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Mary Adshead working on mural for the Queen Mary linerMary Adshead, noted muralist, pictured working on a design for the interior of the Queen Mary, watched by her husband Stephen Bone, son of Muirhead Bone
Agnes Pinder Davis with designs for the Queen MaryAgnes Pinder, an artist well known for her pictures combining metal and oils engaged on the decoration of the starboard lounge of the liner, Queen Mary. Date: 1935
Anna Zinkeisen preparing designs for the Queen MaryAnna Zinkeisen pictured at work in her studio on designs for a decorative scheme in the ballroom of the Queen Mary ocean liner. Date: 1935
Doris Zinkeisen preparing designs for the Queen MaryDoris Zinkeisen at work in her studio where she was in the midst of preparing designs for the cabaret bar of the liner, the Queen Mary. Date: 1935
Merry Christmas and a Happy New YearA jolly gentleman encouraging you to drink and be merry! Date: 1845
Guy Fawkess DayPlease remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot, I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot, with verse. 1867
Bringing in ChristmasPagan Christmas, with people enjoying the festive spirit with some hot mulled cider or two!
Merry Christmas! 1847" Heaven Bless you Merry Gentlefolks let Nothing You Dismay, " Page of Victorian men and women getting into the Christmas spirit! Indulging themselves in food, drink and dance. 1847
Kern Baby 1902One of the customs of the festival of Ceres, observed in the northern part of Northumberland at the close of the reaping not the ingathering
Collecting Wroth MoneyCeremony at Knightlow Cross. A tribute which dates back for a thousand years and connects the present with that remote past when the central countries of Ebgland were for the most part a wild
Horn Dance, Abbots Bromley 1899Four of the performers, English folk dance dating back to the Middle Ages in Abbots Bromley. Most wear spotted breeches of uniform pattern
Swan Upping on the Thames 1900Annual ceremony taking place on the Thames where British Crown swans are rounded up, caught, ringed, and then released. The party occupy a flotilla of row boats the sterns adorned with flags
Stratford-upon-Avon, Mop Fair 1899Standing for Hire, Stratford-upon-Avon, said to be the largest fair in England, regarded by the agricultural class in the district as the chief holiday of the year
Knutsford, Cheshire, Royal May Day Festival 1902May Day Festival in Knutsford, Cheshire town, taking place every year, were children dress-up in costumes, shepherdesses, milkmaids and folkloric figures like Robin Hood, Little John and Maid Marion
Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning
Jean Russell in Fancy Dress as Britannia Date: circa 1920s
Dunkirk, France - Place de la Republique. Date: circa 1910s
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa. Date: circa 1910s
The Victoria Memorial on a foggy night - view from Buckingham Palace. Date: circa 1910s
Beach Yacht - Hastings, East Sussex. Date: circa 1910s
Boats on Lake Balaton - Hungary - evening light. Date: 1913
Gorner Glacier, Mont-Rose - Switzerland - MountaineerThe Gorner Glacier (Gornergletscher) - a valley glacier found on the west side of the Monte Rosa massif close to Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s
Free Library and Municipal Court, 20th Street, PhiladelphiaFree Library and Municipal Court, 20th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1920s
Sea Gull Dining Room - Jacksonville Beach, Florida (" The Worlds Finest Beach" ). Date: 1930s
YMCA, Los Angeles, California, USAYMCA (Young Mens Christian Association), Los Angeles, California, USA Date: 1920
Gorner Glacier, Seracs - Switzerland - MountaineerThe Gorner Glacier (Gornergletscher) - a valley glacier found on the west side of the Monte Rosa massif close to Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Date: circa 1920s