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Fashion Men & Boy 1841
Boy: pantaloons & short jacket. Men: top hats with tall crowns, strapped pantaloons, cut-away coat with collar & lapels, green waistcoat, D-B coat with full skirt

Topping Book / Camping
Two short-wearing girl campers enjoy a fry-up of bacon and eggs, with toast and marmalade, tea and coffee for afters

Mole Fur Short Coat 1922
A short hip-hugging coat in mole fur with dolman sleeves, split turned-back cuffs, a broad belt with a buckle & a large collar

Astrakhan Coat & Borzoi
A loose fitting sac-like short astrakan coat with funnel sleeves & a large collar & drawn in at the hips with a narrow belt

Victor Stiebel / Coat
A black velour loose short coat with deep collar & stitched cuffs by Victor Stiebel at Jacqmar. The coat is lined with multicoloured patchwork

Peace of Amiens, 1802
The PEACE OF AMIENS is proclaimed at the Royal Exchange, bringing hostilities with France to a short-lived truce

Culottes on Cycles 1937
Two French ladies set off into the countryside on their tandem in appropriate clothes - tailored costume comprising a short jacquette and a jupe-culotte (divided skirt)

Threshing Straw
Two men and a girl in rather a short skirt, clearing away straw during the threshing on a Leicestershire farm, England

Patriotic Pillow 1915
Dress by Jessie Porter: triple skirt in a lightweight striped fabric, the upper skirt in plain black, vest bodice with dentate edge, wide brimmed hat. Girl: short double smock

Big Hair of C. 1918
An example of the big hair style fashionable around this date. The hair is curled & piled high up on the head, with large curls at the cheeks & a short fringe

Girls in Frocks 1925
Girls wear practical short frocks: gathered from a broad collar & with scollop detailing or shirt style with turn over collar & a deep yoke / shirt front in a contrasting fabric

Fox Fur Stole C. 1917
Costume of the Great War: short gathered skirt & loose shapeless jacket with over-stitching, lace-up shoes with a Louis heel, a white fox fur stole & a straw hat

Mother, Child & Dog 1921
Mother wears a narrow black tubular shaped skirt & orange long line blouse with turnover collar & button detail. Daughter wears a short dress with a bold geometric design

Tartan Trim Dress 1865
Evening: short, puffed sleeves, pointed waist, over- skirt with demi-train caught up at one side. Grey dress: tartan collar, cuffs & ribbon ceinture with floating ends

Englishman 1470
He wears a short belted high- necked tunic over his shirt and hose; the ribbon on his hat is the relic of the once- fashionable liripipe

Evening Dress 1823
A charming pink & white dress with two deep rows of decoration at the hem. The sleeves are short & full with a vandyked design. She wears a round brimmed hat with plumes

Englishman 1580
He wears the characteristic garments of the Elizabethan male - doublet with double linen collar where he might have worn a ruff : short cloak, elegant hose

Frank R Stockton
FRANK STOCKTON American writer, famed for the short story The lady or the tiger ?

WOMAN CIRCA 1410 - 2
A noblewoman of the period of Charles VI, in a relatively simple dress, with a short skirt (by the standards of the day): she is carrying a handbag

German Man 1550
The artist Lucas Cranach, the elder, wears a short, thick fur coat and leather breeches

Flapper on a Cloud 1926
Androgynous woman with an Eton crop, short dress with square cut collar, patch pockets with tassel trim & pleated flounce, & rolled stocking tops sits dreamily on a cloud smoking

Caravelle Jet
Passengers boarding a Caravelle Jet, run by Air France for short-haul flights, Gatwick Airport, Surrey, England

Female Type / Party Girl
A young flapper type at a party

Female Type / Bright Young
A bright young thing with a short haircut and cigarette

Female Type / Chair 1926
A sophisticated young flapper type with short hair, sitting in a chair

Babies / Long Clothes 1863
Long clothes - possibly a christening robe adorned with tucked panels & lace insertions; short clothes with vandyked sleeves & bodice, also habit-shirts & sleeves

Soviet Troops Resting
Soviet soldiers take a short rest

Holiday Snaps
A woman with short dark hair, wearing a stripy dress, taking holiday snaps on the coast of Majorca

Fashions April 1868
Girl: habit shirt, short dress, tunic of overlapping panels that end in tasselled points. Woman: green pelerine, dress with train & gored skirt with white edged seams

L POOL / M CHESTER RAILWAY
LIVERPOOL TO MANCHESTER RAILWAY Two freight and two passenger trains showing the variety of rolling stock employed on this short but busy line. 1st 2nd and 3rd class carriages shown

Egyptian Campaign 1798
EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN Napoleon urges his men across the desert from Alexandria to Cairo, taking the short route via Damanhour

Grecian Bend 1868
Grecian Bend: Walking dress of short skirt with single flounce & an over-skirt looped up the sides to produce an apron front & puffed out behind. Ruched trim is used

Stirling Downed by Me109
A Messerschmitt 109 poses before the British Short Stirling bomber it brought down - it has lost three of its engines - and the fourth looks fairly dodgy too !

Samuel Johnson / Humphreys
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist

God Sends Manna
When the Israelites run short of food, God arranges a manna drop to sustain them

Ulyssess Grant / Photo
ULYSSESs GRANT American Civil War General, and later President

Ulyssess Grant / Sepia
ULYSSESs GRANT American Civil War General, and later President

Costume / Men / Lord / 14C
An aristocrat in striped brown and yellow doublet and hat, carrying a scroll of parchment and a short sword

PRINCE JOHN / 1905-19 / BABY
PRINCE JOHN The youngest son of George V, as a baby in 1906. Suffered from severe epilepsy throughout his short life

Grandville Great / Small
The great and the small

Pony Express in Peril
Theres a lot of Indian country between the Missouri and San Francisco, and a short-cut through a native American burial ground could prove a fatal misjudgment

Writing / Whittier Poem
Manuscript of a short poem by the American poet, in his own handwriting, dated July 1879

P Palestrina / Cig Card
PIERLUIGI PALESTRINA Italian composer

J Murat / Miniature 1813
JOACHIM MURAT French cavalry commander who became King of Naples in 1808 under the title JOACHIM I NAPOLEON

M-A Muret / Larmessin
MARC-ANTOINE MURET French poet and humanist

Martin / John / Thomson / Derb
JOHN MARTIN English painter

Conan Doyle / Photo C 1895
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE British physician and writer, circa 1895

Aj Cronin / Cig Card
ARCHIBALD JOSEPH CRONIN British physician and novelist, born in Scotland

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