Modern Collection (page 17)

Road to the Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, modern Israel
19th century vintage photograph: road to the Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, Palestine, modern Israel

An Evening with Beatrice Lillie, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, from 18 October 1954. Direct from New York, prior to London. Date: 1954

The Firestone tyre factory, Brentford, London
The iconic Art Deco Firestone tyre factory on the Great West Road, Brentford, London, with passing traffic. Date: circa 1940s

Soviet Union building, Paris Expo. Date: 1937

Modern housing, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Modern housing in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with prams being pushed along the pavement. Date: circa 1930s

Modern buildings, Luxembourg
Modern buildings in Luxembourg. Date: 1937

Grundtvigs Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
Grundtvigs Church, an example of expressionist church architecture in the Nordvest district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Date: circa 1939

Galeries Lafayette department store, Paris
Iconic Art Nouveau department store Galeries Lafayette in Paris, France. Date: circa 1930s

Firestone Factory, Great West Road, North London
Iconic art deco Firestone factory, Great West Road, North London, with a Peek Freans Biscuits lorry in the foreground. Date: circa 1950s

Epstein sculpture arriving at London gallery
Sculpture Genesis by Jacob Epstein arrives at a Bond Street gallery on an open truck. Staff consider how to move it. Date: circa 1950s

General view of London, with St Pauls Cathedral
Looking towards The City of London with St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, and Bankside Power Station (now Tate Modern). Date: circa 1950s

GPO / British Telecom Tower under construction
Londons GPO/British Telecom Tower under construction, juxtaposed against a Victorian building. Date: circa 1963

A Country Girl in London by Frank Price, an entirely new and original drama of modern English life in town and country (original title: A Woman of Shame). Date: 1900s

Wiener Werkstatte, design group, Vienna Date: early 20th century

The Daily Herald Modern Homes Exhibition - held at Dorland Hall, from March 25 to May 27, 1947 Date: 1947

The Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. Date: 1960s

Feature about Lalique glass with four photographs, 1925 Date: 1925

Three examples of the modern jumper dress or suit, 1926 - two from Vladimir and one from Larue in Haover Square, London Date: 1926

Dancers around the world, 1929 1-2
Dancers around the world, 1929 1/2 - Georgia Graves, an American dancer appearing at the Folies Bergere, Paris (top left), Angna Enters, who has appeared in Europe (top right)

Portrait of Mata Hari at the height of her fame Date: 1929

Advert for New Wayburns Institute of Dancing in Chicago, 1929 Date: 1929

A portrait of Anna Duncan, 1928 - the adopted daughter of Isadora Duncan Date: 1928

The dancers from the Isadora Duncan Moscow school of dancing, 1930 on their second American tour under S. Hurok Date: 1929

Poses by the dancers of the Mary Wigman group of Dresden, Germany, 1929. Above a scene from The Festival and at the right is Fred Cooleman at the school Date: 1929

Aliki Diplarakos, known as Miss Europe, reviving Ancient Greek dances, 1930 - giving a series of lectures on the link between ancient and modern Greece as exemplified in the Delphic Festival

Advert for Mary Wigman, on her first American tour, 1930, appearing at the Chanin Theatre, New York Date: 1930

A portrait of Mary Wigman, 1931
A portrait of the famous German dancer Mary Wigman, 1931 Date: 1931

Advert for Ned Wayburns concentrated teachers course in modern stage dancing, 1929 Date: 1929

Cocktails and Crinolines, 1929 Cocktails and Crinolines: That Victorian Revival. 1
Cocktails and Crinolines: That Victorian Revival. 1. We are told that womens costumes tend to become more and more Victorian. 2

Jacobs Island
View of Folly ditch, Jacobs Island. Jacobs Island was a notorious slum in Bermondsey, London, in the 19th century, located on the south bank of the River Thames

Women of the working class in Tokyo, 18th century
Women of the working class in Tokyo, Edo Era, 18th century. A laundress washing clothes in a tub, a menial maid carrying water pales with yoke, servant with brush, and nursemaid with baby

Edo street scene, 18th century. A dance teacher and pupil on the left, a nori (glue) seller is beckoned by workers in a small family business

Young women and geisha on an Edo street, 18th century
Scene outside an office for servant placement with the entrance to a female bathhouse. An older woman talks to a nanny with baby and other working women

Wealthy townswomen at a house with courtyard, 18th century
Wealthy townswomen, Tokyo, 18th century. Three young chonin women gather at the house of an older woman for a meeting. A maid brings tea to a young nursing mother

Women of the merchant or artisan class. Waka poetry tutor in a daimyos house. Servants sewing, writing poems, wrapping items and carrying rice

Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancer
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)

Wife of the elite samurai class relaxing
Wife of the elite samurai class reading books, with other women writing with a pen, one looking at ukiyo-e prints, and one folding paper. Another woman delivers reams of paper and ink

Japanese women picnicing in a field, Tokyo, 18th century
Japanese women picnicing in a field outside Tokyo, 18th century. Women smoking a tobacco pipe while waiting for a soba-shop woman to bring a kettle and tray of noodles

Aristocratic women parading past a ?shop, Tokyo
Aristocratic women parading passing a ?yojiya, a shop selling brushes and toothpicks, Tokyo, 18th century. Young maids carry a mirror

Edo street scene, 18th century, with archery range
Edo street scene, 18th century. A shop girl sits in front of an archery range holding a bow. A tea shop girl stands on a bench with a candle. A woman and edemame seller with baby pass by

Woman of the nobility or courtier in silk kimono walking
Woman of the nobility or courtier in silk kimono with cypress fan walking in a garden under cherry blossoms. Handcoloured ukiyo-e woodblock print by Toyokuni Utagawa from Shikitei Sanbas Ehon Imayo

London Docks, Greenwich Hospital and Chelsea Hospital. Entrance to the new London docks opened in 1805 in Wapping 85, disabled Navy pensioners at Greenwich Hospital 86

Avington House, Winchester, the seat of the Duke
Avington House, Winchester, the seat of the slave owner Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. Neoclassical stately home with Doric portico

Farmers and hunters in ancient Germanic peoples. Hunters wear short woven tunics, the farmers are naked apart from a short cape. The farmers hold a hoe and jug. From Philipp Kluvers Germania Antiqua

Ancient Germanic shepherds and hunters. Naked shepherds in short wool capes with sheep, hunters in leather capes and socks with spears. One wears his hair in a topknot

Costume of ancient Germanic peoples on a journey. They wear short capes and tunics and carry spears and swords. After Philipp Cluvers Germania Antiqua. Antichi Germani in viaggio

Family of ancient Germanic hunters, showing their short capes and other clothes. Man with club, woman on animal skin with child. After Philipp Cluvers Germania Antiqua. Famiglia di Antichi Germani

Religious rites of the ancient Germanic peoples. A priest pours a libation on a fire, men lead a bull to sacrifice, others cast spells. After Philipp Cluvers Germania Antiqua

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