Sombrero Collection

Lear / Quangle-Wangle / C19
THE QUANGLE WANGLEs HAT The Quangle Wangles 200ft. ornamented hat, on top of the Crumpetty Tree

Mexican horseman or Charro, Mexico
Mexican horseman, known as a Charro, in traditional costume on his horse on a street in Mexico. Date: circa 1920

Mexico - Mexican Hat Dance
Mexican Hat Dance at Villa Acuna, Mexico

West Indies Sombrero
(Leeward Islands) Formerly exploited for its phosphates but, sad to say, the deposits are now exhausted

Emiliano Zapata stands near a brick staircase, in a sombrero, holding the hilt of his sword and holding a rifle aloft, wearing two bandoliers across his chest

Santiago, Mexico, El Alamo - Restaurante Sombrero El Charro
Sombrero El Charro Restaurant at El Alamo, Santiago, a municipality located in the center of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Date: circa 1910s

Young woman and dog in a garden
Young woman in bathing costume and sombrero in a garden with a dog. Date: circa 1930s

Dorothy Mitchell-Hedges, actress. 1939

A Devotee of The Doctrine
A Devotee of " The Doctrine." - A satirical cartoon from Punch Magazine. A Mexican man wearing a small sombrero and two bandoliers across his chest and waist

The Bad Man, comedy by Porter Emerson Browne
The Bad Man, a melodramatic comedy by Porter Emerson Browne, starring Matheson Lang, at the New Theatre, St Martins Lane, London

Spanish Children sing and play music - kitsch postcard Date: circa 1903

Mexican Mariachi Orchestra. Mariachi, is a typical musical ensemble, originally from the State of Jalisco, Mexico. It is an integration of stringed instruments highly influenced by the cultural

Mexican senorita in Villa Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico
Mexican senorita wearing traditional costume in Villa Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico. Date: circa 1940

Emiliano Zapata (1883-1919)
Portrait of Emiliano Zapata (1883-1919). Oil on canvas

Don Q by Hesketh Prichard (17 November 1876 14 June 1922). First produced at the Palace Theatre in Ramsgate on 14th March 1921 and then at the Apollo Theatre on 24th March 1921

Fancy dress on a seaside pier, c. 1930
A jolly group stride down a seaside pier dressed in a variety of unusual or silly hats. Date: c.1930

Dancers in sombreros. circa 1957

Mexican dating - Lovers chat through a barred window
Mexican dating ( Novios Mexicanos ) - A pair of lovers chat through a barred window - it doesn t look as if she is going to shutter him out of her life any time soon.... Date: 1906

Elvira, by the Last of Your Shoe, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Ballad of the Farmer and the Hawk, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Maderista portrait, Mexico
Maderista portrait -- supporter of Francisco Madero during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1911). Date: circa 1910

Ballad of Eufemio Zapata, Mexico
Ballad of Eufemio Zapata - brother of Emiliano Zapata, an active figure in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1911). Date: circa 1910

Ballad of Macario Romero, Mexico, who was determined to take leave from the army to visit his girlfriend. circa 1900s

The House of Decoys, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Ballad of Lino Matas, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Interior of a pulque bar, Mexico City, Mexico
Interior of a pulque bar or pulqueria, Mexico City, Mexico, with barman and customer. Pulque is an alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant. Date: circa 1905

Group photo at Tijuana, Mexico / USA border
Group photo of men and women at Tijuana, on the Mexico/USA border. 1919

Texas-Tex, Mexican on horseback
Texas-Tex, a Mexican on horseback at the time of the Rio Grande conflict between Texas and Mexico. Date: early 20th century

Dancing in Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
Spanish style dancing in Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
El Paseo de Los Angeles (Olvera Street), Los Angeles, California, USA, with two women in Spanish costume sitting by a fountain. Date: 20th century

Puerto Rico - Sombrero Hat Market Date: circa 1910s

Mexico - Street Hat and basket vendor. Date: circa 1907

De Una Muleta
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Torero prepar ndose para matar utilizando un sombrero en vez

Un diestro entrando
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Un diestro entrando a matar con un sombrero en la mano en lugar de muleta (Bullfighter)

Mexican Porter - Carrying massive wooden crate
Mexican Porter - Carrying a massive wooden crate on his back. The card is captioned as: " The Poor Mans Burden in Mexico". Date: circa 1909

Mexico - Carriers loading wood
Carriers loading wood onto mules Mexico Date: circa 1905

Morocco - Tetuan - Street Traders - Berber women from the Moroccan Riff Mountains, who do not permit their faces to be seen. Date: circa 1910s

Mexican Elite
Young women in a Guests of Honour box, possibly watching a bull fight. One of them is wearing a sombrero with a traditional zarape blanket draped in front of her. Date: 1930s

Mexican Market
A provusion of sombrero hats in the market place of a small village in Mexico, South America. Date: 1930s

Moorish Cafe - Algeria
Black African men taking tea and a smoke of a hookah pipe at a drink at a Moorish Cafe - Algeria. Two of the men are playing a board game. Date: circa 1910s

Sfax, Tunisia - Outdoor merchant or cures / remedies
Sfax, Tunisia - Outdoor merchant in a truly spectacular hat selling traditional local tunisian cures/remedies by the side of the street

Sfax, Tunisia - hat merchant
Sfax, Tunisia - streetside hat merchant - a seller of wide-brimmed straw hats - similar in type to a Mexican sombrero

A Mexican sentry on horseback

Mexican farmer with his ox-pulled plough

Mexico - Itinerant pot seller
Mexico - Itinerant decorated pot seller taking a rest on the side of a road in the Mexcian countryside

Soldier from Southern Algeria, wearing a wide-brimmed sombrero-style hat and an open wool jelaba

Sketches in the United States. Sunday in a frontier town. O
Three men playing cards, one in a top hat, one in a sombrero

Nashs Magazine
A sultry young woman in an exotic sombrero is the cover girl for this World War One issue which contains stories of German barbarities

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