Reading Collection (page 18)

Reading Subconscious
In Ray Avery Myers fiction Into the subconscious, future scientists develop machines that read the subconscious mind and project its thoughts as images

Sven Anders Hedin / Flodin
SVEN ANDERS HEDIN Swedish traveller and geographer in 1914

Puritan Woman
A young Puritan reads The Bible, but allows herself a touch of vanity in her dress

Merchant Venice / Antonio
Act III, Scene ii Antonio, a merchant of Venice, seated at a table reading

Garrick / Cooper / Pne
DAVID GARRICK English actor, famous for his Shakespearean roles

W Churchill / Pcard / 1933
WINSTON CHURCHILL British statesman and author Reading correspondence at his desk in 1933

Woman reading a book in her bedroom
A woman sits on a chair beside her bed reading a book by lamplight

Susi - Puppies Adventure Stories
Susi - reading Puppies Adventure Stories. 1950s

Waitress and customer on comic postcard -- I ve clicked! Date: circa 1910s

French Politicians. circa 1820

A Thrilling Story -- mother and two children
A Thrilling Story -- a mother reads from a book to her two children, who don t look very thrilled. late 19th century

The Evening Paper by H. M. Bateman
An old gentleman settles down to read the evening newspaper in an armchair by the fire but the news does not meet with his approval

Lady Loughborough and her son, Tony
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm, daughter of Harry Chisholm of Sydney, NSW, Australia married in 1915 Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough

Puppy reading a book about cats
Unusual Friends - puppy reading a book about cats. 1950s

Inspiration by H. M. Bateman
" Why, thats the very thing" ! A rather large and curvaceous 1920s lady contemplates a fashion magazine featuring the slim and sinuous fashions of the decade. Date: 1929

Santa Claus by Charles Robinson
Illustration of Santa Claus reading his Book of Good and Bad Children by candlelight, surrounded by toy dolls. Date: 1906

Balancing act at the Alhambra
Les Kiners-Moulins performing The Tribulations of a Soubrette, an extraordinary balancing act at the Alhambra in London in 1903. Date: 1903

Susi - with telephone directory and glasses. 1950s

Cover design, Gaiety, A Monthly Magazine of Humour, one shilling. Try it in your bath! Edited by Artemas. circa 1920s

Mysterious woman reading her bible and praying
Mysterious woman kneeling and reading her bible Date: circa 1890s

Reading Football Club - 1904-05 Season. Captain Herbert Smith (1877-1951) - is pictured inset (top right). Smith went on to win gold for the England team at the 1908 Olympic Games

Grieving Husband plays his violin to his dead wife
Your Favourite Song - A grieving Husband plays his violin to his dead wife whilst their daughter reads her picture book, oblivious to the moderately bizarre tableau a couple of feet to her right

An Englishmans Home by Guy du Maurier. First produced at the Wyndhams Theatre on 27th January 1909. Guy du Maurier was brother of the actor Gerald, and uncle of the novelist, Daphne

Boy and duck
Unusual Friends - boy reading the Dandy, with a duck behind him. 1950s

Boy and goat with comic magazine
Unusual Friends - boy and goat with comic magazine. 1950s

Tabby kitten reading a book
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten reading a book. 1950s

Maurice Farkoa - Musical comedy actor and singer
Maurice Farkoa (1864-1916) - Musical comedy actor and singer born in Izmir, Turkey. Date: 1904

Somebody Elses House
A view of a cosy looking room viewed from outside. Date: 1935

Reading, Royal County of Berkshire - Queen Victoria Street viewed from Broad Street. On the right is a store of the Public Benefit Boots Company

Two Japanese Geisha girls in colourful Kimonos reading a book together. Date: circa 1910s

Victorian scrap - Charity and Wealth
Victorian scrap - Ragged School Union, Charity and Wealth. late 19th century

The Roman Pulcinella of the Piazza Navona. The commedia dell arte character is shown in five scenes: winning the lottery, reconciling with his enemy, drinking wine, reading up on politics

Hugh Miller, Scottish geologist
Hugh Miller )1802-1856), Scottish geologist. 19th century

Young lady shortly fails to walk the tightrope
A young lady reads out a learned treatise upon tight-rope walking in a circus rather than actually performing on the high wire herself! Date: 1923

Fashionable lady sitting beside her bed reading a letter
A fashionable lady is sitting beside her bed reading a letter from a man. She seems rather displeased about the content. Date: 1923

Christmas present gift tag -- boy in chair with book and cat. Date: circa 1950s

Communist China - soldiers in wartime, taking time out for political study and discussion, while others look out for enemy action, probably during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

Communist China - State Propaganda Booklet
Young woman member of a communication team, reading Maos Little Red Book with a poor female farmer during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China

Communist China - agricultural workers, probably educated people from a town or city, forced to do manual work during the Cultural Revolution

Advert for Portable hand-held electric lights 1902
A selection of Christmas portable electrical presents. 1902

People relaxing at Goodwood, West Sussex
Seated woman and soldier relaxing at Goodwood, West Sussex, England. circa 1970

Relaxing in the garden
Man with a dog and probably his son, relaxing and reading a book seated in a deckchair in a garden. circa 1900

Suffragette Arson
Scene of destruction at Saunderton Railway Station after a fire started by suffragettes on 9th March 1913. Apparently placards reading Votes for Women

Women WW1 Work Carpenters
A group of women working as carpenters making ammunition boxes or wooden storage cases. Most hold tools such as drills, planes and hammers

Reading the Scriptures
A family reading the scriptures. circa 1830

Rosalind, by R W Macbeth (from As You Like It). 1888

Paterfamilias Reading The Times. 1862

The British Lion reading The Times newspaper
The British Lion reading about War in The Times newspaper. mid-19th century

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