Sister Collection (#7)

De Lesseps Children
Mathieu, Fernande and Ismael, the three children of French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps. Note that the two boys are dressed identically with their sister !

Children with Wreath
A girl has made a floral wreath for her toddler sister. The pet dog looks on as she places the wreath over the little girls head

Kate Terry with reflection actually her sister Ellen Terry
Actress Kate Terry sitting by a mirror but the reflection is of her sister Ellen Terry Date: 1908

Louis Wain Cat Scout's sister a Cat Guide Date: 1912

Three women (Sisters?) in a rural setting, standing on a gate, sitting on a fence and holding the branch of a tree. Date: circa 1906

Brother and Sister playing on a swing
Swing High - Swing Low - Brother and Sister play on a swing in their garden. Date: circa 1909

Mother and her three children, each holding a toy boat
Mother and her three children on the beach, each holding a toy boat. Date: circa 1905

Father and daughter bury son (brother), British seaside
A Father and daughter bury their son/brother in the sand - British seaside scene Date: 1938

Family Group Portrait Photograph - Eight Children
A touching and pin-sharp Family Group Portrait Photograph in their backyard - Eight Children - the eldest boy is seemingly just off to fight for his country in WW1. Date: circa 1915

A Jolly Wedding Party from the late 1940s. Love, rapture and excitement is etched on all the faces of the participants... Date: circa 1948

Spanish Children sing and play music - kitsch postcard Date: circa 1903

Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret outside their playhouse
" Y Bwthyn Bach" - a Welsh phrase which means " The Little House", inscribed over the door of a model house presented to princess Elizabeth by the people of Wales

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret - 1933
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022) and Princess Margaret (1930-2002) at the annual sale of work by the Disabled Soldiers Embroidery Society, held in the grounds of Violet

Princess Elizabeth & Margaret & cousin Margaret Elphinstone
Princess Elizabeth (on right) (later Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022) and Princess Margaret (1930-2002) with their cousin Margaret Elphinstone (later Margaret Rhodes 1925-2016)

Duchess of York - Harrow and Wealdstone Hospitals new wing
The Duke and Duchess of York opened the Stuart Memorial Extension, a new wing of the Harrow and Wealdstone Hospital - May 6th 1931

Sisters Marion music hall vocalists
The Sisters Marion harmonising duettists. Described as a juvenile act. Fashionable in the music hall for young women to dress as children. Wearing matching knee-length white dresses and flat shoes

Two sisters on the beach, Southwold, Suffolk
Two sisters (Lucy and Violet Auerbach) in their bathing costumes on the beach at Southwold, Suffolk. Date: circa 1912

Two sisters at Southwold, Suffolk
Two sisters (Lucy and Violet Auerbach) posing for a photo on the sea front at Southwold, Suffolk, summer 1911. Date: 1911

Two sisters on a garden bench
Two sisters (Violet and Lucy Auerbach) on a garden bench, summer 1910. Date: 1910

Two sisters in garden, Ealing, West London
Two sisters in the back garden of their home at 1 Carlton Road, Ealing, West London. They are Lucy and Violet Auerbach. Date: 1905

A Belgian refugee adopted by a British woman
Choosing a new foster-sister: Mlle. Belgica becomes Miss Britannia

Brother and sister on holiday, Brighton, Sussex
Brother and sister (Harold and Lucy Auerbach) on holiday in Brighton, Sussex, having their photograph taken on Brighton Pier with their heads in the holes of a comic painted board. Date: 1912

Polly and Peter - children in the snow by Harold Earnshaw
Front cover illustration by Harold Earnshaw showing two children sheltering from the snow under an umbrella. A rather confused puppy dog sits nearby. Date: c.1920

Family group on the beach - Paignton, Devon Date: circa 1930

Cinderella Flyer for the New Theatre Royal, Windsor
Back and front covers of flyer for Cinderella at the New Theatre Royal, Windsor on 7th February ?. The artist is Arnold Mello. Six pages of text give the story

Flyer for Bluebeard by Hugh Mytton - Front cover
Bluebeard by Hugh Mytton with music by Mark Strong. First produced for the Camden Theatre, 26th December 1908

