Soft Collection (page 4)

Posters in Sunny Savers shop window, for fish fingers and Quosh (a soft drink brand). Date: 1970s

Christmas Marron Glaces
Marron glaces, made from marrons, large Italian chestnuts cooked in a sugar syrup until they become soft and candied. Perfect for a Christmas treat. Date: 1930s

Costume - Women 1780s
Lavinia Bingham (1762 - 1831), Countess Spencer wearing a white dress & neckerchief (fichu) and a black belt. Her hat has a broad, soft brim, her hair is dressed in soft curls. Date: 1780s

Cloche Hat & Tie
A pretty young woman in a blue dress with white collar & a soft red tie wears a cloche hat with a soft brim. Date: 1920s

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1937
Why theres so much extra comfort in Vi-Spring overlay mattress! 1937

Tunic dress circa 1912
Exotically patterned & brightly coloured tunic dress: narrow skirt, over-skirt draped to form a polonaise & a pleated tunic with a wrap over corsage. Worn with a soft hat. Date: circa 1912

Vamp Fashions 1914
Vamp & Victem: seductively clinging gown with low back, translucent sleeves & tasselled tail in an exotic patterned fabric; soft beret style hat & high heel court shoes. Date: 1914

Fur Trimmed Tunic 1914
Narrow fashionable silhouette of narrow skirt worn with a fur-trimmed V back tunic. Her hair is dressed simply with a soft hat worn close to the head. Date: 1914

Feminine Boater 1919
Soft crowned hat with chin strap, accordian pleated short tubular skirt, short coatee, boater style hat, checked suit with open jacket with a narrow belt at the bustline. Date: 1919

Open Robe 1888
Green open robe: loose sash at the waist, tall soft hat with stuffed bird. Striped robe: pointed bodice, skirt with 3 rows of puffing & tunic fullness draped at the front. Date: 1888

Mary Fraser, actress Date: early 20th century

Advert for Heals hand-printed linens 1914
Heals hand-printed linens, chintzes and cretonnes Date: 1914

Young woman holding a football. Date: circa 1908

Puye Indian cliff dwellings near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Puye Indian cliff dwellings, ruins of an abandoned pueblo near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Showing two people standing inside a reconstructed kiva, a room used for religious rituals. Date: 1930s

Egyptian designs, Weldons Beautiful Needlework
Egyptian designs for home furnishings, an insert page from Weldons Beautiful Needlework magazine. Date: circa 1920s

Tapestry designs, Weldons Beautiful Needlework
Tapestry designs for home furnishings, a double page spread in Weldons Beautiful Needlework magazine. Date: circa 1920s

Women sitting at a table sewing arts and crafts. Date: circa 1920s

Women with display of homemade arts and crafts
A group of women with a display of homemade arts and crafts. Date: circa 1920s

Woman with display of homemade arts and crafts
A young woman with a display of homemade arts and crafts. Date: circa 1920s

Different types of corals and seaweeds.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), 1849

Fan gorgonia, Venus fan, gorgonian, sea whip or sea fan, a type of polyp or soft coral.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Nile soft-shelled turtle, Trionyx triunguis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G

Soft vipers grass, Scorzonera mollis.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis

Sida mollis, soft-leaved sida with pale-orange flowers, native of Peru.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine 1827

Scotts advert for soft field service caps, WW1
Advert for the new soft field-service caps from Scotts Ltd of Old Bond Street, posted free to the Front for 18 shillings and sixpence in 1915. Date: 1915

Boys coming out of a sweet shop, Balham, SW London
Boys coming out of a sweet shop in Balham, SW London, with bottled drinks. Date: circa 1961

Dovedale - the river in the Peak District, with the slower exposure giving the water flow a very soft appearance in this tranquil view. Date: 1906

Interior on the Queen Mary Ocean Liner
Interior of an private luxurious sitting-room, with comfortable dinning room chairs, wooden panels and soft furnishings. 118 feet long assembly room for cabin class

Cottongrass sp. - a very typical plant in marshes of tundra (Eriophorum sp.). near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Cottongrass sp. a very typical plant in marshes of tundra near Dikson (Eriophorum sp.). Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1934
How wonderfully soft ! The Vi-Spring overlay mattress is made by hand throughout. Unlike the cheap mattress the Vi-Spring will last and last

Boy scout drinking from a bottle of Idris, Mauritius
A thirsty boy scout drinking from a bottle of Idris, Mauritius. Date: 1940s

Corona vans and drivers, Chadwell Heath, East London
Corona vans and their drivers in a depot at Chadwell Heath, East London. Corona was a popular brand of soft drinks, delivered regularly to peoples homes. Date: 20th century

Lounge Suit County Cricket
With stumps pulled on a Thursday evening at Southampton when Hampshire required just one run to complete victory over Nottinghamshire

The Fire Crew of the Westminster Fire Station, sat on and in front of their steam pump. Date: circa 1890s

Freemans Glass Lemon drink advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Freeman Glass Lemon, an instant lemonade drink to be diluted with water and which, if the advertisement is to be believed

Officer of the Devonshire Regiment
A miniature half-length portrait of an Officer of the Devonshire Regiment wearing the soft-top trench cap.. English School

Advertisement for Sixten & Cassey of Regent Street, London, who provided many of the beautiful damasks, velvets, satins and chintz used in the May Fair Hotel

Accident to submarine A7 by G. H. Davis
The accident to the British submarine A7, embedded in soft sand and mud at the bottom of Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, with her nose raised at an angle

Children at Scholfield Home, Wavertree, Liverpool
Children holding soft toys at the entrance to the Scholfield Home, Church Road, Wavertree, Liverpool. The home, originally opened in 1897 in the home of the Scholfield sisters was taken over by

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1939
Get up wide awake ! How you feel in the morning depends largely upon how you sleep during the night. Take no chances with your nights rest, sleep on a Vi-Spring

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1935
30 years supremacy in sleeping comfort. The Vi-Spring overlay mattress. Never in its years of unparalleled success has the wonderful Vi-Spring mattress occupied so higgh a position in the favour of

Advert for Mexi-Coolee by Joyce California shoes 1946
Red criss cross sandals by Mexi-Coolee, Joyce California, fitted by Saxone. 1946

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1944
Brighter Outlook. This excusive hand fashioned Dolcis model, made up in soft suede, is brightened with real water-snake and delights you in every step. 1944

Womens dress gloves 1924
Collection of 1920s American slip-on gloves made of cape skin, lambskin and suede. Date: 1924

Home-made toys for Christmas 1942
Everyone is making toys. Noah never saw so many animals as are coming out of scrap-bags in every household for Christmas. The diagram given for the four animals shown are easy to follow. 1942

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1930
Its luxuriously comfortable ! Only thoses who slept upon a Vi-Spring can really appreciate the luxurious comfort of this fine overlay mattress

Woman in elegant close-fitting hat
Woman in an elegant close-fitting hat of miroir velvet, with soft crown and flexible brim, trimmed with corded ribbon, as seen at D H Evans in Oxford Street, London. Date: September 1914

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