Rag Collection

London Rag & Bone Men
A rag and bone horse and cart and other horse drawn vehicles, about to cross Tower Bridge, London, England

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
Mr. Venus surrounded by the trophies of his art

1960S Lady & Vacuum
A British housewife poses with Hoover and rag in the centre of her sitting room

Winifred Atwell music sheet for Black and White Rag. Winifred Atwell (1914-1983) Trinidadian pianist and entertainer who made a big impact in Britain in the 1950s. Date: 1950s

Harry Rowntree
Advertisement for Deans Rag Books and dolls. Artist: Harry Rountree Date: 1925

S for Ship
From a Deans Rag Book entitled Kiddiewiddies ABC Date: 1920

Little Fellah by Muriel Dawson
Charming rear view of a small child in a smock and large hat carrying a rag doll rather carelessly. Date: c.1925

Rag and Bone Man
Mothers and children gather around the local rag and bone man with their various offerings on the back streets of Harbertonford, south Devon, England

Rag Time - Murrays Cabaret Club costume design
Rag Time - Original costume design for one of the performers at Murrays Cabaret Club, 16-18 Beak Street, Soho, London

Woman with soft toys including Dismal Desmond
Woman seated with soft toys including Dalmatian dog Dismal Desmond Date: 1920s

Monkey Brand Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Monkey Brand, a product used mainly for cleaning pots and pans. Makes copper like gold, tin like silver, paint like new

Japan - Old Clothes Dealer
Old Clothes Dealer, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Music cover, 12th Street Rag, Harry Roy
Music cover, 12th Street Rag, words by Andy Razaf, music by Euday L Bowman, song featured and broadcast by Harry Roy and his Orchestra Date: 1942

Members of NUTGW campaigning
Members of NUTGW (National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers), NATSOPA (National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants)

Men and women in a tailors workshop with sewing machines on the workbenches. Date: circa 1960s

Tailors in a workshop with coat on display
A group of tailors in a workshop with a finished coat on display on a dummy. Date: circa 1960s

Three people in a tailors workshop. Date: circa 1960s

Tailors in a workshop. Date: circa 1960s

Cutter at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

Tailor at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

Poster Pageant - Advert, Dean's Untearable Rag Books 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London. Over a mile long in the West End, well known familiar bill board posters

Bleak House - spontaneous combustion, 1853
The rag-and-bone dealer Krook dies of spontaneous combustion. Date: 1853

Spontaneous combustion in Bleak House by Dickens
Rag and bone dealer Krook dies of spontaneous combustion in Bleak House by Charles Dickens Date: 1853

Mac Beardall, Doug Frazer and Dennis Wright dressed as skin-clad savages in the aftermath of the H-bomb on the Westminster College float at a procession of London students in aid of the National

Rag and Bone man collecting in London mews
A Rag and Bone man (or totter) collecting material in a London mews. Date: circa 1960s

Squirrel
An image depicting a grey squirrel. Artist: Edith Berkeley

Rooster
An image depicting a rooster. Artist: Edith Berkeley

Donkey
An image depicting a donkey. Artist: Edith Berkeley

Rabbit
An image depicting a rabbit. Artist: Edith Berkeley

Collie Dog
An image depicting a collie dog. Artist: Edith Berkeley

Bull
An image depicting a bull. Artist: Edith Berkeley

Cow Donkey Robin
Front cover of The Big Animal Rag Book published by The Deans Rag Book Company, depicting a Cow, Donkey and a Robin. Artist: Edith Berkeley

Mickey Mouse
A postcard depicting Mickey & Minnie Mouse promoting Deans Rag Books at Blackpool. Photographer: Anon

Swift the stag. A male deer walking into a pool at sunset. Artist: Edith Berkeley Date: 1914

Rag Animal Alphabet
A wall-hanging linen animal picture alphabet. Date: circa 1905

Deans Rag Book Company, located near the Elephant & Castle, London SE1 Date: circa 1912

Ironing a Rag Book
Illustration to highlight the durability of Deans Rag Books. Date: circa 1930

Rag Doll. Music sheet. Date: 1925

The Jewel Office in the Tower of London, Rag Fair and Old Clothes and Ship Building. Crown, orb and sceptre in the Jewel Office in the Tower of London 16

The Tiwer of London: the Armory, the Horse Armory and Wild Beasts in the Tower. Beefeater showing tourists weapons from the Spanish Armada in the Armory 13

Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19

English huntsman fording a river with fox hounds, 19th century. Facey Romford urging his horse up the opposite river bank. Captain Spurrier cut down by Romford

The leading ladies in Black Velvet at London Hippodrome
Caricature of the four leading ladies in Black Velvet, a wartime revue produced by George Black at the London Hippodrome. The four featured are Carol Lynne (who married Bernard Delfont)

Music cover, Any Rags? by Thomas Allen, sung by Rachel Lowe. A ragtime schottische written in 1902. Date: circa 1900s

Women students at University College, London Rag Week
Women students of University College, London, watching the struggle in University College Quadrange when the shock-troops of Kings tried to capture Phineas, the mascot of University College

The old clothes market, camp field, Manchester 1870
The old clothes market or rag fair, as it was called, which was held every Monday and Saturdays on Camp Field in Manchester. Date: 1870

Costermonger and rag fair 1870
Rows of stalls were men shout and scream to catch some unfortunate visitor by shaking an old waistcoat or a pair of trousers in his face. Date: 1870

Interior of Postmaster Browns home at Old Rag. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Date 1935 Oct

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