Shawls Collection

Welsh women road builders, South Wales
A group of twenty Welsh women road builders in Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, holding their spades. They built the road to Hook in 1903-4 to facilitate transport to the colliery

Dressing Shetland Shawls
Women from the Shetland Islands dress Shetland wool shawls on large racks Date: 1908

The Conference of Kaw Indians with the United States Governm
Image showing the Kaw native American Indians appealing to the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs to protect their land from settlers, 1857

Watercress Girls / 1882
Watercress girls buying their stock at Farringdon Market in London

Woman in exotic shawl
Back view of an elegant woman wearing a dazzlingly colourful exotic shawl with long fringing

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Sovereign Weighi
Engraving of elaborate machinery used for weighing gold coins, to ensure that the coins weight is exactly right. Members of the public are observing the process

Advert for shawls from Selfridge s, London, 1926 Date: 1926

Women in Great Yarmouth making shawls

Making shawls in Great Yarmouth, Victorian period

India, cloth, clothing, garments sellers
Vintage 19th century photograph: India, cloth, clothing, garments sellers with ornate shawls

Street entertainer performing tricks with a baton
Street entertainer using a baton to remove a coin from a womans nose without touching her nose. Audience of fashionable women in bonnets, shawls and dresses with frills

Costumes of the people of Concepcion, Chile, with women in shawls, full skirts with many petticoats, copied from La Perouse

Newhaven fishermen and fishwives 1862
A group of fishermen and fishwives in typical clothing worn at that time. 1862

Advert for Peter Robinson womens beaded garments 1922 Advert for Peter Robinson
Everything for everybodys wear. Elegant women wearing, beaded Georgette tunic, beaded coatee in crepe-de-chine or Georgette for day or evening wear

Paris beggar 1850
French woman beggar with child, holding out her hand for money. Date: 1850

Costume April 1862
Latest Paris fashion of 1862. Date: 1862

During the Verbenas festival in Madrid, there is a competition for the best shawls & hair combs. The name of the winner becomes famous throughout Spain. Date: 1930s

Two Swiss girls wearing traditional Zurich peasant costumes including shawls and elaborate bonnet-like hats Date: 1930s

Algeria - Two Moorish women in traditional costume Date: circa 1910s

Old Clothes Exchange, Phils Buildings, Houndsditch 1882
The court of Phils buildings was found directly opposite St Mary Axe. A barrier was placed across steps leading up to the court, as there was an admission fee of one penny

Fashions for November 1861
Autumn season, with women wearing light or dark coloured cloaks. Date: 1861

PARIS DEPARTMENT STORE
Fabrics, shawls, childrens clothes &c. Date: circa 1850

A LADY AND HER BILLS
A dejected lady seeks comfort in coffee as she contemplates bills for dresses, shawls, carpets, lingerie, flowers and ribbons Date: circa 1815

The Light Side of Nature - Three older working class women wrapped-up well in shawls and aprons standing chatting alongside a sign for the Fair Women exhibition at The Grafton Galleries. Date: 1894

Zulu Man with his Six Wives and six of his children (all pictured). Date: 1906

Lancashire cotton mill worker
A Lancashire cotton worker wrapped in shawls and wearing clogs walking along a cobbled street in Oldham

Two Spanish women on a balcony - Cadiz, Southern Spain
Delightful scene by Manuel Garcia y Rodriguez showing two Spanish women on a balcony festooned with flowers - Cadiz, Andalusia, Southern Spain Date: 1904

Rope Thatched Dwelling and Outhouses - Two women in shawls walk to a thatched dwelling, to the right is a turf stack. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

W. P. Hartleys Aintree Works - Grading Seville oranges
W. P. Hartleys Aintree Works - Women workers grading and classifying Seville oranges and selecting those good enough for Hartley s. Date: circa 1906

Pueblo Indians selling wares, New Mexico, USA
Pueblo Indians selling their wares at a railway station in New Mexico, USA. Date: 1902

Stanley and Followers
Hand coloured. A posed photograph of African men and women sitting/standing in rows. Many have headwraps and colourful shawls. A Caucasian man in a suit and top hat sits in the centre

A Womans place is the Home.. Shows two young women in shawls, (mill girls?), an elderly mother and a crippled father. Caption reads, Who will then earn the Daily bread? Date: 1909

Moscow, Russia - Clothes Seller
A Moscow clothes stall from around the turn of the 20th century. Date: circa 1900

Sarah Childress Polk
SARAH CHILDRESS POLK wife of President James Polk, described as a woman of ability and culture, not to mention a nice taste in shawls. Date: circa 1834

Pleasure Drive - Russian sled / sleigh Date: 1900s

Domestic Violence discussed on a London street
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a conversation on a London street discussing domestic violence

ITURRINO, Francisco (1864-1924). Women with shawls. Romanticism. Oil on canvas

Arab Dancers from Tunis, Tunisia
Two beautiful Arab Dancers from Tunis, Tunisia, wearing elaborate metal wrist bracelets and bangles, jewellery, necklaces, shawls, headresses and massive hooped earrings. Date: circa 1910s

A group of indigenous Indians - Cuzco, Peru Date: circa 1906

Chinipis Indians, Argentina Date: 1910

Indigenous Peruvian Indians at Lake Titicaca, Peru Date: circa 1910s

Romanian women from Campulung
A group of Romanian women from Campulung (or Cimpulung) - a city in the Arges County, Wallachia, Romania Date: circa 1905

Barcelona - The two Rivals
Two rivals - painting by Ramon Palmarola Romeu Date: circa 1938

Country Women in the Lake Maggiore Region of Italy
Country ( Peasant ) Women in the Lake Maggiore Region of Italy, holding baskets of fruit they have jusat picked from the plants in the background. Date: circa 1910s

Flower Sellers - Rome - Piazza di Spagna

Shawl making, India
The manufacture of shawls at Amritsar, India

Chaouis Camp - Algeria - Barbequeing
Chaouis Berber Camp - Algeria. Barbequeing a goat. The men sit and stand in the foreground close to the fire, whilst the women stand at the rear close to the low camel-hair tent

Bargains for all
Typical morning scene on the verandah of the hotel at Jaipur. Sellers come and sit on the edge of the verandah as they display their colourful wares in the bright morning sunlight

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