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Miss Collection (#3)

Background imageMiss Collection: Nellie Wallaces party at Warwick Square

Nellie Wallaces party at Warwick Square
A large group of guests gathered on the stairs at the engagement party of comedienne, Nellie Wallace and Mr. J. Selwyn Smithurst at Warwick Square, London

Background imageMiss Collection: Dinah Craik (1826-1887). Engraving. Colored

Dinah Craik (1826-1887). Engraving. Colored
Dinah Craik (1826-1887). English novelist and poet. Engraving in The Iberian Illustration, 1888. Colored

Background imageMiss Collection: Suffragette Isabella Ford

Suffragette Isabella Ford. Miss. Isabella Ormston Ford (1855-1924), member of Leeds Trades Council, Labour Party, N.U.W.S.S and at one time (until 1907), the W.S.P.U Date: circa 1909

Background imageMiss Collection: Suffragette Womens Freedom League Caravan

Suffragette Womens Freedom League Caravan. The Womens Freedom toured the South of England in a purpose built caravan, beginning in May 1908

Background imageMiss Collection: Adela Pankhurst Suffragette

Adela Pankhurst Suffragette. Miss. Adela Pankhurst (1885-1961) portrait, wearing white circular Votes for Women badge. Caption - Organiser National Womens Social and Political union. Date: circa 1908

Background imageMiss Collection: Mary E Gawthorpe Suffragette

Mary E Gawthorpe Suffragette. Mary E Gawthorpe (1881-1973) portrait. Caption - Votes for Women, Miss. Mary Gawthorpe, Organiser National Womens Social and Political Union Date: circa 1907

Background imageMiss Collection: I m going to be a prison warder Emily

I m going to be a prison warder Emily.. I m going to be a prison warder Emily. What are you going to be when yer grows up? asks the boy of a girl. Me - why a Miss Gawthorpe if mother lets me

Background imageMiss Collection: Chief Medical Officer of the Air Transport Auxiliary

Chief Medical Officer of the Air Transport Auxiliary, Commander A. Buchanan Barbour, and Sister-in-Charge, Miss C.R. Willis

Background imageMiss Collection: Duchess of Kent before her Marriage

Duchess of Kent before her Marriage
Miss Katherine Lucy Mary Worsley, the present Duchess of Kent, pictured playing the piano at her home, Hovingham Hall, Yorkshire

Background imageMiss Collection: Mor o gan yw cymry I gyd

Mor o gan yw cymry I gyd
Winston Churchill, Mr David Lloyd George and Miss Lloyd George at the Eisteddfod

Background imageMiss Collection: Happy Familes Playing Cards - Miss Pint

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Miss Pint. circa 1935

Background imageMiss Collection: Cheery Families - Miss Switch the Schoolmasters Daughter

Cheery Families - Miss Switch the Schoolmasters Daughter. 1890s

Background imageMiss Collection: Cheery Families - Miss Butt the Brewers Daughter

Cheery Families - Miss Butt the Brewers Daughter. 1890s

Background imageMiss Collection: Concerts at the Front: Miss Lena Ashwell

Concerts at the Front: Miss Lena Ashwell
A concert party, including Miss Lena Ashwell(sixth figure from the left), at the Indian Y.M.C.A hut. Lena Ashwell, British actress and actor-manager, OBE(1872-1957)

Background imageMiss Collection: Miss A. A. Windle who flew Miles Magister, G-AKUA, and Wh?

