Society Collection (#96)

Henry Wilson (1864-1934) - British Architect and designer
Henry Wilson (1864-1934) - British Architect, jeweller and designer and President of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society. 1901

The Return of the Native by Webster Murray
A bearded bohemian type appears in a cafe, making the rest of its patrons appear considerably less bohemian. Date: 1927

Emile Lowitz demonstration at Royal Botanic Society

West Southwark Slate Club paying out, London
Scene showing people collecting their money on paying out day of the West Southwark Slate Club in London. A Slate Club was a society whose members contributed small sums weekly or monthly to a fund

King Alfonson XIII at Ranelagh
King Alfonso XIII of Spain, on a visit to England, visits society playground, Ranelagh for the polo Coronation Cup. He is accompanied by the Duchess of Peneranda. Date: 1927

Hanover Square Rooms
A man lights the chandeliers with a long taper at the Philharmonic Societys Rooms at Hanover Square, London. Date: c.1840s

Greyhound racing and dinner at White City
The White City stadium restaurant where diners could eat in luxury while watching the greyhound racing on the track below. Date: 1931

Daisy, Princess of Pless
Daisy, Princess Henry of Pless (1873 - 1943), formerly Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West. A great Edwardian society beauty, she married one of Imperial Germanys wealthiest princes in 1891

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1930
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number featuring a pre-WWI Christmas party with people enjoying a music recital. Date: 1930

The Countess Spencer
Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Spencer (1897 - 1972), known until her marriage as Lady Cynthia Hamilton. The daughter of the third Duke of Abercorn, she married Viscount Althorp (later Earl Spencer) in 1919

Broadway and 155th Street, New York
Broadway at 155th Street, with cut out figures cars and airplanes added. The cut-outs are painstakingly placed so as to almost look a part of the picture

Olympic festival at Llandudno
The feast of lanterns at the Olympic festival at Llandudno, North Wales. Date: 1866

Society Children in Rotten Row
Society Children riding in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, London Date: circa 1910s

The Girl of the Period by Balliol Salmon
A typical girl of 1924 in a red dress and with bobbed hair, dances with a dashing partner at a ball. In the background are numerous other couples dancing. Date: 1924

Champion medal of the Liverpool Athletic Society
The champion medal which is presented annually by the Mayor of Liverpool to the most successful competitor at the Olympic festivals which are held in June by the Athletic Society. Date: 1863

The Modern Girl by Hal Woolf
An illustration from 1929 reflecting the emergence of the modern girl in the Edwardian era. A girl in a short skirt and masculine shirt and tie, stands apart from her disapproving parents

Dressed for the Abbey
A selection of fashions worn at the wedding and a (pre-wedding evening reception) of Princess Margaret to Anthony Armstrong Jones on 6 May 1960. From left, the Hon

Royal Horticultural Society gardens at South Kensington
Gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington, London : steps from one of the central arcades to the gardens. Date: 1861

Royal Wedding 1923 - five of the bridesmaids
Five the eight bridesmaids at the Royal Wedding between Prince Albert, Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey on 26 April 1923

Design for a Modern Tapestry by Jaxon
Design for a modern tapestry in the Medieval Manner, showing a 1930s society enjoying motorcycling, shooting and flying, while medieval dogs and dragons litter the scenes of modern pursuits

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1929
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number 1929 featuring a group of stylised and rather angular dinner party guests around a table. Date: 1929

Just As it Used to Be by Fred Purvis
A lively scene of revelry in a Chelsea artists studio showing some Bright Young Things of the 1920s dancing, drinking and smoking at a party

Giorgio de Chirico exhibits
Feature in The Tatler, 25th May 1949 : Giorgio de Chirico exhibits at the Royal Society of British Artists. Italys great Modernist painter, turned traditionalist, is welcomed to London

Peggy Salaman in court dress
Peggy Salamon, 19 year old aviator, who broke the record for the flight from England to Cape Town, South Africa in 1931, in court dress as a debutante the year before. Date: 1931

