Spectacles Gallery

A Picture WITH Words by Chloe Preston

A studious looking little girl with spectacles balanced on her nose, sits among dictionaries as she works on countless crosswords. Published at a time when crosswords were all the rage, the little girl's dress is even crossword-themed

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Chloe, Craze, Crazes, Crossword, Crosswords, Cute, Dictionaries, Dictionary, Girl, Glasses, Historical, History, Hobbies, Hobby, Humour, Little, Preston, Puzzle, Puzzles, Spectacles, Studious, Twenties, Words

Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Producer

Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Producer. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease. The complex rules allow for two variants of the game, providing for prosecution of the person (or theatre) presenting the striptease.
1930s

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Utrillo and Guitry

MAURICE UTRILLO French painter, best known for his Parisian street scenes, with the actor and dramatist SACHA GUITRY (1885-1957), in Montmartre, Paris, 1955. Utrillo is painting a canvas for film "If Paris Were Told to Us"

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1883, 1885, 1955, 1957, Best, Dramatist, French, Guitry, Hats, Historical, History, Maurice, Mont Martre, Painter, Painting, Parisian, Sacha, Scenes, Spectacles, Street, Told, Utrillo