brothers

1st Port of Spain scouts with heliograph, Trinidad

SOME wear in England! by Katie Mayer
A fashionable woman in a checked dress and flamboyant hat checks her face in a compact mirror - her short skirt and matching accessories quite the thing for 1918. Date: 1918

Pomeroy day cream advertisement for munitions workers, WW1
Advertisement for Pomeroy day cream, ideal for restoring freshness and beauty after a hard days work in the munitions factory. Date: 1918

Woman driving a car

Man in dormitory at Baden Powell House, London
A man adjusting his tie in the mirror of a communal dormitory at Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961

Communal bathroom at Baden Powell House, London
Washbasins in a communal bathroom at Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Mirror Lake, Yosemite, California

Morals of Mackenzie - Working women, WW1
Morals of Mackenzie: Complex Woman - Her Complexion. Illustration showing women filling a number of traditional male roles during the First World War

Lady at her dressing table, 1915
A lady checks the back of her hair while seated at a dressing table. Date: 1915

Young woman washing, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Fixing obi sash, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Gooch hat, WWI
A lady checks her reflection in a compact mirror and powders her nose while wearing a black panne hat embellished with an osprey feather by Gooch. Date: 1915

Abdulla Cigarettes advertisement
Advertisement for Abdulla cigarettes featuring a women in a neo-18th century costume enjoying a smoke. Date: 1927

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