Proper Collection

Rules to be Observed by a Victorian Family -- a typical summary of Victorian values, with advice including: Waste Not, Want Not; Do everything at its proper time; Be punctual, be regular

Spain and Portugal - Leiria Fountain - Fountain foreground - Bullock cart with barrel, people around fountain - houses in background. Part of Box 149 Boswell collection - Portugal and Spain

Achelous and Naiads
The powerful river-god Achelous, indignant when five Maiaids fail to pay him proper respect, changes them into islands

G-F Tournachon Ka Nadar
NADAR, proper name Gaspar-Felix Tournachon French photographer, balloonist &c

Home safety is home defense Men: to learn proper fire control join the fire department auxiliary corps at the nearest fire house

Preface to Martial's Epigrammata by Merula
Two attached folios, paper, probably the endpaper and first leaf of a volume. Folio 1, which would have been the endpaper

Mil Mi-2Ch Chekla 00221. A chemical reconnaissance / smokescreen layer version of the Mi-2. This example has the exhaust / smoke-pipe extensions displaced from their proper positions ov the engine

BOYS IN CEMETERY
Four boys in a country churchyard treat the gravestones with something less than proper respect Date: circa 1830

Comic postcard, not the particular sort of maid Date: 20th century

Victorian morals - punctuality is important because it subserves the peace and good temper of a family. 19th century

Little Fritzs birthday: a proper little Prussian Date: 1896

Little Lady Hops Aboard Date: 1948

DINNER PARTY SETTING
Setting a dinner party table does not end with putting the glasses, silver & cutlery in their proper places. Food & decoration should be colour co-ordinated for effect. Date: 1940s

Deportment Lesson
A proper young lady learns the art of deportment, walking with the obligatory book balanced on the head, shoulders back and head held up! Date: 1930s

Victorian scrap - School Board and politics
Victorian scrap - Political Types - School Board and Politics. late 19th century

Music cover, Strictly Proper, sung by Arthur Roberts
Music cover, Strictly Proper, words by Ts Lonsdale, music by W C Eaton, sung by Arthur Roberts. circa 1880s

Caricature of John Ryder and Tom Mead, English actors
Caricature of John Ryder (1814-1885) and Tom Mead (1821-1889), English actors, shaking hands as a couple of legitimates (ie working in the legitimate theatre). 1883

Window Cleaning Girls
A team of " Georginas", demonstrate the proper way to clean window panes from the inside of an office block while the male window cleaners are away in the army. Date: early 1940s

Map / Asia / China C1880
China Proper showing the individual provinces, and underlining names of ports open to foreign trade Date: circa 1880

Family in formal wear going to church, c. 1800
Family in formal dress going to church or similar, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Music cover, The Lancers Quadrilles, or Duval (of Dublin)s Second Set, Seventh Edition. Containing Les Graces, La Dorset, Lodoiska, La Native, and Les Lanciers

Make-Up School
A teacher draws a diagram on a blackboard, illustrating the proper way to apply make-up to her class of female students. Date: early 1930s

Lieutenant Taifu Atsumori who has not received his proper name. Print shows the samurai Ikuta Atsumori on horseback in water. Date between 1764 and 1772

The proper caper. Date 1885

English Ladies Take Tea
A group of proper young ladies taking afternoon tea together at an outdoor cafe. Date: 1930s

Lady Taking Tea
A woman prepares two cups of tea, pouring the milk in first. Date: 1960s

Lady Alexandra and Maud Duff
The daughters of Princess Louise of Wales, Duchess of Fife, Alexandra (1891-1959) and Maud (1893-1945) perched in a rather elaborate cane carriage

Up Spirits on HMS Cleopatra, 1953
Photograph showing the distribution of rum to ratings on board HMS Cleopatra after Queen Elizabeth IIs first order - splice the mainbrace - following her review of the fleet

Celebrating the Jubilee on Board a Man of War - Extra Ration
Engraving showing the distribution of grog (watered down rum) on board HMS Sultan to celebrate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887

Royal Commission Sport
A Royal Commission on Sport, headed by viscount Richard Cross, made important recommendations for the proper management of British sport. Note prince of Wales low R. Date: 1888

BUSTLE
Canfields Bustle for the Million : a spring enables it to fold when the wearer is sitting or lying down, resuming its proper position when she rises

Nadar / Gill / Les Hommes
NADAR, proper name Gaspard-Felix Tournachon French writer, caricaturist, photographer and balloonist

British in Buses
The underequipped British Army, possessing no proper transport vehicles, makes uses of London buses to enable the troops to reach the front line

Finishing School 1930S
A group of proper young ladies, possibly at a finishing school or university, compose themselves and read newspapers around a gas fire. One girl is smoking

Fable / King Stork & Frogs
FROGS PETITION JUPITER FOR A KING: King Stork, sent to the frogs who complained they had no proper ruler, eats them all up

Pyne - Parish Beadle
THE PARISH BEADLE A kind of policeman, whose job is to make sure everyone behaves properly in church and enforce the proper observation of the Sabbath

Keeper and Master
A gamekeeper shows proper respect to his master by touching his cap (implying that he would doff it if circumstances permitted)

Dromedary (Bewick)
Camelus dromedarius: also known as the Arabian Camel. More numerous and swifter than the camel proper. Date: 1790

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