Shoulder Collection (page 9)

Boy on sentry duty
A boy in a tin helmet with a rifle on his shoulder, playing at being on sentry duty. Date: circa 1940s

Middle-aged couple in a garden
A middle-aged, well-dressed couple standing in a garden. He is in plus fours and golfing socks, and is filling his pipe from a pouch

Horse reading over boys shoulder
A boy stands reading his Boys Own magazine, while a white horse appears to be reading over his shoulder

Romanian Boy in traditional costume Date: circa1900

Advert for Ediswan lamps 1950
Advertisement for Royal Ediswan lamps showing a 1950s woman wearing a floral shoulder dress sitting at her dressing table. Date: 1950

Jujitsu Throw
Mr. G. Koizumi, the Japanese expert, giving a JUJITSU lesson to female motorists to enable them to deal with bandits. Here a girl does a shoulder of veal throw! Date: 8 September 1932

French Watercarriers
French water carriers, some with a horse-drawn cart, others with buckets slung from a shoulder-yoke. Date: circa 1845

Doctor and Nurse
A doctor sits at his desk taking an appointment over the phone with a nurse looking at it over his shoulder. Date: late 1960s

Looking Back in Glamour
Head and shoulders portrait of a dark haired woman. She is looking back over her shoulder towards the camera. Date: late 1960s

Christmas Tattoo
A young woman with dark hair having a tattoo put on her shoulder. It reads: Merry Xmas Bob from Annie. Date: early 1930s

The Terrible Bogeyman - who steals away naughty children in his sack if they misbehave. Date: circa 1908

A Mexican Criada (House Servant) carrying a large jar on her shoulder. The caption to this card states that: " All the work about native households is performed by Such Women." Date

Porter from Bosnia and Herzegovina with rope over shoulder Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - A Happy Couple Date: circa 1902

Hanoi - Vietnam - Wheelbarrow driver - delivering his load of recently deceased pigs! Date: circa 1904

Language of Flowers - Geranium. The captions reads: Friendship Distressed - When you come back? Date: circa 1904

Parisian stage entertainer in (vaguely!) Siamese costume
Dramatic photograph of a Parisian stage entertainer in her wonderful two-piece oriental-style costume Date: circa 1920s

Boy provides straightforward answer when quizzed by Uncle
Uncle John - " Well, Bobby, how did you manage to get out so soon?" Bobby " Leg Before, Uncle." Date: circa 1890s

A rather feeble suitor with a rather loud suit
He: " Oh! Smile upon my suit." She: " I do, I do. I can t help it." Date: 1895

A pair of rather stern-faced brothers
A splendid photograph with a real air of mystery about it - depicting a pair of rather stern-faced brothers Date: circa 1920s

For Peace at almost any price - Johnnie Turk flees - WWI
For Peace at almost any price - Johnnie Turk flees, having been let down by his German Master at the end of WWI. Baghdad and Jerusalem are abandoned

Early Boy Scout, looking rather weary - possibly after a long night march?! Date: circa 1905

Egyptian Lemonade Seller with a shoulder strap ewer - Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1910s

Plate 205 from Reichenbachs Synopsis Avium
Plate 205 from Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbachs Synopsis Avium. Gallinaceae, (1848)

Portrait of an Aboriginal woman carrying a child on her shou
Drawing 42 from the Watling Collection titled A Native Woman and her Child by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Lorius garrulus, chattering lory
Plate 72 from Christian Ludwig Brehms Monographie der Papageien (1855)

Boy with Book on Lap
A boy wearing a sweater with buttons on the shoulder, shorts and long socks, sits with a book or magazine on his lap Date: circa 1920s

Chinese Emperor(?) and Empress(?) seated on raised platform with musicians seated in front of them; the Emperor appears to have lost his nose and part of his right shoulder

A person walking to the left, mostly obscured by an open par

A man carrying a shoulder pole with a trunk and bedding for a patron standing on the left. Date 18--

A man walking to the left, wearing a large conical hat and a straw or feather garment, carrying a long handled tool over his right shoulder. Date between 1830 and 1850

Porter with shoulder pole, full-length studio portrait, standing, facing front. Photograph shows a studio portrait of a man with a shoulder pole carrying large boxes

A woman, possibly a courtesan, seated, facing right, with her head turned to look back over her right shoulder, wearing several hairpins. Date between 1830 and 1850

Two men walking, one carrying a shoulder pole with barrel-like containers, the other carries a long-handled mallet. Date 18--

Woman reading while a young man looks over her shoulder. Seated woman reading a scroll as a young man emerges from behind a screen to read over her shoulder. Date between 1773 and 1775

Young woman putting flowers on statue of Cupid looks over her shoulder and sees the balloon carrying Jacques Charles and Marie Noel Robert on the first manned gas balloon flight, from Paris

Street music: A concertina player with monkey friend, c. 1890
A shabbily dressed but smiling boy plays a concertina in a park, with a monkey perched on his shoulder. Date: c. 1890

Title page and frontispiece, Travels through Africa

Russian beauty in profile - with golden headdress and a golden shoulder strap on her dainty dress. Date: 1909

Girl in garden with robin
Young girl in a garden with a robin perched on her shoulder. c.1909

Lord George Byron and Marianna Segati. Dear Tom, I really cannot go on; There are a pair of great black eyes looking over my shoulder so that I must turn and answer them instead of you. Date: ca. 1847

Madagascar - St Mary Island - Lady in finest clothes
A Madagascan lady in her Sunday best bonnet - St. Mary Island, Madagascar. Date: 1913

Vietnam - Tonkin Province
Northern Vietnam - Tonkin Province - a serene young woman holding a large woven fabric-covered circular object - possibly a tray or a sieve. Date: circa 1910s

Lebanon - A woman of Bechareh, Mount Lebanon
Northern Lebanon - A woman of Bechareh, Mount Lebanon Date: circa 1908

Egypt - Woman carrying a child
Egypt - Woman carries her child on her shoulder, whilst holding a rather lovely glass water pitcher in her left hand. Date: 1902

Jessie Matthews, British singer and dancer
Jessie Matthews (1907-1981), British singer and dancer of stage and screen, wearing her sparkling " Over My Shoulder" costume. Date: 1930s

Advert for Craven Cigarettes 1939

Gothic Piano Couple
A young woman watches over her partners shoulder as he plays at a grand piano in a Gothic setting. Date: 1930s

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