Miss A. A. Windle who flew Miles Magister, G-AKUA, and Wh?
Miss A.A. Windle who flew Miles Magister, G-AKUA, and Whitney Straight, G-AFGK, at the 1956 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 July

Background imageMiss Collection: Wenworth / Fingerprint

Wenworth / Fingerprint
THE FINGERPRINT (Patricia Wentworth) One of the Miss Silver series. Date: 1959

Background imageMiss Collection: Miss Maude Adams

Miss Maude Adams. Date 1899

Background imageMiss Collection: Fall / Poodle & Mirror

Fall / Poodle & Mirror
CHAMPION NUNSOE THE FLORIN Owned by Miss Lane. A white dog with a poodle cut looks at its reflection in a mirror. 1936

Background imageMiss Collection: Ducks and Green Peas by Miss E Mitchell

Ducks and Green Peas by Miss E Mitchell
" Ducks and Green Peas" by Miss E Mitchell. A girl shells peas while ducklings cluster round her hoping to eat some of the fallers. Date: 1890

Background imageMiss Collection: Miss Gwen Farrar, entertainer and musician

Miss Gwen Farrar, entertainer and musician, about to appear with Norah Blaney at the Cosmopolitan, New York, in a Ziegfeld production entitled Going South

Background imageMiss Collection: Olive Malvery serving in a sweet shop

Olive Malvery serving in a sweet shop
In the early 1900s, Olive Malvery, an established singer and reciter of verse, became known for her investigative reports of Londons poor, especially women

Background imageMiss Collection: Snow, Skis and Sunshine in Switzerland

Snow, Skis and Sunshine in Switzerland
Miss Joan Simon, Miss Peggy Peyton, Mr George Renwick, R.N. Mrs Renwick and The Hon. Olivia Harcourt skiing at St. Moritz, Switzerland

Background imageMiss Collection: A Confederate flag during the American Civil War, 1863

A Confederate flag during the American Civil War, 1863
Engraving of a flag made and waved by a Confederate lady, Miss Laura Lee, of Winchester, who later gave the flag to the ILN special artist, Frank Vizetelly

Background imageMiss Collection: A Day at the Races

A Day at the Races
3 To 1, - Bar Two The singer Miss Annie Adams is pictured in the foreground enjoying champagne and lobsters from her Fortnum and Mason hamper

Background imageMiss Collection: Auriol Lee in a Hat 1905

Auriol Lee in a Hat 1905
Miss Auriol Lee wears a coat with an unusual collar and a hat with a ribbon threaded through the brim perched at an angle on the top of her pompadour hairstyle

Background imageMiss Collection: Happy Families / Miss Tape

Happy Families / Miss Tape
Miss Tape the Tailors Daughter, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

Background imageMiss Collection: Happyfamilies / Miss Bones

Happyfamilies / Miss Bones
Miss Bones the Butchers Daughter, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

Background imageMiss Collection: Ball-room dancing at the Piccadilly Hotel, London

Ball-room dancing at the Piccadilly Hotel, London
Londons most popular partners, Miss Leonora Hughes and Mr Maurice, giving an exhibition dance during supper at the Piccadilly Hotel

Background imageMiss Collection: Miss J Evans / Tennis

Miss J Evans / Tennis
MISS J EVANS photographed in action at Ealing, London. Note the fact that she is wearing socks and not stockings, which was controversial at the time

Background imageMiss Collection: Dr Crippen Arrested / 1910

Dr Crippen Arrested / 1910
Dr. Peter Hawley Harvey Crippen & his accomplice, Miss Le Neve, are arrested on board the Montrose

Background imageMiss Collection: Tea Tasting 1930S

Tea Tasting 1930S
Miss Margaret Irving, pictured in her London tasting office, was the only woman tea taster in Britain and an authority in London as a connoisseur of all blends of tea

Background imageMiss Collection: John Laurence Toole

John Laurence Toole
JOHN LAURENCE TOOLE actor as Loris Ipanoff Atiloff with miss MARIE LINDEN as princess Fedora Mamazoff in Stage-Dora

Background imageMiss Collection: Flower Apports

Flower Apports
Supernormal flowers which were apported during a seance with the medium Miss X (the one standing)

Background imageMiss Collection: Margaret Whigham as The Precious One at the Gay Party

Margaret Whigham as The Precious One at the Gay Party
Miss Margaret Whigham, celebrated debutante and it girl, later Mrs Charles Sweeny and then the Duchess of Argyll, whose divorce case in 1963 scandalised the country