Silhouette of a 19th century dance
Silhouette of couples at a 19th century dance (Jane Austen period), with a trio of musicians in the background. 1818

Lady Edwina Ashley
Miss Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, later Lady Louis Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma and Vicereine of India (1901-1960) pictured in the Bystander as a child

Charles and Robert Sweeny
American brothers Charles (right) and Robert Sweeny, given their golf Blues for Oxford University. Charles Sweeny married Margaret Whigham, later the Duchess of Argyll. Date: 1931

Royal Wedding 1923 - Royal pair and bridesmaids
Double page spread for The Bystander featuring Prince Albert, Duke of York together with his bride, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who he married on 26 April 1923 at Westminster Abbey

Henry Steel Olcott - 4
HENRY STEEL OLCOTT American co-founder, with Blavatsky and Judge, of the Theosophical Society : occultist and psychical researcher. In 1906. Date: 1832 - 1907

Henry Steel Olcott - 3
HENRY STEEL OLCOTT American co-founder, with Blavatsky and Judge, of the Theosophical Society : occultist and psychical researcher. Photo 1891. Date: 1832 - 1907

Wisley House
The attractive house at Wisley, Surrey, England, famous for its gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society. Date: 1950s

Venetian Carnival Dress
Venetian society in San Marco Square, Venice, Italy, wearing Sardinian and Neapolitan traditional costumes during the famous Venice Carnival. Date: 15 March 1930

The Curate who saw red by H. M. Bateman
Humorous illustration by the comic master of social satire, H. M. Bateman showing an irate curate kicking the local vicar and upsetting his cup of tea, much to the shock of polite onlookers

When a Man Marries Date: circa 1918

Fashions for the 1927 debutante
A page of beautiful illustrations by Anne Rochester outlining the essential items required by the seasons debutante, inlcuding a georgette wrapper (dressing gown) patterened with cherries

The Duchess of Leinster as the Queen of Silver
Photograph of Agness Rafelle, Duchess of Leinster dressed as the Queen of Silver in the Pageant of British Industries at the British Industries Dinner Ball at the Grosvenor House on 26 February 1935

The Embassy Club, 1924
The Embassy Club in London in 1924, owned by restaurateur Luigi with entertainment supplied by (Bert) Ambrose and the Embassy Club band

Societys 3 Orders
A cleric, a noble and a peasant represent the three strata of French society before the Revolution. Sadly, mutual hugging will soon change to lethal recrimination Date: eighteenth century

Queen Elizabeth in 1939
Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, leaving the British Red Cross Society on 5th September 1939, carrying a gas mask in a canvas bag over her shoulder. Date: 5th September 1939

Italian Patriotic Card - Request for funding
Patriotic card which highlights the need for money during wartime and how every member of Italian society needs to do their bit and keep the national blood flowing through savings

Christopher Brown
CHRISTOPHER BROWN Bookseller, and secretary of the society of Counsellors under the Cauliflower. About which we know nothing... Date: ? - 1807

Young Peoples Society
A happy group of young people, members of the Young Peoples Society, High Barnet, north London, England. Date: 22 April 1935

Anthony Comstock
ANTHONY COMSTOCK American reformer, Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Date: 1844 - 1915

Strasbourg Wine Tasters
Men doing a spot of Sunday wine-tasting in their local cafe, an unusual change from their normal beer drinking; Strasbourg, France. Date: 1930s

Adoption Society Bath
A National Adoption Society little girls helps a nurse to give her younger brother a bath. Date: 1930s

Putting Shoes On
A National Adoption Society little girl, sitting on a blanket as she learns how to put on her own shoes. Date: early 1930s

Baby Drinking Milk
An Adoption Society baby drinking milk in a high chair in the open air, England. Date: early 1930s

Thomas Amyot
THOMAS AMYOT Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries, in 1836. with his autograph Date: 1775 - 1850

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