Sep18 Collection (page 2)

Tennis fashion, 1931 drawn by Pat Charles
Smart equipment for the tennis courts. Tennis frocks from Lillywhites of Piccadilly and useful little coats from Swan and Edgar. Date: 1931

Terrier racing in Juan les Pins
A terrier racing contest in the French Riviera resort of Juan les Pins, organised by Captain and Mrs Russell Roberts on the terrace of the Casino

Tatler cover Clothes for the Dog You Lead 1961
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model in a white mink coat from Bradleys and a diamond tiara by Richard Ogden. All other jewellery from Harrods. Date: 1961

Tatler cover Party Time 1961
Front cover of The Tatler from December 1961 featuring a woman utterly absorbed in playing the drums. Date: 1961

Lady Mary Lygon and Viscountess Castlerosse at the Westminster Hospital Ball and Cotillon at the Dorchester Hotel in June 1931. Date: 1939

The Duke of Windsor playing golf at Cap D Antibes
The Duke of Windsor, formerly Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, pictured playing golf at the Mandelieu course at Cap D Antibes on the French Riviera

The Riviera in September 1926
Fashionably attired people on the beach on the French Riviera in September. Date: 1926

The new lido at Baden
View of the Lido was built at Baden in the 1920s, sixteen miles from Vienna, to attract more visitors. Vast quantities of sand were imported in trucks

Bathers at Baden
Bathers enjoying the seaside life at landlocked Baden, renowned for its thermal springs. A Lido was built in the 1920s, sixteen miles from Vienna, to attract more visitors

Margaret Morris dancers at Cap D Antibes
Margaret Morris dancers enjoying the swimming pool at the Cap D Antibes. Morris had her summer school at Antibes, an environment ideal for the outdoor dancing her movement espoused. Date: 1924

Countess Beatty, Duchess of Sutherland & Lady Ednam, Lido
High society enjoying the pleasures of life at the Venice Lido while being dressed entirely appropriately in beach pyjamas. From left, Countess Beatty, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Ednam

The tractor coach at Deauville takes children down to beach
One of the delights at the fashionable French resort of Deauville - the crowded tractor-coach taking children from their hotels down to the sea to bathe. Date: 1928

Sonnenspektrum in Berlin
A German revue. Scene from Sonnenspektrum (The Solar Spectrum) based on the work of Frank Wedekind, which ran at the Kurfurstendamm Playhouse, Berlin in 1928

Claude Hulbert and Vera Lennox in Tell Me More
Claude Hulbert and Vera Lennox performing in Tell Me More at the Winter Garden in 1925, significant because of the fashionably wide Oxford bags trousers worn by Hulbert. Date: 1925

A Wonderful Performance of Madama Butterfly
Scenes from a 1915 production of Madame Butterfly at the London Opera House, with the great Japanese prima donna Tamaki Miura in the title role. Date: 1915

A New Butterfly - Madame Tamaki Miura
Madame Tamaki Miura (1884-1946), Japanese opera singer, whose most famous part was in Puccinis Madame Butterfly. Pictured in The Tatler magazine in June 1915 at the time she was appearing in the role

Interior of the Sardinian Chapel, 1906
The interior of the Sardinian Chapel of Lincolns Inn, London in 1906 showing the organ. The chapel was demolished to make way for the new Kingsway thoroughfare

Winning poster design for LCC evening classes
G. Cranston Bogle, a young Yorkshire artist, receiving his prize for designing a poster to promote evening classes run by London County Council. He won the 50 prize over 800 entries

Exterior of the Sardinian Chapel, 1906
The exterior of the Sardinian Chapel of Lincolns Inn, London prior to demolition in 1906. The chapel was demolished to make way for the new Kingsway thoroughfare

Lady Warwick in a beach robe at Monte Carlo
Society beauty, the Countess of Warwick, wife of the seventh Earl and formerly Miss Rose Bingham (later Mrs Billy Fiske), pictured in a yellow beach robe on Monte Carlo Beach

Jasmine Bligh, television announcer
Jasmine Lydia Bligh (20 May 1913 21 July 1991), one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters in the 1930s. Along with Leslie Mitchell and Elizabeth Cowell

Exterior of the Sardinian Chapel, 1893
The exterior of the Sardinian Chapel of Lincolns Inn, London, showing the archway attributed to Inigo Jones in 1893. The chapel was demolished in the early 20th century to make way for the new

Susan Bligh
Susan Rachel Bligh (1916-1983), daughter of Noel Bligh (son of the 8th Earl of Darnley) out in London in 1938. She worked as a mannequin (model)

Interior of the Sardinian Chapel, 1893
The interior of the Sardinian Chapel of Lincolns Inn, London, showing the altar in 1893. The chapel was demolished in the early 20th century to make way for the new Kingsway thoroughfare

Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow (Barbara Hutton), 1938
Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton (1912-76) pictured at the fashionable Venice Lido in 1938 wearing a Chinese style pyjamas

Exterior of the Sardinian Chapel, 1897
The exterior of the Sardinian Chapel of Lincolns Inn, London, in 1897. The chapel was demolished in the early 20th century to make way for the new Kingsway thoroughfare

Interior of the Sardinian Chapel 1897
The interior of the Sardinian Chapel of Lincolns Inn, London, in 1897. The chapel was demolished in the early 20th century to make way for the new Kingsway thoroughfare

Great Dinner tent at Highbury Barn 1842
The great dinner tent at Highbury Barn for the licenced Victuallers Grand Annual Festival. 1842

Lido fashions for sunning and swimming
Beach ensembles for the fashionable Venice Lido. On the left is a pyjama suit of stockinette in blue and white with a coat in a modern design

Tatler Cover, Summer Number 1954
Front cover of The Tatler Summer Number with a stylised illustration of a seaside resort in the Edwardian era with bathing beauties being surprised by a lusty looking Neptune in the water. Date: 1954

Tatler Cover, Spring Fashions Number, 1943
Beautifully illustrated Tatler cover for their Spring Fashions Number, 1954. An elegant woman with a chic hat, delicately sniffs a bunch of spring flowers although, considering shes in a park

Jaeger coat, 1954
A canary yellow top coat of mohair in a simple wrap shape from Jaegers of Regent Street. Date: 1954

Arranging railway timetables, 1908
An ingenious system of threads used by railway timetable planners to secure the perfect working of a great railway system in 1909. This was achieved by stretching threads across a board

Cutting sixty miles of tunnel in Paris
Cross-section of plans for the tunnel extension to the Paris Metro under the Paris Opera House 1903

Building a boat to go beneath a street
Purpose-built boat -shaped caisson which will be lowered into the hole made for the extension of the Paris Metro under the River Seine 1906

New tunnel under the Seine 1905
Night staff work on the new tunnel extension under the River Seine. Date: 1905

Realism in sounds behind the scenes: Railway noises off
A group of stage hands using different techniques to make realistic train noises in the fledgling cinema industry. 1928

Mrs Solly Joel and her family. 1913

Fair Supporters - or the best view of the Derby 1928
Three elegant young ladies standing on the roof of a car on a windy day for a better view at the Derby. 1928

Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, explorer, as part of an article by Sir John Squire. Fawcett led an expedition to central Brazil in 1925 and disappeared. 1953

Amazonian Adventure - article in the Sphere
Amazonian Adventure - an account of a 3, 000 mile-journey along the Amazon written and illustrated by Victor Coverley-Price Date: 1st March 1932

School class group photograph, 1947
A group photograph of schoolgirls in summer uniform, accompanied by what appears to be two male members of staff. Date: 1947

Greetings card, circa 1930s
The front cover of a greetings cards, circa 1930s, showing a stylised lady in a crinoline dress holding a bouquet of flowers, with a timbered house in the background. Date: circa 1930s

Studio portrait of little girl, circa 1930s
A head and shoulders studio portrait of a young girl(Josephine Rutter), circa 1930s. She wears a collared dress with smocking. Date: circa 1930s

Little girl holds a toy rabbit, circa 1930s
A little girl(Josephine Rutter)poses for a studio portrait holding her toy rabbit, circa 1930s. Date: circa 1930s

Little girl holds a birthday card
A little girl with bobbed hair sits on a piano stool, holding a birthday card. Date: 1932

Kodak photograph wallet
A bathing beauty graces the cover of a Kodak photograph and negatives wallet Date: circa 1920s

Training a guide dog and its owner
Illustration by Bryan de Grineau in The Illustrated London News showing stages of training a guide dog and its blind owner at the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association School in Wallasey. Date: 1937

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