Pinafore Collection (page 2)

Comic postcard, Maid and mistress Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Maid, mistress and master Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Maid and mistress Date: 20th century

Draycott, Cotswold village, Mr and Mrs Rickards, photo taken at the field gate leading into Shop Lane Close (later Orchard View development)

Comic postcard, Man looking for lost football - Inside Right (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman with dress improvers the wrong way round, as pointed out by her maid Date: early 20th century

Women in traditional costume, Copenhagen fish market
Women dressed in traditional costume sell fish in a street market in Copenhagen, Denmark. Date: circa 1930s

Oh! Susannah! a farcical comedy by Mark Ambient, first produced at the Eden Theatre, Brighton, in 1897, starring Louie Freear as the maid Date: late 19th century

Comic postcard, Little boy and girl chat over the garden fence. Anytime you re not busy just think of me! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman talking about marriage. He said it would be like the Garden of Eden when we were married. So it is - nothing to wear and expecting to get kicked out any minute

Comic postcard, marrying a policeman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, your young mans gone at last Date: 20th century

HMS Pinafore, Little Buttercup mixes up the children
HMS Pinafore. Little Buttercup explains that when she was baby-farming (nursing babies while their Papas and Mamas were travelling), she mixed up baby Captain Corcoran and baby Ralph Rackstraw

HMS Pinafore, Corcoran presents Little Buttercup
HMS Pinafore. Corcoran presented blushing Little Buttercup to Sir Joseph, who gave her sixpence on the spot. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Captain Corcoran marched away
HMS Pinafore. Captain Corcoran is taken away. A couple of marines marched him off under the command of the smallest midshipman in the ship. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Captain Corcoran and Sir Joseph Porter
HMS Pinafore. Captain Corcoran is trying to pat himself on the back when Sir Joseph Porter approaches. " What are you trying to do?" said Sir Joseph. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Dick Deadeye and Captain Corcoran
HMS Pinafore. Captain Corcoran and sailor Dick Deadeye. " Deadeye!" said the Captain, " You here? Don t!" Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Little Buttercup and the captain
HMS Pinafore. Little Buttercup and Captain Corcoran. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Sir Joseph Porter and Josephine Corcoran
HMS Pinafore. Sir Joseph Porter with Josephine Corcoran at the ships table. Her short and snappish replies to Sir Josephs pretty speeches at dinner. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Ralph Rackstraw and Josephine Corcoran
HMS Pinafore. Josephine Corcoran walks away from Ralph Rackstraw. So saying, with tell-tale tears streaming down her face, she strode magnificently to her cabin. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Josephine Corcoran on deck
HMS Pinafore. Josephine Corcoran on the ships deck. So she came on deck to indulge in a reverie all alone. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, lunch on board ship
HMS Pinafore. Luncheon in the ward-room on board ship (the apartment assigned to the lieutenants on board a man-o -war}. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Captain Corcoran and daughter
HMS Pinafore. Captain Corcoran and his daughter Josephine. The good captain was distressed to see his dear daughter in this bilious frame of mind. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, sailors on board deck
HMS Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan. Sailors on board deck - in short, [Captain Corcoran] did everything possible to make everybody on board thoroughly ill and happy. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Josephine Corcoran and Sir Joseph Porter
HMS Pinafore. Pretty lady smelling a rose is admired by an older gentlemen who peers at her through a monocle. Sir Joseph Porter was one of the many people who had fallen a victim to the beauty of

HMS Pinafore, crew and Little Buttercup
HMS Pinafore. The ships crew with Little Buttercup. I know who takes sugar-plums to bed with him. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Ralph Rackstraw in the rigging
HMS Pinafore (Gilbert & Sullivan operetta), Able Seaman Ralph Rackstraw in the rigging. Date: 1908

Birthday card, Many Happy Returns, rabbits with cake. 20th century

Girl Workers of London - The Waitress. 1898

Girl with nanny, nurse or servant outside a house. circa 1900

The Useful Little Maid by Frances Brundage. 1898

Music cover, I m Sister to the Cure, Valse Comique by H T Swatton, sung by E Marshall, dedicated to C Morton, drawn by Alfred Concanen

Cartoon, The Duke of Edinburgh - So take my advice, and don t go to sea, And you may become ruler of the Queens Navee (a quotation from Gilbert & Sullivans operetta, HMS Pinafore). 1885

Little Mother by Peggy Earnshaw. 1937

Santa Claus, children and nurse with Christmas tree

Edwardian child with doll
Lovely photograph of a little girl (or boy?) holding a doll. Date: c.1900

Woman with donkey, Normandy, Northern France
Woman in traditional costume with a donkey, carrying items in a pannier, in front of a timbered building in Normandy, Northern France. Date: 1922

Women students at agricultural school, Republic of Estonia
Women students at agricultural school, dancing outside during their break, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922

Domestic science at a girls English public school, Sherborne, Dorset. Two young women are seen here ironing linen and collars. Date: 1922

Young women in traditional dress, Stromo Island, Denmark
Three young women in traditional dress, Stromo (Streymoy) Island (largest of the Faroe Islands), Denmark, standing by the memorial stone of Niels Finsen (1860-1904)

Leaflet, Royal, The Perfect Overall. Date: 20th century

Early Victorian General Postman. 19th century

The New Bonnet

Paper Doll in red, cream and pink costume

Paper Doll Costume - red, pink and cream

Dickens scrap - Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness
Charles Dickens scrap - Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness playing cards, in the novel The Old Curiosity Shop. 19th century

Miss Jessie Bond in Gilbert and Sullivans The Sorcerer
Miss Jessie Bond, actress and singer, in Gilbert and Sullivans The Sorcerer - The Theatre Magazine, February 1885. 1885

Miss Eastlake in Hoodman Blind - The Theatre Magazine
Miss Mary Eastlake, actress, in Hoodman Blind - in The Theatre Magazine, December 1885. 1885

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