Stairs Collection (page 8)

Dusting a Staircase
An Edwardian housemaid dusts the elaborate balustrade of a huge staircase. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Funicular / Paris 1930S
The famous funicular of Montmartre, Paris, shortly before its demolition for being too slow.The background shows the Church of the Sacred Heart. Date: 1930s

Children Peek at Party
Three children in their nightgowns stand on the stairs and peep at the adults at their Christmas ball. Date: 1886

Teatro Maggiore / Pompeii
The remains of the Teatro (Theatre) Maggiore in Pompeii. Date: circa 1900

William Grants Stairs (1863 - 1892) military, companion of Stanley on the Emin Pasha expedition Date: 1890

Goldsmith / Green Harbour
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Corner of Break-neck Stairs, Green Harbour Court, Old Bailey, where the Irish writer lived in 1758 Date: 1730 - 1774

Kitchener / With Dogs
HORATIO, LORD KITCHENER 1ST EARL KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM In dress uniform, with two dogs asleep at his feet Date: 1850 - 1916

United Service Club, 1840
The Great Hall. Date: 1840

Bedford College for Women, Regents Park, London - inside a Hall of Residence. Date: circa 1910s

Teachers at Queens College, Harley Street, London
Teachers on a staircase at Queens College, a girls independent school in Harley Street, London. Date: circa 1905

Practical joke in university town, c. 1820
Students at Oxford or Cambridge play a practical joke on their professors by stretching a rope across a staircase and tripping them up, c.1820 Date: C.1820

Hall of the University, Louvain (Leuven), Belgium
View of a staircase inside a Hall of the University, Louvain (Leuven), Belgium, dating back to the 14th century. Date: circa 1910

Entrance hall, Town Hall, Liege, Belgium, dating back to the 18th century. Date: circa 1910

Town Hall, Hoogstraeten (Hoogstraten), Belgium, dating back to the 16th century. Date: circa 1910

Two young girls from Como, Italy - the girl in the foreground has a traditional wicker backpack (used to carry hay) and is wearing clogs. Date: circa 1910s

Advertisement for Nonflam flameproof clothing
Advertisement for Nonflam flameproof Flannelette clothing, strongly recommended by coroners. Date: early 20th century

Grand Hall of the Hotel Astoria, Brussels, Belgium. Date: circa 1910

Title page, The Mothers Picture Alphabet, dedicated by Her Majestys Permission to HRH the Princess Beatrice, designed by Henry Anelay, engraved by James Johnston. Date: circa 1860

Castle interior, Gaesbeeck (Gsbeek), Lennik, Belgium
Castle interior with wooden staircase, Gaesbeeck (Gsbeek), Lennik, Belgium, dating back to the 16th century. Date: circa 1910

Four little girls in nightdresses on a Christmas card
Four little girls climbing the stairs in their nightdresses on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Hull Sailors Orphan Homes - Off to Bed
The Sailors Orphan Homes, Hull, also known as Newland Homes, established in 1895 by The Port of Hull Society. Children in nightshirts stand on stairs at bedtime. Date: circa 1907

Old houses, Mentone, France
" Mentone itself is one of the very few places open the coast which keeps a rememberance of its early beauty... the people themselves are still half Italian." Date: 1904

Christmas and New Year card with blue engraving of a grand interior, signed Angela and Denis. Date: 20th century

Franciscan Church of San Salvatore al Monte, Florence
Franciscan Church of San Salvatore al Monte, beneath the Church of San Miniato, Florence, Italy. The vesper hour in winter-time. Date: 1905

Roseland ballroom cafe, New York City, USA
Roseland ballroom cafe, Broadway at 51st Street, New York City, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Street in Chinatown, New York City, USA, with shops and restaurants. Date: circa 1940

Cartoon, The tall story, WW1
Cartoon, The tall story. Showing a rumour circulating, from two men at the top of the Eiffel Tower down to two women at the foot of a staircase

The Bretton Inn, Ormond, Florida, USA
The Bretton Inn, overlooking the beach at Ormond, Florida, USA. Date: circa 1905

Flat feet remedy, illustration by William Heath Robinson
A new method of curing flat feet and restoring the natural arch to the pedal extremities, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, USA, with snow on the ground. Date: circa 1908

Magnolia Hotel, Magnolia Springs, Florida, USA. Date: circa 1908

Illustration, Fundevogel -- She did not go once, but many times backwards and forwards to the well. Date: 1909

Illustration, The Frog Prince -- She seized the Frog with two fingers, and carried him upstairs. Date: 1909

Art nouveau design with staircase effect, in cream, beige, blue, green and mauve. Date: circa 1920s

House interior with grandfather clock and antlers
House interior showing a hallway with grandfather clock, antlers, walking sticks, hats on a stand, and another room beyond with chaise longue and piano. Date: circa 1930s

Honeysuckle flower fairy, Lonicera caprifolium.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Ministering angels, 1915 - nurses by Blampied
Illustration by Edmund Blampied of scores of First World War nurses of all different nationalities and sections, descending a staircase. Date: 1915

The Market-stairs, Montjoie - Monschau, North Rhine-Westphal
The Market-stairs, Montjoie/Monschau, near Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Date: 1910s

Night view of Electric Park, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Night view of the Electric Park, an amusement park in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Date: circa 1905

WW2 Christmas card, Keep Going... for a Happy Christmas. The message inside reads: A message of cheer this Christmastide / To help to KEEP GOING along the steps / That lead towards a just

Antoines Restaurant, St Louis Street, New Orleans, USA
Antoines Restaurant, 713 St Louis Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. It is claimed to be the oldest French restaurant in the city, in the heart of the French Quarter. Date: circa 1940

SERT, Jos頍ar�(1874-1945). Crucifixion. 1939
SERT, Jos頍 aric (1874-1945). Crucifixion. 1939 - 1945. Wall painting. Oil. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Vic. Cathedral

Vladimir Mayakovsky. Scenery
Set designed by Tatiana Selvinskaya for the performance of the play The bath by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1960. Oil on canvas

India - Natives bathing in the Ganges, Benares
Black and white. A bustling area with stairs leading down to the river, on which many people are sitting or standing. In the centre of the image is a large parasol

India - The Kutab - Ala-ud-din Gateway, Delhi
Black and white. Very large doorway with stairs, on which two men are sitting.. Part of India Box, Boswell collection. Slide no. 122 and 71. Date: circa 1890s

Street with people and donkeys, Jerusalem. Date: 1920s

ILN front cover - laying foundation stone, Thames Embankment
Front cover of The Illustrated London News with an engraving of showing the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Thames Embankment, in front of Whitehall Stairs in July 1864

Entrance to the city of Korcula, Croatia
Entrance to the city of Korcula, an island off the Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic Sea, Croatia

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