Sep18 Gallery

Festival Stilt Dance and Dancers - Dalian, Manchukuo, China

Manchukuo - a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic, but in 1934 it became a constitutional monarchy. It had limited international recognition and was under the de facto control of Japan. A Festival Stilt Dance. The area, collectively known as Manchuria, was the homeland of the Manchus, including the emperors of the Qing dynasty. In 1931, the region was seized by Japan following the Mukden Incident and a pro-Japanese government was installed one year later with Puyi, the last Qing emperor, as the nominal regent and later emperor.[1] Manchukuo's government was dissolved in 1945 after the surrender of Imperial Japan at the end of World War II. Date: circa 1930s

Sea Suits for Sunning and Swimming 1931

Clothes for swimming and sunbathings, two leisure preoccupations of the 1930s. The gaily coloured outfit on the left in striped blue and white heavy cotton has braces to the trousers and a short bolero coat and is from Woollands. The swimsuit underneath is from Lillywhites as are the shorts and sweater in the middle and the swimming costume on the right, designed to absorb the sun's rays. Date: 1931

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Margaret Whigham at the Famous Beauties Ball

Miss Margaret Whigham, later Mrs Charles Sweeny and then Duchess of Argyll, pictured with her pet poodle dressed up a Perdita/Mrs Robinson at the Famous Beauties Ball at the Dorchester on 25 June 1931 in aid of the Papworth Village Settlement for the Tuberculous. Date: 1931

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