Reading Collection (page 4)

Exterior of British Museum - reading room 1855
Construction of the great Reading Room of the British Museum, the forerunner of the British Library Date: 1855

Mobile library in an English village
Enthusiastic readers line up to enter a mobile library in an unidentified rural village in the 1950s. Date: 1950s

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Stories from Puppyland. Mr Terrier, proud father of ten puppies, smokes his pipe and reads his newspaper. Date: 1904

Citroen Vintage Car, England. Reading registration. Date: 1920s

Geese unhappy at the arrival of Michaelmas
A gaggle of geese are unhappy to read a notice that the season of Michaelmas has begun. Eating goose at Michaelmas was thought to bring good luck, but that did not apply to geese

Boy sitting and reading
A young boy sits on a pouffe reading a book. Pastel sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Farrier at his Forge
A farrier and his boy apprentice in a forge in Reading, Berkshire, England

Teacher reading to infants, Brentwood, Essex

Thomas Johnson
THOMAS JOHNSON American revolutionary leader

Cheery Families - Mrs Switch the Schoolmasters Wife. 1890s

Alice in Wonderland by Gilbert Holiday - child reading
A little girl lies on her bed, absorbed in reading books. A study from life by Gilbert Holiday. Date: 1921

Library attendant

Richard Green, (with hat), 5 year old newsie, Richmond, Va. Willie - -, who said he was 8. (Compare them.) Many of these little newsboys here. Location: Richmond, Virginia. Date 1911 June

Turkish Hodja
Turkish holy man ( Hodja ) - Constantinople. Once a man had taken pilgrimage to Mecca, he always wore a beard and was forthwith known as Haji (followed by his name) to denote this fact

Suzanne Lenglen reading the Tatler
" Suzanne and Us" Suzanne Lenglen (1899-1938) who had just won the The Ladies Tennis Championship at Wimbledon for the fifth time in succession

Two women in the latest French fashions, sitting on a garden bench. On the left is a pink dress with lace trimming below the neck

Egyptian Fortune Teller
Egyptian street fortune teller has two women engrossed in his soothsaying

Art is Long by Pica
A woman with a svelte figure and an Eton crop hair style studies the latest elongated fashions of the 1930s in the pages of a womens magazine

Shop Signs / Umbrella
This umbrella sign advertises an umbrella makers in Reading, Berkshire

Kerensky / K Bulla
ALEKSANDR FYODOROVICH KERENSKY Russian Revolutionary leader

Mother & Daughter Read
Mother reads a large book while her daughter hangs over her shoulders

Leningrad Library
Reading in the library despite constant bombing - during the siege, bombs landed about every 3 minutes. The sign reads Please keep quiet

Girl Reads in Armchair
A girl sits in an armchair, with her hands behind her hair and wearing a white pinafore, reading a book

Emma Hamilton / Rehburg 1
EMMA, LADY HAMILTON Wife of Lord Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson, in one of her attitudes

Disraeli / Hughenden
BENJAMIN DISRAELI English MPs home at Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, showing Disraeli himself sitting reading under the verandah, his favourite seat

Sir Eg Clarke / B&w Photo
SIR EDWARD GEORGE CLARKE Statesman and lawyer, reading

Advert / Lloyds News 1906
Lloyds News

Old Chinese Manuscript
Fragment from a manuscript of the Uigur dynasty : figures are shown writing and reading, and one is playing a lute-like musical instrument

St Edmund of Abingdon
SAINT EDMUND OF ABINGDON EDMUND RICH English scholar. He became archbishop of Canterbury in 1233. He preached 6th crusade

Treating the Spine (1)
Armchair designed to correct deformities of the spine : the patient can get on with her reading while treatment is in progress

Reading a Will / C19
A sombre family gathers for the reading of a will

Female Type / Reading 19C
A young Victorian woman looking at a postcard. Date: late 19th century

Getting out of Bed 1950S
Pretty brunette, with arching eyebrows, climbs out of bed upon waking. Her bedtime reading lies on the floor next to her bed

Reading Palm Left
A gipsy reads a palm - the left hand Theres happy days in store for you

Reading a Letter
She reads a letter above a vase of blue flowers

She Reads a Letter 1889
She reads a letter at her dressing table

Virgil & Aeneid
VIRGIL Roman writer, depicted reading his Aeneid to his patron, Maecenas

Dog and Cat Reading
A puppy and a kitten reading a story book together

Girl Daydreams 1880
A girl pauses from her reading and daydreams of faries for a while. She sits in a hammock with her doll disgarded below

Danger - Schoolchildren
This warning notice, reading Danger, schoolchildren round the bend, could have been worded a little differently!

Dog Reading by Pidding
A learned grandfather amuses his grandchildren by teaching the dog to read. The dog, wearing spectacles & smoking a pipe, sits on a stool to read a newspaper

Astronomy / Greenwich 1911
GREENWICH OBSERVATORY The Astronomer Royal, Mr Frank Dyson, taking a reading with an altazimuth (a theodolite for determining the altitudes and azimuths of the heavens)

Dr Johnson / Mitre / Boswell
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON With Boswell at the Mitre Tavern

Reading the Cards
French manual on how to tell fortunes with playing cards

Steam Book Press / 1877
Steam printing press machinery for printing books - reading a page which has just come off the machine

Eliz Gaskell / C De Visite
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Writer

Client: Tricosa - location: BOAC Terminal
Client: Tricosa - Beige White Suit - location: BOAC Terminal - November 1956 (Agency: S. C. Peacock) Shoot date: November 28, 1956 Date: 1956

Client: Vanity Fair - cotton maternity dress - April Ashley
Client: Vanity Fair - model April Ashley (1935-2021) in a striped cotton maternity dress, reading a letter- February 17, 1961. Location - 43 Campden Hill Road. Date: 1961

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