Society Collection (page 9)

Balloon Race at Hurlingham, south west London
Scene at a balloon race at Hurlingham, south west London -- a social event as well as a sporting occasion

Prominent members of the racing set at Goodwood
Lord Stradbroke, Lady Hamilton, Lady Stradbroke and Sir John Cotterell at the Goodwood races

Fox Meet in Street Aldin
All involved in the fox hunt make their way along the street, while a mongrel dog and lesser folk are passed by

Black Beauty US 1st Ed
Front cover of the American first edition of Black Beauty published in America by the American Humane Education Society. Date: 1890

Thames / Ascot Sunday 1914
The Thames at Maidenhead is jammed with boats of all kinds on Ascot Sunday at the height of the Season - a fashionable event for all levels of society

George Fox / Pyle / Harpers
GEORGE FOX - Founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers) - The word of the Lord came to me, saying Cry, woe to the bloody city of Lichfield

An early typing pool
From the start, typing was perceived as the archetypal employment opportunity for women : this is the Typing Office of the Society for the Employment of Women

Heidelberg Univ 1870
Heidelberg university students, members of the Allemana society

Society & Shop Girls
Two elegant, society ladies are attended to by a shop girl who sees to their every whim. Several pairs of discarded shoes lie about the floor for the assistant to pick up later

Philharmonic Society
The orchestra of the Philharmonic Society performs at the Hanover Square Concert Rooms, London

Wallis in Tahiti 1767
Tahiti, in the Society Islands, is discovered by Captain Samuel Wallis of the Royal Navy, and after initial hostilities he makes friends with their queen, Oberea

Speke & Grant. Lecture
The explorers deliver a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society

Loyola Praying / Holl
IGNATIUS LOYOLA Spanish Saint, founder of Society of Jesus (Jesuits), in an attitude of prayer

Afternoon tea in a fashionable French home

Elsa Schiaparelli and daughter Gogo at Monte Carlo
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 - 1973), Italian fashion designer, pictured on holiday at Monte Carlo in the company of her daughter, Gogo. Date: 1938

Curly Locks Date: circa 1918

See Saw Margery Daw Date: circa 1918

Two portraits of Beatrice Selfridge, the daughter of Gordon Selfridge, 1925, the hostess of Lansdowne House Date: 1925

Guests at the Bicester and Warden Hill Hunt Ball at Kirtlington Park, home of the Budgett family. Pictured in the Monkey Room, with the magnificent painted ceiling by Clermont in 1745. Date: 1964

Sir Paul Latham and Lady Patricia Moore engaged 1933
Major Sir Herbert Paul Latham, 2nd Baronet (22 April 1905 24 July 1955), British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Scarborough

Passions from Physiognomy
Passions from Johann Caspar Lavaters Physiognomy. Sadness, Weeping, Compassion, Scorn, Horror, Terror or Fright, Anger, Hatred or Jealousy and Despair

Lady Willoughby de Eresby, later Lady Ancaster when her husband succeeded to the title, formerly the American, Miss Eloise Breese, photographed by Lallie Charles in 1909. Date: 1909

Lord & Lady Loughborough and Sir John Milbanke
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm, daughter of Harry Chisholm of Sydney, NSW, Australia married in 1915 Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough

Lady Milbanke at Mullaboden with her children
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929)

Mrs and Mrs Romilly (Esmond and Jessica Mitford)
Jessica Mitford (1917 - 1996), author and fifth of the six Mitford sisters, photographed with her first husband and cousin, Esmond Romilly, at a Miami restaurant they ran in 1940

Lady Ursula Filmer-Sankey & sons by Madame Yevonde
Lady Ursula Filmer-Sankey (1902-1978), formerly Lady Ursula Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster, photographed by Madame Yevonde with her sons, Patrick (right) and Christopher. Date: 1932

Margaret Whigham & Charles Sweeny engagement at The Embassy
Miss Margaret Whigham and Mr Charles Sweeny at a party at the Embassy Club to celebrate their engagement in December 1932

