Roles Collection (page 8)

Women working in the hothouses at Windsor, WW1
Four women gardeners in the Kings gardens at Frogmore, Windsor Castle, working in the glasshouses in place of male gardeners during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women as war-time firemen in their bunks
Members of the Womens Volunteer Reserve in bunks at the Holborn Union Workhouse for aged women, due to being in attendance day and night for duty. Date: 1916

The Womens Legion & Army Waste, WW1
Women inspecting copper vats filled with boiling soup, involved in a scheme originated by Lady Londonderry to lessen waste in camp kitchens

Wartime ferrywoman, WW1
A wartime ferrywoman at work on an English tidal river, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Lady billposters, WW1
Some of the twenty women employed by a large London billposting firm during the First World War. Date: 1916

Women working at convalescent remount depot, WW1
Scenes at a convalescent army remount, where forty to fifty hunting women were employed. The depot was under the District Remount Officer for Berkshire

Women training in aeroplane construction, WW1
In workshops provided by the London Society for Womens Suffrage women are trained in aeroplane construction. They are pictured using acetylene blow-pipes for welding metal parts. Date: 1915

A lady prompter at a London theatre during First World War
Women stage hands at the Kingsway - a lady prompter. As the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News reports, The lighter side of work behind the stage is being done now by women at the Kingsway Theatre

Women working on a tobacco farm, Norfolk, WW1
Women workers gathering the harvest on the tobacco farm at Methwold, Norfolk in 1915. Picture 1 shows them tying and looping tobacco to be placed on stays

A Facer by Wilmot Lunt
An ex-WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) worker asks her pretty friend who is still in uniform and acting as a driver, I wonder why they demobbed me before you? Don t you, Maude. Date: 1919

Farewell to the Land Girls
Princess Mary presenting medals to Land Girls in December 1919 at the Drapers Hall, at their last rally before demobilisation

Carrying On - The W. A. A. C. Girl WWI womens roles
A girl in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps during World War One. Date: 1918

Carrying On - The Whitehall Girl WWI womens roles
A female clerk working at Whitehall during World War One. Date: 1918

Abdulla Cigarette advert featuring Maisie the Munition Worke
One of a series of advertisements for Abdulla cigarettes featuring various girls in typical roles during World War One. Here is Maisie the Munitions Worker. Date: 1918

Rusticating with the Land Girl by Leonard P. Dowd
A page of sketches showing various activities of the Womens Land Army during the First World War including ploughing, threshing

Miss Gowing the hockey player as farm labourer, WW1
Miss M. G. Gowing, of the Norfolk Ladies hockey team, releasing men for the war, by working on an Essex farm during the First World War. Date: 1916

Trench Cooking for Women
Cookery lessons in a trench dug-out - a special feature at Kings College for Women, London, as training for nurses leaving for the front. Date: 1915

Women picking fruit in Kent during World War One, 1916
Female fruit-pickers in the fruit gardens and orchards of Evesham, picking strawberries and gooseberries to be made into jam for British troops; just one of the traditionally male roles taken over by

No Objection Taken - womens war work, 1916
A page of sketches of mans work the men want the women to want, a humorous (and slightly chauvinistic) comment on the traditionally male jobs taken by women during the First World War. 1916

A land-girls dress
An example of work-on-land dress available from Shoolbreds of Tottenham Court Roadbuilt entirely out of bronze khaki drill, made of a three quarter length smock coat

A land girl by Helen McKie
A member of the Womens Land Army, dressed bucolically n a smock and sun hat to work in the fields during the First World War. Date: 1918

Douglas Fairbanks, American film star
Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939), American film star, screenwriter, director and producer, and co-founder of United Artists. Date: 20th century

Women finding themselves suddenly unemployed in 1919
" Good-bye-e-e!" These girls marching off to pastures new seem a jolly bunch, although for the 750000 women who found themselves suddenly unemployed in 1919

Rejane Photo
REJANE (born Gabrielle Charlotte Reju) French actress, admired especially for her comedy roles, in 1905. Date: 1856 - 1920

Virginie Dejazet
VIRGINIE DEJAZET French actress who specialised in travesti roles, dressed as a man. Date: 1797 - 1875

William Parsons - 1
WILLIAM PARSONS actor, appearing in comic roles Date: 1736 - 1795

William Parsons - 2
WILLIAM PARSONS actor, appearing in comic roles : this was the last portrait done of him, in 1794. Date: 1736 - 1795

Marie Miolan-Carvalho
MARIE CAROLINE FELIX MIOLAN- CARVALHO French soprano who was the first to sing Marguerite in Gounods Faust, as well as many other leading roles. Date: 1827 - 1895

Womens Rights - Popularity of wearing Trousers as a choice mildly satirised in this humorous 1910s cartoon postcard. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - Women painting Ships - War Effort
The original image caption states: " The Womens place in the British scheme of things. The place of wmen in wartime England is no longer the home

Woman wearing the trousers
" What material would you like for your trousers, Sir?" " Oh! The same as my Wife s." !! A comment on a strong woman, most definitely wearing the trousers in this relationship

Womens Rights - Satire Reversal of Traditional Roles
A suited and booted Suffragette heads out to her Club, holding a Paper on the Duties of a Wife and a Debate on Emancipation, whilst her tired husband is left rocking the baby... Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - Women War Work - Linen Manufacturing. Date: circa 1915

Portrait of Sarah Siddons by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) (1755-1831) - Welsh actress renowned for her tragic roles. Depicted here in the role of Mrs Haller in The Stranger. Date: circa 1797

Two off-work clowns attract attention in a Garrison Town
In a Garrison Town. First Loafer to second Loafer (as out friends from the circus pass by) - " Officers!". This is likely to derive from the two clowns often getting entangled with the law

Portrait of the English Music Hall Performer Dan Leno
Portrait of the Performer Dan Leno (1860-1904) - a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era

Acting conversation at the bar - former colleagues reminisce. She - " Dear me: I haven t seen you since we played in Romeo and Juliet You ARE looking well!" He - " Think so

Two actors dressed in the role of 18th century nobility. Date: circa 1895

Actors in the roles of Cavalier and Roundhead Date: 1895

The Second in Command - Mr and Mrs Binks
Mr and Mrs Binks - A very funny cartoon by Phil May showing a VERY dominant Woman (wearing a monacle) leading her subservient and tiny husband and their small son along the street

Why Get Married?
" Why Get Married?" The Joys of Bachelor Life illustrated quite clearly in this humorous German postcard illustration! Date: circa 1910s

WRAF-ish by Reginald Higgins
A dashing young woman in the uniform of the WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) waits by her car smoking a cigarette. Date: 1919

Nurse cradling baby
Nurse holding a small baby in her arms c. 1910

Actors in the roles of Doguya Jinza, Hokaibo Bokon, and Shimobe Gunsuke. Print shows three actors, two with swords and one who appears to be an evil spirit. Date between 1848 and 1854

Actors in the roles of Tamashima Itto, Tenjuku Tokubei, and Tsukimoto Inabanosuke. Print shows three actors portraying the roles of Tamashima Itto

Three actors in the roles of Hakata Kojoro, Kezori Kuemon, and Komatsu-ya Soshichi. Print shows three actors portraying a woman and two men on board a ship; one of the men holds a large ax

Three actors in the roles of Tsubo no Iwafuji, Churo Onoe, and Meishitsukai Hatsu. Date between 1848 and 1854

Actors in the roles of the warriors Sekiguchi Yataro, Yoshioka Kanefusa, and Miyamoto Musashi. Date 1848 and 1854

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