Room Collection (page 6)

SE Asia, bare-breasted young woman doing her hair
Vintage 19th century photograph: south east Asia, bare-breasted young woman with a mirror, doing her hair

Bare-breasted tea house girls, geishas, relaxing, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Guests at the Bicester and Warden Hill Hunt Ball at Kirtlington Park, home of the Budgett family. Pictured in the Monkey Room, with the magnificent painted ceiling by Clermont in 1745. Date: 1964

Cross section of a British submarine 1939
Illustration showing a labeled cross section of a British submarine. Reminds its readers of an announcement last week, stating that British submarine successes may not be brought to the attention of

Interior of New Royal Yacht - HMY Victoria and Albert 1901
HMY Victoria and Albert was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Showing the apartments for Edward VII and Alexandra that was furnished by Messrs Waring

Interior of a working class home 1920
Decor of early 1910s working class home, but photograph taken near the end or just after the First World War, showing carpeted floor, wallpaper, photographs in frames and ornaments on shelving

London Ragged School, Battersea 1890s
The London Ragged Schools Union was established in April 1844 to combine resources in the city, providing free education, food, clothing, lodging and other home missionary services for poor children

Ron and Pam Williams - Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster
Ron and Pam Williams last private owners of Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster, Yorkshire. They are pictured in Brodsworth Hall drawing room Date: 1989

A great dane dog in front of a log fire at Plas Teg, a Grade I listed Jacobean house in North Wales, near the village of Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, north Wales

Gilbert Harding, English journalist - radio & tv personality
Gilbert Charles Harding (19071960) - English journalist and radio and television personality. His many careers included schoolmaster, journalist, policeman, disc-jockey, actor

Illustration by Louis Wain, showing cats as humans being weighed before a horse race. Date: 1901

Comic postcard, Vegetable love, The Allotment Love Letter Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman travelling in Paris - a helpful Frenchman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Chauffeur and seaside landlady Date: 20th century

WW2 - Life onboard a corvette escort at sea - the ILN special artist C E Turner accompanied the vessel around various UK ports accompanying a merchant fleet. 1941

WW2 - Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) Firemen, including (top right) George Arthur Roberts (1891-1970) - soldier (in WW1), Fireman, and Community Leader

Gentleman trying to play footsie with a beauty at the table
Gentleman trying to play footsie with a beauty under the dining table but pressing the wrong foot. More Miseries. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

South Hill House, Cranmore, Somerset, seat of Thomas Chatham Strode. 18th century manor house. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1827

Captain Newcome saying goodbye to old crew members
Captain Johnny Newcome saying goodbye to old crew members and veterans at Greenwich Hospital. Midshipmen in uniforms, peg-legged veterans with walking sticks

English lady surveying fancy room with covered chandeliers
English lady surveying a fancy room with covered furniture and chandeliers in brown-holland balloons, 19th century. Housekeeper Mrs Mustard showing Mrs Lucy Somerville around the drawing room

Afternoon tea in a Victorian drawing room, 19th century.. Ladies in crinoline dresses wait for a footman in livery bring the tea tray

Fantasy wall hanging, circa 1900. Wooden pelmet, velvet lambrequin, plush drapes, gourgouran curtains, silk blind and chair. Planche 21. Croisee Fantaisie

King Louis XVI-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Gilt wood pelmet, gourgouran lambrequin and curtains, plush drapes, chair and window. Planche 18. Croisee Loius XVi

Plans and section of the Odeon of Pericles, Athens, Greece
Plans and section of the Odeon of Athens or Odeon of Pericles in Athens, Greece. Odeo di Pericle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Luigi Antonio Bossi from Giulio Ferrarios

Elevation and floor plan of a house in Pompeii, showing the oecus, exedra, triclinium, cubiculum, peristylium, viridarium, piscina, apotheca, tablinum, bibliotheca, atrium, ala, impluvium, officina

W Heath Robinson - The Lullaby Bed, to save getting out of bed to rock baby when he is troublesome at night

Dr Jean-Martin Charcot, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Paris
The neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in a consulting room of the mental hospital Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. Patients wait for treatment with an electric current. Date: 1885

The Great Lafayette in his study, 1911
Sigmund Neuberger (or Newburger) (1871-1911), otherwise known as illusionist The Great Lafayette. Seen here in his study at 55 Tavistock Square, London, which was decorated with pictures, colour

Sir Philip Sassoons home, 25 Park Lane: the boudoir
The Park Lane home of British politician Sir Philip Sassoon(1888-1939), decorated in the French style. Pictured here is the the Boudoir opening into the Dining Room, featuring a vista effect

Christmas 1952 by Harold White
A 1950s family sit around the fire at Christmas time listening to a wireless broadcast Streamers and paper chains hang from the ceiling and a rather mean looking Christmas tree stands in the corner

A Slave Auction in Virginia, USA, 1861 A Slave Auction in Virginia, USA 1861
An auction room in Virginia, during a slave auction in 1861. A young, black slave couple with a baby stand on a mounting block as the auctioneer stands beside them, waving at the bidders. Date: 1861

British Museum, Reading Room 1900s
Interior of the reading room at the British Museum, London. Date: 1900s

The Drawing Room in the well-known Modernist Poet Captain Osbert Sitwells House in
The Drawing Room in the " well-known" Modernist Poet Captain Osbert Sitwells House in Chelsea, London. In the left background (through the arch) is a large painting by Wyndham Lewis

Royal Navy captain on bridge of warship
Royal Navy captain on the bridge of a warship, leaning on the brass engine room telegraph set at Full Ahead. Date: circa 1950s

Smoking car of the Cote d Azur Express
Luxurious and well-appointed smoking car on the Cote D Azur Express leaving Paris Gare de Lyon at 9am daily and running to Cannes, Nice, Beaulieu, Monte Carlo and Mentone on the French Riviera

Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain - Mirador of Lindaraja (or Daraxa) - The dressing room or bedroom of the Sultana had this bay window (or a mirador)

Spa, Belgium - Le Salon de Conversation. Date: circa 1905

St Bartholomews Hospital, London - Surgery Waiting Hall
St Bartholomews Hospital, Farringdon, City of London - Surgery Waiting Hall. Date: circa 1907

India - Deolali - British Garrison
British Garrison at Deolali (Devlali), in Nashik District in the state of Maharashtra, India - British soldiers and Officers outside the Billiard Room

The Royal Mint - Press Room
The Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London - Press Room Date: circa 1908

Woolwich Town Hall, SE London - Committee Suite
Woolwich Town Hall, SE London - Central Committee Room - Architect: A Brumwell Thomas Date: circa 1908

The Room in which Shakespeare was born, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Date: circa 1908

Travelling Salesman failing to keep his expenses down
A travelling Salesman (for Sweatem, Grand & Co.) is spectacularly failing to keep his expenses down! He is piling through the whiskey, occupying a private room

The Grand Pump Room Hotel, Stall Street, Bath. In 1869 the Grand Pump Room Hotel opened. Designed by Wilson and Wilcox, its ponderous late Georgian style had the side wings topped by Frenchified

Forfeits
Pen and ink drawing depicting a game of Forfeits being played in a drawing room, after a painting by Eyre Crowe exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1880. Date: 1880

Police officers socialising at a Section House, London
Police officers, male and female, socialising in a sitting room at a Met Police Section House in London. By the fireplace on the left is WPC Doreen Lyess

First Court of the London Season at Buckingham Palace, 1922
A cut-away diagram of Buckingham Palace showing where the first court of the London Season, 1922. The entry for those attending Court was by way of the West Portico entrance

Hot Room, Public Baths, Pompeii, Italy

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