Margaret Whigham as The Precious One at the Gay Party
Miss Margaret Whigham, celebrated debutante and it girl, later Mrs Charles Sweeny and then the Duchess of Argyll, whose divorce case in 1963 scandalised the country

Confessions by Camera, Ms Charles Sweeny
Page from The Sketch, part of a series entitled, Confessions by Camera. This one features Mrs Charles Sweeny, former deb of the year and it girl

Bohemian Club (of San Francisco) - Bohemian Grove
Bohemian Club (of San Francisco) Bohemian Grove Open-air Theatre crowd and orchestra during " Low Jinx". Every year, the club hosts a two-week-long (three weekends) camp at Bohemian Grove

Prince Andrew of Greece, Mmd. de la Bigne & GIlbert Beale
H.R.H. Prince Andrew of Greece, father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, pictured with Mme. Andree de la Bigne and Mr. Gilbert Beale

The Kit Kat Club at Gezira, Cairo
Cabaret and dancing at the Kit-Kat Club at the Ghezirah Palace Hotel, Cairo. Date: 1930

Dior fashion show at the Savoy, 1950
Fashion show by Christian Dior held at the Savoy Hotel, London on 25 April 1950 to raise funds for the Museum of Costume, all arranged by Mrs Langley Moore

Tamara de Lempicka at the Venice Lido
Charles Alvar-Harding and Baroness Kuffner, aka the artist Tamara de Lempicka in a flamboyant picture hat at the Venice Lido

Sir Jock Delves Broughton and Lady Broughton attending the wedding o f Lord and Lady Lovat at Brompton Oratory in October 1938

Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck (16 September 1916 - 21 December 2008), daughter of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

Moyamba, Sierra Leone, Madam Yoko, Chiefs, Colonial Officers
At Moyamba, the capital and largest city of Moyamba District, in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone ( Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate - British colonial administration) - D.C

Deaf and Dumb School, Palayamkottai, India
C. E. Z. (Church of England Zenana Missionary Society) Deaf and Dumb School, Palamcottah (now Palayamkottai in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu), India. Deaf and Dumb children learning to talk

Lily Langtry in A Society Butterfly - gowns by Worth
Lily Langtry in Act II and Act III of A Society Butterfly by Robert Buchanan and Henry Murray at Opera Comique, London - gowns by Worth

Queen at wedding of Lady Palmer and Alexander Abel Smith
The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, at the wedding at Queens Chapel, Malborough Gate, between Lady Palmer, widow of Sir Anthony Palmer and lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty, and Mr

Brothers Maurice, left, and Joseph ?Mutt? Summers, Vick?
Brothers Maurice, left, and Joseph ?Mutt? Summers, Vickers test pilots, at the 1947 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Radlett on 14 September. Date: 1947

Juliette Recamier by Francois Gerard
Francois Gerard (1770-1837) painting of Juliette Recamier (born Bernard, 1777-1849), French woman of letters. Date: 1805

Group of axes for work and battle. Some periods. Denmark
Group of axes for work and battle. Core axes, flint axes and flake axes. Some periods. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Lady Alexandra Curzon marries Major E. D (Fruity) Metcalfe
Marriage of Lady Alexandra (Baba) Curzon and Major Edward Dudley (Fruity) Metcalfe at the Chapel Royal, St. Jamess in 1925

Madame de Bolotoff (Rosalie Selfridge)
Madame de Bolotoff, formerly Rosalie Dorothea Selfridge (1893-1977), daughter of retail visionary, Harry Gordon Selfridge, who married the aviator, Serge De Bolotoff

Lady Loughborough (Sheila Chisholm) with her baby
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm, daughter of Harry Chisholm of Sydney, NSW, Australia married in 1915 Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough

A large crowd gathering - north of England (possibly Leeds or Sheffield?). Date: 1908

Eleanor Nellie Souray (1886 - 1931), Lady Torrington. A popular stage actress and Gaiety girl, she was a number of performers who married into the peerage during the Edwardian era

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