Socks Collection (page 2)

Girl reading a newspaper on a greetings postcard
Girl wearing glasses, reading a newspaper on a greetings postcard. Date: early 20th century

Scotty, Trading Post operator, Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada
Scotty, Trading Post operator, Pelee Island, Lake Erie, Ontario, Canada, in kilt and sporran, and other tartan accoutrements. Date: circa 1930

Postwar poster, Don t keep him waiting for his civvies
Ministry of Supply postwar poster, Don t keep him waiting for his civvies -- our target is, each serviceman must have hat, suit, shirt, two collars, tie, two pairs of socks, pair of shoes, raincoat

Google-eyed girl - Google-eyed girl admiring her boy friends socks on the washing line. Date: circa 1920

Easter Greetings Postcard - Basket of Eggs and Bunny
Easter Greetings Postcard - Small girl holding a bouquet with a basket of Easter eggs under her arm and sharing the step with a very static ()

Duke of York - Exhibition Baseball Match, Stamford Bridge
Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) (later King George VI) atteding an Exhibition Baseball Match at Stamford Bridge (the home of Chelsea FC) between the New York Giants and the Chicago White Socks

WW1 - Little boy praying for the safety of Lord Kitchener (Secretary of State for War from 1914 to 1916) - For if anything should happen to him, wed have nobody to look after us but the Daily Mail !

Silhouette of a girl
Full length silhouette of a girl called Avril. Date: circa 1940s

GIRLS PARTY FROCK
A fair-haired girl with long plaits wears a pretty party dress in salmon-pink crepe ornamented with frills and smocking. Date: 1930s

SULLEN GIRL IN CAPE
Unhappy girl in a party frock, apple green silk cloak with rows of gauging (shirring) across the shoulders & a ruched collar, calf length socks & ballet slippers. Date: 1930s

HUNTING DRESS 1929
Tailored d-b jacket with patch pockets, box-pleated skirt, ankle socks & lace up boots; jacket with back pleats, argyll stockings & high boots; motoring coat with fur collar. Date: 1929

CLOTHES FOR MOROCCO 1924
Man: plus fours, flat cap, knitted vest, plaid or tartan socks & brogues. Women: cloche hats, tubular shaped skirts with jacket or belted tunic & spectator/co-respondent shoes. Date: 1924

FRENCH VELVET SUIT 1881
French boy wears a velvet suit comprised of knickerbockers, jacket fastened at the neck & open to reveal a waistcoat, white falling collar & large bow, socks & heeled boots. Date: 1881

HIKING FASHIONS 1926
Feminine rambling fashions of 3/4 length tweed or checked skirts worn with matching or contrasting jackets. Stockings or ankle socks are worn with various styles of shoe. Date: 1926

CHILD FASHIONS 1931
American fashions: a little boy wears a short & shirt set, the girls wear frocks reminiscent of their mothers. The eldest girl wears a shirt & tie with a skirt & jacket. Date: 1931

AMERICAN KIDS 1927
Two smartly dressed youngsters from an American farming region - he in plus-fours, lounging jacket & tie, she in a simple dress and knee-length socks : good muscles, too. Date: 1927

Costume - Children 1880
Boy: knickerbocker, jacket, sailor hat, red socks, heeled boots. Girls: lace dress, yoke bodice, pink sash on hips; kilted skirt, jacket bodies & tie-back skirts. Date: 1880

Child Fashions circa 1870
Boy: D-B jacket with cape, knickerbockers, striped socks & heeled boots. Girls: striped polonaise & fringed cape; tunic dresses with dentate hems, bustles & button trim Date: circa 1870

GIRL GANG / FOOTBALL / 2817
A group of girls sitting on a kerbstone in an East Glasgow street, Scotland. One of the girls, wearing stripy socks, is holding a football. Date: 1960s

Harry Lauders Picnic, a popular song
Harry Lauders Picnic (Ev ry Laddie Loves a Lassie), a popular song. 20th century

Little girls with pram
A little girl snoozes while standing guard over her brothers push chair Date: 1969

WW1 - Knitting during show intermission, Paris, France in 1916. Women and nurse use the 15 minute interval during a show for noble and positive ends by knitting for troops

Lady Tennis Player having finished a game Date: circa 1935

Duke of York tries his hand as a cameraman - Southwold Camp
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) tries his hand as a cameraman at the Southwold Camp, Suffolk Date: 1935

Sisters Marion music hall vocalists
The Sisters Marion harmonising duettists. Described as a juvenile act. Fashionable in the music hall for young women to dress as children. Wearing matching knee-length white dresses and flat shoes

American Fat Man - Barney Worth - Freakshow Performer
American Fat Man - Barney Worth - Remarkable socks and slightly distressingly-short shorts. Titania and Barney Worth were billed as The Worlds Fattest Couple when going on show at various Freakshows

Boy riding dog to school
A little boy, Gary Mead, age 5, rides his Pyrenean Mountain Dog the half mile to school each morning in Plumstead, SE London. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1960s

Studio portrait, little girl in party dress with fur trimming. Date: circa 1920s

Bobby Jones, golfer, in action at Lytham St Annes. circa 1920s

Little girl and dog sitting on a bench
Little girl and terrier dog sitting on a bench in a garden. Date: circa 1918

Man in Khaki - instructions for knitting socks, WW1
Instruction sheet contained within the Man in Khaki sock knitting kit, which also came with a sock measure to ensure uniformity from knitters who were making socks for soldiers during the First World

Zulu Chief Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868-1913) - In 1890 Dinuzulu was exiled to the island of St. Helena for seven years, possibly during which time this portrait photograph was taken? Date: circa 1896

Clothes prop with comic verse on a Christmas card
Clothes prop with washing line and socks, with comic verse on a Christmas card -- including a Leap Year proposal in advance of the following year. Date: circa 1890s

Girl and five-bar gate on a greetings card
Girl and five-bar gate on a three-dimensional greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Five boys pillow fighting on a cutout New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Comic postcard, Man has fun at the seaside Date: 20th century

Letterhead design - McGregor Hosiery Mills, Toronto
Letterhead design - McGregor Hosiery Mills, manufacturers of finest quality hosiery, Toronto, Canada. 1936

Advert for Acaric mens sock suspender 1898
For gentlemen the Acaric, sock suspender, preventing slipping down of socks! Date: 1898

WWII knitting, New Woollies for soldiers, sailors & airmen
Front cover of a knitting booklet from the Second World War published by yarn manufacturer Weldon, featuring woollen garments which could made for men in the armed services

Weldons garments & hospital comforts, knitting booklet, WW1
Be useful in this time of war. Front cover of a Weldons booklet with instructions on how to make a variety of garments for soldiers and hospital comforts for wounded men

Sentinel knitting booklet, socks, WW1
Front cover of the Sentinel Knitting Booklet published by Charles Sykes and Co, of St. Andrews Mills, Bradford during the First World War

Man in Khaki WW1 sock knitting kit box and instructions
The Man in Khaki sock knitting kit, designed to make the knitting of socks for troops as simple and efficient as possible

Boxer dog relaxing by Mums feet
Unusual Friends - Boxer dog relaxing by Mums feet. 1950s

Soldier in uniform, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Soldier in khaki uniform in a studio photograph, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, December 1944. Date: 1944

Advert for Goochs winter clothing 1915
Winter double breasted tweed coats for little boys. 1926

Advert for Dickins & Jones soldiers & sailors comforts 1914
Selection of Christmas gifts for soldiers and sailors. 1914

Babies sock 1864
Victorian babies woolen sock. Date: 1864

Victorian scrap - lacrosse player. late 19th century

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