The Babes in the Wood, Harold Reading production
Babes in the Wood, Harold Readings Grand 1921 Pantomime, One Long Continuous Laugh. For three nights only. On tour at the Pier Theatre, Bognor Regis, February 1921. Date: 1921

The Babes in the Wood, John Walters Company production
The Babes in the Wood, flyer for Mr and Mrs John Walters Company, who have made arrangements to tour the West of England with their Superbly Beautiful Production

The children of Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch
Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Torby, CBE (9 September 1892 7 December 1977), otherwise styled Lady Zia Wernher, elder daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (standing)

Japan - Girl carrying her younger sister on her back - she is holding a paper lantern in her right hand and a wide parasol umbrella in her left. Date: circa 1910s

Skirt, Queen Alexandra?s Imperial Military Nursing Service, worn by Sister A Stewart Wyatt, 1902 (c). Grey serge. Date: circa 1860

Two sisters conversing
The Sisters - two sisters conversing. 1851

Francois I and Marguerite of Navarre
Francois I of France (1494-1547) showing his sister Marguerite, Queen of Navarre (1492-1549), some verses engraved on a window in his palace at Chambord

WW1 - Two little seated children playing with a ball of wool
WW1 Propaganda postcard - late war era - " It will all come right in the end"

Norah and Daphne Jewell, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa. 1923

Sister Martha and Sister Rind, Mombasa, Kenya
Sister Martha and Sister Rind, nurses at Mombasa European Hospital, Kenya, East Africa. 1922

Suffragette Demonstration W. S. P. U London 1908
A photo of a suffragette demonstration by the W.S.P.U through London in 1908

The Army Recruits Farewell Departure. circa 1840s

Princess Josephine-Charlotte and Prince Baudouin of Belgium
Princess Josephine-Charlotte (1927-2005) and Prince Baudouin of Belgium (1930-1993) - who reigned as King Baudouin between 1951 and 1993. Date: circa 1920

Two Eastern French Children - one holding a floral basket
Two Eastern French Siblings - one holding a floral basket. Date: circa 1930s

Watching the snow - Two children look at the flakes falling
Watching the snow - Two young children look out of their window at the flakes falling from a grey sky. Date: 1912

The Noahs Ark - Two children play with the wooden animals
The Noahs Ark - Two children (Elder sister and younger brother?) play with the wooden animals on Christmas morning Date: 1912

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at St. Pauls Walden Bury
Princesses Elizabeth (1926-2022) (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Margaret (1930-2002) playing in the sandpit at St

Boy and girl asleep on a chair-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl reading on a chair-shaped greetings card
Boy and girl in their nightclothes, reading a book on a chair-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Girl and boy on a cutout Christmas card
Girl and boy (Daisy and Fred) on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (front). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Girl and boy on a cutout New Year card, with verse (front). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Three young children at the seaside - kitsch postcard Date: 1909

Girl and boy praying on a palette-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Myanmar - Sisters - Ngme Sein Ngwe Yi - BIG cigar
Myanmar - Sisters Ngme Sein Ngwe Yi - one of whom is smoking a big cheroot cigar! Date: circa 1907

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549). Queen consort of Navarre
Marguerite de Navarre or Marguerite of Angouleme (1492-1549). Princess of France. Queen consort of Navarre. Wife of Henry II of Navarre. Miniature. 1540

Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) with his family. Engraving
Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894). French diplomat and entrepreneur. Lesseps with his family. Engraving in The Artistic Illustration, 1886. Colored

Blanche II of Navarre (1424-1464). Engraving. Colored
Blanche II of Navarre (1424-1464). Queen of Navarre. Blanche of Navarre is delivered to the Captal of Buch, who orders imprison her into a castle. Engraving after a painting by Eduardo Rosales

Roman funerary stele with high relief of three figures. 1st
Roman funerary stele with high relief of three figures showing the deceased (centre) and probably flanked by his mother and brother. Made in Cyprus. 1st century AD. Limestone

Little Folk Misfitz - Babes in the Wood. Date: circa 1910

Happy Familes Playing Cards - pack box. circa 1935

Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Miss Allsmiles the Smilers sister. 1928

Henri Et Antonine Ferry
ANTONINE ET HENRI FERRY- BIAGIOLI Talented brother-and-sister team who created and performed musical compositions of many sorts. Date: circa 1867

