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Japanese Geisha playing a Traditional ShamisenJapanese Geisha in her home playing a Traditional Shamisen Date: circa 1904
Japanese Geisha Girl dressed in her KimonoO-Hana-san dresses to pay a visit - a Japanese Geisha Girl is aided by a male servant to dress in her Kimono. Date: circa 1906
Garden Scene, Japan - Geisha - Posed on a small stone bridge Date: circa 1905
Ventnor - Isle of Wight - Union Cottage, Spring Hill Date: circa 1870s
A barbers shopA barber tends to his clients hair in a sixteenth-century barber shop. 16th Century
100 and 50 drachmas bills, Greece. Coin
Jugend front cover, people in a horse-drawn carriageFront cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting a group of rich people in an open horse-drawn carriage, riding through the countryside, while farm workers harvest the fields in the middle distance
A Little Supper Party by Hal Bevan PetmanFront cover of The Bystander featuring an illustration of a flirtatious looking flapper girl, enjoying a drink and a cigarette, but, apparently, very little food
Ox roasting at Stratford-upon-Avon Mop FairScene showing an ox being roasted at the Stratford upon Avon annual Mop Fair, Warwickshire. Farm workers, labourers, servants and some craftsmen would work for their employer from October to October
Medieval frolics: wine, women and songAn alfresco medieval social gathering, with mixed bathing and music making. Date: c.1430
Stockheath Boys ClubThe Nissen huts which form the Stockheath Boys Club and Youth Centre, near Havant, Hampshire, England. Date: 1950s
Fern Tree Valley, near Hobart, TasmaniaView of Fern Tree Valley near Hobart, Tasmania, showing a river and waterfall in a tropical landscape. 1870
Inside a tent on Mitcham Common, the home to two men, their wives, and fourteen children of various ages. Mr. George Smith, social reformer of Coalville, Leicester
Pyrenean Woman force-feeding a goose in order to fatten up the liver of the bird for making foie gras pate. Date: circa 1910s
Sports Day at Countesthorpe Homes, LeicestershireA group of boys, including some uniformed band members, at the Countesthorpe cottage homes in Leicestershire on their sports day in 1919
Tango teas at the Queens Theatre, LondonThe Latest Fashion : " Pour Passer le Temps." Tango teas at the Queens Theatre, London (on Shaftesbury Avenue), where the stalls have been removed and replaced by tables
Scene in the International Stores, Crediton, Devon, with two middle-aged women chatting in an aisle. The photograph dates from before decimalisation of the currency -- tins of peaches are priced at
Very Well Meant by H. M. BatemanA well-meaning tourist offers a carrot to the horse of a Guard standing in its traditional sentry post in Whitehall, London, much to the horses astonishment. Not the done thing
Mrs and Mrs Charles Sweeny at The Embassy ClubMr and Mrs Charles Sweeny (Mrs Charles Sweeny was formerly Miss Margaret Whigham and later the infamous Duchess of Argyll)
Industrial School for Girls, Maryhill, GlasgowThe Glasgow Industrial School for Girls at Maryhill was established in 1855. Industrial Schools, often privately run, housed children aged 7-15 placed there by magistrates for a variety of reasons
Christmas Dinner in an Elizabethan Home by Pauline BaynesA Christmas Day scene in a well-to-do household around 1550, showing the father of the house at the table with his guests, raising his blackjack tankard to toast the Queen
Interior of a Dorsetshire Labourers CottageInterior view of a peasants cottage in Dorset in 1846, accompanying an article reporting on the poverty and squalor of some villages in the county
The Man Who Bid Half-A-Guinea At Tattersall s, by H. M. BatA humorous illustration showing a man who has caused havoc at the races. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander
The First Court of 1922Debutantes bow to King George V and Queen Mary during the first court of 1922 at Buckingham Palace. Each debutante curtsies twice before withdrawing
The Supreme MomentDebutantes, clad in their finery curtsey to King George V and Queen Mary during a court presentation. Thus they are launched into " Society"
Charles Booth (1840-1916)Photographic portrait of Charles Booth (1840-1916), the English shipowner, statistician and social reformer, date unknown
Florence Nightingales carriage at the seat of warBorn in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father. Although it was not deemed suitable for ladies of Florences social standing to become
Social / Rainy Street 60SA typical English street in Corby, Northamptonshire, on a rainy shopping day: three women stand chatting
Rotary Club 1950SFour gentlemen enjoy a drink and a spot of socialising at the Rotary Club Headquarters, Rotary House, Portland Place, London
Street / Horning / NorfolkA street in the pretty village or Horning in Norfolk
George at JamboureePrince George (Duke of Kent) poses with Baden-Powell at a jamboree of Norfolk and Suffolk scouts in Salhouse Broad, near Wroxham. With Lords Playfair and Albemarle
Mother, Child, LimehouseA mother stands with her child at the door of her home in Limehouse, east London : the boards are presumably to prevent the child straying into the street
Children Throw BricksThe new housing is built, but theres no provision for the young : except a waste land strewn with bricks and stones for them to chuck at one another or at passers-by
Two Boys by Mill PondTwo little boys watch the ducks in the old mill-pond in the charming village of Swanage, Dorset
Christabel PankhurstCHRISTABEL PANKHURST Leading Suffragette & member of the Womens Social & Political Union. Daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst
Montmartre Nights / Vie PMontmartre - the capital of the passionate society
Bridge Street / ChesterBridge Street, Chester, showing some of the characteristic Rows which are features of Chesters unique architecture
Carnaby Street GirlCARNABY STREET A typical Sixties girl in a white mini-skirted outfit and sunglasses, strolling past the " Aristos" shop on a sunny day
Oxford Street 1928There are still horse-drawn wagons to be seen in Oxford Street among the motor buses, trucks and cabs : note the many shop blinds, rarely if ever seen here today
Busy Fleet StreetTwo labourers lift a box crate onto the back of an open carriage parked on busy Fleet Street
Between Two Fires 17CA Puritan traveller is caught between two fires at a wayside inn
Ice Skating ChildrenWhat larks! Ice skating gives children the chance in indulge in all sorts of mischief
ASCOT 1895Privileged racegoers in the Enclosure before the race for the Ascot Gold Cup : police are on hand in case of trouble
Social / Palace BallroomPeople dancing in the sumptuous Palace Ballroom, Blackpool
Racial / Japan / Geisha 1912A geisha girl looks out from a balcony
Social / Japan WatersideYamata and Mizu: two geishas in an idyllic waterside setting (Mizu is Japanese for water)
NY Subway Passengers 1Typical passengers on the New York subway (1 of 3)
Killarney Cart WomanAn old woman with a donkey cart counts her change whilst walking through the rainy streets of Killarney, Co. Kerry