Practical Collection (page 3)

Practical exercises in fencing. Engraving. 19th century. Colored

The Dreadnought Hoax, report in The Sketch
Page from The Sketch magazine reporting on the Dreadnought hoax. The incident was a joke played by a group led by Horace de Vere Cole, including the writer Virginia Stephen (Woolf)

Slacks and shorts for camping trips, 1931
Fashion illustration with slacks and shorts featured from Druces of Baker Street, London. The shorts are made of khaki drill and flannel; the slacks from flannel

Brochure page, Oldsmobile service, terms and accessories
Brochure page, Oldsmobile cars, giving details of service, payment terms and approved accessories. Date: 1930s

Juan Perez de Moya (1514-1595). Spanish mathematician. Speculative and practical arithmetic. Title cover. 1675. Madrid. Spain

Surprised young man on a Christmas card, with a comic verse. Its fun to put a pin on someones chair, but its a bit of a shock when you get told off for it. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Practical and compact wardrobes for men 1929
Mahogany or oak wardrobe, with sections for all of mens attire. Date: 1929

Advert for Small Fry by Joyce footwear 1948
Slip on shoes for women in pastel colours. 1948

Wiltshire Sunbonnet
A practical sunbonnet worn by a Wiltshire countrywoman has a flap which extends over the neck & shoulders to protect them from the harsh sun. Date: 1907

Advert for Panda footware 1948
Stylish, comfortable & practical womans shoe with a low wedge heel, decorative lace-up front & contrasting piped trim. Perfect for town or country! Date: 1948

Advert for Churchs Archmoulded shoes 1948
Stylish, comfortable & practical heeled, lace-up womans shoe: unlined for lightness, perforated for coolness while supporting the arch in its natural place. Date: 1948

Advert for Panda shoes 1948
Stylish, comfortable & practical womans shoe in suede & leather with a low heel & a lace- up front with decorative stitching. Date: 1948

Living Room by Miller
A tidy living room designed by John Duncan Miller for Curtis Moffat - a fine example of modernist furniture at their most practical. Date: 1933

Francatellis Title Page
A practical treatise on the art of confectionary in all its branches. Date: 1883

Walking outfit 1910
Not for author Lucie Delarue- Mardrus the long dress and the feathered hat : when she goes walking - which she does a lot - she wears this eminently practical outfit Date: 1910

Four C14 Men
Four men in short garments, three with attached hoods, and with strips of fabric dangling from their arms, seemingly for ornament rather than any practical purpose Date: 14th century

English Ladies C15
Three ladies of rank wear long high-belted dresses to keep them warm in draughty castles, and high pointed hats for ornament rather than any practical purpose Date: 15th century

Justine Yilve wrapped in a sheet
Justine Yilve (?) wearing a sheet in a decorative but not very practical fashion. She is admiring herself in a hand-held mirror. Date: 1904

Harvey Nichols wartime fashion advertisement
Advertisement for practical clothes to wear while carrying out war duties. Whether its a practical cashmere sweater for serving in a canteen, or a Bedford cord skirt suit for shopping for vegetables

Mrs. A. B Marshalls school of Cookery 1887
Interior of Mrs. A. B Marshalls crowded class room during the progress of an entire dinner lesson in Mortimer Street, Regent Street, London. May 1887

Man with Sisters Ghost
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921

Spirit of Cyprian Priestess
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921

Child Ghost with Mother
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921

Spiritualists with Spirit head floating above
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921.Spiritualist Andrew Glendinning, James Robertson, ghost

Emma Hardinge Britten with Beethovens Ghost
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921

Practical joke in university town, c. 1820
Students at Oxford or Cambridge play a practical joke on their professors by stretching a rope across a staircase and tripping them up, c.1820 Date: C.1820

Advert for for Marshall and Snelgrove spring dresses 1937
Models wearing early spring full length floral print dresses. Date: 1937

Holiday shoes 1933
Selection of differenet design footwear; Ghillie shoes in two toned plaited leather with rubber soles for sports and cruising. (left) Deck shoe in brown and black kid and wide meshed white linen

Fashions for the open car at Dunhill
An outfit for a lady motorist comprising a leather jumper of a dark penguin grey shade broken by touches of crimson velvet worn with a grey suede double breasted coat

Super brogues advertisement, 1919
Advertisement for super brogues for sports, town and country jaunts. Built by W. Abbott and Sons Ltd for the demobbed officer who

Swan and Edgar Cordrory House Coat advert, 1940
Advertisement for Swan and Edgar Cordrory House Coat, a practical garment for any place, any time, anywhere. Date: 1940

The Motor Burberry advertisement, 1919
The Motor Burberry, universally recognised as the most perfect safeguard for motoring as it embodies in its design every feature that contributes to health, comfort and protection. Date: 1919

Utility floral coverall, 1943 - WWII fashion
A Utility coverall from Peter Robinsons of Oxford Street, one of a variety available in many materials and colours. Coveralls protected clothing

Utility bib and braces, 1943 - WWII fashion
A pair of bib and braces (dungarees) for women in navy drill, part of a range of Utility clothing available from Peter Robinsons of Oxford Street, procured for three coupons

Utility coats for mother and daughter, 1947
A Harella coat - a Utility model - in brown and beige broad herringbone tweed cut on classic lines with a belted back from Dickins and Jones. The little girl is wearing a Berkeley Utility model

Adastra advertisement - clothing for airmen and airwomen
Advert for Adastra clothing, suitable for pilots and passengers in 1919, at a time when the removal of flying restrictions after the war saw an upsurge in the number of people flying

Cartoon, Playing a practical joke, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier plays a practical joke on a colleague and sends him up a tree. Date: 1916

Tinting, Dyeing and Practical Art Craft with Dy-o-la Dyes, page of a brochure by the Dy-o-la Dye Co of Burlington, Vermont, USA, price 15 cents. Date: 1920s

Tinting everything to match with Dy-o-la Dyes
Tinting Everything to Match with Dy-o-la Dyes - a housewife dyeing clothes in her bathroom sink from a Brochure: Tinting, Dyeing and Practical Art Craft with Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1926

A stylised 1920s Woman holding a cornucopia of dye packets
A stylised 1920s Woman holding a cornucopia of packets of Dy-o-la Dye - an attractive illustration from a Brochure " Tinting, Dyeing and Practical Art Craft with Dy-o-la Dyes". Date: 1926

Dahlias, insert illustration in L Artisan Pratique
Insert illustration in L Artisan Pratique, a French decorative art magazine. Showing an arrangement of dahlias on a design for a velvet cushion. Date: 1924

The Gondolier, insert illustration in L Artisan Pratique
Insert illustration in L Artisan Pratique, a French decorative art magazine. Showing a gondolier rowing two women across the waters of Venice. Date: 1923

Cover design, L Artisan Pratique
Cover design for a French decorative art magazine, L Artisan Pratique, December 1924. Date: 1924

An Autumn Renunciation - WW1 fashions
A woman in uniform, possibly the WaC or police, turns down a fashionable frippery, despite the temptation. Date: 1915

Garments for Women Who Work, WW1
First World War advertisement for clothing from Mrs Oliver Ltd of 39 Old Bond Street, featuring some suggested, garments for women who work

Working and knitting apron, WW1
A knitting apron, available from Elizabeth Ltd of South Molton Street, drawing inspiration from our Allies, Russian and Italy

WW1 poster, Bad Form in Dress, advocating sensible attitudes to clothing in wartime. Date: 1914-1918

WW1 - German women make blankets out of newspapers at the Palace of the German Princess in Berlin. Date: 1915

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