Sees Gallery

Society & Shop Girls

Two elegant, society ladies are attended to by a shop girl who sees to their every whim. Several pairs of discarded shoes lie about the floor for the assistant to pick up later

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1933, Assistant, Attended, Cigarette, Class, Decadent, Discarded, Distinctions, Elegant, Floor, Girl, Girls, Historical, History, Ladies, Lamp, Lie, Pairs, Pick, Politics, Sees, Shoe, Shoes, Shop, Smoking, Society, Standard, Superior, Whim, Who

Mortier de 270 mm modele 1885 - LH image

A Mortier de 270 mm modele 1885 being loaded at the Bois de Givry south of Auxerre. (The LH image of a stereo pair arranged for a crossed eye viewer, where the left eye sees the image on the right and vice cersa) Date: circa 1917

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans A The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

1885, 1917, 270, Aeronautical, Aeroplane, Aircraft, Arranged, Auxerre, Bois, Cersa, Circa, Crossed, De, Eye, Flight, Givry, Image, Left, Lh, Loaded, Mm, Modele, Mortier, Pair, Plane, Sees, South, Stereo, Transport, Transportation, Vice, Viewer

Favourite Sayings - One Hunchback laughs at another

Black and white lantern slide of a round shouldered bent man pointing at another gentleman. Painted background of railings.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection. Hunchback sees not his own hump, but sees his neighbor's. Lantern slide creations of C. H. Spurgeon's (a British Particular Baptist preacher, 1834-1892) illustrated John Ploughman's Pictures. Date: circa 1890s

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans