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SHORT SKIRTS SAVE FABRICPatriotic German woman does her bit by taking the new fashion for short skirts to an extreme to save on fabric. Yet her long boots / gaiters must require a lot of material? Date: 1916
HAYMARKET SUPPER ROOMSMidnight at supper rooms in the Haymarket, London, where oysters, coffee and lemonade are on sale to gentlemen who may require them. Date: 1858
Requirement for Two Bassinettes - Growing FamilyComic Postcard with a Financial Play on words - " Stocks as Good as Money", using a metaphor of a gowing family
Family Shower / LeechA family prepare to partake of a shower. The servants fill up the shower head with hot water as the family members don conical hats and towels - some require encouragement! Date: 1850
Jablochkoffs electric light apparatusDiagrams showing Jablochkoffs candle lamp. Paul Jablochkoff (1847-1894) was a Russian telegraph engineer who would rise to the post of director of telegraphs between Moscow and Kursk
Ladies by a FiresideTwo young ladies sit in front of an open fire : should they require them, a whole battery of tools are available to poke the coals, shovel the ash or brush the hearth
Riding in Hyde ParkLondon characters: the GROOM accompanies his mistress to Rotten Row in Hyde Park, to make sure she doesn t come to any harm by falling off or being molested by strangers
Pyne - Water CarrierWATERMAN TO A COACH STAND Most transport is horse-drawn, and working horses require a great deal of water : but for the waterman, London traffic would gasp to a standstill