Background imageMiss Collection: Confessions by Camera, Ms Charles Sweeny

Confessions by Camera, Ms Charles Sweeny
Page from The Sketch, part of a series entitled, Confessions by Camera. This one features Mrs Charles Sweeny, former deb of the year and it girl

Background imageMiss Collection: Sketch cover, Miss Patricia Scott

Sketch cover, Miss Patricia Scott
Miss Patricia Katherine Montagu Douglas Scott, younger daughter of Lord Herbert Scott and niece of the Duke of Buccleuch, at the time of her engagement to Captain Walter Faulkner of the Irish Guards

Background imageMiss Collection: North American P-51D Mustang N335J MISS BARDAHL

North American P-51D Mustang N335J MISS BARDAHL
North American P-51D-30 NA Mustang N335J (msn 122-41044) MISS BARDAHL, race number 49 built as P-51D-30-NA 44-74506 for the United States Army Air Force (USaF)6 December 1950

Background imageMiss Collection: Miss Winifred Brown - winner King?s Cup Air Race

Miss Winifred Brown - winner King?s Cup Air Race
Miss Winifred Brown won the King?s Cup Air Race on 5 July 1930 in Avro Avian III, G-EBVZ. Date: 1930

Background imageMiss Collection: Georgina Preston as Polly Perkins in Robinson Crusoe

Georgina Preston as Polly Perkins in Robinson Crusoe, Grand Theatre, Islington, London Date: 1890s

Background imageMiss Collection: Olga Brandon, a Reminiscence of Hypatia

Olga Brandon, a Reminiscence of Hypatia Date: 1890s

Background imageMiss Collection: Photograph of Hit or Miss PH, Gravesend, Kent

Photograph of Hit or Miss PH, Gravesend, Kent. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

Background imageMiss Collection: Celebrities in the guise of Gods and Muses - Anrep Mosaic

Celebrities in the guise of Gods and Muses - Anrep Mosaic
Celebrities in the guise of Gods and Muses - represented in mosaics in the National Gallery, London Entrance Hall - the work of Boris Anrep (1883 - 1969), a Russian mosaicist active in Britain. 1933

Background imageMiss Collection: Elizabeth Jenns in front of Gluck painting by Madame Yevonde

Elizabeth Jenns in front of Gluck painting by Madame Yevonde
Miss Elizabeth Jenns poses in a green velvet Lanvingown from Albert and Johnson in front of Glucks decorative painting of lilies, on view at the Fine Arts Galleries in 1932. Date: 1932

Background imageMiss Collection: The Song the Kettle is Singing

The Song the Kettle is Singing (in a dear little place called home) - written and composed by Worton David and Lawrence Wright - sung with enormous success by Miss Florrie Forde and Miss Dora Lyric

Background imageMiss Collection: Margaret Whigham & Mrs Colclough, Best of Everything Ball

Margaret Whigham & Mrs Colclough, Best of Everything Ball
Miss Margaret Whigham and Mrs Colclough displaying British gloves, stockings and scarves at the Best of Everything Dinner

Background imageMiss Collection: Margaret Whigham at the British Porcelain Ball

Margaret Whigham at the British Porcelain Ball
Margaret Whigham (1912 - 1993), British society figure, debutante of the year in 1930. Later Mrs Charles Sweeny, after marrying the American golfer, and then Duchess of Argyll

Background imageMiss Collection: Margaret Whigham with poodles Gabi & Suki by Madame Yevonde

Margaret Whigham with poodles Gabi & Suki by Madame Yevonde
Margaret Whigham (1912 - 1993), British society figure, debutante of the year in 1930. Later Mrs Charles Sweeny, after marrying the American golfer, and then Duchess of Argyll

Background imageMiss Collection: Society at the Cataract Hotel, Assuan (Aswan), Egypt

Society at the Cataract Hotel, Assuan (Aswan), Egypt
Group of well-known people at the Cataract Hotel in Aswan, near the huge dam. Pictured are Sir Oliver Duncan (in white hat), Delia de Bagno, the Marquess of Huntly, Lady Joan Villiers



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