Parents Collection

Soviet propaganda poster - We want Peace
" We want Peace!" Soviet propaganda poster - featuring a happy, singing Communist family, waving flags. Date: circa 1950s

Nikola Tesla / Himmel Erde
NIKOLA TESLA American electrician and inventor, born in Croatia of Serbian parents; seen here in his laboratory at Colorado Springs in 1899/1900

The Rules of Life by H. M. Bateman
A baby in a highchair is presented with a long list of rules for life by a queue of influential people including his nurse, his parents, teacher, police officer, judge and vicar. Date: 1930

Gracie Fields Home and Orphanage, Peacehaven, Sussex
Children and staff stand in front of the orphanage and childrens home at Peacehaven in East Sussex. The home was opened in 1933 by the singing star Gracie Fields to care for the children of parents

Promotional jigsaw, Beechams Pills and Powders. circa 1930s

Evacuees on a Train
Its goodbye to the little tots who are bound for new homes with new parents in the safe country districts of Britain - evacuees looking out of the window of a train

Handel as a Child
GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL Young Georg Friedrich is found by his parents at the keyboard in the middle of the night... Date: 1685 - 1759

Tsesarevich Alexei of Russia (1904-1918) seen studying in 1913. Devastatingly for his parents, Alexei suffered from haemophilia

Wedding of Viscount Althorp and Hon. Frances Roche in Tatler
Page from The Tatler reporting on the wedding of Viscount Althorp (later Earl Spencer) and the Hon. Frances Roche, the parents of Diana, Princess of Wales

The Parents Who Came By Charabanc by H. M. Bateman
A young Etonian school boy is aghast to find that his parents decide to travel to the Fourth of June celebrations in a charabanc along with a motley selection of ordinary folk. Date: 1933

THE DOCTOR (FILDES) C19
A doctor visits a dangerously ill girl at her cottage home, watched by her distraught parents. Date: 19th century

Tatler front cover, Fourth of June at Eton, 1955
Tatler front cover featuring an illustration of the traditional Fourth of June celebrations at Eton College with parents and siblings gathered for the speeches, food

Group portrait, possibly of the Brewster family, in a domest
Group portrait, possibly of the Brewster Family, in a domestic interior, oil on canvas, signed by Thomas Bardwell and dated 1736

Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - Bride and Parents-in-Law. The bride performing a rite of drinking sake with her husbands parents in order to express the true heart of loving each other tenderly as

Dog Show Childrens Class
The Transvaal Kennel Club Show, Johannesburg, childrens class. In white dresses and hats, very young children hold their dogs for the judges inspection, watched by parents

Portrait of the Prince Imperial
Photograph of Louis Napoleon, the Prince Imperial (1856-1871) as a young boy. Born as the heir to the French Imperial throne

Family / Grace before Meal
Papa, mama, son and two daughters say grace before starting to eat

Donkey Rides on the beach at Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk
Donkey Rides on the beach at Gorleston-on-Sea, known colloquially as Gorleston, a town in Norfolk, England (to the south of Great Yarmouth). circa 1920s

Family on three rocking horses. Date: circa 1900s

Duchess of York leaving 17 Bruton Street - Baby Elizabeth
The Duchess of York (1900-2002) (later Elizabeth, The Queen Mother) leaving 17 Bruton Street, London - the home of her parents the Earl and Countess of Strathmore - a nursemaid is following

The sandy beach at Benllech Bay, Anglesey, north Wales
Grandparents with small child shelter behind a windbreak on the sandy beach at Benllech Bay, Anglesey, north Wales Date: 1993

Group of children lining-up on the starting line for a race
Sunny Snaps postcard showing a group of children lining-up on the starting line for a running race - South Coast holiday Camp resort. Date: 1936

Beauty Contest Participant and Proud Parents
A Bathing Beauty Contest Participant and her Proud (if slightly shy) Parents! Date: circa 1949

Miss Margaret Whigham and her parents
Miss Margaret Whigham, later Mrs Charles Sweeny and then Duchess of Argyll, pictured with her parents Mr and Mrs George Hay Whigham at a a ball they held at their house, Queens Hill

Mother, Father and children pose in their kitchen garden
Mother, Father and four children posing proudly in the kitchen garden of their country home. Note the hand water pump on left. Date: circa 1909

Extended family group enjoy some summer sunshine and a cup of tea on the beach (possible in Dorset? South Coast of England?)

Meeting the Parents - Young couple in evening wear meeting the parents. Artist: Hermann Pfeifer. Date: 1924

Hobbies Handbook
Front cover of a monthly magazine depicting a boy showing his model galleon to his parents. Date: 1952

Family of four, parents and two children Date: 1880s

Cartoon, The Children's Lead, Little Tommy at the Stores, don't buy me toys, buy me War Bonds Date: 1919

German parents with two sons in sailor suits, WW1
German parents with two sons in sailor suits with model boat, WW1 Date: 1914-1918

LCC election leaflet, Conservative Party
Conservative Party London County Council Election Leaflet, 7 March 1946 Date: 1946

The family of Gaspar Soliveres by Jose Aparicio Inglada
Jose Aparicio Inglada (1773-1838). Spanish painter. The family of Gaspar Soliveres. Oil on canvas, 1831. Detail. Museum of Romanticism. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019

Westland Wessex 60 G-ASWI
Westland Wessex 60 series 1 G-ASWI (msn WA199, ex G-17-1) of Bristow Helicopters, at Blackpool-Squire's Gate Airport in October 1974

Sydney Girls High School
A photograph of Sydney Girls High School. THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH Yesterday??the school and playground of our parents. To day?

Colour illustration by G E Studdy, captioned The Doctor'. Showing scene in barn, with rodent doctor listening to egg in cot, whilst anxious geese parents look

Phyllis Neilson-Terry, actress, (1892-1977) theatrical studio portrait. Captioned, Favouring Father or Mother?: A Physiognomical Problem For Playgoers'

The Motor Picture Book, The Holiday Camp Date: 1930

Ravenscroft (now called Cleddon Hall), Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales, birthplace of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author

Graveside Grave Death Burial Headstone Woman
graveside, grave, death, burial, headstone, woman, women, child, children, grief, grieving, bereavement, mourning, angels, angel, wings, people, family, hovering, faith, belief, religion, 1850s

Ravenscroft (Cleddon Hall), cave in garden
Ravenscroft (now called Cleddon Hall), Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales, birthplace of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author

The scene at a Nationalist headquarters as a young widow (centre, with child) hears about her husband's death in action, from one of his former comrades, during the Spanish Civil War, 1936

GEORGE MONCK BERKELEY poet, descendant of Berkeley the philosopher ; died aged 29 -'Mr Berkeley's death was an unspeakable grief to his Parents, as you can imagine. Date: 1763 - 1793

ANTONY OF EGYPT, HERMIT
When Antony's parents die, he gives away his worldly goods and becomes a hermit in the desert near his home, where he is assailed by temptations but resists them all. Date: 251 - 356

HUNS MAKE KIDS SEE DEATH
Germans force Belgian children to watch their parents being shot, before being shot themselves Date: 1917

PHOTO OF DEAD 3 YR OLD
Isa Jane Cumming, born on 15th July 1866 and who died on 1st July 1869, was photographed by her grieving parents in order that they might remember how she looked. Date: 1869

Comic postcard, Kangaroo couple with missing baby Date: 20th century

Draycott, Cotswold village, Withers family
Draycott, Cotswold village, Mr and Mrs Charles Withers with their children Martha, Harry and Joe

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