Sleeping Collection (page 4)

Comic postcard, Drunken men going home Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, British soldier dreaming of home sweet home, WW1 Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, Looking for a sleeping partner Date: 20th century

The accommodation of the Chelsea pensioners designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Each ward had 36 veterans sleeping in old oak cubicles with little curtains that could be drawn across

Michelin Tyre Company promo postcard
circa 1910s

Boys waiting for coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth II
Boys sleeping on a park bench, waiting for the coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain 2nd June 1953

French Communists in London, living crowded together in basic lodgings. Date: 1872

Dolls of clown Monsieur Musard and ballerina Leontine
Clown Monsieur Musard and ballerina Mlle. Leontine Heberle, from the ballet Daphnis and Cephise. dressed by young Princess Victoria. Color plate after an illustration by Alan Wright from Frances H

English gentleman and sleeping woman in a hotel room
English gentleman with candlesticks in both hands tries to remove a bell rope from the bosom of a sleeping woman. The inn at Marseilles

English gentleman on trial in a religious tribunal in Avignon. He takes out a page with the legend of St. Clara of Falkenstein to the astonishment of an old hag and chaste Clara

Chambermaid pulling on a sleeping guests wooden leg mistaking it for a warming pan. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Woman sleeping at a desk while a man reads her secret
Woman asleep in a library while her guardian reads her secret thoughts. Miseries of Reading and Writing. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - Green worm
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - A tired competitor sleeping through the day. Date: 1977

Sketches by Bryan de Grineau of Fettes College, Edinburgh. The top picture shows the study rooms in Kimmerghame House leading off from a central common room with armchairs, piano and billiard table

The Dream of youthful William Shakespeare - showing his characters Falstaff, Prospero, Miranda, Titania, Macbeth, King Lear. 16th century

Mechanical monster head at the London Hippodrome
The wonderful head worked at the Hippodrome by the Kluks. In the first icture it roars for more food, then its eyes rolls with delight over the repast after which it falls into a slumber

French Railway News - Paris-Dijon Speed-up - Electrification shortens the journey, knocking an hour off the old timetable. 1951

French Railway News - more Couchettes put into service. 1951

Winter Sports - travel to Europe with British Railways 1954

London to Paris by British Railways - Business or Pleasure. Date: 1952

Paris by Morning - British Railways advertisement 1951
Paris by Morning - Travel London to Paris by British Railways - Night Ferry - Golden Arrow. Date: 1951

The Cherub - Chamberlain keeping watch on Poor Jack
The Cherub - Joseph Chamberlain looking out for the interests and security of Poor Jack with his Merchant Shipping Bill. Date: 1884

Christmas card, three robins asleep on a branch. 20th century

Christmas card, Santa Claus visiting baby in cot. circa 1950

Water-carriage with figure of Cupid hanging by one leg
A Wassermaschine or water-carriage with musicians in fishscale costumes and a sleeping Cupid hanging by one leg. The car is followed by two winged women in heraldic colours

Interior of a communal Inuit house in Greenland, with families cooking, sleeping, and nursing babies. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Woman in the sleeping dog hairstyle. Coiffure Chien Couchant. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzannes Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of King Louis XVI

Woman in the Mystery bonnet or the Sleeping Dog, decorated with flowers and feathers. Bonnet au Mystere ou Chien Couchant

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, profile of a young woman. Date: late 19th century

The Land of Nod by Muriel Dawson. 1941

Illustration, Fisherman fast asleep. first published 1838

Shakespeares Henry Eighth at the Princesss Theatre
Scene from Shakespeares play of " Henry the Eighth" at the Princesss Theatre - The Vision - Queen Katherines Dream. Date: 1855

Comic illustration, In Dreamland. 1870

Illustration, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
Illustration by Kenny Meadows to Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare. Introductory illustration, depicting a dozy member of the nightwatch. Date: 1840

The Monthly Nurse (a woman who looked after a mother and her baby after childbirth). Date: 1840

Poster, Cod Liver Oil and Orange Juice
Poster, Don t forget Cod Liver Oil and Orange Juice, Ministry of Food. circa 1948

Married couple on a comic greetings card, with verse (some of it deleted) and pull tab -- the wife is angry because her husband is late home, and appears to be drunk. Date: circa 1850s

Royal Naval Volunteers at the Crystal Palace, 1914
A use found for the Crystal Palace at last: rows of hammocks put up in Canadas building, the sleeping quarters of the Royal Naval Volunteers, at the Crystal Palace, October 1914. Date: October 1914

Sleeping cupid with flowers on a paper lace romantic card
Sleeping cupid with flowers and leaves on a paper lace romantic card. Date: circa 1890s

Mother cat reading to kittens on a postcard
Mother cat reading to her two kittens at bedtime on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Silk eiderdown travelling rug with foot muff, 1928
Advertisement for the Vickerys registered silk-covered eiderdown travelling rug with foot muff, ideal for reading on deck when its a bit chilly! 1928

Angel and sleeping girl on a cutout Christmas card
Angel watching over a sleeping girl on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card, Baby Jesus and Lambs. 20th century

Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Jesus in storm
Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Jesus asleep in the storm

Man sleeping on a bench in a side street, Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1890s

Pauline Chase asleep
Actress Pauline Chase sleeping. Date: 1912

Children and Santa Claus
Xmas. Children creep up on a sleeping Santa to see what gifts he has in his sack. Date: circa 1935

Postcard booklet, Greetings from Dixieland, USA, showing a cotton picker asleep with his head inside a basket. Date: 1937

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