Social Collection (page 18)

Henley Regatta 1909
Watching the finish of a close race

VIENNA, THE RINGSTRASSEN
Die Ringstrassen, the great avenue which circumfluences the city : note horse-buses and trams, dog-cart and hand- cart, pedestrians of all social classes. Date: 1876

LADIES IN CARRIAGE
Ladies in a carriage stop to speak with friends. Date: 1888

The Strand, London, looking west - busy with people and traffic. Date: 1901

A group of wealthy Parisians enjoy an evening party, which includes conversation and gambling. Date: circa 1805

HELPING LADY FROM CAR
Ladies frequently encounter difficulty in emerging gracefully from an automobile, so it's nice to have a gentleman on hand to assist one Date: 1927

Iron Age Funeral Scene Social Scenes Pre History
iron, age, funeral, scene, social, scenes, pre, history, man, funerals, c1000, bc, c30, ad, body, pyre, ritual, based, heavily, soul, release, death, flux, liminal, existance, soul's, history

EGYPTIAN SERVANT GIRLS
Two USHABTIS - half-sized figurines placed in a pharaoh's tomb ; these two represent female attendants carrying food and drink for their dead master Date: circa 1500 BC

HOGARTH NOON
2. Noon Huguenot refugees attend chapel, opposite an eating house - St Giles in the Field is visible in the background. Date: 1738

CRO-MAGNON MAN SKULLS
The skull of Cro-Magnon man (Homo Sapiens) Date: circa 30, 000 BC

Social clubs are even more of a menace to society than pubs - or so a working class wife is represented as telling Asquith when he introduces his licensing bill for pubs Date: 1908

While a young gentleman conducts his social affairs by telephone, his man fastens his spats over his boots, preparatory to going out Date: 1904

Neolithic funeral and interment
A funeral, with interment in a long barrow, during the Neolithic (Stone Age) era. Date: circa 3000 BC

The art of pleasing in conversation - treatise by Ortigues de Vannoniere of Paris ; title page Date: 1695

Olympia Music-Hall, Paris
Outside the Olympia Music-Hall (which still exists) Date: 1898

Some students of Prague University (founded 1345) Date: late 14th century

Vauxhall Gardens, people enjoying the music coming form the bandstand. Date: 1800

Constitution Place in Athens, Greece. Date: 1896

A view of Cleveland Street in the Fitzrovia area of London. The large building right of centre is the Middlesex Hospital out-patients department

On May 1st, 1843 English Academic painter and illustrator John Callcott Horsley designed the first commercially produced and printed Christmas card

Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Old Kent Road, London. Date: 1822

London Life - Driver of a Horse Omnibus. The last LGOC horse-bus ran in October 1911 between London Bridge and Moorgate Street

Men of a Co-Operative - Bethesda Street, Merthyr, Wales. Date: circa 1909

Waifs and Strays Boys Home, Burgess Hill
Inmates of the Waifs and Strays Society Boys Home, Burgess Hill, Sussex. Date: 1922

On the coaches, luncheon time. Date: June 1901

Boulters Lock - on Ascot Sunday, packed with rowing boats in the lock on the River Thames at Maidenhead. Date: 1901

Boulters Lock - on Ascot Sunday, waiting their turn outside Boulter s. Date: 1901

Comic postcard, Two women in a cafe Date: 20th century

Domesday Book - the larger volume
English Social History - The Domesday Book - the larger volume. A manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror

Public Record Office - Domesday Book and chest
Public Record Office - Domesday Book (two volumes) and chest. A manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror

Heerenveen, The Netherlands, Burgemeester Kuperusplein. Names after Dutch Politician and Mayor of Heerenveen Gerrit Hendrik Kuperus. Date: circa 1960s

Comic postcard, Two women chat about men Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Dishevelled woman at a party Date: 20th century

The Peoples Palace, Mile End Road, East London Date: circa 1900

Illustration, Do You Know This? Date: 19th century

Comic postcard, Two commercial travellers Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women chatting about a man at a party Date: 20th century

Leaves from life: two types of music from either end of the social spectrum, a new series of studies by Edmund Blampied. A charity concert and In the backwoods of Kennington - the lodger. Date: 1933

War on Glasgow Slums - Letting Light and Air into dark places - With grass plots in broader streets: new and recent apartment houses built in Coplawhill, Glasgow. Date: 1926

Comic postcard, Man and woman chatting at a party
Comic postcard, Man and woman in evening dress, chatting at a party Date: 20th century

St Marylebone Workhouse Inmates
Aged male inmates of Londons St Marylebone workhouse sit in their airing yard, chatting, reading newspapers and smoking pipes. Date: circa 1905

1860s Japan - portrait of a group of men and women enjoying a social meal with music dancing and sake Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909)

The Hippodrome of Constantinople Istanbul
Vintage 19th century photograph:The Hippodrome of Constantinople was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire

Pie eating contest, National Bathing Beach, Washington 1921
Female contestant in the pie eating contest, at the National Bathing Beach, Washington DC 1921

Tea house, Shanghai, China, c. 1880 s
Tea house, Shanghai, China, c.1880 s

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Robindronath Thakur) (1861-1941) (also: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi) - an Indian polymath, poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher

Poster advertising the NSPCC, Diamond Jubilee Year Appeal - In 60 years the NSPCC has come to the rescue of 5.5 million children - please help us, if you can. Date: circa 1944

Sunny Snaps Candid Street Photograph, reproduced on a postcard Date: 1936

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