Having a Cuppa
A little girl kneels on the garden lawn and steadies her baby sisters head as she helps her to have a drink from a tea cup. Date: 1950s

MARY BERRY - Writer, devoted friend (with her sister Agnes) of Horace Walpole, whose works she edited; she also wrote plays, one of which was with- drawn for its lax morality. Date: 1763 - 1852

Pauline Bonaparte 2
MARIA-PAULETTE PAULINE BONAPARTE sister of Napoleon I, wife first of general Leclerc, then of prince Camillo Borghese, whereby she became duchessa di Guastalla. Date: 1780 - 1825

Disabled Boy
A female escort helps a boy on crutches, who is with his sister. They are probably leaving a special centre or school for disabilities and are about to get into a van. Date: 1930s

Disabled Children
A driver helps a young disabled boy and his sister to climb into the back of the disabilities van. Another man, possibly the childrens father, assists. Date: 1930s

Grandmother / Children
A grandmother hugs her grand- daughter and grandson, who is wearing a sailor suit. Date: 1930s

Girl Reading Aloud
A young girl reads a page from an old chronicle to her father and young sister

Children Fly Kites 1920S
A little boy and his sister fly kites from a windy hilltop. Date: 1920s

Children in Nursery 20C
A little boy and his elder sister in the nursery: he wants to go out... Date: 1920s

Dancing Lesson Ca 1810
La lecon de danse - a girl in instructed by an elderly dancing-master, while her sister provides the accompaniment and mother and grandmother watch. Date: circa 1810

Viscountess Townshend
DOROTHY, VISCOUNTESS TOWNSHEND Sister of Sir Robert Walpole; m. Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend; said to be the Brown Lady who haunts Raynham Hall Date: 1686 - 1726

Saint Begge
SAINT BEGGE (Begga) Belgian noblewoman, sister of Gertrude de Nivelles : when her husband died, she became a nun and eventually abbess of Ardennes, near Namur Date: ? - 698

The marriage of King Harold II
The marriage of Saxon King Harold II with Aldyth (Ealdgyth), widow of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and sister to Edwin and Morcar. Date: 1066

Theebaw of Burma
THEEBAW (THIBAW) King Theebaw of Burma with his evil Queen Supayalat (centre) and her sister. Defeated in third Burmese War. Date: 1858 - 1916

Augusta / Brunswick & Lune
PRINCESS AUGUSTA (1737 - 1813) Wife of the Prince of Brunswick and Luneburg, eldest sister of George III of Britain C.1760s

Treaty of Dover
TREATY OF DOVER The duchesse d Orleans, sister in law of Charles II, arrives at Dover to conduct secret negotiations between France and England Date: May 1670

Events / Italy / Ataulf C415
Ataulf, King of the Visigoths, marries Placida, half-sister of Emperor Honorius. Date: circa 415

Martha Blount
MARTHA BLOUNT sister of Teresa Blount friend of Alexander Pope Date: 1690 - 1762

Ulrika Eleonora / Sweden
ULRIKA ELEONORA Queen of Sweden (1718-20); sister of Charles XII, whom she succeeded; she abdicated in favour of her husband, who became Frederick I Date: 1688 - 1741

Louis-Philippe / Colin
LOUIS-PHILIPPE with his wife, Marie-Amelie de Bourbon, and his sister Adelaide Date: 1773 - 1850

Procne and Philomela
Tereus, king of Thrace, wed to Procne, rapes her sister Philomela : Procne serves their son to him for supper, becomes a swallow, Philomela a nightingale, Tereus a hawk

Girl Twines Flowers 19C
A girl twines a garland of flowers round her little sisters hair Date: late 19th century

Augusta Leigh (Hayter)
AUGUSTA LEIGH half-sister of Byron Date: circa 1800

Anne Jemima Clough
ANNE JEMIMA CLOUGH English educator; first principal of Newnham. Sister of Arthur Hugh Clough. Date: 1820 - 1892

Hera / Juno
The wife of Zeus / Jupiter, also his sister, protectress of marriage and women, with her pet peacock

Law Abiding V Militants
The shrieking sister a view of militant suffragism Date: 1906

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